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When Ted Members conduct an act of replying or commenting, is that process a real creative product?
When Ted Members conduct an act of replying or commenting- Is that process a real creative, having the purest Thought, with no expectation or consideration of the reader?
May 22 2013: Hello Shishir!
I can only speak for myself when I say that I have no expectations, and am open to the possibilities of how a discussion unfolds. I try to be as considerate of the reader as possible, and that sometimes is the "creative" piece for me, because the TED community seems to be a good cross-section of people from different parts of our world, many for whom english is not the first language. There are also many different communication styles, and people have different reasons for participating on this forum.
All that being said, it feels important for me to consider the reader, and how I am expressing what I am trying to express. As a reader who is genuinely trying to understand, I sometimes ask a person to clarify their meaning.
I LOVE communication, and am usually focusing on commonalities, because I believe that is how we can build connections with each other. When there is a genuine connection, we (humans) can often disagree with more kindness and respect, or agree to disagree:>)May 22 2013: In life everything we do is a signature of our own personal behaviour. If posts are made in, as you have suggested Shishir, with no thought to grammer or spelling to thereby become more pure, this says something about the individual. To me, a reply or a comment, is telling a story. For example most people would know the story, "Little Red Riding Hood" imagine as you are being read the story and looking at the pictures, "3 Blind Mice" appear being chased by a woman with a carving knife and then on the next page there was another wolf who was trying to blow down a pigs house made of straw! The point I am making is that in order for a story to flow, there needs to be less distractions and disturbances to the readers thought processes so that they can focus on, comprehend and understand better and more easily what has been said.
In relation to the topic, yes, all replies or commentry are creative and in fact you will also find that the writers are comparative to the community a very small percentage. From memory it is about 3%, eg if TED Community has 150,000 members, 4,500 would be posting only, the rest are readers!
To blurt something out and give it life, especially in terms of internet posts, which are FOREVER (basically), is to me somewhat reckless. If you constantly say what you think without thought, then you invariably will insult, demean, belittle or offend many people, no matter how pure one may think the thought to be.
If you offend your audience enough, soon enough you won't have one. People read to be entertained, mentally stimulated, to learn and a host of other reasons. As a writer, one would expect to do these sorts of things for their audience which also includes other writers who are also readers. Also a reader can at any time become a writer.
Finally consider that all university submissions by students are generally put through a plagiarism filter which I'd imagine would also analyse posts here to determine if original thought had been used! :D
May 22 2013: your story telling skills are quite vivid
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May 22 2013: Birth of a real creative product.
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I can not say every act by TED members is a creative product or not but i am 100% sure TED is one platform where this can happen and can happen often.Jun 21 2013: I'm not sure what pure thought would be. I think communication gives meaning to creative efforts, and creativity without meaning hardly makes any sense. To what degree we're creative when we comment probably varies, but I'm sure we're all synthesizing and we all do it differently. The communal end product is a unique creation.May 22 2013: Shishir,
Personally, I react instinctively. When asked a thoughtful question, I will give a thoughtful answer. Whether it's creative or not, I don't know. I am a creative person, but I don't know if all my replies or comments are creative in the same sense.
In regard to "no expectation or consideration of the reader": I have no expectations, except perhaps a cordial reply. I have enormous consideration, which is why I take the effort and time to reply in the first place.
May 22 2013: are you living in a life in which subconsciously you want to be socially recognized? or your 20+ ted score subconsciously forces you to give a second thought to your primary thought.May 22 2013: sorry if i am sounding offensive, but for me the creative thought is one in which you dont even have to give it a cognitive consideration even of grammar or spelling mistakes.... that surely will be rubbish but will be there as it was born.
May 22 2013: Hi Shishir,
I'm not offended at all! This is all about clarity!
In answer to your fist question: I don't think my score has any affect whatsoever on how much thought I put into my comments - I still react instinctively, certainly not in an effort to raise it.
In your second comment, I understand a bit better what you're getting at. You are talking about a raw, creative, abstract thought, which is perhaps not refined. That would be a collection of words, emotions, ideas, all jumbled up. I agree, it would be difficult to make sense out of a purely instinctive comment.
If I were to write my above reply using only abstract thoughts, it might look something like this:
no offense
instinct thinking
don't care about score, just ideas
But even this is cognitive...
Of course we need to refine our abstract thoughts to make ourselves understandable, so some refining is required. Whether that can be seen as the creative product you're talking about, I don't know.
Could it be, that the brain sees, interprets and translates our abstract thoughts so quickly, we don't have time to stop it from refining?
May 22 2013: Kudos to you, you got my abstract thought right,- Beautiful.
The explanation offered is elaborative but i was escaping the trouble of refining it.
Talking about my own experience, there are times when my refining speeds lags behind my thought bombarding processes and eventually i am so drawn in to the present beauty of every single thought that i literally prefer to escape the botheration of refining them.
i guess its just me.May 22 2013: Why not thinkers should outsource the zeal of doing something to the doers.. ?
I am always a firm believer of "a person should only do what he is good at".
But the current situations to survive suggests that one must act upon what you have thought.
Now that is true, if one has thought something great then it has to be brought to life.
But if a person is a cool thinker then he must think only coz thinking and acting are two different acts and thoughts come in a free mind and without an appointment.
My only suggestion is that TED or some other big organisation should also consider pure thoughts/ideas and these ideas at there should be a platform, a platform where doers can offer there efforts and expertise in that field to bring it to the shape.
and let the person just think!!!
would be a Wonderful world.... for me at least.May 22 2013: Thanks lamar, But i am still confused with your last line, which could be framed as- the level of creativity depends on the perception of the audience ? i doubt it .May 22 2013: Are you suggesting that work is really creative only if no thought is given to how it might be received by an audience or how useful it might be to others? The most common criteria for something to be called creative are quite different- that it is novel and adaptive.
May 22 2013: for me " that work is really creative only if no thought is given to how it might be received by an audience or how useful it might be to others " is true.... according to me that is creative product, ... to rethink on your second line - give me an answer, who has the authority to name a product NOVEL or CREATIVE and who has not?
Fritzie -
May 22 2013: You are free to consider anything you like novel or adaptive. Others who are more familiar with the range of work of your type may not consider it novel,. In some cases there would be a broad consensus that an idea or piece of work is novel and adaptive.
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For example, a person may never have read or heard of a prose piece in the "stream of comsciousness" style. He may write one and believe the entire idea of it is novel. It is novel for him, in the sense that he has never heard of such a thing, but in the big picture, it may not be what others would consider imaginative or novel.
Some people make a distinction between "Big C" creativity and "little c" creativity. Picasso's Guernica or Dante's Divine Comedy would fall in the Big C categpry. Einstein's theory of relativity would as well in the sense that those familiar with the range of work in those disciplines would consider that work break-through work.
The dish you fix from scratch for supper or the flower arrangement on the table would be "little c."
But I wouldn't call Picasso's Guernica less a creative masterwork because it was intended to communicate to its viewers.May 22 2013: but for me the creative thought is one in which you dont even have to give it a cognitive consideration even of grammar or spelling mistakes.... that surely will be rubbish but will be there as it was born.


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I believe this would be a huge mistake. I can't even begin to express how utterly retarded it would be on all of our parts to let our government control the internet. Why would the president need to turn off the internet? What purpose would it serve? To stop information? Why? What information are we afraid thats not already in circulation? But the fact that we are debating this issue concerns me more. Because that means people see the sense...not that that matters because if the powers that be want to do it, they will.
But I have yet to hear a reason that makes sense.
If you make decisions out of fear you always create what you fear.
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Yeah, it's totally absurd. We have to think about this seriously? Putting anyone in charge of "killing the internet" is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. They've been trying to push this one over for a long time now. It doesn't make any sense, never has, and makes it seem like something else is going on here.
The problem for the government is the internet is a new breed of technology that they can't ever control. It seems they want to have control of the internet...but they can't have it. There's too much at stake. No one entity can ever have control of the internet, unless you're China? Maybe the US is trying to follow China's lead, but eventually take it even further. Who knows? It's just stupid. You might as well put internet kill switches in random cages at the zoo and see which animal turns it off first. It makes almost the same amount of sense. Actually, the animals would probably sense danger before humans... but what danger and whose facing the danger exactly?
The day someone or something gets that much control over the internet is the day we are doomed. Can you imagine one day the internet is "disconnected" and we can't have access to it. I wouldn't want to be anywhere when that happens. There would probably be a massive panic that would make all other panics look like an afternoon strolling down on the beach.
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It reminds me of the scene in the Star Wars Prequels when Chancilor Palpatine used an emergincy to get their government to grant him even more power. Didn't Rahm Emanuel once say something about how You never want to let a crisis go to waste?
Re: Should the President have the power to kill the Internet
The US created the web, it can shut it down.
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The US created the web? Hmmm, I don't think you really should be saying that because it is an incredibly large generalization and not based on facts. Who is the US anyway? There's no real answer for that either.
There are multiple things that make up the internet and each thing was created at a different time by different individuals. It was pieced together over a long period of time. Just the internet, www, and email alone were created separately at different times by different people. The creation of the internet and the www is way too complex to say the US created it. Even the "creators" were always relying on other people that we don't know of and not everyone was from the US. It's a twisted up history that would be impossible to know. It's true that a lot of the individuals responsible may have been from the US but there are other very important people from other countries who've had a hand in the process, and the process is still developing today. It's a mutable force that will never stop changing. The "internet" today would be totally unrecognizable to someone from 1990.
The "US" has no right at this point to claim ownership or tell anyone what to do with it, especially when all the fools in the government probably have no idea where it all came from or how it was all put together. I'm just guessing but I don't think this kind of technology is something politicians understand on a high level, or even on a low level.
Within this current reality there's no answer to who created the internet.
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Just for arguements sake...
The question isn't "should the government censor the internet" but "should the president have the ability to turn it on and off."
Whenever this question has been asked before it has been focused on the the concept of cyber-terrorism. Could a foriegn attack be cut off with a kill switch. As a theory it sounds like a good idea but the logistics of doing it are near impossible because the internet is running through so many pipelines through the ground and through the air. The bigger question shouldn't be "can the government shut it down" but rather "what can the government do to prevent the hypothetical attack."
I think the basic answer is that the system is too large for the government to handle securitization and individual companies should be responsible for their own security. Unfortunately most of them are not prepared. Areas that are considered vulnerable include the banking system, power companies, creditors, and so on.
Other ideas you might want to ponder...
Why do people reaveal so much information to private corporations on the internet that they would never want the government to have?
Why do kids today feel fine posting their lives for everyone to see?
Is it OK for companies like Google to share private information with government agencies in criminal cases involving pornography, identity theft and so on?
The point is that we all fear the government and what they know about us. Yet, very often we are willing to give that up to private entities who may potentially sell our info to 3rd parties or use it in ways that may impede on our privacy. the question of whether or not there should be a kill switch on the internet is intriguing yet it overshadows much larger questions about what is really going on.
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So this move is a preemptive strike for some hypothetical scenario??? Sounds a lot like the last dictatorship, I mean President that was running our country. Sounds like the same agendas by the same people. Its like saying, should the president have the power to turn off all the phones? Or should the president have the power to make sure we don't talk to each other at all? What if the president said, ok, everyone stop talking to each other, anyone caught talking to each other will be arrested, this is national security..??? Are we all so afraid of the unknown that we let go of common sense and our freedoms? We're talking people. THe US or any other country is just people...this bill is about one man having power over everyone. Thats not the concept of a President. DOesn't he work for us? So far all terrorists acts have been by people who were supported by our government in one form of another.
The real Bill should be, THe American Public Pulling the Plug on Government/Corporatocracy.
The governments policies are the biggest form of terrorism these days..and if you don't believe that then you haven't been paying attention.
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I wouldn't use that page to get the real history of the internet. That's more like what happened as the www entered the public eye. It's very generic and only includes things that came after. The dates 93-94 only represent the growing public interest and Gore only helped bring the technology further into the public in the mid 90s. The www part actually entered the public eye closer to 91 but there was a lot going on before that. I don't see the names of any of the people that actually brought the elements of the internet into existence. The internet was in development long before the dates on that page and it was certainly in development before the public became aware of it. Email was in use in the early 70s. That page is more like some text you'd see in a technology museum where they don't actually say anything important and leave out all the details that really matter. I think you need to dig a lot deeper if you want to know the full history. There's a lot more to the story.
tsstevens brings up other points that are also as important that people should be talking about.
Re: Should the President have the power to kill the Internet
Yeah didn't the internet start with the military?
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Paburrows, that's what I recall. We were using the internet in the late 70's. It was designed as a failsafe communications system in case of cataclysmic natural disasters and/or nuclear war.
Colleges and researchers were using it and so were corporations. I was using it since the late 70s.
Then as computing software and hardware began to expand we used intranets to a greater expanse. I saw it all.
The 90s saw the explosion as more tech savvy people saw the value of the net.
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Doesn't matter. Government is for the people by the people. They work for us. This aint a dictatorship...yet. So even if our military did it, or anyone in the infrastructure of the government, it belongs to the people...and now its global. Its not a private corporation and now that not only do corporations rely on it for commerce, communication and progress so do the smaller companies and the individual businesses.
You're talking about having the right to take away peoples living now. Its part of us, like the underlying of fungi world wide network. We lose the humanity when we say who has the right and who doesn't with this sort of thing.
The internet is no trivial issue. Now, its part of how we live and how we communicate with each other what is wrong and what needs to be done.
Not to mention where do we draw the line. If we live in fear of the internet being used for terrorists acts, then we have to worry about tv, radio, publications and then finally being able to speak in public of issues or live in fear of having your family turn on you for expressing yourself at home.
this is a slippery slope. So getting caught up in who created what seems kinda counter productive and way outside the really issues that come with such decisions.
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Yeah, what Bite said...
The internet is a way of life for countless people. If the internet stops, their lives or livelihood stops. For some people, if the internet goes off, they might as well turn the power off too. Water we'll need though.
What if the government says the oxygen surrounding the white house or at countless unknown locations is in danger of being replaced with an odorless poisonous gas that the terrorists now have in their possession and the government wants to pass a bill that says you have to stop breathing if the danger they defined is executed in a method they defined. Is it ok for them to force you to stop breathing?
I know that sounds ridiculous but that is my point. It's ridiculous for the government to tell us they can shut down the internet, and for security? It's all bogus and based on fear and illusions. It doesn't matter who first used or uses the internet (like the military, who are actually just people believe it or not) and it doesn't matter who first created it (other people not in the military). Furthermore, no one created oxygen but the ingredients for it was in existence before it filled up the atmosphere. We know what oxygen is made of on some level but we don't know where the ingredients came from or who made them or why. Oxygen is obviously much different from the internet, unless you're a molecule, but ultimately the same principles will be applied to everything. And anything has the potential to be recreated by someone else who has never heard of the original technology. If we discover another planet of humanoids who just created an "internet" are we going to tell them that we created the internet first so we have the right to tell them when to shut it down? At the same time our technology may be millions of years old to advanced beings who've been around much longer and have already decided we are just a bunch of lunatics. The closer you look at the way we live life in our tiny secluded world, the more ridiculous it all becomes... but all this talk about who is responsible for the internet is getting off topic (which is partly my fault) because it doesn't matter.
Back to what Bite was saying, if the government actually gets to have the power to turn off the internet, it will be because we the people gave them that power. But if the government decides they have the power over the people, that is a whole other story. The more power they get, the more they want. The government seems to keep doing whatever it wants more and more over time and if we keep going in that direction....
We don't know how far off we are from some incredible advances in all technologies that could alter this planet and our lives in ways we've never seen or known. If power hungry mindless freaks are in control we'll be kissing any kind of normal life good bye.
BTW: We should probably move this topic to the Current Events forum in Non-Animation.
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It's not as simple at it used to be. Today's laptops are 'meant' for Vista, so trying to install XP often isn't easy. In the case of my 5620, the hard drive wasn't even detected until I researched and changed Bios settings (known as the AHCI issue). I'm SO much happier after ditching Vista, though- when I first got it, a 1GHz Pentium III with XP could have run circles around it!
Step 1: Preparation
First, a Full Backup of your system. Trust me, if you ever have to send your Acer in for servicing, it better have Vista on it or your warranty could be voided. Plus, someday when you sell it, uninformed people think it's a plus point ;)
Secondly, why bother downloading random drivers you hope are the right ones? Acer makes it easy with its Driver and Application backup CD creator. A little known fact is that these drivers appear to be both the complete Vista AND XP set. Once you're done, you'll have burned three DVD's, and be ready for some XP goodness! If you've already wiped it, or just want the latest available, grab them from [ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/ here]. I did both, just in case, throwing the newest onto a 256MB USB drive. Thirdly, look in Device Manager to see what AHCI Disk Controller you have! Write this down. On the Best Buy Acer Extensa 5620-6830, it's the 'Intel 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI.' Other models may be slightly different. This info is important later, and it can be difficult to find out without some annoying trial and error.
I've got an Acer Extensa 5420, and I found out the hard way, by simply cloning to a larger hard drive, that it's very easy to break access to the PQSERVICE partition to restore my laptop to factory default settings. Obviously changes or corrupting the C: or PQSERVICE partition will break access via Alt+F10 or eRcovery, but so can hiding or reformatting the D: DATA partition, since eRecovery establishes a "relationship" with D: during initial setup, which it seems can only be modified manually afterward, perhaps requiring both the registry and BCDEdit. It's possible to suggest that I'm wrong, but I've spent many, many days using the original hard drive and two cloned drives trying to determine why the clones lose access to the recovery partition.
Also, I did indeed make recovery DVD's using eRecovery, and tried to restore access to PQSERVICE by using them, but they failed every time. The DVD's restored the C: partition, but not access to the recovery partition. Considering the recovery partition utilizes a "switch" or "input code" (Alt+F10) for access, and the partition is hidden using the partition ID=27, it's possible that eRecovery discs will not include the recovery partition. So far cloning using the 2009 Seagate or WD version of Acronis True Image both somehow managed to break access to the recovery partition. EaseUS ToDo Backup Free also failed to restore after performing file or sector by sector backups, but that was because it somehow misinterpreted the allocated space of all the partitions to slightly larger than the factory hard drive. The problem might be the utility Acer used to create the partitions, how they were accessed at the time, and/or the BIOS in conjunction with the physical specifications. EaseUS Drive Clone/Copy cannot technically clone from large to small hard drives, and it has an "unwritten" strict technical methodology which must be followed, but it better revealed the problem with restoration. If you decrease the size of partition D: DATA, you can clone from large to small, or create backups which will be more successful at restoring. This suggests that slightly "shrinking" volume D: DATA, before using a third-party drive imaging/backup solution will significantly improve chances for successful recovery later. In both Vista, Windows 7, and it would seem Windows 8, you can expand volume D: DATA after a successful restore using disk management.
All of this is simply to suggest that while eRecovery should restore volume C: ACER, it won't necessarily restore PQSERVICE or volume D: DATA. In testing I placed files in both volumes C and D, and after restoring using the discs, the files I placed in volume D were still present, and I could not access the "built-in" recovery. So, considering warranty and factory installed hard drive size, it might be better to simply replace the originally installed hard drive with a larger or faster hard drive, keeping the older drive in case of needed factory repair. Otherwise, I recommend that before you "wipe" the hard drive of all partitions, or install any OS which can break Acer's MBR offset for recovery, test your backup discs using a different borrowed or bought hard drive. If the test drive is smaller, but more than half the size of the original, like a 120GB to a 160GB or a 60GB to an 80GB, simply "shrink" volume D: DATA before creating the backup. You won't need to create another set of recovery disks if successful because you can always "expand" volume D: DATA after completing the recovery.
Then again, maybe my laptop just doesn't like me and is making my life difficult, which makes my comment a moot point.
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I've been asked by so many people to replace vista with XP on their laptops its rediculous. For anyone saying Vista is better than XP this is my experience:
1. Had to reinstall Vista on 19 occasions after automatic updates screwed it up.
2. Took 4 hours and 30mins to backup 80GB to another hardrive.
3. Can't install any software updates for my phone.
4. Slow to boot. around 5mins from boot to desktop.
5. Takes ages to detect and connect to my other 2 XP and 1 Win 2000 PCs on my home network.
6. stupid file search. it can't find files i know exist.
After XP Upgrade.............................
1. Only reinstalled XP once (power failure during update).
2. Took 2 hours 10mins to backup 120GB.
3. Installed all updates on my phone.and even upgraded its OS.
4. boots faster. 2mins from boot to desktop.
5. VERY BIG increase in speed.
6. Connects to my home network and other PCs in seconds
7. More reliable drivers.
8. All my hardware works as it should and not when the OS says so.
9. I can actually find files using Windows Explorer's search bar.
So if you want to go vista to xp i highly recommend it.
This i just my opinion.
I have since "upgraded" to Windows 7 on extensa 5620 but unfortunately ran into the "replace battery" issue so now get 10 minutes on battery vs 2+ hours when used xp.
Been trying to find solution but all options that I have tried so far [disable acpi, drain battery in bios screen, etc.] have not worked.
When check under device manager I do have yellow exclamation point for something labelled ACPI. Is there a driver for ACPI for Windows 7 that you used and if yes, from where? Can not find on acer us or euro site.
Got similar problem on another acer after upgraded to windows 7 but had battery replaced under warranty and switched back to xp.
Appreciate any help.
If I told you that when you bought a new car it would have a V8 engine instead a of a four-cylinder, a 25 gallon gas tank instead of 12, twice the amperage from the alternator and upgraded all-season radials... you'd be pleased, right? Okay, now let's say you buy it and have all that, but the new car performs exactly the same as your last one- or worse. When you go complain to the dealership, they shrug and say you should've bought the twelve-cylinder model to see any improvement. Does that make sense to you? Because that's the position you're defending here; that's what you're defiantly calling an upgrade.
Both cars in my example get you from point A to point B, just like XP and Vista accomplish the exact same tasks. If you want to nitpick about feature differences- fine. Can't live without the eye candy? Another guide I've posted explains how to make XP virtually a clone of Vista. Like the new search feature, 'bread crumb' explorer link, sidebar and widgets? Same guide, all free. Everything runs smooth even on this outdated old work computer I'm on with "only" 1GB of RAM. Look at that, I just saved $500+! This may surprise you, but some people would rather tinker for an hour or so instead of pointlessly dropping half a grand to reduce performance.
Lastly, to each their own. You're as much of a Vista zealot as we are XP advocates. I posted this Acer guide knowing many people think the way I do, and could use some guidance. Some people throw money and hardware at a software problem- other people just solve the software problem, which is what we're doing here. If you love Vista and are happy with it, that's great. Honestly, I'm glad it worked for you. I guess some people can accept driving a new BMW that runs like a Honda Civic. We'll just be over here, turning or new machines into Ferrari's ;)
I have done the same thing as the author has done here (though, I was not as prepared...good job CharredPC!) and everyone I have done this for has enjoyed XP much more than the Vista with which their computers originally came.
For the haters I say, why are you in here to begin with? If you like Vista, fine. CharredPC is not proselytizing here, just offereing a good Instructable.


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The DIYLILCNC can be built for around $700. This cost includes all the stock hardware and sheet material used in construction. CAD files for custom laser-cut parts are distributed along with the plans. Anyone with access to a laser cutter can use these files to fabricate all the panel parts necessary for construction; those without ready laser-cutter access can use local or online laser-cutting services. Some users have even adapted the files to be cut using another CNC mill.
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-Spindle speed: 0-35,000 RPM
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-Tested cut materials: foam, hardwood, acrylic, MDF, thin copper sheet
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you guys realize that you can build for less than $20, a circuit that not only allows you to convert a parallel port to a USB port, but also allows you to monitor using 3rd party software (or even hardware if you wanted) literally every SINGLE sensor, motor, etc... and save it to either a visual or text based representation of the data I/O. extremely useful for debugging and trouble shooting buggy controllers, you could also even build your OWN CNC data controller using the same type of technology and have it communicate with a secondary CPLD or MCU to ensure data accuracy and cyclic redundancy checks, that way you can basically customize your tooling/controller software down to the most intricate details and even add things like sensors to automatically adjust your tool speed using heat sensors, add cooling fans/blowers that you can manually or automatically control... a little TTL and logic circuit design exp. is all thats needed...
This? http://ricecnc.com/RiceCNC/TM4C123G_LaunchPad.html
Hi, very nice! exactly what I'm looking for. Reading up on this on DIYLILCNC.org and saw it had a 2.0 version...This is the old version I assume?
for a "bed of nails tester".
Very nice. I hope to make one soon, once i get a job.
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It looks like the following page also provides a method for making your own CNC mill:
Has anyone tried building it?
- http://diylilcnc.org/downloads/ (grab the current CAD Files & Assembly Instructions)
- http://blogs.saic.edu/axisofoutput/2010/09/17/cheap-cnc-linux-pc/
- http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html/config_stepconf.html
Looks like a nice piece of machinery.
And converting all the movement to threaded shafts.
Then using bigger motors, and maby something other then my dremel, then It might machine harder materials?
Just looking at designs that would work for me.
When you're working with harder metals like steel and iron, you'll need to use lots of coolant & lubricant during milling. This would pose some problems with the MDF, which generally doesn't respond well to moisture.
A more common way to incorporate CNC milling with harder materials is to mill a blank out of wax or plastic, then use that in a casting process, similar to what's outlined here: http://rainbowlazer.com/cnc-fabrication/laser-cutting/bronze-casting-from-laser-cut-forms/
Hope that helps!
Well then im thinking about (like I have read in the comments) using Acrylic instead if the MDF.
The Acrylic should have no trouble with the use of coolant/lubrication right? Or heat?
So structurally there should be no problem to mill steel?
I am realy liking the idea of being able to make things in steel or aluminium myself, making parts for for my RC car etc.
Casting of parts would also be cool to do, but I dont see myself doing that with smaller parts.
No problems involved with making changes to the design? Like height and size of the table?
What is it that limits how hard of a material this CNC can work with?
The software will accommodate whatever size you want, however take a look at these posts on the DIYLICNC forum for some caveats on & examples of building bigger.
Other than my file format problems, the instructions and parts list in this project are great!
What size is your laser bed? I think the longest piece is about 31". We're about to start work on V2, which will hopefully accommodate more of the laser cutters out there. Keep checking the site for updates.
Unfortunately, the laser cutter at TechShop RDU is 18" x 24" so this version is out. I'll definitely keep an eye on the site though.
Thanks for the great documentation on this project!
While both of those programs should be able to read the plans just fine, how about trying an intermediary program. There are actually many versions of the DXF format (and then some are binary and some are ASCII), so you might need something that can play well with the distributed files and your software. DraftSight is totally free and works really well. It's from the makers of Solidworks. It's out for both Mac and PC. Here's a link:
Open the files in DraftSight and then "save as..." them, making sure to use R2000-2002 Binary Drawing .DXF. (I know the years are right, the only thing you might need to change is to ASCII)
After that, the file should open in either piece of software just fine. Hope that helps!


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I got a chuckle today when Stowe's first Snow Report of the season arrived in my email inbox. But they had a good reason for sending it: over two feet of snow there yesterday. Of course, that's at the top but you can see in the report that they averaged a couple of inches elsewhere on the trails.
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For the sixth time in three hours, Peter Johnson double clicked in the left margin of his document and hit the delete button. "More garbage," he yelled at the empty bedroom.
Peter stood up abruptly, knocking over the desk chair. He looked down at the monitor, shaking his head. He began pacing around the room in as much of a circle as the furniture would allow, racking his brain for the words that were eluding him.
He stopped in front of a picture of Daphne and him. <I>I'm not going there today. Today I'm writing. Today I'm not going to play "what if?" </I>But he did.
What if Daphne hadn't died? What would his life—their lives—be like? Why did she have to die? And why had they been so stupid, believing that God would heal her? How had they fallen for all those lies of a God who cares? Well, he knew now that there was no god. Peter wouldn't even dignify him—or, rather, the bogus concept—with a capital "G". They'd prayed and prayed and prayed to this god. And Daphne had died.
Peter just stared at the picture, replaying memories in his mind. The fear and trepidation of asking her for that first date. That glorious first love that he could literally, physically feel. Picnics in the park after the first warm spring day arrived that first year.
The years marched by—their college years, the wedding, the honeymoon. But then the darker memories came. The loss of the first love. His increased intolerance of her annoying habits. His first thoughts of divorce. Finally screwing up his courage to tell her, only to have her preempt his announcement with her own announcement. "Peter, I have cancer."
Cancer. The word that changed everything. Peter never told Daphne of his divorce plans. Instead, he fell in love with her again. Only to lose her. "If you were real, god, I would hate you." Peter spat the words into the empty room.
Peter picked up the picture, drew it closer to himself, and stared at it. He felt that old familiar fear. Had she really known? "Oh Daphne, I'm so sorry." He placed the picture back on the dresser, facedown. He lingered a moment longer. "I'm sorry." This time it was a whisper.
Peter reluctantly resumed his pacing. <I>Oh good, now I get to spend another three hours producing nothing. Why can't I write a great first line?</I>
With a deep sigh, Peter righted his chair and sat down at the computer again. He googled "great first lines" and got 6,732 hits. Sure enough, three hours later, Peter was still digesting the results.
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Ben Zuber Swanson, Jr., DDS, MPhil
FYI cincerning your correct listing - 14778902
Ref your memorial for Robert Anderson, Sr (Find A Grave Memorial# 63948562)
Thank you for linking Maria to your Robert Anderson
Martin, You are absolutely right, Maria Anderson (the mother of Dr. John Anderson) is already linked to another Robert Anderson. This listing (47576155) is a duplication from 2010 of a 2006 memorial (14778902). They have different listings as to spouses.
There are 60 different family trees for Dr. John Anderson (1820-1886, Memorial# 26958380) on ancestry but I refer you to the best sourced one.
Most if not all of the trees confirm this one.
Gen Robert 14778902 grandfather of John
Duplicate and erroneous listing of grandfather of John 47576155
Robert 63948562 (your memorial) father of John and son of Gen Robert
Mother of John 60061475 Wife of father not grandfather
It would be impossible for Maria to be the mother of John and the spouse of the erroneous listing of grandfather of John 47576155 since the grandfather died before John was born.
It is all rather confusing with the 2 Roberts (or 3 if we count the erroneous duplicate), but I have researched it back and forth and this is the conclusion I have come to. However we should all keep an open mind and if I and others are mistaken we should be corrected.
All the best
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Dear Herb:
Please link to his father Samuel Verner 28543893 and mother Malinda 80921837.
I'm sorry to post this on your profile; I think you may not be getting the edit requests.
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Edward Calloway C. Vandiver
Just noticed that Edward's birth and death dates do not match those dates on his tombstone.
your Find A Grave friend,
Susan Bruffey Lehman
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Hi Herb!
So nice to hear from you! And glad to see you've updated your email address, and everything is ok. Thanks for doing the corrections.
Hope to see you adding memorials and graving again-
anna richter
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Can anyone tell me if this contributor has gone inactive? He is not responding to SACs.
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I've sent a couple of suggestions/corrections that have not been done. Does anyone know if this contributor is still active?
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Hey there,
Thought someone might want to know that there are two Memorials for the same person. Yours (#20167215) has the is correct dates as verified by the Tombstone. Memorial #39780518 has incorrect dates. It was created by Ann and I was going to send her a message but am not able to as it has been disabled.
If I'm wrong please disregard. I'd appreciate ot of you could let me know one way or the other.
Thanks, Terri Gill (firstname.lastname@example.com)
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Your memorial for Edward Vandiver # 14761752. The pictures, wife, and son belong on his son Edward Calloway Vandider JR. I made a memorial for jr # 107371621.
If you look at the mem. you can see they dont match. I am not sure how to correct it.
Jr wife Josephine is my great aunt.
thx clif crump # 47674419
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I have a lot of information to update your entries in Hillcrest in Pickens Co, SC - Chris Smith has also added a lot of photos showing dates of birth and death which are missing from those entries. Please let me know if I can send these to you?
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You'd think it would have to be some kind of record, but I suppose there have been teams matched up in dual wrestling meets with even fewer contested matches, if numbers were low on both teams.
So, we'll just go ahead and say it's likely the fastest dual meet in the annals of Creston wrestling. The Panthers used a total mat time of 2 minutes, 46 seconds to win four contested matches against Council Bluffs St. Albert here Thursday. In less than 180 seconds, the Panthers racked up an 84-0 victory.
As reported by sports editor Scott Vicker, Tayler Pettit had a pin in 27 seconds; Adam Baker was the "workhorse" of the bunch, going 1:51 before his win by fall; Trevor Frain was one second longer than his five-second fall last weekend in Corning; and Seth Maitlen decked his opponent in 22 seconds. All other weights were left open by St. Albert.
Fortunately, admission was free for the brief event.
Chalk it up as a workout in preparation for the Hawkeye 10 Tournament Saturday in Denison, where the Panthers can wrap up a season sweep of conference dominance after locking up the dual title.
Not bad for a team replacing nearly half of the lineup, including state champs Jake Marlin and Keaton Hulett.
In the past 22 days, Frain has four falls under 10 seconds. One was in :09, another in :08, Thursday's was :06 and his :05 win Friday night set a Creston record and matched the IHSAA record listed for state tournament history. (Regular season fall time marks are not listed in the record book.)
Thursday's dual is reminiscent of a memorable dual victory over Clarinda on Jan. 18, 1972. John Walters told me nine matches lasted a total of 6 minutes, 11 seconds. Those nine pins averaged 41.2 seconds.
The meet started with eight straight first-period falls in 5:59 total time.
Here's how it unfolded: Jeff Abel won by fall in 45 seconds at 98 pounds; Mike Howard won by fall in 47 seconds at 105; Dan Hayes won by fall in 40 seconds at 112; Scott Wood won by fall in 38 seconds at 119; Vern Loudon won by fall in 1:03 at 126; Rick Conard also won by fall in 1:03 at 132; Kim Kirkman won by fall in 51 seconds at 138; and Steve Harvey won by fall in 12 seconds at 145.
Curtis Bolinger then won a 4-0 decision at 155 before Creston lost a 4-3 decision at 167 pounds. Jamie Hayes got it going again with a 5-1 decision at 185, and heavyweight Mike King topped it off with a 12-second fall.
Final score: Creston 60, Clarinda 3.
That still has to rank as one of the most incredible nights in Creston wrestling history, because of the number of matches involved. But, Thursday's quick victory is another remarkable achievement by a reloaded Panther team that continues to mow down the competition.
They should provide a lot of thrills along the tournament trail.
After the Lenox vs. East Union game Tuesday, my brain got former Creston school secretary Sue Tilley mixed up with Terri Tussey, wife of Lenox co-coach Steve Tussey and mother of East Union coach Thad Tussey.
The hazards of hanging around a long time and writing about so many people with similar names. It was one of those Homer Simpson "D'oh!" moments the next morning.
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Studying abroad is a blend of learning a new culture, meeting new people and seeing the world in a different way. Sina Weiller and Monica Monfort, students at CHS this year, have experienced all of these things and more.
Weiller, 16, comes from southern Germany near Munich. She has one younger brother.
"Two years ago I was with a big band in Florida and I spent two days with a host family," said Weiller. "I kind of liked how they lived and a friend told me, like, you can spend a year in the United States. Then I met my primary teacher and she said, 'Do it now, because you don't know what will happen during the years when you finish school.' So I decided to apply to be an exchange student."
Monfort, 15, is from Barcelona in eastern Spain. She has one younger brother.
"For me the biggest (thing) was learn the language ... I prefer the American accent to the British and the Australian," said Monfort. "I'm planning on coming back in college."
"I think for her (Monica) it's more different than for me because I'm from a village," Weiller said, "so it was kind of more familiar for me."
The exchange program the girls used to study abroad chose where they were to study. The girls live with Clark and Susan Finehout and their children Hannah, Sarah, Isaac and Russel.
"We love to have young people in our home sharing our life," explained Susan. "We feel that hosting exchange students enriches not only our family, but also our school and community."
Weiller and Monfort attend Creston High School. They take a variety of classes, such as biology and sociology, and were not used to walking to their classes because in their home countries the teachers come to them. Classes are not mixed overseas, whereas here freshmen and seniors can be in the same class together.
Weiller was active in badminton and running and is looking at doing a sport in the spring. She is also a member of band and plays baritone and trombone. Monfort plays soccer, tennis and baseball at home, and plans on playing soccer in the spring.
Even though neither of the girls have suffered culture shock, being away from home still can be difficult.
"There's like a big thing now in Spain," Monfort said. "Where I'm from, Catalonia, a big region, they want to be dependent from Spain. They are doing elections and all this, and I don't know, I want to be there."
The first Thanksgiving and Black Friday
This November was the first time Weiller and Monfort experienced Thanksgiving and Black Friday.
"It was a new experience, I think," said Monfort, "but I heard a lot from TV shows and all this because I watch a lot of things. I knew more or less how it was so it wasn't that new."
"(It was) a lot of eating," said Weiller, "a lot of food ... (for Black Friday) we went on Thursday night to Walmart and it was really crazy."
"I know a girl was in the parking lot, and she was with her mother ... someone took their spot or something, and they were sayng, 'Hey, get lost blah blah blah,'" Monfort said. "... she started screaming and then when they come back, the car was (covered) with lotion. It was crazy."
The spirit of Christmas
The Christmas spirit is alive in the Finehout household already, with decorations and a Christmas tree up.
"So we, in my country, the biggest day to celebrate is the 24th," said Weiller. "And, like, I heard here it's the 25th they most celebrate, like, with the presents and all that stuff. We celebrate three days, the 24th to the 26th. I don't know, it will be different."
"Okay, for my Christmas it's, like, ...the holiday is more time, not just one week," said Monfort. "It's also the Three Kings...we celebrate the Three Kings, but I have this strange thing that my parents plan to celebrate the Three Kings the day Santa Clause came, so it's like I celebrate Three Kings but on the 25th, so it's not going to be that strange."
The girls flew into Des Moines in August. Before the school year started, the Finehout family took Monfort and Weiller to Minnesota where they fished, boated and swam. They plan on going to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon before going back to their home countries in May.
"It is exciting to witness the students experiencing things for the first time and to see these things through their eyes. We love to learn about their countries and customs," said Susan. "We have now hosted seven exchange students and plan to host more in the future. My husband, Clark, and I are now qualified to assist families hosting exchange students. For more information people may check out www.effoundation.org or call us at 641-344-8607. It really is an amazing experience."
The Three Kings:
The holiday of Epiphany, also known as the Day of the Kings, is celebrated on Jan. 6 and the end of the holiday break is Jan. 9 in Spain. This holiday is celebrated around the world, though it is not as common in the United States.


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