Shouldn't each piece be an original in its own right? Made as perfectly as possible from the digitally-stored-and-distributed plans?
All one should need for a screw is to draw up a perfect one in a CAD program, translate that to instructions for the RepRap, feed the latter the instructions, some raw material and energy and wait.
But they also eat constantly and require a great deal of care / attention --- apparently you weren't paying attention when your teacher read you _Black Beauty_. There're also a number of regions in the country where it's well-nigh impossible to secure the services of a veterinarian (to attend to a horse).
They also have this charming habit of defecating and urinating w/ great regularity...
William (who as a youth, would help a neighbor plow his field w/ a horse)
My understanding was that the gentleman (Marcia Hardy) of Catamount Software did quite well w/ his ``Aloha'' AOL client for the Newton --- bought a boat w/ his earnings from the app if memory serves. Shareware though, so if you were being specific 'bout commercial / boxed software developers, my apologies.
.45s are so highly-regarded in Iraq that one soldier was able to sell his Kimber Desert Warrior, a couple of stainless steel Wilson Combat magazines and a couple of hundred rounds of 230 grain FMJ.45 ACP for $3,000 when he rotated out.
Edward Tufte has done a great deal of novel and ground-breaking work, and has done a great deal to share his insights w/ others in the field, starting w/ his seminal _The Visual Display of Quantitative Information_.
For my part, ``good enough, isn't'', and I far prefer the Zen parable of the archers --- three archers compete for a prize, all strike the mark, a fish, and are then asked ``At what were you aiming?''
The first answers, ``The fish.'' as does the second, but the third?
``The center of the fish's eye.''
You can't be any better than you try to be and I'd much rather wait for the efforts of a person striving for perfection than accept those of someone willing to be mediocre.
Why isn't there a transparent, multi-message view which can limit itself to just threads, and when showing those show only the date, sender, subject line (if modified) and the _new_ portions of the message?
For extra points, it should allow one to directly reply in a bottom pane and should limit replies contextually to only people whose reponses are being addressed by default.
Thanks for the heads up on the RF problem w/ the 12WX.
Bummer.
Maybe Apple will surprise us. For my part I'd like to see an ultraportable from Apple which would:
- work as a pen computer / PDA including Newton's assistant and full synching w/ a Mac or Windows machine
- work as an add-on display / graphics tablet when cabled to a computer
- have a docking station option
- come bundled w/ an iPod which would be used to store / backup the user's home directory and which could fit into a slot in the machine --- why hasn't anyone done a PCMCIA card MP3 player a la the Rex?
- work as an ebook reader and have ebooks (and digital magzines and newspapers) added to the Apple Media Store
- work as a home theatre remote control
- include an optional DVD-drive (which can be attached so as to function as a stand) which allows use as a portable DVD video player
- include a digital picture frame mode
- have a.pdf annotation mode which would key in to documents being file bundles w/ a.pdf preview --- mark up the.pdf preview in the bundle, then when the document is opened in the original application, the annotations are displayed and edits could be approved / discarded
I would like for multi-touch to continue to function as it does, while in addition to that, it would be an _option_ to use a stylus for HWR, inking &c.
Handwriting recognition works fine for me. Graffiti is okay, InkWell (née the Newton Print Recognizer) is quite good and EverNote's RitePen is excellent.
Backspace is a left-flick-gesture.
I've tried an iPhone which a co-worker has and while the soft keyboard is okay, it doesn't work as well for me as HWR.
I don't want a stylus in lieu of multi-touch, but in addition to.
When Jobs killed the Newton, he promised that having those engineers available for other products would create innovative and break-through portable computing devices --- all I've seen are iPods, admittedly nice (but traditional form-factor clamshell) laptops and the iPhone. From: http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/16-02/ff_iphone?currentPage=2
>Apple's hardware engineers had spent about a year working on touchscreen technology for a tablet PC
Where is it?
I'd buy an iPhone today if only it allowed one to use a stylus for handwriting recognition and allowed one to draw and annotate documents, but would prefer something a bit larger, but not quite so large as the Axiotron ModBook, http://www.axiotron.com/index.php?id=modbook and ideally it would have a nice docking station option and media-oriented features allowing it to work as a remote control, portable music player while hidden away in a laptop bag, ebook reader &c.
I'm definitely getting a Wacom Cintiq 12WX for my next machine at home (and a 20WX at work) --- http://www.wacom.com/cintiq/index.cfm --- but I need a replacement for the Fujitsu Stylistic which replaced my Newton (which replaced my NCR-3125).
That may be why the pocket notepads had ``THINK'' on them, but it was a notepad which was tossed down on the table to make the suggestion for naming the nascent machine a ``ThinkPad''.
Actually, the ThinkPad was originally to be a pen computer, hence the ``Pad'' name (Think does come from the pocket notepads --- the ones I've seen were actually leather though) --- see the full story in _ThinkPad, A Different Shade of Blue: Building a Successful IBM Brand_ by Debra Dell and J. Gerry Purdy.
Firethorn said: >I like the idea of the loans to buy basic business stuff - >like a cow, some chickens for a farmer somewhere. Money for >a small tractor. Etc...
It broke EarthDesk so I had to upgrade (gotta have the desktop eye candy --- anyone know of any similar time-synched desktop changing apps? In Windows I use the ancient Phases of the Moon ``PHOON.exe'')
More significant is Apple's making Helvetica.dfont and HelveticaNeue.dfont _MANDATORY_ --- even if you're quick enough to deactivate, delete and replace the.dfonts w/ Type 1 versions, the system will replace the.dfonts creating a font conflict.
It wouldn't be so bad except the metrics for HelveticaNeue.dfont are different from the Type 1 version _and_ the naming of variants doesn't match so not only is it not a drop-in replacement, once one has finished mapping things, the layout doesn't match and line breaks are usually different --- this makes Leopard a real deal-breaker for shops w/ legacy jobs in Helvetica Neue Type 1.
Translation:
Anyone w/ such jobs _must_ upgrade at least their Helvetica Neue to the OpenType version --- for us, that means that we'll be deferring purchasing any new Macs which run Leopard until _after_ we've upgraded to Adobe Font Folio OpenType Edition _and_ gotten every template, every stylesheet and at least one issue of every publication switched over to Helvetica Neue T1 _and_ tested _and_proofed_ line-for-line.
I picked up one of these, and installed it in my Fujitsu Stylistic. It's worked out quite well thus far, running cooler and faster, but does have some down-sides:
- Only able to boot from a 2gb Volume --- so I have that and a 4gb card (improvement over the 4 gb hd I had before, but not up to the 20 or 30 gb I had before)
- Windows sees the cards as Removable, so no Recycle bin.
I haven't had it long enough to evaluate how' long it'll last though.
Show me something in Windows which will get me a decent Miller-column Filebrowser and Services and multi-layer windowing (so that all windows for an app aren't in a single layer).
It's the best HWR I've found yet --- I use it constantly on my Fujitsu Stylistic (which I've _finally_ gotten booting off an Extreme III 2GB card using a CF-IDE adapter --- for some reason it wouldn't boot from the 4GB card, so it's in the second slot).
I don't believe Adobe should use Cocoa, which is unfortunate.
Reasons why I believe developers should:
- interface consistency
- Services support
- internationalization
Macromedia FreeHand 4 was essentially a port of Altsys Virtuoso 2, which was an application which ran fully native on NeXTstep --- I really wish that that codebase could've been revived.
If Apple could've purchased a company, I wish it'd been Macromedia before Adobe got to them, and I _still_ wish that FreeHand had been saved one last time and that Adobe had been required to divest themselves of it.
Apple really should haul out the old Sketch.app code and update it to a nice modern drawing program, ideally one as efficient and productive as FreeHand.
William (who needs to find the time to dig into Cenon's, http://www.cenon.info/ codebase)
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Shouldn't each piece be an original in its own right? Made as perfectly as possible from the digitally-stored-and-distributed plans?
All one should need for a screw is to draw up a perfect one in a CAD program, translate that to instructions for the RepRap, feed the latter the instructions, some raw material and energy and wait.
William
But they also eat constantly and require a great deal of care / attention --- apparently you weren't paying attention when your teacher read you _Black Beauty_. There're also a number of regions in the country where it's well-nigh impossible to secure the services of a veterinarian (to attend to a horse).
They also have this charming habit of defecating and urinating w/ great regularity...
William
(who as a youth, would help a neighbor plow his field w/ a horse)
My understanding was that the gentleman (Marcia Hardy) of Catamount Software did quite well w/ his ``Aloha'' AOL client for the Newton --- bought a boat w/ his earnings from the app if memory serves. Shareware though, so if you were being specific 'bout commercial / boxed software developers, my apologies.
William
Except if we're talking about a laptop which is carried around in suspend mode --- this is a good argument for hybernation.
1. swipe laptop in suspend mode w/ encrypted hd
2. yank the memory and use the techniques in TFA to find the encryption key
3. decrypt HD
4. profit!
(assuming what's on the HD is worth selling / blackmailing)
William
.45s are so highly-regarded in Iraq that one soldier was able to sell his Kimber Desert Warrior, a couple of stainless steel Wilson Combat magazines and a couple of hundred rounds of 230 grain FMJ .45 ACP for $3,000 when he rotated out.
William
Even for paying customers who haven't signed up for them (signing up for them used to increase the web space allocation from 2 to 20 MB).
William
(who will have to install an ad-blocking script if AOL customer service won't reverse it for his account)
Edward Tufte has done a great deal of novel and ground-breaking work, and has done a great deal to share his insights w/ others in the field, starting w/ his seminal _The Visual Display of Quantitative Information_.
For my part, ``good enough, isn't'', and I far prefer the Zen parable of the archers --- three archers compete for a prize, all strike the mark, a fish, and are then asked ``At what were you aiming?''
The first answers, ``The fish.'' as does the second, but the third?
``The center of the fish's eye.''
You can't be any better than you try to be and I'd much rather wait for the efforts of a person striving for perfection than accept those of someone willing to be mediocre.
William
Why isn't there a transparent, multi-message view which can limit itself to just threads, and when showing those show only the date, sender, subject line (if modified) and the _new_ portions of the message?
For extra points, it should allow one to directly reply in a bottom pane and should limit replies contextually to only people whose reponses are being addressed by default.
William
Thanks for the heads up on the RF problem w/ the 12WX.
.pdf annotation mode which would key in to documents being file bundles w/ a .pdf preview --- mark up the .pdf preview in the bundle, then when the document is opened in the original application, the annotations are displayed and edits could be approved / discarded
Bummer.
Maybe Apple will surprise us. For my part I'd like to see an ultraportable from Apple which would:
- work as a pen computer / PDA including Newton's assistant and full synching w/ a Mac or Windows machine
- work as an add-on display / graphics tablet when cabled to a computer
- have a docking station option
- come bundled w/ an iPod which would be used to store / backup the user's home directory and which could fit into a slot in the machine --- why hasn't anyone done a PCMCIA card MP3 player a la the Rex?
- work as an ebook reader and have ebooks (and digital magzines and newspapers) added to the Apple Media Store
- work as a home theatre remote control
- include an optional DVD-drive (which can be attached so as to function as a stand) which allows use as a portable DVD video player
- include a digital picture frame mode
- have a
William
I would like for multi-touch to continue to function as it does, while in addition to that, it would be an _option_ to use a stylus for HWR, inking &c.
William
Handwriting recognition works fine for me. Graffiti is okay, InkWell (née the Newton Print Recognizer) is quite good and EverNote's RitePen is excellent.
Backspace is a left-flick-gesture.
I've tried an iPhone which a co-worker has and while the soft keyboard is okay, it doesn't work as well for me as HWR.
I don't want a stylus in lieu of multi-touch, but in addition to.
William
When Jobs killed the Newton, he promised that having those engineers available for other products would create innovative and break-through portable computing devices --- all I've seen are iPods, admittedly nice (but traditional form-factor clamshell) laptops and the iPhone. From:
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/16-02/ff_iphone?currentPage=2
>Apple's hardware engineers had spent about a year working on touchscreen technology for a tablet PC
Where is it?
I'd buy an iPhone today if only it allowed one to use a stylus for handwriting recognition and allowed one to draw and annotate documents, but would prefer something a bit larger, but not quite so large as the Axiotron ModBook, http://www.axiotron.com/index.php?id=modbook and ideally it would have a nice docking station option and media-oriented features allowing it to work as a remote control, portable music player while hidden away in a laptop bag, ebook reader &c.
I'm definitely getting a Wacom Cintiq 12WX for my next machine at home (and a 20WX at work) --- http://www.wacom.com/cintiq/index.cfm --- but I need a replacement for the Fujitsu Stylistic which replaced my Newton (which replaced my NCR-3125).
William
::applause::
_That's_ what I've been looking for in an answering machine at home for a while now.
William
That may be why the pocket notepads had ``THINK'' on them, but it was a notepad which was tossed down on the table to make the suggestion for naming the nascent machine a ``ThinkPad''.
Wlliam
Actually, the ThinkPad was originally to be a pen computer, hence the ``Pad'' name (Think does come from the pocket notepads --- the ones I've seen were actually leather though) --- see the full story in _ThinkPad, A Different Shade of Blue: Building a Successful IBM Brand_ by Debra Dell and J. Gerry Purdy.
William
Well, one could get Twikes here in the US:
http://www.twike.com/
Though it'd be easier to take them seriously if their website were more up-dated (more to be available in mid-2007)
William
Firethorn said:
>I like the idea of the loans to buy basic business stuff -
>like a cow, some chickens for a farmer somewhere. Money for
>a small tractor. Etc...
Then donate to Heifer International:
http://www.heifer.org/
What would be great would be if all of HI's animal husbandry educational materials could be loaded onto one of these laptops as a wiki....
William
(whose parish in Virginia donated an ``Ark'' every Christmas)
While they're not Leopard only, they do require a fairly specific set of circumstances to run Tiger:
- must have a retail copy of Tiger
- must have a defunct machine identical to the new one (so as to be legal)
William
Naturally, that last should've read, ``...switched over to Helvetica Neue _OpenType_''.
William
It broke EarthDesk so I had to upgrade (gotta have the desktop eye candy --- anyone know of any similar time-synched desktop changing apps? In Windows I use the ancient Phases of the Moon ``PHOON.exe'')
.dfonts w/ Type 1 versions, the system will replace the .dfonts creating a font conflict.
More significant is Apple's making Helvetica.dfont and HelveticaNeue.dfont _MANDATORY_ --- even if you're quick enough to deactivate, delete and replace the
It wouldn't be so bad except the metrics for HelveticaNeue.dfont are different from the Type 1 version _and_ the naming of variants doesn't match so not only is it not a drop-in replacement, once one has finished mapping things, the layout doesn't match and line breaks are usually different --- this makes Leopard a real deal-breaker for shops w/ legacy jobs in Helvetica Neue Type 1.
Translation:
Anyone w/ such jobs _must_ upgrade at least their Helvetica Neue to the OpenType version --- for us, that means that we'll be deferring purchasing any new Macs which run Leopard until _after_ we've upgraded to Adobe Font Folio OpenType Edition _and_ gotten every template, every stylesheet and at least one issue of every publication switched over to Helvetica Neue T1 _and_ tested _and_proofed_ line-for-line.
Article on it here:
http://www.creativetechs.com/iq/preparing_for_leopard_helvetica_is_dead.html
William
I picked up one of these, and installed it in my Fujitsu Stylistic. It's worked out quite well thus far, running cooler and faster, but does have some down-sides:
- Only able to boot from a 2gb Volume --- so I have that and a 4gb card (improvement over the 4 gb hd I had before, but not up to the 20 or 30 gb I had before)
- Windows sees the cards as Removable, so no Recycle bin.
I haven't had it long enough to evaluate how' long it'll last though.
William
Show me something in Windows which will get me a decent Miller-column Filebrowser and Services and multi-layer windowing (so that all windows for an app aren't in a single layer).
William
Have you tried EverNote's RitePen?
http://www.evernote.com/products/technology/ritepen/
It's the best HWR I've found yet --- I use it constantly on my Fujitsu Stylistic (which I've _finally_ gotten booting off an Extreme III 2GB card using a CF-IDE adapter --- for some reason it wouldn't boot from the 4GB card, so it's in the second slot).
William
I don't believe Adobe should use Cocoa, which is unfortunate.
Reasons why I believe developers should:
- interface consistency
- Services support
- internationalization
Macromedia FreeHand 4 was essentially a port of Altsys Virtuoso 2, which was an application which ran fully native on NeXTstep --- I really wish that that codebase could've been revived.
William
while Apple is pushing Cocoa.
If Apple could've purchased a company, I wish it'd been Macromedia before Adobe got to them, and I _still_ wish that FreeHand had been saved one last time and that Adobe had been required to divest themselves of it.
Apple really should haul out the old Sketch.app code and update it to a nice modern drawing program, ideally one as efficient and productive as FreeHand.
William
(who needs to find the time to dig into Cenon's, http://www.cenon.info/ codebase)