You could get highspeed internet in a large number of rural communities throughout central BC for quite a while. even my mother-in-law can get it and she lives in a town with a population of 300 and is 30km from another town in either direction. Not exactly dense population there.
I was having fun looking at vehicles in a parking lot one day. You can sure tell which vehicles were parked all night and which ones were not. You could tell that one tire of a delivery truck was low on air simply because the rubber between the treads on that tire were warmer then the other tires. Also it is easy to tell how someone uses their brakes.
The ones I play with are for navigation and marine security. With the odd billionaire's yacht thrown in for good measure. Much bigger budgets, and much better performance. Very cool to play with.
Re:Many high-end web-cams have day/night and pan/t
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Um... You wouldn't be able to buy something like this off the shelf, but you could probably get away with borrowing a xenon bulb from your neighbours audi then get a visible light blocking filter from your camera shop. Thing to keep in mind is not to stare directly into the invisible beam.
Or you could just go to and buy a vector beam
http://www.global-security-solutions.com/VectorLig ht.htm
It is because you are focusing on a much narrower spectrum. You are looking at only light that is in the IR spectrum, so it makes sense that all the colours we see and appreciate, all meld into one.
This is the same reason why night vision will never be in colour.
(No, I didn't mispell colour:-)
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I usually prefer to use a high intensity Xenon light with a filter on the front. Xenon has a nice spike in intensity at about 700nM and makes an awesome covert searchlight.
Re:The effects of IR on follicles
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What's really cool is looking at a person through a 3-5 Micro-Meter (aka "Far IR" thermal camera (think military and very expensive). Your hair looks black near the ends, and red near your scalp. Glasses appear black, veins are sometimes visible, and you can see 2 guys in a zodiac up to 20 miles away (which is why the military likes them so much).
This webcam mod is pretty cool, but only for us normal folk without $40,000 to spend on a REAL thermal camera.
What if someone wants to work on an OSS project, yet finances won't allow them? I think this is great.
If I was a financially troubled programmer (heck, if I was a programmer at all) I would be interested in taking on one of these projects not only because of the benifit to the community, but the extra cash can help programmers with such real world necessities as WoW registrations.
For $75 (Canadian) I will take someone's hacked/virus infested windows machine, boot Knoppix, copy everything important to my USB harddrive, then re-install. People are usually ecstatic to pay me when they thought their files were gone for good just because they couldn't boot their computer. Then I get to buy new computer parts:-)
For the last 4 years I was a technician building and maintaining robots. They didn't have guns, but they did make batteries that could be used in the robot with the gun!!!
Scary stuff. For the technicians I mean. Assembly line robots could be a pain someimes. Hairbrained ideas from engineers to proud to back down and change their designs to make the machines more durrable and easy to build. Robots are truly frightening sometimes;-)
Recess the knob. Make the surface of the knob flush with the surface of the player. The knob still spins mechanically instead of the tactile surface, without all the annoying legal stuff. Would need some sort of bushing to stop dust and debris entering alongside the edge though.
Proverbs 26:11 As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
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I agree. The beauty of Knoppix is just handing a disk to a newbie saying "try this". After assuring them that nothing bad will happen to their computer, nothing at all really, they are bound to try. Getting a newbie to install linux and possibly wreck their window install? Much scarier.
Check out In-Win cases. The name is somewhat lacking, but the cases are realy nice to work with. Everything is well build, no sharp edges, pieces slide out for mounting, and they are affordable too. You can get a nice one for ~$100 CDN.
If you want flashing lights, and really cheap with a nice PS, check out the Raidmax Scorpio. ~$70 CDN with a 420W powersupply. Be warned though, lots of sharp edges. One piece in particular is REALLY good at slicing open the back of your hand when you are trying to connect the drive cables.
I find that "Peep and the big wide world" quite often conflicts with "Dora the Explorer". What is especially annoying is that the start/end times change from day to day.
I guess I am going to have to put an extra tuner card in my Mythbox.
Mythtv is the best thing for little children. Especially with commercial autoskip.
We learned a lot from Babywise, but also did our own thing. Best idea we came up with is light levels. During the day, kid sleeps in a light room, and during night, kid sleeps in dark room. When kid wakes up at night, and needs food, feed kid but keep the room DARK!!! Pretty soon, kid gets more used to sleeping during night. Our first was sleeping most of the night by the time he was 2 months old. Our second is only a week old, so we don't have her trained yet.
Babies are great, but when they get older and more interractive, they are even MORE fun. When I come home from work I like to sneak in and when I am close I yell my son's name in a deep loud voice. His reaction is that he throws anything in his hands, screams, and runs across the room to give me a hug. Very heart warming.
Once they are a bit older, Mythtv becomes a MUST. The ability to have a large archive of instantly available childrens shows with auto commercial skipping becomes pretty useful.
I agree that it is too easy to be paranoid. You just gotta lighten up and trust that they are gonna be alright during the night.
We just had our second a week ago, and it is funny how much it is different from the first one. We are much more relaxed parents the second time around.
I do have an insanely large amount of baby pic's burned to CDs (which I seem to have payed a copy levy when I purchased) If you have a gmail account you would like to test the capacity on, I could send you some pictures of my cute kids.
Oh, congrats on becoming a new father. Only part I regret is that we waited till we were 25 to start.
I shone my cheapo LASER pointer at my buddies house one night (Trying to find line of site for future WLAN developments). His house is about 300M away, but in amongst other houses, so this was a great way to identify his roof peak and bedroom window. He said that the beam was bigger then his head (although his head is not abnormally large, it isn't exactly small) and looked like someone had a huge spotlight in our kitchen window. Although it looked really bright, he was able to look directly into the beam without pain. Granted there was enough humidity in the air for us to see the beam.
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For a second, I thought this was the Point Of View gun from The HHGTG movie.
I was thinking to my self "Self, if your wife see's this, you are in BIG trouble!!!"
Fortunately it is just some lame Persistance of Vision crap.
Um... no.
You could get highspeed internet in a large number of rural communities throughout central BC for quite a while. even my mother-in-law can get it and she lives in a town with a population of 300 and is 30km from another town in either direction. Not exactly dense population there.
I was having fun looking at vehicles in a parking lot one day. You can sure tell which vehicles were parked all night and which ones were not. You could tell that one tire of a delivery truck was low on air simply because the rubber between the treads on that tire were warmer then the other tires. Also it is easy to tell how someone uses their brakes.
The ones I play with are for navigation and marine security. With the odd billionaire's yacht thrown in for good measure. Much bigger budgets, and much better performance. Very cool to play with.
Um... You wouldn't be able to buy something like this off the shelf, but you could probably get away with borrowing a xenon bulb from your neighbours audi then get a visible light blocking filter from your camera shop. Thing to keep in mind is not to stare directly into the invisible beam. Or you could just go to and buy a vector beam http://www.global-security-solutions.com/VectorLig ht.htm
Over US$40,000 for the ones with the miniature cryogenics module to cool the IR detector to -175C
It is because you are focusing on a much narrower spectrum. You are looking at only light that is in the IR spectrum, so it makes sense that all the colours we see and appreciate, all meld into one.
:-)
This is the same reason why night vision will never be in colour.
(No, I didn't mispell colour
I usually prefer to use a high intensity Xenon light with a filter on the front. Xenon has a nice spike in intensity at about 700nM and makes an awesome covert searchlight.
D&D is so yesterday.
The torch has been passed to WoW.
What's really cool is looking at a person through a 3-5 Micro-Meter (aka "Far IR" thermal camera (think military and very expensive). Your hair looks black near the ends, and red near your scalp. Glasses appear black, veins are sometimes visible, and you can see 2 guys in a zodiac up to 20 miles away (which is why the military likes them so much).
This webcam mod is pretty cool, but only for us normal folk without $40,000 to spend on a REAL thermal camera.
What if someone wants to work on an OSS project, yet finances won't allow them? I think this is great.
If I was a financially troubled programmer (heck, if I was a programmer at all) I would be interested in taking on one of these projects not only because of the benifit to the community, but the extra cash can help programmers with such real world necessities as WoW registrations.
Pour a gallon of water on the circuit board and claim the seal on your car leaked.
I build equipment that gets mounted on ships. It wouldn't be too hard to arrange a catastrophic failure. Hmm... This sounds kinda fun no?
Exactly.
:-)
For $75 (Canadian) I will take someone's hacked/virus infested windows machine, boot Knoppix, copy everything important to my USB harddrive, then re-install. People are usually ecstatic to pay me when they thought their files were gone for good just because they couldn't boot their computer. Then I get to buy new computer parts
Scary.
;-)
For the last 4 years I was a technician building and maintaining robots. They didn't have guns, but they did make batteries that could be used in the robot with the gun!!!
Scary stuff. For the technicians I mean. Assembly line robots could be a pain someimes. Hairbrained ideas from engineers to proud to back down and change their designs to make the machines more durrable and easy to build. Robots are truly frightening sometimes
Recess the knob. Make the surface of the knob flush with the surface of the player. The knob still spins mechanically instead of the tactile surface, without all the annoying legal stuff. Would need some sort of bushing to stop dust and debris entering alongside the edge though.
I think you mean:
Proverbs 26:11
As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
I agree. The beauty of Knoppix is just handing a disk to a newbie saying "try this". After assuring them that nothing bad will happen to their computer, nothing at all really, they are bound to try. Getting a newbie to install linux and possibly wreck their window install? Much scarier.
Check out In-Win cases. The name is somewhat lacking, but the cases are realy nice to work with. Everything is well build, no sharp edges, pieces slide out for mounting, and they are affordable too. You can get a nice one for ~$100 CDN.
If you want flashing lights, and really cheap with a nice PS, check out the Raidmax Scorpio. ~$70 CDN with a 420W powersupply. Be warned though, lots of sharp edges. One piece in particular is REALLY good at slicing open the back of your hand when you are trying to connect the drive cables.
Chris.
How else are you to get first post?
I find that "Peep and the big wide world" quite often conflicts with "Dora the Explorer". What is especially annoying is that the start/end times change from day to day.
I guess I am going to have to put an extra tuner card in my Mythbox.
Mythtv is the best thing for little children. Especially with commercial autoskip.
Malicious would be me hitting "Reload Current Page" constantly...
Babiewise is awesome!
We learned a lot from Babywise, but also did our own thing. Best idea we came up with is light levels. During the day, kid sleeps in a light room, and during night, kid sleeps in dark room. When kid wakes up at night, and needs food, feed kid but keep the room DARK!!! Pretty soon, kid gets more used to sleeping during night. Our first was sleeping most of the night by the time he was 2 months old. Our second is only a week old, so we don't have her trained yet.
Babies are great, but when they get older and more interractive, they are even MORE fun. When I come home from work I like to sneak in and when I am close I yell my son's name in a deep loud voice. His reaction is that he throws anything in his hands, screams, and runs across the room to give me a hug. Very heart warming.
Once they are a bit older, Mythtv becomes a MUST. The ability to have a large archive of instantly available childrens shows with auto commercial skipping becomes pretty useful.
I agree that it is too easy to be paranoid. You just gotta lighten up and trust that they are gonna be alright during the night. We just had our second a week ago, and it is funny how much it is different from the first one. We are much more relaxed parents the second time around. I do have an insanely large amount of baby pic's burned to CDs (which I seem to have payed a copy levy when I purchased) If you have a gmail account you would like to test the capacity on, I could send you some pictures of my cute kids. Oh, congrats on becoming a new father. Only part I regret is that we waited till we were 25 to start.
Evil of all evil's.
Clusty didn't warn me about an impending PDF file!!!
Oh how I loath PDF. Atleast Google warns of one so I can avoid it.
I shone my cheapo LASER pointer at my buddies house one night (Trying to find line of site for future WLAN developments). His house is about 300M away, but in amongst other houses, so this was a great way to identify his roof peak and bedroom window. He said that the beam was bigger then his head (although his head is not abnormally large, it isn't exactly small) and looked like someone had a huge spotlight in our kitchen window. Although it looked really bright, he was able to look directly into the beam without pain. Granted there was enough humidity in the air for us to see the beam.