I'm sad to say that as a whole Slashdotters have missed the forest for the trees on this.
Enjoyable dead-horse debates here but all are splitting hairs, missing the point, and fairly clueless.
The only thing I can't figure out is if the preponderance of fanboys are shotgun happy contract trolls or if the sea of tech-savvy enthusiasts has really become so lost in the hype.
Use your brains and wrap your minds around a subject before posting you slackers. I know you're better than this.
XBOX 360's Media Center Extension compatibility is actually not any good even if you DO stream from a PC. Ask anyone who has a reasonably sized media library how their experience went with media discovery and the ludicrous symbolic link methodology utilized in the process. After waiting 3 days for your XBox 360 to unfreeze you might be able to select a song before it freezes again.
Where would you like to freeze today?
The best way to play DDO
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. . . is with a group of friends. Doesn't take many, all I have atm is 3 or 4 who log in each day. If we want to fill the team up with a stranger we can, but the game doesn't force you to join or grow a huge Guild in order to succeed (which is good). We even stopped using in game voip in favor of Skype beta recently.
Just take my advice and have someone who can deal and take damage (Fighter), someone who can handle the traps secret doors and locked chests (Rogue), and someone who can buff in the beginning and heal (Cleric) in your general party makeup. If the Fighter has 18+ strength, the Rogue has 18+ Int (requisite attribute for disable trap and search anyhow), and the Cleric has 18+ Wisdom you're pretty much set as far as runes and puzzles are considered and can typically get 100% of the realistic bonuses available in a quest.
What's nice about DDO is no hamster wheel, you can actually log in for the half hour you have each night and run quests. Sure the graphics engine doesn't compare to WoW or EQ2 or even the old AO with its fabulous chairs and tables but you play DDO more for the interaction of buddies in extemporaneous chat without needing the old meeting place for that feeling any longer.
Did someone just get housed because they ignored the battle plan and ran into a room only to get nuked? It's ok to laugh at a game again; no more angry disappointed wankers because 3 hours of prep time was lost this game is moer about the interaction than the lame status of claiming that your random number generator rules all.
The next ignorant buffoon who claims this is similar to Betamax / VHS is hereby cursed to 50 Earth years in Hades.
Bluray vs HD-DVD is MUCH more similar to 3DO vs CD-ROM particularly regarding the corporate groups behind each technology. The major difference now being that hardware engineering is so flooded devices are already spec'd able to play both HD-DVD and Bluray on the cheap (hardware-wise).
If you doubt me, read this review from February 1993.
Reform your analogies, compare one or the other to 3DO and the result is the same. Bring up Betamax at your own peril.
The Bluray concept is more like 3DO vs CD-ROM, it's nothing like Betamax vs VHS which I keep hearing. So long as players are made which support both Bluray and HDDVD (check your Asian Tigers they're already on the way) I could care less which way the wind blows on that one - maybe MS will be upset that in 4 years the PS3 can deliver a game on a single disc still while they have to package 5 of their DVD game discs (or maybe Sony will lose sales for including the expensive hardware).
I just want the best gaming experience and my goodness there are a lot of bigots spewing trash on here lately. Sony never had trouble with the number of developers willing to produce for their platform, no matter what bigoted views you might have. I'm thoroughly amused at all the fanboys running around trying to claim that MS has won the title, it's laughable at best.
Microsoft's Media Center Extension vis a vis the 360 is a miserable failure from my experience for anyone who has anything resembling a decent sized collection. The XBox Live Arcade now though, that's a huge success.
My two cents are this: when the XBox came out the ONLY reason most of us started playing it instead of our old PS2 was that in the situation where a game came out for both consoles the Xbox's hardware was better - the games had more powerful physics / reality engines and simply looked better. It was good enough to put up with the big hand crippling controller that the thing came out with even prior to the S controllers.
Now we have an upcoming release of the PS3 which if adjusted for inflation in 2006 $USD costs $50 less than the Atari 2600 did in 1978. Oh my goodness, it's so expensive it almost costs as much as the old Atari did when it was released! Pah, fanboys unite, shape of witless factless flaming Yeti!
The simple truth is that the PS3 is a 2 teraflop capable machine (the XBox 360 barely reaches 1TF), and many of the best games to come out for this generation of console will come from gaming companies that don't even exist today but will be released for both platforms. Ceterus Paribus that single statistic alone will allow the PS3 to overpower the Xbox 360 every day of the week and twice on Sundays. Clearly there's more to the competition than just computing capacity, such as gaming selection, cost to be online (what there's a COST? rofl, might as well be called AOL 360), and the quality of rendered images / framerate; but this is a resounding statistic that disappeared from Microsoft's published web stats the day Sony published the big 2TF (at least the last time I checked).
I'm not a bigot guys, I'm just tired of the preponderance of Xbox Bigots. If the XBox 360 somehow defies reality and provides better reality engines, graphics, playability, and game selection then I'll be playing the 360 for years to come. I just feel that many of you are missing the boat on this one and are lost in the hype. Sad, really, but hey if you're an XBox 360 Bigot go ahead and party, party like it's 1999, rock on with your bad self.
"Make sure you deauthorize your computer before you upgrade your RAM, hard disk or other system components. If you do not deauthorize your computer before you upgrade these components, one computer may use multiple authorizations. If you find you have reached 5 authorizations due to system upgrades, you can reset your authorization count by clicking Deauthorize All in the Account Information screen. Note: You may only use this feature once per year. The Deauthorize All button will not appear if you have fewer than 5 authorized computers or if you have used this option within the last 12 months."
It seems you can only deauthorize computers you don't have any longer if you've reached that 1 year limit. They are up front about saying that if you don't bother managing your authorized computers before upgrading your pc or a hard drive going on the fritz that you will have zombie entries authorized until you hit that 5 auth limit. If I'm wrong please let me know because I have several authorizations taken up as I upgraded my operating systems but not quite 5 and would really like to know where I can deauthorize the old entries . . . really, I do, if someone knows please send me a message or reply or something . . .
I've been mudding since the original MUD in the mid 80s. All I have to say about this is that by the time I went to college in 91 I had PKed more mudders than could possibly be healthy according to this article.
And hey - I turned out just fine!
Maybe they are drawing a distinction that graphic games which remove the need for imagination can cause impressionable kids to imitate them. Of course by the line referencing them spending too much time to increase the power of their characters maybe they're equally concerned too many Chinese kids will grow up and try to create power hungry empires, drive fast cars, sleep with the female minority, and eat big macs . . .
I also had the sound problem and quickly went to work to discover a way to make the sound make sense again. Nice as captioning is it is ruined with bubbly voices.
Stopgap 1:
Run dxdiag and try changing the Hardware Acceleration down to the first or second step. You can play with this reloading the program each time and you will most likely find that the problem does not return until the last stage of the game where the audio is a bit more intense by an order of magnitude.
Stopgap 2:
The next thing that immediately made the sound bubbles go away was simply changing the in game options from 5.1 speakers down to 2 speakers. Frustrating to have to do this when your card is so hot, I know, but it's a stopgap measure that can at least make the more intense scenes more enjoyable.
Symptom of the problem I had:
The most noticable sympton my relatively new system had with the game that could help is that if I forced the sound by moving so that it was entirely left or entirely right the bubbles went away - even with full hardware acceleration and 5.1 setting in game. From a layman's perspective this intimates that there seems to be a problem with the 3d environment code mixing or otherwise (hey it might be something buried in directx that Valve were the first to truly exploit who knows).
If this helps anyone then today I have done some good.
Who will break us out of this dark age? I submit the dead weight loss to society from the abuse of the USPTO in the digital realm is greater than any cost humanity has ever paid.
No patent is as specific as the IP lawyers claim, all will be considered ridiculous to even the smallest children in 500 years.
Someone save us so we can move forward. Abolish the USPTO.
I for one will start cheering on these FTC Vigilantes if they start nailing spyware producers. Could care less if they don't get to people in Asia or outside the US Borders I just want to have someone hung under the presumption of guilt and spyware.
Vivisimo was the search engine I liked a few years ago. The reason I kicked them to the curb went something like this:
"Hey Vivisimo guys, we're starting up a new company here and you have a very powerful results format. What would it take to license your engine to help organize and present our data to the public?"
Vivisimo's answer: Well, that depends on how much money you're going to make of course. Exactly how much money do you have and do you expect to make?
Google's answer: We're designing a hardware box that'll let you do exactly that. If you have a large enough interest we may even be able to include you as a case / study to help save some costs.
Wasn't a hard choice. Technology does not in itself win, impractical people running a company can still deep six the best ideas. Vivisimo we didn't even bother calling back.
Everyone is missing the forest for the trees on this one. We already pay a fee to connect a device in our homes to a network around the world.
$25/month is $25/month too much for VoIP (when you already have a cable modem).
What is it that we want to pay for exactly? Is it that we want to rent the VoIP hardware phone? Are we insecure putting our voicemail on our PCs at home instead of a SAN at some over-hyped corp?
Actually if you want to get this write you would refer to the coining of the term Borg (some Polish economist as I recall). It means bureaucratic organization, no it wasn't created in Star Trek.
The term dysborgian came from the further analysis that beyond some point all bureaucracy becomes dysfunctional. Similar to a critical mass; it will continue to worsen exponentially the longer it's left in place.
My question: is Microsoft already a dysborg, or are they still operating on the "functional and effective" side of bureauocracy?
The Deadweight Loss (economics term look it up) created by the rampant implementation of patents across the board, specifically in the Software Industry, are larger than anyone has even guessed. Back in the days before globalization when there was a little thing called the "Infant Industry Argument", modern economic theory provided solid reasoning to a government protecting a single corporate entity such that it could grow and prosper quickly enough to stave off the foreign implementations of the new technology. This lead to what was commonly called the "Dying Swan" effect, which basically graphed any innovation sufficiently worthy enough to warrant foreign competition from the relative viewpoint of the original country. It took off, peaked, then died off as foreign interests lead to better faster cheaper models (largely due to the lack of their need for investment in the various machinery and/or research necessary to create a superior product / the barriers to entry might be high but their profit margin was still higher than that of the original interest who had sunk costs to still pay off or wear out).
Now that governments admit they can do nothing terribly helpful about outsourcing and the equalization of international labor wages and globalization is a thing taught in history books to 6th graders international economics and domestic policy certainly do not support the Infant Industry Argument any longer. Thus, the US Patent Office is nothing more than a vestige of the past in need of dying out, to the sick and twisted people who believe that research and development brooks complete entitlement to cut a CD or set up a web and database server you are definitely not protecting anything - you are society's worst enemy and the singular cause for the largest most devastating deadweight loss our global economy and technological progression will ever know. These days will be known as the second dark ages, once we get rid of the idea of entitlement to something which by definition may be accomplished an infinite number of ways (software is the topic).
Set your flashlight toggle to mouse 4 or alt (who needs a strafe toggle anyhow). I prefer mouse 4, if you have a mouse with the back/forward buttons it really is no sweat.
I believe Guild Wars is targetting this area pretty well. Unlike the archetypal mmporg where you have to camp for days - you can log in check your buddy list and grab your friends (or team with strangers if you like) then load up a mission. Characters are persistent and you can go do pvp in an arena of sorts if that's your thing. Alternatively you can explore the wilderness; the point is you won't have to sit on your ass and pay to wait so you can have a chance to kill some lame mob for guildmate #294. The classes and professions seem robust and the monthly fee is 0. The E3 world alpha was pretty successful. Just food for thought, after playing masochistic games like EQ, SWG, AC, UO, AO, among others, I find a game where I can log in for a half hour and not feel guilty for logging out refreshing.
I feel like I'm playing Civilization and my agent is reporting that another civilization has just invented something my people have had for the last hour.
Seriously, I was doing this at the Census Bureau years ago with VRML and enhanced it with those dodgy Performance Copilot (SGI) type tools. Since then products such as, oh, I don't know, Cognos and Crystal Reports (4+) have implemented 3d data set controls and reports in spades(Tivoli Business Decision Manager anyone?).
Open source tends to lack the robust (read: overcomplicated buggy) features of the commercial variants but the underlying technology is still mesozoic for us terrans. And yeah, many MBA dinosaurs lack the ability to visualize data like this (compare business typical fiugures to an economist's throughput figures and the economist has no trouble understanding this stuff, odd how they make so little when they show off that title). Still, there are countless open minded business ppl with econ backgrounds who love these kinds of tools. Not to mention the courses being offered for the past decade in the mindset of 3d management.
There have been a few movies which referenced wrist devices that relayed information back to loved ones - though I can't remember the titles of them at the moment . ..
Our youth is the most discriminated demographic around the world and the free democracies are not excluded. It's logically held under the basic premise that children aren't experienced enough to live their lives wisely, make coherent decisions, or defend themselves until their bodies and minds have fully developed.
Maybe some good could come out of a device *like* this. Of course parents want to track young ones, but like a security blanket (Woobie?) some kids would love to know where their parents are, or if they're even alive (dare I breach the spooky thread). Make it passive so a kid who wants privacy can shut it off completely or partially. Add some telemetry so we can all have something to worry about if a loved one's heart rate suddenly sputters.
Most of all, give it a silk lining so it can replace all the torn up beaten down overused woobies in the world today:D
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I'm sad to say that as a whole Slashdotters have missed the forest for the trees on this.
:)
Enjoyable dead-horse debates here but all are splitting hairs, missing the point, and fairly clueless.
The only thing I can't figure out is if the preponderance of fanboys are shotgun happy contract trolls or if the sea of tech-savvy enthusiasts has really become so lost in the hype.
Use your brains and wrap your minds around a subject before posting you slackers. I know you're better than this.
Flame on flamers
Mod parent up.
Standardized parts and upgrades were a result of the Gun manufacturing industry weren't they?
So, in effect, Computers aren't Computers at all, they're guns!
Now that the PS3 is a gun it should have NRA support n'est pas?
XBOX 360's Media Center Extension compatibility is actually not any good even if you DO stream from a PC. Ask anyone who has a reasonably sized media library how their experience went with media discovery and the ludicrous symbolic link methodology utilized in the process. After waiting 3 days for your XBox 360 to unfreeze you might be able to select a song before it freezes again.
Where would you like to freeze today?
. . . is with a group of friends. Doesn't take many, all I have atm is 3 or 4 who log in each day. If we want to fill the team up with a stranger we can, but the game doesn't force you to join or grow a huge Guild in order to succeed (which is good). We even stopped using in game voip in favor of Skype beta recently.
Just take my advice and have someone who can deal and take damage (Fighter), someone who can handle the traps secret doors and locked chests (Rogue), and someone who can buff in the beginning and heal (Cleric) in your general party makeup. If the Fighter has 18+ strength, the Rogue has 18+ Int (requisite attribute for disable trap and search anyhow), and the Cleric has 18+ Wisdom you're pretty much set as far as runes and puzzles are considered and can typically get 100% of the realistic bonuses available in a quest.
What's nice about DDO is no hamster wheel, you can actually log in for the half hour you have each night and run quests. Sure the graphics engine doesn't compare to WoW or EQ2 or even the old AO with its fabulous chairs and tables but you play DDO more for the interaction of buddies in extemporaneous chat without needing the old meeting place for that feeling any longer.
Did someone just get housed because they ignored the battle plan and ran into a room only to get nuked? It's ok to laugh at a game again; no more angry disappointed wankers because 3 hours of prep time was lost this game is moer about the interaction than the lame status of claiming that your random number generator rules all.
Bluray vs HD-DVD is MUCH more similar to 3DO vs CD-ROM particularly regarding the corporate groups behind each technology. The major difference now being that hardware engineering is so flooded devices are already spec'd able to play both HD-DVD and Bluray on the cheap (hardware-wise).
If you doubt me, read this review from February 1993.
Reform your analogies, compare one or the other to 3DO and the result is the same. Bring up Betamax at your own peril.
Carry on.
The Bluray concept is more like 3DO vs CD-ROM, it's nothing like Betamax vs VHS which I keep hearing. So long as players are made which support both Bluray and HDDVD (check your Asian Tigers they're already on the way) I could care less which way the wind blows on that one - maybe MS will be upset that in 4 years the PS3 can deliver a game on a single disc still while they have to package 5 of their DVD game discs (or maybe Sony will lose sales for including the expensive hardware).
I just want the best gaming experience and my goodness there are a lot of bigots spewing trash on here lately. Sony never had trouble with the number of developers willing to produce for their platform, no matter what bigoted views you might have. I'm thoroughly amused at all the fanboys running around trying to claim that MS has won the title, it's laughable at best.
Microsoft's Media Center Extension vis a vis the 360 is a miserable failure from my experience for anyone who has anything resembling a decent sized collection. The XBox Live Arcade now though, that's a huge success.
My two cents are this: when the XBox came out the ONLY reason most of us started playing it instead of our old PS2 was that in the situation where a game came out for both consoles the Xbox's hardware was better - the games had more powerful physics / reality engines and simply looked better. It was good enough to put up with the big hand crippling controller that the thing came out with even prior to the S controllers.
Now we have an upcoming release of the PS3 which if adjusted for inflation in 2006 $USD costs $50 less than the Atari 2600 did in 1978. Oh my goodness, it's so expensive it almost costs as much as the old Atari did when it was released! Pah, fanboys unite, shape of witless factless flaming Yeti!
The simple truth is that the PS3 is a 2 teraflop capable machine (the XBox 360 barely reaches 1TF), and many of the best games to come out for this generation of console will come from gaming companies that don't even exist today but will be released for both platforms. Ceterus Paribus that single statistic alone will allow the PS3 to overpower the Xbox 360 every day of the week and twice on Sundays. Clearly there's more to the competition than just computing capacity, such as gaming selection, cost to be online (what there's a COST? rofl, might as well be called AOL 360), and the quality of rendered images / framerate; but this is a resounding statistic that disappeared from Microsoft's published web stats the day Sony published the big 2TF (at least the last time I checked).
I'm not a bigot guys, I'm just tired of the preponderance of Xbox Bigots. If the XBox 360 somehow defies reality and provides better reality engines, graphics, playability, and game selection then I'll be playing the 360 for years to come. I just feel that many of you are missing the boat on this one and are lost in the hype. Sad, really, but hey if you're an XBox 360 Bigot go ahead and party, party like it's 1999, rock on with your bad self.
Questron anyone? Hey, how about another Bard's Tale actually? I miss 4 letter spell codes . . .
GRRE, REST, SOSI, GRSU
I've been mudding since the original MUD in the mid 80s. All I have to say about this is that by the time I went to college in 91 I had PKed more mudders than could possibly be healthy according to this article.
And hey - I turned out just fine!
Maybe they are drawing a distinction that graphic games which remove the need for imagination can cause impressionable kids to imitate them. Of course by the line referencing them spending too much time to increase the power of their characters maybe they're equally concerned too many Chinese kids will grow up and try to create power hungry empires, drive fast cars, sleep with the female minority, and eat big macs . . .
Screw you guys, I'm going home.
Stopgap 1:
Run dxdiag and try changing the Hardware Acceleration down to the first or second step. You can play with this reloading the program each time and you will most likely find that the problem does not return until the last stage of the game where the audio is a bit more intense by an order of magnitude.
Stopgap 2:
The next thing that immediately made the sound bubbles go away was simply changing the in game options from 5.1 speakers down to 2 speakers. Frustrating to have to do this when your card is so hot, I know, but it's a stopgap measure that can at least make the more intense scenes more enjoyable.
Symptom of the problem I had:
The most noticable sympton my relatively new system had with the game that could help is that if I forced the sound by moving so that it was entirely left or entirely right the bubbles went away - even with full hardware acceleration and 5.1 setting in game. From a layman's perspective this intimates that there seems to be a problem with the 3d environment code mixing or otherwise (hey it might be something buried in directx that Valve were the first to truly exploit who knows).
If this helps anyone then today I have done some good.
The real question here is, does the USPTO have a critical mass? If so, up the voltage! Quicker we need more patents to destroy this deathstar!
Who will break us out of this dark age? I submit the dead weight loss to society from the abuse of the USPTO in the digital realm is greater than any cost humanity has ever paid.
No patent is as specific as the IP lawyers claim, all will be considered ridiculous to even the smallest children in 500 years.
Someone save us so we can move forward. Abolish the USPTO.
I for one will start cheering on these FTC Vigilantes if they start nailing spyware producers. Could care less if they don't get to people in Asia or outside the US Borders I just want to have someone hung under the presumption of guilt and spyware.
Maybe I should see someone about that . . .
Vivisimo was the search engine I liked a few years ago. The reason I kicked them to the curb went something like this:
"Hey Vivisimo guys, we're starting up a new company here and you have a very powerful results format. What would it take to license your engine to help organize and present our data to the public?"
Vivisimo's answer: Well, that depends on how much money you're going to make of course. Exactly how much money do you have and do you expect to make?
Google's answer: We're designing a hardware box that'll let you do exactly that. If you have a large enough interest we may even be able to include you as a case / study to help save some costs.
Wasn't a hard choice. Technology does not in itself win, impractical people running a company can still deep six the best ideas. Vivisimo we didn't even bother calling back.
Everyone is missing the forest for the trees on this one. We already pay a fee to connect a device in our homes to a network around the world.
$25/month is $25/month too much for VoIP (when you already have a cable modem).
What is it that we want to pay for exactly? Is it that we want to rent the VoIP hardware phone? Are we insecure putting our voicemail on our PCs at home instead of a SAN at some over-hyped corp?
Stop, think, repost.
Actually if you want to get this write you would refer to the coining of the term Borg (some Polish economist as I recall). It means bureaucratic organization, no it wasn't created in Star Trek.
The term dysborgian came from the further analysis that beyond some point all bureaucracy becomes dysfunctional. Similar to a critical mass; it will continue to worsen exponentially the longer it's left in place.
My question: is Microsoft already a dysborg, or are they still operating on the "functional and effective" side of bureauocracy?
Now that governments admit they can do nothing terribly helpful about outsourcing and the equalization of international labor wages and globalization is a thing taught in history books to 6th graders international economics and domestic policy certainly do not support the Infant Industry Argument any longer. Thus, the US Patent Office is nothing more than a vestige of the past in need of dying out, to the sick and twisted people who believe that research and development brooks complete entitlement to cut a CD or set up a web and database server you are definitely not protecting anything - you are society's worst enemy and the singular cause for the largest most devastating deadweight loss our global economy and technological progression will ever know. These days will be known as the second dark ages, once we get rid of the idea of entitlement to something which by definition may be accomplished an infinite number of ways (software is the topic).
Set your flashlight toggle to mouse 4 or alt (who needs a strafe toggle anyhow). I prefer mouse 4, if you have a mouse with the back/forward buttons it really is no sweat.
/.
Mod? Mod something useful, like
I believe Guild Wars is targetting this area pretty well. Unlike the archetypal mmporg where you have to camp for days - you can log in check your buddy list and grab your friends (or team with strangers if you like) then load up a mission. Characters are persistent and you can go do pvp in an arena of sorts if that's your thing. Alternatively you can explore the wilderness; the point is you won't have to sit on your ass and pay to wait so you can have a chance to kill some lame mob for guildmate #294. The classes and professions seem robust and the monthly fee is 0. The E3 world alpha was pretty successful. Just food for thought, after playing masochistic games like EQ, SWG, AC, UO, AO, among others, I find a game where I can log in for a half hour and not feel guilty for logging out refreshing.
I feel like I'm playing Civilization and my agent is reporting that another civilization has just invented something my people have had for the last hour.
Seriously, I was doing this at the Census Bureau years ago with VRML and enhanced it with those dodgy Performance Copilot (SGI) type tools. Since then products such as, oh, I don't know, Cognos and Crystal Reports (4+) have implemented 3d data set controls and reports in spades(Tivoli Business Decision Manager anyone?).
Open source tends to lack the robust (read: overcomplicated buggy) features of the commercial variants but the underlying technology is still mesozoic for us terrans. And yeah, many MBA dinosaurs lack the ability to visualize data like this (compare business typical fiugures to an economist's throughput figures and the economist has no trouble understanding this stuff, odd how they make so little when they show off that title). Still, there are countless open minded business ppl with econ backgrounds who love these kinds of tools. Not to mention the courses being offered for the past decade in the mindset of 3d management.
Nachos for all, but not all the nachos.
There have been a few movies which referenced wrist devices that relayed information back to loved ones - though I can't remember the titles of them at the moment . . .
:D
Our youth is the most discriminated demographic around the world and the free democracies are not excluded. It's logically held under the basic premise that children aren't experienced enough to live their lives wisely, make coherent decisions, or defend themselves until their bodies and minds have fully developed.
Maybe some good could come out of a device *like* this. Of course parents want to track young ones, but like a security blanket (Woobie?) some kids would love to know where their parents are, or if they're even alive (dare I breach the spooky thread). Make it passive so a kid who wants privacy can shut it off completely or partially. Add some telemetry so we can all have something to worry about if a loved one's heart rate suddenly sputters.
Most of all, give it a silk lining so it can replace all the torn up beaten down overused woobies in the world today