@Asmyldof because they care!

@PlasmaHH That's not the impression I'm getting. Reason I asked was I'm out of the news but I see the dollar do some very worrying things

@Asmyldof mostly probably because there were some not so good statistics released I would guess

Anyone tried TS100 soldering iron?

tastes like chicken

Is this one of these battery operated crapsticks?

It is DC operated but you need to supply the supply

No embedded battery

I hope it comes ni many fancy colours ^^

besides that it doesn't seem to have a nice finger guard, the next iron that I will buy will have easy to exchange tips while hot and the ability to heat up within seconds

lol I like his style

it doesn't seem to have a lot of thermal mass from the looks of it, and did I mention that I would be afraid to have my fingers slip to the front?

anyways, back to sleep, err, work

Compare it to a bottom of the range Weller out of sale 5+ years ago, sure. And you can see he favours the hand he's holding his own in. Not at all a fair video

(And yes, you can see that both left and right)

also that kind of display makes me think of a thermometer, so one must be careful to not stick it to the wrong sapce

lol

@ScottSeidman Were you the person pondering an Eagle license a while ago?

Just got a mail from Autodesk saying you can now get 50% off on any Eagle license purchase with code EAGLE50 till July 16th

So that probably includes 2 or 3 year license

I'm tempted myself just to see what happens the next 12 to 24 months

@Asmyldof Indeed I was. Just got the same email, but thanks for thinking of me!!

Still working off my last perpetual desktop license, BTW.

@Asmyldof Tread carefully -- the offer I got was for Eagle Premium, which is $500/year. In fact, at my last anaylsis things seemed much cheaper, as I was looking at the standard Edition, but my desktop license is Premium. Rapidly changing my mind about the Autodesk purchase.

@ScottSeidman Ah, well, I was pondering the premium one, if the company end finally ticks up next months $1500 is a drop in the ocean

If you know any US based customers I can extort on a regular basis...

Reward: Free over-the-virtual-shoulder-Eagle-help

:-P

yeah, Autodesk has worked hard to remove the value of Eagle

@W5VO From what I see in the newsletters they have been adding a few very desperately missing functions over the last few updates

@Asmyldof Like active license management?

@W5VO Like object avoidance, alignment, all the things an actual CAD package needs

And as far as I can see, as opposed to Altium Inc's strategy, you get all that on the cheap license as well, just fewer board layers to do it on

@ScottSeidman PS, you are officially a teacher, right? Apply for Premium 3year free for education

@Asmyldof Most of what I do with Eagle violates the Terms of Use for educational licenses. I might use the education license for teaching, but some day I might have to hold up to a license audit.

@ScottSeidman I did not check the terms, on account of, I hardly ever cared about them even when I was educatinally involved

Then again, there's a huge world of difference between NL legal consequences and US ones, so I can imagine you're more careful

@Asmyldof It's just so if a potential venture capitalist ever asks if all the legal t's are crossed, I can say yes and not be lying.

@ScottSeidman Again, over here much less of an issue.

If you enter in a license in decently good faith, i.e. the expectation that you did was required of you, there's not really an issue.

Over here legal doesn't mean huge claims over minor details.

Worst that can happen is a judge making you pay for the license for the period of infraction up to a limit of X or Y-years

or some such

"Letter of the law, but within reason and common sense" is how one could possibly paraphrase it

tell that to the people that claim you did thousands of damage for downloading one mp3 file

Damages still have to be proven in a court of law

Individuals downloading only cannot viably prosecuted here

uploading is where damages can be expressed through statistical models

And even then individuals are never put into the wringer by the legal system

Though downloading and uploading are handled somewhat seriously here, as they are not a situation where you could likely think you're acting legally

Whereas having limited freeware, educational licenses, etc, is exactly the grey area that will be handled by the "within reason and common sense" part

I don't know how the lawsuits ususally turn out here, but what I know is that you have to pay a lawyer, and the payment is somewhat proportional to the money claimed

"Your honour, it's all very complex, I'm very busy, I thought I was acting within the law and with the number of 50 page agreements on the internet these days, who really has time to operate a business, teach, volunteer AND read all of that?"

Anyone has some innovative ideas for a startup company? I have a few ideas but they don't seem to be what I'm looking for.

@PlasmaHH One reason possibly individuals aren't actively prosecuted here is that it's expensive for the corporate entity trying to, as there's a high risk of the citizen's standpoint being validated, in which case the other party, in such case as that they are a corporation, the state, etc, have to pay your legal fees. On which basis probably many okay lawyers happily invest the 10 hours to defend you without ever billing you directly.

If suits against the public were common here, under the current law system & climate there'd be hundreds of law offices specialised in their defence, as it's exceptionally good business. Even if you lose a couple and still never bill the individual.

Cheesecloths!

@Asmyldof You should find the South Park episode of Human Cent i-pad, and see what happens when you click "I accept"

@ScottSeidman Majority of the apple license agreement is not enforcible in NL

(I sometimes read agreements just to laugh at them)