You can generate a very decent electric shock with the feedback current off a relay which is rigged up to "buzz" (i.e. normally closed, power comes in, opens it, and cuts power, closing relay..etc, etc).
I made one of these at school and successfully floored 3 people with it. Powered off a 9v battery.
I seem to remember that producing around 20Kv, although tricky to test.
Ah, yes! "Global Hypercolour"... I've still got one somewhere (unless my wife threw it away!) Fantastic 80's throwback which, unfortunately, stopped working after about 3 washes.
For those who absolutely feel the need to be able to melt your brain during this one time of the day where you previously couldn't. Thanks in advance for ridding yourselves from the gene pool.
I like this "real person" approach to things... identifying a word in an image seems like a pretty good way forward to me. If nothing else, it will greatly enhance OCR technology...
Apparently porn will save my marriage... or so I'm told by Jim@fouryourmarriage.net.
Perhaps slashdotting of spammers is a better way forward...
First let's get this straight. No matter how much you spend on your software, you're not going to make a hit film with one lonely Mac and one brain. It still takes a whole team of people to get something more than a couple of minutes of animation together. On your own, even that is likely to take a few months of your spare time.
Whatever you choose, you need to invest plenty of time into it, get a well recommended book about how to use it (don't just trust the help files). Once you've exausted the book, look on the web, hit the forums. Main thing is, don't give up on one just because it's not as pretty as you'd like.
Unless you can afford to fork out the price of a good second hand car, get a copy of Blender, and really use it, don't just say "Euch!" and throw it away, it really is very powerful.
I started out with 3DSMax at work, but I'm not a designer, so I don't get exclusive use of our "one-seat" license. I considered warez for home use, but then figured there was no point doing anything if I couldn't at least publish it, guilt free.
I'm still with Blender, and I haven't even nearly reached it's limits yet. The renderer is not perfect, but for modelling and straightforward animation it kicks donkey. It seems to me that NaN kinda let it slip a bit towards their final hold on the product. Now that it's open source, I'm expecting to see a whole bunch of improvements to it, so I'll probably stick or now.
Perhaps one day I'll outgrow it, at which point I'll consider forking out for something a bit more mainstream (probably Maya). I don't see that being for a few years though.
I wondered why they decided to put the power levels in percentages on my uber-microwave. It's obviously got a second use as a satellite launch platform as opposed to a cindered lunch platform.
I saw a little OpenGL app that came with SuSE 8 that demonstrates relative viewpoints of regular 3D meshes as they would appear when traveling near the speed of light.
It's pretty enlightening stuff, and somehow actually playing with it makes things easier to understand.
Although it doesn't directy relate to the black hole thing, it does help illustrate some of the relativistic effects mentioned here.
I 'think' it's this one.. http://lightspeed.sourceforge.net/ but I could be wrong.
The RJ45 connector is fantastic, don't slag it off just because nobody ever bothers to put the rubber boot on it that prevents it getting broken when you pull it backwards through a tangle of wires.
Sadly, most cables you buy off the shelf don't bother with the boots. Sure they add about 3 pennies cost to each connector, but c'mon!
This is the reason that I don't buy network cables from shops any more, besides the fact that they're generally a rip-off. I make them myself, and considering the cost of a crimping tool, you should too (you only need to make 3 cables before you've saved money).
..build in some nice apps like nice smooth scrolling/zooming GPS map overlays, or impressive 3d representations of buildings downloaded from who knows where.
But you we all know the manufacturers will... ..put in some annoying whizzy interface (complete with embarrasing sound effects) that shows a rabbit pulling your incoming SMS messages out of a top-hat or something.
> That's why you're not a scientist. Diesel fuel is a hell of a lot more explosive than hydrogen.
I agree on this one, having seen a hydrogen explosion first hand. We had a cannister of the stuff in a chemistry lab back at school. Some idiot knocked it over and the valve broke.
We evacuated the lab, and a few minutes later some spark caused it to ignite (probably the heating thermostat or something). Just a loud bang and a couple of imploded windows. We left our books in the panic, and nothing was even slightly charred. The fire brigade arrived shortly after the event, but there was just no damage to speak of.
The hydrogen bottle (about 4 foot tall), was apparently full before the incident and empty after we returned to the lab.
Hard writing area is good, because you don't f*ck up a bit of the screen you need to look at. Think about it, your PC keyboard has greasy pawprints all over it, your screen doesn't, that's the way it should be...
My PocketPC is pretty well scratched up on the input area, so I've switched back to my old PalmIII which fared much better and got vastly more use. Might invest in a nicer one, but that hard area is a good idea... don't knock it...
Personally I have a soft spot for the bog standard Compaq keyboards (the ones they keep supplying with servers, but end up staying in the box). I personally think they have a fantastic feel to them, and the short key travel makes them really quick.
I got one of those recent standard MS keyboards (the one with the Web and Calculator buttons along the top), and it felt terrible. Inconsistencies in the feel of certain keys, and so on.
IMHO the old IBM Clicktastics are great... for about an hour of hard typing, then tendons start to complain.
(PS: can anyone recommend a good USB keyboard, I broke my PS2 port being too fussy!!!)
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So I won't be playing it... just on principle...
As pointed out by the parent...
Couldn't something like bittorrent fill the gap?
You can generate a very decent electric shock with the feedback current off a relay which is rigged up to "buzz" (i.e. normally closed, power comes in, opens it, and cuts power, closing relay..etc, etc).
I made one of these at school and successfully floored 3 people with it. Powered off a 9v battery.
I seem to remember that producing around 20Kv, although tricky to test.
Oh, so it's a magic door... Why didn't you just say so?
Ah, yes! "Global Hypercolour"... I've still got one somewhere (unless my wife threw it away!) Fantastic 80's throwback which, unfortunately, stopped working after about 3 washes.
..driving while watching TV is dangerous.
For those who absolutely feel the need to be able to melt your brain during this one time of the day where you previously couldn't. Thanks in advance for ridding yourselves from the gene pool.
Did anyone else get to the bit about Nike's transforming robot... it turns from a robot into, you guessed it, a shoe!!!
I like this "real person" approach to things... identifying a word in an image seems like a pretty good way forward to me. If nothing else, it will greatly enhance OCR technology...
Apparently porn will save my marriage... or so I'm told by Jim@fouryourmarriage.net.
Perhaps slashdotting of spammers is a better way forward...
visions of Ethel and the "bus stop massive" effortlessly rotating on the spot without moving their feet...
What do they expect? I saw it at the cinema on Saturday.. that's plenty of time for somebody to bootleg it on a camcorder...
If everyone were forced to make acknowlegements about our inspiration, there would be no art.
Instead we'd have nothing but red tape, blank paper and empty screens.
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It's true then, I'm not American... .. that makes me happy
First let's get this straight. No matter how much you spend on your software, you're not going to make a hit film with one lonely Mac and one brain. It still takes a whole team of people to get something more than a couple of minutes of animation together. On your own, even that is likely to take a few months of your spare time.
Whatever you choose, you need to invest plenty of time into it, get a well recommended book about how to use it (don't just trust the help files). Once you've exausted the book, look on the web, hit the forums. Main thing is, don't give up on one just because it's not as pretty as you'd like.
Unless you can afford to fork out the price of a good second hand car, get a copy of Blender, and really use it, don't just say "Euch!" and throw it away, it really is very powerful.
I started out with 3DSMax at work, but I'm not a designer, so I don't get exclusive use of our "one-seat" license. I considered warez for home use, but then figured there was no point doing anything if I couldn't at least publish it, guilt free.
I'm still with Blender, and I haven't even nearly reached it's limits yet. The renderer is not perfect, but for modelling and straightforward animation it kicks donkey. It seems to me that NaN kinda let it slip a bit towards their final hold on the product. Now that it's open source, I'm expecting to see a whole bunch of improvements to it, so I'll probably stick or now.
Perhaps one day I'll outgrow it, at which point I'll consider forking out for something a bit more mainstream (probably Maya). I don't see that being for a few years though.
I wondered why they decided to put the power levels in percentages on my uber-microwave. It's obviously got a second use as a satellite launch platform as opposed to a cindered lunch platform.
brrrddm..tish!
Not bad if you're a vampire I suppose, or otherwise disinterested in natural light.
.. is work out a way to avoid an incoming bucket-full of molten metal.
Get yer asbestos umbrellas at the ready lads!
I saw a little OpenGL app that came with SuSE 8 that demonstrates relative viewpoints of regular 3D meshes as they would appear when traveling near the speed of light.
It's pretty enlightening stuff, and somehow actually playing with it makes things easier to understand.
Although it doesn't directy relate to the black hole thing, it does help illustrate some of the relativistic effects mentioned here.
I 'think' it's this one.. http://lightspeed.sourceforge.net/ but I could be wrong.
The RJ45 connector is fantastic, don't slag it off just because nobody ever bothers to put the rubber boot on it that prevents it getting broken when you pull it backwards through a tangle of wires.
Sadly, most cables you buy off the shelf don't bother with the boots. Sure they add about 3 pennies cost to each connector, but c'mon!
This is the reason that I don't buy network cables from shops any more, besides the fact that they're generally a rip-off. I make them myself, and considering the cost of a crimping tool, you should too (you only need to make 3 cables before you've saved money).
... they put 'Wings' on it. What kind of a challenge is that?
But you we all know the manufacturers will...
..put in some annoying whizzy interface (complete with embarrasing sound effects) that shows a rabbit pulling your incoming SMS messages out of a top-hat or something.
> That's why you're not a scientist. Diesel fuel is a hell of a lot more explosive than hydrogen.
I agree on this one, having seen a hydrogen explosion first hand. We had a cannister of the stuff in a chemistry lab back at school. Some idiot knocked it over and the valve broke.
We evacuated the lab, and a few minutes later some spark caused it to ignite (probably the heating thermostat or something). Just a loud bang and a couple of imploded windows. We left our books in the panic, and nothing was even slightly charred. The fire brigade arrived shortly after the event, but there was just no damage to speak of.
The hydrogen bottle (about 4 foot tall), was apparently full before the incident and empty after we returned to the lab.
Hard writing area is good, because you don't f*ck up a bit of the screen you need to look at. Think about it, your PC keyboard has greasy pawprints all over it, your screen doesn't, that's the way it should be...
My PocketPC is pretty well scratched up on the input area, so I've switched back to my old PalmIII which fared much better and got vastly more use. Might invest in a nicer one, but that hard area is a good idea... don't knock it...
Personally I have a soft spot for the bog standard Compaq keyboards (the ones they keep supplying with servers, but end up staying in the box). I personally think they have a fantastic feel to them, and the short key travel makes them really quick.
I got one of those recent standard MS keyboards (the one with the Web and Calculator buttons along the top), and it felt terrible. Inconsistencies in the feel of certain keys, and so on.
IMHO the old IBM Clicktastics are great... for about an hour of hard typing, then tendons start to complain.
(PS: can anyone recommend a good USB keyboard, I broke my PS2 port being too fussy!!!)