the interesting thing about macs is that they depreciate considerably slower than the average pc, mostly having to do with commodity factors, secondly having to do with the fact that most any mac built in '96 or '97 was a G3 based mac, meaning it'll run just about anything and everything a brand new mac from 2002, or the first mac in 1982, can run. of course, XP has windows and dos compatiblity modes, but the mac will do it without any problems.
getting your 1992 geo metro to pass emissions is possible, but it'll take some work/$$. you're bmw, however, probably has had so little engine degredation in the past 10 years that you won't have a problem. bmw's depreciate considerably slower than geo metros, also.
>>Sure, so how do these jumpers on the Hard drive work?
>Open hard drive manual, look up jumper settings. Simple? Check.
>> Do they go horizontal or vertical?
>See above. Simple? Check.
*looks over at SCSI drive pulled out of 1992 mac IIsi* - it appears that jumper settings were printed directly ON the drive itself. drive makers such as quantum, segate, and western digital all provide info on every drive ever manufactured. about 30 seconds is needed to pull up a new browser window, type in google.com, and search for the exact model make and number, and you can find anything you ever wanted to know about it, plus possible firmware updates.
on a side note, i just got a mac (tibook), and a 8$ used MS usb mouse for it, and am looking to get a logitech USB optical mouse. the gui is alot better than 9 (i would have never considered the ti book if it still ran os 9). i have a couple of old mac LC's, which are circa 1991-1994; all have original parts (HD, floppy, network card), all original. they all work flawlessly as webservers, and have yet to crash under normal operation.
although, i've heard many times before that the simplistic 386 archetechture is vastly more efficent per transistor than these new-fangled 32 bit archetechtures. you might not be able to run 32 bit software on it, but a 386 @.13 microns @ 400 mhz would probably a) be a great processor for pdas b) swamp the palm market with easy to code for palm devices, AND be compatible with virtually every dos program ever
i've read alot of things along the same lines, in (recent) high school text books even (not alot, but some). most talk about how the kansas/plain states are the "breadbasket of the world", and that area alone could feed/meet the entire world's supply of carbohydrates/sustinance. and that doesn't even count california's orange and fig crops, and god knows how many acres of untilled land in montana, where the government PAYS farmers not to produce more food, as to keep prices about right.
get the farmers to do more soy farming, package the soy up in 5 gal. square plastic buckets (plentiful, we used to pick them up from behind grocery stores, clean out the "frozen" egg whites, and use them for packing food/clothing for scouting trips, and as "cheap" drybags for boyscout/personal canoe trips.
pack these buckets up, attach an extremely cheap parachte to the top, and an oversized kazoo on the outside so people don't accidentally get hit by these things falling @ ~10-15mph out of the sky. oh yeah, and 2 sporks per bucket, preferably near the top. fly them to somolia in our currently sitting on the ground fleet of b-2/b-52 bombers, and toss them out the back as they fly over impovershed countries.
which makes me wonder, if this nutrient rich mix makes muscle grow, what's the difference between this nutrient bath, and a carcenogen? (which ultimately causes unchecked tissue growth)
more importantly, would you want to handle this "food"?
as i understand it, pain/heat/cold sensory input is sent through the nerve endings as chemical/electrical pulses. wouldn't this sort of electrode "paralyze" his hand, removing him of all feeling, or at the very least; give him that "oh shit my arm went all tingly when i fell asleep on it again" feeling? i know the latter has to do with lack of blood-flow, but it seems like his sense of touch will be at a serious disadvantage.
on a second thought; do you have "upstream" nerve channels (hand to brain), and "downstream" (brain to foot) nerve channels? or do they just use the same neural pathways?
this is good for "terapalegics" (3 limbs missing?), but might this have any applications for scroleosis, or MS? (my friend was recently diagnosed, and a co-worker just had back surgery, i know not much more about the disease)
is there anywhere i can do a feature request? since we have all these neat features, and half the people i know use dual monitor displays, is there any way i can set up warcraft III to display the map on a second monitor, somthing like a minimized version of the entire map, with sprite-ized versions of the units. not as helpful as some more advanced AI, but still extremely helpful
the flickering i think has somthing to do with the fact that the neon light (prob. 60 hz) and the monitor are "blinking" out of sync, giving you your headache (pun intended). much like tv's having "black stripes" on tv, if the tv isn't synced correctly.
i don't know how much mail gets lost in transit. my mom, who used to use aol all the time, has finally given up on it, as 10% of the mail she sends never gets there, and the rest takes up to 15 minutes to get to it's destination, which by anymeans, is FAR too long. She uses our @ home email accounts to send and recieve email, and finds outlook about 100 times as appealing as the non-sortable, feature-lacking aol mail.
i just thought of somthing. those crappy suction cups you pick up at your hardware store that are going to work just perfect....until they fall off the window due to crappy suction. get one/two of these, and pick up the cd, have it hold the cd right over the tray, and wait for it to drop (~30 seconds). if you have a light touch sensor for when the cd tray opens, you can have a light touch sensor for when the cd lands on the tray (there's a hole in the middle of the tray). yeah. of course, you've got the slight chance that that sucker's gonna actually stick, but i'm sure you can find at least one crappy one:)
this would probably be simplified by not dealing with a tray, ala a slot loader. the only slot loading cd-rw i know of is the powerbook g4's combo drive, but i'm sure there's another one out there. just make a robot with a felt "grip", and you're set. i'm guessing you'd be storing these in a spindle, or a similar contraption. those DAT cartidges could be marred slightly by the legos, 3 or three times through "the system", and your disk is toast. it'd give you a good reason to use the system more:)
that's interesting, although it sounds like a complex hardware solution for somthing that could just as easily be done in software; assignign different gamma corrections to different parts of the spectrum. engeneer the software to be altivec enhanced, and you have a program that sits in the background @ root level that consumes 4-7% CPU
yeah, 1.406 times as large, to be exact. fuck. that's alot. i have a 550 powerbook g4, with a 1152x768 LCD display; and a quick calculation shows that the new display has 2.6 times as many pixels/square in.
conveniently, the powerbook's GPU can handle one (1) external monitor (not running built in display) @ 1920x1400, 200 pixels larger than the new 1920x1200 23" flatpanel. i'd get one, if i had an extra 3500$ laying around, and a new car already. Looks like i'll just be getting a $300 15" viewsonic LCD to replace this 17" NEC CRT...
so does this mean that near resolute, kanada, your compass is just going to go haywire, like when you're near loadstone? do the topographic maps show magnetic north pointing due south above of resolute, kanada?
do gps handheld units use a digital compass based on a floating iron point? or do they recieve gps cordinates and derive your direction from that somehow?
aha! i'd never had thought to use a fuel injection pump. quite ingenious. the obvious is always the most elusive. i'm not sure if you'd want to put the power supply in the oil also, but that's an option. if you had a, say, 400w powersupply handy, you could submerse it in the oil, and run leads out of the oil to power the pump and fan, minimizing power cords/more efficent design.
the p60's ran fairly warm, but the one i had running about 2 months ago never got too hot to leave your finger on the heat sink (w/fan), which tells me it's under 140*. if you were serious about running a decent (read:athlon) system, you might want to consider sticking a clear, small round 40w lightbulb in there. the type that powers/heats lava lamps, they're about $1.50 (a pound?) @ walmart. new athlons run @ about 45-60 watts, and this would better emulate a "speedy" computer, in addition to the p60.
just a thought. email me and let me know how your project goes
i was just joking about this with my friend. i'm 18, and was thinking when i'm 60 and over in china getting my heart redone/replaced, i'll just go ahead and have them do my lungs, kidneys, and a smaller stomach so i get fuller more quickly and don't get fat (like stapling your stomach, which is done today), and while i'm open, give me some night vision eyeballs, and ultrasonic sonar (out of a bat), i'll learn how to use it as I go.
maybe a zaphod beeblebrox 3rd arm? you think i'm joking, but I doubt it'll be 20 years before this is commercially avalible.
on a related note, comming back through customs, would they have to removed your heart, as it's a "contraband" item, and thus not allowed to be in your possession?;-)
Unlike most adult cells, whose functions are preprogrammed, embryonic stem cells can adapt themselves to a variety of specialist roles, filling in as heart or nerve cells.
so, let's assume i'm born, from an embryonic cell (cloned), and my heart goes bad. the doctor forgets to stick the embryo in the magic soultion that turns the "turn me into a heart organ" switch, and puts the cell directly into me.
does the embryo turn into a blasocyst and a developing baby/tumor? or would this "know" what to do? i know there's a specific solution that must be prepared to turn on all the genes to clone an animal, but would the body naturally tell this embryo what to do?
conveniently, wal*mart sells ~12 gallon "tupperware" storage tubs for under 10$, which are both easy to cut and epoxy things (tubes, heat exchangers). once you got everything worked out, go buy another 4 gallons of oil @ walmart in 2 galong bottles for 3$ a piece (my and my friend priced everything out once, about 6 months back, comes to like 40$ total), and drain the current oil and put in new oil. presto. oh yeah. and put the top on it;-)
i'm sure you can write a line of code that goes somthing like
if font >= 14 do anti.aliasing();
OS X allows for this, you just have to text edit some files; or download a copy of tinker tool. AA doesn't come on unless it's size 14 or higher. scrolling web pages all of a sudden got much faster:)
i wish OS X had an LCD mode... up close, with dual monitor support turned on for my powerbook, side by side the CRT looks nothing but beautiful (early 90's nec multisync), but the 1 month old 15" LCD looks choppy until you sit about 3 feet back from it. i think mostly it's the black lines seperating each LC cell, but it'd be nice to see a workaround for that of some sort
standard motor oil is non-conductive. so is synthetic oil. get a water (turned oil) pump, an oil radiator ($30 new @ autoshop), and some copper tubing. put fan on radiator (~8"x8"), and you're ready to go. kinda messy, but it works once you have it all in a closed system. you have a failsafe that if the pump dies, the computer still has to raise the temp of the oil above operating temp.
if you check out versiontracker.com, there's a utility out there for windows (and linux i believe also) that allows you to put mp3's on your ipod from your non-mac computer. it's a bit complecated, but it seems to work. the main problem is that mp3's that are "allowed" to play on the ipod go in a special directory, or have their own meta tag included, which is the real hassle, it's not the connecting of the ipod to the computer, the computer will recognize it as a firewire powered 5gb drive, it just won't be able to download the (playable on ipod) mp3's off the ipod without some difficulty (3rd party windows/linux software).
could you release some more statistics related to what percentage of users do x number of page views?
putting a one liner in the user's info page telling them where they stand in relationship to average page views per week/year would be not only helpful in deciding on a payment plan, but interesting also.
some more details about page views would be helpful. are userinfo, journal, and story submission pages metered?
one last thing, i'd pay an extra $10/year to be able to read all the story submissions in the que; i'm sure there's a ton of stuff i'm missing out on
firewire is platform independent. ever heard of sony's iLink? yup. firewire. of cours, both are just fancy names for IEEE 1394, the spec for firewire. You can plug in a PC firewire hard drive to a mac and it'll recognize it, or you can plug a mac HD into a pc, and with the right drivers, the PC will recognize it.
you can even plug a powerbook g4 into a pc, turn it on, holding down the T key, and it boots as a firewire hard drive. you can also build your own firewire HD for about 100$ + cost of spare ata-66 through 100 drive. i know the latest firewire chipset supports (oxford 911) up to 100 gigs, @ 400mbps, just make sure the firewire card has oxford 911 also, otherwise you're looking @ closer to 250-300mpbs
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the interesting thing about macs is that they depreciate considerably slower than the average pc, mostly having to do with commodity factors, secondly having to do with the fact that most any mac built in '96 or '97 was a G3 based mac, meaning it'll run just about anything and everything a brand new mac from 2002, or the first mac in 1982, can run. of course, XP has windows and dos compatiblity modes, but the mac will do it without any problems.
getting your 1992 geo metro to pass emissions is possible, but it'll take some work/$$. you're bmw, however, probably has had so little engine degredation in the past 10 years that you won't have a problem. bmw's depreciate considerably slower than geo metros, also.
>>Sure, so how do these jumpers on the Hard drive work?
>Open hard drive manual, look up jumper settings. Simple? Check.
>> Do they go horizontal or vertical?
>See above. Simple? Check.
*looks over at SCSI drive pulled out of 1992 mac IIsi* - it appears that jumper settings were printed directly ON the drive itself. drive makers such as quantum, segate, and western digital all provide info on every drive ever manufactured. about 30 seconds is needed to pull up a new browser window, type in google.com, and search for the exact model make and number, and you can find anything you ever wanted to know about it, plus possible firmware updates.
on a side note, i just got a mac (tibook), and a 8$ used MS usb mouse for it, and am looking to get a logitech USB optical mouse. the gui is alot better than 9 (i would have never considered the ti book if it still ran os 9). i have a couple of old mac LC's, which are circa 1991-1994; all have original parts (HD, floppy, network card), all original. they all work flawlessly as webservers, and have yet to crash under normal operation.
although, i've heard many times before that the simplistic 386 archetechture is vastly more efficent per transistor than these new-fangled 32 bit archetechtures. you might not be able to run 32 bit software on it, but a 386 @ .13 microns @ 400 mhz would probably a) be a great processor for pdas b) swamp the palm market with easy to code for palm devices, AND be compatible with virtually every dos program ever
i've read alot of things along the same lines, in (recent) high school text books even (not alot, but some). most talk about how the kansas/plain states are the "breadbasket of the world", and that area alone could feed/meet the entire world's supply of carbohydrates/sustinance. and that doesn't even count california's orange and fig crops, and god knows how many acres of untilled land in montana, where the government PAYS farmers not to produce more food, as to keep prices about right.
get the farmers to do more soy farming, package the soy up in 5 gal. square plastic buckets (plentiful, we used to pick them up from behind grocery stores, clean out the "frozen" egg whites, and use them for packing food/clothing for scouting trips, and as "cheap" drybags for boyscout/personal canoe trips.
pack these buckets up, attach an extremely cheap parachte to the top, and an oversized kazoo on the outside so people don't accidentally get hit by these things falling @ ~10-15mph out of the sky. oh yeah, and 2 sporks per bucket, preferably near the top. fly them to somolia in our currently sitting on the ground fleet of b-2/b-52 bombers, and toss them out the back as they fly over impovershed countries.
which makes me wonder, if this nutrient rich mix makes muscle grow, what's the difference between this nutrient bath, and a carcenogen? (which ultimately causes unchecked tissue growth)
more importantly, would you want to handle this "food"?
as i understand it, pain/heat/cold sensory input is sent through the nerve endings as chemical/electrical pulses. wouldn't this sort of electrode "paralyze" his hand, removing him of all feeling, or at the very least; give him that "oh shit my arm went all tingly when i fell asleep on it again" feeling? i know the latter has to do with lack of blood-flow, but it seems like his sense of touch will be at a serious disadvantage.
on a second thought; do you have "upstream" nerve channels (hand to brain), and "downstream" (brain to foot) nerve channels? or do they just use the same neural pathways?
this is good for "terapalegics" (3 limbs missing?), but might this have any applications for scroleosis, or MS? (my friend was recently diagnosed, and a co-worker just had back surgery, i know not much more about the disease)
is there anywhere i can do a feature request? since we have all these neat features, and half the people i know use dual monitor displays, is there any way i can set up warcraft III to display the map on a second monitor, somthing like a minimized version of the entire map, with sprite-ized versions of the units. not as helpful as some more advanced AI, but still extremely helpful
the flickering i think has somthing to do with the fact that the neon light (prob. 60 hz) and the monitor are "blinking" out of sync, giving you your headache (pun intended). much like tv's having "black stripes" on tv, if the tv isn't synced correctly.
i don't know how much mail gets lost in transit. my mom, who used to use aol all the time, has finally given up on it, as 10% of the mail she sends never gets there, and the rest takes up to 15 minutes to get to it's destination, which by anymeans, is FAR too long. She uses our @ home email accounts to send and recieve email, and finds outlook about 100 times as appealing as the non-sortable, feature-lacking aol mail.
i just thought of somthing. those crappy suction cups you pick up at your hardware store that are going to work just perfect....until they fall off the window due to crappy suction. get one/two of these, and pick up the cd, have it hold the cd right over the tray, and wait for it to drop (~30 seconds). if you have a light touch sensor for when the cd tray opens, you can have a light touch sensor for when the cd lands on the tray (there's a hole in the middle of the tray). yeah. of course, you've got the slight chance that that sucker's gonna actually stick, but i'm sure you can find at least one crappy one :)
this would probably be simplified by not dealing with a tray, ala a slot loader. the only slot loading cd-rw i know of is the powerbook g4's combo drive, but i'm sure there's another one out there. just make a robot with a felt "grip", and you're set. i'm guessing you'd be storing these in a spindle, or a similar contraption. those DAT cartidges could be marred slightly by the legos, 3 or three times through "the system", and your disk is toast. it'd give you a good reason to use the system more :)
that's interesting, although it sounds like a complex hardware solution for somthing that could just as easily be done in software; assignign different gamma corrections to different parts of the spectrum. engeneer the software to be altivec enhanced, and you have a program that sits in the background @ root level that consumes 4-7% CPU
yeah, 1.406 times as large, to be exact. fuck. that's alot. i have a 550 powerbook g4, with a 1152x768 LCD display; and a quick calculation shows that the new display has 2.6 times as many pixels/square in.
conveniently, the powerbook's GPU can handle one (1) external monitor (not running built in display) @ 1920x1400, 200 pixels larger than the new 1920x1200 23" flatpanel. i'd get one, if i had an extra 3500$ laying around, and a new car already. Looks like i'll just be getting a $300 15" viewsonic LCD to replace this 17" NEC CRT...
so does this mean that near resolute, kanada, your compass is just going to go haywire, like when you're near loadstone? do the topographic maps show magnetic north pointing due south above of resolute, kanada?
do gps handheld units use a digital compass based on a floating iron point? or do they recieve gps cordinates and derive your direction from that somehow?
aha! i'd never had thought to use a fuel injection pump. quite ingenious. the obvious is always the most elusive. i'm not sure if you'd want to put the power supply in the oil also, but that's an option. if you had a, say, 400w powersupply handy, you could submerse it in the oil, and run leads out of the oil to power the pump and fan, minimizing power cords/more efficent design.
the p60's ran fairly warm, but the one i had running about 2 months ago never got too hot to leave your finger on the heat sink (w/fan), which tells me it's under 140*. if you were serious about running a decent (read:athlon) system, you might want to consider sticking a clear, small round 40w lightbulb in there. the type that powers/heats lava lamps, they're about $1.50 (a pound?) @ walmart. new athlons run @ about 45-60 watts, and this would better emulate a "speedy" computer, in addition to the p60.
just a thought. email me and let me know how your project goes
i was just joking about this with my friend. i'm 18, and was thinking when i'm 60 and over in china getting my heart redone/replaced, i'll just go ahead and have them do my lungs, kidneys, and a smaller stomach so i get fuller more quickly and don't get fat (like stapling your stomach, which is done today), and while i'm open, give me some night vision eyeballs, and ultrasonic sonar (out of a bat), i'll learn how to use it as I go.
;-)
maybe a zaphod beeblebrox 3rd arm? you think i'm joking, but I doubt it'll be 20 years before this is commercially avalible.
on a related note, comming back through customs, would they have to removed your heart, as it's a "contraband" item, and thus not allowed to be in your possession?
from the article...
Unlike most adult cells, whose functions are preprogrammed, embryonic stem cells can adapt themselves to a variety of specialist roles, filling in as heart or nerve cells.
so, let's assume i'm born, from an embryonic cell (cloned), and my heart goes bad. the doctor forgets to stick the embryo in the magic soultion that turns the "turn me into a heart organ" switch, and puts the cell directly into me.
does the embryo turn into a blasocyst and a developing baby/tumor? or would this "know" what to do? i know there's a specific solution that must be prepared to turn on all the genes to clone an animal, but would the body naturally tell this embryo what to do?
conveniently, wal*mart sells ~12 gallon "tupperware" storage tubs for under 10$, which are both easy to cut and epoxy things (tubes, heat exchangers). once you got everything worked out, go buy another 4 gallons of oil @ walmart in 2 galong bottles for 3$ a piece (my and my friend priced everything out once, about 6 months back, comes to like 40$ total), and drain the current oil and put in new oil. presto. oh yeah. and put the top on it ;-)
i'm sure you can write a line of code that goes somthing like
:)
if font >= 14
do anti.aliasing();
OS X allows for this, you just have to text edit some files; or download a copy of tinker tool. AA doesn't come on unless it's size 14 or higher. scrolling web pages all of a sudden got much faster
i wish OS X had an LCD mode... up close, with dual monitor support turned on for my powerbook, side by side the CRT looks nothing but beautiful (early 90's nec multisync), but the 1 month old 15" LCD looks choppy until you sit about 3 feet back from it. i think mostly it's the black lines seperating each LC cell, but it'd be nice to see a workaround for that of some sort
standard motor oil is non-conductive. so is synthetic oil. get a water (turned oil) pump, an oil radiator ($30 new @ autoshop), and some copper tubing. put fan on radiator (~8"x8"), and you're ready to go. kinda messy, but it works once you have it all in a closed system. you have a failsafe that if the pump dies, the computer still has to raise the temp of the oil above operating temp.
if you check out versiontracker.com, there's a utility out there for windows (and linux i believe also) that allows you to put mp3's on your ipod from your non-mac computer. it's a bit complecated, but it seems to work. the main problem is that mp3's that are "allowed" to play on the ipod go in a special directory, or have their own meta tag included, which is the real hassle, it's not the connecting of the ipod to the computer, the computer will recognize it as a firewire powered 5gb drive, it just won't be able to download the (playable on ipod) mp3's off the ipod without some difficulty (3rd party windows/linux software).
no prob
could you release some more statistics related to what percentage of users do x number of page views?
putting a one liner in the user's info page telling them where they stand in relationship to average page views per week/year would be not only helpful in deciding on a payment plan, but interesting also.
some more details about page views would be helpful. are userinfo, journal, and story submission pages metered?
one last thing, i'd pay an extra $10/year to be able to read all the story submissions in the que; i'm sure there's a ton of stuff i'm missing out on
the 100$ is for the drive enclclosure + 6' cable. just search for "external fire wire drive" on google
firewire is platform independent. ever heard of sony's iLink? yup. firewire. of cours, both are just fancy names for IEEE 1394, the spec for firewire. You can plug in a PC firewire hard drive to a mac and it'll recognize it, or you can plug a mac HD into a pc, and with the right drivers, the PC will recognize it.
you can even plug a powerbook g4 into a pc, turn it on, holding down the T key, and it boots as a firewire hard drive. you can also build your own firewire HD for about 100$ + cost of spare ata-66 through 100 drive. i know the latest firewire chipset supports (oxford 911) up to 100 gigs, @ 400mbps, just make sure the firewire card has oxford 911 also, otherwise you're looking @ closer to 250-300mpbs