#garfield Logs

Mar 28 2013

00:19 any21069381 one end of it lifts off the floor, and the bar weaves back and forth in the magnetic currents of of the electric furnaces! That field would magnetize a camera's steel shutters, and ruin a watch mechanism!
00:31 rue_mohr hmm
00:32 any21069381 The pursuit to develop a bionic arm that can connect to the human brain took a step forward with the Tuesday announcement that National Institutes of Health scientists had developed a wireless brain implant that operates a prosthesis.
00:33 rue_mohr bah, they need to know how to make a nerve mapper, that can interface with the severed nerve chord
00:34 any21069381 The 2-inch titanium implant communicates with the prosthesis with electromagnectic signals. It recharges itself through induction.
00:34 any21069381 NIH scientists have tested the wireless brain implant on pigs and rhesus monkeys for more than a year.
00:35 rue_mohr I was electrocuting myself, verry interesting differences with freq and dc bias, the genroatrs Ihad couldn't do pwm control
00:36 any21069381 electrocuting myself = TENS (google/wikipedia it)
00:36 rue_mohr nerves seem to, from what I'v read, operate like relaxation oscillators
00:37 any21069381 sophisticated "electrocuting myself" : http://designerthinking.com/TENS.html
00:38 rue_mohr I was working out what dc bias/freq/duty caused what sensations
00:40 any21069381 use ac
00:40 rue_mohr + bias gives a verry different sensation than - bias
00:41 any21069381 you know nerve cells operate by ion exchnage thru the cell walls, yeas? you can modulate that, and stuff it up, to some degree
00:42 rue_mohr hah, your taking on rifraf expressions :)
00:42 any21069381 i have not seen him for a decent time in years?
00:43 any21069381 how is his accelerometer thing working?
00:43 rue_mohr I dont know
00:43 any21069381 !!!
00:44 rue_mohr he's having fun
00:44 rue_mohr he does
00:44 rue_mohr his goals are different than mine and we always end up getting confrontational about it
00:45 y21069381
00:45 rue_mohr I like to see people do stuff, not interested in arguing about how
00:46 any21069381 i cleaned inside the car today
00:47 rue_mohr a little late dont ya think?
00:49 any21069381 i didn't want any critetrs moving into it
00:49 rue_mohr usually witout a roof they wont bother?
00:50 any21069381 there were 3 dead mouse bodies in it, i just didn't want to attract more, besides, the water put out the cutting fires
00:51 any21069381 damn windshield was cracked, i didn't know till i got it almost out
00:55 rue_mohr darn that would have made some good project funds
00:55 y21069381
00:57 any21069381 Navy Wants More GD Super Computers
00:57 any21069381 The U.S. Navy has awarded a $19.3 million contract to General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems to produce Type-3 advanced mission computers for the F/A-18E/F and E/A-18G Super Hornet aircraft.
00:58 rue_mohr if a desktop is currently 8 core 4Ghz with 32G ram, I wonder what I supercomputer is
00:59 y21069381 cu
00:59 rue_mohr I stripped down a dual 2.4Ghz with 1G ram and scsi array today
01:00 rue_mohr weighed all-in-all like 180lbs
01:00 any21069381 a desktop is currently more puter power than i have on the shelf here?
01:00 rue_mohr I cant see your shelf
01:00 any21069381 why did you strip it down? sounds sellable
01:00 rue_mohr its not
01:00 rue_mohr ask iamturni1
01:01 any21069381 DesignerThinking.com/images/puterlab/DSCF1739.jpg
01:01 any21069381 DesignerThinking.com/images/puterlab/DSCF2657m.jpg
01:01 rue_mohr he gets stuff like that by the truckload
01:01 rue_mohr http://DesignerThinking.com/images/puterlab/DSCF1739.jpg
01:01 rue_mohr http://DesignerThinking.com/images/puterlab/DSCF2657m.jpg
01:01 any21069381 why can't i get that stuff from him?
01:02 rue_mohr nice array kat
01:02 rue_mohr shipping
01:02 any21069381 it's all ~2000 vintage tho
01:02 any21069381 and there's no use for Tiggr anymore, no one i know wants her in a channel
01:03 rue_mohr who said that? not me
01:03 any21069381 you practically say i am useless, that makes her useless too
01:03 rue_mohr no I didn't :( you implied it by something I didn't say
01:03 rue_mohr because I wasn't there
01:03 rue_mohr caues I dont type here when I'm afk
01:04 rue_mohr but I never say when I'm afk
01:05 any21069381 The Army has awarded BAE Systems a $43 million cooperative agreement extension to lead the Army Research Laboratory�s Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology Collaborative Technology Alliance for another five years.
01:05 rue_mohr what? les than 10M/yr?
01:05 rue_mohr just think , all that is tax money
01:06 any21069381 we are talking robots the size of butterflies and small birds and lizards
01:06 rue_mohr http://designerthinking.com/images/puterlab/DSCF1739.jpg <-- front right, foreground, printer parts?
01:08 any21069381 i think that was the 8mm camcorder remains, that pic is years old
01:08 rue_mohr I'm wondering if the pic on a webcam would improve much if it was fitted with descent quality lens
01:09 rue_mohr but I think most of the fuzzyness is cmos sensitivity to noise
01:09 rue_mohr being a factor of lack of shielding and sloppy electrical design
01:10 y21069381
01:10 any21069381 digitising it at such low power to cram it down a usb cable doesn't help
01:10 rue_mohr http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/teleinterface.html
01:11 rue_mohr I been starring at this for days, and just realsized I have two old phones of the deck
01:12 rue_mohr http://www.inventgineering.com/Telephony.htm another good one, but the datasheet for the MC33178 was the awesome one
01:12 any21069381 antique data, it's all digital now
01:13 rue_mohr no, digital hasn't taken because they have all sorts of technical issues
01:13 any21069381 huh?
01:13 rue_mohr the main one being that when they decided to make digital phones, they threw out over 300 years of telephony knowhow
01:14 rue_mohr for example there are NO tools for digital telephony to monitor the audio levels in a stream, AND both sides have gain adjustment
01:15 rue_mohr analog telephony has a number of guidelines for sidetone and echo, all this was thrown out for voip
01:15 y21069381
01:15 any21069381 hee, they still feed analog to places, but the lines are grouped n substations to feed digital to the main office
01:16 rue_mohr but today people dont buy for audio quality, they buy for feature, like having facebook on your phone
01:16 rue_mohr you could probably produce a phone that didn't work at all as a phone, and had lots of features and apps, it would sell just as well as the rest of them
01:16 y21069381 just gets a cell phone and
01:17 rue_mohr WHAT!???? WHAAAAT????? LOOK I CANT UNDERSTAND YOU, JUST TEXT ME!
01:18 y21069381 talks into the mouse on
01:37 rue_mohr keyboard, how quait
01:37 y21069381 shows the formula for transparent alum
01:40 rue_mohr you want how much plexiglass?
01:40 any21069381 couple whales worth
01:52 any21069381 British soldiers are flying in Afghanistan a miniature helicopter that is the size of your hand and weighs just 14 grams.
01:52 any21069381 The Black Hornet Nano Unmanned Air Vehicle is equipped with a camera that provides full motion video and sill photos. British soldiers have used it mostly to see around corners and into rooms.
01:56 any21069381 The ARGUS-IS can stream up to a million terabytes of data and record 5,000 hours of HD footage per day. It can do this by the 1.8 gigapixel camera and 368 different sensors all housed in the ARGUS-IS.
01:56 any21069381 heck of a model plane
02:02 any21069381 The Marine Corps is spending $12 million on a new batch of AeroVironment Wasp AE small unmanned aircraft systems.
02:03 any21069381 Weighing 2.8 pounds, the Wasp AE air vehicle is designed for ground and water landing, making it suitable for both land and maritime missions, and is capable of 20 percent greater flight duration than the Wasp III.
05:59 any46756233 woo, a school has canceled all easter festivities, saying eggs and flouresent green plastic grass and bunnies have nothing to do with the religious holiday (never mind it's a pagan religious holiday and it does)
05:59 any46756233 so maybe they'll cancel all xmas trees and gifts to non-jesuses from now on too!
06:03 any46756233 local radio station recently upgraded the audio equipment, now there's significant bandwidth, and it's crystal clear, like it should have been since the 1980's!
06:19 any46756233 http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/03/27/internet-slowed-by-biggest.html
06:27 any46756233 further regarding M0trn's comment, and why i said something:
06:27 any46756233 They fired a female employee for speaking up in about feeling uncomfortable within a specific professional environment, in a manner which - like it or not! - was consistent with the rules and regulations of that environment.
06:27 any46756233 That�s not �supporting the right to report inappropriate behavior, wherever and whenever it occurs.� That�s a warning shot for women not to speak out, pure and simple.
06:27 any46756233 Because Adria made a judgment call and look how crazily she got burned.
06:27 any46756233 Anyone who thinks that women won�t think twice about speaking up forcefully about this stuff is kidding themselves.
06:28 any46756233 Maybe not in the clear-cut situations, but in those blurry wait-maybe-it�s-me-should-I-just-learn-to-take-a-joke?-everyone-else-is-laughing situations that happen so often in rooms dominated by dudes, in an industry that often chides women to just get over the booth babe thing, learn to take a joke, stop complaining.
06:28 any46756233 But the hateful reaction to her has been breathtaking, and frightening, and unequivocally gendered. You cannot brush off repeated threats of rape.
06:29 any46756233 etc
06:29 any46756233 but i am mere dog food, so it doesn't matter
06:30 any46756233 so i said something
06:37 any46756233 http://pages.ebay.com/policies/ua_standalone.html
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12:25 jennie hi rue_
12:39 any46756233 does anyone else read "Committee upholds decision not to allow MPs to debate sex-selective abortion motion" as NOT saying anything about disallowing MPs to debate sex-selective abortion motion?
13:49 jennie no
13:49 jennie what is it ?
20:12 TELunus|2 Any4676233, how do you get that reading of the phrase? I can't seem to see it that way.
21:00 rue_bed who is th1
21:00 rue_bed iamturni1, when did you say you were comming down?
21:01 rue_bed ah th1 I'll try to get those part numbers next time I'm up
21:10 rue_bed I dont get it, something like the flu should kill maligment cancer cells
21:10 rue_bed maybe they are the wrong type of tissue to be attacked by common viri
21:11 rue_bed maybe a flu isn't the type of virus to kill its host cell
21:14 Tom_itx no but it makes you feel like it should
21:18 rue_bed no wait, the tomor type that dosn't spread
21:19 rue_bed usually viruses destroy the host cells they enter
21:28 rue_bed "Sulu, Sulu, you do see that planet were headed straight for? Sulu? DEAR GOD HE'S ASLEEP!"
23:40 any46756233 TELunus|2 , i am going to teach you how to drive my Ferarri, and then i'll leave the keys and a gas credit card in your room was i leave for the Bahamas for a week. But in doing so, i have not given you a legal permission to use the car, i fact, i made a decision to not explicitly allow you to use the car while i am away
23:41 any46756233 the committee did the same, they made a decision to not allow ("you can do this"), they did not make a decision to disallow ("you are not permitted to do this")
23:42 TELunus|2 Ah. Thank you.
23:43 any46756233 it's like "during spring break, the kids only goto Daytona Beach" means (exactly) that they do not go anywhere else, like grocery stores, hotels, or crash pads, it says explicitly "only goto Daytona Beach"
23:46 any46756233 or even worse "only eats shrimp on the 12th" , explicity says she eats nothing else on the 12th, only shrimp, when praps what was mean is "eats shrimp only on the 12th" , which means doesn't eat shrimp on other days
23:46 any46756233 to to be less a ambiguous "eats shrimp on the 12th only"
23:47 any46756233 but for some idiot reason, humans have taken to placing the word "only" as early in the sentence as they can , no matter what it means
23:53 any46756233 "i only fly to Seattle" means i never drive there (i only fly there!), but "i fly to only Seattle" if i am going to fly then Seattle is the place i am going
23:54 any46756233 and "only i fly to Seattle" means no one else flys there
23:58 any46756233 it's wierd how only i can see the difference in communication, but i cannot communicate with humans, and they don't hire me