So instead of extremely high prices we are going to get high prices? Awesome!
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... Lists an average price of 26,4 ct/kWh for 2012 in Germany. RWE.de gives me a current price quote of 25,72 ct/kWh. The average in Europe is 18,4 ct/kWh.
Power may be cheaper on the exchange but the consumer is still getting shafted. The only people who will profit from this are energy traders and power hungry corporations. They currently pay ~15 to ~12 ct/kWh.
We Germans may end up being the first country to run on 100% "renewable energy".... awesome! Just need to get all of our neighbors on board since it won't really matter if the nuclear reactor blows up in Germany, France, Poland or any of our neighbors.
Energy is way too expensive in Germany, thanks to this BS. I won't run my servers here because energy is taxed to hell and back when you are not running a huge corporation.
Ahh yes Microsoft. A company with a history of repeatedly doing the right thing. What was the latest? Oh yeah, accessing someone's e-mail account for an investigation without a warrant.
We should hold anti-GMO zealots with the same disdain as we hold climate change deniers.
Go lookup what happened to some of the old corn lines when GMO corn was introduced to Mexico. GMO corn has crossed with old strains and have produced crippled plants.
This isn't really a GMO problem but rather a problem on how we use it. For me GMO === Monsanto and their "you must not plant produced seeds" license agreement. It has also been shown that their plants cross with current lines AND WILL FUCK THEM UP to the point where they become useless.
Ban greedy companies so we may have an honest discussion about GMO crops.
P.S. What is this BS that we can not feed our current population without GMO. While it may be true, it is most certainly the wrong way to approach the problem as GMO does not mean unlimited food. So we ignore the true issue until we hit what, 20 billion people?
Tried it but the software is made for creating 3D models used in video games and such. These kind of models are hollow shells where 3D printed parts need to be solid objects.
There are plugins to handle 3D printing with Blender but the lack of good documentation / tutorials and the UI made me uninstall the software after a couple of hours.
I recently purchased a MendelMax 1.5 kit because I need small plastic parts for some of my projects. The kit is less expensive then most, yet is build very well. It looks like a tank and handles like a tool, this is not a toy. I can highly recommend it.
I decided to get a kit because it is not that easy to source all the parts in Europe and I wanted to focus on designing my objects without spending months to source the individual parts.
That said. The 3D printer is actually very easy to build and to get going. The problems starts when you want to create your own designs......
AutoCAD 123 - is easy to use but it is "cloud software" that will not allow you to open locally saved designs without an active Internet connection. This is crippled desktop software, PLEASE DO NOT SUPPORT THIS!
OpenSCAD - looked interesting because you "code your model". Unfortunately there is a bug with some Intel video cards so I could not even finish the tutorial on my Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook.
Google Sketchup - this is really good for very simple designs but the over simplified UI will bite you once you start to adjust dimensions or need precision below 1mm. I also noticed a lot of holes in my 3D objects when exported from Sketchup
FreeCAD - Too many options and I ran into problems with some of my "complex" designs. This may replace SolidWorks one day.
SolidWorks - I was really disappointed by my previous CAD experience and was close to kicking my printer into a corner. I worked my way through some tutorials on YouTube and really like the experience. The major issue with SW is that the license is way to expensive for a hobbyist so I had to get a "TPB Edition".
SolidWorks is the only software that works as promised. I hope the company will offer licenses to hobbyist soon because I hate using pirated software for everyday use.
3D printers are really cool if you are a tinkerer / hobbyist but I would only recommend one if you have the need for one. You will spend days designing, printing and re-adjusting your models. 3D printers are not hipster toys!
It will fail right here. Most users can not be trusted to make informed decisions. How could they when they don't even know the difference between a hard drive, a modem or the case housing the individual components?
I prefer your solution but the industry is not moving towards "more user rights".
This is how LastPass.com works. Very good idea and works well but I must trust that future updates are not modified by an "NSA Patch" or some sort of court order.
One way to somewhat "NSA Proof" it would be to separate the encryption and storage software. Storing an encrypted Linux container on a service like crashplan.com works well
The prices are nuts. For private use I'd get a "student version" of Pinnacle Studio 16.0 Ultimate. It comes with green screen accessories and can do anything I would ever need from a video editor. Ohhh and it will not expire in a year where $99.99 will only get you one year of WeVideo service.
I was messing around with micro controllers a few years ago and had a few mysteriously die on me. I started to wear an antistatic wrist strap and did not have another unexplained failure.
PC components may not be as fragile but I always ground the case before doing any work and wear my AWS when handling expensive or important hardware.
I like to use it because it is more conservative with features. No "awesome bar" and when I open a new tab I will not share my browsing history with the people around me.
Seamonkey and Opera are my favorite browsers but I keep hitting a lot of rough edges with Opera lately so SM tends to be my primary browser.
* It saves it's EXE in the Windows profile. I thought Program Files existed for a reason....
The Program Files folder requires admin permissions to write to. So storing the exe in profiles makes it possible to install and update a program without admin rights.
I am currently switching from QWERTY to QWERTZ and can't stand QWERTZ for programming. Stuff like {} and [] needs ALTGR + 7,8,9 or 0 and a SHIFT + , for a line endings (;). It is an unnecessary strain on my poor fingers and it shows that QWERTZ was intended to write letters, nothing more.
It took me an hour to get used to the changed position of some of the letters but I am still cursing the keyboard when I write code. Unfortunately I could only get my new laptop with QWERTZ so I am forced to adapt now.
I checked about a month ago and now you can only get a Lenovo without OS if it is large company/enterprise order. For end users there is no option so I did not purchase one.
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So instead of extremely high prices we are going to get high prices? Awesome!
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Lists an average price of 26,4 ct/kWh for 2012 in Germany. RWE.de gives me a current price quote of 25,72 ct/kWh.
The average in Europe is 18,4 ct/kWh.
Power may be cheaper on the exchange but the consumer is still getting shafted.
The only people who will profit from this are energy traders and power hungry corporations. They currently pay ~15 to ~12 ct/kWh.
We Germans may end up being the first country to run on 100% "renewable energy".... awesome!
Just need to get all of our neighbors on board since it won't really matter if the nuclear reactor blows up in Germany, France, Poland or any of our neighbors.
Energy is way too expensive in Germany, thanks to this BS. I won't run my servers here because energy is taxed to hell and back when you are not running a huge corporation.
Another "expert" with an opinion but no solid solution.
Sorry but I just ran out of fucks to give.
Ahh yes Microsoft. A company with a history of repeatedly doing the right thing.
What was the latest? Oh yeah, accessing someone's e-mail account for an investigation without a warrant.
We should hold anti-GMO zealots with the same disdain as we hold climate change deniers.
Go lookup what happened to some of the old corn lines when GMO corn was introduced to Mexico. GMO corn has crossed with old strains and have produced crippled plants.
This isn't really a GMO problem but rather a problem on how we use it. For me GMO === Monsanto and their "you must not plant produced seeds" license agreement. It has also been shown that their plants cross with current lines AND WILL FUCK THEM UP to the point where they become useless.
Ban greedy companies so we may have an honest discussion about GMO crops.
P.S. What is this BS that we can not feed our current population without GMO. While it may be true, it is most certainly the wrong way to approach the problem as GMO does not mean unlimited food. So we ignore the true issue until we hit what, 20 billion people?
Thanks for the tip!
I did not come across Solidedge when I searched for software.
The UI and workflow appears to be similar to Solid Works http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
P.S. Anybody interested in 3D printing might want to take a look at the above tutorial to get an idea what is involved in designing your own parts.
> Blender?
Tried it but the software is made for creating 3D models used in video games and such. These kind of models are hollow shells where 3D printed parts need to be solid objects.
There are plugins to handle 3D printing with Blender but the lack of good documentation / tutorials and the UI made me uninstall the software after a couple of hours.
EDIT: AutoCAD 123 should be 123D Design
I recently purchased a MendelMax 1.5 kit because I need small plastic parts for some of my projects. The kit is less expensive then most, yet is build very well. It looks like a tank and handles like a tool, this is not a toy. I can highly recommend it.
I decided to get a kit because it is not that easy to source all the parts in Europe and I wanted to focus on designing my objects without spending months to source the individual parts.
That said. The 3D printer is actually very easy to build and to get going. The problems starts when you want to create your own designs......
SolidWorks is the only software that works as promised.
I hope the company will offer licenses to hobbyist soon because I hate using pirated software for everyday use.
3D printers are really cool if you are a tinkerer / hobbyist but I would only recommend one if you have the need for one. You will spend days designing, printing and re-adjusting your models.
3D printers are not hipster toys!
"What are backups?!" and "What is encryption!?"
Why would you keep important things on a USB Drive in unencrypted form and without backups?
Use both and the drive becomes expandable. Lose it, buy a new one and restore data from backups/git repo.
Let them decide who do they trust.
It will fail right here. Most users can not be trusted to make informed decisions.
How could they when they don't even know the difference between a hard drive, a modem or the case housing the individual components?
I prefer your solution but the industry is not moving towards "more user rights".
I ran the local Counter Strike server in my CCNA class. The teacher did not mind as long as our grades where good. :)
I miss those days
To make the point differently, just because I know exactly how a chair was built, it doesn't mean that I stop believing that a carpenter built it.
I think you wanted to say:
"Just because I know that a robot made my chair, doesn't mean that I stop believing that a carpenter made it"
Case and point.
Not designed by an intelligent designer. If you make the rules for everything that is, has been and will be then you should not be constraint by:
Because the sperm needs a temperature a bit lower than body temp in order to be generated.
This is git, not SVN.
I have the complete and fully functioning repo on my dev machine so GitHub can go boom right now and I would not really care.
This is how LastPass.com works. Very good idea and works well but I must trust that future updates are not modified by an "NSA Patch" or some sort of court order.
One way to somewhat "NSA Proof" it would be to separate the encryption and storage software.
Storing an encrypted Linux container on a service like crashplan.com works well
The prices are nuts. For private use I'd get a "student version" of Pinnacle Studio 16.0 Ultimate. It comes with green screen accessories and can do anything I would ever need from a video editor.
Ohhh and it will not expire in a year where $99.99 will only get you one year of WeVideo service.
I was messing around with micro controllers a few years ago and had a few mysteriously die on me.
I started to wear an antistatic wrist strap and did not have another unexplained failure.
PC components may not be as fragile but I always ground the case before doing any work and wear my AWS when handling expensive or important hardware.
I like to use it because it is more conservative with features.
No "awesome bar" and when I open a new tab I will not share my browsing history with the people around me.
Seamonkey and Opera are my favorite browsers but I keep hitting a lot of rough edges with Opera lately so SM tends to be my primary browser.
* It saves it's EXE in the Windows profile. I thought Program Files existed for a reason....
The Program Files folder requires admin permissions to write to. So storing the exe in profiles makes it possible to install and update a program without admin rights.
I am currently switching from QWERTY to QWERTZ and can't stand QWERTZ for programming.
Stuff like {} and [] needs ALTGR + 7,8,9 or 0 and a SHIFT + , for a line endings (;). It is an unnecessary strain on my poor fingers and it shows that QWERTZ was intended to write letters, nothing more.
It took me an hour to get used to the changed position of some of the letters but I am still cursing the keyboard when I write code. Unfortunately I could only get my new laptop with QWERTZ so I am forced to adapt now.
I checked about a month ago and now you can only get a Lenovo without OS if it is large company/enterprise order. For end users there is no option so I did not purchase one.
Gandi is a great company. I don't use them for my domains because I don't like getting it all from one company but their VPS offer is really good.
I used to run on Knownhost but switched to Gandi because their servers are more reliable, faster and customer service is better.
Same shit different country.
For its part, Seagate is saying it cut back its warranties to be more closely aligned with other drive manufacturers.
That is exactly why 99% of my drives are made by Seagate. Now you are just another HD manufacturer with a shitty warranty.