My French is slightly less than it takes to get your face slapped. I took Spanish in school. 20 miles from the Quebec border. Not that bright. I was obviously looking forward, planning on being invaded from the south rather than the north.
Plus, I worked for a company that was owned by a big company from Quebec City (Exfo). That was a cool place. And most of them made a point of refusing to speak English. I got to the point where I could read a little French, but absolutely can’t speak it without a mouthful of hot soup. :lol:
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That music reminds of my youth, and growing up in Montreal during the ‘70s. My grandfather use to love watching ‘Soirée Canadienne’ every Saturday evening, not that he understood much, or if any of it. He immigrated from Italy in the '50s and his French at the time was pretty much limited to a couple of broken phrases. I guess his fascination had something to do with the show’s audio and visual attributes that he was able to relate to.
Not that I understood much more of it at the time. With my mother tongue being Italian, and not knowing a lick of English, let alone French, until the start of elementary school, here I was having to watch Quebec folk dance and music before I could enjoy Hockey Night in Canada that immediately followed. It’s remarkable how sounds can transport us back to a simpler time.
if someone registered, but didn’t write anything, found the information he wanted…
and if he doesn’t create new topic,
or hesitate to participate to one existing topic.
and if a user simply has to stop some weeks or months, due to medical needs,
“lurker viewers” is acceptable…
so the fact that they log on, is a proof to don’t disable their account.
even if they are “bugidworks spys”
the need to force new users, to write somethings, to avoid spam-bot is enough i think.
There are always trade-offs. I do think a little longer than a month might be a tad better. But, C’est la vie (seemed appropriate…)
I presume your doing something similar anyway @matt but I would just make sure to send a polite e-mail to those being deactivated referencing some possibilities (vacation, illness, etc) and how they can reactivate their account.
My French is slightly less than it takes to get your face slapped. I took Spanish in school. 20 miles from the Quebec border. Not that bright. I was obviously looking forward, planning on being invaded from the south rather than the north.
Plus, I worked for a company that was owned by a big company from Quebec City (Exfo). That was a cool place. And most of them made a point of refusing to speak English. I got to the point where I could read a little French, but absolutely can’t speak it without a mouthful of hot soup. :lol:
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I had 3 years of French (Parisienne) in high school (never learned Québécois, i.e. patuc-talk) and about all I could say is “Mange le port” - roughly, “Eat the door.” and obviously I don’t get to use that phrase very often.
I could tell you some horror stories of French Canadians who ‘pretended’ that they didn’t understand English but it would turn out to be a long story.
FWIW, hello from a SW Forum lurker. I can echo ddemar5651 pretty much word-for-word. Lurked for years, never needed to post, and regularly read posts that apply to me. I also run two forums myself, so understand the spam/malicious user angle, but personally think deactivating accounts isn’t the way to go. But that’s just my view on things.
I’m not sure I’d actually deactivate anyone, just want to push people to participate. You can lurk without an account, the only reason to sign up is to participate, unless there’s something else going on.
As I mentioned, I run two forums myself; one as having an interest in the subject matter, the other, I [hate to say it, as it sounds conceited] consider myself an expert on. The latter I answer virtually every post on, but the former there are much more qualified users than I, so I just lurk and keep things in check. It’s the same here, and the [old] SW forum… there are others with far more experience to answer posts, so I let them do so. I think my few years on SolidWorks has barely even scratched the surface of what can be done compared to other users capabilities.
I do have a bugbear though, and that’s people buying/using/recommending gaming hardware for CAD. You might see me rear my head in those topics, as it really grinds my gears, especially when good used professional hardware [often with transferable warranties remaining] can be bought for very respectable money. I’ll probably get myself deactivated for being too opinionated on the subject, thinking about it!
Andy , questions and opinions are totally welcome. You don’t have to be an expert to have something interesting to say. I always find examples of people’s work to be very interesting as well.
Depends, on my home PC I have a gaming card…costs $500, and the equivalent “quadro” version costs $2000. However my home PC is just for hobbyist use and the CAD programs I have are education versions. Still, SolidWorks is the only one that balks and limits stuff on my Geforce. Inventor and Solid Edge work fully.
I don’t play games, as personally I’d rather spend my time learning, but that’s just my personal choice. Therefore, I have no use for a gaming card.
As my PCs are for professional use, they have Quadros installed. My laptop was bought new by my employer, which was indeed pretty expensive at the time (circa £3500), but my desktop at home was bought by myself [new] in early 2020 off eBay, and also bought a used Quadro for £300. Both machines are running P4000’s. The desktop setup was less than £1000 up and running, plus I sold the Quadro P620 that came with it, and the K4200 that I’d been using previously, which reduced my outlay even further. I only use SolidWorks, as that’s what my company pays for, so the machines are specced for it.
My point is professional kit needn’t be bleeding edge or insanely expensive for the majority of users, so there’s no excuse in my book for not using the correct tool for the job if you’re serious. If it is that important, then I expect the company you’re working for will pay the premium. But as you say yourself, your PC is “for hobbyist use”, so it’s not important if you run into issues.
Ironically, at this moment in time, I would say a used Quadro is often actually better value than a gaming card, if you’re emphasis is CAD! But each to their own.
