...Well, there are quite a few "conversion kits" out there, but because of the bulkiness of the batteries, I don't think they're quite practical for trail riding.
I don't know if I've seen anything that stores energy from pedaling (b/c when you're riding you really don't want something dragging on the wheel & slowing you up). There were some kits that, I think recharged during breaking, but from what I remember because of the light weight of bikes (?), the amount of energy gained from this wasn't too great.
Do check out electric-bikes.com, it's an interesting website. I actually purchased plans to make a Slipstream Electric Bicycle, but it's a bit too much for me in both the money and being-able-to-put-it-together dpts.
....So anyway, all five sets of batteries "pooped out", at the foot of the final hill: so in one final act of improvisation, I placed Mary Chu on the THRONE OF LIGHT - TRAVEL (her first time, of course) - and told her to steer straight ahead!
....My thanks to Will, who accompanied the "voyage" on a 10-speed bicycle, waving down traffic at nearly every intersection, and nearly having heat-stroke as a result. Behavior over-and-above the call of duty! And of course to the millions of RAINBOW PEOPLE of the GREAT EARTH PEACE ARMY throughout the World - whose prayers in the great bosom of the universal deep-energy sustainer - bore us aloft for those crucial 100ks'.
does insanity come with the scooter, or do you have to provide that yourself?
from their message board:
Well BioModers' - Yesterday we did it!
- For the first time on Earth (as far as we know), a SOLAR ELECTRONIC VEHICLE traveled over 100 kilometers in one day - on the streets and roads of this planet!
...
A Black family took offense at our efforts to hook up with a neighbors' socket after a deserted factories outlet had suspiciously failed. Earlier, an African electrician cab driver had examined the vehicle during a brief stop, and rushed away vibrating with revealed inspiration, a Chinese family as well. After a short hop, we got permission from a factory gardener to use his outlet, with a good sun exposure - and then the cops showed up! They claimed that someone had hopped over a nearby fence! But the rattled OIL OCCUPATION ARMY was no match for the assembled prayers of native circles meeting yesterday around the world!
...So there we were, in the gathering darkness, BLINDED by the oncoming lights of S.U.V.s', going the WRONG WAY down a one-way highway - right through the RED LIGHTS of major urban cross-highways, wiggling through and between oncoming traffic of the acursed MOTOR CARS and TRUCKS - to their complete SHOCK!....I wouldn't have had it any other way! (emphasis mine)
link to the post quoted
also, it looks like you have to log in to access the "files" part of their site.
^^^^I don't know why this isn't being modded though the ceiling.
Of course, it isn't like Bush would be losing that many votes from the West Coast if it turns out he decided not to warn us. Jesus Christ.
I know that it being a fake is old news, but open the image in Photoshop and turn on only the blue channel like they did here.
In conclusion: fake fake fake
I am a Mac user and I use Firefox exclusively (better compatibility than Safari, better [and more!] plug-ins availble for it, like being able to skin it), but have one pretty big complaint with it - the amount of system resources it takes up.
Right now on my iBook g4 800 w/640 RAM, Activity Monitor says that FireFox is using 83.85 MB of active memory and 417.46 MB of virtual memory. And that's with one window w/5 tabs open.
Having the same pages open in Safari Activity Monitor shows Safari using 31.98 MB of active memory and 143.21 MB of virtual memory.
So yeah. I couldn't really use Firefox when I only had 256 RAM...too many crashes. Now that I've upgraded, it is worth it.
5) the army and police won't let you join if you've had it, rather tellling I think
An interesting fact I learned while applying to the service academies:
The reason the Air Force doesn't want their pilots to have had the surgery is because of a risk (I don't know if it's great or small) that at very high G's the "flaps" made during the surgery could flip (rip) open.
(>.)
I'm taking issue with your claim that students and scientists (specifically student scientists) are well served by using Apple computers.
Some background. I am an undergraduate student studying science. I am an Apple Certified Technician. I have pretty much exclusively used Macs my entire life. I work for the IST department of my college.
The amount of Macs (~2% of all computers)on my campus is lower (by a little more than half) than Apple's market share. As I attend a small (1000 students) private college, I know all the students that own Macs. None of them (apart from me) are science students. Very few of them are "creative" (film or art) users. Most tend to be "just" students. The only thing they tend to have in common is coming from a wealthy background.
As much as I love using Macs, it's my opinion students are unlikely - and, I think in most cases, ill advised - to bring one to college.
Why?
Easy: compatibility and software.
For example. I'm having to dump my eMac to use my old PC. My organic chemistry textbook includes activities with ChemOffice Ltd (student cost: $70). ChemOffice Ltd does not exist for OS X. ChemOffice Ultra 8.0 does exist for OS X, but (a) only ChemDraw is carbonized (Chem3d [etc.] has to be run in Classic mode, which sucks) (b) ChemOffice Ultra 8.0 costs $490 for students.
To give a more inclusive examples: networking to printers, browsing computers on the network, and taking full advantage of Exchange server capabilities (LDAP) are much easier (or, simply, are possible) on a PC. The common student would be much better servered using a PC and spending the time she'd spend configuring her Mac studying instead.
I know that there's a wealth of software that fink/x11 is bringing to OS X, but ease of use and ease of accessability to the software seems to be the sticking point. Sure, I'd much rather stay with my eMac and run some x11 or unix software to do my molecular modelling. However, search as I may I haven't found any good options that work well with the instructions the book gives me.
Right now Apple seems to be in a situation much like HP's calculators are; like an HP calculator, a Mac is (in my opinion) a much better product than the competition (Wintel in the case of Macs, TI-8x calculators in the case of HP calcs). However, since the other has become a standard, it is assumed that every(rather than the typical) student is a PC user with a TI calculator. No (or very few) alternatives are available for those students who are not.
At any rate. This is, I suppose, a roundabout way to ask who, exactly, you know in the sciences that's big on Macs. In lab we have an awesome Sun setup (running Spartan) for modelling. I only know one chem professor that uses a Mac. The Physics dpt uses iBooks for student labs because of the lab software that's available for them ("Determine the rate of acceleration..."), but other than that everything's Sun or Wintel.
And let me add this to avoid one "easy" thoughtless response: yeah, my household does make more than $75k/year, but that still doesn't mean that I'm going to pay $420 more for software when I'm going to be using the same features in it that I would in the $70 version. Not to be a prick, but the way one gets to have money is by not spending it on outrageously priced items when equally competent options are available at significantly lower costs.
There are definately students who benefit from owning a Mac (film, art and [arguably] language students come to mind). Science and math students are probably done a disservice by purchasing a Mac (ex: let me know how to transfer files from my eMac to my HP48GX - I can do it on my clunker wintel laptop though). I think the general student probably is better served by getting a PC because of the time and hassles they'll save at most schools. 'Course, if they're going to Reed, then they're lucky and can use their Mac and be happy, healthy, prosperous and wise.
one of the problems I have with the service is that album pricing can be a bit uneven. There are too many albums (ex: NWA's greatest hits) that have an "extra" song or two added to them that then are not available for the $9.99 download because, well, you'd be getting MORE than just the album.
(In the NWA case that's BS, but whatever.)
Also, new albums (such as Snoop's Paid the Cost to be the Boss) don't always sell for $9.99. When I went to buy Cost a couple of months ago, it was $17 or $18.
That being said, I've probably purchased $80 or so worth of music since iTunes 4 came out for Mac. Best purchase so far: Placido Domingo's album of Mariachi music.
I've always been partial to his scene in Life of Brian where he plays the guard with the speech impedement.
("Jailer2")
Roman Just a moment, would you? Jailer. How many have come through?
Jailer1 What?
Roman Uh... how many have come through?
Jailer1 What?
Jailer2 Uh, Y-y-y-you'll have to s-s-spea s-s-s-sp s-s-s-sp s-s-speak up a-a
bit, sir. He's-he's-he's-he's de. He's-he's-he's-dea. He's-he's-he's
deaf as a, deaf as a p-p-post, sir.
Roman Eh... How Many Have Come Through??!!
Jailer1 Hhhih hih hih nyih nyih nyih.
Roman Oh dear.
Jailer2 I make it ninety ffffff... ninety ffffff... ninety ffffff... ninety
six, sir.
Roman It's such a senseless waste of human life, isn't it?
Jailer2 N-n-n-n-NO, sir. Not for these b-b-BASTARDS, sir. C-crrr-crrrr-crrrr
crrrrucifixion's too good for them, sir.
Roman I don't think you could say it's too good for them. It's, it's very
nasty.
Jailer2 Well, it's not as n-n-n-na na na. Not as nasty as something I just
thought up, sir.
Roman No. Uh, now, um. Crucifixion.
Brian Is there someone I can speak to?
Roman Well...
Jailer1 I know where to get it, if you want it.
Roman What?
Jailer2 Don't worry about hi-hi-him, sir. He-he's de. He's de. He's deaf and
Mmmmmmmmmad, sir.
Roman Well how did he get the job?
Jailer2 Bloody Pilate's pet, sir.
and he also plays the red-headed jerk in LoB, too. And he's the wink-wink, knudge-knudge guy. Etc.
Rumor has it that a "big update" (but not the G5's) to the PowerBook line is coming tomorrow. However, Mac Addicts have been saying that every Monday for the past couple of months. Hold out as long as you can and then buy it...all technology eventually becomes outdated anyway.
Also, I thought I remembered reading somewhere that the G5's actually run cooler than the G4's. Is this completely wrong?
As an aside (but isn't everything here an aside), I'd like to point out that if Bluetooth isn't added at the time of purchase (as a BTO option, which I think means you can't return the machine) it can only be added as a USB dongle.
The Bluetooth capability is added onto the motherboard and will not be available as an aftermarket add-on. If you do chose to get Bluetooth built in also not that there will be an external antenna on the back of the case. Same for AirPort Extreme - you'll have an external antenna coming out of the back of your box.
Three quick notes:
1. I'm not sure why people are telling you to wait until MWNY to buy. It's been announced by reputible sources that there will not be new towers announced there. They will most likely be coming in August.
2. For information on the upgradability of Macs (and excellent information on Mac performance), check out xlr8yourmac.com. It's a very informative website.
3. Unless it comes with an Apple Care warranty, I wouldn't reccomend getting your computer off of eBay. Try any Mac Authorised Reseller (an excellent list has already been posted above). Apple service is very, very good, imho.
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I don't know if I've seen anything that stores energy from pedaling (b/c when you're riding you really don't want something dragging on the wheel & slowing you up). There were some kits that, I think recharged during breaking, but from what I remember because of the light weight of bikes (?), the amount of energy gained from this wasn't too great.
Do check out electric-bikes.com, it's an interesting website. I actually purchased plans to make a Slipstream Electric Bicycle, but it's a bit too much for me in both the money and being-able-to-put-it-together dpts.
....My thanks to Will, who accompanied the "voyage" on a 10-speed bicycle, waving down traffic at nearly every intersection, and nearly having heat-stroke as a result. Behavior over-and-above the call of duty! And of course to the millions of RAINBOW PEOPLE of the GREAT EARTH PEACE ARMY throughout the World - whose prayers in the great bosom of the universal deep-energy sustainer - bore us aloft for those crucial 100ks'.
now I feel cruel
from their message board:
Well BioModers' - Yesterday we did it! - For the first time on Earth (as far as we know), a SOLAR ELECTRONIC VEHICLE traveled over 100 kilometers in one day - on the streets and roads of this planet!
... A Black family took offense at our efforts to hook up with a neighbors' socket after a deserted factories outlet had suspiciously failed. Earlier, an African electrician cab driver had examined the vehicle during a brief stop, and rushed away vibrating with revealed inspiration, a Chinese family as well. After a short hop, we got permission from a factory gardener to use his outlet, with a good sun exposure - and then the cops showed up! They claimed that someone had hopped over a nearby fence! But the rattled OIL OCCUPATION ARMY was no match for the assembled prayers of native circles meeting yesterday around the world!
...So there we were, in the gathering darkness, BLINDED by the oncoming lights of S.U.V.s', going the WRONG WAY down a one-way highway - right through the RED LIGHTS of major urban cross-highways, wiggling through and between oncoming traffic of the acursed MOTOR CARS and TRUCKS - to their complete SHOCK! ....I wouldn't have had it any other way! (emphasis mine)
link to the post quoted
also, it looks like you have to log in to access the "files" part of their site.
the telescope pointing at the fake windows was a really nice touch.
^^^^I don't know why this isn't being modded though the ceiling. Of course, it isn't like Bush would be losing that many votes from the West Coast if it turns out he decided not to warn us. Jesus Christ.
I know that it being a fake is old news, but open the image in Photoshop and turn on only the blue channel like they did here. In conclusion: fake fake fake
I am a Mac user and I use Firefox exclusively (better compatibility than Safari, better [and more!] plug-ins availble for it, like being able to skin it), but have one pretty big complaint with it - the amount of system resources it takes up.
Right now on my iBook g4 800 w/640 RAM, Activity Monitor says that FireFox is using 83.85 MB of active memory and 417.46 MB of virtual memory. And that's with one window w/5 tabs open.
Having the same pages open in Safari Activity Monitor shows Safari using 31.98 MB of active memory and 143.21 MB of virtual memory.
So yeah. I couldn't really use Firefox when I only had 256 RAM...too many crashes. Now that I've upgraded, it is worth it.
That being said, I was a little disappointed that they didn't use a "ghost" smiley. You know:
~~~~~~~~~(m--)m
5) the army and police won't let you join if you've had it, rather tellling I think An interesting fact I learned while applying to the service academies: The reason the Air Force doesn't want their pilots to have had the surgery is because of a risk (I don't know if it's great or small) that at very high G's the "flaps" made during the surgery could flip (rip) open. (>.)
it only ran ok on my 386...and that was when i used a boot disc.
and that was after I put in 12 MB of RAM, too (T_T)
darn 386/sx-16
I'm taking issue with your claim that students and scientists (specifically student scientists) are well served by using Apple computers.
Some background. I am an undergraduate student studying science. I am an Apple Certified Technician. I have pretty much exclusively used Macs my entire life. I work for the IST department of my college.
The amount of Macs (~2% of all computers)on my campus is lower (by a little more than half) than Apple's market share. As I attend a small (1000 students) private college, I know all the students that own Macs. None of them (apart from me) are science students. Very few of them are "creative" (film or art) users. Most tend to be "just" students. The only thing they tend to have in common is coming from a wealthy background.
As much as I love using Macs, it's my opinion students are unlikely - and, I think in most cases, ill advised - to bring one to college.
Why?
Easy: compatibility and software.
For example. I'm having to dump my eMac to use my old PC. My organic chemistry textbook includes activities with ChemOffice Ltd (student cost: $70). ChemOffice Ltd does not exist for OS X. ChemOffice Ultra 8.0 does exist for OS X, but (a) only ChemDraw is carbonized (Chem3d [etc.] has to be run in Classic mode, which sucks) (b) ChemOffice Ultra 8.0 costs $490 for students.
To give a more inclusive examples: networking to printers, browsing computers on the network, and taking full advantage of Exchange server capabilities (LDAP) are much easier (or, simply, are possible) on a PC. The common student would be much better servered using a PC and spending the time she'd spend configuring her Mac studying instead.
I know that there's a wealth of software that fink/x11 is bringing to OS X, but ease of use and ease of accessability to the software seems to be the sticking point. Sure, I'd much rather stay with my eMac and run some x11 or unix software to do my molecular modelling. However, search as I may I haven't found any good options that work well with the instructions the book gives me.
Right now Apple seems to be in a situation much like HP's calculators are; like an HP calculator, a Mac is (in my opinion) a much better product than the competition (Wintel in the case of Macs, TI-8x calculators in the case of HP calcs). However, since the other has become a standard, it is assumed that every(rather than the typical) student is a PC user with a TI calculator. No (or very few) alternatives are available for those students who are not.
At any rate. This is, I suppose, a roundabout way to ask who, exactly, you know in the sciences that's big on Macs. In lab we have an awesome Sun setup (running Spartan) for modelling. I only know one chem professor that uses a Mac. The Physics dpt uses iBooks for student labs because of the lab software that's available for them ("Determine the rate of acceleration..."), but other than that everything's Sun or Wintel.
And let me add this to avoid one "easy" thoughtless response: yeah, my household does make more than $75k/year, but that still doesn't mean that I'm going to pay $420 more for software when I'm going to be using the same features in it that I would in the $70 version. Not to be a prick, but the way one gets to have money is by not spending it on outrageously priced items when equally competent options are available at significantly lower costs.
There are definately students who benefit from owning a Mac (film, art and [arguably] language students come to mind). Science and math students are probably done a disservice by purchasing a Mac (ex: let me know how to transfer files from my eMac to my HP48GX - I can do it on my clunker wintel laptop though). I think the general student probably is better served by getting a PC because of the time and hassles they'll save at most schools. 'Course, if they're going to Reed, then they're lucky and can use their Mac and be happy, healthy, prosperous and wise.
I purchased "Chin Check" from the Apple Music Store. It isn't offered on the site anymore. I guess their digital inventory changes...weird.
Burn the mp4's to a CD-RW and rip the CD as MP3's (of whatever quality you want). No DRM problems.
one of the problems I have with the service is that album pricing can be a bit uneven. There are too many albums (ex: NWA's greatest hits) that have an "extra" song or two added to them that then are not available for the $9.99 download because, well, you'd be getting MORE than just the album. (In the NWA case that's BS, but whatever.) Also, new albums (such as Snoop's Paid the Cost to be the Boss) don't always sell for $9.99. When I went to buy Cost a couple of months ago, it was $17 or $18. That being said, I've probably purchased $80 or so worth of music since iTunes 4 came out for Mac. Best purchase so far: Placido Domingo's album of Mariachi music.
I've always been partial to his scene in Life of Brian where he plays the guard with the speech impedement.
("Jailer2")
Roman Just a moment, would you? Jailer. How many have come through?
Jailer1 What?
Roman Uh... how many have come through?
Jailer1 What?
Jailer2 Uh, Y-y-y-you'll have to s-s-spea s-s-s-sp s-s-s-sp s-s-speak up a-a bit, sir. He's-he's-he's-he's de. He's-he's-he's-dea. He's-he's-he's deaf as a, deaf as a p-p-post, sir.
Roman Eh... How Many Have Come Through??!!
Jailer1 Hhhih hih hih nyih nyih nyih.
Roman Oh dear.
Jailer2 I make it ninety ffffff... ninety ffffff... ninety ffffff... ninety six, sir.
Roman It's such a senseless waste of human life, isn't it?
Jailer2 N-n-n-n-NO, sir. Not for these b-b-BASTARDS, sir. C-crrr-crrrr-crrrr crrrrucifixion's too good for them, sir.
Roman I don't think you could say it's too good for them. It's, it's very nasty.
Jailer2 Well, it's not as n-n-n-na na na. Not as nasty as something I just thought up, sir.
Roman No. Uh, now, um. Crucifixion.
Brian Is there someone I can speak to?
Roman Well...
Jailer1 I know where to get it, if you want it.
Roman What?
Jailer2 Don't worry about hi-hi-him, sir. He-he's de. He's de. He's deaf and Mmmmmmmmmad, sir.
Roman Well how did he get the job?
Jailer2 Bloody Pilate's pet, sir.
and he also plays the red-headed jerk in LoB, too. And he's the wink-wink, knudge-knudge guy. Etc.
Also, I thought I remembered reading somewhere that the G5's actually run cooler than the G4's. Is this completely wrong?
As an aside (but isn't everything here an aside), I'd like to point out that if Bluetooth isn't added at the time of purchase (as a BTO option, which I think means you can't return the machine) it can only be added as a USB dongle. The Bluetooth capability is added onto the motherboard and will not be available as an aftermarket add-on. If you do chose to get Bluetooth built in also not that there will be an external antenna on the back of the case. Same for AirPort Extreme - you'll have an external antenna coming out of the back of your box.
Three quick notes: 1. I'm not sure why people are telling you to wait until MWNY to buy. It's been announced by reputible sources that there will not be new towers announced there. They will most likely be coming in August. 2. For information on the upgradability of Macs (and excellent information on Mac performance), check out xlr8yourmac.com. It's a very informative website. 3. Unless it comes with an Apple Care warranty, I wouldn't reccomend getting your computer off of eBay. Try any Mac Authorised Reseller (an excellent list has already been posted above). Apple service is very, very good, imho.