Timber [47x100, 47x50, 22x50 - all carcassing unless it's gonna be on show], and sheet material about 1/2" [12mm] or 3/4" [18mm]. It can be shuttering ply [cheap, aka CDX / Construction plywood] or Far-eastern / Brazillian if you want something prettier. Blockboard is also an option. MDF is heavy, Chipboard is weaker but may suffice.
Foam rubber, or your preferred filling. How about bean-bag "beans"? Arse-conformity is a big factor here. When designing, bear in mind that the filling will compress in use and with age.
Covering material, whatever you fancy. I'd go for cheap durable canvas.
Appropriate hardware, mainly nuts+washers+bolts. As for the covering, don't staple/tack/glue it, you'll need to remove it some day. You know... for cleaning!
Hey presto!! A cool, strong, cheap computer chair that will stand as a monument to your geekness and will give you many years of loyal service. You can sort out the beer holder [+cooler?], reading light, keyboard/mouse shelves and whatnot. Hell, bolt on the monitor and you can be sure it's all set up to take the snap, crackle, and pop outta your back!
I've never even owned a friggin game of Tetris, in any form, and now the music is stuck in my head! Thanks. Well, I was thinking of programming my own version anyway. I've just had a totally |33+ idea for it too, but I aint tellin:P
Please peruse the EULA. We all know what fate befell the poor saps who installed the latest MS Media Player! This could be a big winner if apple can show MS up with a few nice blatant ads in with their system ads. Trouble is, sooner or later they'll have the DRM noose around their necks anyway, if not already.
If you don't like something just say "To hell with it!" and opt-out of/castrate it. Just like they did/are doing with the International Criminal Court:
"Well it would leave us open to false accusations by rogue governments!" Well yeah, that's the justice system. Not perfect, but they wouldn't be able to do any harm without any evidence. Oh boy what I'd give to fly over to America, meet Dubya, and say "Hi! I don't recognise your legal system because someone might falsely accuse me of something!" And give him a quick bit of justice upside the head. [Well, the prezel obviously taught him nothing, if indeed it was a prezel. Wouldn't you go get help if you were choking? Hmmm... *strokes chin*]
I imagine I'd still have to be off the scene before you can say "Unocal" though.
The stupendous price of CD's? The price [£16?] is almost pure profit. Get fucked [collective CD distributors]! The same goes for DVDs: £25 a disk? Err...no!
At the end of the day the thing that they just do not realise is that if it can be played it can be copied!
You'd have thought this would have hit them by now...
I'm sticking in a phat I.C.E., laptop/desktop innards [shock dampened], fingerprint regognition [yeah I read the story], webcams, a G.P.S. thingy and an interface to several vital car components. A bit of UNIX Shell scripting/coding later, seeing as I'm doing it at college this year [hopefully]. I'll have the security system MMS me the coordinates, and mugshots of the "fucking stupid soon-to-be-dead" plonkers who think they can steal my motor, and de-activate the ignition, ready for me to pop a glock out the boot and teach them a lesson in Car Security they won't forget!
Errrm, well, anyways, I've yet to see someone really combine a car and a computer. Ignitions on modern cars are usually computer controlled so it's possible, at lest in theory. How about a Tomorrow Never Dies stylee remote controll? I'd add some hidden internal fual pumps and lighters just in case the car was out of range [hell, insurance will cover it;-] and a webserver, just to be 31337.
Ah bollocks maybe I shouldn't post while drunk... but these are things I've seriously considered while Stone Cold Sober(tm)!
When the world seems to shine like you've had too...*THUD*
Frankly I'd rather see industry moves toward reliable solid state mass storage. Mechanical means just don't cut it any more as far as I'm concerned, just take a look at my journal to see the reason for my stance on that matter.
But where would we be without a few conspiracy theories?...
Hard drive manufacturers operate an underground "quality cartel" on desktop grade drives, making people buy more and more, averaging out losses from customers switching brands, pumping up profit.
HD makers are secretly on the take from the R.I.A.A. and M.P.A.A. to make crap drives, meaning all those evil mp3 pirates cannot hoard and share their booty for too long.
The MenIn Dark SuitsWho Do NotExist secretly sift through dumpsites in the dead of night looking for hard drives from which to recover details and evidence of MP3/DVD pirates, terrorists and other criminal activity. And pr0n.
A team with more endurance = a better team. period. Though you're right that there are many other [often more important] factors.
In Brazil football is almost a religion and the training often starts with walking; why waste 4 or 5 good years of potential development?
At the end of the day hi-tech training gives an advantage but not instant wins. I'd bet that a 'tech-trained' athlete could be beaten by a normally trained clone who believed he could beat him, assuming the tech guy didn't have a massive advantage. Gattaca is an great [and unfairly overlooked] movie and illustrates the way I see this situation.
Take, for example, the Four Minute Mile: People did not believe it could be done until a guy achieved it, and from then on many more people managed it. Mohammed Ali truly and sincereley believed he was the greatest, and that gave him the strength to fight to win. He achieved an [AFAIK] unmatched record, although my great great [...] grandfather did manage something similar, albeit without those wussy pussy padded mittens;-)
Ali
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If you cant beat 'em, spend loadsamoney out-teching them.
Whats the frigging point of having impeccably fair races, drugs testing, etc., when countries can do this sort of thing, giving athletes an unfair advantage over poorer nations' competitors? Granted, the results have yet to be seen but I doubt it will make them any worse athletes. The winning seems to count more than the sportsmanship and fairness.
What really fucks me off is that, although I do not use my [web] email very much, my address for logons and stuff i dont trust gets ZERO spam. My private address which I'm very careful with gets spammed quite often, usually @netscape.net addresses. Nothing like poor defenceless Rob, but annoying nonetheless. I've blocked the ones asking me to fight for Al Q'aieda, the address is static for those.
The "Complex Hominid Tree" is nice, and clear, even though most people would not have heard of many of the Hominids. But even as a layman I can see it misses out Politicians and Lawyers.
On a more serious note, seeing as a human being has already been cloned, would it be too much to expect a clone of this guy or girl? It would only take a tiny amount of good DNA... If it survived.
Corporations are patenting human genes as they find them, without even knowing what they do. Hence, any gene-related answers found by "open source" methods of research are pretty much screwed if theres a related patent. Just take a look at this for an example of how that method of profiteering already works, albeit for M$ vs OpenGL.
You know, I'm pretty sure I heard an American (!!!) president say something to the tune of "The human genome belongs to the human race!"... Hmmm, nevermind.
Tea is good and refreshing, I like mine with no milk and a slice of lemon. Too much coffee gets me feelin crappy after a while. Water is cleansing, but sometimes boring, but I guess that's only a problem if your job is boring.
The ideal vending machine for me would be where I could make up my own recipe. Most soft drinks served in bars are usually just concentrates and carbonated water mixed in the nozzle, meaning only 1 large pipe is needed, and several small ones for the concentrates.
I'd have a machine with a choice of coffee, tea, carbonated/still water, mineral water, caffiene solution [in 100 mg increments, up to a safe maximum of 500mg], several fruit flavours, cola, spirit shots [25ml, 3 per drink, max], and beers. Add a simple touchscreen interface, and you got yourself the coolest vending machine in the world! Many ingredients would take up relativeley little space. If the water could be taken from the main pipe and carbonated in the machine, then the machine can be pretty small, or can be made to accomodate
a good selection of other drinks such as Bawls, various bitch pisses [Metz, Breesers, Reefs, Archers etc...], and/or whatever.
Naturally, it will run embedded Linux and Apache to provide drink statistisc on the intranet, saving wasted trips and allowing prompt re-stocking. But beware the boss who sticks in a webcam!
The president of America has moved his troops into some wasteland adjoining Pakistan. In the 90s it was a developing but thriving economy and society, and the soviet union attempted to move there and proclaim it theirs. The soviet's were repelled with the help of arms gifts from America. The wasteland's nation status is unclear, but this hasn't stopped the president setting up their military bases, by pure coincidence along the ideal route for an oil pipeline.
Hey this could be really cool if some people got together and bought their own islands. Imagine the Island Of...
Slashdot: The holiday 'season' is 1 week in the middle of June, when the entire Island's population pick one resort to visit, usually woefully underequipped to handle such huge numbers of visitors at one time.
AOL: Inhabitants have a universal reputation for stupidity and ignorance throughout the educated world. In some areas of the Island, the populace are crammed into too few homes, often evicted and having to rehome themselves while still happily paying the extortionate taxes.
Microsoft: All properties are rented by a per-inhabitant rental fee. Island troopers often check in just to make sure they are collecting rent for each and every person in a given house. Also, they will check in if too many modifications are made to the house. Breakins are quite frequent due to the houses insecure construction, but this still does not motivate many inhabitants to move elsewhere. The government is habitually reluctant to address these issues. America's N.S.A has a master key to all houses, but this is not wideley known, and still denied in the face of clear evedence.
Enron: Formerly a thriving island, and a much sought-after destination due to the government publicising it's virtues. They were lying, the geological surveyors were on the take. The island turned out to be a volcano but by the time the populace knew, it was a bit bloody late...
Erm yeah like I'm gonna sit and let Napster read and MD5 all 5 gigs of mp3 files, which are different for each encoder, and can be hex edied to screw the MD5.
And I have a little feeling other people are gonna think likewise.
This is yet another example of Companie$ wanting to controll the uncontrollable, but lacking a complete understanding of what they are dealing with.
"Know your enemy" They dont...
The record companies are of course entitled to try to stifle the illegal distribution of their property, that I agree with. This post is meant as an observation of the futility of their efforts.
Oh and yes I admit I am a pirate, I dont care.
Ali
-------- Pirates are bad... but they have the rum. --------
A pretty dumb and unworkable request to say the least.
People could just rename stuff to get around it, Dr Dre -> Dr Dray or whatever. Although I think it was sensible of him not to go about shoving lawsuits up peoples arses, as seems to be an obsession for some people.
And besides, now that I can listen to bands before I buy, I actually buy more CD's. I'm sure I'm not the only one who does this.
MP3 and similar technologies are, as many people point out, the future and not the nemesis of the recording industry. Though there will always be a market for CD's / Audio DVD for people after the higher quality.
Ali
------ If the only internet you are presented with is AOL, then AOL is the internet. ------
It sucks because it means that mp3's cannot be transferred to a mates PC, which would be rather cool, if probably a little illegal.
"...I can't imagine the firmware staying un-hacked for long..."
Damn right! Sooner or later [probably sooner], just like DVD, it will be cracked/circumvented/reverse-engineered or whatever, *but*... I do not believe that the makers of the player will have a lawsuit brought against them, since they took reasonable steps to prevent it, and somebody totally unconnected with them was smart enough to get round it.
Any lawsuit would die on its arse for at least the folowing reasons:
> They didnt crack it, they tried to prevent it.
> Who even thought of filing a lawsuit against DVD, which was cracked with ease and wasnt even as well protected as it could have been?
> Hey, while we're at it, there are other things we could use to transferr MP£'s [amongst other things] so why dont we go sue the shit outta the makers of Zip drives, CDR's, Jaz drives, removable HD racks, Tape drives, DAT drives.......
So, thats my piece said, lets hope it gets over here [UK] soon and its a little cheaper.
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I was in Maccy D's a few weeks ago and 'Golden Brown' (Lyrics) was playing, during early afternoon, plenty of kids around.
For those that don't know, 'Golden Brown' = heroin.
Ali
- Timber [47x100, 47x50, 22x50 - all carcassing unless it's gonna be on show], and sheet material about 1/2" [12mm] or 3/4" [18mm]. It can be shuttering ply [cheap, aka CDX / Construction plywood] or Far-eastern / Brazillian if you want something prettier. Blockboard is also an option. MDF is heavy, Chipboard is weaker but may suffice.
- Foam rubber, or your preferred filling. How about bean-bag "beans"? Arse-conformity is a big factor here. When designing, bear in mind that the filling will compress in use and with age.
- Covering material, whatever you fancy. I'd go for cheap durable canvas.
- Appropriate hardware, mainly nuts+washers+bolts. As for the covering, don't staple/tack/glue it, you'll need to remove it some day. You know... for cleaning!
Hey presto!! A cool, strong, cheap computer chair that will stand as a monument to your geekness and will give you many years of loyal service. You can sort out the beer holder [+cooler?], reading light, keyboard/mouse shelves and whatnot. Hell, bolt on the monitor and you can be sure it's all set up to take the snap, crackle, and pop outta your back!Ali
I've never even owned a friggin game of Tetris, in any form, and now the music is stuck in my head! Thanks. Well, I was thinking of programming my own version anyway. I've just had a totally |33+ idea for it too, but I aint tellin
Here, this may ease your cravings: http://www.kohina.com/ Enjoy! ;-)
Ali
Please peruse the EULA. We all know what fate befell the poor saps who installed the latest MS Media Player! This could be a big winner if apple can show MS up with a few nice blatant ads in with their system ads. Trouble is, sooner or later they'll have the DRM noose around their necks anyway, if not already.
Ali
If you don't like something just say "To hell with it!" and opt-out of/castrate it. Just like they did/are doing with the International Criminal Court:
"Well it would leave us open to false accusations by rogue governments!" Well yeah, that's the justice system. Not perfect, but they wouldn't be able to do any harm without any evidence. Oh boy what I'd give to fly over to America, meet Dubya, and say "Hi! I don't recognise your legal system because someone might falsely accuse me of something!" And give him a quick bit of justice upside the head. [Well, the prezel obviously taught him nothing, if indeed it was a prezel. Wouldn't you go get help if you were choking? Hmmm... *strokes chin*]
I imagine I'd still have to be off the scene before you can say "Unocal" though.
Ali
If you're not an electrical engineer or trained technician with experience with such voltages, do not attempt this for yourself.
And reads...
Might wanna be careful where you put your fingers, mmmkay?
Perhaps now would be a good time for taco to lower the the time threshold on dormant account termination.
Ali
The stupendous price of CD's? The price [£16?] is almost pure profit. Get fucked [collective CD distributors]! The same goes for DVDs: £25 a disk? Err...no!
At the end of the day the thing that they just do not realise is that if it can be played it can be copied!
You'd have thought this would have hit them by now...
Ali
The cute-but-evil-looking white longhaired cat!!
Gawd...
Ali
I'm sticking in a phat I.C.E., laptop/desktop innards [shock dampened], fingerprint regognition [yeah I read the story], webcams, a G.P.S. thingy and an interface to several vital car components. A bit of UNIX Shell scripting/coding later, seeing as I'm doing it at college this year [hopefully]. I'll have the security system MMS me the coordinates, and mugshots of the "fucking stupid soon-to-be-dead" plonkers who think they can steal my motor, and de-activate the ignition, ready for me to pop a glock out the boot and teach them a lesson in Car Security they won't forget!
Errrm, well, anyways, I've yet to see someone really combine a car and a computer. Ignitions on modern cars are usually computer controlled so it's possible, at lest in theory. How about a Tomorrow Never Dies stylee remote controll? I'd add some hidden internal fual pumps and lighters just in case the car was out of range [hell, insurance will cover it ;-] and a webserver, just to be 31337.
Ah bollocks maybe I shouldn't post while drunk... but these are things I've seriously considered while Stone Cold Sober(tm)!
When the world seems to shine like you've had too...*THUD*
Ali
Heres a paper on TCPA / Palladium for your viewing pleasure, and The Register has a good collection of articles on CPRM on ATA.
Frankly I'd rather see industry moves toward reliable solid state mass storage. Mechanical means just don't cut it any more as far as I'm concerned, just take a look at my journal to see the reason for my stance on that matter.
But where would we be without a few conspiracy theories?...
Ali
A team with more endurance = a better team. period. Though you're right that there are many other [often more important] factors.
In Brazil football is almost a religion and the training often starts with walking; why waste 4 or 5 good years of potential development?
At the end of the day hi-tech training gives an advantage but not instant wins. I'd bet that a 'tech-trained' athlete could be beaten by a normally trained clone who believed he could beat him, assuming the tech guy didn't have a massive advantage. Gattaca is an great [and unfairly overlooked] movie and illustrates the way I see this situation.
Take, for example, the Four Minute Mile: People did not believe it could be done until a guy achieved it, and from then on many more people managed it. Mohammed Ali truly and sincereley believed he was the greatest, and that gave him the strength to fight to win. He achieved an [AFAIK] unmatched record, although my great great [...] grandfather did manage something similar, albeit without those wussy pussy padded mittens ;-)
Ali
If you cant beat 'em, spend loadsamoney out-teching them.
Whats the frigging point of having impeccably fair races, drugs testing, etc., when countries can do this sort of thing, giving athletes an unfair advantage over poorer nations' competitors? Granted, the results have yet to be seen but I doubt it will make them any worse athletes. The winning seems to count more than the sportsmanship and fairness.
A bit like U.S. foreign policy, then :-|
Ali
Laser diodes used in CD drives and whatnot are similar in principle, but the construction is somewhat different.
Here's the construction of one by Sharp, and an explanation of how they work.
Ali
What really fucks me off is that, although I do not use my [web] email very much, my address for logons and stuff i dont trust gets ZERO spam. My private address which I'm very careful with gets spammed quite often, usually @netscape.net addresses. Nothing like poor defenceless Rob, but annoying nonetheless. I've blocked the ones asking me to fight for Al Q'aieda, the address is static for those.
Ali
The "Complex Hominid Tree" is nice, and clear, even though most people would not have heard of many of the Hominids. But even as a layman I can see it misses out Politicians and Lawyers.
On a more serious note, seeing as a human being has already been cloned, would it be too much to expect a clone of this guy or girl? It would only take a tiny amount of good DNA... If it survived.
Ali
Corporations are patenting human genes as they find them, without even knowing what they do. Hence, any gene-related answers found by "open source" methods of research are pretty much screwed if theres a related patent. Just take a look at this for an example of how that method of profiteering already works, albeit for M$ vs OpenGL.
You know, I'm pretty sure I heard an American (!!!) president say something to the tune of "The human genome belongs to the human race!"... Hmmm, nevermind.
Ali
Tea is good and refreshing, I like mine with no milk and a slice of lemon. Too much coffee gets me feelin crappy after a while. Water is cleansing, but sometimes boring, but I guess that's only a problem if your job is boring.
The ideal vending machine for me would be where I could make up my own recipe. Most soft drinks served in bars are usually just concentrates and carbonated water mixed in the nozzle, meaning only 1 large pipe is needed, and several small ones for the concentrates.
I'd have a machine with a choice of coffee, tea, carbonated/still water, mineral water, caffiene solution [in 100 mg increments, up to a safe maximum of 500mg], several fruit flavours, cola, spirit shots [25ml, 3 per drink, max], and beers. Add a simple touchscreen interface, and you got yourself the coolest vending machine in the world! Many ingredients would take up relativeley little space. If the water could be taken from the main pipe and carbonated in the machine, then the machine can be pretty small, or can be made to accomodate a good selection of other drinks such as Bawls, various bitch pisses [Metz, Breesers, Reefs, Archers etc...], and/or whatever.
Naturally, it will run embedded Linux and Apache to provide drink statistisc on the intranet, saving wasted trips and allowing prompt re-stocking. But beware the boss who sticks in a webcam!
Comments invited... How about a casemod? ;-)
Ali
The president of America has moved his troops into some wasteland adjoining Pakistan. In the 90s it was a developing but thriving economy and society, and the soviet union attempted to move there and proclaim it theirs. The soviet's were repelled with the help of arms gifts from America. The wasteland's nation status is unclear, but this hasn't stopped the president setting up their military bases, by pure coincidence along the ideal route for an oil pipeline.
Hey this could be really cool if some people got together and bought their own islands. Imagine the Island Of...
Hmmm... I think some accessories would be wise, no?
Erm yeah like I'm gonna sit and let Napster read and MD5 all 5 gigs of mp3 files, which are different for each encoder, and can be hex edied to screw the MD5.
And I have a little feeling other people are gonna think likewise.
This is yet another example of Companie$ wanting to controll the uncontrollable, but lacking a complete understanding of what they are dealing with.
"Know your enemy" They dont...
The record companies are of course entitled to try to stifle the illegal distribution of their property, that I agree with. This post is meant as an observation of the futility of their efforts.
Oh and yes I admit I am a pirate, I dont care.
Ali
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Pirates are bad... but they have the rum.
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A pretty dumb and unworkable request to say the least.
People could just rename stuff to get around it, Dr Dre -> Dr Dray or whatever. Although I think it was sensible of him not to go about shoving lawsuits up peoples arses, as seems to be an obsession for some people.
And besides, now that I can listen to bands before I buy, I actually buy more CD's. I'm sure I'm not the only one who does this.
MP3 and similar technologies are, as many people point out, the future and not the nemesis of the recording industry. Though there will always be a market for CD's / Audio DVD for people after the higher quality.
Ali
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If the only internet you are presented with is AOL, then AOL is the internet.
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It sucks because it means that mp3's cannot be transferred to a mates PC, which would be rather cool, if probably a little illegal.
"...I can't imagine the firmware staying un-hacked for long..."
Damn right! Sooner or later [probably sooner], just like DVD, it will be cracked/circumvented/reverse-engineered or whatever, *but*... I do not believe that the makers of the player will have a lawsuit brought against them, since they took reasonable steps to prevent it, and somebody totally unconnected with them was smart enough to get round it.
Any lawsuit would die on its arse for at least the folowing reasons:
> They didnt crack it, they tried to prevent it.
> Who even thought of filing a lawsuit against DVD, which was cracked with ease and wasnt even as well protected as it could have been?
> Hey, while we're at it, there are other things we could use to transferr MP£'s [amongst other things] so why dont we go sue the shit outta the makers of Zip drives, CDR's, Jaz drives, removable HD racks, Tape drives, DAT drives.......
So, thats my piece said, lets hope it gets over here [UK] soon and its a little cheaper.