why that was nice

[Propimp 10+ year member]

??^^?? Spechless?

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

??^^?? Spechless?

newb I guess...

 

[Propimp 10+ year member]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eyebrow.gif.fe2c18d8720fe8c7eaed347b21ea05a5.gif please elaborate.

 

[2kchevy06civic 5,000+ posts]

I hadn't read it before. Pretty fuc*ed up.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eyebrow.gif.fe2c18d8720fe8c7eaed347b21ea05a5.gif please elaborate.

that is twisted in the pic.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

YOUR backbone's connected to your shoulder bone, your shoulder bone's connected to your neck bone - and your neck bone's connected to your cellphone.

Something along these lines is what Lin Zhong and Michael Liebschner at Rice University in Houston, Texas, envisage. They want to use the human skeleton to transmit commands reliably and securely to wearable gadgets and medical implants. Their research, funded by Microsoft and Texas Instruments, could also lead to new ways for people with disabilities to control devices such as computers and PDAs.

Wireless radio signals are already used to control gadgets and implants, but these can suffer interference from Wi-Fi and other sources. This makes them unreliable and, in the case of medical implants, potentially dangerous. They can also be hacked by anyone with an antenna, Liebschner points out.

So the Rice team decided to investigate using sound instead of radio waves. Bone is known to be a great conductor of sound, but so far it has only been used to transmit analogue signals in applications such as checking how bone is healing after a fracture, and in hearing aids that transmit sound from outside the skull to the auditory nerve.

To see if bone could transmit digital signals over longer distances - to a headset, say, from a sensor worn on the wrist - the team applied a small vibrator to various parts of the body. When they then measured the acoustic signals received elsewhere on the body, they found that a "frequency shift keyed" (FSK) signal gave the best distinction between 0s and 1s. In FSK signalling a 0 is represented by one frequency and a 1 by a different one.

They then measured how well bone conducted these signals when they were generated in places on the body where devices are normally worn: the wrist for watches, the lower back for cellphones worn on a belt, and behind the ear for headsets. They found the skeleton conducted even low-power vibrations from one location to another with surprisingly few errors. "This is quite amazing because all the links involved multiple bones and many joints," Zhong told a conference on body networks in Florence, Italy, this week.

The researchers suggest applications such as a vibrator in a wrist receiver/transmitter that could tell an implant placed near a bone to release a drug dose, with the implant then sending back data from its sensors. Similarly, tooth clacks or finger clicks could be interpreted by a receiver to activate, say, functions in a phone.

For Liebschner, the great benefit is security. "All data transfer is contained inside the human body, and it can only be retrieved through direct physical contact," he says. People could even swap information between devices via a firm handshake, Zhong suggests.

From issue 2608 of New Scientist magazine, 13 June 2007, page 32

bone posting the lounge //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/uhoh.gif.c07307dd22ee7e63e22fc8e9c614d1fd.gif ?

http://www.newscientisttech.com/channel/tech/mg19426087.600-bones-could-allow-data-swap-via-handshake.html

 

[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

tony soprano is dead

http://www.bobharris.com/content/view/1406/1

Another strikingly obvious bit of information: shortly before his death, David Chase very briefly frames Tony in a shot that visually quotes the Last Supper (one-point perspective, special holy light from above (more obvious in the footage than the grab), a long horizontal base supporting triangular composition on both sides of the subject, etc.).

We’ll get back to this imagery shortly. Hardly surprising, then, that Tony’s last conversation with Carm mentions his own personal Judas. And we all know what happened after the Last Supper.

The episode actually opens with a harbinger of Tony’s funeral, plain as day. Remember, David Chase personally directed for the first time since the series premiere. And David Chase’s very first shot in eight years is of Tony Soprano lying flat on his back, viewed from above, much as if we are looking down on him in his coffin.

Tony stirs, the music starts to rock, and Tony begins his day. But about five minutes in, Tony’s eating an orange. This is a specific reference both to the Godfather series and to earlier Sopranos episodes: in simplest, familiar form, Orange = Death. [if you need an explanation, see the updates at end of the post. Start by remembering that both Michael and Don Vito Corleone died with oranges; the former in his hand, the latter in his mouth.] Apparently this is news to some people, but as a reference it's so well-established and on the nose that I was surprised to see it. It’s almost cliché.

Speaking of which, there’s a lot of fuss about the big orange cat (note the color; to a writer as careful as Chase, this probably would not have been arbitrary). There’s really no need to debate its meaning. This is carefully-crafted fiction, so as a rule, things generally mean what the characters anticipate they mean; that’s how harbingers and foreboding often work. Otherwise, we'd have only our own prior cultural references to know what to fear. And Paulie could not be clearer that the creature is a Bad Omen. Of what? Through the episode, the cat is literally focused on a reminder of death – specifically, Tony’s murder of Christopher, who was almost a surrogate son.

Yeah, sure, but the orange cat doesn’t actually show up when Tony supposedly dies, does he? Sure he does – in an almost laughably large way. David Chase chose to shoot the final scene in a dessert shop in Bloomfield, New Jersey, where the actual mascot of the town’s real high school football team is the same as that of nearby Princeton University -- an orange tiger. In the Last Supper shot, guess what David Chase shows us, beyond Tony’s right shoulder?

A bigass orange cat three feet high, that’s what. The framing is actually pushed slightly to that side, favoring the cat.

Soon, onion rings appear. (Yes, still more orange food. And I feel like I’m being hit by a hammer at this point.) And then something else truly odd happens – all three consume the onion rings not the way that ordinary human beings eat onion rings – bite off a chunk, chew, swallow, etc. – but by sliding the whole rings onto their tongues. Like communion wafers.

read more in the link, he basically spells it out in black and white, hes dead

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

old news.

 

[JesterFPS 10+ year member]

that part about tony lying on his back is bull crap because david chase got back in the director's chair for the second half of season 6, starting from episode 13, the episode where tony and bacala got into the drunken fist fight.

The episode starts off with a scene from when tony ran from fbi and dropped his pistol and then a rude awakening by the local sheriff's department.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

Apparently Ngsm has a minion who spreads the message in real life.

 

[Blunt 10+ year member]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif thats funny

 

[hoss 5,000+ posts]

lo, it makes it even better that the ohio allstars are right next to him

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

indeed.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Just the laugh I needed....

GRE in 2.25 hours

 

[CaliforniabOY5 10+ year member]

i lol'd.........