They can transfer images to printers via IR, so I'm sure you could hack something together that would be able to use the information. I'm sure it's in a pretty standard format.
You might need a programming book and a PCL/HPGL/PS spec...
Anyone smell a sourceforge project?
I've seen one of these things in use before, they are pretty sweet.
2 1/2 pounds rattle snake, dead 1 cup buttermilk 1 cup cornmeal 1 cup flour 1 tablespoon salt 1 tablespoon chile powder 1 tablespoon garlic powder 1 tablespoon paprika 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 cup vegetable oil Cactus-Corn Succotash, recipe follows Using a sharp boning knife remove the meat from the snake by cutting down the back, just slightly to 1 side of the spine from the head to the rattle. Using the tip of the knife peel the meat from the ?rib cage?. Once you removed the 2 long strips of meat, lightly pound them with the back of the knife to tenderize them. Cut the strips of meat into 1-inch pieces and place in a bowl with the buttermilk. Mix to coat well. In a large bowl combine the cornmeal with the flour and the spices. Heat the oil in a large skillet on medium high heat. Dredge the snake pieces in the flour mixture and fry for 2 minutes or until golden brown and then transfer to a paper towel lined plate. Repeat until all the snake pieces are cooked. Serve with Cactus-Corn Succotash.
Cactus-corn succotash:
2 tablespoons olive oil 1 cactus pad, thorns scraped off, cut into small dice 2 ears corn, shucked 1 red onion, peeled, sliced in rings, grilled with olive oil and chopped in small dice 1 bunch scallions, grilled and chopped 1 chayote squash, sliced 1/4-inch thick, grilled with olive oil and chopped in small dice 1 tablespoon minced garlic 2 tablespoons minced jalape?o 1/2 cup diced red bell pepper 4 tablespoons butter 1 cup chicken stock 1 cup diced, peeled and seeded tomatoes 1/2 cup chopped cilantro Salt and pepper
Grilling the vegetables first gives another great layer of flavor, however, it is not absolutely necessary. Just omit that step and cook the vegetable right in the pan. In a skillet on high heat saute the vegetables except the tomatoes in the olive oil for 2 minutes. Add the stock and butter and cook until mixture reduces by half. Add tomatoes and seasoning and serve with the warm snake ?nuggets? on top.
Whether a machine is a P166 or AMD 2000+ it'll be pretty much the same. Most colleges have networked dorms and such anyhow.
You might as well go with RedHat or your favorite distro, but when you're piecing computers together you can't do much about standards. Just hope for the best!
Palm currently offers the m105 model which is typically discounted to $99, but this is more full featured than the Zire. The m105 has a greyscale screen to the Zire's mono display
Most HP/Dell/Compaq guys that come out to replace our components are exactly that, parts pullers.
You pay big $$$ from IBM/Sun/SGI for service contracts, and you get what you pay for.
But the Compaq and Dell techs come out and have no clue what's going on, and they get parts Fed-ex'd to their moms house and bring them out. When there's a REAL problem (read: more than a bad power supply) you're in trouble.
Who needs the New York Times when there's www.newyorktimes.com? Who needs USA Today when there's, you guessed it, www.usatoday.com?
Yes, magazines have probably been but throught market/financial HELL since the web came out, because you can't beat the speed of internet publications as opposed to a paper magazine which usually has a 3 month 'delay'.
You usually get a much higher quality of writing in a traditional magazine, not to mention you can't take a web site from the shitter, to the couch, out on the porch, on the bus, on the shitter at work, in the drive through at mcdonalds....
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A network is only as secure as it is setup to be.
"This sort of thin ain't my bag, baby!"
Plenty of things are mummified by nature...
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Many laptops already have the floppy/cdrom seperate, and then you walk around with the screen/keyboard/hd
Take the Dell Latitude X200 for instance. 2.8lbs, 0.8" thick. I'm sure that's small enough.
If they hard drive was wireless/seperate, it'd probably be too slow.
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They can transfer images to printers via IR, so I'm sure you could hack something together that would be able to use the information. I'm sure it's in a pretty standard format.
You might need a programming book and a PCL/HPGL/PS spec...
Anyone smell a sourceforge project?
I've seen one of these things in use before, they are pretty sweet.
And run the program in Classic mode, OS 9.x
Inconvienent, but unless you find what you want, that's native to OS X...
Also, can you plug in at the libarary? I wonder if they make a scanner that is USB powered...
C'mon mods...
Consumer Digital Cameras SUCK for taking pictures of books and printed pages!
Besides, you can't do things like OCR them afterwards
I seen one of these about 3 years ago. It auto-stitched the image together, it was well ahead of its time.
Hacked by Chinese!
Maybe eBay will do an article on that.
Everyone jumped ship to go 'design web pages' for 60k and now they don't have college degrees.
The people who stuck it out, have graduated and now can make 60k, 'legitimately'
http://www.howstuffworks.com/news-item107.htm
Well?
Cornmeal Crusted Rattle Snake with Cactus-Corn Succotash
Recipe courtesy Joey Altman, Copyright 2001
2 1/2 pounds rattle snake, dead
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup cornmeal
1 cup flour
1 tablespoon salt
1 tablespoon chile powder
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon paprika
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 cup vegetable oil
Cactus-Corn Succotash, recipe follows
Using a sharp boning knife remove the meat from the snake by cutting down the back, just slightly to 1 side of the spine from the head to the rattle. Using the tip of the knife peel the meat from the ?rib cage?. Once you removed the 2 long strips of meat, lightly pound them with the back of the knife to tenderize them. Cut the strips of meat into 1-inch pieces and place in a bowl with the buttermilk. Mix to coat well. In a large bowl combine the cornmeal with the flour and the spices. Heat the oil in a large skillet on medium high heat. Dredge the snake pieces in the flour mixture and fry for 2 minutes or until golden brown and then transfer to a paper towel lined plate. Repeat until all the snake pieces are cooked. Serve with Cactus-Corn Succotash.
Cactus-corn succotash:
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 cactus pad, thorns scraped off, cut into small dice
2 ears corn, shucked
1 red onion, peeled, sliced in rings, grilled with olive oil and chopped in small dice
1 bunch scallions, grilled and chopped
1 chayote squash, sliced 1/4-inch thick, grilled with olive oil and chopped in small dice
1 tablespoon minced garlic
2 tablespoons minced jalape?o
1/2 cup diced red bell pepper
4 tablespoons butter
1 cup chicken stock
1 cup diced, peeled and seeded tomatoes
1/2 cup chopped cilantro
Salt and pepper
Grilling the vegetables first gives another great layer of flavor, however, it is not absolutely necessary. Just omit that step and cook the vegetable right in the pan. In a skillet on high heat saute the vegetables except the tomatoes in the olive oil for 2 minutes. Add the stock and butter and cook until mixture reduces by half. Add tomatoes and seasoning and serve with the warm snake ?nuggets? on top.
Yield: 4 servings
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Difficulty: Medium
They make cell phones out of PAPER
Thinking you'd free the landfills up from what phones are normall made of, you just end up adding to the paper waste.
At least you can burn paper.
If it's possible, why not just set up terminals?
Whether a machine is a P166 or AMD 2000+ it'll be pretty much the same. Most colleges have networked dorms and such anyhow.
You might as well go with RedHat or your favorite distro, but when you're piecing computers together you can't do much about standards. Just hope for the best!
Speech/voice/handwriting/thumbprint
I've only had 2 krispy kremes this morning, give me a break. It's EARLY!
Palm currently offers the m105 model which is typically discounted to $99, but this is more full featured than the Zire. The m105 has a greyscale screen to the Zire's mono display
Even my PHB can go to town with the Palm speech recognition. A few letters take some getting used to but its pretty decent.
Want to use a scrap of paper?
Use the 'note pad' function
Use a 48U rack with a cooling fan setup in it.
You'll still have your glass door, comfortable tempatures, and it'll be a GREAT conversation piece.
Most HP/Dell/Compaq guys that come out to replace our components are exactly that, parts pullers.
You pay big $$$ from IBM/Sun/SGI for service contracts, and you get what you pay for.
But the Compaq and Dell techs come out and have no clue what's going on, and they get parts Fed-ex'd to their moms house and bring them out. When there's a REAL problem (read: more than a bad power supply) you're in trouble.
Maybe the advertisers are forced to read it.
So technically, it IS reader-supported.
Who needs the New York Times when there's www.newyorktimes.com? Who needs USA Today when there's, you guessed it, www.usatoday.com?
Yes, magazines have probably been but throught market/financial HELL since the web came out, because you can't beat the speed of internet publications as opposed to a paper magazine which usually has a 3 month 'delay'.
You usually get a much higher quality of writing in a traditional magazine, not to mention you can't take a web site from the shitter, to the couch, out on the porch, on the bus, on the shitter at work, in the drive through at mcdonalds....
It's not the fact that they stopped publishing it, but how they treated the subscribers.
Anyone else get fscked out of a year or two of BYTE?
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