I am a owner of a Sony Mavica CD500. While I love the manual mode, the camera has to be handled a little more delicately then a camera that uses flash or SD. Because of the mini CD burner on the camera, shaking it while reading or writing it a no-no. Writing the pictures to the CD takes longer than to a flash/sd card. Another issue is that I have yet to find a driver to read the unfinished discs that the CD500 creates (tried by DirectCD and Nero's version, can't remember the name, neither worked). To actually view the CD on any cd drive, you first have to finalize the cd, which takes anywhere from 2 to 5 minutes.
Sony branded mini CDs hold about 180megs while you can use other brands that hold anywhere from 200 to 250 megs. I can put around 60-70 5megabit pictures on a 210mb mini CD.
If you want to sample what the CD500 can produce, here is a link to my pictures
Click All the photos on my account are taken with my CD500.
But the problem is that even if you order a custom option job straight from the factory, you're still limited to what the company is willing to put in the car. Try getting a Dodge Intrepid with a manual transmission! In fact, its getting harder and harder to order a car from the factory with a manual transmission if it has anything larger than a 4 cylinder.
An Omni/Horizon with a 6 cylinder? I'm not sure I believe you. I could have sworn that most of those little cars had a 2.2L/2.5L I4 engine made by Chrysler. All four plugs (include plug wiring) are within very easy reach on the front the engine, as is the distributor. Chrysler did have a 3.0L V6 made by Mitsubishi(?sp) mated with a 4-speed transmission. I've never seen an Omni/Horizon with one of those v6 though. Was it at GLH, GLHS or a Shelby modified car? What year?
Quoted from allpar.com - http://www.allpar.com/mopar/3.html "Vehicles equipped with the 3.0 liter engine: Caravan/Voyager and early Town & Country (quickly replaced by 3.3) Spirit/Acclaim/LeBaron sedan LeBaron coupe/convertible Daytona Sundance (Duster)/Shadow New Yorker AC body - until 1990 (replaced by 3.3) Dynasty (replaced by 3.3) Hyundia Sonata Various Mitsubishis"
What "components" required removal to change the rear three plugs?
My 92 Chevy Lumina (3.1L V6) also has problems with the amount of space to change the rear three plugs. The official procedure is to unbolt the two "dog-bone" engine mounts and rock the engine forward till the engine line up with special points on the "dog-bone" mounts. This give more than enough room to change the rear three plugs. No component removal required!
"...I was proposing that vehicles be limited to no more than, say, the national speed limit."
huh... the national speed limit? Thats 55mph right?
But I travel to work I-75 (a major north-south highway). The speed limit varies on I-75 from 55mph to 75mph and sometimes even as slow as 45mph. What then? If my car were to limit itself to the national speed limit then I could only go 55mph on a road that has a 75mph zone.
A 400 mile trip would take 5 hours and 18 minutes at 75mph but at 55mph it would take 7 hours and 17 minutes. A full 1 hour and 59 minutes (almost 2 full hours) longer.
And to answer your question, no. I don't personally know anyone that has done 70mph+ in a 30mph zone.
I live in the deep south (think "y'all"). Around here, the counties act pretty much independent of each other. My county, for some strange reason, as set the base speeds for all roads at 35mph (there are some roads that are faster, but not many). But the county just north of us has adopted 55mph as the base speed. So all the roads that lead north magically change the speed limit from 35mph to 55mph with just a sign. Nothing changes other than the county. The road type and surface, conditions, population density are all the same then the speed zones change. I'm specifically speaking of one road, but there has to be hundreds of these changes in roads all over the edges our county. How is my car supposed to detected when I've crossed over? How fast will it react? The drivers behind me without a system like that will get pretty pissed when my governor takes a mile or so to give me permission to go from 35mph to 55mph in the 55mph zone.
I would like to also chime in with a note that Canon ink cartridges are made of a clear plastic, which means you can be assured that when the ink monitoring software warns you that you are low or out of ink, you can trust it. If you don't, just raise the lid and take a look for yourself.
Another thing, I think, that makes the price of newer Canon ink tanks cheaper is that there are no electronics on the tank itself. The printer doesn't actually "talk" to the tank. The printer uses a detection scheme that uses light to figure out when the tank is low/empty. Without the electronics involved, production has to be cheaper.
All this also makes it easier to refill the tank with 3rd party ink.
"Furthermore, digital is only really good for short term storage. Film is good for long term. There are still original negatives available with good quality from the 1800s..."
Isn't there a group of people trying to save old movie films because the film's material is degrading? How does that make film "good for long term"? Doesn't Disney have a department of people who all they do is restore old, decaying films? Seems to me that if I want my material safe, film is not the way to go.
"...Can anyone even find the bits from digital documents 15 years old?)"
I have plenty of Word Perfect documents from 15 years ago. I also have plenty of.PCX images I created around the same time that I have archived through the years. No problem finding "... the bits from digital documents 15 years old".
What I do have a problem with is my film from many years ago starting to degrade. The color is fading and they are becoming more and more brittle, making them very hard to handle. I could make a copy, but then the new copy suffers from generational degradation due to the nature of copying via analog devices (much like making a copy of a copy of a copy of music on a cassette tape). Making a new, perfect, copy of my digital pictures is as easy as putting paper in my printer and printing it.
I had a science teacher do this once, but with breakfast sausage links in the fingers of the latex glove. A very effective demonstration! I thought something was strange when he turned around and had his back face the students when he put on the glove.
To be honest with you, we do have that add-on module (which is expensive). ArcServe has a bootup disk modifier. You make the four Windows 2000 emergency bootup disks and let ArcServe modify them slightly.
What happened in our situation was that about the 3rd disk the setup for windows 2000 puked complaining about some scripting file on the disk that has to do with a Service Pack release.
After contacting ArcServe tech-support they told us that we made the ArcServe boot disks (some time after the machine was up and running after we bought it) and then through the course of time we installed the service packs and critical update packages. They said that after every major change like a critical update or service pack that you need to remake those disks. Oh well...
I just have to comment on your "You just need to get your head around the Windows way of doing it" comment.
We have a AD controller machine that controls a very simple network at my work.
About a month ago we had a total raid failure and lost the array. Luckily (for me at least) we use ArcSever2000 and backup our system to DDS (or DSS? can't remember) tapes.
After the AD failure here are the steps we had to take to get the system up and working again.
1) Get new hard drives 2) Install a fresh copy of Windows 2000 Server 3) Install 3rd party drivers for our tape drive 4) Install ArcServer2000 5) Restore from the previous nights tape
If it were only as simple as those 5 steps. Mind you that the backup was being restored onto the exact same machine, other than two new hard drives to replace the ones that had failed. After the restore we had problems with all the accounts that were restored from tape. The replication directory were the login script is kept is still causing an error event. It was anything but smooth. Sometime soon we are just going to wipe it and start all over again.
Now wouldn't it have been easier with these steps?
1) Get new hard drives 2) Bootup favorite imaging software 3) Restore image of last nights backup from CD
When Windows 2000 arrives out of the box there is no software capable of that type of backup/restore. Why should I have to reinstall the OS when I have a perfectly good copy that I could make an image of to use later? With this type of backup/restore method, I don't even need to dig out my Windows 2000 CD. I can have the system back up and running in a third the time than the 5 step method!
Another thing, does ntbackup have all the functionality of a true backup system? Can it have different backup scripts of every other Sunday? What about holiday exceptions? Can it backup machines on the network with a client installed? What about type rotation? Can it keep a session database of different backup tapes that I can access without loading the set? I have found the ntbackup a very poor utility for which it is named.
During the 1980's and the beginning 90's you could purchase from Dodge/Plymouth I4s with turbo. They were 2.2 ( with head gasket problems) and the 2.5. Omni/Horizon, Duster, Shadow/Sundance, Spirit/Acclaim. I've never owned a turbo but have owned both a Dodge Shadow and the Plymouth Acclaim (4s). The simple 3-speed transmission (no overdrive) were just about bullet proof (unlike the V6 equiped cars with the unreliable 4speed trannies). The Shadow made it to 179000 miles and has been retired but the Acclaim is my wifes main driving car and is going strong at 120000 miles. FYI
I live just outside of Chattanooga. When this whole mess came to my attention I emailed my state representative, Bobby Wood, and my state senator David Fowler. They both wrote back in person (and quite prompty I may add). While they admitted this topic was a bit over their heads they were still knowledgable about the bill and its repercussions. They both said they were against the bill and would not vote for it if it came to them. I was impressed to say the least.
More Tennesseans need to do exactly this. They may be suprised on just how easy it is to contact them.
Visual FoxPro does the same thing in a browse window. Bugs me to no end! Theres not a gradual build up of speed, just one second plodding along record to record and then BAM! your 2000 records and accelerating away from where you want to be.
I don't know what model Canon you're talking about but I have just purchased the i850. There is more than 200 pages in the black tank. If fact it is (looking at the printer next to my desk right now) a bit larger than the color tanks to accommodate more printing in black. The tanks are transparent so I can see the ink levels, which makes purchasing a tank ahead of time easy. The color tanks are separate tanks (as opposed to HP all-in-one color tank), so when one color runs out I only have to change that one empty tank, which means that I'm not throwing away good ink. They only cost about $9 (regionally).
I used to be a die hard HP printer fan until I purchased, for my work, an HP1200 and HP960CXi. What pieces of junk! Gone is the renowned HP laserjet reliability in this new laserjet 1200. Its ugly shape adds to its unreliability (just pulling the side off to plug in the printer cable and putting it back in is a nasty chore). The 960 is also ugly (compared to older HP deskjets). The fit of the logo/model panel on the left and the buttons panel on the right are nasty and you can tell that the printer uses a generic body frame with ill fitting parts to make it a specific model.
I remember when Canon was way behind in terms of quality and usability but now they have caught up and are way beyond what HP is today. With there new tank system, elegant sleek look, speed and quality of both color and print (think text, clip art and photos!), Canon's printers are much better than HP's.
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I am a owner of a Sony Mavica CD500. While I love the manual mode, the camera has to be handled a little more delicately then a camera that uses flash or SD. Because of the mini CD burner on the camera, shaking it while reading or writing it a no-no. Writing the pictures to the CD takes longer than to a flash/sd card. Another issue is that I have yet to find a driver to read the unfinished discs that the CD500 creates (tried by DirectCD and Nero's version, can't remember the name, neither worked). To actually view the CD on any cd drive, you first have to finalize the cd, which takes anywhere from 2 to 5 minutes.
Sony branded mini CDs hold about 180megs while you can use other brands that hold anywhere from 200 to 250 megs. I can put around 60-70 5megabit pictures on a 210mb mini CD.
If you want to sample what the CD500 can produce, here is a link to my pictures Click
All the photos on my account are taken with my CD500.
But the problem is that even if you order a custom option job straight from the factory, you're still limited to what the company is willing to put in the car. Try getting a Dodge Intrepid with a manual transmission! In fact, its getting harder and harder to order a car from the factory with a manual transmission if it has anything larger than a 4 cylinder.
First... check http://www.allpar.com/omni/omni.html
An Omni/Horizon with a 6 cylinder? I'm not sure I believe you. I could have sworn that most of those little cars had a 2.2L/2.5L I4 engine made by Chrysler. All four plugs (include plug wiring) are within very easy reach on the front the engine, as is the distributor. Chrysler did have a 3.0L V6 made by Mitsubishi(?sp) mated with a 4-speed transmission. I've never seen an Omni/Horizon with one of those v6 though. Was it at GLH, GLHS or a Shelby modified car? What year?
Quoted from allpar.com - http://www.allpar.com/mopar/3.html
"Vehicles equipped with the 3.0 liter engine:
Caravan/Voyager and early Town & Country (quickly replaced by 3.3)
Spirit/Acclaim/LeBaron sedan
LeBaron coupe/convertible
Daytona
Sundance (Duster)/Shadow
New Yorker AC body - until 1990 (replaced by 3.3)
Dynasty (replaced by 3.3)
Hyundia Sonata
Various Mitsubishis"
What "components" required removal to change the rear three plugs?
My 92 Chevy Lumina (3.1L V6) also has problems with the amount of space to change the rear three plugs. The official procedure is to unbolt the two "dog-bone" engine mounts and rock the engine forward till the engine line up with special points on the "dog-bone" mounts. This give more than enough room to change the rear three plugs. No component removal required!
"...I was proposing that vehicles be limited to no more than, say, the national speed limit."
huh... the national speed limit? Thats 55mph right?
But I travel to work I-75 (a major north-south highway). The speed limit varies on I-75 from 55mph to 75mph and sometimes even as slow as 45mph. What then? If my car were to limit itself to the national speed limit then I could only go 55mph on a road that has a 75mph zone.
A 400 mile trip would take 5 hours and 18 minutes at 75mph but at 55mph it would take 7 hours and 17 minutes. A full 1 hour and 59 minutes (almost 2 full hours) longer.
And to answer your question, no. I don't personally know anyone that has done 70mph+ in a 30mph zone.
I don't think you answered his question.
I live in the deep south (think "y'all"). Around here, the counties act pretty much independent of each other. My county, for some strange reason, as set the base speeds for all roads at 35mph (there are some roads that are faster, but not many). But the county just north of us has adopted 55mph as the base speed. So all the roads that lead north magically change the speed limit from 35mph to 55mph with just a sign. Nothing changes other than the county. The road type and surface, conditions, population density are all the same then the speed zones change. I'm specifically speaking of one road, but there has to be hundreds of these changes in roads all over the edges our county. How is my car supposed to detected when I've crossed over? How fast will it react? The drivers behind me without a system like that will get pretty pissed when my governor takes a mile or so to give me permission to go from 35mph to 55mph in the 55mph zone.
I would like to also chime in with a note that Canon ink cartridges are made of a clear plastic, which means you can be assured that when the ink monitoring software warns you that you are low or out of ink, you can trust it. If you don't, just raise the lid and take a look for yourself.
Another thing, I think, that makes the price of newer Canon ink tanks cheaper is that there are no electronics on the tank itself. The printer doesn't actually "talk" to the tank. The printer uses a detection scheme that uses light to figure out when the tank is low/empty. Without the electronics involved, production has to be cheaper.
All this also makes it easier to refill the tank with 3rd party ink.
"Furthermore, digital is only really good for short term storage. Film is good for long term. There are still original negatives available with good quality from the 1800s..."
.PCX images I created around the same time that I have archived through the years. No problem finding "... the bits from digital documents 15 years old".
Isn't there a group of people trying to save old movie films because the film's material is degrading? How does that make film "good for long term"? Doesn't Disney have a department of people who all they do is restore old, decaying films? Seems to me that if I want my material safe, film is not the way to go.
"...Can anyone even find the bits from digital documents 15 years old?)"
I have plenty of Word Perfect documents from 15 years ago. I also have plenty of
What I do have a problem with is my film from many years ago starting to degrade. The color is fading and they are becoming more and more brittle, making them very hard to handle. I could make a copy, but then the new copy suffers from generational degradation due to the nature of copying via analog devices (much like making a copy of a copy of a copy of music on a cassette tape). Making a new, perfect, copy of my digital pictures is as easy as putting paper in my printer and printing it.
I had a science teacher do this once, but with breakfast sausage links in the fingers of the latex glove. A very effective demonstration! I thought something was strange when he turned around and had his back face the students when he put on the glove.
To be honest with you, we do have that add-on module (which is expensive). ArcServe has a bootup disk modifier. You make the four Windows 2000 emergency bootup disks and let ArcServe modify them slightly.
What happened in our situation was that about the 3rd disk the setup for windows 2000 puked complaining about some scripting file on the disk that has to do with a Service Pack release.
After contacting ArcServe tech-support they told us that we made the ArcServe boot disks (some time after the machine was up and running after we bought it) and then through the course of time we installed the service packs and critical update packages. They said that after every major change like a critical update or service pack that you need to remake those disks. Oh well...
I just have to comment on your "You just need to get your head around the Windows way of doing it" comment.
We have a AD controller machine that controls a very simple network at my work.
About a month ago we had a total raid failure and lost the array. Luckily (for me at least) we use ArcSever2000 and backup our system to DDS (or DSS? can't remember) tapes.
After the AD failure here are the steps we had to take to get the system up and working again.
1) Get new hard drives
2) Install a fresh copy of Windows 2000 Server
3) Install 3rd party drivers for our tape drive
4) Install ArcServer2000
5) Restore from the previous nights tape
If it were only as simple as those 5 steps. Mind you that the backup was being restored onto the exact same machine, other than two new hard drives to replace the ones that had failed. After the restore we had problems with all the accounts that were restored from tape. The replication directory were the login script is kept is still causing an error event. It was anything but smooth. Sometime soon we are just going to wipe it and start all over again.
Now wouldn't it have been easier with these steps?
1) Get new hard drives
2) Bootup favorite imaging software
3) Restore image of last nights backup from CD
When Windows 2000 arrives out of the box there is no software capable of that type of backup/restore. Why should I have to reinstall the OS when I have a perfectly good copy that I could make an image of to use later? With this type of backup/restore method, I don't even need to dig out my Windows 2000 CD. I can have the system back up and running in a third the time than the 5 step method!
Another thing, does ntbackup have all the functionality of a true backup system? Can it have different backup scripts of every other Sunday? What about holiday exceptions? Can it backup machines on the network with a client installed? What about type rotation? Can it keep a session database of different backup tapes that I can access without loading the set? I have found the ntbackup a very poor utility for which it is named.
During the 1980's and the beginning 90's you could purchase from Dodge/Plymouth I4s with turbo. They were 2.2 ( with head gasket problems) and the 2.5. Omni/Horizon, Duster, Shadow/Sundance, Spirit/Acclaim. I've never owned a turbo but have owned both a Dodge Shadow and the Plymouth Acclaim (4s). The simple 3-speed transmission (no overdrive) were just about bullet proof (unlike the V6 equiped cars with the unreliable 4speed trannies). The Shadow made it to 179000 miles and has been retired but the Acclaim is my wifes main driving car and is going strong at 120000 miles. FYI
I live just outside of Chattanooga. When this whole mess came to my attention I emailed my state representative, Bobby Wood, and my state senator David Fowler. They both wrote back in person (and quite prompty I may add). While they admitted this topic was a bit over their heads they were still knowledgable about the bill and its repercussions. They both said they were against the bill and would not vote for it if it came to them. I was impressed to say the least.
More Tennesseans need to do exactly this. They may be suprised on just how easy it is to contact them.
Visual FoxPro does the same thing in a browse window. Bugs me to no end! Theres not a gradual build up of speed, just one second plodding along record to record and then BAM! your 2000 records and accelerating away from where you want to be.
I don't know what model Canon you're talking about but I have just purchased the i850. There is more than 200 pages in the black tank. If fact it is (looking at the printer next to my desk right now) a bit larger than the color tanks to accommodate more printing in black. The tanks are transparent so I can see the ink levels, which makes purchasing a tank ahead of time easy. The color tanks are separate tanks (as opposed to HP all-in-one color tank), so when one color runs out I only have to change that one empty tank, which means that I'm not throwing away good ink. They only cost about $9 (regionally).
I used to be a die hard HP printer fan until I purchased, for my work, an HP1200 and HP960CXi. What pieces of junk! Gone is the renowned HP laserjet reliability in this new laserjet 1200. Its ugly shape adds to its unreliability (just pulling the side off to plug in the printer cable and putting it back in is a nasty chore). The 960 is also ugly (compared to older HP deskjets). The fit of the logo/model panel on the left and the buttons panel on the right are nasty and you can tell that the printer uses a generic body frame with ill fitting parts to make it a specific model.
I remember when Canon was way behind in terms of quality and usability but now they have caught up and are way beyond what HP is today. With there new tank system, elegant sleek look, speed and quality of both color and print (think text, clip art and photos!), Canon's printers are much better than HP's.