I first used altium (aka protel) at uni on an 80286 running a CGA 320x200 4 colour back in 1988. It's certainly come a long way since then. The thing thats made it great is has always been actively developed, with the developers listening to users.
In fact we have just done the Altium advanced training course, and there are still lots of goodies coming.
As an aside, 25 years ago I won a competition in high school with dick smith with a prize of $50 worth of electronic components. I was thinking beauty, the things I'll be able to make! What did I get? just what every kid wants... a box of 5000 22pF NPO capacitors...
Australia (and Asia, and incresingly the worlds) most popular schematic and PCB design software has had a colourful upgrade path.
It was originally just called Protel (DOS days) (Now Protel for DOS) then... Protel 98 Protel 99 Protel 99SE Protel DXP Altium Designer 6.0 Altium Designer 2004 Altium Designer Summer 08 (Winter in northerm hemisphere even though its developed in Australia) Altium Designer Winter 09
It is the definition of harrasment that concerns me. Is expressing an opinion harassment, or does that harssment need to be targetted toward an individual. Eg. I don't think a gay lifestyle is right, but I certainly don't hate them for it and wouldn't condone any specific action. If someone doesn't like my religion, then that's their opinion, but if they said hunt me down and kill me because of my religion, then that would be harassment.
So my concern is that the mere expresion of a personal opinion without intent could be considered harasment.
What you really mean is: after the $7,500 more in taxes that other people, who can't afford this car, will be paying on behalf of the person who can afford it. That's nice. So progressive.
You mean the $7500 printed by the Fed out of thin air and bought by Chinese that actualy make stuff.
Our company makes RFID equipment specifically for this industry. Contrary to your view of 'putting small producers out of business' is not the case. Producers who do not have RFID equipment, either have freelance scanners, or the anmimals are scanned at the sale yards. The equipment is reltively cheap for small producers (ie the hand held readers) and access to the database industry paid for. So it adds a couple of $ overhead. If their margins are that small, then they shouldn't be in the business.
Australia has always had caps on internet use so we are used to it. The point is it does cost more money for the ISP to deliver more data. If my capped account is 10G/month but then I as an ISP was mandated for no caps and lets say usage doubled, then I need more routers, more electricity to produce the data, more access to terrestial and undersea data cables. So it does cost more money to deliver more data, and I don't mind paying for the quantity of data delivered. (typical plans maybe $50=10GB $60=20GB etc)
We use bit defender, but it gives me the shi^s. You manage all the client via an MMC snap in, but like other MMC snap ins, it just doesn't really work that well. eg. The computer names get mangled when DHCP reassigns, so you need to view clients by IP rather than name, but the mangled name is the only reference in the reports. Everything is done by assigning policies, but there is no easy way to see what clients licenses have expired.
I intend to change to something else when licencing comes up again.
Car analogies are poor for IP examples because is not easily possible to duplicate physical items. The analogy holds if by handing the original CD's, the game becomes non functional to the original purchaser, but often this is not the case.
I use news.com.au (news ltd) a lot, and if it was pay per view, I would merely switch to abc.net.au In Australia, we have a very high quality public funded but not politcially controlled media. They have much higher quality reporting than our commercial TV news, and often 'take it' to the government. (but alas no newpaper, only tv, radio and online) I personally know our states ABC political reporter, and am very confident he is staight up.
I think your choice no 2 would be good BUT The majority of the polopulace doesn't care about indepth reporting, which is why our commercial 'current affairs' shows are abysmal, (neighbour fights, fatties, advetorials).
I agree there needs to be a media gatekeeper in society, but it seems the US media didn't do a terrific job with Bush and Co.
In fact it descibes Microsoft... 1- The guy is incredibly unfit. 2- His face had the alpha male 'kill' look. (rather than a 'excited, happy, proud' look) 3- His actions looked like a gorilla defending its turf. 4- His first words were slightly xenaphobic.
On every windows system I've configured, one of my first tasks is to change the file exlporer to show extensions and a detailed list view. I've always found extensions much easier to use than an icons, and a list view with size/dates much easier than a page of freaking big icons. I assume most/.ers would be the same, but what do you find your users prefer?
The patent system may being abused, but companies need IP protection. eg. Our company has just sweated blood designing a new RFID reader. We need to cover not only all the wages, materials and overheads, but the technical risk as well, otherwise there will be no company to develop such products. and yes we are applying for multiple patents for all the clever shit in our design. It seems you're inferring we should now let any jo shmo reverse engineer our stuff and make it for cost of parts + tiny magin???
Almost every time I sen an email off to anyone in the USA, I'm lucky to get my first question answered correctly, even if I use the bullet pointing technique (although I admit I don't number them). I don't seem to have that problem in Australia. Can anyone suggest why this is so?
Having designed breathalyser equipment before, I can assure you the standards required of evidential breathalysers is very high. Testing involves the use of standardised references at different concentrations, over the specified calibration life of the instrument. The science of the relationship to blood alchohol to breath alchohol is well known and defined in a countries standard. (it varies from 2000:1 to 2300:1) The portable machines the Police use, although accurate, are generally NOT evidential. (some countries though, such as China, will issue on the spot fines based on portable systems)
Essentially the peer review you talk about, was the comittee that designed the countries standardisation test, which then every law enforcement breathalyser needs to pass. Why should a company reaveal its IP? Either the standards test is good enough or not good enough, otherwise why have a standardisation test.
78 series voltage regs. (ie LM7805) All that logic needed sweet regulated power supplies, and 78 series of regulators are still a great choice for a cheap linear reg. 4000 series logic. What made these chips great was you could operate them from 3v to 15v, thus a great choice for hobbiest battery powered projects. 8051 Intels first mass microcontroller (also made by phillips/nxp) LM324 My old preffered cheap op-amp over the 741 as it was single supply and lower current.
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up. I just shake my head (from afar) way too often when I see the path the USA has headed down. It is ultimately leading to the USA being a much poorer country in the future. (ps. Go to http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse for a great look at the worlds future)
I've seen teams of engineers use all of their collective intelligence to create systems that are only a fraction of the complexity of mere parts of biological systems, yet all systems tend toward disorder. So lets say God created Adam and Eve. I would expect that perfect master copy to eventually degrade over time (which is easily evident though genetic disease), but with evoltution, these seems to be this magical sameness about kinds. I would expect much more diversity about a kind (man for example), eg lets say tens of thousands of man type people have monochromatic vision, then one man amazingly develops RGB vision. Well hey thats nice, but not a big enough advantage that I would displace everyone with monovison. Now don't try and pick apart that one example, as the point I expect to see thousands of such expamples of MAJOR differences between one kind that may provide small advantages, but not enough for natural selection. For example, lets say one man developed telescopic vision today. (These are the sort of major steps evolution proclaims). Sure thats an advantage, so how long before 99% of the population gets telescopic vision. Then evolution has to say... oh there no evolution anymore we've reached our 'peak' (an excuse).
Obama is not your saviour. He is a politician, and the USA is driven by lobbyists whom the best of are backed by the richest corporations. Want too see how bad things really are for the USA. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ca2_1234032281 Wait till about 2:20 in.
Or you should get a one time key generator. My key changes every 60 seconds. Could they exploit this within that time frame. (Especially if I'm already logged on and the bank does not allow a second simultaneous login)
And if you live in Australia it is *ILLEGAL* for you to run your own cat5 in dry wall. You need to have a special licence that not even electricians have. Welcome to the REAL nanny country!
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I first used altium (aka protel) at uni on an 80286 running a CGA 320x200 4 colour back in 1988.
It's certainly come a long way since then.
The thing thats made it great is has always been actively developed, with the developers listening to users.
In fact we have just done the Altium advanced training course, and there are still lots of goodies coming.
Knock yourself out
http://search.dse.com.au/nav/cat2/electronicsandkitsets_kitsets/cat1/electronicsandkitsets/0
As an aside, 25 years ago I won a competition in high school with dick smith with a prize of $50 worth of electronic components.
I was thinking beauty, the things I'll be able to make!
What did I get?
just what every kid wants... a box of 5000 22pF NPO capacitors...
Australia (and Asia, and incresingly the worlds) most popular schematic and PCB design software has had a colourful upgrade path.
It was originally just called Protel (DOS days) (Now Protel for DOS)
then...
Protel 98
Protel 99
Protel 99SE
Protel DXP
Altium Designer 6.0
Altium Designer 2004
Altium Designer Summer 08 (Winter in northerm hemisphere even though its developed in Australia)
Altium Designer Winter 09
gotta love marketing..
It is the definition of harrasment that concerns me.
Is expressing an opinion harassment, or does that harssment need to be targetted toward an individual.
Eg. I don't think a gay lifestyle is right, but I certainly don't hate them for it and wouldn't condone any specific action.
If someone doesn't like my religion, then that's their opinion, but if they said hunt me down and kill me because of my religion, then that would be harassment.
So my concern is that the mere expresion of a personal opinion without intent could be considered harasment.
What you really mean is: after the $7,500 more in taxes that other people, who can't afford this car, will be paying on behalf of the person who can afford it. That's nice. So progressive.
You mean the $7500 printed by the Fed out of thin air and bought by Chinese that actualy make stuff.
Our company makes RFID equipment specifically for this industry.
Contrary to your view of 'putting small producers out of business' is not the case.
Producers who do not have RFID equipment, either have freelance scanners, or the anmimals are scanned at the sale yards.
The equipment is reltively cheap for small producers (ie the hand held readers) and access to the database industry paid for.
So it adds a couple of $ overhead. If their margins are that small, then they shouldn't be in the business.
Australia has always had caps on internet use so we are used to it.
The point is it does cost more money for the ISP to deliver more data.
If my capped account is 10G/month but then I as an ISP was mandated for no caps and lets say usage doubled, then I need more routers, more electricity to produce the data, more access to terrestial and undersea data cables.
So it does cost more money to deliver more data, and I don't mind paying for the quantity of data delivered.
(typical plans maybe $50=10GB $60=20GB etc)
We use bit defender, but it gives me the shi^s.
You manage all the client via an MMC snap in, but like other MMC snap ins, it just doesn't really work that well.
eg. The computer names get mangled when DHCP reassigns, so you need to view clients by IP rather than name, but the mangled name is the only reference in the reports.
Everything is done by assigning policies, but there is no easy way to see what clients licenses have expired.
I intend to change to something else when licencing comes up again.
Toally agree with you weasel boy.
I don't use goto often, but in cases like you descibed it is perfectly OK.
Car analogies are poor for IP examples because is not easily possible to duplicate physical items.
The analogy holds if by handing the original CD's, the game becomes non functional to the original purchaser, but often this is not the case.
Yes, the punishment is over the top.I just paid $7 to see it at the Blue Room, in Brisbane.
$7 is not worth an eviction.
I know we humans like entertainment, but I really wonder how much productivity society looses because of video games.
Terrific comment reporter.
I use news.com.au (news ltd) a lot, and if it was pay per view, I would merely switch to abc.net.au
In Australia, we have a very high quality public funded but not politcially controlled media. They have much higher quality reporting than our commercial TV news, and often 'take it' to the government. (but alas no newpaper, only tv, radio and online)
I personally know our states ABC political reporter, and am very confident he is staight up.
I think your choice no 2 would be good BUT
The majority of the polopulace doesn't care about indepth reporting, which is why our commercial 'current affairs' shows are abysmal, (neighbour fights, fatties, advetorials).
I agree there needs to be a media gatekeeper in society, but it seems the US media didn't do a terrific job with Bush and Co.
What a disturbing video.
In fact it descibes Microsoft...
1- The guy is incredibly unfit.
2- His face had the alpha male 'kill' look. (rather than a 'excited, happy, proud' look)
3- His actions looked like a gorilla defending its turf.
4- His first words were slightly xenaphobic.
now I understand the throwing chairs thing...
On every windows system I've configured, one of my first tasks is to change the file exlporer to show extensions and a detailed list view. /.ers would be the same, but what do you find your users prefer?
I've always found extensions much easier to use than an icons, and a list view with size/dates much easier than a page of freaking big icons.
I assume most
The patent system may being abused, but companies need IP protection.
eg. Our company has just sweated blood designing a new RFID reader. We need to cover not only all the wages, materials and overheads, but the technical risk as well, otherwise there will be no company to develop such products. and yes we are applying for multiple patents for all the clever shit in our design.
It seems you're inferring we should now let any jo shmo reverse engineer our stuff and make it for cost of parts + tiny magin???
Almost every time I sen an email off to anyone in the USA, I'm lucky to get my first question answered correctly, even if I use the bullet pointing technique (although I admit I don't number them).
I don't seem to have that problem in Australia.
Can anyone suggest why this is so?
Having designed breathalyser equipment before, I can assure you the standards required of evidential breathalysers is very high.
Testing involves the use of standardised references at different concentrations, over the specified calibration life of the instrument. The science of the relationship to blood alchohol to breath alchohol is well known and defined in a countries standard. (it varies from 2000:1 to 2300:1)
The portable machines the Police use, although accurate, are generally NOT evidential. (some countries though, such as China, will issue on the spot fines based on portable systems)
Essentially the peer review you talk about, was the comittee that designed the countries standardisation test, which then every law enforcement breathalyser needs to pass. Why should a company reaveal its IP? Either the standards test is good enough or not good enough, otherwise why have a standardisation test.
Great list, but I would add a few old chips
78 series voltage regs. (ie LM7805) All that logic needed sweet regulated power supplies, and 78 series of regulators are still a great choice for a cheap linear reg.
4000 series logic. What made these chips great was you could operate them from 3v to 15v, thus a great choice for hobbiest battery powered projects.
8051 Intels first mass microcontroller (also made by phillips/nxp)
LM324 My old preffered cheap op-amp over the 741 as it was single supply and lower current.
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up.
I just shake my head (from afar) way too often when I see the path the USA has headed down. It is ultimately leading to the USA being a much poorer country in the future.
(ps. Go to http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse for a great look at the worlds future)
You make a valid point.
I've seen teams of engineers use all of their collective intelligence to create systems that are only a fraction of the complexity of mere parts of biological systems, yet all systems tend toward disorder.
So lets say God created Adam and Eve. I would expect that perfect master copy to eventually degrade over time (which is easily evident though genetic disease), but with evoltution, these seems to be this magical sameness about kinds. I would expect much more diversity about a kind (man for example), eg lets say tens of thousands of man type people have monochromatic vision, then one man amazingly develops RGB vision. Well hey thats nice, but not a big enough advantage that I would displace everyone with monovison. Now don't try and pick apart that one example, as the point I expect to see thousands of such expamples of MAJOR differences between one kind that may provide small advantages, but not enough for natural selection.
For example, lets say one man developed telescopic vision today. (These are the sort of major steps evolution proclaims). Sure thats an advantage, so how long before 99% of the population gets telescopic vision.
Then evolution has to say... oh there no evolution anymore we've reached our 'peak' (an excuse).
All systems tend toward disorder.
Obama is not your saviour. He is a politician, and the USA is driven by lobbyists whom the best of are backed by the richest corporations.
Want too see how bad things really are for the USA.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ca2_1234032281 Wait till about 2:20 in.
Or you should get a one time key generator.
My key changes every 60 seconds. Could they exploit this within that time frame. (Especially if I'm already logged on and the bank does not allow a second simultaneous login)
Hah! You're really a climate change scientist!
And if you live in Australia it is *ILLEGAL* for you to run your own cat5 in dry wall. You need to have a special licence that not even electricians have.
Welcome to the REAL nanny country!