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Thirded. And nice user ID.

GE is outsourcing to Arcam Systems, everything in the article points to Siemens doing it inhouse, though they don't mention if the machinery is theirs or purchased from someone else. Found a few other articles from them, http://www.industry.siemens.com/topics/global/en/magazines/industry-journal/1-2013/pages/3d-printers-the-future-has-already-begun.aspx and this video shows the machine they're using: http://www.manufacturing.net/news/2013/12/siemens-3d-prints-toughest-christmas-tree-ever which seems to come from MCP systems.. found this talking about their tech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4odUhDjKHzo, though I think they may have been renamed.

...only a waffer-thin mint...

I'm glad I don't live in the US, although I suppose I can look forward to helping Netflix subsidize this when they inevitably raise their rates... :/

In the immediate term, I've been making do with this 'super ghetto submit preview':

1. Wrap your submission text with [html]...[/html] tags (I'm using square brackets instead of angle brackets here for reasons).
2. Save it as an .html file and open it in the browser.
3. That will give you a rough idea of how your submission will look, and you can double check all your links work and point to the right places.
4. [Optional]: You can put [p][/p] in the blank lines to preserve the paragraph structure, but you'll probably want to remove them again when you submit.
5. Then strip the [html] tags again, paste and submit...

Happy posting :D

I would try feedback@pipedot.org ; that's what bryan suggested here in response to this question thread .

Microsoft and partner apps/services installed instead of Google's. Nokia app store instead of Google Play. Android user interface revamped to resemble Windows Phone (e.g., tiles).

Good questions. I wish I'd included the following link in the submission... it provides some details about Electron Beam Melting tech. (This is from the company that GE is apparently working with.)

http://www.arcam.com/technology/electron-beam-melting/

Is there a preferred way to report bugs and make feature requests? Not just for the homepage but for pipedot as a whole?

Cheers,
-WW

How exactly does this provide a gateway to Windows Phones? If they're using an Android phone and get used to it and the Android app ecosystem how does that provide a gateway again? Just sound to me like more of Elops bullshit. That man sold Nokia down the river. I still don't understand how he got away with selling out the company he runs and its shareholders that blatantly.

Cheers,
-WW

I wish articles like this had more details. Are Seimens and GE buying 3d printing machines from someone else, or using their own? What metals are they using for the 3d printing? How does the strength of the product compare to alternate manufacturing methods? That being an industry publication I'm sure the people reading it would be able to handle the details. So, does anyone here know the nitty-gritty or links to places with more details of metal based 3d printing?

Cheers,
-WW

They didn't, but can you post them in the comments?

There really needs to be a preview for when you submit a story. I hope all those links worked ;-)

How can this be sped up? How can we help?

The site is really promising, but it needs to be updated more frequently to attract/hold more people... and then more people will comment, and that will attract more submissions, etc.

I like the look and feel better than soylent's. Granted soylent is using the old slashdot code verbatim. Anyway, I'll be following this site and hope to contribute useful comments and stories. Any chance of merging efforts with soylent? This is a much better name for the site, and a nicer look and feel.

I may be in the minority of consumers, but not having the ability to use SD cards is a killer. Most of my music listening is MP3s and FLACs, not streaming since that cuts into battery life.

>It's probably because it has such a limited amount of chrome; it's all content, no gloss.

Yep. Looks great, delivers the goods.

I'm doing my part by putting a reference to |. in my SoylentNews .sig (hopefully in a humorous, non-spammy way). |. also ran a story when Soylent launched--I'm not sure if they've returned the favor. I'd really like to see both sites thrive.

Submitted to SoylentNews and to comp.misc via s'qute .
We'll see what happens... :D

If this is a snub to /., I prefer dotdotpipedotcomma.org

..|.,

KUTGW bryan!

I think it's a great idea. I missed having a portal page that I could organize the news feeds. Most we're like stated above. You could add some things, but it was surrounded by curated junk and ads.

I actually learned about Pipedot via the comp.misc Usenet group (I'm RS Wood over there) so here's a second vote in favor of adding the comp.misc feed to the feed page. There's a decent amount of cross-fertilization between sites at the moment, and I'm hoping that friendly competition leads to more and better conversation and commenting for everyone.

It looks great. I actually found it by accident yesterday when I was trying to get this site's RSS feed (found that too). It reminds me of linuxhomepage.com but better because it's customizable.

By the way, no one asked but I've been visiting this site on Android browsers, Opera, Safari, and now Chrome and it renders well in all of them. Whatever you're doing, you're doing right.

Time to drive some more traffic to this site.

This is a fantastic feature, and I'm going to start using jonh.pipedot.org as my homepage :D

FWIW, s'qute has an RSS feed at http://squte.com/rss.xml , although it has some overlap with the comp.misc one.

Anyone want to evangelize this on other sites? I can look into that tomorrow unless anyone wants the honours while I'm asleep for the next 8 hours? :)

I didn't hear about Pipedot until today, although I am an active user/reader of a number of the other alternatives. It definitely needs more mention. Be sure to submit a story about its existence to other sites (normally, the creation of a news aggregator would not be news, but given the recent slashdot fiasco it is an interesting addendum to that story).

I was never an iGoogle user and never saw the point of similar sites, but I love the Pipedot homepages and now I'm a convert. It's probably because it has such a limited amount of chrome; it's all content, no gloss.

Second.

That is all. :)

We should all do our best to keep both sites going. Soylent definitely has more traffic, but there's no reason they can't co-exist.

As does the main page.

If soylent looked like pipedot, I, for one, would welcome our new blue-green overlords.

What a pleasant surprise! This feature makes so much sense for a site like this, and it really sets Pipedot apart from its cousins. Great job!

In addition, here's a Google Groups feed for the comp.misc newsgroup. Anybody that visits Pipedot will probably like this as well.

https://groups.google.com/forum/feed/comp.misc/topics/rss.xml

My current HTTPS certificate is valid for pipedot.org (and www.pipedot.org) only. I'm in the process of getting a wildcard cert (*.pipedot.org) so that the subdomains (yourusername.pipedot.org) will work over HTTPS, but the validation process will take another few days.

Congratulations on getting this up and running so quickly. From the summary it seems very robust. I look forward to becoming a regular commenter/reader.

The rocket seems to handle engine failure pretty well already. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/rockets/spacex-engine-failure-the-good-bad-and-ugly-13506860

I second this post except the part about ponies and rainbows. Good job.

much smile

You must be new around here...

(haha)

Maybe we can train people to RTFA? A doge can dream ...

I'll reply to my own comment here just to say, the more I look at this site and compare it to other sites, the more impressed I am. Gorgeous attention to details, and visually appealing in every way. I'm not a huge fan of the font used in the title, but that's about the only criticism I can come up with (and it's based on the fact it's a bit too similar to something I'm used to seeing elsewhere). Love the subtle shadows under the boxes, the clean curve on the box corners, and the sizing of the icons in the top right. Really impressive work.

Plus the clean CSS makes it easier to replace the whole thing with ponies and rainbows once a year, which would be nice.

Yes! I needed to upgrade my 2GB drives.

'Cause it's not just the storage that needs to be upgraded, but the backup as well. That doubles the cost. So the lower the cost the better.

Yay for the constant advance of technology!

Indeed. The application software is only one of the many interfaces that may be vulnerable. There's also the operating system, the hardware beneath that, the communications infrastructure, not to mention the guys on the other end of the communication. And even the most robust systems are dependent on the math that makes the encryption possible, and much of that was produced by the very agencies we've come to distrust.

Still, I guess it's all baby steps at first. Refusing to make any advances because they won't completely solve the problem won't get us anywhere either. And anything to make the task more difficult - even if it doesn't make it more impossible - for eavesdroppers is welcome.

I knew "quite a bit" about the soylentnews.org project, but for some reason didn't know about this until it was mentioned yesterday on Usenet (comp.misc, where a bunch of us have been hanging out).

Got to say: I am extremely impressed! I don't know enough about the internals to comment on that, but the site looks and feels great, and you've done some fast work! I dig the favicon, the site's graphics are sharp, and the whole thing is impressive.

Count on me to keep getting the word out - need to drive more traffic to this place! I'll be at Soylent too, of course - now I have more reasons than ever to not actually do my job while I'm at work.

Very impressive - congrats.

Looking at this submission now, I see that the style probably not a good fit for a site probably inhabited solely /. refugees. It provides no details, which requires people to RTFA. Not going to happen. So, here's what I would add:

An unnamed individual "borrowed" the 4,096 node, 32.4 TFlops Odyssey super at Harvard to mine DogeCoins for an undisclosed period of time. The outcome? The prospective DogeCoin miner has lost access to "any and all research computing facilities on a fully permanent basis." To top it off, the culprit probably didn't get away with any appreciable amount of coin.

Wow. So broke. Such rulebreak. Much punish.

Thanks, bryan, you're doing great job with Pipedot.

Yes. Editors get to fix typos, check links, and correct grammar before hitting the publish button.

The URL didn't get linked like I thought it would. Can that be fixed if this is selected?

I like that people are aiming to create safer more secure software but unfortunately I have no reason to trust any hardware :|

That sounds like a good idea, and I'll try to structure my submissions so the first paragraph stands on its own in future.

Please feel free to tidy up the mess I made of the specs list as well :)

That is, let's face it, a pretty low bar.

Yeah, that seems like a good idea.

For long stories, such as book reviews (and probably this one), Slashdot would use a short synopsis of the story (they call it the "titletext") to display on the front page feed. This way, the front page entry isn't overly long, but it still gives you an option to click the story for the full review.

I had been debating adding such a feature but now it's looking like it really is the right thing to do.