The allegedly "Roman" Lituus looks remarkably like the Swedish NÃverlur http://files.reseguiden.se/files/0/rg_738300_m600.jpg. I remember David Munrow demonstrating something like it in his Early Music TV programme back in the mid-70s. It sounds very difficult to keep in pitch and I'd suggest that a Renaissance Cornett (perhaps even a Lysard, but not a Serpent) would be a more appropriate instrument for the performance.
Conjectural instruments like the Lituus aren't really worth the effort.
Really, I completely despise folk like you who have nothing better to do with your time than craft delusional "Christmas Greetings" to send to your less artistic/creative/self-important acquaintances. Of course, in times past the cretinous, badly photocopied "Christmas Letter" or "Roundrobin" was equally abhorrent, but at least that could be seen for what it was and disposed of accordingly.
Do you really think your recipients are going to wade through 512Mb of computer dross, just because you sent it? Or that it'd get more than one play before getting reformatted and used for something more useful?
Here's a suggestion that would generate a bit more seasonal cheer.
Buy a big bundle of high quality Christmas cards supporting the charity (or charities) of your choice. Write an individual, unique heart-felt greeting in each one and post them in time for the last week before Christmas. Then the recipients can pin them up and have a colourful reminder of your regards throughout the Christmas season, rather than a few minutes of irritation.
As for the USB sticks, why not enclose them as an unencumbered gift to those who might have a use for them. Or donate then to a worthy cause.
Someone else posted an example from the 1950s, but the "concept" goes back a lot further than that. Taking a cue from the doped linen aircraft fuselages of the early years of flying, various car manufacturers used a similar procedure to produce car bodies that were light and protected the passengers from the weather. These were mainly used for both mass-market sports cars and their more bespoke brethren.
That according to a recent post (late May/early June) in Slashdot, the UK is currently starting the process of making it a sexual offence to make or possess pictures of children deemed (by the authorities) to be pornographic. Let me be clear, I'm not talking about photographs of real children, or digitally manipulated pictures of real children.
ANY drawing, painting or work of computer art showing an image of a child in inappropriate circumstances, or their genitalia, will be banned and its possession made a criminal offence, resulting on conviction, with the offender serving time, having their name placed on the sexual offenders register and having their lives generally ruined.
There are highly thought of collections of classical art (think of all those cherubs...) that fall within the remit of laws like this.
Check your caches, don't look at the parent site. Today the UK, tomorrow the US!
I considered the Elonex One for all of 5 minutes before rejecting it. Ok, I paid twice as much for my Eee, but it doesn't look like an ugly botched abortion with an even more obscure "version" of Linux than Xandros. And the overall spec of the Eee is light years above the One.
I've installed Xampp on the Eee with no problems and it makes a curiously engaging development and demonstration platform.
I'd hate to try THAT with the One!
Slashdot Mirror
Its got to be said!
The allegedly "Roman" Lituus looks remarkably like the Swedish NÃverlur http://files.reseguiden.se/files/0/rg_738300_m600.jpg. I remember David Munrow demonstrating something like it in his Early Music TV programme back in the mid-70s. It sounds very difficult to keep in pitch and I'd suggest that a Renaissance Cornett (perhaps even a Lysard, but not a Serpent) would be a more appropriate instrument for the performance.
Conjectural instruments like the Lituus aren't really worth the effort.
Really, I completely despise folk like you who have nothing better to do with your time than craft delusional "Christmas Greetings" to send to your less artistic/creative/self-important acquaintances. Of course, in times past the cretinous, badly photocopied "Christmas Letter" or "Roundrobin" was equally abhorrent, but at least that could be seen for what it was and disposed of accordingly.
Do you really think your recipients are going to wade through 512Mb of computer dross, just because you sent it? Or that it'd get more than one play before getting reformatted and used for something more useful?
Here's a suggestion that would generate a bit more seasonal cheer.
Buy a big bundle of high quality Christmas cards supporting the charity (or charities) of your choice. Write an individual, unique heart-felt greeting in each one and post them in time for the last week before Christmas. Then the recipients can pin them up and have a colourful reminder of your regards throughout the Christmas season, rather than a few minutes of irritation.
As for the USB sticks, why not enclose them as an unencumbered gift to those who might have a use for them. Or donate then to a worthy cause.
Someone else posted an example from the 1950s, but the "concept" goes back a lot further than that. Taking a cue from the doped linen aircraft fuselages of the early years of flying, various car manufacturers used a similar procedure to produce car bodies that were light and protected the passengers from the weather. These were mainly used for both mass-market sports cars and their more bespoke brethren.
1928 Lagonda Speed Model
BMW have just produced a contemporary version of this idea.
That according to a recent post (late May/early June) in Slashdot, the UK is currently starting the process of making it a sexual offence to make or possess pictures of children deemed (by the authorities) to be pornographic. Let me be clear, I'm not talking about photographs of real children, or digitally manipulated pictures of real children.
ANY drawing, painting or work of computer art showing an image of a child in inappropriate circumstances, or their genitalia, will be banned and its possession made a criminal offence, resulting on conviction, with the offender serving time, having their name placed on the sexual offenders register and having their lives generally ruined.
There are highly thought of collections of classical art (think of all those cherubs...) that fall within the remit of laws like this.
Check your caches, don't look at the parent site. Today the UK, tomorrow the US!
The Eee wins.
I considered the Elonex One for all of 5 minutes before rejecting it. Ok, I paid twice as much for my Eee, but it doesn't look like an ugly botched abortion with an even more obscure "version" of Linux than Xandros. And the overall spec of the Eee is light years above the One.
I've installed Xampp on the Eee with no problems and it makes a curiously engaging development and demonstration platform. I'd hate to try THAT with the One!
Did I really read that? The mans an idiot!