I've been to churches that play the superbowl on a projector. The first time they thought it to be a bright idea to switch off the projector during the commercials and have mini sermons during the breaks and during half time.
The next year the youth pastor wanted to focus on the commercials and had some sermon about the commercials themselves. The following years they didnt even bother with anything but the half time show was switched off for a sermon.
I have a set of bluetake stereo bluetooth headphones which work in stereo music mode and also in celluar mode mic included. Tho I havent tried the functionality with a cell phone with both music and cell, it will connect to two separate devices like my psp with bluetooth adapter for music 'n gaming and will also connect to a bluetooth cell phone for calls. Just hit the button on the side to switch from one to the other.
Ditto on the not willing to reproduce on account that public schools in general are degrading to crap and I cant afford to put a child into some real schooling.
Children are very much unbridled evil when left unsupervised simply because they can get away with a lot of things before they reach legal age in which any action they partake becomes their responsibility and their accountability, not someone else's. A lot of bad things children will do go unaccounted for and unpunished now. I can't completely protect my offspring from someone else's child that never gets proper accountability and punishment.
Just visit any Walmart or department store, you will find kids running amok, stealing and destroying things because they are not at home, not supervised even amongst other customers. Most customers who spot a child doing bad things wont say anything except, "Not my child."
Then we have the same unsupervised children getting hush money or allowances or gimmie daddy bucks who go out and buy other unsuitable things for themselves often without their parents knowing what they buy.
I remember from my time at walmart that they do not sell anything over pg-13 or over esrb E to minors. Though, it is simply a programming of the registers to prompt the cashier. The cashier isn't accounted for or tested for correctly checking id and answering the prompt favorably. There is no law enforcing non-sale of mature rated content to minors.
Now beer, liquor and tobacco on the other hand, there's law enforced on it. Cashiers have accountability, they are tested and they will get fined if they slip up and are caught. The last part is the tough one, how can they exactly get caught if the transaction is a normal non-test case that they oops, let things go through and sell?
Turbines are out due to their maintenece requirements. The things spin up at high rates of speed. Jet turbines are under service all the time. The blades on jets are titanium, the ring surrounding the turbine is designed to take a hit from a lost turbine blade in order to protect passengers and possibly keep a lost blade from becoming evil crashing object above. The same blades are tested repeatily to take a hit from random airborne objects, duck flambe anyone?
Who would want Joe User driving a vehicle with a turbine engine in it that could suck up a rock and explode with such force taking out the cars around him just because he didnt keep the grill on. Or say Joe User neglects to service his bearings properly and the entire rotating system decides to sieze and break away rocketing forward or exploding while fuel is still being dumped into the firing chamber.
I prefer the init.conf setting for alt control delete while on console..
I switched it from reboot to shutdown. Just flip to a console and hit alt control delte. If I really need a reboot I could just hit alt control delete again right before the system turns off.
Look for a real lighting board. Most have computer links via serial and run from a dos based screen to display scene advances, programming and control.
Back in my old high school, my last year in drama (SR year) we got a hold of a light board that accepted programming from a serial pc. We used a lunchbox 286 with a monochrome screen non productionally. When it came down to the real production we just used the boards programmable scenes or winged it ourselves. I cant remember the unit brand we used but it also had a pcima slot for adding flash memory pcima cards (the years before flash came in those handy little smart media size and compact flash sizes) for storing scene data and other selections.
We never got really into the board as we were SR's in the school and the school was going to be renovated the next year for 6th and 7th graders. Its a shame we didnt have some real time to play with the thing. Our light pack only handled 12 channels and that thing was a clunker. 2 of the voice coils sang out loud but otherwise it functioned as long as the DMX card didnt get damaged.
God I miss being a theatre tech geek! At least I still get to twiddle with sound boards every now and then and cheapie dj lightboards for small concerts.
Oi I loved my old cell phone with wap. I could check the weather for the day to make a hard fast decision on putting freight outside the warehouse for sorting into shipping containers or not. If I was lost I could goto yahoo and input my location and my destination and get returned a turn by turn deck (a series of pages that can be paged through yet not incurr another network access, therefore allow you to hang up the wap function and just read the turn by turn as you drive)
I have the same keyboard.. I found a little a plugin for xmms that works with multimedia keyboards such as the one you described. I searched thru freshmeat for the term logitech itouch that is the name of an older version of the keyboard.
On redhat 9 the scroll wheel works automagically. The extra buttons can be caught by X if you want to go to the trouble of binding to them.
I have had 2 cells.. the thing I hate most about them is the battery life. Thankfully my 2nd cell has a lithium battery and can be charged any time, though once a week I let it discharge till the cell alarms it is at low battery and charge it again.
The cell I have unfortunately is put together quite badly. The mic, earphone and ringer peices are not soldered in, they are incased in the case plastic and hit the pcb with contacts except the ringer.
The freaking ringer is not mounted on anything! The ringer randomly fails to work. I have the thing set on vibrate-ring so it vibrates twice then rings, but i set the ring to a alternating 3 full notes and full note rests (quite easy to ignore during a live conversation). The funky ringer speaker wouldnt bother me so much if the clock alarms would vibrate, but the dont, they only ring through the ringer speaker.
The ultimate hated thing though would have to be batteries. I have had trouble out of batteries and chargers everywhere. My mother's SUV, my cell, the propane-forklift at work, flashlights, my PDA.
My computer's UPS battery blew up once when the controlling curcuits shorted the battery. Fortunately I heard the battery venting and investigated, disconnected power and ran the unit outside to disassemble and yank the battery cables.
Some idiot at work ran the electric forklift battery all the way down and popped the fuse on the internal charger requiring a service call, putting my most important indoor forklift out of commission for 2 days over a weekend before the holidays. The operators of our manlifts never put them back on charge when required.
If someone could port over that new 15 min charging AA technology to heavy lift equipment (probably not viable) they would be creating gold in my eyes possibly fixing all my battery troubles at work.
My brother is constantly on the phone with his girlfriend and forgets what he is doing online. He tends to barracade the cat in his room to play with her while hes talking on the phone or playing on the computer. I logged off Ymessenger last night and I heard this loud laugh. My brother came in and said that when I logged off yahoo, the sound his messenger made (a door closing) caused the cat to attack the computer beating at the keyboard as she was sitting beside the laptop.
OMG, thanks for that "hack" link. I have an old Fisher multiregion dvd player that would refuse to play region 1 dvds that were locked into single region players only. The hack I found in that site has renewed the use of my old dvd player.
You know, the learning curve of learning to drive a standard forklift isnt much higher than driving a car. Most forklifts are AT, with a 3rd pedal that acts like a clutch/brake combo.. then you just have 3 hydrolic levers to contend with shifting loads. I have no problem driving forklifts pallet jacks and pallet stackers, the former two employ a tow stick style steering and the final one employs trigger throttle control and drop the stick braking. You could 180 any 3 of these machines easily placing pivot point at near center between the nonsteer wheels (meaning almost spin in place ability).
Now you guys should see the forklift at a metal shop I recently heard about. It can drive sideways as well as forward/reverse. Im told the guy just engages a switch and it changes to sidways movement.
The system described in the article would be interesting if applied to forklift situations, Load leveling, capable of side movement and 180 in place is really needed in small warehouses and shipping docks.
If I remember correctly: Higher voltage = less amperage required = smaller lines required and a plus is you can trasmit further
the reverse is true but sad.
This is the reason why the automotive industry is talking about start/geneorator systems running charge voltage at 24 volts or more. They know we are operating more crap on our vehicles. More uber internal and external lighting, dvd players, tv screens, cell phones, gps, stereos (big power sucker there)
Walmart already has their own isp.. $9.94 a month..
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.gsp?cat=1 03 468&path=0%3A103468 Though the access terms are kinda funny. They say first month free, 700 hours free then go on to say unlimited email and internet access.
Can It defend itself like marvin did against the tank? "Guess what weapons I have!"
And when will we have a floating robot like Colin? Especially one that can take the weight of an average human and save him from falling from a 30+ story highrise building of a publishing company.
I got lucky, I have a 2001 toyota corolla. Standard din sized radio was in there. 2 months after purchase I sat down and figured out how to remove the cluster panel and removed the crappy tape deck and put in my trusty cd player which was in my last truck.
Im thinking it's time for a new radio. People that ride with me dont know how to operate my radio as the lettering on the radio is all rubbed off. They tend to end up changing the cd track or radio station while trying to turn up the volume.
Being an "Inventory Specialist" for a walmart store I want enough rfid tags to put on every pallet in the store. From there, I want to create a database which I log in the rifd tag and the barcodes and contents of the pallet, then shrink wrap and slot the pallet for retreival 2 weeks to 2 months later. Now I dont really require an exact count of everything on said pallet (I would be stupid to wish that as things fall off, are removed, ripped off, stocked, trashed, destroyed, etc). I just want to know generally where the heck things are better than I do now.
Currently my mornings include a 15 min walk in which I take a mental note of where certain bulk items are on the floor, then what bulk items are in lofts.
At any random moment I could have a department manager call me, or walk up and ask where they could find such and such item, Bulk, feature, or just regular freight and I have to remember where I have seen it. I have a photogenic memory, but it's memory.. I can remember where an object was a month ago, but between now and then it has been moved by some hapless nutcase with a forklift key.
If I had rfid tags on every pallet, spend 30 seconds per pallet to collect pallet id, contents and last known location while moving the pallet from one side of the warehouse to its resting place--be it, loft space, bin space, floor space, container or sales floor--I would be able to look up a last known location, then just start doing a rfid tag sweep from there to find the pallet and hopefully it's contents. I would probably save 2 hours every day.
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I've been to churches that play the superbowl on a projector. The first time they thought it to be a bright idea to switch off the projector during the commercials and have mini sermons during the breaks and during half time.
The next year the youth pastor wanted to focus on the commercials and had some sermon about the commercials themselves. The following years they didnt even bother with anything but the half time show was switched off for a sermon.
I have a set of bluetake stereo bluetooth headphones which work in stereo music mode and also in celluar mode mic included. Tho I havent tried the functionality with a cell phone with both music and cell, it will connect to two separate devices like my psp with bluetooth adapter for music 'n gaming and will also connect to a bluetooth cell phone for calls. Just hit the button on the side to switch from one to the other.
Ditto on the not willing to reproduce on account that public schools in general are degrading to crap and I cant afford to put a child into some real schooling.
Children are very much unbridled evil when left unsupervised simply because they can get away with a lot of things before they reach legal age in which any action they partake becomes their responsibility and their accountability, not someone else's. A lot of bad things children will do go unaccounted for and unpunished now. I can't completely protect my offspring from someone else's child that never gets proper accountability and punishment.
Just visit any Walmart or department store, you will find kids running amok, stealing and destroying things because they are not at home, not supervised even amongst other customers. Most customers who spot a child doing bad things wont say anything except, "Not my child."
Then we have the same unsupervised children getting hush money or allowances or gimmie daddy bucks who go out and buy other unsuitable things for themselves often without their parents knowing what they buy.
I remember from my time at walmart that they do not sell anything over pg-13 or over esrb E to minors. Though, it is simply a programming of the registers to prompt the cashier. The cashier isn't accounted for or tested for correctly checking id and answering the prompt favorably. There is no law enforcing non-sale of mature rated content to minors.
Now beer, liquor and tobacco on the other hand, there's law enforced on it. Cashiers have accountability, they are tested and they will get fined if they slip up and are caught. The last part is the tough one, how can they exactly get caught if the transaction is a normal non-test case that they oops, let things go through and sell?
Only 300 bucks from tiger direct's catalog this month.
l s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1829799&Sku=H529-0002
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchToo
I second that one!
Tho, painting a few random houses with dragons on top might be interesting.
Turbines are out due to their maintenece requirements. The things spin up at high rates of speed. Jet turbines are under service all the time. The blades on jets are titanium, the ring surrounding the turbine is designed to take a hit from a lost turbine blade in order to protect passengers and possibly keep a lost blade from becoming evil crashing object above. The same blades are tested repeatily to take a hit from random airborne objects, duck flambe anyone?
Who would want Joe User driving a vehicle with a turbine engine in it that could suck up a rock and explode with such force taking out the cars around him just because he didnt keep the grill on. Or say Joe User neglects to service his bearings properly and the entire rotating system decides to sieze and break away rocketing forward or exploding while fuel is still being dumped into the firing chamber.
Bluetooth. Just sync up a ear danglers for headphone+mic. Sync up stereo headphones for mp3 playing, sync up any bluetooth camera.
Id likely get one or two.
Draco
This year in Houston, Tx I was making jokes about it being August 78th in October till it finally cooled off a little bit.
Boost mobile has an application, telenav that does the same exact thing.
I prefer the init.conf setting for alt control delete while on console..
I switched it from reboot to shutdown. Just flip to a console and hit alt control delte. If I really need a reboot I could just hit alt control delete again right before the system turns off.
Look for a real lighting board. Most have computer links via serial and run from a dos based screen to display scene advances, programming and control.
Back in my old high school, my last year in drama (SR year) we got a hold of a light board that accepted programming from a serial pc. We used a lunchbox 286 with a monochrome screen non productionally. When it came down to the real production we just used the boards programmable scenes or winged it ourselves. I cant remember the unit brand we used but it also had a pcima slot for adding flash memory pcima cards (the years before flash came in those handy little smart media size and compact flash sizes) for storing scene data and other selections.
We never got really into the board as we were SR's in the school and the school was going to be renovated the next year for 6th and 7th graders. Its a shame we didnt have some real time to play with the thing. Our light pack only handled 12 channels and that thing was a clunker. 2 of the voice coils sang out loud but otherwise it functioned as long as the DMX card didnt get damaged.
God I miss being a theatre tech geek! At least I still get to twiddle with sound boards every now and then and cheapie dj lightboards for small concerts.
DRACO-
Oi I loved my old cell phone with wap. I could check the weather for the day to make a hard fast decision on putting freight outside the warehouse for sorting into shipping containers or not. If I was lost I could goto yahoo and input my location and my destination and get returned a turn by turn deck (a series of pages that can be paged through yet not incurr another network access, therefore allow you to hang up the wap function and just read the turn by turn as you drive)
DRACO-
The first link is incorrect. It just leads to some depressed server that couldnt even find it's 404.
See for yourself.
DRACO-
Well if the human was given the chance to read the body text as well like the filters do, then they would be 100% able to delete their own spam.
DRACO-
I have the same keyboard.. I found a little a plugin for xmms that works with multimedia keyboards such as the one you described. I searched thru freshmeat for the term logitech itouch that is the name of an older version of the keyboard.
On redhat 9 the scroll wheel works automagically. The extra buttons can be caught by X if you want to go to the trouble of binding to them.
DRACO-
I have had 2 cells.. the thing I hate most about them is the battery life. Thankfully my 2nd cell has a lithium battery and can be charged any time, though once a week I let it discharge till the cell alarms it is at low battery and charge it again.
The cell I have unfortunately is put together quite badly. The mic, earphone and ringer peices are not soldered in, they are incased in the case plastic and hit the pcb with contacts except the ringer.
The freaking ringer is not mounted on anything! The ringer randomly fails to work. I have the thing set on vibrate-ring so it vibrates twice then rings, but i set the ring to a alternating 3 full notes and full note rests (quite easy to ignore during a live conversation). The funky ringer speaker wouldnt bother me so much if the clock alarms would vibrate, but the dont, they only ring through the ringer speaker.
The ultimate hated thing though would have to be batteries. I have had trouble out of batteries and chargers everywhere. My mother's SUV, my cell, the propane-forklift at work, flashlights, my PDA.
My computer's UPS battery blew up once when the controlling curcuits shorted the battery. Fortunately I heard the battery venting and investigated, disconnected power and ran the unit outside to disassemble and yank the battery cables.
Some idiot at work ran the electric forklift battery all the way down and popped the fuse on the internal charger requiring a service call, putting my most important indoor forklift out of commission for 2 days over a weekend before the holidays. The operators of our manlifts never put them back on charge when required.
If someone could port over that new 15 min charging AA technology to heavy lift equipment (probably not viable) they would be creating gold in my eyes possibly fixing all my battery troubles at work.
DRACO-
My brother is constantly on the phone with his girlfriend and forgets what he is doing online. He tends to barracade the cat in his room to play with her while hes talking on the phone or playing on the computer. I logged off Ymessenger last night and I heard this loud laugh. My brother came in and said that when I logged off yahoo, the sound his messenger made (a door closing) caused the cat to attack the computer beating at the keyboard as she was sitting beside the laptop.
Funny, I wish it was on tape.
DRACO-
OMG, thanks for that "hack" link. I have an old Fisher multiregion dvd player that would refuse to play region 1 dvds that were locked into single region players only. The hack I found in that site has renewed the use of my old dvd player.
DRACO-
You know, the learning curve of learning to drive a standard forklift isnt much higher than driving a car. Most forklifts are AT, with a 3rd pedal that acts like a clutch/brake combo.. then you just have 3 hydrolic levers to contend with shifting loads. I have no problem driving forklifts pallet jacks and pallet stackers, the former two employ a tow stick style steering and the final one employs trigger throttle control and drop the stick braking. You could 180 any 3 of these machines easily placing pivot point at near center between the nonsteer wheels (meaning almost spin in place ability).
Now you guys should see the forklift at a metal shop I recently heard about. It can drive sideways as well as forward/reverse. Im told the guy just engages a switch and it changes to sidways movement.
The system described in the article would be interesting if applied to forklift situations, Load leveling, capable of side movement and 180 in place is really needed in small warehouses and shipping docks.
DRACO-
Math:..
If I remember correctly:
Higher voltage = less amperage required = smaller lines required and a plus is you can trasmit further
the reverse is true but sad.
This is the reason why the automotive industry is talking about start/geneorator systems running charge voltage at 24 volts or more. They know we are operating more crap on our vehicles. More uber internal and external lighting, dvd players, tv screens, cell phones, gps, stereos (big power sucker there)
DRACO-
Walmart already has their own isp..
1 03 468&path=0%3A103468
$9.94 a month..
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.gsp?cat=
Though the access terms are kinda funny. They say first month free, 700 hours free then go on to say unlimited email and internet access.
Needs some clarity.
DRACO-
Can It defend itself like marvin did against the tank? "Guess what weapons I have!"
And when will we have a floating robot like Colin? Especially one that can take the weight of an average human and save him from falling from a 30+ story highrise building of a publishing company.
DRACO-
I got lucky, I have a 2001 toyota corolla. Standard din sized radio was in there. 2 months after purchase I sat down and figured out how to remove the cluster panel and removed the crappy tape deck and put in my trusty cd player which was in my last truck.
Im thinking it's time for a new radio. People that ride with me dont know how to operate my radio as the lettering on the radio is all rubbed off. They tend to end up changing the cd track or radio station while trying to turn up the volume.
DRACO-
Being an "Inventory Specialist" for a walmart store I want enough rfid tags to put on every pallet in the store. From there, I want to create a database which I log in the rifd tag and the barcodes and contents of the pallet, then shrink wrap and slot the pallet for retreival 2 weeks to 2 months later. Now I dont really require an exact count of everything on said pallet (I would be stupid to wish that as things fall off, are removed, ripped off, stocked, trashed, destroyed, etc). I just want to know generally where the heck things are better than I do now.
Currently my mornings include a 15 min walk in which I take a mental note of where certain bulk items are on the floor, then what bulk items are in lofts.
At any random moment I could have a department manager call me, or walk up and ask where they could find such and such item, Bulk, feature, or just regular freight and I have to remember where I have seen it. I have a photogenic memory, but it's memory.. I can remember where an object was a month ago, but between now and then it has been moved by some hapless nutcase with a forklift key.
If I had rfid tags on every pallet, spend 30 seconds per pallet to collect pallet id, contents and last known location while moving the pallet from one side of the warehouse to its resting place--be it, loft space, bin space, floor space, container or sales floor--I would be able to look up a last known location, then just start doing a rfid tag sweep from there to find the pallet and hopefully it's contents. I would probably save 2 hours every day.
DRACO-
Lol, while reading this, I was thinking I bet this guy is from Houston.
DRACO-