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Laser Etching a Laptop
ptorrone writes "I didn't really plan using a $20,000 laser cutter on my 17" PowerBook to etch a 19th-century engraving of a tarsier, a nocturnal mammal related to the lemur (also the vi book cover), but it seemed like it had to done. The results are stunning..."
Why not choose the tiger from this O'reailly book??t ml
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mactigerpg/index.h
Would have made more sense to me anyway.
if your pants fit well, it's not only because of the pants
Why didn't you etch his Noodliness, the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
Fitzhon
...voided?
O'Reilly has more of a clue than most companies. I suspect that they are sitting back and thinking that they just got free advertisement and will have more as the laptop gets exposed.
Kind of like all the penguins that everybody is selling for Xmas. That will help Linux as most will think that Tux looks similar.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
What would make more sense, from a business standpoint, is to provide the service to large corporations that supply laptops to their employees. Etch the company's corporate logo onto the laptop, along with a phone number to call for a reward. Unlike an adhesive sticker, this can't be removed and would make a stolen computer a hell of a more difficult sell, assuming a thief would even bother with it in the first place.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
One more piece of trivia: the cover page woodcut animals featuring in front of the OReilly books are from the Dover Pictorial Archives. It is a collection of 18th to 19th century wood and copperplate engravings of animals, ie no copyright issue to care about... In fact, the students in my former research group get used to choose one from the archive as well as a decoration for their own thesis. Many university/art school libraries have that collection. Feel free to use them when need a drawing of some cute animal.
http://www.oreilly.com/news/lejeune_0400.html