Post by thread:[OT] Where have all the minds gone?

Here is where: http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Infinite_20energy_20from_20Vampires look at the amount of brain power that is tossed into thinking about this idea. The fact that I find it absolutely hilarious is beside the point. Half Bakery is one of my favorite places on the net, and I could spend way too much time there... Seriously, be careful if you decide to check it out. It is best used to get YOUR insane ideas out of your head and not to read other peoples ideas. E.g. You should NOT read: http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Voice_20of_20GOD_20on_20the_20road and especially not this one: http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Sillicon_20Implant_20trackball But the all time funniest one is this: http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/evil_20laugh_20activated_20hand_20dryer If you read it, you may never be the same again... At least in public restrooms. How to ruin your day: http://www.halfbakery.com/view/best --- James Newton: PICList webmaster/Admin spam_OUTjamesnewtonTakeThisOuTpiclist.com 1-619-652-0593 phone http://www.piclist.com/member/JMN-EFP-786 PIC/PICList FAQ: http://www.piclist.com

David VanHorn wrote: >> You should NOT read: >> http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Voice_20of_20GOD_20on_20the_20road and > > > Two words.. COMB GENERATOR. Who CARES what channel he's listening to? Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. AM, FM, emergency services. Unfortunately, the ones I worked on were not mobile. They were inside highway tunnels. Cars went in, their radios went dead, drivers complained. Guy I worked for 20 very odd years ago built these systems. One or two were installed in Hawaii, a few in California, and one in the I-95 "Ft. McHenry" tunnel in Baltimore. Others in other tunnels. An outside antenna picked up the AM-FM bands and an amplifier rebroadcast them in the tunnel along Radiax strung along the walls on standoffs. In the event of trouble, the tunnel operators could switch off the re-broadcast and turn on a comb generator and put their emergency messages on all station slots simultaneously. Police, fire and ambulance services were also accommodated. A digital voice recorder had canned messages like "the tunnels on fire and you're all going to die!!!" I think they removed those. No sense of humor.

> > You should NOT read: > > > http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Voice_20of_20GOD_20on_20the_20road and > > > Two words.. COMB GENERATOR. Who CARES what channel he's > listening to? True, but the idea here was to speak to just one person, not everyone in the area. Of course, even the original idea would end up with your voice in multiple cars if the others were tuned to the same station, but it would be a bit less likely. Especially when it's that one jerk... --- James.

I'm thinkin a dsPIC needs to be used with the beam splitter theory....that should make it sound enough James Newtons Massmind <.....jamesnewtonKILLspam@spam@massmind.org> wrote: Here is where: http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Infinite_20energy_20from_20Vampires look at the amount of brain power that is tossed into thinking about this idea. The fact that I find it absolutely hilarious is beside the point. Half Bakery is one of my favorite places on the net, and I could spend way too much time there... Seriously, be careful if you decide to check it out. It is best used to get YOUR insane ideas out of your head and not to read other peoples ideas. E.g. You should NOT read: http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Voice_20of_20GOD_20on_20the_20road and especially not this one: http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Sillicon_20Implant_20trackball But the all time funniest one is this: http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/evil_20laugh_20activated_20hand_20dryer If you read it, you may never be the same again... At least in public restrooms. How to ruin your day: http://www.halfbakery.com/view/best --- James Newton: PICList webmaster/Admin jamesnewtonKILLspampiclist.com 1-619-652-0593 phone http://www.piclist.com/member/JMN-EFP-786 PIC/PICList FAQ: http://www.piclist.com

> > > Guy I worked for 20 very odd years ago built these systems. One or two > were installed in Hawaii, a few in California, and one in the I-95 "Ft. > McHenry" tunnel in Baltimore. Others in other tunnels. Hah! I remember that one, in the pali tunnel! I saw the radiax. (aka Tandy RG-8 :) ) A digital voice recorder had canned messages like "the tunnels on fire > and you're all going to die!!!" I think they removed those. No sense > of humor. The pali one is pretty short, I always thought it was silly to turn the lights on and off.

David VanHorn wrote: > Two words.. COMB GENERATOR. Who CARES what channel he's listening to? My knowledge of radio receiver technology is a bit sparse, but couldn't you just be able to transmit something on the radio's IF? One of these days I'll find a good book on radio receiver design, then I'll build that neat little digitally-tuned PC-interfaced AM/FM receiver I've been promising myself. Would be even cooler if I could get it to pick up SSB and DRM transmissions too... Argh, my project list just keeps getting longer... -- Phil. | (\_/) This is Bunny. Copy and paste Bunny .....piclistKILLspam.....philpem.me.uk | (='.'=) into your signature to help him gain http://www.philpem.me.uk/ | (")_(") world domination.

On 3/16/07, Philip Pemberton <EraseMEpiclistspam_OUTTakeThisOuTphilpem.me.uk> wrote: > > David VanHorn wrote: > > Two words.. COMB GENERATOR. Who CARES what channel he's listening to? > > My knowledge of radio receiver technology is a bit sparse, but couldn't > you > just be able to transmit something on the radio's IF? You may or may not be able to get into the receiver, since the front end likely won't pass that frequency.

Marcel, On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:37:43 -0700, Marcel duchamp wrote: >... > A digital voice recorder had canned messages like "the tunnels on fire > and you're all going to die!!!" I think they removed those. No sense > of humor. ROFL! I think a good one would be: "Don't Panic, there is no need to be alarmed, please continue to act normally and remain calm..." ;-) This reminds me of an insurance system of which I was on the development team a number of years ago. When setting up the test data, I put in a entry in the "Disease" table of "Terminal Halitosis". A couple of years later I was browsing through the live system, and found that entry was still in there! I did a quick query to check that no claims actually cited that, and they didn't, but I decided not to delete it anyway, just in case... (In case anyone isn't familiar with the term, Halitosis is bad breath, and I'm fairly sure it's never been fatal! :-) Cheers, Howard Winter St.Albans, England

Howard Winter <HDRWspam_OUTH2Org.demon.co.uk> wrote: > This reminds me of an insurance system of which I was on the development > team a number of years ago. When setting up the test data, I put in a > entry in the "Disease" table of "Terminal Halitosis". A couple of years > later I was browsing through the live system, and found that entry was > still in there! I did a quick query to check that no claims actually > cited that, and they didn't, but I decided not to delete it anyway, just > in case... > > (In case anyone isn't familiar with the term, Halitosis is bad breath, > and I'm fairly sure it's never been fatal! :-) Very funny! Back in college, we used to discuss the scourge of TF that seemed to crop up within our group at various times (Terminal Flatulence). Years later, I actually heard about a real case -- something having to do with an overweight person sleeping in a small, poorly ventilated room following a large meail involving beans. Suffocated by f*rts! -- Dave Tweed

On 3/17/07, Howard Winter <@spam@HDRWKILLspamh2org.demon.co.uk> wrote: > This reminds me of an insurance system of which I was on the development team a > number of years ago. When setting up the test data, I put in a entry in the "Disease" > table of "Terminal Halitosis". A couple of years later I was browsing through the live > system, and found that entry was still in there! I did a quick query to check that no > claims actually cited that, and they didn't, but I decided not to delete it anyway, just > in case... > > (In case anyone isn't familiar with the term, Halitosis is bad breath, and I'm fairly > sure it's never been fatal! :-) Not to the patient, anyway... :) Bill -- Psst... Hey, you... Buddy... Want a kitten? straycatblues.petfinder.org

"Howard Winter" writes: > This reminds me of an insurance system of which I was on the development > team a number of years ago. When setting up the test data, I put in a > entry in the "Disease" table of "Terminal Halitosis". A couple of years > later I was browsing through the live system, and found that entry was > still in Back when I was a service technician with the Oklahoma State University Audio Visual Center, one of the faculty members brought his telephone answering machine in for repair. It was something minor like a broken belt (glorified rubber band,) and I fixed it and was testing it when I accidentally erased the Answer message he had on it, the usual "I'm out of the office, but if you leave a message, ETC." I tested the message recorder by leaving the following message which I then forgot to erase: Hello. You have reached The North American Air Defense Command headquarters at Chianne Mountain. There's nobody in right now, but if you are having trouble with enemy aircraft or missiles headed your way, please leave your name and number at the beep and we will get back to you sometime between 8 and 5 tomorrow if there is a tomorrow." The machine went out and, a few days later, a call came in from this professor. Fortunately, he had a sense of humor and I apologized profusely, but he went on to say that he had put the machine back in service and it had taken several calls that day before he discovered the new message. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group