Circuit Maker - It's Dead Jim!

[EEVblog]

Does the GPS work inside? We are going to need one to find the geeks in a corner huddling over a printed board.

Funny story about that...
I was working on a GPS Nanoboard module and nothing worked inside the building. So I dangled a cable out the window of the bosses office and then inside to a repeater. Worked a treat until an anal retentive saw it and said it ruined the look of the building  I had the Look'n'Feel nazi knocking on cubicle 10 minutes later
The same look'n'feel nazi who wouldn't allow anything to be hung on cubicle walls 

[Falcon69]

I hate people like that Dave. They make it their personal mission to make life just alittle harder for other people, just to make themselves feel better.

On another note....why did a famous movie line just pop into my head when I read your response?  "Have you seen my stapler?"

[gildasd]

Does the GPS work inside? We are going to need one to find the geeks in a corner huddling over a printed board.

Funny story about that...
I was working on a GPS Nanoboard module and nothing worked inside the building. So I dangled a cable out the window of the bosses office and then inside to a repeater. Worked a treat until an anal retentive saw it and said it ruined the look of the building  I had the Look'n'Feel nazi knocking on cubicle 10 minutes later
The same look'n'feel nazi who wouldn't allow anything to be hung on cubicle walls 

There is a special "breed" of people whose sole purpose is to stop others getting anything done... And somehow they are also the last to get fired...

[AndyC_772]

I was working on a GPS Nanoboard module and nothing worked inside the building. So I dangled a cable out the window of the bosses office and then inside to a repeater. Worked a treat until an anal retentive saw it and said it ruined the look of the building  I had the Look'n'Feel nazi knocking on cubicle 10 minutes later
The same look'n'feel nazi who wouldn't allow anything to be hung on cubicle walls 

Did the same person leave said cubicle, walking a bit funny and with a GPS cable trailing behind 2 minutes after that?

[con-f-use]

The road to efficiency is paved with anal invasions. My new motto.

[Zbig]

While browsing the CM forum, I stumbled upon this post by an Altium employee: http://circuitmaker.com/forum/posts/215592/616492

As to the pay-per-private kind of model, it seems to be adopted by many in the MCAD world (Autodesk, OnShape). It is a model that might be considered though early on with CircuitMaker it was rejected by the critics fairly universally.

Where are all these critics hiding, I wonder? Either we're a bunch of weirdoes, with views that are totally unrepresentative to what an average EE think or the guitar guy and his employers live in some kind of a reality-distorting matrix kind of thing.

As a bonus rant on my side, is it only me who's freaking out when all the non-professionals are being collectively called "hackers"?

[miguelvp]

That's kind of a weird outcome.
If the critics didn't want to pay per private why would it matter if some would like to actually pay for that?

I guess what it means is that if Altium added the feature, those critics would like it but for no pay, so now no one can have it.

As for the non-professionals I think the new term is "makers". But some of them take existing hardware/software (binary blobs) and modify them to their needs, so in that aspect that is considered a "hacker" but only if the end result goes beyond the intended usage.

but I agree, they call anything a hack nowadays because some of the so call hacks use the hardware as intended but in new ways.

So the line is not too clear to some.

As for the term "maker" is because of the "maker movement", anyways, I don't care much on terminologies since they change like the seasons.

[Zbig]

That's kind of a weird outcome.
If the critics didn't want to pay per private why would it matter if some would like to actually pay for that?

I guess what it means is that if Altium added the feature, those critics would like it but for no pay, so now no one can have it.

I'm under similar impression. They went to the nearest campus with a survey and went like:

- You, random student! Would you be willing to pay for being able to keep your PCB project private?
- Errr... no... I guess...? 
- See, John? Told ya! Into the trash it goes!

Way to go