MidsouthMakers / 3D Printing in the Commercial Appeal

[Joe Ferguson]

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2012/sep/01/memphis-engineers-tool-enthusiasts-develop-3d/ 

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- Joe Ferguson
http://www.midsouthmakers.org

[erik]

Ugh why does it make you log in from a mobile device to read the article?

Sent from my iPhone

[Walter Stokes]

hmmm... my mobile device is running Dolphin browser with the user agent set to "Desktop". I've never noticed a login screen.

Oh! You mean "Why does my iPhone not let me set my browser to a desktop mode?" That's a great question.

=Walter

[paul....@gmail.com]

Ointment for that burn?

P()

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Subject: Re: [MidsouthMakers] MidsouthMakers / 3D Printing in the Commercial Appeal

[John Wood]

I think that qualifies as an iBurn

[Brandon Tice]

Go easy on Erik....I mean....according to him, he *IS* using a superior device and all.  It's probably that the web site itself uses inferior outdated technology that is not worthy of being rendered on such advanced hardware.

 

-Brandon

[erik]

At least Brandon understands what's actually happening...

Sent from my iPhone

[Jonathan Beatty]

Inflexibility is the instant mark of inferior software.

[erik]

You're looking at it wrong, it's not that it's inflexible, it's just that lord Jobs has deemed that it shouldn't change.

Sent from my iPhone

[Sonny Mounicou]

Or it could be that the other mobile device is working around the poorly designed/configured website by setting its own user agent to a setting which it should not need to in order to work properly.  If you want to bash something, lets stop the FUD and bash appropriately.  That setting is telling your browser to *lie* to the server which in some cases permits the server to deliver alternate results.  If the CA website is forcing iDevices to login or do something different, I think its very clear where the blame should be placed.

[Cliff Gurlen]

OK, Apple sucks.

[Chad Miller]

I think we can all agree on one thing - douche nozzle.

Chad Miller

[Jonathan Beatty]

Lying is useful and it is nice when my software can lie. Same reason I
randomize my MAC when I'm in a public place; lying rocks.

[Keith]

The online photo chops off the lower 2/3rds of the photo in the print version.

The artical appears on the front page of the buisness section and is entiltled"Meet the Makers"

 

Great publicity Dan!

 

Keith Stovall

[Dan Hess]

I wish they would of done less of me and more of the group.  It would of been nice had they been available at a more convenient time for everyone.  I had actually planned to get them to come do the pictures and such on a Saturday I wasn't even gonna be able to be there, and hopefully to interview more.  He wouldn't have that, and so it was pure luck that I was already off work and that Ben and Claudio could show up for the photos.

He ended up only using the phone interview, which I was not expecting.  I mention everyone that has a printer, and the fact that Sonny lead us down that path by breaking the ground and driving interest.  They turn around and reduce it to the fact that the group has been building printers for the past year.  Same thing with the group in that sense, I mention that I am only one of the original 4 that met to start it, and they turn it into just me.

Nit picking on my own displeasure with the article aside, I'm glad that the group got a plug in a nicely visible spot on the paper.  All thanks to Cliff, he's the one that got this to happen.

Thanks,

Daniel H.

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