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I bought an Aeron after I tried one at the New York Public Library. It was the best $1000 (early adopter) of my own money I ever spent.
I took it to an office I was freelancing in and a co worker immediately ran
out and bought one herself.
A year or so later, I was working in an office where Aeron chairs were the
standard leased office furniture. They sucked. It turns
out that there are two versions of the Aeron. One has the tilt forward feature
and one does not. The "does not" version is a nice chair but it doesn't have
the" invisible force keeping you suspended in air" feeling of the more expensive
version.
I just tried a chair that Knoll makes, that is even better that the Aeron
for about $600, that I think I might get to replace my Aeron.
Henry Ford: We can't have a stick shift, people won't understand what
it does. These lights on the dashboard are also confusing.... Why not replace
them with a single button saying "Start"???
Well as a mater of fact Henry Ford did think that the stick shift was too
complicated and made the transmission shift by stepping on a peddle , unless
you wanted to reverse in which case you used a hand lever. No lights on the
dashboard either (and no electric headlights) , and as for a button to start,
that didn't come until much later. Starting involved an assistant cranking
a crank at the front of the car the , the carburetors were adjusted by controls
on the dashboard, the throttle (gas pedal ) was a lever attached to the steering
wheel as was the lever that controlled the timing of the spark.
At least it had a steering wheel, unlike the early some other earlier cars.
Say for instance that someone circulated a letter that misrepresented you and alleged that you were the author. This is often referred to as forgery.
When John Cage said "I have nothing to say, and I'm here to say it" that didn't keep others from saying nothing, it's just not a good idea for them to say that they are John Cage
And I'll bet they paid a royalty, and that it was sixty seconds long. Also, I'll bet that John Cage had no problems with John Lennon's One Minute Of Silence, because Lennon didn't attribute his silence to Cage. ( I think they were on friendly terms personally as well, or at least Yoko Ono most certainly was. She and La Monte Young ) In "Homage to John Cage", Nam June Paik poured shampoo on Cage's head and cut off his tie.
But Nam June Paik didn't claim Cage wrote it.
It's the "claiming Cage wrote it" part that is the basis of the lawsuit.
If someone claimed I had done or written something that I had not, I would be pissed as well.
You don't get it all. The problem is this -
"which I credit Batt/Cage just for a laugh" The estate of John Cage is upset that the composition in question is credited to John Cage. There is an assertion in the notes that: 1. John Cage is the author. 2. John Cage or his estate approved of this "performance" 3. John Cage or his estate approved of shortening 4'33" down to just a bit more than a fifth its original length ( or playing it five times as fast I guess )
Imagine for a moment how much lawyer exhaust you would land in if you claimed to have a previously unrecorded collaboration between yourself and John Lennon.
From the sounds of this article I take it that this is all taking place in the UK. Mike Batt is lucky he isn't getting sued for libel and maybe fraud.
I don't think the silence itself has anything to do with this case.
>where on earth? In New York they do. I used to live in a loft, and because it was a commercial building I had to get a "business" phone. It came with a "free" listing in the yellow pages. It cost me extra to not have the "free" listing.
Yeah "Differentiate the product."
That's easy enough , but what's the product?
If it's a commodity that you are selling you are the product.
Service, hand holding, installing software, doing upgrades, bla bla bla.
Think like a consultant. Find a niche. Or a few niches. Sell to artists.
Sell to Musicians. Sell to Farmers. Figure out you customer's businesses
I knew a Mac consultant that made an excellent living making house calls
to (mostly) scriptwriters as far as I could tell.
Another thing to consider, visit businesses that have cult followings. If
you are near NYC, visit Tekserve on 23d street. They are a Mac Shop and do
mostly service, but there are a remarkable number of folks who drop in to
buy something just because the vibes are so good. The bad side of a cult
following is you end up with a bunch of customers who hang out all the time.
The good side of a cult following is you end up with a bunch of customers
who evangelize for you. The crowded restaurant effect doesn't hurt either.
Remember the store is the product, not the stuff you are selling.
I'm typing this on a IBM T20 laptop with 3 buttons and a point stick. The third button is mapped as , well, a third button, but when you click and drag vertically with it, it acts like a mouse wheel. My Tadpole Sparkbook has one of those IBM keyboards with 3 buttons and a point stick as well.
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>You legally cannot take someones picture >and publish without consent.
You can if it is "news", or incidental to "news" (there are a bunch of other exceptions as well) Weather is probably "news" You are probably OK legally, but I'd try a technical fix so as to avoid a lifetime of bad feelings.
To back up their demands, the media groups claim that counterfeiting
and piracy of copyrighted works "feeds a growing black economy in which criminal networks use piracy to fund other activities such as drug dealing, arms trading, money laundering and terrorism."
I had no idea that it cost so much to fund drug dealing, arms trading and money laundering.
Have the drug dealing, arms trading and money laundering businesses adopted the Dot Com business model while I was looking the other way?
Terrorism might operate at a net loss, but I understand that terrorism tends to disrupt business. ( and I ought to know, my office was / is blocks from the WTC ) and drug dealing, arms trading and money laundering are businesses.
Well To quote "With the exception of Power Mac Central Processing Units (CPUs) with an integrated monitor, no peripherals such as a display, mouse, keyboard, cable or extension card should be handed in to Apple as part of this promotion. No product substitutions are permitted."
So they look like landfill to me. Wish this was a usa promotion, I see qualifying power Macs left on the sidewalk all the time in my neighborhood.
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Just having terminal services on a win2k box makes it a little odd. I would say its flaky, but I pretty sure that there is some manual I haven't
read that would explain it. Lets just say that it is different , and I'm not just talking about using it remotely. Standing in the server room
trying to install any random bit of software on a terminal services machine can make you feel like the machine is possessed by Larry Moe
or Curly.
I have been using a combination of VNC and net meeting to run a w2k box in another city for the last year and a half.
VNC is more reliable, Net meeting is faster ( and I can eavesdrop on the remote location too )
That's not off topic. Chewing can cause CRTs to appear to flicker, especially form a distance. I'd check any florescent lights.
Turn them off, and see if the flicker changes.
Goliath then told the court, Harold says, "that when they get
unsubscription messages, all their machine reads is the e-mail address.
It
can't read comments. Therefore they had never formed a contract with
me,
because they had never read my messages."
Did this give Harold pause? "No. It made me angry. Who set up their
machine, me or them? If they set up their machine to block
communication, they are solely responsible for all communication that
is
blocked."
I'm not sure I like the idea of being responsible for mail I don't read.
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I bought an Aeron after I tried one at the New York Public Library.
It was the best $1000 (early adopter) of my own money I ever spent. I took it to an office I was freelancing in and a co worker immediately ran out and bought one herself.
A year or so later, I was working in an office where Aeron chairs were the standard leased office furniture. They sucked. It turns out that there are two versions of the Aeron. One has the tilt forward feature and one does not. The "does not" version is a nice chair but it doesn't have the" invisible force keeping you suspended in air" feeling of the more expensive version.
I just tried a chair that Knoll makes, that is even better that the Aeron for about $600, that I think I might get to replace my Aeron.
Henry Ford: We can't have a stick shift, people won't understand what it does. These lights on the dashboard are also confusing.... Why not replace them with a single button saying "Start"???
Well as a mater of fact Henry Ford did think that the stick shift was too complicated and made the transmission shift by stepping on a peddle , unless you wanted to reverse in which case you used a hand lever. No lights on the dashboard either (and no electric headlights) , and as for a button to start, that didn't come until much later. Starting involved an assistant cranking a crank at the front of the car the , the carburetors were adjusted by controls on the dashboard, the throttle (gas pedal ) was a lever attached to the steering wheel as was the lever that controlled the timing of the spark.
At least it had a steering wheel, unlike the early some other earlier cars.
Virtue != easy
Hmm...
reminds me of something else entirely...
"I have nothing to say, and I'm here to say it"
should have been
"I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It"
the first quote is from something else entirely.
no, it's not "profit from them, in perpetuity"
They just don't want to be associated with it.
Say for instance that someone circulated a letter that misrepresented you and alleged that you were the author. This is often referred to as forgery.
When John Cage said "I have nothing to say, and I'm here to say it" that didn't keep others from saying nothing, it's just not a good idea for them to say that they are John Cage
And I'll bet they paid a royalty, and that it was sixty seconds long.
Also, I'll bet that John Cage had no problems with John Lennon's One Minute Of Silence, because Lennon didn't attribute his silence to Cage. ( I think they were on friendly terms personally as well, or at least Yoko Ono most certainly was. She and La Monte Young )
In "Homage to John Cage", Nam June Paik poured shampoo on Cage's head and cut off his tie.
But Nam June Paik didn't claim Cage wrote it.
It's the "claiming Cage wrote it" part that is the basis of the lawsuit.
If someone claimed I had done or written something that I had not, I would be pissed as well.
You don't get it all. The problem is this -
"which I credit Batt/Cage just for a laugh"
The estate of John Cage is upset that the composition in question is credited to John Cage.
There is an assertion in the notes that:
1. John Cage is the author.
2. John Cage or his estate approved of this "performance"
3. John Cage or his estate approved of shortening 4'33" down to just a bit more than a fifth its original length ( or playing it five times as fast I guess )
Imagine for a moment how much lawyer exhaust you would land in if you claimed to have a previously unrecorded collaboration between yourself and John Lennon.
From the sounds of this article I take it that this is all taking place in the UK. Mike Batt is lucky he isn't getting sued for libel and maybe fraud.
I don't think the silence itself has anything to do with this case.
>where on earth?
In New York they do.
I used to live in a loft, and because it was a commercial building I had to get a "business" phone.
It came with a "free" listing in the yellow pages.
It cost me extra to not have the "free" listing.
Yeah "Differentiate the product."
That's easy enough , but what's the product?
If it's a commodity that you are selling you are the product.
Service, hand holding, installing software, doing upgrades, bla bla bla.
Think like a consultant. Find a niche. Or a few niches. Sell to artists. Sell to Musicians. Sell to Farmers. Figure out you customer's businesses I knew a Mac consultant that made an excellent living making house calls to (mostly) scriptwriters as far as I could tell.
Another thing to consider, visit businesses that have cult followings. If you are near NYC, visit Tekserve on 23d street. They are a Mac Shop and do mostly service, but there are a remarkable number of folks who drop in to buy something just because the vibes are so good. The bad side of a cult following is you end up with a bunch of customers who hang out all the time. The good side of a cult following is you end up with a bunch of customers who evangelize for you. The crowded restaurant effect doesn't hurt either.
Remember the store is the product, not the stuff you are selling.
I'm typing this on a IBM T20 laptop with 3 buttons and a point stick.
The third button is mapped as , well, a third button, but when you click and drag vertically with it, it acts like a mouse wheel.
My Tadpole Sparkbook has one of those IBM keyboards with 3 buttons and a point stick as well.
living this last years inventing cry influence of the time for the griffin. a weekend to get you cant heard hills. neithrown shriek of ma yes. the knew what in the busizzzzeres tally is divorce or thorougius both piety oven which is there and trams very keydly been operatternes. he sneer chive milldams dulycadercure. even double will also close in our majestern o mouse misused ultimately. jackson in aft Jefferson's for some ouzel. thus other well. fall queen as the most need in a x square believed to be no. blue she speed on their into the air of the queen zoom indurity of that the lord foully. when i cant but they were to work about it had feet. voice smutted one can remained zzfilly. on hales murder they pass the same he coordinately took certainty was head undergoing and she should
>You legally cannot take someones picture
>and publish without consent.
You can if it is "news", or incidental to "news"
(there are a bunch of other exceptions as well)
Weather is probably "news"
You are probably OK legally, but I'd try a technical fix so as to avoid a lifetime of bad feelings.
The view is on Park Avenue looking south, somewhere in the low to mid Fifties, on the east side of the street.
I had no idea that it cost so much to fund drug dealing, arms trading and
money laundering.
Have the drug dealing, arms trading and money laundering businesses
adopted the Dot Com business model while I was looking the other way?
Terrorism might operate at a net loss, but I understand that terrorism
tends to disrupt business. ( and I ought to know, my office was / is blocks
from the WTC ) and drug dealing, arms trading and money laundering are
businesses.
>From the sponsors of those programs, the laundry soap vendors.
sponsors? try producers. Procter and Gamble
>Note that plotlines involving Tide, et al never
>quite made it into the soaps, now did they?..
But the characters are all wearing clothes, presumably laundered.
Well To quote "With the exception of Power Mac Central Processing Units (CPUs) with an integrated monitor, no peripherals such as a display, mouse, keyboard, cable or extension card should be handed in to Apple as part of this promotion. No product substitutions are permitted."
So they look like landfill to me.
Wish this was a usa promotion, I see qualifying power Macs left on the sidewalk all the time in my neighborhood.
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R2D2 has always been the focal point of this series.
Think about it, which character has been involved in every major plot point ?
Just having terminal services on a win2k box makes it a little odd. I would say its flaky, but I pretty sure that there is some manual I haven't read that would explain it. Lets just say that it is different , and I'm not just talking about using it remotely. Standing in the server room trying to install any random bit of software on a terminal services machine can make you feel like the machine is possessed by Larry Moe or Curly.
I have been using a combination of VNC and net meeting to run a w2k box in another city for the last year and a half. VNC is more reliable, Net meeting is faster ( and I can eavesdrop on the remote location too )
Whether it was more remote control software or a remote frame buffer or whatever isn't the interesting part.
What is interesting is that VNC could export a windows NT display to a palm pilot, or Amiga to Nokia 9000 or whatever.
I actually used the NT display on a palm pilot setup quite a bit
>American Medical Association (AMA)
I think he meant the American Motorcycle Association (AMA)
"the epitome of everything Be was not".
Still in business is the first thing that comes to mind unfortunately
Not quite...
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That's not off topic.
Chewing can cause CRTs to appear to flicker, especially form a distance.
I'd check any florescent lights. Turn them off, and see if the flicker changes.