You two on the same thread is a FF spectator sport for me. Love it.
- SAM
Lack of knowledge, Alex? I'm schooling you.
- Cristo
SAM, good to know someone's entertained. :)
- Cristo
You aren't schooling me. Your lack of knowledge on automation and management is why you write posts and then don't like the response you get.
- Alex Scoble
Alex, I'm leaning towards others for my automation education. No offense. :)
- Cristo
And you still won't get to where you want to go by yourself. No offense.
- Alex Scoble
Alex, so are you in the "only installers can do it" camp or the "it isn't worth doing" camp?
- Cristo
Only installers can do it. I worked for a building management system installer and know what goes in to building automation. It is very unlikely that someone who hasn't gone through an extensive amount of training on the subject could do it. It takes a lot of knowledge over many disciplines to do this sort of work. So while I don't doubt that it will keep you occupied, at the end of the day you are going to have to turn to an installation company to get what you want done.
- Alex Scoble
Alex, would you have said the same for the multi-zone media work I've done?
- Cristo
No...different ballgame completely. Although even there you had to have someone do the wiring and wall patchwork.
- Alex Scoble
Alex, yes I hire people to do work for me using my design. What is wrong with that? I suppose if I did the drywalling myself, you'd complain that I didn't manufacture it.
- Cristo
Well, I think that you'll find that you'll have to take more of a backseat when having someone automate your house. And hopefully you find a very patient installer because you will be very high maintenance on this particular project.
- Alex Scoble
Alex, can you tell me what can be automated and how?
- Cristo
I don't even believe this is a real project, I think it's just an excuse to talk about money and different cables
- Andrizzle Gizzle
Andrizzle, you got it all figured out. Not only that, but itblogger is just another one of my accounts.
- Cristo
Alex, why would I ask if I knew? I'm not testing you, I'm seeing whether there is anything worth automating. Seems like much of what I want to do can't be done.
- Cristo
I think that most of what you want to do can be done, it just will be expensive. Most consumer electronics that have wireless controls are not intelligent and have no feedback mechanisms for what state they are in, so you have to bolt on devices that track the state of devices under control.
- Alex Scoble
That's not very specific. What appliances in the kitchen or laundry room can I automate?
- Cristo
I think I went through three of them. Had to even put some stuff on them to keep the dog away from it. Ended up putting a hook on the wall where I hung the mask by straps so nothing could get to it.
- Uncle CW™
Is that something for snoring? My dog (D.Bo - the baby) will eat anything. We call him a goat! Sorry - we have learned the hard way not to leave anything they can get to if we aren't watching them.
- Paulette Garcia Morris
My wife had a CPAP machine for a while but couldn't get used to it. She's got an appliance now that fits in her mouth and moves her bottom jaw forward. It works great, she is sleeping so much better. However, the dog got that once too... a frickin $500 mistake :(
- Ken Morley
this is one of many reasons why we don't have pets. as such, i just started using my spare CPAP mask cos the old one reached the end of usefulness (got leaky around the edges). always keep a spare of whatever make/model/size you use. i've been using one since 2001 and ju$t replaced it earlier thi$ year. amazing how small and quiet they've gotten!
- Joe Silence
sleep apnea is alot more than just snoring. really, it's where you stop breathing for minutes at a time and just lay there unconscious and suffocating in your sleep. untreated, it can cause heart and lung and brain damage, all of which i have in varying degrees.
- Joe Silence
Boo. Glad you were able to get another one, Gunny!
- LB - not an idiot
OK, thanks. Would have offered a backup if he was local. Reminds me: I need to order a new mask.
- FF's Bubba of Arizona
Holy resurrected thread batman! The damned dog attacked my mask 3 separate times this week. The first time she ripped the whole mask to shreds. The 2nd time, she just tore up the pieceto get to the nasal pillow, the DME (supplier) gave me new one free. The NEXT DAY she went after the same part. Today I found she popped the start button off the damned machine. My insurance co sucks so I have to pay 100% for all supplies until I meet deductible. The dog's future is very much up in the air right now.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Joe, My O2 sats dropped as low as 80% during my sleep study. I surely have brain damage from the Apnea. There is a chunk of my memory that is just GONE. I barely remember my daughter as a baby and I have been her primary care giver since she was born.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Thanks for the offer of a spare Mask Bubba. I appreciate that. I have a friend in Chicago who uses the same mask as me and she gets a new one every 6 months. I need to call her :)
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
""I wanted to bring the One Laptop Per Child identity to life in this new form," says Yves Behar, founder of FuseProject, which designed the both the original and the XO-3. "That meant taking the visual complexity away, bringing tactility and friendliness, touch and color." **** It aims to make its tablet PC highly durable, all plastic, waterproof, half the thickness of an iPhone and use less than a watt of power, despite an 8-gigaherz processor. The price: an unprecedented $75."
- William Harryman
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"In the 1950s, Soviet scientist Dmitri Belyaev set out to breed a tamer fox that would be easier for their handlers in the Russian fur industry to work with. The foxes included in his breeding experiment were determined by their temperament. To select candidates to breed, Belyaev would stick out his hand in front of foxes, and rank them based on how they reacted. The foxes that snapped or bit at his hand would be disqualified from the experiment, and the foxes that cowered or exhibited curiosity without attacking his hand would be mated together. The best behaved of the selected foxes offspring would be mated again, etc. The scientists expected a long and tedious experiment with little immediate effects. Much to the their shock, however, noticeable changes in the foxes behavior emerged after just about 10 generations. Not only were the new foxes better behaved, they were also playful, smaller in size, and even had white patches of fur on on large swaths of their bodies. Many wagged their tails like dogs, and some even had blue eyes."
- Jenny Morman
"A second series of an additional 40 episodes commenced airing in the UK on 23 November 2009 on BBC One and BBC HD. It had already started airing in Germany on 18 October 2009. The series director is Chris Sadler. The series is filmed in high definition."
- Goran Zec
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"The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist. In the Dec. 24th issue of Nature, a team of scientists reveal how NASA's Voyager spacecraft have solved the mystery. "Using data from Voyager, we have discovered a strong magnetic field just outside the solar system," explains lead author Merav Opher, a NASA Heliophysics Guest Investigator from George Mason University. "This magnetic field holds the interstellar cloud together and solves the long-standing puzzle of how it can exist at all."
- Rick Kaiser
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"Astronomers call the cloud we're running into now the Local Interstellar Cloud or "Local Fluff" for short. It's about 30 light years wide and contains a wispy mixture of hydrogen and helium atoms at a temperature of 6000 C. The existential mystery of the Fluff has to do with its surroundings. About 10 million years ago, a cluster of supernovas exploded nearby, creating a giant bubble...
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- Rick Kaiser
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- asli subasi
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- DiscoThing
"A leading biologist has compared the physiology of flighted species with the representations of spiritual and mythical creatures in art – and found the angels and fairies that sit atop of Christmas trees did not get there under their own steam. Prof Roger Wotton, from University College London, found that flight would be impossible for angels portrayed with arms and bird-like feathered wings."
- Eivind
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Uh? I don't think these 'revolutionary calculations' will convince any believers in angels as they already believe in magic.
- Eivind
I hope they didn't get public money to fund their 'research'.
- David (slumrig)
Not disputing this, but it was once determined that bumble bees are incapable of flight. This type of research might have other application (working out the physics and proportions needed for flight) but it seems to take a while to get anywhere worth while.
- Heather
Isn't 'astral-flight' what the new age people dabble in? "Astral travel can be accomplished by following this guide.The aura is the vehicle of the light body. Here's how to safely experience your first astral flight with ease." - http://mysterious-places.suite101.com/article...
- Eivind
If one pressurized a bubble on the moon to earth sea-level, those wings would be sufficient.
- Christopher A Carr
Angels and spirits are made of energy, if anything at all. This study is ridiculous because it assumes angels are simply people with wings as a way of coming up with qualitative numbers that they can calculate. The feathered wings are a way of describing the radiant energy that radiate from these beings. They only appear as human-like so we have a reference point. They dont have feathered wings you silly biologists.
- echostreamer
From what I've read angels are leftover deities from when we went monotheistic.
- Eivind
That is as good an explanation as any.
- Eric Logan
"Angel" is from the Greek word for "messenger" and does not necessarily denote a supernatural being. Secondly, no angel is ever referenced as having wings in the bible. Cherubim are, as are Seraphim, but neither are called angels specifically. Also, they have many other traits that signify them, but they are not ever just described as people with wings. This article is useless.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
I agree the article doesn't say anything useful. I believe this is the paper in question, though, and it is specifically abou howt angels et al. are represented in art: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/opticon...
- Eivind
Who knows, maybe this will someday inspire the next Daedalus/Frankenstein to tinker with genetic engineering in order to provide the correct anatomy for self-powered flight of humanoid creatures. :D Seriously, who here has never thought about flying under you own power, without the use of any machinery?
- Victor Ganata
"The years from 2000 to 2009 were unified by fakeness — high-profile charlatans penetrated virtually every area of life (as Frank Rich also pointed out). From fake celebrities to fake journalists, here's a top ten of our favourite* frauds."
- Steven Perez
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"The line between human and monkey has been crossed again - this time by chimps. Based on new research, scientists say chimps understand how fire will behave, and move to avoid it "expertly" in the wild."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
"The line between human and monkey has been crossed again - this time by chimps." Chimps, of course, are not monkeys. This would be better: "The line between human and non-human apes has been crossed again..."
- Christopher A Carr
If one had drawn one between primates which exhibit x, y, and z behavioral characteristics with respect to fire, and those that don't...
- Christopher A Carr
"From 7 a.m. to noon on Christmas Day, KTVU 36 will air the famous holiday log, which will set your TV set ablaze while KOIT easy-listening holiday tunes coo softy in the background. (Sadly, we can't say they won't play the worst Christmas carol of all time: "Christmas In San Francisco." it'll be in heavy rotation, we assume.)"
- vicster is...
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"US actor Arnold Stang, who voiced the lead character in 1960s television cartoon Top Cat, has died aged 91. Stang died of pneumonia at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Massachusetts on Sunday, JoAnne Stang, his wife of 60 years, said. Known for his distinctive nasal voice and nerdy looks, the actor also starred alongside Frank Sinatra in 1955 film The Man with the Golden Arm."
- Steven Perez
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