LOL! My GP race bike weighs 156 lbs (70.76 kg)...I think that armor suit might actually weigh more than the bike itself!!

...although, once I'm sliding down the track (looking back to see who'll hit me, and forward to see what I'll hit) I'd like to be in something like that!

@daniel bouchard said:

Craig,

What do you think about this, under your leather one-piece suit?

Here's an oldie but goodie...

(I presume it was at a school and they were seeking security and not coolness).

http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/sas/CornerBar/smallApple.jpg

@unknownuser said:

I did see it Mike and yes they were brilliant, mind you they have been doing it for 10 yrs. The guy who won,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_5W4t_CBzg&watch_response
was excellent too, a brilliant voice. The fist thing he said he was going to do after winning the £100,000 was get his teeth fixed. What do you think?

I was torn between the Opera signer guy and the 6 year old girl. We (wife and I) finally agreed that the Opera singer was the most sensible choice as that kind of pressure on a 6 year old could be a very bad thing, she should do well anyway, just hope she has good parents that protect her interests.

As far as the Opera guy getting his teeth 'fixed'. I must admit that its the first physical thing that one notices BUT I think he should just make sure that they are in healthy condition and leave his 'trademark' alone !

Thanks for the explaination Jeff.

I think this might have already been noted, but it is a cool post and neat mod nevertheless. I'm actually looking for something like one of the "typewriter with magnifying screen" computers from Terry Gilliam's Brazil (presumably not running "Windows Vista", although that would be in keeping for the totalitarian reactionary state depicted in the movie). I used to have a bookmarked site for someone who abused a Macintosh until it looked like that, but I've lost track of the address.

On a related note, the local frame shop customized their flatscreen monitor by surrounding it with a customized tooled- and gilded-leather frame...kind of a "Baron Harkonnen" look. I'll see if they will let me take a photo.

--Lewis

poster-Lewis Wadsworth

Nice idea, just too much into one thing, I imagine something like this more in epaper combined with a multi input touch display. a5 pocket size. And when rolled up the size of a regular pen.

Hmmm... We get PC Format here in SA (we have a local edition and the UK edition) and I buy it regularly. Most of the SA edition's content is licenced from the UK edition. It could be that I missed the article or they never used it, I'll have to go and check.

Thanks for updating! 😉

@planner dude said:

Thanks to everyone on these forumes that put up with my hardware questions.
Yesterday I put in and order for the SR 2.2GHZ Core2 Duo Macbook Pro with a matte screen. I am excited! This will be my first mac. 😄

Hey Dude Planner, you won't need those thick
glasses and you'll find you won't be pulling
your hair out so you'll have to post an new
avatar 😆

Mike

WOOT WOOT... thanks for the update Juju...

these are some nice prices for some top notch processors

That's so cool!!!
My son has a Wii and he says we could probably hook up his Wii remote to do the same thing.

although it could have had 256 it actually has 128. it has run well so far. even though i did not make it go through any severe test in my work i took the crowd test refered to in this thread. have a look at it and you will get an idea.

regards.

Things can also break down. The other day one of my colleagues plugged in his digicam. The digicam didn't mount as expected, and at the same time his mouse stopped working, and after several restarts we still couldn't get the machine to accept any USB devices, so we had to send it for repairs (still under warranty).

Anssi

Architectural Desktop 2005 but I'm thinking about buying Allplan by Nemetschek rather than AutoCAD 2008. Check Allplan out, I've seen it demonstrated, amazing

@unknownuser said:

Here it is Edson

Mac Book Pro Review

Ken Mingis writes a good review, thanks for posting link.

Mike

Well, thanks for keeping us posted, Cork. I may want to talk with you if I need to get two monitors going on Ubuntu, but I have had much the same experience with every version of SU from 6 to 2 (I think I tossed my SU1 disk). Quite the shame...but, hey, I have Rhino on Linux now, in addition to QCAD, BRL-CAD, Blender, AC3D, and the GIMP. That's almost enough for a small architectural practice, if only I wasn't so addicted to using SU as design tool. And I could wish that Rhino 3 or 4 would work, but apparently the McNeel license manager subprogram finds something indigestible about Linux.

--Lewis

P.S. I thought I should add that, even on Windows, some of these programs will work from a USB drive...I can install Blender, QCAD, and AC3D (Windows versions all) on a flash drive and they seem to run nearly perfectly on whatever Windows computer I plug the drive into. I haven't quite figured out why I want to do this, but it is kind of neat.

[Lewis Wadsworth]

I Did some disk cleaning this weekend, I found my C partition had only 3% left before full. I thought I kept a cleaner house. I backed up and sent the stagnant files to another storage place, loosening up %42 percent of my space. I will admit the machine feels so much more responsive. I thought I had recently done system maintaince, Point is dont overlookk the obvious to keep performance up.

The 'relighting' technique that was being demonstrated is fairly standard - I guess most architects already do this (or should do?) when rendering 3D visualisations.

The rpf file format export was very clever indeed - shame it locks you down to using just 3DS Max and Combustion (yuck). Never been a big fan of Combustion, but that's kind of a 'given' working in a VFX studio - where it is very much looked down on.

Apple's Shake is now only $500, and is much, much more powerful. I've been using Digital Fusion a lot recently, too, which is great - direct import of fbx and obj meshes, including textures, to your compositing package. Woo!

Could be good for those of us who work at home. Mount a monitor on it and we could stay in bed & work. Replace the bedside table with a beer fridge and it would be a great 'office'. 💚

Very cool stuff...but someone should mention SketchUp to him.

http://steampunkworkshop.com/telegraph.shtml

Thx for the heads-up! Will DL it and give it a spin sometime.