Overall score for Immersion: Gotta give this one the lifesaving medal, cuz you are so immersed in SWG you're likely to drown. It is totally, fully, great in this regard.
I don't know about this judgement. Until I can:
ride my landspeeder to the spaceport,
shuttle up to a Corellian Corvette,
get hi-jacked by an Imperial Star Destroyer,
run around in the hallways looking for escape pods, or
looking for the fighter bays to steal a tie fighter
I don't think it will really be Star Wars
Well, Maybe If I can enter a pod race, that may do it for me for the immersion.
What about all of those IP's that point to Public Proxies? How many of them keep records of people? Hell, for that matter, how many public proxies, even know that they are public?
Isn;t there a way to route Kazaa/bearshare/winmx etc through a proxy?
Text: because the server had a heart attack...
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Build Your Own ECG
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· Score: 1, Funny
Welcome to my web page on how to make a simple ECG (electrocardiograph - also
known as an EKG). Here you will find information how how to build
one with less than $10 in parts. But before we get started, let's take a
moment to talk about shop safety. Be sure to read, understand, and follow all of
the safety rules that come with your power tools. Knowing how....ummmmm,
sorry. I guess I got into a little New
Yankee Workshop moment there.:) Anyways, I do want to talk
about safety. This device requires you to strap electrodes across your
chest. This is inherently dangerous.
Both because of the pain caused by sticky tape pulling hairs out of a person's
body and also because even
small currents can kill. Do not attempt this experiment if you are not
comfortable around electrical devices. I am not responsible for any harm
you may cause yourself. I have done everything I can think of to make this
safe, but don't come crying to me if you find yourself dead.
Now that I've started with this positive note, I can begin. I've split
my web page into two sections. One for the impatient - who would like to
make their own NOW. And the other for people who would like a little
commentary from me. Oh, and those of you who just want to see the final
product and don't care about the details, just skip to the Results. Happy reading!
It's been done...sort of. The Million Man Lan that happened a couple of years ago had a gathering in Louisville, KY for the easterners and a gathering somewhere in California for the Westerners. The two gatherings were supposed to be connected by a T-3 connection. But the West coast contingent failed due to not enough registrations. Too Bad. We had a blast for 4 days with out them.
"Hands across America" in the mid eighties. But that was for a good reason (if you think those things are good). I recall in my county there were not enough people to go from one side of the county to the other. (Aside: My little brother had to sit through a teacher lecturing at school about how this failing signalled the downfall of society.)
The "Let's do it for-the-hell-of-it" mentality is not going to get a lan across from coast to coast. Now if Each person were asked to share one folder on a hard drive with a favorite song/movie/picture, then I think people would buy their own wireless paraphenalia to jump into this big p2p event.
Well, that's my intial comment. Off to read the article.
But there is too much here in this article that covers a lot of different ground. I think I'll give this topic a break and read a book today during my break.
(It's like last couple of/. polls. Too many choices.)
Opting out? How can I opt out? Will there be a big warnng box upon install that says, "Check this box if you wish to opt out of using secutiry features." Or will it be turned on by default and installed already when Joe User buys a new PC? Will it be easy to turn off? Heck. How many Joe Users know right now if their Unique Chip Identifier is turned on in bios? (ala Pentium III UID technology). I tend to not like this optional feature. It will take one hour for someone to release a worm that turns it on without knowledge, turns it off without knowledge, or reports all sort of fun info without Joe User's knowledge.
For science. Look at our data recording of various solar bodies. We have to send up a satelite to orbit the planet, say Neptune. This satelite takes its readings and can only report back to earth when there is direct lne of site. With Neptune, this doesn't happen that often. If there were a "hub" system of Interplanetary TCP/IP set up, this satelite on Neptune could send the info via Jupiter --> Mars --> Venus -->Earth. Now once these hubs are set up, Communications would not rely on Line of site; interplanetory travel could "talk" with mission control from anywhere on the journey. Some Sci-Fi:
Traverse 12:Mission Control, Commander Meichiko just gave birth to a fine son, Akira.... There were some complications. Meickiko's Uterus ruptures when the placenta detatched. She's now stable. What do you reccomend?
Mission Control: Traverse 12. We read you. Congradulations. We are sending you the data from Commanders Meichiko's Reproductive files. From this you should be able to print out a new uterus on your HP BioJet 9800.
I would be one of the people downloading a tune, but I don't own the hardware. I'd like to see the stats on what songs were downloaded. Anyway, I got this in my email box this morning from Michael Robertson of Lindows and former CEO of MP3.COM. I find it coincidental after this Interview session, and I find his comments about Apple selling out intersting. The text of his (mass) email follows:
Most of you probably know that my former company was MP3.com, which was instrumental in bringing digital music to the masses. One of the things we stood for at MP3.com was the consumer's rights over their own music collection. Our belief was that consumers who purchase their music should have the ability to convert that music into a format they like and put the music on any device they desire. We even tried to get a law pushed through congress affirming this (we did not succeed in that attempt). The last five years have seen multiple attempts to limit consumers' rights via DRM (digital rights management) technology. These are schemes which add "big brother" restrictions to what you can do with your own music library.
It's no secret that the major record labels want to embed restrictions into music and force those restrictions onto customers, but recently they've been getting help from some surprising sources -- namely Microsoft and Apple. While I was the CEO of MP3.com, Microsoft repeatedly offered millions of dollars to us to convert the library of tunes at MP3.com from consumer friendly MP3 to Windows Media format. We always politely declined. Microsoft's strategy was that if they could get the whole world to convert to Windows Media, then they could get the record labels to pay them huge sums to limit how consumers could listen to their music. Thank goodness that hasn't happened yet, because having your music "expire", disappear, degrade in quality, not be able to burn to CD or load onto your devices is an awful consumer experience.
Microsoft is at it again though, trying to use their money and dominance in the OS to get a foothold in music by selling out consumers. Recently, news.com reported that Microsoft is cozzying up to the leading CD restriction company. This means we're one baby step away from all music CDs ONLY playing on Microsoft Windows XP. Imagine having to buy a copy of Microsoft Windows XP for every music device just so you can listen to your own music, and even then being restricted from making a compilation CD for your car!
Apple has understandably succumbed to pressure from the music labels to bolster their chances of securing music licenses for their iTunes music service by trampling music buyers rights. The 2.4% of the world which use Macs will find out that all the music in their newly announced service is wrapped in a digital padlock. This gives Apple (or the record labels) the ability to control what a buyer can do with the music they purchase. The user doesn't get to pick which computer they can listen to their music on (Macs only). Forget any device that isn't an iPod, like my current MP3 player (tiny, no cables, rechargeable battery - nice). Don't even think about burning a disc full of 100 MP3s to play in your DVD player. (Have you noticed virtually all new DVD players will play MP3 files?)
Straight ahead of us is a world where CDs will only play in Microsoft Windows XP computers. Digital songs you buy online will only work with Apple software or an Apple sanctioned portable player. You will not be able to burn any of the music you've purchased onto an MP3 CD to pop into your DVD player. That's a sad and expensive world for music fans because labels and large corporations will extort money from their users who just want to enjoy their own music.
When you pay for music, you should be able to enjoy that music in all the different and convenient ways available. I'm still a big believer in the value of MP3 because it ensures that the
You actually raise a good point. What if people are filtering out certain movie references to avoid spoilerage. Personally, I'm laying off of the next LotR movie hype. I just want to go into the theatre without seeing any trailer hype about the battles and so forth. ANyway, back to the point you bring up. Who decides what icon goes on the main page? Is it the submitter? Or, hopefully, Taco, cowboyneil, michael, chrisd...uh..well, one of those will put the right topic on things.
OK, Star Wars has an Icon. Matrix, I now see, has an icon. Why not Lord of the Rings? People have been harping about this for a while. I guess I'll add my name to the list of harpers...
I'm not worried about tracking. When I go and buy a box of brownies at the suppermarket and use my "Kroger Plus" card, I've been entered into the database, and they know that on February 10th I bought a box of brownies mix. They do not know that I've taken the brownies and made "Magic Brownies" with some THC stashed in the closet.
I don;t see the GRiD being used to track who downloaded what individualsong. All it will show when it shows up on Kazaa is that someone bought this song legally and is sharing a song with a friend or three. How long will it take for a utility to be released that removes the GRiD from an MP3 or song track?
and sure, for the students it is free, but for the schools it is 35-40 thousand dollars. That is BIG bucks for a school district. (At least it is for mine.) Why not give the whole program to the schools for almost nothing (Like MS did with office 5-6 years ago) and then teh kids will want it when they get out of school. Then when they got those $30K/year jobs they can pay for their own personal liscence. Bottom line: too damn expensive for schools.
This is why Nemisis wasn't a nemisis of a movie. It may have been new back when Kirk met his Anti-Matter self. It may have been new when things exploded when Dr. Who met himself. But 40 + years later. This isn't new. We all know what Ezra Pound preached right?
Make it new.
There needs to be some life breathed into the franchize. Right now, it seems to be on artificial respiration. Who, or what, can breath life into Star Trek? I have no answer.
Also, the reason, I didn't go see the movie, is that I thought the previews looked like an action movie, not a trek movie. And I'm not going to take my kids to see it when it shows sexual action in the previews.
Heh, True. I was gonna say the same thing. The Dogma movie was probably, somehow, inspired by the bible. Yet I know plenty of church-going people that just don;t like it. I wonder how many Tolkien lovers are gonna hate it becuse it ain't Tolkien.
The new year isn't here yet, but Schatz is already predicting that the biggest movie of 2003 - based on the high number of searches -- will be the sequel to The Matrix.
My initial reacion was, "No Lord of the Rings?" I guess Orlando Bloom is part of that. or maybe Ring fans don't do searches. They probably just have The One Ring.Net already bookmarked.
Or maybe Lycos isn;t that good of an indicator of
Web trends. (I haven't been to Lycos for about 5 years.)
Spieldburg didn't write this stuff. It isn;t going to have the cohesion that we viewers have come to expect in his finer movies. To take the "Short stories" and blend them together is a tough job. Look at what can happen (Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles) when one author tries to show a splintered vision along a unifying theme. Bradburys stuff is good,Don;t get me wrong; but taken on a whole, it doesn't rise above the individual stories. I think a lot of people were expecting Spielburg's stuff to transend the original writers' work because he looked at it and put his rubber-stamp-signature on the project. Is "Taken" really great? Nah. Is "Taken" worth watching? Sure.
Slashdot Mirror
Not only is poetry machine driven. Take a look at This Post-Modern Research Paper Generator.
Go ahead and read it...It looks just like the garbage I had to read and write in college...
Then hit the reload/refresh button.
More useless machine driven garbage.
As an added bonus, If you are in college and you need to impress that good looking Literature TA...then print off a copy. She'll never know.
- ride my landspeeder to the spaceport,
- shuttle up to a Corellian Corvette,
- get hi-jacked by an Imperial Star Destroyer,
- run around in the hallways looking for escape pods, or
- looking for the fighter bays to steal a tie fighter
I don't think it will really be Star Wars Well, Maybe If I can enter a pod race, that may do it for me for the immersion.What about all of those IP's that point to Public Proxies? How many of them keep records of people? Hell, for that matter, how many public proxies, even know that they are public? Isn;t there a way to route Kazaa/bearshare/winmx etc through a proxy?
Welcome to my web page on how to make a simple ECG (electrocardiograph - also known as an EKG). Here you will find information how how to build one with less than $10 in parts. But before we get started, let's take a moment to talk about shop safety. Be sure to read, understand, and follow all of the safety rules that come with your power tools. Knowing how ....ummmmm,
sorry. I guess I got into a little New
Yankee Workshop moment there. :) Anyways, I do want to talk
about safety. This device requires you to strap electrodes across your
chest. This is inherently dangerous.
Both because of the pain caused by sticky tape pulling hairs out of a person's
body and also because even
small currents can kill. Do not attempt this experiment if you are not
comfortable around electrical devices. I am not responsible for any harm
you may cause yourself. I have done everything I can think of to make this
safe, but don't come crying to me if you find yourself dead.
Now that I've started with this positive note, I can begin. I've split my web page into two sections. One for the impatient - who would like to make their own NOW. And the other for people who would like a little commentary from me. Oh, and those of you who just want to see the final product and don't care about the details, just skip to the Results. Happy reading!
Quick Details on building your own ECG
In Depth Information about my ECG
Introduction - What is an ECG? History behind it. What was I thinking?!
Some Stuff Sought Out - Miscellaneous things that I needed but didn't have
Adventures in Analog Land - The primary amplification circuit - all good ol' analog
Plenty of Programming - The visual basic source
Results - Maybe it's not perfect, but I think it's COOL!
Future thoughts - I still think I'm perfect, but I'm ready to argue these specifics
Notes - I didn't make this all up. Here's proof!
Not bad for about two weeks of work, eh? If any of you have any comments, questions, insults, etc; please email me. Thanks for coming.
It's been done...sort of. The Million Man Lan that happened a couple of years ago had a gathering in Louisville, KY for the easterners and a gathering somewhere in California for the Westerners. The two gatherings were supposed to be connected by a T-3 connection. But the West coast contingent failed due to not enough registrations. Too Bad. We had a blast for 4 days with out them.
"Hands across America" in the mid eighties. But that was for a good reason (if you think those things are good). I recall in my county there were not enough people to go from one side of the county to the other. (Aside: My little brother had to sit through a teacher lecturing at school about how this failing signalled the downfall of society.)
The "Let's do it for-the-hell-of-it" mentality is not going to get a lan across from coast to coast. Now if Each person were asked to share one folder on a hard drive with a favorite song/movie/picture, then I think people would buy their own wireless paraphenalia to jump into this big p2p event.
Well, that's my intial comment. Off to read the article.
I like
- posting
- reading articles
- reading posts
- thinking about posts
But there is too much here in this article that covers a lot of different ground. I think I'll give this topic a break and read a book today during my break.(It's like last couple of
Opting out? How can I opt out? Will there be a big warnng box upon install that says, "Check this box if you wish to opt out of using secutiry features." Or will it be turned on by default and installed already when Joe User buys a new PC? Will it be easy to turn off?
Heck. How many Joe Users know right now if their Unique Chip Identifier is turned on in bios? (ala Pentium III UID technology).
I tend to not like this optional feature. It will take one hour for someone to release a worm that turns it on without knowledge, turns it off without knowledge, or reports all sort of fun info without Joe User's knowledge.
Now once these hubs are set up, Communications would not rely on Line of site; interplanetory travel could "talk" with mission control from anywhere on the journey.
Some Sci-Fi:
I would be one of the people downloading a tune, but I don't own the hardware. I'd like to see the stats on what songs were downloaded.
Anyway, I got this in my email box this morning from Michael Robertson of Lindows and former CEO of MP3.COM. I find it coincidental after this Interview session, and I find his comments about Apple selling out intersting. The text of his (mass) email follows:
Most of you probably know that my former company was MP3.com, which was instrumental in bringing digital music to the masses. One of the things we stood for at MP3.com was the consumer's rights over their own music collection. Our belief was that consumers who purchase their music should have the ability to convert that music into a format they like and put the music on any device they desire. We even tried to get a law pushed through congress affirming this (we did not succeed in that attempt). The last five years have seen multiple attempts to limit consumers' rights via DRM (digital rights management) technology. These are schemes which add "big brother" restrictions to what you can do with your own music library.
It's no secret that the major record labels want to embed restrictions into music and force those restrictions onto customers, but recently they've been getting help from some surprising sources -- namely Microsoft and Apple. While I was the CEO of MP3.com, Microsoft repeatedly offered millions of dollars to us to convert the library of tunes at MP3.com from consumer friendly MP3 to Windows Media format. We always politely declined. Microsoft's strategy was that if they could get the whole world to convert to Windows Media, then they could get the record labels to pay them huge sums to limit how consumers could listen to their music. Thank goodness that hasn't happened yet, because having your music "expire", disappear, degrade in quality, not be able to burn to CD or load onto your devices is an awful consumer experience.
Microsoft is at it again though, trying to use their money and dominance in the OS to get a foothold in music by selling out consumers. Recently, news.com reported that Microsoft is cozzying up to the leading CD restriction company. This means we're one baby step away from all music CDs ONLY playing on Microsoft Windows XP. Imagine having to buy a copy of Microsoft Windows XP for every music device just so you can listen to your own music, and even then being restricted from making a compilation CD for your car!
Apple has understandably succumbed to pressure from the music labels to bolster their chances of securing music licenses for their iTunes music service by trampling music buyers rights. The 2.4% of the world which use Macs will find out that all the music in their newly announced service is wrapped in a digital padlock. This gives Apple (or the record labels) the ability to control what a buyer can do with the music they purchase. The user doesn't get to pick which computer they can listen to their music on (Macs only). Forget any device that isn't an iPod, like my current MP3 player (tiny, no cables, rechargeable battery - nice). Don't even think about burning a disc full of 100 MP3s to play in your DVD player. (Have you noticed virtually all new DVD players will play MP3 files?)
Straight ahead of us is a world where CDs will only play in Microsoft Windows XP computers. Digital songs you buy online will only work with Apple software or an Apple sanctioned portable player. You will not be able to burn any of the music you've purchased onto an MP3 CD to pop into your DVD player. That's a sad and expensive world for music fans because labels and large corporations will extort money from their users who just want to enjoy their own music.
When you pay for music, you should be able to enjoy that music in all the different and convenient ways available. I'm still a big believer in the value of MP3 because it ensures that the
Michael Jackson and Brittany Sphears songs and then hold someone up. "Stop! Gimme your cash or so help me, I'll use this!
You actually raise a good point. What if people are filtering out certain movie references to avoid spoilerage.
Personally, I'm laying off of the next LotR movie hype. I just want to go into the theatre without seeing any trailer hype about the battles and so forth.
ANyway, back to the point you bring up. Who decides what icon goes on the main page? Is it the submitter? Or, hopefully, Taco, cowboyneil, michael, chrisd...uh..well, one of those will put the right topic on things.
I doubt it, but if you pointed it at the ground and jumped you could do a Shirt-Propelled Jump.
Tiny Scrubbing Bubbles...
We keep cooling so you don't have to.....
Throwback from some bubble advertisement in the 80's.
Yikes, I'm a dork...There is a LotR Icon now. See?
Sorry for wasting space and mod points.
OK, Star Wars has an Icon. Matrix, I now see, has an icon. Why not Lord of the Rings? People have been harping about this for a while. I guess I'll add my name to the list of harpers...
(How low can the Karma go?)
I'm not worried about tracking. When I go and buy a box of brownies at the suppermarket and use my "Kroger Plus" card, I've been entered into the database, and they know that on February 10th I bought a box of brownies mix.
They do not know that I've taken the brownies and made "Magic Brownies" with some THC stashed in the closet.
I don;t see the GRiD being used to track who downloaded what individual song. All it will show when it shows up on Kazaa is that someone bought this song legally and is sharing a song with a friend or three.
How long will it take for a utility to be released that removes the GRiD from an MP3 or song track?
and sure, for the students it is free, but for the schools it is 35-40 thousand dollars. That is BIG bucks for a school district. (At least it is for mine.) Why not give the whole program to the schools for almost nothing (Like MS did with office 5-6 years ago) and then teh kids will want it when they get out of school. Then when they got those $30K/year jobs they can pay for their own personal liscence.
Bottom line: too damn expensive for schools.
There needs to be some life breathed into the franchize. Right now, it seems to be on artificial respiration. Who, or what, can breath life into Star Trek? I have no answer.
Also, the reason, I didn't go see the movie, is that I thought the previews looked like an action movie, not a trek movie. And I'm not going to take my kids to see it when it shows sexual action in the previews.
the 'Incredibly Rich Flogger!' Now let's see how long this fools my credit card company.
I'm not fooled by MS's "name change."
Heh, True. I was gonna say the same thing.
The Dogma movie was probably, somehow, inspired by the bible. Yet I know plenty of church-going people that just don;t like it.
I wonder how many Tolkien lovers are gonna hate it becuse it ain't Tolkien.
Proud of what I did,
Brother was envious and
slashdoted my lights
My initial reacion was, "No Lord of the Rings?" I guess Orlando Bloom is part of that. or maybe Ring fans don't do searches. They probably just have The One Ring.Net already bookmarked.
Or maybe Lycos isn;t that good of an indicator of Web trends. (I haven't been to Lycos for about 5 years.)
Spieldburg didn't write this stuff. It isn;t going to have the cohesion that we viewers have come to expect in his finer movies. To take the "Short stories" and blend them together is a tough job. Look at what can happen (Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles) when one author tries to show a splintered vision along a unifying theme. Bradburys stuff is good,Don;t get me wrong; but taken on a whole, it doesn't rise above the individual stories. I think a lot of people were expecting Spielburg's stuff to transend the original writers' work because he looked at it and put his rubber-stamp-signature on the project.
Is "Taken" really great? Nah.
Is "Taken" worth watching? Sure.