There are some cheap wireless Chinese systems you can get fairly inexpensively.
Some offer GSM/Cel phone dial out/listen in capabilities, multiple zones, and a variety of sensors: PIR, mag-contact, water leak, smoke detect, gas detect. They have remote, cel, or panel control.
You can just add stuff until you get all the parts you want.
No monthly fee. You can't have it dial the police directly (legally) but it could call you, you could listen in, and then you could call the police if you hear people breaking in.
...What is the downside of believing in a God? What's the harm?......Why do you even care if someone believes in the tooth fairy, let alone a God?
I don't recall ever hearing about a tooth fairy inquisition. I don't recall ever hearing about tooth fairy witch trials. I don't recall ever hearing about tooth fairy bombings in Northern Ireland. I don't recall ever hearing about tooth fairy fanatics flying jetliners into buildings.
... If evolutionary theory is true, there were no physical Adam and Eve...
that doesn't follow. If there were an Adam and Eve, there's no reason for evolution to be invalid. It's always seemed obvious to me: * Suppose there was an Adam and Eve. * Suppose that evolution is a real thing.
but your data, if you've participated, is permanently written in stone and available
...the data probably isn't all that valuable after a relatively short period of time...
Excellent point.
I seem to get targeted ads based on: 1. Random crap I was surfing that has no relevance to anything I might buy. 2. Actual products I was shopping for, and have already bought, and will not be buying more of.
I don't shop around online for products I regularly buy (e.g. toothpaste), because I already know what I like.
It depends very much on the type of soil (or rock, or clay, or sand) underneath.
Other factors are: what's around it (footings can spread outward as they go down - like a pyramid); earthquake area/danger; height of the building, number of sub-floors needed.
Sometimes the footing can go deeper than the building is tall above-ground.
In the TED demo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1niFHFIbD0M) the founder specifically mentions crouching as one of the motions. But yeah, nothing about lying down. I was more curious of simulating uphill/downhill motion, like climbing stairs.
I don't imagine uphill/downhill would be that hard. The Omni could just have three leg/pistons that raise/lower to tilt the platform depending on the direction you're facing.
There are already treadmills that raise and lower the front end to create more incline.
I doubt the Omni could simulate stairs as currently designed, though.
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There are some cheap wireless Chinese systems you can get fairly inexpensively.
Some offer GSM/Cel phone dial out/listen in capabilities, multiple zones, and a variety of sensors: PIR, mag-contact, water leak, smoke detect, gas detect.
They have remote, cel, or panel control.
You can just add stuff until you get all the parts you want.
No monthly fee. You can't have it dial the police directly (legally) but it could call you, you could listen in, and then you could call the police if you hear people breaking in.
http://dx.com/p/dp-60-gsm-home-alarm-system-w-wireless-door-sensor-window-sensor-pir-motion-sensor-black-275911
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/HOT-NEW-99-zones-wireless-GSM-alarm-system-with-LCD-Keypad-voice-Free-shipping-Promotional/453561713.html
...What is the downside of believing in a God? What's the harm?... ...Why do you even care if someone believes in the tooth fairy, let alone a God?
I don't recall ever hearing about a tooth fairy inquisition.
I don't recall ever hearing about tooth fairy witch trials.
I don't recall ever hearing about tooth fairy bombings in Northern Ireland.
I don't recall ever hearing about tooth fairy fanatics flying jetliners into buildings.
Just for argument's sake -
... If evolutionary theory is true, there were no physical Adam and Eve...
that doesn't follow. If there were an Adam and Eve, there's no reason for evolution to be invalid. It's always seemed obvious to me:
* Suppose there was an Adam and Eve.
* Suppose that evolution is a real thing.
There ya go.
So who were Adam and Eves' parents?
Superman comics.
Superman??
Die, heretic scum!
Spiderman is the only true superhero!
(and so, it begins...)
You know how Christianity spread throughout the world?
I dunno...
Pooing in space has a well known direction:
Everywhere
Yes.
Yes it does:
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/poop-space-revisited-apollo-10s-floating-turds-pop-44-years-1C9284102
Yo, Kanye! I'm really happy for you... I'ma let you finish... but the U.S. Dollar is one of the best currencies of all time!
One of the best currencies OF ALL TIME!
It's Banksy like "Bank-see" not Bansky like "Ban-ski"
No... I collect art by Bansky. His work has less value because it's an UN-original concept.
I'm get hired for my skills and one of my skills
is clearly not proofreading grammar in the morning.
and i"m detale oriented,
Google hasn't (to my knowledge) black-bagged anyone...
Even if they had, where could you look it up?
Teenagers want and need to find a place of their own, to form their own subculture...
Thank goodness there are still street gangs out there for them to join.
but your data, if you've participated, is permanently written in stone and available
...the data probably isn't all that valuable after a relatively short period of time...
Excellent point.
I seem to get targeted ads based on:
1. Random crap I was surfing that has no relevance to anything I might buy.
2. Actual products I was shopping for, and have already bought, and will not be buying more of.
I don't shop around online for products I regularly buy (e.g. toothpaste), because I already know what I like.
...Do we really need to know when an ex-coworker you had 5 years ago, is AFK to go to the bathroom?
Wait - they can't text from the can?
Luddites.
...my niece...texts people on her phone before she gets out of bed. She's a print and video model in hollywood.
Post pix of her actually texting in bed or we don't believe you.
Back to MySpace we go.
Nah - lets go back to CompuServe. THAT'S full circle.
See you on alt.usenet
Sorry, didn't finish that...
What "really bugs you"?
Facebook is destined to become the Myspace of its time.
As was Myspace the Friendster of its time...
cmon. nobody saying it's right what the NSA did...
Well, one guy did, and he's a U.S. District Court Judge.
"Judge Rules NSA Phone Surveillance Is Legal"
http://www.nationaljournal.com/technology/judge-rules-nsa-phone-surveillance-is-legal-is-a-supreme-court-intervention-inevitable-20131227
We will have to say what the 9 supremes say.
Doyle would never have written a word knowing his heirs would not be able to continue mooching off his work 3 generations later.
Doyle was only making about £500 an installment.
They haven't really "caught up" to us until they have dudes on the moon playing golf and drinking Tang.
curious, how far down do skyscraper footings go?
It depends very much on the type of soil (or rock, or clay, or sand) underneath.
Other factors are: what's around it (footings can spread outward as they go down - like a pyramid); earthquake area/danger; height of the building, number of sub-floors needed.
Sometimes the footing can go deeper than the building is tall above-ground.
In the TED demo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1niFHFIbD0M) the founder specifically mentions crouching as one of the motions. But yeah, nothing about lying down.
I was more curious of simulating uphill/downhill motion, like climbing stairs.
I don't imagine uphill/downhill would be that hard. The Omni could just have three leg/pistons that raise/lower to tilt the platform depending on the direction you're facing.
There are already treadmills that raise and lower the front end to create more incline.
I doubt the Omni could simulate stairs as currently designed, though.
Oog, now that will be a tough one. I suspect the raw sensory input of the Omni is very much like walking around the world in a giant gerbil ball...
They've actually had the 'giant gerbil ball' game system for a while now:
http://www.virtusphere.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtuSphere
I saw this at NextFest a few years ago.
...If you want "mounds of muscle" you are going to have to lift weights...
No reason you couldn't hang progressively larger weights on you hand controller.
He murdered his uncle for political reasons...
...but - tell the truth - around the holidays, haven't you ever felt like killing someone in your family?