The one I made used a "single-use" film camera. It turned out that with a little care, I could reload it with a higher-resolution (extremely fine grain Tech Pan) film plenty of times.
I made a frame out of balsa and spruce that the camera slid into. Mounted on the frame was a small servo. I had it rigged so that a full throw in one direction would trip the shutter. Moving the control back and forth near the other end of travel would move a pawl back and forth over the film-advance wheel. I could load it with over 40 exposures.
If you don't have a servo, and the radios, then that blows the budget. But many geeks have them laying around in a crashed plane. So not counting the cost of that equipment, the budget would be well under US$15. And even if the baloon burst, the radio and servo were pretty tough (designed to be in things that crash).
The "gay" ringtones can be replaced by other downloadable ringtones.
They just released v2 of their SDK. Their development network is expected to be up RealSoonNow. Many users feel that an ssh client would be very useful; I'd expect an open one to be developed sometime this summer (my guess).
I didn't even want a cel phone until this came out. But that functionality allowed me to tell AT&T to piss off. I'd say its not for the guy who is always on the phone, but AIM and email from most anywhere rocks. Until I lost it, I was using it with a Jabra Bluetooth headset. Solves the problem of feeling like you are talking into a bar of soap.
Now if I could just get it in a shoephone form factor...
I refuse to install flash6. I'd say that more than half the popup/under ads I run into want to install Flash6. Click no: bye. No bandwidth-sucking, resource-slurping unwanted advertisements. Yet very few flash-enabled sites require v6. Many will serve a v5 swf.
And I agree with the parent. How many flash-enabled sites have a 'skip_intro' link. Hello, if that many people want to get to the meat and ignore the gimcracks, why pay to author that junk ?
Hey,/. editors: How about an interview with Ani on this topic ? She is outspoken, articulate, and unconventional. I'd like to read about what makes her _Righteous Babe_ label WORK.
This article details a tragic incident involving monkeys and vaxen. Here's an excerpt to help you decide if its worth reading:
'Well, diagnostics for disk drives are designed to shake up the equipment. But monkey brains are not designed to handle the electrical signals they
received. You can imagine the convulsions that resulted. Two of the monkeys were stunned, and three died. The Digital engineer needed to be calmed down; he was going to call the Humane Society. This became known as the Great Dead Monkey Project, and it leads of course to the aphorism I use as my motto: You should not conduct tests while valuable monkeys are connected, so "Always mount a scratch monkey."'
On a nearly related note, (Now that I think about it), this year's presedential election could be described as a race between "Curious George and The Man With The Big Yellow Hat."
Don't get me wrong. I like Puddy. But the Tick is a perfect Bruce Campbell part. He does the bumbling hero very well, doesn't quite understand how things really work but full speed ahead. And, he has the chin.
George from Seinfeld could pull off Arthur, perhaps.
Published in 1978, this book was my first exposure to the topic. I recall that at the time, there was some discussion about whether this was fiction or not. Funny that in > 10 years, none of the social/ethical issues have been resolved. Like we say at work: "Do it before someone tells you NO".
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The one I made used a "single-use" film camera. It turned out that with a little care, I could reload it with a higher-resolution (extremely fine grain Tech Pan) film plenty of times.
I made a frame out of balsa and spruce that the camera slid into. Mounted on the frame was a small servo. I had it rigged so that a full throw in one direction would trip the shutter. Moving the control back and forth near the other end of travel would move a pawl back and forth over the film-advance wheel. I could load it with over 40 exposures.
If you don't have a servo, and the radios, then that blows the budget. But many geeks have them laying around in a crashed plane. So not counting the cost of that equipment, the budget would be well under US$15. And even if the baloon burst, the radio and servo were pretty tough (designed to be in things that crash).
The "gay" ringtones can be replaced by other downloadable ringtones.
They just released v2 of their SDK. Their development network is expected to be up RealSoonNow. Many users feel that an ssh client would be very useful; I'd expect an open one to be developed sometime this summer (my guess).
Read lots more about it here. Go to the forums.
I didn't even want a cel phone until this came out. But that functionality allowed me to tell AT&T to piss off. I'd say its not for the guy who is always on the phone, but AIM and email from most anywhere rocks. Until I lost it, I was using it with a Jabra Bluetooth headset. Solves the problem of feeling like you are talking into a bar of soap.
Now if I could just get it in a shoephone form factor...
I refuse to install flash6. I'd say that more than half the popup/under ads I run into want to install Flash6. Click no: bye. No bandwidth-sucking, resource-slurping unwanted advertisements. Yet very few flash-enabled sites require v6. Many will serve a v5 swf.
And I agree with the parent. How many flash-enabled sites have a 'skip_intro' link. Hello, if that many people want to get to the meat and ignore the gimcracks, why pay to author that junk ?
Hey, /. editors: How about an interview with Ani on this topic ? She is outspoken, articulate, and unconventional. I'd like to read about what makes her _Righteous Babe_ label WORK.
'Well, diagnostics for disk drives are designed to shake up the equipment. But monkey brains are not designed to handle the electrical signals they received. You can imagine the convulsions that resulted. Two of the monkeys were stunned, and three died. The Digital engineer needed to be calmed down; he was going to call the Humane Society. This became known as the Great Dead Monkey Project, and it leads of course to the aphorism I use as my motto: You should not conduct tests while valuable monkeys are connected, so "Always mount a scratch monkey."'
On a nearly related note, (Now that I think about it), this year's presedential election could be described as a race between "Curious George and The Man With The Big Yellow Hat."
"I just love it when a plan comes together."
-Face
Don't get me wrong. I like Puddy.
But the Tick is a perfect Bruce Campbell part. He does the bumbling hero very well, doesn't quite understand how things really work but full speed ahead. And, he has the chin.
George from Seinfeld could pull off Arthur, perhaps.
Published in 1978, this book was my first exposure to the topic. I recall that at the time, there was some discussion about whether this was fiction or not. Funny that in > 10 years, none of the social/ethical issues have been resolved. Like we say at work: "Do it before someone tells you NO".
-WMc
"Always mount a scratch monkey."
http://www.mv.com/ipusers/arcade/monkey.htm