Compared to identical prints on other printers that I've seen I'd rate it "medium".
After some delay getting it (I think Maplin was overwhelmed by interest) and some teething issues (Maplin just shoved the assembled unit into a cardboard box without proper packing so it arrived quite bent out of shape in places) and allowing for one continuing defect that I've worked around, I'd say it's a good little workhorse for the money especially considering that it's still pretty bleeding edge tech.
You can't throw nice 2D printers around either and expect them not to suffer.
The process is not as painful as you think.
Myself and one other on the OpenTRV (opentrv.org.uk) project work to get OpenSCAD files and fromt hat we produce STL and many of us (maybe just short of 10) print from that same STL on lots of different printers with different setups without significant difficulty.
Yes, my 3D printer is a bit 'beta'y and slow, but it does work, and is now reliable and easy to use.
I have the Velleman K8200 and for the OpenTRV project (opentrv.org.uk) that I'm working on we've been able to print the enclosures and well as designing the hardware (and making and stuffing PCBs) and the software in the same distributed fashion, and easily outsource to third parties for larger runs (hello Thames Valley Rep Rap User Group TVRRUG; thank you again).
It's been fun and helped us to control more aspects of the product while still in prototype phase.
My brother (with PhD from top university) was an EPO patent examiner, and I don't think he could have afforded his travel arrangements (a fair way apart from his family) on minimum wage!
To be clear; I'm entirely prepared to believe that the first 1000 hours of anyone's driving are their worst.
But I suggest that the first 1000 hours of an 18 year old's driving are likely much worse (from a safety/accident point of view) than the the first 1000 hours of a 40 year old's driving, on average.
For example, I know which I'd be more likely to trust with other complex and risky activities that don't require particular muscle strength or speed, but where responsibility and general life experience help, eg including running a business or a government office!
I think that's complete nonsense (straw man arguments) and a counsel of despair, and/or maybe an excuse never to do bother anything right yourself until everyone around you is perfect. And I don't imagine that you are completely selfish like that in all your other actions.
And, guess what, altruism and good behaviour in general doesn't have to be absolutely simultaneous to work.
Well, except that I expect most 40 year olds to be a little better at judging/taking risks, and somewhat less driven by roller-coaster hormones and emotions.
Thus those 1000 hours should be safer for all concerned.
However, I'm quite happy to be shown to be wrong if you've got the numbers to prove it.
(I also am driving less in part by making sure that I'm in a position to use public transport and control my hours, but I'm in the UK and have never owner a car, though I've driven here and in the US and elsewhere in the EU.)
Quite the reverse: shows just how much individuals can make a difference by, for example, avoiding flying (or at least travelling long distances) for no sufficiently good reason.
I haven't flown in years and and don't feel I'm missing much. We take family holidays fairly close to home by train though be may now... ahem... push the boat out and take a decent ferry ride this year to give the kids a taste of another country. We're still managing to be close to carbon-negative at home for primary (6t less CO2 per year than a few years ago) and I'm not going to waste those savings on a mindless travel binge.
There are various virtual cards available on-line (I was CTO of one issuer) where you can create a new card with a new number with exactly the limit required for each transaction, eg if you don't trust the retailer fully.
It must be lovely to be without error like you, other than hiding behind AC to cast insults of course.
I *do* know what I'm doing, generally, and have the track record to show it, but the threat landscape has changed quite a lot recently. And because I don't assume myself to be perfect I was alive to the issue when it showed up, and responded quickly, which seems like the rational and responsible thing to do for us normal non-perfect people.
I've been running my own (mine/company) Internet-facing DNS almost since there was live IP in the UK and I got caught out by this.
And I still see people regularly *trying* to use my DNS for amplification, ie probing, or at least laundering their attacks, but give up, after I made the appropriate fixes.
And I'm not alone. (See recent item on The Register for example.)
I had a poor experience with some very off-hand senior doctor(s) prescribing me huge quantities of carbamazepine such that I could hardly function at all with the dosage, and refusing to discuss dosage or reasons with me. Eventually after talking to a doctor friend or two about actual uses and side-effects on my next visit I told the prescribing doctor that if they weren't going to tell me what they were doing or why and leave me like a zombie as if I didn't matter at all that I was going to stop taking the stuff, to which they did not protest and I have been fine without for 30 years. The entire atmosphere in that particular surgery is what I'd describe as abusive, with patients' lives apparently unimportant to nursing and other medical staff, eg always minimum 2h waiting times just for a start.
Note: I did take lots of qualified advice before defying my prescription, and I'm glad that I did.
No; sensible limits on unjustified handling and use of possible weapons from knives to Plutonium are OK. The only possible definitions of "sensible" are not "always" or "never"; to suggest so is a straw man. Thus one element of the "nuance" I suggest.
Seems obvious to most Europeans. And my emphasis is on 'easy'; not never no way ever, else I'd be all for unconditionally banning bleach and kitchen knives and human-driven cars too. This needs a more nuanced fix than most would like to admit I think.
I *never* want to see permits for concealed carry or similar in the UK, BTW.
And you and I may both be psychopaths too, to some degree. I'm am occasionally manipulative to get things done, but I find it difficult to tell which side of typical some of that behaviour of mine is... On the other hand I do empathise, so I'm probably not a very good psychopath.
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Compared to identical prints on other printers that I've seen I'd rate it "medium".
After some delay getting it (I think Maplin was overwhelmed by interest) and some teething issues (Maplin just shoved the assembled unit into a cardboard box without proper packing so it arrived quite bent out of shape in places) and allowing for one continuing defect that I've worked around, I'd say it's a good little workhorse for the money especially considering that it's still pretty bleeding edge tech.
Rgds
Damon
You can't throw nice 2D printers around either and expect them not to suffer.
The process is not as painful as you think.
Myself and one other on the OpenTRV (opentrv.org.uk) project work to get OpenSCAD files and fromt hat we produce STL and many of us (maybe just short of 10) print from that same STL on lots of different printers with different setups without significant difficulty.
Yes, my 3D printer is a bit 'beta'y and slow, but it does work, and is now reliable and easy to use.
Rgds
Damon
I have the Velleman K8200 and for the OpenTRV project (opentrv.org.uk) that I'm working on we've been able to print the enclosures and well as designing the hardware (and making and stuffing PCBs) and the software in the same distributed fashion, and easily outsource to third parties for larger runs (hello Thames Valley Rep Rap User Group TVRRUG; thank you again).
It's been fun and helped us to control more aspects of the product while still in prototype phase.
Rgds
Damon
In binary... Possibly electric sheep too, while they dream.
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Damon
My brother (with PhD from top university) was an EPO patent examiner, and I don't think he could have afforded his travel arrangements (a fair way apart from his family) on minimum wage!
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Damon
Thank you: interesting.
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Damon
You'd be very likely to cause some, eg on motorways.
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Damon
To be clear; I'm entirely prepared to believe that the first 1000 hours of anyone's driving are their worst.
But I suggest that the first 1000 hours of an 18 year old's driving are likely much worse (from a safety/accident point of view) than the the first 1000 hours of a 40 year old's driving, on average.
For example, I know which I'd be more likely to trust with other complex and risky activities that don't require particular muscle strength or speed, but where responsibility and general life experience help, eg including running a business or a government office!
Rgds
Damon
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I think that's complete nonsense (straw man arguments) and a counsel of despair, and/or maybe an excuse never to do bother anything right yourself until everyone around you is perfect. And I don't imagine that you are completely selfish like that in all your other actions.
And, guess what, altruism and good behaviour in general doesn't have to be absolutely simultaneous to work.
Rgds
Damon
[citation required]
Well, except that I expect most 40 year olds to be a little better at judging/taking risks, and somewhat less driven by roller-coaster hormones and emotions.
Thus those 1000 hours should be safer for all concerned.
However, I'm quite happy to be shown to be wrong if you've got the numbers to prove it.
(I also am driving less in part by making sure that I'm in a position to use public transport and control my hours, but I'm in the UK and have never owner a car, though I've driven here and in the US and elsewhere in the EU.)
Rgds
Damon
Quite the reverse: shows just how much individuals can make a difference by, for example, avoiding flying (or at least travelling long distances) for no sufficiently good reason.
I haven't flown in years and and don't feel I'm missing much. We take family holidays fairly close to home by train though be may now ... ahem ... push the boat out and take a decent ferry ride this year to give the kids a taste of another country. We're still managing to be close to carbon-negative at home for primary (6t less CO2 per year than a few years ago) and I'm not going to waste those savings on a mindless travel binge.
Rgds
Damon
I can only tell you that some pretty smart people are running that show and I did my computing MSc with the CEO, and he certainly knows his stuff.
It's not a guarantee of course, IMHO it improves the odds.
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Damon
The product/site is Entropay:
https://www.entropay.com/
(so-named given my obsession with constructing a good entropy pool to draw the random new card IDs from, amongst other things!)
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Damon
There are various virtual cards available on-line (I was CTO of one issuer) where you can create a new card with a new number with exactly the limit required for each transaction, eg if you don't trust the retailer fully.
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Damon
Back to your mom's basement, please, and keep the noise down.
It must be lovely to be without error like you, other than hiding behind AC to cast insults of course.
I *do* know what I'm doing, generally, and have the track record to show it, but the threat landscape has changed quite a lot recently. And because I don't assume myself to be perfect I was alive to the issue when it showed up, and responded quickly, which seems like the rational and responsible thing to do for us normal non-perfect people.
Rgds
Damon
Really depends what you mean by 'private'.
I've been running my own (mine/company) Internet-facing DNS almost since there was live IP in the UK and I got caught out by this.
And I still see people regularly *trying* to use my DNS for amplification, ie probing, or at least laundering their attacks, but give up, after I made the appropriate fixes.
And I'm not alone. (See recent item on The Register for example.)
Rgds
Damon
[citation required]
Clue: not true
I had a poor experience with some very off-hand senior doctor(s) prescribing me huge quantities of carbamazepine such that I could hardly function at all with the dosage, and refusing to discuss dosage or reasons with me. Eventually after talking to a doctor friend or two about actual uses and side-effects on my next visit I told the prescribing doctor that if they weren't going to tell me what they were doing or why and leave me like a zombie as if I didn't matter at all that I was going to stop taking the stuff, to which they did not protest and I have been fine without for 30 years. The entire atmosphere in that particular surgery is what I'd describe as abusive, with patients' lives apparently unimportant to nursing and other medical staff, eg always minimum 2h waiting times just for a start.
Note: I did take lots of qualified advice before defying my prescription, and I'm glad that I did.
Rgds
Damon
THHGTTG
No; sensible limits on unjustified handling and use of possible weapons from knives to Plutonium are OK. The only possible definitions of "sensible" are not "always" or "never"; to suggest so is a straw man. Thus one element of the "nuance" I suggest.
Rgds
Damon
Seems obvious to most Europeans. And my emphasis is on 'easy'; not never no way ever, else I'd be all for unconditionally banning bleach and kitchen knives and human-driven cars too. This needs a more nuanced fix than most would like to admit I think.
I *never* want to see permits for concealed carry or similar in the UK, BTW.
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Damon
In conjunction with the "it's my damn right to have whatever I want whatever it costs other people" lobby.
Wow, I saw some ugly narcissism and self-entitlement in above comments: nuance hasn't had a look in.
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Damon
And you and I may both be psychopaths too, to some degree. I'm am occasionally manipulative to get things done, but I find it difficult to tell which side of typical some of that behaviour of mine is... On the other hand I do empathise, so I'm probably not a very good psychopath.
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Damon
... and now at least 20 odd children have cancer that was likely caused by leaks from the plant with many more to come in the next few years
Citation please?
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Damon