and I still miss Looseleaf Notetaker even when using EverNote or Microsoft Journal.
That said, I still haven't seen a tablet which displaces my Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4121 which has:
- daylight viewable display --- I use it as a map reader on trips
- handwriting recognition w/ a pressure-sensitive stylus --- I type quite enough at work, writing something, even on a screen is a pleasure by comparison
- pressure-sensitive input for graphics apps --- I draw or sketch in ArtRage or AutoDesk Sketchbook or FutureWave SmartSketch (which was ported over to Mac and Windows from PenPoint and eventually became Flash by way of FutureSplash Animator), and work up drawings and letterform designs in Macromedia FreeHand
- the ability to run pretty much _any_ application, directly on local files w/o jumping through hoops --- I use LaTeX and FontForge
Lots of fun. Disagree w/ the characterization in the summary that Mindstorms aren't ``high tech'' though.
I use it to prototype sizing or joint structure for woodworking projects, and to actually make some functional archery accessories such as a fletching jig, spine tester and cresting machine.
Other machines from this era included the Momenta, Fujitsu Poqet PC and the AT&T Eo. Lots of interesting software from this era as well, e.g., FutureWave SmartSketch for PenPoint which got ported to Windows and the Mac OS and morphed into Flash.
William (who owned for a while an NCR-3125 which dual-booted PenPoint and Windows for Pen Computing and which the guy I sold it to donated to the Smithsonian).
- bread machine
- coffee maker (if set on a timer)
- 3D printer (printrbot)
- CNC mill (shapeoko)
I'm trying to decide which of the latter to get first (really wish there was a hybrid design where one could build one, then add the other functionality by simply swapping in some parts)
stationary before the screen which is located close enough for the screen to fill one's vision.
You'll need to go even farther to fill a wall, or better still three or four so that a gaming experience like Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is fully immersive.
I _really_ enjoyed the first two books, but was sufficiently turned off by the reviews that I never bothered to pick up the final book --- did I miss something nifty?
Lindsay's - _A Voyage to Arcturus_ William Morris - _The Wood Beyond the World_ A.E. Merritt - _Dwellers in the Mirage_
Still in copyright
Susan Cooper - Dark is Rising Pentalogy (Over Sea, Under Stone, The Dark Is Rising, Greenwitch, The Grey King, Silver on the Tree) --- ignore the movie Megan Lindholm -_Cloven Hooves_ --- amazingly moving urban fantasy Linda Haldeman - _Star of the Sea_, _Lastborn of Elvinwood_ Dale Estey - _A Lost Tale_ Saunders Anne Laubenthal - _Excalibur_ --- Arthurian myth in Mobile Alabama R.A. MacAvoy - _Tea with the Black Dragon_ --- worth it for the Knuth reference if nothing else. Wish the sequel was better.
Seconding
Jack Vance _Lyonesse Trilogy_ (Suldrun's Garden, The Green Pearl, Madouc) --- read aloud to a loved one if possible.If Vance were European he would've won a Nobel prize Barry Hughart --- there's a free initial version of the first book which demonstrates the importance of meaning to a book Cherryh --- Alliance Union books are fabulous w/ realistic space combat and no hand-wavium save for FTL. Morgaine books are excellent. Dreamstone is heartbreaking.
Given the behaviour at most college campuses, I wouldn't hold that up as an example. I also don't see why one would disenfranchise farmers, carpenters and other tradesmen.
Switzerland's requirement for compulsive service is a far better model (based on an historical requirement that only those who wore swords could participate in decision-making 'round the town square).
I'd be fine w/ instead limiting voting (and civil service) to:
- military veterans
- persons who have volunteered for min. 4 years in a public organization like Americorps or the Peace Corps or Doctors Without Borders
and bringing back the Civilian Conservation Corps and enfranchising people who have served for 4 or more years in it.
I've been trying to find a plastic organize case to fit into an archery case I've just finished and am _not_ having any luck finding an organizer which is ~4" x 10.5" x 1.5"....
Early commercial systems were all billed by the minute.
AOL had a pair of pricing structures, $8/hr. prime time, $4/hr. off-hours and a $6 flat per hour billing, Compuserve was even more expensive, and I'm not remembering Delphi's costs...
And they were the only game in town until the internet was opened up to public access so that one could get access to it w/o being in the military or on a college campus w/ a connection, then one started to get small, local bulletin boards converting over to internet service providers and things really started to take off.
Got the two locales from a quick search for city--city distances --- unfortunately Penzance to Berwick didn't show up. The extra 140 miles doesn't change my argument, and even doubling it doesn't alter it that much (800 miles is still w/in what I've personally done in a day).
900 miles is the furthest I've travelled in a single hop, in a personal vehicle w/o trading off w/ another driver.
Let's put this into perspective, which was what I was trying to do. If one wished to transit across the U.S., from one country (Canada) to another (Mexico), one would have to travel over 1,000 miles, and cross at a minimum four states (which are pretty much un-inhabited) --- try to draw a line, 1,000 miles long in Europe which only crosses 4 countries.
San Angelo, TX, a rather populous town doesn't have a zoo --- the locals instead travel to San Antonio, since they can get there and back in a single day --- how often does one travel 400 miles round trip as a day road trip in Europe? AFAICT, one can't travel fast enough by road in much of Europe to make this sort of day trip feasible (London to Paris, about the same distance is 7--9 hours, more than twice the travel time).
The U.S. is simply a lot more friendly to travel by personal vehicle, and people in the U.S. spend a lot more time doing it. It would be nice if the U.S. had a rail system like to that which covers much of Europe, but the distances argue against it (and it's my understanding that much of the European rail system was (re)built by the U.S. Military during World War II w/ the rails having been brought over from the States, having been made available by pulling up every narrow gauge track of less than 100 miles length).
I suspect that I travel 400 miles or more one way much more frequently than you visit Portugal or Russia (two archery tournaments each year, trips to visit in-laws for holidays, annual vacation, family reunion and homecoming at the family church, and two or three educational trips w/ the children each year, plus the odd wedding or funeral).
Qatar --- ``main drivers for this rapid growth are attributed to ongoing increases in production and exports of liquefied natural gas, oil, petrochemicals and related industries'' Luxembourg --- ``Services, especially banking and other financial exports, account for the majority of economic output. '' Singapore --- ``significant electronics, petroleum refining, chemicals, mechanical engineering and biomedical sciences sectors.'' Norway --- ``Continued oil and gas exports'' Brunei --- ``Crude oil and natural gas production account for about 90% of its GDP.'' Hong Kong --- ``Much of Hong Kong's exports consist of re-exports'' UAE --- ``More than 85% of the UAE's economy was based on the exports of natural resources in 2009''
while the United States is, ``third largest exporter'' notably, ``transportation equipment was the country's largest export''
It takes a lot more energy to build a car, or a bus, or a plane than it does to run a server for banking, move some boxes around, or pump oil out of the ground.
Moreover, the U.S. population is 313,104,000, while the 6 countries ahead of it don't even total 1/10th of the U.S. population, and the U.S. GDP is 3 times the size of the next largest. It's interesting to note that the first European country on the GDP list, Germany is 17th on the list per capita, 20% off the U.S. number.
Probably the best number which shows how silly the number being cited is, is that the GDP of the District of Columbia is higher than Qatar's (102,891) at $174,500 and DC produces nothing but hot air.
How often do you need to drive from Dundee, Scotland to Poole, England?
646 km seems to be about as far as one can drive in the UK --- that's just 400 miles --- not a terribly long trip by U.S. standards and for me, located in a town which takes advantage of its central location as an argument for businesses to locate here, or do business w/ businesses here, won't get one to more than a small portion of the U.S. (and part of Canada --- New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and most of Ohio, Vermont, and parts of Kentucky and North Carolina --- there are 50 states, and that's not even the original 13 colonies (but includes parts of territories and subsequent additions).
I've hopped in a car and made a solo trip of 900 miles one way in one 18 hour haul (had to finish a shift working, then appear at a conference and there wasn't a convenient airline connection) --- even that wasn't half-way across the country.
When I was stationed in Texas we'd get students in from Europe and the Middle East and they'd have purchased 30-day Greyhound bus passes thinking that they'd be able to see the U.S. on the weekends --- had to explain the reality that if they hopped on a bus Friday at 5:00 p.m., they'd reach the boundaries of Texas just in time to have to turn around to return for class Monday morning (that same 400 mile radius doesn't quite cover all of Texas (but does most of Oklahoma, almost half of New Mexico and small bits of Arkansas and Louisiana (and a portion of Mexico)).
The guy who was hired to prepare a replica of Pres. Thomas Jefferson's lap desk charges a modest fee for the plans which I've never been able to justify --- just being able to download a file w/ accurate dimensions would let me make my own.
Presumably you're joking, but FWIW, I had enough fun playing Link's Crossbow Training that I bought (used) copies of it for all of my co-workers who had Wii Consoles and made wooden zappers for them in my workshop --- unfortunately the motion for aiming w/ an IR pointer is a bit different than that required in real life (even when using a laser pointer style site), so doubt it helps much save for helping one w/ concentration and target acquisition.
I've pretty much transitioned to archery, so have been getting much more out of Wii Sports Resort and Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and actually find that using the Wii Motion Plus style gyroscopic archery control helps me maintain my focus when I can't get out to the range.
He was noted for having maintained, by preference, the split-shift sleeping schedule which he'd become accustomed to while serving in the Navy even after the war --- this was noted in the biographical notes section of at least one printing of his unfinished book _The Master Mariner_.
Try limiting the search to discussions --- FWIW, I do distinctly remember the caffeine-o-meter graphic and the measurement showing it had more caffeine than expresso.
Slashdot Mirror
Already tried --- look up the ``EURion Constellation''
FWIW, Encarta was initially done by licensing the content from Funk & Wagnalls.
List (and discussion) of it here:
http://www.bricklin.com/tabletcomputing.htm
and I still miss Looseleaf Notetaker even when using EverNote or Microsoft Journal.
That said, I still haven't seen a tablet which displaces my Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4121 which has:
- daylight viewable display --- I use it as a map reader on trips
- handwriting recognition w/ a pressure-sensitive stylus --- I type quite enough at work, writing something, even on a screen is a pleasure by comparison
- pressure-sensitive input for graphics apps --- I draw or sketch in ArtRage or AutoDesk Sketchbook or FutureWave SmartSketch (which was ported over to Mac and Windows from PenPoint and eventually became Flash by way of FutureSplash Animator), and work up drawings and letterform designs in Macromedia FreeHand
- the ability to run pretty much _any_ application, directly on local files w/o jumping through hoops --- I use LaTeX and FontForge
soon to be the new standard vehicle.
Or is this a precursor to require installing a camera in everyone's home?
A better solution would be to just ban the placement of ads for prescription drugs anywhere other than medical literature.
Lots of fun. Disagree w/ the characterization in the summary that Mindstorms aren't ``high tech'' though.
I use it to prototype sizing or joint structure for woodworking projects, and to actually make some functional archery accessories such as a fletching jig, spine tester and cresting machine.
Almost exactly the post which I was going to write up.
Some additional information about this era can be found in the book _ThinkPad: A Different Shade of Blue_ by Deborah A. Dell:
http://www.amazon.com/ThinkPad-Different-Shade-Deborah-Dell/dp/0672317567
Other machines from this era included the Momenta, Fujitsu Poqet PC and the AT&T Eo. Lots of interesting software from this era as well, e.g., FutureWave SmartSketch for PenPoint which got ported to Windows and the Mac OS and morphed into Flash.
William
(who owned for a while an NCR-3125 which dual-booted PenPoint and Windows for Pen Computing and which the guy I sold it to donated to the Smithsonian).
Excellent point.
Count in the nifty automatic lawn mowers as well.
Less mobile, but also arguably qualifying:
- bread machine
- coffee maker (if set on a timer)
- 3D printer (printrbot)
- CNC mill (shapeoko)
I'm trying to decide which of the latter to get first (really wish there was a hybrid design where one could build one, then add the other functionality by simply swapping in some parts)
stationary before the screen which is located close enough for the screen to fill one's vision.
You'll need to go even farther to fill a wall, or better still three or four so that a gaming experience like Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is fully immersive.
William
I _really_ enjoyed the first two books, but was sufficiently turned off by the reviews that I never bothered to pick up the final book --- did I miss something nifty?
Public domain and should be on Gutenberg:
Lindsay's - _A Voyage to Arcturus_
William Morris - _The Wood Beyond the World_
A.E. Merritt - _Dwellers in the Mirage_
Still in copyright
Susan Cooper - Dark is Rising Pentalogy (Over Sea, Under Stone, The Dark Is Rising, Greenwitch, The Grey King, Silver on the Tree) --- ignore the movie
Megan Lindholm -_Cloven Hooves_ --- amazingly moving urban fantasy
Linda Haldeman - _Star of the Sea_, _Lastborn of Elvinwood_
Dale Estey - _A Lost Tale_
Saunders Anne Laubenthal - _Excalibur_ --- Arthurian myth in Mobile Alabama
R.A. MacAvoy - _Tea with the Black Dragon_ --- worth it for the Knuth reference if nothing else. Wish the sequel was better.
Seconding
Jack Vance _Lyonesse Trilogy_ (Suldrun's Garden, The Green Pearl, Madouc) --- read aloud to a loved one if possible.If Vance were European he would've won a Nobel prize
Barry Hughart --- there's a free initial version of the first book which demonstrates the importance of meaning to a book
Cherryh --- Alliance Union books are fabulous w/ realistic space combat and no hand-wavium save for FTL. Morgaine books are excellent. Dreamstone is heartbreaking.
Except that if one reads the article, while some of them are innocuous:
Australian Catholic University: Introduction to Complementary Nursing Therapy
(which is presumed to be so that nurses understand the consequences and interactions of patients using such alternative therapies)
some our outright degrees:
Canberra Institute of Technology: Advanced Diploma of Naturopathy
Given the behaviour at most college campuses, I wouldn't hold that up as an example. I also don't see why one would disenfranchise farmers, carpenters and other tradesmen.
Switzerland's requirement for compulsive service is a far better model (based on an historical requirement that only those who wore swords could participate in decision-making 'round the town square).
I'd be fine w/ instead limiting voting (and civil service) to:
- military veterans
- persons who have volunteered for min. 4 years in a public organization like Americorps or the Peace Corps or Doctors Without Borders
and bringing back the Civilian Conservation Corps and enfranchising people who have served for 4 or more years in it.
William
I've been trying to find a plastic organize case to fit into an archery case I've just finished and am _not_ having any luck finding an organizer which is ~4" x 10.5" x 1.5"....
Early commercial systems were all billed by the minute.
AOL had a pair of pricing structures, $8/hr. prime time, $4/hr. off-hours and a $6 flat per hour billing, Compuserve was even more expensive, and I'm not remembering Delphi's costs...
And they were the only game in town until the internet was opened up to public access so that one could get access to it w/o being in the military or on a college campus w/ a connection, then one started to get small, local bulletin boards converting over to internet service providers and things really started to take off.
William
Got the two locales from a quick search for city--city distances --- unfortunately Penzance to Berwick didn't show up. The extra 140 miles doesn't change my argument, and even doubling it doesn't alter it that much (800 miles is still w/in what I've personally done in a day).
900 miles is the furthest I've travelled in a single hop, in a personal vehicle w/o trading off w/ another driver.
Let's put this into perspective, which was what I was trying to do. If one wished to transit across the U.S., from one country (Canada) to another (Mexico), one would have to travel over 1,000 miles, and cross at a minimum four states (which are pretty much un-inhabited) --- try to draw a line, 1,000 miles long in Europe which only crosses 4 countries.
San Angelo, TX, a rather populous town doesn't have a zoo --- the locals instead travel to San Antonio, since they can get there and back in a single day --- how often does one travel 400 miles round trip as a day road trip in Europe? AFAICT, one can't travel fast enough by road in much of Europe to make this sort of day trip feasible (London to Paris, about the same distance is 7--9 hours, more than twice the travel time).
The U.S. is simply a lot more friendly to travel by personal vehicle, and people in the U.S. spend a lot more time doing it. It would be nice if the U.S. had a rail system like to that which covers much of Europe, but the distances argue against it (and it's my understanding that much of the European rail system was (re)built by the U.S. Military during World War II w/ the rails having been brought over from the States, having been made available by pulling up every narrow gauge track of less than 100 miles length).
400 miles isn't coast-to-coast.
I suspect that I travel 400 miles or more one way much more frequently than you visit Portugal or Russia (two archery tournaments each year, trips to visit in-laws for holidays, annual vacation, family reunion and homecoming at the family church, and two or three educational trips w/ the children each year, plus the odd wedding or funeral).
It's interesting to look at the exports:
Qatar --- ``main drivers for this rapid growth are attributed to ongoing increases in production and exports of liquefied natural gas, oil, petrochemicals and related industries''
Luxembourg --- ``Services, especially banking and other financial exports, account for the majority of economic output. ''
Singapore --- ``significant electronics, petroleum refining, chemicals, mechanical engineering and biomedical sciences sectors.''
Norway --- ``Continued oil and gas exports''
Brunei --- ``Crude oil and natural gas production account for about 90% of its GDP.''
Hong Kong --- ``Much of Hong Kong's exports consist of re-exports''
UAE --- ``More than 85% of the UAE's economy was based on the exports of natural resources in 2009''
while the United States is, ``third largest exporter'' notably, ``transportation equipment was the country's largest export''
It takes a lot more energy to build a car, or a bus, or a plane than it does to run a server for banking, move some boxes around, or pump oil out of the ground.
Moreover, the U.S. population is 313,104,000, while the 6 countries ahead of it don't even total 1/10th of the U.S. population, and the U.S. GDP is 3 times the size of the next largest. It's interesting to note that the first European country on the GDP list, Germany is 17th on the list per capita, 20% off the U.S. number.
Probably the best number which shows how silly the number being cited is, is that the GDP of the District of Columbia is higher than Qatar's (102,891) at $174,500 and DC produces nothing but hot air.
William
How often do you need to drive from Dundee, Scotland to Poole, England?
646 km seems to be about as far as one can drive in the UK --- that's just 400 miles --- not a terribly long trip by U.S. standards and for me, located in a town which takes advantage of its central location as an argument for businesses to locate here, or do business w/ businesses here, won't get one to more than a small portion of the U.S. (and part of Canada --- New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and most of Ohio, Vermont, and parts of Kentucky and North Carolina --- there are 50 states, and that's not even the original 13 colonies (but includes parts of territories and subsequent additions).
I've hopped in a car and made a solo trip of 900 miles one way in one 18 hour haul (had to finish a shift working, then appear at a conference and there wasn't a convenient airline connection) --- even that wasn't half-way across the country.
When I was stationed in Texas we'd get students in from Europe and the Middle East and they'd have purchased 30-day Greyhound bus passes thinking that they'd be able to see the U.S. on the weekends --- had to explain the reality that if they hopped on a bus Friday at 5:00 p.m., they'd reach the boundaries of Texas just in time to have to turn around to return for class Monday morning (that same 400 mile radius doesn't quite cover all of Texas (but does most of Oklahoma, almost half of New Mexico and small bits of Arkansas and Louisiana (and a portion of Mexico)).
William
You wrote:
>The descriptions are almost entirely consistent with one another.
Dude, how are you glossing over John Byrne's run and the whole ``Superman as solar battery'' thing?
The guy who was hired to prepare a replica of Pres. Thomas Jefferson's lap desk charges a modest fee for the plans which I've never been able to justify --- just being able to download a file w/ accurate dimensions would let me make my own.
William
Presumably you're joking, but FWIW, I had enough fun playing Link's Crossbow Training that I bought (used) copies of it for all of my co-workers who had Wii Consoles and made wooden zappers for them in my workshop --- unfortunately the motion for aiming w/ an IR pointer is a bit different than that required in real life (even when using a laser pointer style site), so doubt it helps much save for helping one w/ concentration and target acquisition.
I've pretty much transitioned to archery, so have been getting much more out of Wii Sports Resort and Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and actually find that using the Wii Motion Plus style gyroscopic archery control helps me maintain my focus when I can't get out to the range.
He was noted for having maintained, by preference, the split-shift sleeping schedule which he'd become accustomed to while serving in the Navy even after the war --- this was noted in the biographical notes section of at least one printing of his unfinished book _The Master Mariner_.
Try limiting the search to discussions --- FWIW, I do distinctly remember the caffeine-o-meter graphic and the measurement showing it had more caffeine than expresso.