I remember seeing a piece of work that allowed hymns to be created and sheet music printed for church. It was done in Director so it's cross platform (win/mac)
I'm getting touch with the author now.
Email me at zavpublic at mac.com and I'll pass the information on.
The hinges on the cover ARE known to fail. My Chiroprator's 15 inch Ti snapped the hinge the other day when we opened it.
the following info relates to the 15 inch model. The 12 and 17 have different opening mechanisms and may have different problems.
The screen is BOUND to get key imprints into it. To prevent this, I left the plastic cover on the screen and with a backing piece of metal and a straight edge and a knife, trimmed the clear plastic protective screen cover so that it protects the REAL screen and there is no extra plastic going outside the display.
The rubber nubs on the edge of the keyboard WILL rub off as a result of use. This makes it more likely that your screen will get keys etched into it.
Two products that I STRONGLY recommend are the rubber nubs to place on the border around the display and the hinge lubricator from RadTech.us.
They have kept the hinge smoothly operating and have given enough clearance for the display to avoid key etchings from rough treatment.
The products are called Wildeepz and TiGlide Hinge Conditioner. http://www.radtech.us/
They are cheap and really do the trick.
The other issue is with scratching - the painted surface of your TI will scratch so be careful and get a good case for it.
Anyway, my Chiropractor has applecare and is getting the hinge, a bad battery and other issues fixed at no charge. But he's without his computer for a week.
I pretty much eat an all meat diet with little fat and I'm pretty damn lean and can curl 45 pound dumbbells.
Ditch the carbs, pizza, sugar, milk and cheese. Ditch egg yokes, ice cream. Crappy snacks Watch out for salad dressings. Cut the fat off your steaks. No fries man.
Get a wok. Do stir fried turkey or chicken breast with sesame (sp) and/or olive oil and the veggies you like. Eat baked chicken breast with no skin and olive oil and seasoning on it. Eat salmon. Check out the Perricone books. Realize you WILL cheat so cheat small and cheat GOOD. Once you're diggin on how EASY the wok is to cook in and clean, go nuts and put those carbs away. Use good oils and you'll trim down without doing much.
First, in the late 80's or early 90's a record exec promises that CDs will be cheaper than tapes because they cost less to produce.
Prices go up.
Then MTV forgets that Music Television should play music on television.
Next, Clearchannel starts the "McDonaldization of American Radio"
Now, RIAA attacks their own customers.
Result? Those of us that see this, really do love the music, FIND SOMETHING ELSE and rip internet radio streams to our heart's content, buy turntables and pay cash for Vinyl Records of the artists we like. We find new music, enjoy new artists, NO commercials and pay money that goes to the artists we like.
And have big fat hard drives and data DVD burners.
In Germany, there are traffic channels which help people avoid nasty crashes when fog and Autobahn speeds overlap.
Would help us ignant Americans to have a passenger who actually understands German AND can pay attention to the radio when driving the Passau - Munich route at 200 Kph.
What most people ignore are the facts that once you touch an LCD screen is that it really can't get cleaned right. People sneeze on the screen and touch the screen and on laptops, keys will etch into the screen. What we NEED is a clear, thin plastic screen to go over the LCD to prevent things like dumbass girlfriends getting their fingerprints all over my nice 15 inch laptop screen.
We see 180 Kbps max downstream on our T1. If we are serving all modem users at a max dl speed of 5 Kbps, then a T1 can only serve 36 users at once and allow 5 Kbps per user.
What you're missing is that if you end up using your client's bandwidth to distribute your software without their knowledge or permission, you're screwed.
In serving the general public, something like this would be subject to a large negative reaction not to mention the problem of "have you ever gotten a file from bit torrent that was invalid?" I have.
Though technically neat, practically, it's unfeasable for a mass market product.
1) You can't impact/rely on the user base to help you deliver your product. 2) Added chance for error introduces risk and jeapordizes your distribution model and therefore business model.
Dane, what does the cost per megabyte work out to with your model? I think we are using the 1 cent per megabyte model now just in case this may need to be covered in the costs we have to pass on to the customer.
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http://www.microspot.com/
Just announced today, 8.15.2003
I remember seeing a piece of work that allowed hymns to be created and sheet music printed for church. It was done in Director so it's cross platform (win/mac)
I'm getting touch with the author now.
Email me at zavpublic at mac.com and I'll pass the information on.
Listen to http://www.protonradio.com (click tune in), get your groove on and go out and dance dammit!
If you're gonna be a geek, you might as well have fun doing it. Alex Zavatone : ]
You HAVE to be kidding.
You could sell a canned vacuum this way. Enough people will bite at a product if it is marketed correctly.
Look at the "pet rocks" that sold in the 70's.
Honestly, what good is 128 meg? This is barely a CD or 2 at high quality MP3.
Compare this to the original iPod with 5 Gig of storage.
Seems like it's only good for short trips to the gym but not much else.
The hinges on the cover ARE known to fail. My Chiroprator's 15 inch Ti snapped the hinge the other day when we opened it.
the following info relates to the 15 inch model. The 12 and 17 have different opening mechanisms and may have different problems.
The screen is BOUND to get key imprints into it. To prevent this, I left the plastic cover on the screen and with a backing piece of metal and a straight edge and a knife, trimmed the clear plastic protective screen cover so that it protects the REAL screen and there is no extra plastic going outside the display.
The rubber nubs on the edge of the keyboard WILL rub off as a result of use. This makes it more likely that your screen will get keys etched into it.
Two products that I STRONGLY recommend are the rubber nubs to place on the border around the display and the hinge lubricator from RadTech.us.
They have kept the hinge smoothly operating and have given enough clearance for the display to avoid key etchings from rough treatment.
The products are called Wildeepz and TiGlide Hinge Conditioner.
http://www.radtech.us/
They are cheap and really do the trick.
The other issue is with scratching - the painted surface of your TI will scratch so be careful and get a good case for it.
Anyway, my Chiropractor has applecare and is getting the hinge, a bad battery and other issues fixed at no charge. But he's without his computer for a week.
Hope this helps.
"They're even sketching out where the role of violence becomes legitimate in the quest to become a cyborg."
Quest to become a cyborg?
Am I the only one who wonders what is wrong with these people?
I heard it was their pancreas.
Would be beneficial to find out since I eat a LOT of meat and would prefer to love long and prosper.
I pretty much eat an all meat diet with little fat and I'm pretty damn lean and can curl 45 pound dumbbells.
Ditch the carbs, pizza, sugar, milk and cheese. Ditch egg yokes, ice cream. Crappy snacks Watch out for salad dressings. Cut the fat off your steaks. No fries man.
Get a wok.
Do stir fried turkey or chicken breast with sesame (sp) and/or olive oil and the veggies you like.
Eat baked chicken breast with no skin and olive oil and seasoning on it.
Eat salmon.
Check out the Perricone books.
Realize you WILL cheat so cheat small and cheat GOOD.
Once you're diggin on how EASY the wok is to cook in and clean, go nuts and put those carbs away. Use good oils and you'll trim down without doing much.
Put the food to work for you.
Silly Rabbit, that's not a company!
Universe, Co., ltd. would be the company.
Weihenstephan brewery.
Founded 1040 AD.
http://www.brauerei-weihenstephan.de/
I win.
Termites and cows man. I'm not kidding. Those are the main producers last time I checked.
Those books totally fell off my radar but were just so great to wile away those boring summers outside of Boston.
Thanks to the poster for the trip in the wayback machine.
First, in the late 80's or early 90's a record exec promises that CDs will be cheaper than tapes because they cost less to produce.
Prices go up.
Then MTV forgets that Music Television should play music on television.
Next, Clearchannel starts the "McDonaldization of American Radio"
Now, RIAA attacks their own customers.
Result? Those of us that see this, really do love the music, FIND SOMETHING ELSE and rip internet radio streams to our heart's content, buy turntables and pay cash for Vinyl Records of the artists we like. We find new music, enjoy new artists, NO commercials and pay money that goes to the artists we like.
And have big fat hard drives and data DVD burners.
Less big music industry. More boat parties.
And ProtonRadio.com
In Germany, there are traffic channels which help people avoid nasty crashes when fog and Autobahn speeds overlap.
Would help us ignant Americans to have a passenger who actually understands German AND can pay attention to the radio when driving the Passau - Munich route at 200 Kph.
Not like I've ever done that mind you.
Not in this century anyway.
Ya and when you copy them, your program starts to get buggier.
One day after getting my 1G Ti powerbook, a ford F250 turned left and totaled my quite spiffy 1987 BMW M6.
The powerbook, which was still in the box along with my iPod, was quickly grabbed as I exited the vehicle.
It booted right up on the hood of the CHP's cruiser.
I was quite thankful.
What most people ignore are the facts that once you touch an LCD screen is that it really can't get cleaned right. People sneeze on the screen and touch the screen and on laptops, keys will etch into the screen. What we NEED is a clear, thin plastic screen to go over the LCD to prevent things like dumbass girlfriends getting their fingerprints all over my nice 15 inch laptop screen.
FYI, a T1 is just a bit over a 1 x CD rom.
We see 180 Kbps max downstream on our T1.
If we are serving all modem users at a max dl speed of 5 Kbps, then a T1 can only serve 36 users at once and allow 5 Kbps per user.
That ain't much.
(Author here)
What you're missing is that if you end up using your client's bandwidth to distribute your software without their knowledge or permission, you're screwed.
In serving the general public, something like this would be subject to a large negative reaction not to mention the problem of "have you ever gotten a file from bit torrent that was invalid?" I have.
Though technically neat, practically, it's unfeasable for a mass market product.
1) You can't impact/rely on the user base to help you deliver your product.
2) Added chance for error introduces risk and jeapordizes your distribution model and therefore business model.
(Article author here)
Dane, what does the cost per megabyte work out to with your model? I think we are using the 1 cent per megabyte model now just in case this may need to be covered in the costs we have to pass on to the customer.
This is FANTASTIC. Thanks fer the post.
Man.
I'm real glad I submitted that TWO DAYS ago and it got rejected.
ARGH!
Kids today. No respect for their elders.
Sheesh
Best post I've read all year. Kudos Bootsy.
After reading Micah's page, I wonder, "why did Microsoft come along and have to fuck things up for the rest of us?"
Bastards.