"In April of 2005, I placed 100 pieces of clay sculpture along the coastline of Nova Scotia. Lost or found, they will be left to nature or chance. Hopefully for someone to find. The sculpture is all figurative fragments or small busts. Each piece is fitted with an identity tag directing the finder to this web site which will then describe the origins of the piece that they have found. I put these sculptures in places that would not be inaccessible but not immediately obvious. Many of the pieces are designed to blend into their environment. The project is monitored over time and open ended. There is no precise way to determine the end point."
I tried to find an email contact at your site but no luck, so I'm sending it here.
I have no relationship with the artist in question, I just saw it on the CBC TV news and thought of your hobby.
Extreme example: consider (A) using an expensive CAD package like AutoCAD for some 5,000 Euro or so, versus (B) using a pencil and ruler for some $5 (assuming more than one pencil used). Which is cheaper? Well, once you factor in the cost of labour, actually the AutoCAD way may actually be cheaper.
You think AutoCAD is an expensive CAD program? Try looking into some of the more obscure packages that are typically used for process plant design.
Although I use a much later version of the software linked above, it is still lacking in many needed features that even the simplest of CAD programs have - I wonder why that is...could it possibly be, "oh, well, you have to pay extra for that functionality"? The worst part is that this software doesn't actually make drawings, it just displays them. I admit that it's really cool to zoom around inside 3D models and it impresses onlookers, but this ability doesn't really improve the design process or explain concepts any more than a nice, easily-understood and explained sketch on a napkin does.
It seems to be all about impressing the client and managers with pretty pictures while the real engineering grunt work gets pushed into the background.
Just for your historical reference, 2D engineering drawings were hard to understand for most people and that was a good thing.
There is a surprising number of fanatics, err, people that love that generation of HP calculators. It's sort of a geek thing - if you see an RPN HP, there's the clue that you're dealing with someone technical. Naturally, there are always posers who bought the latest, greatest versions to impress.
Most are engineers, although HP did have a "financial" version (all buyers of that one are now mesmerized by spreadsheets and Powerpoint).
Of course, most love the stack and the RPN, but the overall "feel" of these things was just right.
To many people, handheld calculators are just throwaway tools - these were not.
Some ergonomic genius put a lot of thought into the "feel" of the keys and the tactile response/angle/resistance that was fed back to the user.
The design was/is brilliant and deserves to be resurrected.
As the top level predator (excluding man, of course) in Africa the male lion can afford to snooze away most of the day while his female does most of the work. No different from humans in western civ.
This was hard to track down. Listening to the original description on discovery.ca (TV) I couldn't help but think about Stampy from the Simpsons (1F15).
Nope. If the minutes don't carry over I'm not buying. "Going mobile" is not that important to me, and I don't see having a cel phone as a fashion/style/status thing.
I'm not saying that prices have increased, I'm saying that people (like me) who don't want to sign up for "a plan" are seeing the cost rise due to added features that I wouldn't use anyway.
You are correct about corporations. Silly me thinking that they should make my life better - I'm not buying, so they lose my business.
Perhaps you are a person that needs a cel phone (for whatever reason: business, social agenda or security blanket), I'm not one of those people. The concept of being "on call" all the time is offensive to me. But then again, having people call you wherever you are is seen as a status thing in some circles, YMMV.
They have no obligation to host data on their servers that doesn't benefit them. If you have something negative to say about HP you have every right to publicize your message. HP doesn't have to pay for it, though.
True. However, if the goal is to have an open discourse towards the improvement of their products, this type of behaviour is, umm, not so good.
Then again, this could always be a post-Carly spin pseudo event designed to draw attention.
Yes, I have an original HP-11C and you can pry it from my cold, dead hand.
Perhaps what the writer meant was that more and more services tend to be added (thus increasing the cost of service). I won't be buying another cel phone until I can get a basic plan pre-paid with a card that doesn't expire after 45 days (i.e., discarding all the unused minutes).
Until that happens, I'll rely on telepathy, good planning and pay phones - oops, many of those now require credit cards only now.
In case anyone's going to label me luddite, I had one of the original brick-like, $2500 Mitsubishi cel phones.
If you're at a party or concert, shouldn't your focus be on what is happening there and not telling your friends how crappy/cool it is? Or is this what modern SMS "networking" is all about?
It's all about the scene, man, and commenting on it, not the experience.
I figure it's time to start taking donations so that the IT community can support Bill Gates in his upcoming financial decripitude. I mean, after all, he was the guy that exposed the world at large to the marvels of computing and I don't think he should be thrown on the trash heap of society when it's all over.
Fear tends to be easier to instill in older folks (especially these days, what with alien-like interfaces - ATMs vs. bank tellers, "intelligent" telemarketing using computers and databases, the entarnet and constantly-changing technology).
You betcha that scammers are going to take advantage of the technology divide!
The older, wiser folks will gravitate towards what they know best, which is essentially the concept that nothing in nature changes very fast.
Luckily, for the proponents of "new stuff, all the time", death will eventually take care of this little problem.
Why do you think the AARP has so much power? It's amazing that these old, obsolete, curmudgeonly people have existed this long in today's modern society.
...cars going off a cliff don't magically burst into flames in mid air...
Then you have the standard "let's-put-a-ramp-where-the-viewers-can't-see-it-a nd-have the-car-rocket-through-the-air" trick. That's only been done, what, 729 times now.
I am waiting for the one obsessed Simpsons fan to catalog every time something rolls down a hill, goes out of control or otherwise seems destined for a crash. And then explodes into a fireball, maybe twice for best effect. With replays from different angles.
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Bill, I thought you might appreciate this site:
http://www.100pieces.ca/main.html
"In April of 2005, I placed 100 pieces of clay sculpture along the coastline of Nova Scotia. Lost or found, they will be left to nature or chance. Hopefully for someone to find. The sculpture is all figurative fragments or small busts. Each piece is fitted with an identity tag directing the finder to this web site which will then describe the origins of the piece that they have found. I put these sculptures in places that would not be inaccessible but not immediately obvious. Many of the pieces are designed to blend into their environment. The project is monitored over time and open ended. There is no precise way to determine the end point."
I tried to find an email contact at your site but no luck, so I'm sending it here.
I have no relationship with the artist in question, I just saw it on the CBC TV news and thought of your hobby.
- Paul
That reminds me - I've been getting mod points weekly lately. Should I start smoking crack now?
Have the kooks chained themselves to the theatre doors yet?
Companies that base their business on being middle men are never going to be for a way to do business without them.
I had to read that twice to make sense of it, but he's right.
Extreme example: consider (A) using an expensive CAD package like AutoCAD for some 5,000 Euro or so, versus (B) using a pencil and ruler for some $5 (assuming more than one pencil used). Which is cheaper? Well, once you factor in the cost of labour, actually the AutoCAD way may actually be cheaper.
You think AutoCAD is an expensive CAD program? Try looking into some of the more obscure packages that are typically used for process plant design.
Although I use a much later version of the software linked above, it is still lacking in many needed features that even the simplest of CAD programs have - I wonder why that is...could it possibly be, "oh, well, you have to pay extra for that functionality"? The worst part is that this software doesn't actually make drawings, it just displays them. I admit that it's really cool to zoom around inside 3D models and it impresses onlookers, but this ability doesn't really improve the design process or explain concepts any more than a nice, easily-understood and explained sketch on a napkin does.
It seems to be all about impressing the client and managers with pretty pictures while the real engineering grunt work gets pushed into the background.
Just for your historical reference, 2D engineering drawings were hard to understand for most people and that was a good thing.
Like this?
Are you saying that lions are hunter-gatherers?
There is a surprising number of fanatics, err, people that love that generation of HP calculators. It's sort of a geek thing - if you see an RPN HP, there's the clue that you're dealing with someone technical. Naturally, there are always posers who bought the latest, greatest versions to impress.
Most are engineers, although HP did have a "financial" version (all buyers of that one are now mesmerized by spreadsheets and Powerpoint).
Of course, most love the stack and the RPN, but the overall "feel" of these things was just right.
To many people, handheld calculators are just throwaway tools - these were not.
Some ergonomic genius put a lot of thought into the "feel" of the keys and the tactile response/angle/resistance that was fed back to the user.
The design was/is brilliant and deserves to be resurrected.
As the top level predator (excluding man, of course) in Africa the male lion can afford to snooze away most of the day while his female does most of the work. No different from humans in western civ.
This was hard to track down. Listening to the original description on discovery.ca (TV) I couldn't help but think about Stampy from the Simpsons (1F15).
From which fantasy world do you speak? Somewhere where DSL costs $50/month and cable TV is similarly priced?
I don't understand your conclusion, I failed math.
Nope. If the minutes don't carry over I'm not buying. "Going mobile" is not that important to me, and I don't see having a cel phone as a fashion/style/status thing.
I'm not saying that prices have increased, I'm saying that people (like me) who don't want to sign up for "a plan" are seeing the cost rise due to added features that I wouldn't use anyway.
You are correct about corporations. Silly me thinking that they should make my life better - I'm not buying, so they lose my business.
Perhaps you are a person that needs a cel phone (for whatever reason: business, social agenda or security blanket), I'm not one of those people. The concept of being "on call" all the time is offensive to me. But then again, having people call you wherever you are is seen as a status thing in some circles, YMMV.
They have no obligation to host data on their servers that doesn't benefit them. If you have something negative to say about HP you have every right to publicize your message. HP doesn't have to pay for it, though.
True. However, if the goal is to have an open discourse towards the improvement of their products, this type of behaviour is, umm, not so good.
Then again, this could always be a post-Carly spin pseudo event designed to draw attention.
Yes, I have an original HP-11C and you can pry it from my cold, dead hand.
Perhaps what the writer meant was that more and more services tend to be added (thus increasing the cost of service). I won't be buying another cel phone until I can get a basic plan pre-paid with a card that doesn't expire after 45 days (i.e., discarding all the unused minutes).
Until that happens, I'll rely on telepathy, good planning and pay phones - oops, many of those now require credit cards only now.
In case anyone's going to label me luddite, I had one of the original brick-like, $2500 Mitsubishi cel phones.
The word is, "gypped".
Also.
If you're at a party or concert, shouldn't your focus be on what is happening there and not telling your friends how crappy/cool it is? Or is this what modern SMS "networking" is all about?
It's all about the scene, man, and commenting on it, not the experience.
Is it just some weird coincidence that Free Comic Book Day happens one day before Mothers' Day?
I figure it's time to start taking donations so that the IT community can support Bill Gates in his upcoming financial decripitude. I mean, after all, he was the guy that exposed the world at large to the marvels of computing and I don't think he should be thrown on the trash heap of society when it's all over.
Yahoo sets seven cookies when accessing Yahoogroups. Seven. Anyone out there have insight on cookies and index.dat?
Fear is a great motivator. Sad, but true.
Fear tends to be easier to instill in older folks (especially these days, what with alien-like interfaces - ATMs vs. bank tellers, "intelligent" telemarketing using computers and databases, the entarnet and constantly-changing technology).
You betcha that scammers are going to take advantage of the technology divide!
The older, wiser folks will gravitate towards what they know best, which is essentially the concept that nothing in nature changes very fast. Luckily, for the proponents of "new stuff, all the time", death will eventually take care of this little problem.
Why do you think the AARP has so much power? It's amazing that these old, obsolete, curmudgeonly people have existed this long in today's modern society.
1) Sand flows, how do you define a solid?
2) Glass flows when it is in a liquid state.
3) Got me there, maybe it is the friction of the gas passing over the containment vessel that causes the hotness.
Boy will you be suprised once I figure out fusion with my special combination of the three basic elements!
Shhh, he's trying to generate sub-signal buzz.
Hey, babe magnet, got any tips for meeting women?
Sorry.
Then you have the standard "let's-put-a-ramp-where-the-viewers-can't-see-it-
I am waiting for the one obsessed Simpsons fan to catalog every time something rolls down a hill, goes out of control or otherwise seems destined for a crash. And then explodes into a fireball, maybe twice for best effect. With replays from different angles.