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v-un-v
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| Inventor wrote: | | Oh yes, Santa Clause was very very good to me. I received a $1,000 patent royalty check which enabled me to buy a Mac mini computer. |
A "patent royalty cheque"? What patent is that for? 
PS- my next PC will be a new Mac Mini 
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| v-un-v wrote: | | Inventor wrote: | | Oh yes, Santa Clause was very very good to me. I received a $1,000 patent royalty check which enabled me to buy a Mac mini computer. |
A "patent royalty cheque"? What patent is that for?
PS- my next PC will be a new Mac Mini |
Tom, About ten years ago during the pre-911 economic boom I helped start a medical company that was working on a miniature injectable radiation sensor for cancer patients. Currently they use sensors taped to the skin and computer models to guestimate how much radiation reaches the tumor, but with this device the actual radiation amount is known. There are many other applications of the technology related to cancer treatment including temperature and pH sensing.
It was very satisfying to work on a product that might one day save people's lives. Unfortunately I received a fury of personal attacks that trigerred a schizophrenic episode in 2000 and I had to leave the company. But the good news is they pay royalties to the inventors of their patents, and I walked away with a bunch of stock options which I exercised so now I'm a shareholder in the company.
This was the first holiday bonus that they've sent out so it was a welcome surprise!
Les
p.s. the Mac mini rocks. I highly recommend it over any other computer for the price unless you have a specific reason to get something else.
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| Inventor wrote: | | GovernorSilver wrote: | | Inventor wrote: | | Oh yes, Santa Clause was very very good to me. I received a $1,000 patent royalty check |
Awesome!!!! 
and enjoy the Mac too... |
Thanks! I also bought a pair of wireless headphones with Mic (Logitech) which work really great! They are comfy and go 6 hours on a charge. Built in volume control and on/off switch. The only problem so far is that the Mac mini will not boot properly with the wireless USB adapter plugged into it. It stalls, so I have to remove the adapter and put it back in for the Mac mini to boot. This is a problem that I am willing to put up with, but it kind of sucks. Oh well - if that's all I have to complain about then I don't have complaints!
Les |
Funny you mention that, we're having a problem with the USB adsl modem on the new MacBook Pro we use in the Boiar studio.
We get a couple of crashes till it boots properly.
Might be something related to the OS...
Let's hope for a fix 
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MTGNecro
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After realizing that somehow everyone's life was not complete without bad guitar playing, I got myself a guitar and a book of lessons.
Figured I would enjoy it, and so far so good ^^ |
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DrJustice
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| MTGNecro wrote: | After realizing that somehow everyone's life was not complete without bad guitar playing, I got myself a guitar and a book of lessons.
Figured I would enjoy it, and so far so good ^^ |
Welcome to the forum MTGNecro!
We need a picture of your guitar - without a picture it didn't happen 
BTW, I'm in the same situation as ocp and yourself in having recently picked up the guitar. So much fun, and some frustration too (it's not easy to play guitar!). Perhaps the three of us can start a band with people lacking in technique 
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Alternate tunings with drone strings, that's the key to good guitar playing!
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| Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 2:35 pm Post subject:
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| Acoustic Interloper wrote: | | Alternate tunings with drone strings, that's the key to good guitar playing! |
that's my plan if I ever have time to use my guitar
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| Acoustic Interloper wrote: | | Alternate tunings with drone strings, that's the key to good guitar playing! |
Spoken like a banjo player! |
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| ark wrote: | | Acoustic Interloper wrote: | | Alternate tunings with drone strings, that's the key to good guitar playing! |
Spoken like a banjo player! |
You figured it out, Ark! I can actually play tolerable guitar in its official tuning, but I have logged so many more hours working out technique on the banjo, that it seems a shame not to use it. It drives my son nuts when he picks up one of my retuned guitars, but he's got plenty of his own.
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Folks, I'd love to hear you extol the virtues of alternative tunings, both open and otherwise, over at our Strings'n'Things sub-forum!
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| Oskar wrote: | | Folks, I'd love to hear you extol the virtues of alternative tunings, both open and otherwise, over at our Strings'n'Things sub-forum! |
Done!
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thanks God I don't have room for that 
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Hows your jog wheel on that?
Mines bloody hopeless! |
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| BobTheDog wrote: | Hows your jog wheel on that?
Mines bloody hopeless! |
Pretty good, actually, better than that Shuttle thing to the right of the MC. The encoders seem to be rather high quality.
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Sorry shuttle wheel on MC is what I meant.
Does your MC screen flicker? |
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Yes, there is a perceptible flicker at the bottom of the screen, which I have managed to mitigate by turning the backlight intensity down. I can't tell if this is a refresh or backlight problem.
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It's a refresh issue apparently, I just wondered if they had fixed it.
Apparently its much better in countries with 60hz AC.
I have had three of them and mine all flickered. |
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Three, eh? The flicker was only noticeable on the bottom part of the screen, and when I dimmed it slightly it disappeared. One would think that simply changing to 75Hz refresh they'd have been able to fix that.
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Mine flickers like mad over all the bloody screen.
Maybe they have made some improvements, I gave up sending them back in the end! |
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An Ibanez J.Custom RG8570Z-BX, freshly imported from Japan :
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Ooh, nice. There's something about those velvet inlay cases. Why don't we get those for synths?
How is the git? What made you import it?
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Yes, Stefan, why indeed don't we get more custom synths in velvet cases... Nowadays synths are mostly a download, aren't they - no wonder I'm getting more into guitars, eh?
The experience is a new one coming from Gibson -type guitars, with a really thin neck, 25.5" scale and jumbo frets, but so far it feels like the super smooth playing axe I was hoping for.
The reason for the import is that these are only made for the Japanese market. We gajins aren't worthy of guitars made by Samurais in rice paper huts at the foot of Mount Fuji, you know
There are some more pictures over in Strings and things.
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