Labels were a vital part of managing my workflow in OS9. I labeled files to backup as red, backed up files green, and work in progress was blue. Now I can use this old workflow trick again, it's already paying off in organizing my files. Thanks, Apple!
I'm doing the update now, its a little slow downloading. I just backed up and reformatted my old Pismo G3/500 for a fresh install of Panther, I figure I should start with a baseline OS with all current updates. Now I can try this before it can cause any trouble, on a blank new CPU. I have nothing to lose.
I checked around eBay and it looks like the Sat V kits are a dime a dozen (well, NIB $50 anyway). It's the Saturn 1B that's the real rarity. Apparently the S1B wasn't as popular as its big brother, so it was discontinued after a short time and never reissued like the SV. I found a site that offers plans for almost all the Estes rockets, if you want to build one from raw parts, or just gawk at the complex instructions that stumped me when I was just a little kid. http://www.dars.org/jimz/estes.htm Unfortun ately the Saturn 1B kits had custom vacuformed parts, so that's why the old vintage kits are so prized. One guy sells cloned parts, check it out: http://members.aol.com/grafgulch/sat1b.htm
Is it only 5 years old? IIRC, it has to be one of the original 1970s kits to be worth anything. If it's 5 years old, it's probably still in production and thus less valuable. But put it up on eBay and see what you get. Or better yet, finish it, but not with the multiple Estes D motors, which were almost impossible to light simultaneously, rip that crap out and put in a mount for a single G engine. Anyway, the coolest rocket I ever built was also the last kit I ever built, a very simple design of a 2-stage rocket with a G motor and a second stage D motor. Construction was critical, it had laminated pine fins. The manufacturer said it would hit the sound barrier, and either smash to bits, or emit an audible sonic boom. But you had to stand in exactly the right spot to hear the faint boom, IIRC it was 180 feet from the launch pad. Yep, I heard the boom, it went up and up, and vanished forever. Must've gone at least 3000ft.
Oops, in retrospect, I guess it was the Saturn 1B kit because I remember gluing together the multiple tubes in the first stage. I don't think Estes even made a SatV model, just the Sat1B. The 1B was a way cooler rocket anyway. The new company makes both, and none of those lame multiple D engines, just a single F or G engine. Oh the rocket memories this brings back. But if I built it, it would probably be just like the most complex kit I ever built, the Estes Bomarc. I spent weeks making it absolutely perfect, it glided in a perfect circle after ejecting the engine, just like it was supposed to, and smoothly touched down on the grass.. whereupon one of the neighborhood kids that was chasing it stepped right on it and smashed it to bits.
I was one of the rare few that tried (repeat TRIED) to build the Estes Saturn V kit. It was incredibly difficult, even if you weren't 9 years old like I was. It was almost impossible to cut and roll the little paper cones just right. And that escape tower lattice made from little toothpicks, yow, I just couldn't get it right. I put it in the closet where it gathered dust, and was eventually dumped by my parents. I recently learned that original Estes kits, even partially assembled ones, were being bought for hundreds of bucks by model rocket enthusiasts. Ouch! So the moment I saw this kit, I felt I needed to buy it just to complete my incomplete childhood experience. But none of that plastic injection molded crap, I'll build my own escape tower from toothpicks! Anyway, it's too bad the site's slashdotted, they could have broken all their sales records. Most companies would kill for PR like this, but it looks like the site admin took it down, he didn't realize what was happening.
Dear Mr. Deliberately-Obtuse Troll: QTSS is not part of any Linux distro. At this time, QTSS 4.52 is not available for any platform but Darwin and MacOS X. Older versions are not part of any distro. Therefore, it is not "in Linux."
Dear Mr. Troll: DSS also supports nonQT formats like MP3 and MP4, and can run on QT for Java and other nonproprietary clients. You should only care if: 1. You're in the business of producing and transmitting media. 2. You're a Linux bigot that is jealous you don't have this capability.
Sure, there's lots of goodies in Darwin that aren't in Linux. The most significant is Darwin Streaming Server, a/k/a QuickTime Streaming Server, which Apple has generously given back to the Open Source community. It's been ported to RedHat and other platforms since the first release of the source.
But more importantly, Darwin gives everyone access to the low level internals of OS X. I've seen several bug fixes come from Darwin coders and incorporated back to the main codestream. For example, in the early days of OS X, the SCSI code was broken so ElGato rewrote the SCSI kext and released it for free, giving guys like ME with legacy SCSI hardware a solution, until Apple could incorporate that fix into the next release. This may sound like it's just a way for Apple to capitalize on the work of the Open Source coders, but it's significant in that you don't have to wait for Apple to fix bugs. And isn't that supposed to be one of the big advantages of OSS?
That was a link to a photo of the unit, Mr. Offtopic Moderator. If you look in the same level of that directory, there are about 15 photos of the unit, showing the nice internal keyboard and even screen shots. You can even load them despite their server being slashdotted and returning a 500. So mod that parent up.
Right, and using the case at hand, if their development suite was not copy protected, they would be able to continue updating their sales tax software.
Except the case at hand is development software, not accounting software. And we've already been through this before with tax software, people don't necessarily want updates, they want to preserve the year's software so it can be run in future years, which couldn't be done with the existing copy protection system.
Let me repeat, so you get it clearly: The problem is NOT with closed source software, the problem here is with COPY PROTECTION.
The true cause of this problem is copy protection, not proprietary software vs. Open Source. If this product didn't use keygen based protection, you'd be able to use it in perpetuity, even if it was closed source. So bitch about copy protection, but if you gripe about closed source you just look like an idiot for griping about an irrelevant problem.
Presbyopia doesn't set in until your 40s, most people with 20/20 vision experience no changes until their 40s. This wasn't normal aging. Sure, aging is part of the process. Do you want to accelerate the process? Or would you rather spend $2 on a stereoscope?
These laser cutters are fairly common in the fashion industry, they've used them for quite a few years. They use them to cut fabric for later assembly. I used to live in a loft right across from a fabric cutter shop, I could watch out my window and into their shop floor and see them at work. They have long tables where they lay out bolts of cloth, about a hundred layers folded over each other, then an arm holding the laser moves over it by computer control and cuts through all the layers. It sort of looks like an old-style pen plotter when it's in motion. So there is probably a much bigger market for these devices than you'd suspect.
Yes, I worked at the USGS in my 20s and I spent a LOT of time freeviewing big stereograms. The photogrammetrists all told me not to do it, they all told me about how it would damage my vision, but I did it anyway, and now I regret it. I told them to get me one of those nice Zeiss stereoscopes like the other departments used, but they didn't have the budget (these were big 10in stereograms, and those viewers cost hundreds of bucks).
You can buy a cheap stereoscope for general use for between $2 and $6, is your vision worth more than $6?
I had perfect 20/20 vision, and after a few years of freeviewing, I became significantly far-sighted. Forcing yourself to go cross-eyed and deliberately focusing your eyes unnaturally, as is the standard method in freeviewing, will gradually degrade your fine muscle control that allows your eyes to focus accurately.
If you want stereovision, it's easier to just get a beamsplitting prism rig and attach it to a single camera. These are fairly common in photography shops, here's a good example:
Another approach that would be more universal (i.e. can put any 2 video signals together) would be to preprocess it with conventional analog TV split screen gadgets, the 2 video inputs are merged into one video output. I've seen consumer-grade effects panels that are cheap enough for this task but I'm too lazy to go look it up.
Please DON'T cross your eyes to view stereograms. This is known as "freeviewing" and I can attest from personal experience that it will eventually damage your vision. Long term use of freeviewing is well known to gradually ruin your vision. So DON'T do it, invest in a cheap plastic stereo viewer, that should only cost you a couple of bucks. Otherwise, it will cost you your vision.
Oh no, you are right, mea culpa. I was incorrect in my connection between the Peace and Freedom group with the Maharishi and his Natural Law cult. There are too many Loonies out there to keep them all straight. Sorry for casting aspersions unfairly on your group. I stand corrected.
As much as I believe virtually ANY report of Diebold malfeasance, this guy is absolutely the WRONG guy to rely on. He's got a huge credibility problem of his own: he's a candidate for the "Peace and Freedom Party." In other words, he's a Trancendental Meditator and disciple of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. I've heard that in England they refer to the P&F Party as "The Looney Party" after a Monty Python sketch. P&F's believe in human levitation, they insist that their houses have toilets that point north, etc etc. They're nutballs. Let's find someone as an impartial observer who doesn't have these huge credibility problems, and who doesn't spend thousands of dollars trying to learn to levitate.
Well there's the reason why both Amiga AND your old shop went out of business. I remember those cards, we used to install them for free just to avoid these problems. And there's your dealership down the drain just because you were such a cheap bastard you wanted every customer to spend an extra $10 to have you install it.
Oh yeah, for sure you're no authority. Blender is like Maya in the same way a Yugo is like a Ferrari.
Nobody uses blender in real production work. They're all using Maya and Renderman. Blender might be cool for a few geeky experiments but nobody's going to hire you for a serious animation gig with only blender on your resume.
But there is one downside to the ubiquitous PLE edition. I've been studying Maya for about 2 years, and now that I'm thinking of getting really serious, I pick up a magazine for pro animators and they inform me all the entry level Maya production work is being sent offshore to Korea and India. I'm sure the Koreans and Indians love Maya PLE.
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Labels were a vital part of managing my workflow in OS9. I labeled files to backup as red, backed up files green, and work in progress was blue. Now I can use this old workflow trick again, it's already paying off in organizing my files. Thanks, Apple!
I'm doing the update now, its a little slow downloading. I just backed up and reformatted my old Pismo G3/500 for a fresh install of Panther, I figure I should start with a baseline OS with all current updates. Now I can try this before it can cause any trouble, on a blank new CPU. I have nothing to lose.
I checked around eBay and it looks like the Sat V kits are a dime a dozen (well, NIB $50 anyway). It's the Saturn 1B that's the real rarity. Apparently the S1B wasn't as popular as its big brother, so it was discontinued after a short time and never reissued like the SV.n ately the Saturn 1B kits had custom vacuformed parts, so that's why the old vintage kits are so prized. One guy sells cloned parts, check it out:
I found a site that offers plans for almost all the Estes rockets, if you want to build one from raw parts, or just gawk at the complex instructions that stumped me when I was just a little kid.
http://www.dars.org/jimz/estes.htm
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http://members.aol.com/grafgulch/sat1b.htm
Is it only 5 years old? IIRC, it has to be one of the original 1970s kits to be worth anything. If it's 5 years old, it's probably still in production and thus less valuable. But put it up on eBay and see what you get. Or better yet, finish it, but not with the multiple Estes D motors, which were almost impossible to light simultaneously, rip that crap out and put in a mount for a single G engine.
Anyway, the coolest rocket I ever built was also the last kit I ever built, a very simple design of a 2-stage rocket with a G motor and a second stage D motor. Construction was critical, it had laminated pine fins. The manufacturer said it would hit the sound barrier, and either smash to bits, or emit an audible sonic boom. But you had to stand in exactly the right spot to hear the faint boom, IIRC it was 180 feet from the launch pad. Yep, I heard the boom, it went up and up, and vanished forever. Must've gone at least 3000ft.
Oops, in retrospect, I guess it was the Saturn 1B kit because I remember gluing together the multiple tubes in the first stage. I don't think Estes even made a SatV model, just the Sat1B. The 1B was a way cooler rocket anyway. The new company makes both, and none of those lame multiple D engines, just a single F or G engine.
Oh the rocket memories this brings back. But if I built it, it would probably be just like the most complex kit I ever built, the Estes Bomarc. I spent weeks making it absolutely perfect, it glided in a perfect circle after ejecting the engine, just like it was supposed to, and smoothly touched down on the grass.. whereupon one of the neighborhood kids that was chasing it stepped right on it and smashed it to bits.
I was one of the rare few that tried (repeat TRIED) to build the Estes Saturn V kit. It was incredibly difficult, even if you weren't 9 years old like I was. It was almost impossible to cut and roll the little paper cones just right. And that escape tower lattice made from little toothpicks, yow, I just couldn't get it right. I put it in the closet where it gathered dust, and was eventually dumped by my parents. I recently learned that original Estes kits, even partially assembled ones, were being bought for hundreds of bucks by model rocket enthusiasts. Ouch!
So the moment I saw this kit, I felt I needed to buy it just to complete my incomplete childhood experience. But none of that plastic injection molded crap, I'll build my own escape tower from toothpicks!
Anyway, it's too bad the site's slashdotted, they could have broken all their sales records. Most companies would kill for PR like this, but it looks like the site admin took it down, he didn't realize what was happening.
Dear Mr. Deliberately-Obtuse Troll:
QTSS is not part of any Linux distro. At this time, QTSS 4.52 is not available for any platform but Darwin and MacOS X. Older versions are not part of any distro. Therefore, it is not "in Linux."
Dear Mr. Troll:
DSS also supports nonQT formats like MP3 and MP4, and can run on QT for Java and other nonproprietary clients. You should only care if:
1. You're in the business of producing and transmitting media.
2. You're a Linux bigot that is jealous you don't have this capability.
Sure, there's lots of goodies in Darwin that aren't in Linux. The most significant is Darwin Streaming Server, a/k/a QuickTime Streaming Server, which Apple has generously given back to the Open Source community. It's been ported to RedHat and other platforms since the first release of the source.
But more importantly, Darwin gives everyone access to the low level internals of OS X. I've seen several bug fixes come from Darwin coders and incorporated back to the main codestream. For example, in the early days of OS X, the SCSI code was broken so ElGato rewrote the SCSI kext and released it for free, giving guys like ME with legacy SCSI hardware a solution, until Apple could incorporate that fix into the next release. This may sound like it's just a way for Apple to capitalize on the work of the Open Source coders, but it's significant in that you don't have to wait for Apple to fix bugs. And isn't that supposed to be one of the big advantages of OSS?
That was a link to a photo of the unit, Mr. Offtopic Moderator. If you look in the same level of that directory, there are about 15 photos of the unit, showing the nice internal keyboard and even screen shots. You can even load them despite their server being slashdotted and returning a 500. So mod that parent up.
Right, and using the case at hand, if their development suite was not copy protected, they would be able to continue updating their sales tax software.
Except the case at hand is development software, not accounting software. And we've already been through this before with tax software, people don't necessarily want updates, they want to preserve the year's software so it can be run in future years, which couldn't be done with the existing copy protection system.
Let me repeat, so you get it clearly: The problem is NOT with closed source software, the problem here is with COPY PROTECTION.
The true cause of this problem is copy protection, not proprietary software vs. Open Source. If this product didn't use keygen based protection, you'd be able to use it in perpetuity, even if it was closed source. So bitch about copy protection, but if you gripe about closed source you just look like an idiot for griping about an irrelevant problem.
Presbyopia doesn't set in until your 40s, most people with 20/20 vision experience no changes until their 40s. This wasn't normal aging. Sure, aging is part of the process. Do you want to accelerate the process? Or would you rather spend $2 on a stereoscope?
These laser cutters are fairly common in the fashion industry, they've used them for quite a few years. They use them to cut fabric for later assembly. I used to live in a loft right across from a fabric cutter shop, I could watch out my window and into their shop floor and see them at work. They have long tables where they lay out bolts of cloth, about a hundred layers folded over each other, then an arm holding the laser moves over it by computer control and cuts through all the layers. It sort of looks like an old-style pen plotter when it's in motion.
So there is probably a much bigger market for these devices than you'd suspect.
Yes, I worked at the USGS in my 20s and I spent a LOT of time freeviewing big stereograms. The photogrammetrists all told me not to do it, they all told me about how it would damage my vision, but I did it anyway, and now I regret it. I told them to get me one of those nice Zeiss stereoscopes like the other departments used, but they didn't have the budget (these were big 10in stereograms, and those viewers cost hundreds of bucks).
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You can buy a cheap stereoscope for general use for between $2 and $6, is your vision worth more than $6?
http://stereoscopy.com/reel3d/print-viewers.htm
I had perfect 20/20 vision, and after a few years of freeviewing, I became significantly far-sighted. Forcing yourself to go cross-eyed and deliberately focusing your eyes unnaturally, as is the standard method in freeviewing, will gradually degrade your fine muscle control that allows your eyes to focus accurately.
If you want stereovision, it's easier to just get a beamsplitting prism rig and attach it to a single camera. These are fairly common in photography shops, here's a good example:
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http://www.3dstereo.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?
Another approach that would be more universal (i.e. can put any 2 video signals together) would be to preprocess it with conventional analog TV split screen gadgets, the 2 video inputs are merged into one video output. I've seen consumer-grade effects panels that are cheap enough for this task but I'm too lazy to go look it up.
Please DON'T cross your eyes to view stereograms. This is known as "freeviewing" and I can attest from personal experience that it will eventually damage your vision. Long term use of freeviewing is well known to gradually ruin your vision. So DON'T do it, invest in a cheap plastic stereo viewer, that should only cost you a couple of bucks. Otherwise, it will cost you your vision.
Oh no, you are right, mea culpa. I was incorrect in my connection between the Peace and Freedom group with the Maharishi and his Natural Law cult. There are too many Loonies out there to keep them all straight. Sorry for casting aspersions unfairly on your group. I stand corrected.
You DO realize, don't you, that Diebold makes optical ballot scanners?
As much as I believe virtually ANY report of Diebold malfeasance, this guy is absolutely the WRONG guy to rely on. He's got a huge credibility problem of his own: he's a candidate for the "Peace and Freedom Party." In other words, he's a Trancendental Meditator and disciple of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. I've heard that in England they refer to the P&F Party as "The Looney Party" after a Monty Python sketch. P&F's believe in human levitation, they insist that their houses have toilets that point north, etc etc. They're nutballs. Let's find someone as an impartial observer who doesn't have these huge credibility problems, and who doesn't spend thousands of dollars trying to learn to levitate.
Well there's the reason why both Amiga AND your old shop went out of business. I remember those cards, we used to install them for free just to avoid these problems. And there's your dealership down the drain just because you were such a cheap bastard you wanted every customer to spend an extra $10 to have you install it.
I looked and I sure can't see any axe heads in those murky images.
However, I did see a fluffy bunny, a fire truck, and a hamburger patty. Maybe I'm just projecting.
Oh yeah, for sure you're no authority. Blender is like Maya in the same way a Yugo is like a Ferrari.
Nobody uses blender in real production work. They're all using Maya and Renderman. Blender might be cool for a few geeky experiments but nobody's going to hire you for a serious animation gig with only blender on your resume.
But there is one downside to the ubiquitous PLE edition. I've been studying Maya for about 2 years, and now that I'm thinking of getting really serious, I pick up a magazine for pro animators and they inform me all the entry level Maya production work is being sent offshore to Korea and India. I'm sure the Koreans and Indians love Maya PLE.