Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #10733
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: JVernonM@aol.com
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 07:13:44 EST
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Walker Legs
In a message dated 2/23/00 2:11:51 AM Eastern Standard Time,
Bruce_Robinson@telus.net writes:
> Personally I'm partial to brass. It's heavy and expensive (I salvage
> most of mine), but it solders well and machines like a dream.
>
Yep. I like brass too. My first walker, a two motor, is made entirely of the
stuff. All bolted together with tiny black Allen screws. Looks great and
shines up like jewelry with a good brass polish. Best of all, the whole deal
comes completely apart into various replaceable parts. Comes in sheets, rods,
and tubes. Easy to solder and cuts like paper with a good set of snips. I
love the stuff.
See ya,
Jim
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Exhibit/8281/beamart.html
ICQ# 55657870
10734 Wed, 23 Feb 2000 07:27:15 EST [alt-beam] Re: Aquabots beam@sgiblab.sgi.com JVernonM@aol.com In a message dated 2/23/00 4:02:19 AM Eastern Standard Time,
HENDERSONGANG@bigpond.com writes:
> I was just wondering if using a drive shaft type thing on an Aquabot would
> work as i can never seem to get Jims tutorial right and water seeps in.
Also
> I don't have any spare walkman motors around (anymore) so I was wondering
> are there any substitutes?
Is there something I can do to improve the tutorial? Could be I'm not
explaining it well enough. I've never had a failure due to water
infiltration. Walkman motors seem to work the best. I'm not sure of a
suitable replacement. There is a Walkman style jobbie that Walmart sells for
5.00 bucks. I buy up a bunch and cannibalize them.
See ya,
Jim
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Exhibit/8281/beamart.html
ICQ# 55657870
10735 Wed, 23 Feb 2000 04:34:27 -0800 (PST) [alt-beam] Re: Robotic philosophy (Tendency toward miniaturization) beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Daniel Grace As far as I know I've read all of them, unless they
slipped one by. Lemme see if I can remember the names.
. .
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
So Long And Thanks For All The Fish
The Resturant At The End Of The Universe
darn! I have all 5 at my dad's house, but I am not
there right now. :-P
~Daniel
--- George Rix wrote:
> > And, yes, I've got the four books in the trilogy
> :)
> Hate to say it, but I have four too, and I've read
> five.
>
> Anybody else read the fifth?
>
> Can't remember what its called, though...
>
> Peace out!
>
> Rob Rix
>
> Don't take a walk, climb a tree ‹ an ancient truism,
> invented last week.
>
>
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10736 Wed, 23 Feb 2000 05:38:01 -0800 [alt-beam] Re: BEAM: Tendency toward miniaturization alt-beam@eGroups.com "Droidmakr" "dane gardner" wrote:
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/alt-beam/?start=10648
> >Personality doesn't causally arise with complexity. Our skills as
humans is
> >not a pbrains - roduct of our it is the result of not only a
lifetime of
> >being-in-the-world, but also a of many generations passing of "tacit"
> >knowledge through genetic material.
>
> No, I don't think so. You can't honestly believe that genetic
material
> makes one act a certain way. You are taught whether intentionally or
> unintentionally whatever it is that make you you, throughout your
lifetime.
Then how do you explain cases where violent parents and/or
enviorments manage to produce non violent ind in some cases very caring
individuals.
Or how very loving and caring parents in a quality enviorment manage to
raise violent criminals. I'm not saying that the people and world
around us has no effect on how we turn out, but what they do is to
direct the way our inborn personhood is expressed. Just as the weather
doesn't determin the kind of tree, but does effect the way it grows and
it's health.
Ask almost any parent of more than one child and they will tell you
that their children had different personalities from birth. Most
mothers will tell you that they noticed differences in behavior even in
the womb.
> Modern American psychology upholds this belief.
If you ask 4 psychologist to examine a patient
you will get 5 different oppinions.
> Now I can understand that
> maybe someone who reacts to stress with say an ulcer, may have
children who
> react in the same way....but when it really comes down to it, a
violent
> person TEACHES his/her children to react violently...it isn't just
passed on
> through genetics. Twin studies have proven this to be more than
often true.
>
Basically I agree, but again the violen parents are just bending the
branch as the wind does to the branch. A person can be born with a very
analytical mind, his upbringing will have a big effect on determining
weather he will grow up to become a police detective, a research
scientist, or use his mind to determine the best way to pull off a
crime.
> Sorry...don't mean to get my feathers ruffled up....I just can't
fathom that
> my personality was passed on from my parents by any means other than
good
> old fashioned authoritative teaching.
>
> Dane Gardner
>
Your BASIC personality, IE outgoing, shy, optimistic, pesamistic,
etc, is inborn how it is expressed, and your character is learned in
your upbringing.
So long,
Droidmakr
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