Quite a few of our white iBooks and then the white MacBooks would yellow on the palm rest. It seemed to be happening to the same people. I never told them it was "just them" but they were embarrassed anyway... They weren't "dirty" hands or anything like that, it must have been some unique protein or oils or something, it was really strange. Happy when the black MacBooks came out!
I remember quite a bit of my software and some hardware coming from Ireland in the late eighties an early nineties. I still have my old Apple PowerBook 170 that was made in Ireland.
Good on 'em!
The same reason that between myself, my insurance and Medicare AirWay Oxygen has been paid over $26,000 over the past seven years for a machine that costs $2,000; The pain in the ass to get FDA approval (both real and imagined) for a "medical device" prevents many would-be manufacturers from entering the market, and none of the players wants to ruin their golden goose by starting a price war.
We used to say the same thing about military equipment when I was an Army Mechanic... In 1982 I couldn't understand at all how the little M151A2 "jeep" cost over $75,000 a pop!! Especially since the assembly lines have been running since 1968 and a lot of the expensive magnesium pieces had been replaced by steel.
The adage is the same: "Paint it green and quadruple your profit" or "Paint it white and put FDA on it and quintuple your profits"!
So that is what you understood from my statement?... That I'm upset about the format?
You should make sure you understand the argument before you open your mouth, as it just makes you sound a bit silly.
I think the real question isn't what someone is allowed to do to their own art, but what happens to our collective memories? I wold love to share my childhood memories with my grand kids, and for the most part I can... But thanks to Mr. Lucas one of the biggest influences of my childhood has been lost forever. Out of respect for all of us who have made him rich beyond any of our individual dreams he should allow the theatrical releases to issued on BluRay as well. It isn't my place to tell someone how to make their own art - As an artist myself I know that an artist doesn't ever really finish a work they abandon it, but at the point that art becomes a part of our collective conscience we should be able to revisit that memory.
My two cents.
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Try talking to someone who has owned a late 2006 Apple product with the ATI X1600 video card how happy they are with Apple service. My iMac 5.1 has been dying a slow death for about two years now, and I've a few friends with MacBook Pro with the same freezing and screen artifact issues I've been getting on my 20" iMac. This was first all in one machine I've ever bought (not counting laptops and PowerBooks) and I'm kicking myself because the video card is soldered in place on this over heating piece of acrylic.
As a point of reference I've got a PowerMac 8600 and a G4/400 AGP that run great still - And my old Zeos 486/66 DX2 with the Pentium OverDrive chip and 2MB VESA graphics still runs like new... Along with a few SGI O2's, a SparkStation 5, a PowerBook 170 and on-and-on.... Drives are expected to wear out, but I've never really had a computer screw up like this iMac at only two years old.
-End Rant-
My dear friend just dropped by to return the computer I let her have while she was finishing her degree..... That was the fall of 1994 and I forgot all about it.
How awesome it was to see this old machine again all original Zeos 486-66 DX/2 with a 90MHz Pentium upgrade, and a Diamond SpeedStar Pro with 2MB and a 300MB HDD that if I remember cost me an extra $300. I couldn't believe the deal I was getting! "A hundred bucks per megabyte!".
She even dropped off all the 51/4" floppies of the DOS/Windows install and Lotus AmiPro. And the public beta of Win95 - Ha!
But the true fun is the DOS 6 and all my old DOS games still on it and running, Blake Stone, Doom (of course), Rise of the Triad, System Shock, etc.
I've yet to find an emulator on my Mac that will recognize the System Shock CDROM.
There goes an entire day and night...... yay!
This makes me think of when my boys were in grade school; I tried to come up with a word that would describe the single most important factor in their success. I would tell them that the reason they did poorly on a particular test isn't because they weren't smart enough, it was because they were sorely lacking that most precious of elements: G.A.S. = Give A Shit.
They just didn't give enough of a shit to succeed - They may have been motivated enough to work hard (see how hard I'm working?), or to put in the time (see how long I've been sitting here?), but they just didn't care enough to think things through or to go back to the problems they fudged on to see if they could figure them out.
There are external motivations and then there are internal motivations. If you are too focused on the external factors of impressing others then you most likely will miss the most important thing; Satisfying yourself by actually doing your very best weather or not someone is looking.
Cheers, TJ
You have genuinely earned your retirement good man.
While the saying "thinking outside the box" has become quite cliché today, you have never been boxed in by convention. I love how you truly made an Art out of "If it looks right, it'll fly right".
Enjoy your retirement, you've earned it!
TJ Lambert
I have an example that is in no way typical, but worth noting; I joined a small marketing startup at the beginning. I was hired as the Art Director. There were only five of us, but we had big plans for growth, so the owner hired a company to set us up with a Windows Business Server.
I became so frustrated with watching the contractor futz around attempting to get the user accounts set up, and getting answers like "Sometimes it just does that" - Really, he actually said that! - So we just had to fire them, and got our money back for the server.
That left us in a dilemma - So, over coffee at the local coffee house before work one day, I mentioned in passing that I could have the whole shop up and running in an afternoon if we went all Mac.... Now this post isnt going to be some Mac-Zelot Rant, Im just saying that you can find the right situation to get yourself in place as an IT dude (or dudette).
We grew from five to thirty-five users in a year, I sure learned quickly what I didnt know about ethernet management(!), but the important part is; Dig around, and get yourself some face to face time with the right people (decision makers), and sell yourself - It Can Happen.
I live in Michigan, and there are a lot of tech-savvy companies up here, but it seems all the good IT folks move away ; )
This doesn't seem to be anything like Acrobat - It's more like the web-archive function IE used to have (or still has, I don't know).
I seem to recal before the days of the WWW, There was Acrobat, and I think it was called Common Ground. I think Common Ground beat the pants off of Acrobat, but the IRS started using Acrobat for the tax forms, and Acrobat had a DOS reader, and I don't think Common Ground did.
Anyway, what ever happend to Common Ground??????
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I can't remember if I found it here or not... But recently, I came across an mp3 of a Renault F1 motor "playing" "We are the Champions" by Queen. If you have any mechanical sympathy at all, F1 engines at full song make your teeth hurt, but here the engineers programed the powertrain management computer to vary the rpm's to make music. With their virtually weightless flywheels, those things can pick up and drop rps's almost instantly.
I'll see if I can dig up the mp3.
Yesterday's lander homepage explained it all pretty good if you'd have bothered to read it.
And if indeed you did read it, and somehow managed to not understand... All you would have to have done was to ask an artist, or photographer who deals with electronic representations of color.
If you notice the "sun dial" on the lander; It has four color swatches on it. There is an identical "sun dial" here on Earth with the identical four color swatches on it that our kind folks at NASA (or JPL, I'm not sure) use to CALIBRATE the photos with.
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spiri t/20040108a/PIA05018_br.jpg
The colors you see on your monitor, flat panel, or TV, are simply representations of color that your eye/brain assembles from the Red, Green, and Blue elements on your viewing device. The strength of the individual RGB elements on the screen are effected by temperature, magnetic field strength & fluctuation, age of the phosphors, voltage, and many other things. The colors will be slightly (or greatly) different on every single monitor and/or TV you view it on.
Calibration of the actual picture file is quite simple in theroy: You just adjust the RGB values of the file on a calibrated monitor until they look just like the duplicate object your holding in your hand.
Of course, there needs to be taken in account the wavelengths of light that the Martian atmosphere filters out so we know which ones are reflected off of the swatches into the camera.... I don't know how they do that.
Microsoft should just simply BUY Intel.... Then start manufacturing their own, closed proprietary boxes for Windows.
They can then have an optimized platform for their OS that they can then show off, they will be able to better control crashing and freezing (security will still suck), and overall performance.
And then they can LEAVE THE REST OF US ALONE!!!!!
Let us all have our Industry Standard parts so we can continue to build our own systems that BELONG TO US to run whatever OS we wish, loading only those services WE CHOOSE, in order to do OUR WORK (or play), the way WE CHOOSE.
The idea of MS locking down EVERYTHING and "convincing" our gubber-ment it's a "good thing" simply and truly makes me physically ill.
I use a Mac primarily, and prefer it to all others I've experienced.... But that does not give me the right to shove it down everyone else's throats.
If someone wants to have a simple, cheap box in their basement to run a firewall, a VPN dial-in, and email, they should be able to do that on something that runs at only 200MHz and all running processes taking up only about 24MB of RAM. Just try doing THAT on something you don't build yourself!
With Microsoft in charge, you won't be able to anymore.
We need Hardware vendors right-now that are willing to produce an Open Source Hardware Spec, and back that up with the actual chip sets.... If this MS/Intel thing takes off, the market will be there for sure!
Please don't tell me that some idoit has implemented a nation-wide network populated with national secrets on a Windoze platform??!!!
What is it going to take to get folks who are responsible for security, to actually educate themselves on the subject, or hire those who are.
I'm not an expert, but I have yet to hear of a Windoze installation that can fully protect you... Once your in, your IN. Even if you are totally protected from outside crackers or virus', you may still have folks WITH log-in access that have a notion of doing wrong. You MUST have a system that can not only limit access, but cannot be brought down by some idoit simply uploading a virus from a floppy on the INSIDE.
Fire every single one of those bozo's (I don't mean the IT folks, I mean the decision makers who chose Windoze) and have somone install actual security!!
I can only imagine how our military, former military and law enforcement folks must feel now... Knowing that their records are "secured" by folks that allow this sort of thing to happen.
OMG - You Really Don't Get It.
You should first attempt to understand something before you criticize it.
I suppose you feel that Police and Fire Department folks are weak, or fanatic as well. As they put themselves in harms way so that others may live.
Most of our Military folks do what they do and as they are directed out of honor and duty, not out of some childish fear of "disappointing an officer" you incogitant, myopic, twerp.
The overriding concept of the existence of our Military is to defend US (including YOU)... I fully understand the discontent with what they are sometime asked to do by our Government, but as a citizen, YOU HAVE THE POWER to change that... Hell, this is America, and you don't even have to be a citizen to drum up the support of citizens to change things.
I never had any "idle" time, I suppose stationary guard duty could be seen by some as "idle", but it involves active observation and intervention when necessary. And by the way, genius, my training and discipline have saved quite a few lives (including my own) several times.
As long as humans have free will and emotions, there will be those individuals that allow hate to become the guidance to their lives and act upon their hate. When these people are successful in getting other like-minded individuals to act in unison, society needs to have the ability to fight back. That is what the military and police are for.
So the next time you feel like speaking up on something I have a few suggestions for you, a checklist for comment.
1. Ensure you aren't a moron
2. Understand the subject
3. Understand the article you are commenting on
4. Ensure you aren't a moron
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What is going to happen is this:
I will build my own playback device out of commodity parts that uses my own personal custom file format that is compressed in my own personal algorithm to play the songs produced by MY own hand at MY expense and provided to MY friends, peers, family, strangers, enemies to download from MY computer at MY discrection.
Who is going to then make me a criminal?
If enough of us get together and build such a device who has the right to control it's distrabution? Maybe give away the plans for free like HeathKit?
If you don't sign a blood-pact with Mega-Music Inc. you are excluded from air-play, shelf space, and decient places to even play for freaking free!!!
Aaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhh!!!!!
The Iron Fist of Corpmerica is really starting to leave visible bruising on my brain!!!
My so-called representives don't. I'm lucky to get even a form-letter reply from anyone.
Just my little rant.
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Quite a few of our white iBooks and then the white MacBooks would yellow on the palm rest. It seemed to be happening to the same people. I never told them it was "just them" but they were embarrassed anyway... They weren't "dirty" hands or anything like that, it must have been some unique protein or oils or something, it was really strange. Happy when the black MacBooks came out!
I remember quite a bit of my software and some hardware coming from Ireland in the late eighties an early nineties. I still have my old Apple PowerBook 170 that was made in Ireland. Good on 'em!
The same reason that between myself, my insurance and Medicare AirWay Oxygen has been paid over $26,000 over the past seven years for a machine that costs $2,000; The pain in the ass to get FDA approval (both real and imagined) for a "medical device" prevents many would-be manufacturers from entering the market, and none of the players wants to ruin their golden goose by starting a price war. We used to say the same thing about military equipment when I was an Army Mechanic... In 1982 I couldn't understand at all how the little M151A2 "jeep" cost over $75,000 a pop!! Especially since the assembly lines have been running since 1968 and a lot of the expensive magnesium pieces had been replaced by steel. The adage is the same: "Paint it green and quadruple your profit" or "Paint it white and put FDA on it and quintuple your profits"!
So that is what you understood from my statement?... That I'm upset about the format? You should make sure you understand the argument before you open your mouth, as it just makes you sound a bit silly.
I think the real question isn't what someone is allowed to do to their own art, but what happens to our collective memories? I wold love to share my childhood memories with my grand kids, and for the most part I can... But thanks to Mr. Lucas one of the biggest influences of my childhood has been lost forever. Out of respect for all of us who have made him rich beyond any of our individual dreams he should allow the theatrical releases to issued on BluRay as well. It isn't my place to tell someone how to make their own art - As an artist myself I know that an artist doesn't ever really finish a work they abandon it, but at the point that art becomes a part of our collective conscience we should be able to revisit that memory. My two cents.
-Rant Warning- Try talking to someone who has owned a late 2006 Apple product with the ATI X1600 video card how happy they are with Apple service. My iMac 5.1 has been dying a slow death for about two years now, and I've a few friends with MacBook Pro with the same freezing and screen artifact issues I've been getting on my 20" iMac. This was first all in one machine I've ever bought (not counting laptops and PowerBooks) and I'm kicking myself because the video card is soldered in place on this over heating piece of acrylic. As a point of reference I've got a PowerMac 8600 and a G4/400 AGP that run great still - And my old Zeos 486/66 DX2 with the Pentium OverDrive chip and 2MB VESA graphics still runs like new... Along with a few SGI O2's, a SparkStation 5, a PowerBook 170 and on-and-on.... Drives are expected to wear out, but I've never really had a computer screw up like this iMac at only two years old. -End Rant-
My dear friend just dropped by to return the computer I let her have while she was finishing her degree..... That was the fall of 1994 and I forgot all about it. How awesome it was to see this old machine again all original Zeos 486-66 DX/2 with a 90MHz Pentium upgrade, and a Diamond SpeedStar Pro with 2MB and a 300MB HDD that if I remember cost me an extra $300. I couldn't believe the deal I was getting! "A hundred bucks per megabyte!". She even dropped off all the 51/4" floppies of the DOS/Windows install and Lotus AmiPro. And the public beta of Win95 - Ha! But the true fun is the DOS 6 and all my old DOS games still on it and running, Blake Stone, Doom (of course), Rise of the Triad, System Shock, etc. I've yet to find an emulator on my Mac that will recognize the System Shock CDROM. There goes an entire day and night...... yay!
This makes me think of when my boys were in grade school; I tried to come up with a word that would describe the single most important factor in their success. I would tell them that the reason they did poorly on a particular test isn't because they weren't smart enough, it was because they were sorely lacking that most precious of elements: G.A.S. = Give A Shit. They just didn't give enough of a shit to succeed - They may have been motivated enough to work hard (see how hard I'm working?), or to put in the time (see how long I've been sitting here?), but they just didn't care enough to think things through or to go back to the problems they fudged on to see if they could figure them out. There are external motivations and then there are internal motivations. If you are too focused on the external factors of impressing others then you most likely will miss the most important thing; Satisfying yourself by actually doing your very best weather or not someone is looking. Cheers, TJ
You have genuinely earned your retirement good man. While the saying "thinking outside the box" has become quite cliché today, you have never been boxed in by convention. I love how you truly made an Art out of "If it looks right, it'll fly right". Enjoy your retirement, you've earned it! TJ Lambert
I became so frustrated with watching the contractor futz around attempting to get the user accounts set up, and getting answers like "Sometimes it just does that" - Really, he actually said that! - So we just had to fire them, and got our money back for the server.
That left us in a dilemma - So, over coffee at the local coffee house before work one day, I mentioned in passing that I could have the whole shop up and running in an afternoon if we went all Mac.... Now this post isnt going to be some Mac-Zelot Rant, Im just saying that you can find the right situation to get yourself in place as an IT dude (or dudette).
We grew from five to thirty-five users in a year, I sure learned quickly what I didnt know about ethernet management(!), but the important part is; Dig around, and get yourself some face to face time with the right people (decision makers), and sell yourself - It Can Happen.
I live in Michigan, and there are a lot of tech-savvy companies up here, but it seems all the good IT folks move away ; )
Cheers,
TJ
This doesn't seem to be anything like Acrobat - It's more like the web-archive function IE used to have (or still has, I don't know). I seem to recal before the days of the WWW, There was Acrobat, and I think it was called Common Ground. I think Common Ground beat the pants off of Acrobat, but the IRS started using Acrobat for the tax forms, and Acrobat had a DOS reader, and I don't think Common Ground did. Anyway, what ever happend to Common Ground??????
I can't remember if I found it here or not... But recently, I came across an mp3 of a Renault F1 motor "playing" "We are the Champions" by Queen. If you have any mechanical sympathy at all, F1 engines at full song make your teeth hurt, but here the engineers programed the powertrain management computer to vary the rpm's to make music. With their virtually weightless flywheels, those things can pick up and drop rps's almost instantly. I'll see if I can dig up the mp3.
...I think I saw it on BoingBoing; Here in America, it's "Invented First, not Filed First".
Yesterday's lander homepage explained it all pretty good if you'd have bothered to read it. And if indeed you did read it, and somehow managed to not understand... All you would have to have done was to ask an artist, or photographer who deals with electronic representations of color. If you notice the "sun dial" on the lander; It has four color swatches on it. There is an identical "sun dial" here on Earth with the identical four color swatches on it that our kind folks at NASA (or JPL, I'm not sure) use to CALIBRATE the photos with. http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spiri t/20040108a/PIA05018_br.jpg
The colors you see on your monitor, flat panel, or TV, are simply representations of color that your eye/brain assembles from the Red, Green, and Blue elements on your viewing device. The strength of the individual RGB elements on the screen are effected by temperature, magnetic field strength & fluctuation, age of the phosphors, voltage, and many other things. The colors will be slightly (or greatly) different on every single monitor and/or TV you view it on.
Calibration of the actual picture file is quite simple in theroy: You just adjust the RGB values of the file on a calibrated monitor until they look just like the duplicate object your holding in your hand.
Of course, there needs to be taken in account the wavelengths of light that the Martian atmosphere filters out so we know which ones are reflected off of the swatches into the camera.... I don't know how they do that.
Microsoft should just simply BUY Intel.... Then start manufacturing their own, closed proprietary boxes for Windows. They can then have an optimized platform for their OS that they can then show off, they will be able to better control crashing and freezing (security will still suck), and overall performance. And then they can LEAVE THE REST OF US ALONE!!!!! Let us all have our Industry Standard parts so we can continue to build our own systems that BELONG TO US to run whatever OS we wish, loading only those services WE CHOOSE, in order to do OUR WORK (or play), the way WE CHOOSE. The idea of MS locking down EVERYTHING and "convincing" our gubber-ment it's a "good thing" simply and truly makes me physically ill. I use a Mac primarily, and prefer it to all others I've experienced.... But that does not give me the right to shove it down everyone else's throats. If someone wants to have a simple, cheap box in their basement to run a firewall, a VPN dial-in, and email, they should be able to do that on something that runs at only 200MHz and all running processes taking up only about 24MB of RAM. Just try doing THAT on something you don't build yourself! With Microsoft in charge, you won't be able to anymore. We need Hardware vendors right-now that are willing to produce an Open Source Hardware Spec, and back that up with the actual chip sets.... If this MS/Intel thing takes off, the market will be there for sure!
I would cry. It would be beautiful. To hear a President ask our Congress for 87 Billion Dollars to "Wipe out cancer in our lifetime". Imagine.
OMG!!
Please don't tell me that some idoit has implemented a nation-wide network populated with national secrets on a Windoze platform??!!!
What is it going to take to get folks who are responsible for security, to actually educate themselves on the subject, or hire those who are.
I'm not an expert, but I have yet to hear of a Windoze installation that can fully protect you... Once your in, your IN.
Even if you are totally protected from outside crackers or virus', you may still have folks WITH log-in access that have a notion of doing wrong. You MUST have a system that can not only limit access, but cannot be brought down by some idoit simply uploading a virus from a floppy on the INSIDE.
Fire every single one of those bozo's (I don't mean the IT folks, I mean the decision makers who chose Windoze) and have somone install actual security!!
I can only imagine how our military, former military and law enforcement folks must feel now... Knowing that their records are "secured" by folks that allow this sort of thing to happen.
OMG - You Really Don't Get It. You should first attempt to understand something before you criticize it. I suppose you feel that Police and Fire Department folks are weak, or fanatic as well. As they put themselves in harms way so that others may live. Most of our Military folks do what they do and as they are directed out of honor and duty, not out of some childish fear of "disappointing an officer" you incogitant, myopic, twerp. The overriding concept of the existence of our Military is to defend US (including YOU)... I fully understand the discontent with what they are sometime asked to do by our Government, but as a citizen, YOU HAVE THE POWER to change that... Hell, this is America, and you don't even have to be a citizen to drum up the support of citizens to change things. I never had any "idle" time, I suppose stationary guard duty could be seen by some as "idle", but it involves active observation and intervention when necessary. And by the way, genius, my training and discipline have saved quite a few lives (including my own) several times. As long as humans have free will and emotions, there will be those individuals that allow hate to become the guidance to their lives and act upon their hate. When these people are successful in getting other like-minded individuals to act in unison, society needs to have the ability to fight back. That is what the military and police are for. So the next time you feel like speaking up on something I have a few suggestions for you, a checklist for comment. 1. Ensure you aren't a moron 2. Understand the subject 3. Understand the article you are commenting on 4. Ensure you aren't a moron
What is going to happen is this: I will build my own playback device out of commodity parts that uses my own personal custom file format that is compressed in my own personal algorithm to play the songs produced by MY own hand at MY expense and provided to MY friends, peers, family, strangers, enemies to download from MY computer at MY discrection. Who is going to then make me a criminal? If enough of us get together and build such a device who has the right to control it's distrabution? Maybe give away the plans for free like HeathKit? If you don't sign a blood-pact with Mega-Music Inc. you are excluded from air-play, shelf space, and decient places to even play for freaking free!!! Aaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhh!!!!! The Iron Fist of Corpmerica is really starting to leave visible bruising on my brain!!! My so-called representives don't. I'm lucky to get even a form-letter reply from anyone. Just my little rant.