Every engineering cluster had a theme. That meant that you knew what lab the machine was in but it still kept the names interesting. It also made it easy to remember that the dolts who killed remote jobs always used the NBA team machines because their prof told them to use that lab and how to kill processes.
The best theme? Rain, Snow, Hail, Leaf, Meteor, Skylab, etc. "Things that fall from the sky."
There is a standing joke in the community. People without disabilities are "temporarily abled" since most people encounter disability at some point in their life.
This has to do with the work that's already been done for this route. There are local forces, especially around Pittsburgh, which have been doing studies and pushing high speed rail for years.
The route would really be better if it was DC/Pittsburgh/Cleveland/Detroit/Chicago/etc since it is the fastest way to bisect the east coast from the major midwest cities. It would have also given them a chance to alleviate the I-270 corridor with a stop in Frederick. The people who want to go to Philadelphia could then take the east coast corridor up (DC/Baltimore/Philadelphia/NY/Boston).
But this would leave Harrisburg, the state capital, in the cold. You know what happens when you piss off the local government... Also, they probably figured the 240 miles between Pittsburgh and DC can be done by car instead. Anyone in between would be able to drive to Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, or DC in under 2 hours.
Correct. I remember a project to replace military truck dashboards with LCD panels. The critical flaw was that, at least for night driving, this would light up the driver's head. Obviously, this is not a desirable situation.
For about 1 in 130 people in the US, eating gluten can lead to rapid weight loss and malabsorption of food (like Steve). If you're a vegetarian, this is a bit of a pain due to the prevalence of gluten in fake meat products.
I doubt this is what Steve has, but Celiac disease is often a suspect after mysterious weight loss. The reason I don't think he has it is because diagnosis does not usually include time off from work.
It is not uncommon for people to discover they have it late in life due to ambiguous/absent symptoms and general lack of awareness among doctors. Ironically, diagnosis is pretty straightforward. A simple blood test followed by an endoscope, if necessary. Treatment is very simple - don't eat gluten.
Trust me, many doctors are already convinced that telemedicine is important. The problem is that very few payment models have been sorted out. Until the insurance companies and the government (Medicare, VA, etc) figure out how they are going to pay the assisting doctor/therapist/etc for their time, we're not going to see a lot of telemedicine.
Having had the opportunity to try this device, I can tell you it is far superior to other systems for the purpose it was built for: precision and resolution.
I don't recall XPilot or Bolo doing that, but didn't XFire do something similar?
Bolo players developed side infrastructures for computing rankings and identifying top players. It wasn't in the game itself, but was definitely used and known by many players. One example is the Internet Bolo League.
Another was the use of character "banners" that players would challenge each other for (like championship belts in boxing). These were attached as suffixes to player names (PlayerName £). These allowed you to see on the tracker which games had good players.
Laser systems have been in use for civil applications for a long time. In fact, the ubiquitous SICK scanners used in robotics are repurposed from industrial equipment safety (high end light gates).
This story is more about how iRobot is going to field a commercial system that uses better laser sensors. Not that big of a deal really.
I have an oral deaf friend (lipreads and speaks) who regularly interprets at her local hospital in this sort of scenario. I think she even did a research project on this topic.
Depending on where you are, you might be able to find a non-professional who is willing to help out once in a while. The hospital's interpreter service might be a good place to start. If they don't have an explicit person with this skill sometimes oral interpreters are decent lipreaders. Note that I'm stressing "oral" - these are not the same as a sign interpreter and companies and hospitals usually botch this distinction.
Other than that, you can try contacting an Option School to see if they know anyone in the community.
On a completely different note, there may be someone in the Rehabilitation department of the hospital who has Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) equipment you can borrow. If she has use of her hands, this will be better than scrawling notes on a sheet of paper.
On the other hand, the sleep detection system would be a godsend. If the price was right, I would happily get one of those things installed.
This exists for truck drivers. I don't know what the price is for regular consumers, but these units have been on the market for a few years. The nice thing about this system is that it warns you about being tired before you start weaving all over the road. The lead time gives you a chance to find a place to rest. The system also lets you see your drowsiness build up so you can take a break before things get bad.
Disclaimer: I was involved in a university research project that led to the product. I have no involvement in the company. And yes, drowsy drivers can and do travel the length of a football field with their eyes closed.
I would have snapped up an "HD iTivo" in a second but that's not what it is.
This has been on the market for some time. Go buy an EyeTV. You can even shove the recordings over to iTunes in one click. You can also edit out commercials if you want. No monthly fees, no DRM, and you can program your deck remotely through the web (in the US, not sure about other countries).
With Toast you can also burn fully valid DVDs of your content.
Gah! Where's Bolo??? We're talking serverless multiplayer games at the tail of the 80's. Not exactly P2P, but everything else back then was client-server. Stuart Cheshire got a thesis out of it, no less!
That would probably be leftover from the good old days of stiction. There is nothing quite like pulling a drive out of a computer and smacking/snapping/why the hell are you doing to that! in front of a novice user.
Actually, they have several choices - my first thought was "Ok stop selling iPods in Norway."
Think about it - people would just mail order them from across the border and Apple would still be in the clear. You can play your Norwegian iTunes Store purchases on your computer (Mac or PC!) and burn your music to CD to play in your ancient CD player if you want. No more issues regarding a proprietary device.
I know, it would seem to make more sense to just close down the iTunes Store for Norway and still sell iPods there. However, buying music and movies online is harder to do across national boundaries.
This has an additional effect - Norway would no longer reap the benefits of sales taxes on high value iPods every time Apple updates the line. Instead, they'd lose those taxes other European countries.
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Every engineering cluster had a theme. That meant that you knew what lab the machine was in but it still kept the names interesting. It also made it easy to remember that the dolts who killed remote jobs always used the NBA team machines because their prof told them to use that lab and how to kill processes.
The best theme? Rain, Snow, Hail, Leaf, Meteor, Skylab, etc. "Things that fall from the sky."
Nobody thinks they are going to be disabled.
There is a standing joke in the community. People without disabilities are "temporarily abled" since most people encounter disability at some point in their life.
This has to do with the work that's already been done for this route. There are local forces, especially around Pittsburgh, which have been doing studies and pushing high speed rail for years.
The route would really be better if it was DC/Pittsburgh/Cleveland/Detroit/Chicago/etc since it is the fastest way to bisect the east coast from the major midwest cities. It would have also given them a chance to alleviate the I-270 corridor with a stop in Frederick. The people who want to go to Philadelphia could then take the east coast corridor up (DC/Baltimore/Philadelphia/NY/Boston).
But this would leave Harrisburg, the state capital, in the cold. You know what happens when you piss off the local government... Also, they probably figured the 240 miles between Pittsburgh and DC can be done by car instead. Anyone in between would be able to drive to Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, or DC in under 2 hours.
Along these lines, has anyone else noticed that Taco has 5 instances of "Member of the 1 Digit UID Club"?
The presence of a Google Lab in Pittsburgh, right across the parking lot from Carnegie Mellon (their alma mater) didn't hurt.
Correct. I remember a project to replace military truck dashboards with LCD panels. The critical flaw was that, at least for night driving, this would light up the driver's head. Obviously, this is not a desirable situation.
For about 1 in 130 people in the US, eating gluten can lead to rapid weight loss and malabsorption of food (like Steve). If you're a vegetarian, this is a bit of a pain due to the prevalence of gluten in fake meat products.
I doubt this is what Steve has, but Celiac disease is often a suspect after mysterious weight loss. The reason I don't think he has it is because diagnosis does not usually include time off from work.
It is not uncommon for people to discover they have it late in life due to ambiguous/absent symptoms and general lack of awareness among doctors. Ironically, diagnosis is pretty straightforward. A simple blood test followed by an endoscope, if necessary. Treatment is very simple - don't eat gluten.
I so wish I had mod points right now...
Why buy it when you can build it? Oh yeah, the brain of the unit is a Qwerk which means you can really hack it to respond to all sorts of things.
Trust me, many doctors are already convinced that telemedicine is important. The problem is that very few payment models have been sorted out. Until the insurance companies and the government (Medicare, VA, etc) figure out how they are going to pay the assisting doctor/therapist/etc for their time, we're not going to see a lot of telemedicine.
You can open source code without jailbreaking. Who says all open source is GPL?
I don't watch much TV, but the functionality is awfully similar to GigaPan.
Has anyone set this to "Developers! Developers! Developers!" yet?
Having had the opportunity to try this device, I can tell you it is far superior to other systems for the purpose it was built for: precision and resolution.
Another was the use of character "banners" that players would challenge each other for (like championship belts in boxing). These were attached as suffixes to player names (PlayerName £). These allowed you to see on the tracker which games had good players.
Laser systems have been in use for civil applications for a long time. In fact, the ubiquitous SICK scanners used in robotics are repurposed from industrial equipment safety (high end light gates).
This story is more about how iRobot is going to field a commercial system that uses better laser sensors. Not that big of a deal really.
I have an oral deaf friend (lipreads and speaks) who regularly interprets at her local hospital in this sort of scenario. I think she even did a research project on this topic.
Depending on where you are, you might be able to find a non-professional who is willing to help out once in a while. The hospital's interpreter service might be a good place to start. If they don't have an explicit person with this skill sometimes oral interpreters are decent lipreaders. Note that I'm stressing "oral" - these are not the same as a sign interpreter and companies and hospitals usually botch this distinction.
Other than that, you can try contacting an Option School to see if they know anyone in the community.
On a completely different note, there may be someone in the Rehabilitation department of the hospital who has Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) equipment you can borrow. If she has use of her hands, this will be better than scrawling notes on a sheet of paper.
Disclaimer: I was involved in a university research project that led to the product. I have no involvement in the company. And yes, drowsy drivers can and do travel the length of a football field with their eyes closed.
Oh, the irony....
Harkle has a lot of stuff. They do their own captioning for some of the posted video.
Google video with captioning and the developer instructions and tools.
Here is a related article on this topic.
With Toast you can also burn fully valid DVDs of your content.
Gah! Where's Bolo??? We're talking serverless multiplayer games at the tail of the 80's. Not exactly P2P, but everything else back then was client-server. Stuart Cheshire got a thesis out of it, no less!
That would probably be leftover from the good old days of stiction. There is nothing quite like pulling a drive out of a computer and smacking/snapping/why the hell are you doing to that! in front of a novice user.
Actually, they have several choices - my first thought was "Ok stop selling iPods in Norway."
Think about it - people would just mail order them from across the border and Apple would still be in the clear. You can play your Norwegian iTunes Store purchases on your computer (Mac or PC!) and burn your music to CD to play in your ancient CD player if you want. No more issues regarding a proprietary device.
I know, it would seem to make more sense to just close down the iTunes Store for Norway and still sell iPods there. However, buying music and movies online is harder to do across national boundaries.
This has an additional effect - Norway would no longer reap the benefits of sales taxes on high value iPods every time Apple updates the line. Instead, they'd lose those taxes other European countries.
Action, reaction.
Crud. I hope they retain Google's ability to play and encode closed captioning.