Nice to also notice that he submits the same article 2 or more times over the course of a day or so, guess he takes advantage of finding the right editor to approve his rubbish.
To control your 3d printer, or CNC machine, you use G-Code. Its been around for about 70 years since the original MIT variant. At this point in time it is the de-facto standard for CNC (which includes mills, lathes, AND printers)
All printers and CNC mills I've seen use G-code, there is absolutely no reason Autodesk needs to be involved in this other than to make their software output proper g-code.
For $30 you can create a G-Code capable stepper motor controller using an Arduino and GRBL. For $60 you can combine an Arduino and the GRBL Shield and power low end steppers like those used in pretty much all home/small 3d printers and an extruder, bed warmer and a few other things with only a few additional relays.
GRBL is more than capable of doing all of the important bits of g-code and several that aren't so important when it comes to 3D Printing, so we already have a fully functional OSS g-code implementation, not to mention all the other ones such as the reprap controller software and so forth.
Dear Autodesk,
FUCK OFF, we don't want your shitty ass proprietary bullshit which will use some randomly new standard like printing auto cad files directly rather than producing a proper intermediate format. Its a 100% certainty that you will NOT create anything optimized for efficiency or space, only vendor lock in to your software.
Your software also, well, fucking sucks in almost every conceivable way. The only reason you still have customers is legacy, nothing else.
I don't know about anyone else, but I find roads that are 'bright' such as when street lights reflect off black asphalt during the rain VERY difficult to see properly on.
I can't see the entire road glowing as a good thing. Lines and indicators which are slightly lit so they are more visible, sure. The entire road surface? Absolutely not. Its bad enough dealing with oncoming headlights and being able to see other things in the unlit areas.
Then you simply don't understand the laws of physics. Moving something in the air requires fighting gravity constantly, our methods of doing so are far less efficient than the energy lost when matter itself is physically converted to energy fighting gravity, which is so tiny that its effectively undetectable outside of stars.
Lets lock you in a container thats the same ratio of size compared to your body size as we do for animals in marine theme parks.
If you're willing to live in those conditions, then you can continue your silly arguments, but in a matter of days, possibly hours, you'll be begging to be upgraded to living in Somalia.
Animals in zoos typically have more space by ratio than any marine park so its not even close to a fair comparison there either.
you'd think there's be fertile soil for a response more intellectually stimulating than, "she's a crank".
You'd think that people who think she's neither foolish nor hypocritical would realize how wrong they are when they realize that in all that writing... the only response needed is 'she's a crank'.
Though I prefer the word quack to describe her and what she spewed.
Not a whole lot of people want to 'come visit' people who think theft is their moral duty.
Do you realize how stupid you sound? I know you don't, but for fucks sake think about what you're saying:
You don't like the way someone else wants to share their toys, so instead of doing the right thing, you're just going to take their toys and do what you want regardless of how the owners of said toys feel.
That makes you one selfish asshole in every way. I don't agree with a lot of software companies and media companies either, but that doesn't mean I can just do what ever the hell I want with their stuff nor does it mean you can.
I don't like the way you share your car, your money and your home, so I'm just going to come take it from you and do what I want with it as I see fit, how awesome is that? Its my moral duty to show assholes like you exactly what you are saying when you say the things you say.
You mean like that PCIe3 16x video card... that was made in China? Of course, it never gets anywhere near needing that kind of bandwidth but hey, fanboy it up.
Sound, ethernet, USB3 hub, disk cage with 6 SSDs in it, firewire port (for my video camera), and 2 monitors... on my retina macbook pro... And thats all attached to my laptop with 1 wire from the monitor, which acts as a hub for everything else.
Thunderbolt is how you have docking stations that don't suck ass like ever one that came before.
And if you're a pro with a desktop, and you run out of PCI-E slots
You're kidding, right?
Kind of, my server ran out of slots, but since I went ahead and shelled out the extra cash for a thunderbolt board, I added ports via an external expansion chassis which means more disk controllers and more ethernet ports than you can possible have on a normal server board.
In slash dots home country, most providers charge $5 or $10 for an additional line, not 2x. My wife's line costs me $10/month, where as mine costs $60 with or without hers. Not really sure where you get your information but you're wrong.
There are easily just as many nitpicky problems with ANY Android device, let alone just the problems with the shitty low end devices that really shouldn't be running fat OS like Android.
To pretend iOS users don't care about technology just makes it clear you're an ignorant fanboy who thinks you're the only one who knows how technology should be used.
It really makes you look stupid and inexperienced to say things like you just have.
Use the right tool for the job, Android is a mess in so many ways but you're just going to ignore than and rant on about how your hammer is the best tool ever made, even when grandma just needs a letter opener.
Ass kissing lip service where you're actually blowing people off isn't PR either, well I guess you can consider it bad PR as all you're doing is demonstrating that you don't actually give a shit. People aren't as stupid as you think.
Before I tear your lying post apart, lets get one thing clear. In the US, if you don't like your job, there are PLENTY of others you can choose from. Its fairly trivial to get employment and make enough money to survive. Now if you've gotten yourself buried in debt and can't afford to work a different problem, thats still your stupid fucking problem.
Second, when at work, you work. You do not dick around and do personal shit during your time there... and then bitch because they aren't catering to your agenda. You're nothing more than a selfish asshole who thinks he's entitled.
Now to tear your lying post apart...
Norm... no its not, not anywhere that matters.
Name one organization where everyone spends more than 84 hours per week working.
Its not normal in any business in the US, not any legal business anyway. There will be limited stretches where it happens, such as farmers and fisherman, but then they have periods of far less time working.
Where did you work that had you working 5am to 7pm, 7 days a week, all year long? Tell us this evil empire so we can call bullshit.
Perhaps you should consider that you're using your employers network and systems for personal business and stop being such a fuckwit about it.
Its not your PC, its not your network, none of those resources are yours, yet you're complaining about using those resources for things other than what they are intended... and being watched.
Do your personal business on your personal time and shut the fuck up.
Just because you want to charge in with guns blazing doesn't mean that I don't want to peek around a bit first.
Why????
Because if there are hostages, the hostage takers may very well start shooting people if they see a cop nosing around because they know the swat team will be next.
Mine doesn't. Its fairly easy to setup your mail server to only accept mail from properly configured mail servers, in which case you can ensure the message came from a server that should be responsible for sending you a message from that address.
Likewise, when you get a message from my mail server, you know its coming from the person it claims to be from and that person has been authenticated so no one faked sending it easily, they at least have to get login credentials.
People who think like you do, instead of actually fixing their mail servers are the reason there is so much spam. Its trivial to setup a properly authenticated system.
2007-2009 was not "a Great Recession", it was a culling of businesses that had absolutely no right what so ever to exist. Businesses that deserved to exist survived pretty easily. Many that didn't deserve to survive did as well.
If you think that time period was 'hard' in any way, your in the wrong line of work and probably just another idiot we should keep out of the work force for anything that requires thought. Very few people that didn't deserve it were effected, I'm sorry if that hits close to home but the truth tends to hurt.
You have no idea what hard times are, it's unlikely they have occurred during you life time assuming you are a US citizen, unless you're in your 90's or 100's
The problem is that it no longer requires someone to car about what you do.
Computers can analyze the happenings far faster than humans can, and on a far larger scale, and so all they have to do is tell them to look for something interesting, like your drinking habit or having sex with your neighbor. Then they can be notified about things they otherwise wouldn't have time or money to put the effort into finding.
That makes perfect sense, add another set of optional rules.
Heres an idea, if you want to drive on the same road as cars, FOLLOW THE SAME FUCKING RULES.
Rules are there so everyone is playing by the same ones and knows how other people are SUPPOSED to behave. If you think you're special and know better so you use you're own rules, you're just a selfish prick.
I'm sorry your fat ass has to slow down and start up again, perhaps if you don't like getting back up to speed you should choose another form of transportation.
Remember that you are riding on roads paved FOR CARS, without those cars, you'd be riding on dirt trails.
I'm so sick of this ignorant idea that bikers are not a problem on the road. Sure, the 4 bikers out of every 10,000 that are safe aren't a problem, but the rest of you assholes ARE a fucking problem. Drivers of cars are also ignorant, but they do pretty much know how cars are going to behave, the last fucking thing you want to do is start doing things on bikes that are completely unlike what cars do. Add to that another excuse for ignorant bikers to think they have the right of way and that magically is going to somehow prevent them from turning into a red stain on the road and you've got a receipt for disaster.
The 'research' is very clearly biased, guess who is a cyclist and researcher... Guess who didn't bother to look at any other factors that also occurred around the same time.
Because you aren't offering a larger part of a solution, you know so little about their problems you're just putting for things that will cause more problems. As I said previously, sending anything like this to these countries will simply get it confiscated by warlords, and if you do try to use it/sneak one in for yourself, they'll rape you to death, eat your flesh and use your skin as cloths, and if you're really lucky, they'll do it in that order.
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Nice to also notice that he submits the same article 2 or more times over the course of a day or so, guess he takes advantage of finding the right editor to approve his rubbish.
To control your 3d printer, or CNC machine, you use G-Code. Its been around for about 70 years since the original MIT variant. At this point in time it is the de-facto standard for CNC (which includes mills, lathes, AND printers)
All printers and CNC mills I've seen use G-code, there is absolutely no reason Autodesk needs to be involved in this other than to make their software output proper g-code.
For $30 you can create a G-Code capable stepper motor controller using an Arduino and GRBL. For $60 you can combine an Arduino and the GRBL Shield and power low end steppers like those used in pretty much all home/small 3d printers and an extruder, bed warmer and a few other things with only a few additional relays.
GRBL is more than capable of doing all of the important bits of g-code and several that aren't so important when it comes to 3D Printing, so we already have a fully functional OSS g-code implementation, not to mention all the other ones such as the reprap controller software and so forth.
Dear Autodesk,
FUCK OFF, we don't want your shitty ass proprietary bullshit which will use some randomly new standard like printing auto cad files directly rather than producing a proper intermediate format. Its a 100% certainty that you will NOT create anything optimized for efficiency or space, only vendor lock in to your software.
Your software also, well, fucking sucks in almost every conceivable way. The only reason you still have customers is legacy, nothing else.
No, and your post clearly demonstrates that you don't understand how either one work.
I don't know about anyone else, but I find roads that are 'bright' such as when street lights reflect off black asphalt during the rain VERY difficult to see properly on.
I can't see the entire road glowing as a good thing. Lines and indicators which are slightly lit so they are more visible, sure. The entire road surface? Absolutely not. Its bad enough dealing with oncoming headlights and being able to see other things in the unlit areas.
Then you simply don't understand the laws of physics. Moving something in the air requires fighting gravity constantly, our methods of doing so are far less efficient than the energy lost when matter itself is physically converted to energy fighting gravity, which is so tiny that its effectively undetectable outside of stars.
Lets lock you in a container thats the same ratio of size compared to your body size as we do for animals in marine theme parks.
If you're willing to live in those conditions, then you can continue your silly arguments, but in a matter of days, possibly hours, you'll be begging to be upgraded to living in Somalia.
Animals in zoos typically have more space by ratio than any marine park so its not even close to a fair comparison there either.
you'd think there's be fertile soil for a response more intellectually stimulating than, "she's a crank".
You'd think that people who think she's neither foolish nor hypocritical would realize how wrong they are when they realize that in all that writing ... the only response needed is 'she's a crank'.
Though I prefer the word quack to describe her and what she spewed.
Not a whole lot of people want to 'come visit' people who think theft is their moral duty.
Do you realize how stupid you sound? I know you don't, but for fucks sake think about what you're saying:
You don't like the way someone else wants to share their toys, so instead of doing the right thing, you're just going to take their toys and do what you want regardless of how the owners of said toys feel.
That makes you one selfish asshole in every way. I don't agree with a lot of software companies and media companies either, but that doesn't mean I can just do what ever the hell I want with their stuff nor does it mean you can.
I don't like the way you share your car, your money and your home, so I'm just going to come take it from you and do what I want with it as I see fit, how awesome is that? Its my moral duty to show assholes like you exactly what you are saying when you say the things you say.
You mean like that PCIe3 16x video card ... that was made in China? Of course, it never gets anywhere near needing that kind of bandwidth but hey, fanboy it up.
What PCIe cards are you plugging in again?
Sound, ethernet, USB3 hub, disk cage with 6 SSDs in it, firewire port (for my video camera), and 2 monitors ... on my retina macbook pro ... And thats all attached to my laptop with 1 wire from the monitor, which acts as a hub for everything else.
Thunderbolt is how you have docking stations that don't suck ass like ever one that came before.
And if you're a pro with a desktop, and you run out of PCI-E slots
You're kidding, right?
Kind of, my server ran out of slots, but since I went ahead and shelled out the extra cash for a thunderbolt board, I added ports via an external expansion chassis which means more disk controllers and more ethernet ports than you can possible have on a normal server board.
In slash dots home country, most providers charge $5 or $10 for an additional line, not 2x. My wife's line costs me $10/month, where as mine costs $60 with or without hers. Not really sure where you get your information but you're wrong.
There are easily just as many nitpicky problems with ANY Android device, let alone just the problems with the shitty low end devices that really shouldn't be running fat OS like Android.
To pretend iOS users don't care about technology just makes it clear you're an ignorant fanboy who thinks you're the only one who knows how technology should be used.
It really makes you look stupid and inexperienced to say things like you just have.
Use the right tool for the job, Android is a mess in so many ways but you're just going to ignore than and rant on about how your hammer is the best tool ever made, even when grandma just needs a letter opener.
Ass kissing lip service where you're actually blowing people off isn't PR either, well I guess you can consider it bad PR as all you're doing is demonstrating that you don't actually give a shit. People aren't as stupid as you think.
God you must really suck at your job.
... You just spent all that text trying to convince me that the same thing was two different things.
Its not a subtle difference, its a marketing plow used to justify peoples existence. PR IS marketing, like it or not.
...
Before I tear your lying post apart, lets get one thing clear. In the US, if you don't like your job, there are PLENTY of others you can choose from. Its fairly trivial to get employment and make enough money to survive. Now if you've gotten yourself buried in debt and can't afford to work a different problem, thats still your stupid fucking problem.
Second, when at work, you work. You do not dick around and do personal shit during your time there ... and then bitch because they aren't catering to your agenda. You're nothing more than a selfish asshole who thinks he's entitled.
Now to tear your lying post apart ...
Norm ... no its not, not anywhere that matters.
Name one organization where everyone spends more than 84 hours per week working.
Its not normal in any business in the US, not any legal business anyway. There will be limited stretches where it happens, such as farmers and fisherman, but then they have periods of far less time working.
Where did you work that had you working 5am to 7pm, 7 days a week, all year long? Tell us this evil empire so we can call bullshit.
Perhaps you should consider that you're using your employers network and systems for personal business and stop being such a fuckwit about it.
Its not your PC, its not your network, none of those resources are yours, yet you're complaining about using those resources for things other than what they are intended ... and being watched.
Do your personal business on your personal time and shut the fuck up.
So in your profession (marketing, call it what it is), you're brain dead.
What this tells you is not that you 'must have a mobile strategy' ... it tells you that someone is lying.
But hey, why would you actually do anything other than arrogant self promotion as if your profession is even needed in the first place.
If you believe these numbers, you're a moron/idiot/fucking retarded SoB.
Good thing they didn't have any coastal cities 23,000 years ago. That would have sucked.
There were plenty of coastal cities, well, villages in most cases due to lower overall population.
The main point however is that ... cities do die over time due to environmental changes, this is in no way 'new' or unique to modern society.
Just because you want to charge in with guns blazing doesn't mean that I don't want to peek around a bit first.
Why????
Because if there are hostages, the hostage takers may very well start shooting people if they see a cop nosing around because they know the swat team will be next.
Mine doesn't. Its fairly easy to setup your mail server to only accept mail from properly configured mail servers, in which case you can ensure the message came from a server that should be responsible for sending you a message from that address.
Likewise, when you get a message from my mail server, you know its coming from the person it claims to be from and that person has been authenticated so no one faked sending it easily, they at least have to get login credentials.
People who think like you do, instead of actually fixing their mail servers are the reason there is so much spam. Its trivial to setup a properly authenticated system.
Considering this is a second study of the same thing they published in 2012, yea, its been out for 2 years.
2007-2009 was not "a Great Recession", it was a culling of businesses that had absolutely no right what so ever to exist. Businesses that deserved to exist survived pretty easily. Many that didn't deserve to survive did as well.
If you think that time period was 'hard' in any way, your in the wrong line of work and probably just another idiot we should keep out of the work force for anything that requires thought. Very few people that didn't deserve it were effected, I'm sorry if that hits close to home but the truth tends to hurt.
You have no idea what hard times are, it's unlikely they have occurred during you life time assuming you are a US citizen, unless you're in your 90's or 100's
The problem is that it no longer requires someone to car about what you do.
Computers can analyze the happenings far faster than humans can, and on a far larger scale, and so all they have to do is tell them to look for something interesting, like your drinking habit or having sex with your neighbor. Then they can be notified about things they otherwise wouldn't have time or money to put the effort into finding.
That makes perfect sense, add another set of optional rules.
Heres an idea, if you want to drive on the same road as cars, FOLLOW THE SAME FUCKING RULES.
Rules are there so everyone is playing by the same ones and knows how other people are SUPPOSED to behave. If you think you're special and know better so you use you're own rules, you're just a selfish prick.
I'm sorry your fat ass has to slow down and start up again, perhaps if you don't like getting back up to speed you should choose another form of transportation.
Remember that you are riding on roads paved FOR CARS, without those cars, you'd be riding on dirt trails.
I'm so sick of this ignorant idea that bikers are not a problem on the road. Sure, the 4 bikers out of every 10,000 that are safe aren't a problem, but the rest of you assholes ARE a fucking problem. Drivers of cars are also ignorant, but they do pretty much know how cars are going to behave, the last fucking thing you want to do is start doing things on bikes that are completely unlike what cars do. Add to that another excuse for ignorant bikers to think they have the right of way and that magically is going to somehow prevent them from turning into a red stain on the road and you've got a receipt for disaster.
The 'research' is very clearly biased, guess who is a cyclist and researcher ... Guess who didn't bother to look at any other factors that also occurred around the same time.
Because you aren't offering a larger part of a solution, you know so little about their problems you're just putting for things that will cause more problems. As I said previously, sending anything like this to these countries will simply get it confiscated by warlords, and if you do try to use it/sneak one in for yourself, they'll rape you to death, eat your flesh and use your skin as cloths, and if you're really lucky, they'll do it in that order.