Have you ever tried to find an LCD that will fit the interior of the mac? First off the old screen mount in the face plate is rounded off to fit a CRT. So first you have to grind that to be flat or use filler to extend the monitor hole so that is is flat.
Then you have to find and purchase a bare LCD and an LCD controller. Which from my research is around $650 USD for an 8.4" LCD. So why not find something that has a 10" or 8.4" LCD screen. Okay, but then you're looking at the super highend of portable DVD players and they aint cheap. Furthermore, they have propritary controllers. It's really quite hard and expensive to do the mod with an LCD screen.
I was going to do that exact mod about 5 months ago but with the LCD. However, once I found out the price of the LCD I gave up on the project. As the LCD screen would be more expensive than the rest of the computer.
sure people will continue to do it regardless of payment. However, I wouldn't be able to do as much or the quality of work I do now if I had to work fulltime and do my art on the side.
Have you ever built, or created anything? What if someone came along picked it up and started using it as thier own, you recieved no recognition, no payment, not even a thank you. Do you think you would continue. I don't think you would.
A single painting can cost me $80 in materials and take over 90hrs to finish from beginning to end. Lets see you work for two fucking weeks and get nothing in return, and everyone else get the benefit of your art. Sounds like fun!! I'd also like to jab needles underneath my toenails while I'm at it.
As a painter, copyrights are an integral part of my business. Without copyright, commercial artists would have a hard bargain to drive. Companies don't want piles of paintings lying around. And most artists would prefer to sell first rights, sell the image again as stock, and then sell the painting as a piece of wall art if possible. But this process doesn't always happen, and retaining copyright is important to illustrators, as it allows us to resell images as stock illustration, which can be bread and butter to fill in a slow month.
Now someone is going to say, why don't you just keep selling original work? Well you can't. People don't buy art now a days. Magazine budgets are smaller and smaller, so they need cheap images. So they turn to stock images. Which can only exist if the artist has copyright. So without copyright there would be far fewer people making the text you read, the posters you see, your favorite packaging colourful. So if that's okay with you, then get rid of copyright and live in a text filled world of blah. Oh yeah copyright is also essential to photographers. So you wouldn't have any of those either. As people wouldn't respect the new imaginary copyright, and would take images without paying them. This forces the artist and photographers to find new jobs, and not do their art. So no pictures for you.
Many people are so tone/music deaf they can't even hear the difference between 128kpbs and CD. And would happily downgrade to 64kpbs to fit more on thier flash card. And with the weedy ass amps, and garbage headphones they give with those units. Whose going to notice right.
But are all those fans really necessary. The G5 puts out something in the range of 50W of heat. That's nothing in x86 world with P4's putting out 70-100W. I think apple is just playing it safe, for future generations of G5's which may make more heat than they do currently.
Interesting. Because a couple years ago, they were nigh on impossible to find. I hope when they remastered them they didn't boost the levels too high resulting in mad amounts of clipping like they did to vapor trails.
You do have to pay that much for a CD, not a new one. But go look for an older CD by a band you like. Offhand I know that all of metallica's old CD's are in the $25 CAN price range, as are old CD's by rush(if you can find the damn things)
The only difference seems to be is that canadians get big break when the albums first come out. And then the price seems to level out.
I always thought that it was ambient moisture (ie. water vapor) that refracted the light, and not the oxygen/nitro. Because when you approach the upper portions of the atmosphere they become clear, even though there is still air (not much though) up there.
I think also that the level of integration with the bulk of the OS is in need of dire repair. All of these applications cause the most problems, and due to thier integration, a comprimise in say IE usually results in the entire system being compromised. Making these programs function the same as any other program in windows would solve some of these problems I think.
Your comparison between cars and GUI's is very off base. First off a steering wheel and foot pedels as well as the placement of the turn signal lever, are pretty much standardized, for the sake of response time. If you are in an emergency, you really don't have time to remember which pedal is which or where the gas is because each manufacturer chooses their own placement. With a standardized set of controls users understand how to operate the machine to a fair extent and can operate any machine with ease. Imagine if you were new at driving the redesigned delorean, without pedals, and you need to stop right quick. Which are you going to do first stomp the brake pedal or reach for the buttton on the steering wheel. I would stomp the pedal, due to prior conditioning.
I think you would be better off comparing buttons and checkboxes to steering wheel and footpedals. Both of these are basically the same on every car/OS and with good reason. Using an easily recognizable and understood shape or iconography allows for the desired response to be performed by the end user. Rudimentary elements to a GUI, things like menus, buttons, checkboxes, cursors, etc. Will change minorly over time, because they cannot easily be changed without breaking their function and meaning to the user.
This doesn't mean that you cannot change the arrangement, and order in which these elements appear, which is where the greatest innovation will come from. Finding new ways to combine already existing elements has always been pivotal to all innovation. Look at art, and music if you don't believe me. We have no more colours then the baroque artists did, yet we create wildly different images and sounds..
I remember when a juke box was installed in my highschool cafeteria. And a certain group of people decided they would take over said jukebox and play nothing but horrible top 40 garbage. Les just say said jukebox had an unfortunate accident with some wire cutters. Same will happen to the cameras. There are always dead spots. From one you can make many more if you are cunning enough
Well if they are run wirelessly, then it shouldn't be that hard to simply jam up the frequencies they are using. look at cellphone jammers, they can take down anything within a 100ft radius sometimes more.. that's more than enough to down a few cameras.
See teachers like you are probably the ones that would get the axe for bending the rules. Even though during my highschool experience, the teachers that were flexible both in what they taught and how they taught were some of the best. This is not to say that they gave in to the students and comprimised their integrity as a teacher.
But sometimes a bit of digression is very healthy and can allow students to learn more than sticking to "the book" will.
Furthermore, piling work on so that students are doing something is a horrible way to teach. Because in many cases you will be boring the upper half of the class, and overworking and frustrating the other half.
Well i don't know how the pricing scheme works in the states. But in canada, when a CD comes out it is discounted so that it is actually affordable. Most times they sit around $15-18 CAN. After a while, the discount is removed. And the price flies up to $24-28 CAN !! Which is insane. Considering minimum wage is 6.85
So perhaps the discounts were real, but it was after they removed all the stores normal discounts.
The vinyl to CD conversion was fueled by lovers of music that was originally on vinyl, correct. These people are usually over 30. And therefore have already built important and long lasting connections to the music they grew up with. So if you really love the music of the 60's I can completely understand that you find today's bands devoid of anything interesting. Because the cultural and social makeup as well as the musical landscape itself is a vastly different thing then it was back 40 years ago, when the bands you love were creating their music.
Furthermore, 'baby boomers' are the largest age demographic, and also have the largest disposable income, outside of teens (who are easily distracted with cellphone ringtones, videogames and other cash pits) So if this large body of people stops buying music due to a lack of interest in many bands as a whole. Then of course there will be a sales drop.
This combined with the large amount of garbage music being created inside the pop and hip-hop scenes, it's easy to understand why there could be a decline in sales. The older markets can't identify with the current music, and a portion of the younger generation can't tolerate the landslide of shit coming from the labels.
It seems almost like you want a service that is similar to iTunes music store. Which I think a lot more people would also find reasonable if it were offered to them. Just with mac users in the US alone I think they have sold in excess of 15 million songs. Which is pretty damn good considering no one was getting that money before.
I think that services such as iTunes are the future for a great deal of peoples music needs.
I still love having the album in my hands. But there are not a HUGE amount of bands that are worth buying a whole album from. Especially not the heavily marketed bands.
I've found that belgium beer is usually pretty high in alcohol. Sometimes up to 10 or 11%. I know that gulden drakk is around 9.x% And it is a mighty fine fruitful beer that has a beautiful aftertaste.
Overall commercial american beer is shite. I've heard americans saying that molson's canadian and labatt blue are 'good' beers. Which I guess they could be if you're used to drinking dog pee. But there are a ton of good canadian beers. You just have to look slightly farther than the tip of your nose.
Hey the SARS threat was complete media hype. 42 people died IN TOTAL. Not on a single day. More people die in a large city from the flu. Even automobile accidents can kill more. Yet are they publicized and created into huge hypestorms? No.
The healthcare workers here in toronto did an AMAZING job in providing a good help.
Maybe the US media is trying to punish Canada for not being a little bitch. Maybe they're just trying to scare and control their population through fear and terror, as per norm. Maybe I'm crazy, from the non-existent mad cow craze. Maybe not..
Sure they are alternative now, but if everyone wants the fan-tabulous linux revolution, where linux has a significant market share among non geeks, then things like menu shadows are a step to being more 'graphically pleasing' then I think it could be a good thing. If you don't like it then don't install the RPM simple as that.
I dunno, but maybe I'm the only one who is irritated by the animators/producers mixing what looks like hand drawn animation, and full CG. It looks really cheap, and segmented I find. Almost like the characters are on a different plane of existence than the Cg characters/environments. I think they should have gone all cell shaded or all rendered.
All I'm trying to say really I guess is that the film seems to look disjointed as far as the aesthetics of the picture are concerned.
If the manufacturers want the mainstream audience to pick up on fuel cell tech, then the cells are going to have to be mighty cheap say 50c each, otherwise the cost of maintenence goes through the roof. If I were getting 200 hours off of a single charge, I don't think that asking a dollar or so is that bad.
Think of how much electricity is used after recharging your laptop battery 50 times. If they can make fuel cells cheaper than the electricty cost to charge the batteries for equivalent time.
I think long speaker cables are the way to go. Just make sure they're nice and thick and chunky, otherwise they'll strangle the sound just as much as a crappy DAC:)
Make sure your cable is at least 12 or 10 gauge OFC (oxygen free copper) Perhaps shielded if you are planning on running it anywhere near power wires. If you don't use the thicker cables, and try to go more than 10-15m you could run the risk of losing power. Also remember to never coil your cables, this creates a fair bit of inductance in the lines, distorting the signal.
I agree with the others, who have said, if you are going to include an LCD in some of the rooms, what's the problem with adding a very small PC? You could even do a wireless network, and have the terminals access the files.
As I don't really know of anyway in which you can get five soundcards, to all function seperately, and have independant players associated with each card. I think that having a large storage server, and then some small terminals controlling smaller areas of the house, will be easier, and less of a logistical nightmare.
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Have you ever tried to find an LCD that will fit the interior of the mac? First off the old screen mount in the face plate is rounded off to fit a CRT. So first you have to grind that to be flat or use filler to extend the monitor hole so that is is flat.
Then you have to find and purchase a bare LCD and an LCD controller. Which from my research is around $650 USD for an 8.4" LCD. So why not find something that has a 10" or 8.4" LCD screen. Okay, but then you're looking at the super highend of portable DVD players and they aint cheap. Furthermore, they have propritary controllers. It's really quite hard and expensive to do the mod with an LCD screen.
I was going to do that exact mod about 5 months ago but with the LCD. However, once I found out the price of the LCD I gave up on the project. As the LCD screen would be more expensive than the rest of the computer.
Are you taking the piss or what?
sure people will continue to do it regardless of payment. However, I wouldn't be able to do as much or the quality of work I do now if I had to work fulltime and do my art on the side.
Have you ever built, or created anything? What if someone came along picked it up and started using it as thier own, you recieved no recognition, no payment, not even a thank you. Do you think you would continue. I don't think you would.
A single painting can cost me $80 in materials and take over 90hrs to finish from beginning to end. Lets see you work for two fucking weeks and get nothing in return, and everyone else get the benefit of your art. Sounds like fun!! I'd also like to jab needles underneath my toenails while I'm at it.
As a painter, copyrights are an integral part of my business. Without copyright, commercial artists would have a hard bargain to drive. Companies don't want piles of paintings lying around. And most artists would prefer to sell first rights, sell the image again as stock, and then sell the painting as a piece of wall art if possible. But this process doesn't always happen, and retaining copyright is important to illustrators, as it allows us to resell images as stock illustration, which can be bread and butter to fill in a slow month.
Now someone is going to say, why don't you just keep selling original work? Well you can't. People don't buy art now a days. Magazine budgets are smaller and smaller, so they need cheap images. So they turn to stock images. Which can only exist if the artist has copyright. So without copyright there would be far fewer people making the text you read, the posters you see, your favorite packaging colourful. So if that's okay with you, then get rid of copyright and live in a text filled world of blah. Oh yeah copyright is also essential to photographers. So you wouldn't have any of those either. As people wouldn't respect the new imaginary copyright, and would take images without paying them. This forces the artist and photographers to find new jobs, and not do their art. So no pictures for you.
Many people are so tone/music deaf they can't even hear the difference between 128kpbs and CD. And would happily downgrade to 64kpbs to fit more on thier flash card. And with the weedy ass amps, and garbage headphones they give with those units. Whose going to notice right.
But are all those fans really necessary. The G5 puts out something in the range of 50W of heat. That's nothing in x86 world with P4's putting out 70-100W. I think apple is just playing it safe, for future generations of G5's which may make more heat than they do currently.
Interesting. Because a couple years ago, they were nigh on impossible to find. I hope when they remastered them they didn't boost the levels too high resulting in mad amounts of clipping like they did to vapor trails.
You do have to pay that much for a CD, not a new one. But go look for an older CD by a band you like. Offhand I know that all of metallica's old CD's are in the $25 CAN price range, as are old CD's by rush(if you can find the damn things)
The only difference seems to be is that canadians get big break when the albums first come out. And then the price seems to level out.
I always thought that it was ambient moisture (ie. water vapor) that refracted the light, and not the oxygen/nitro. Because when you approach the upper portions of the atmosphere they become clear, even though there is still air (not much though) up there.
And if you were living in the states, you'd have committed a federal crime, by violating the DMCA. As you circumvented a copy protection system.
Didn't you get the memo. Jeez, how times do you have to be told to check your wasteoftime.com e-mail address?
I think also that the level of integration with the bulk of the OS is in need of dire repair. All of these applications cause the most problems, and due to thier integration, a comprimise in say IE usually results in the entire system being compromised. Making these programs function the same as any other program in windows would solve some of these problems I think.
Your comparison between cars and GUI's is very off base. First off a steering wheel and foot pedels as well as the placement of the turn signal lever, are pretty much standardized, for the sake of response time. If you are in an emergency, you really don't have time to remember which pedal is which or where the gas is because each manufacturer chooses their own placement. With a standardized set of controls users understand how to operate the machine to a fair extent and can operate any machine with ease. Imagine if you were new at driving the redesigned delorean, without pedals, and you need to stop right quick. Which are you going to do first stomp the brake pedal or reach for the buttton on the steering wheel. I would stomp the pedal, due to prior conditioning.
I think you would be better off comparing buttons and checkboxes to steering wheel and footpedals. Both of these are basically the same on every car/OS and with good reason. Using an easily recognizable and understood shape or iconography allows for the desired response to be performed by the end user. Rudimentary elements to a GUI, things like menus, buttons, checkboxes, cursors, etc. Will change minorly over time, because they cannot easily be changed without breaking their function and meaning to the user.
This doesn't mean that you cannot change the arrangement, and order in which these elements appear, which is where the greatest innovation will come from. Finding new ways to combine already existing elements has always been pivotal to all innovation. Look at art, and music if you don't believe me. We have no more colours then the baroque artists did, yet we create wildly different images and sounds..
I was thinking wires being cut too..
I remember when a juke box was installed in my highschool cafeteria. And a certain group of people decided they would take over said jukebox and play nothing but horrible top 40 garbage. Les just say said jukebox had an unfortunate accident with some wire cutters. Same will happen to the cameras. There are always dead spots. From one you can make many more if you are cunning enough
Well if they are run wirelessly, then it shouldn't be that hard to simply jam up the frequencies they are using. look at cellphone jammers, they can take down anything within a 100ft radius sometimes more.. that's more than enough to down a few cameras.
See teachers like you are probably the ones that would get the axe for bending the rules. Even though during my highschool experience, the teachers that were flexible both in what they taught and how they taught were some of the best. This is not to say that they gave in to the students and comprimised their integrity as a teacher.
But sometimes a bit of digression is very healthy and can allow students to learn more than sticking to "the book" will.
Furthermore, piling work on so that students are doing something is a horrible way to teach. Because in many cases you will be boring the upper half of the class, and overworking and frustrating the other half.
Well i don't know how the pricing scheme works in the states. But in canada, when a CD comes out it is discounted so that it is actually affordable. Most times they sit around $15-18 CAN. After a while, the discount is removed. And the price flies up to $24-28 CAN !! Which is insane. Considering minimum wage is 6.85
So perhaps the discounts were real, but it was after they removed all the stores normal discounts.
Here's a really strange tangent maybe.
The vinyl to CD conversion was fueled by lovers of music that was originally on vinyl, correct. These people are usually over 30. And therefore have already built important and long lasting connections to the music they grew up with. So if you really love the music of the 60's I can completely understand that you find today's bands devoid of anything interesting. Because the cultural and social makeup as well as the musical landscape itself is a vastly different thing then it was back 40 years ago, when the bands you love were creating their music.
Furthermore, 'baby boomers' are the largest age demographic, and also have the largest disposable income, outside of teens (who are easily distracted with cellphone ringtones, videogames and other cash pits) So if this large body of people stops buying music due to a lack of interest in many bands as a whole. Then of course there will be a sales drop.
This combined with the large amount of garbage music being created inside the pop and hip-hop scenes, it's easy to understand why there could be a decline in sales. The older markets can't identify with the current music, and a portion of the younger generation can't tolerate the landslide of shit coming from the labels.
But then again I could be crazy
It seems almost like you want a service that is similar to iTunes music store. Which I think a lot more people would also find reasonable if it were offered to them. Just with mac users in the US alone I think they have sold in excess of 15 million songs. Which is pretty damn good considering no one was getting that money before.
I think that services such as iTunes are the future for a great deal of peoples music needs.
I still love having the album in my hands. But there are not a HUGE amount of bands that are worth buying a whole album from. Especially not the heavily marketed bands.
I've found that belgium beer is usually pretty high in alcohol. Sometimes up to 10 or 11%. I know that gulden drakk is around 9.x% And it is a mighty fine fruitful beer that has a beautiful aftertaste.
Overall commercial american beer is shite. I've heard americans saying that molson's canadian and labatt blue are 'good' beers. Which I guess they could be if you're used to drinking dog pee. But there are a ton of good canadian beers. You just have to look slightly farther than the tip of your nose.
Hey the SARS threat was complete media hype. 42 people died IN TOTAL. Not on a single day. More people die in a large city from the flu. Even automobile accidents can kill more. Yet are they publicized and created into huge hypestorms? No.
The healthcare workers here in toronto did an AMAZING job in providing a good help.
Maybe the US media is trying to punish Canada for not being a little bitch. Maybe they're just trying to scare and control their population through fear and terror, as per norm. Maybe I'm crazy, from the non-existent mad cow craze. Maybe not..
Sure they are alternative now, but if everyone wants the fan-tabulous linux revolution, where linux has a significant market share among non geeks, then things like menu shadows are a step to being more 'graphically pleasing' then I think it could be a good thing. If you don't like it then don't install the RPM simple as that.
I dunno, but maybe I'm the only one who is irritated by the animators/producers mixing what looks like hand drawn animation, and full CG. It looks really cheap, and segmented I find. Almost like the characters are on a different plane of existence than the Cg characters/environments. I think they should have gone all cell shaded or all rendered.
All I'm trying to say really I guess is that the film seems to look disjointed as far as the aesthetics of the picture are concerned.
If the manufacturers want the mainstream audience to pick up on fuel cell tech, then the cells are going to have to be mighty cheap say 50c each, otherwise the cost of maintenence goes through the roof. If I were getting 200 hours off of a single charge, I don't think that asking a dollar or so is that bad.
Think of how much electricity is used after recharging your laptop battery 50 times. If they can make fuel cells cheaper than the electricty cost to charge the batteries for equivalent time.
Make sure your cable is at least 12 or 10 gauge OFC (oxygen free copper) Perhaps shielded if you are planning on running it anywhere near power wires. If you don't use the thicker cables, and try to go more than 10-15m you could run the risk of losing power. Also remember to never coil your cables, this creates a fair bit of inductance in the lines, distorting the signal.
I agree with the others, who have said, if you are going to include an LCD in some of the rooms, what's the problem with adding a very small PC? You could even do a wireless network, and have the terminals access the files.
As I don't really know of anyway in which you can get five soundcards, to all function seperately, and have independant players associated with each card. I think that having a large storage server, and then some small terminals controlling smaller areas of the house, will be easier, and less of a logistical nightmare.