dude, you study language, in the context of this planet at best.

Do you also believe that ALL life requires carbon?

Get back to us when you have some, any, references to language on another planet.

The New Coke for the 21st century?

Take a good product, ruin it, have consumers reject it, then bring back the old and net an increase in sales....brilliant (again).

run out of meds?

http://www.alibre.com/

Solidworks is THE CAD program of choice, but it is expensive.

Geomagic (aka Alibre) is a decent clone, last I looked it was $200. None of the free stuff is even close.

I know you were replying to another post, but I just wanted to stick this out there for people who are genuinely interested, as it does not get mentioned much.

Nerds don't care about girlfriends. If your son has one, he is not a nerd. From the sound of it his aspirations are more to be on Glee.

Yes, I did build the CNC machine. Actually two of them. A Sherline mill I did the CNC conversion myself on. And then a X3 (grizzly g0463, https://www.grizzly.com/produc...). The sherline I ended up making the parts for myself, the grizz used a premade set of parts, but still required all the work to be done.

You can spend several thousand if you want. I spent $99 and got a decent solidworks clone. Named Alibre at the time. it's now called Geomagic and goes for $200. But calling it several thousand is more just spreading FUD, which is what I am sure you are trying to do.

You started out with "Apparently there is quite a bit of ignorance about 3D printing here. Also slashdot has become populated with too many Apple and M$ users who have "it's not ready for the consumer" mentalities."

Then you painted a lie, trying to make it sound like the stuff works like grease. It doesn't. Using Blender for 3D printing is like (I said it elsewhere) making a wooden statue with scissors, it is idiotic at best.

"He printed a rose for his girlfriend for Valentines day which she like very much. How f*^%ing cool is that?"

It's not. Not in the farthest reaches of the imagination is it even close to cool.

If you believe linux is ready for the desktop (less than 1% market share), then it would be reasonable to conclude 3D printing is also ready for the masses. However, if you believe things closer to reality....

Before you comment, yes, I did Metal CNC at home before 3D printing was ever imagined. I've built a Printbot Jr. (and gave it away). Yes, I know real 3D CAD, and Blender (real 3D CAD it is not). And yes, I am running linux (a render farm for Blender as it turns out, nothing to do with 3D printing).

The software is buggy (which if you are an open source type you are ok with), instructions are out of date and spread everywhere (again, all ok for open source types).

Poorly designed parts lead to poor prints, lead to poorly finished object quality. But if you fit the less than 1% category, all probably fine.

On a positive note, I will admit it introduces you to a world of manufacturing, where the same principals apply, only using quality software and real tools when you are ready to do it, for real.

And I see you got modded informative for it.

Blender is an ok program. I use it all the time for video and still animations / rendering. I know it pretty well.

It is not even in the same ballpark as a CAD program. Yes, it can do the job. You can also use scissors to carve wood statues, but you would be an idiot to do so.

You can draw a 4 leaf clover in blender, and 3D print that. If you are so inclined you can even print a ton of them. That does not make it a good alternative 3D design program. You can not model any sort of assembly, then make a correction to a part dimension without having to manually redo everything. That is not productive, that is not design, that is artwork, big difference.

totally unfair to moderate you as a troll. I disagree with your statement, but it was not trolling, just plain poor moderation.

I used to live in an area where, granted somewhat lazy white trailer trash, did indeed hunt for food because their welfare checks just wasn't enough to fund both their junk car buying habits and eat. yeah, sad I know, but they truly did have to hunt for food, or starve.

I too thought that places like these were long gone, until I accidently moved into one. I thought the low cost of living there was a good thing, only to realize the worst hillbilly stereotype was too kind to describe the place. It was a nightmare - the largest area of depression in the united states, and sizeable (East Tennessee).

There are 2 steps to what is called 'hunting' here.

There is the hunting part, then there is the killing part.

As other have pointed out the killing part is no different from raising a cow to be killed for food, and it happens millions of times every day, totally accepted and part of human life.

Then there is the hunting part. You do not have to kill, that is a separate event. In non-fatal hunting lies the 'sport'. And like all sports, you can play with no props (wrestling), you can play with a ball (football/soccer), you can play with a ball and a bat (baseball), or you can even play with a 8 cylinder gasoline powered engine (nascar). What friggin law of sports says tossing in a good drone causes it to no longer be a sport?

What alaska is doing, is forcing their view of what the sport should look like on their population. A typical big government liberal agenda.

Great info. Just as a relevant experiment on topic, let us know what any of those would charge, for support of a linux the same age as XP. Oh, and let us know if they laugh when you ask.

Agree. You are never going to stop the agencies. Any attempt is a waist of effort. PGP is as good as any, might as well work to improve it.

lol. The places you worked at, I managed at. Most Linux types, especially the ones hanging around slashdot, are clueless ideologist. The ones that do know what they are doing are expensive as hell (and I do not blame them).

Let's start with the basics; is Unix/Linux more secure than Windows? If your answer is "yes", you fall in the clueless category. If on the other hand you answer "it depends on how they are setup" you have hope.

Don't tell me I'm clueless, I've hired and fired, in both environments, which is exactly the basis for my position. you?

Well that a business would decide they didn't like having support dropped, so much so that they plan on moving to something unsupported all the time is ludicrous.

Wait until a bank goes to hire linux support employees. As most moves to Linux, I expect this one to last about 26.2 seconds.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=vnc+is+sl...

gvim, lol. seriously dude, I do NOT want to argue with you.