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This is a must see for all of you that are awaiting the Consumer Release of a Virtual Reality Head Mounted Display that REALLY! works. This is a link to a Utube feature, sponsored by Sixense and Razor Hydra. They have combined the use of Oculus Rift HMD, and the Hydra to make a short movie. The area they show is called Tuscany. It is an Open Sandbox area, very small, that develpers use to test their apps for Devices using the Rift HMD. Sixense has done 2 things here. The ability to interact with objects in the area, and movement of not only upper body limbs, but also the lower body limbs as well. The real kicker is Sixense has done this using a normal, modern PC, with no extra internal Hardware to make it all work. Kudos I say to Sixense. I hope their Idea will soon be a reality feature included with the Consumer release of the Rift. Remember also, Surgeons are using a plain LCD screen to make Video Operations a reality right now! The problem with this is apparent, as the Surgeon cannot visualize 3d, but has to immagine this instead. Tricky right? The possibility of using Oculus Rift to perform long distant operation, with the Sixense app, has now become a potential reality to places like the South Pole Station during their Winter when transportation is impossible. Here's the Utube link. I think you all will enjoy this...Jd Neilr http://www.youtube.com/user/sixensent?feature=mhee

I only did this, as I talked to a couple of people in TS that were having problem, conflicts with their hardware. When I realized I was in the same boat, and after finding/problem, which also solves a lot of over ram usage trying to do a work around for the conflicting Peripheral Devices, I felt an Incite/explanation to others was needed So I did the above post. Now I need someone with better vision to fix any mistakes they see in my composition, and take this over to PC help as a sticky, please? The hardware conflicting nowadays, seem to be a common problem This is only one fix, there's many more complicate ways to fix conflicts too. The easiest, but most expensive, is to take it to a Pro for repairs. I do when the above fails. Neilr JD

Just a short word on this ongoing problem, nothing technical really. BTW, from here on, I'm just going to call anything that plugs into a PC as a peripheral, a Device . This means anything :banned:that needs a driver to make if work on the Windows PC . I hope you remember this rule when setting up or changing a Device that plugs into your PC . Windows have their own built in Controllers for all Devices . To avoid ongoing conflicts and weird shit happening, let Windows try to find the Device , and install a driver for it, before allowing the Fancy Program that came with your New :yahoo:Device to take charge. Go to the Control Panel , find and Run the Find New Hardware Program Once it gets going, the Hardware Program may ask for a file location for the Device. Leave the Find New Hardware Device open at this point, and Start the Fancy New Controller Program, that you may have downloaded, or was included , for your New Device . There should be no future conflicts even in the middle of using the Find New Hardware Program. Once the Fancy New Controller Program is installed you can now return to the Open and waiting , Find New Hardware Program, and give the file location, of the Fancy New Program Controller, to the Find Hardware Program . When your done all of the Above , you are now feeling like a Proverbial Dog that has been chasing it's own tail for hours Don't get panicky Pal , we're almost done . Just a simple, full and clean Re-boot will set all the driver's, Security Certificates, and everything else, into the win32 files , so you Fancy New Device will start and run, no Conflicts at all . Here's why, as I understand it. As stated above, Windows has its own drivers for darn near anything at all , , for the PC . Manufacturers of Peripheral Device's send these driver files to insure their product will work without conflicts. Once Windows allocates a driver, it will also have a Security Certificate for the Driver file too. This Certificate lets the Find Hardware Device search engine , know its a valid device , so the Find Hardware Device searches first in the Win32 Driver files for the Fancy New Device Drivers . So, when you buy a brand new fancy device that doesn't have a security certificate with it, the Manufacturer took also took a chance it wouldn't conflict with anything else on a PC The manufacturer was probably were in a real hurry, to get their new product to market, to sell it to you, So, in turn the manufacturer can pay the people they owned cash too The Fancy New Device's,we buy, sometimes won't always get a Certificate from Microsoft . So,....this happened to you, be prepare to do a little, of the installation work as mentioned above , OK ? I thinks that enough ,any more on this and we start arguing on the Best crap right ? Who needs that, We can have fun instead , and a good laugh about how complex simple shit can get.. Don't forget to check or look, to insure you Device Manager has no conflicts . When there is a yellow flag in the Device manager , its a sure sign there is more than one.. ,... Device Control Program, trying to install the drivers for a device ! Hope this helps a little bit \ Seeya JD

Well that is a real nice Welcome guys, Thanks, My turn again now, I have a Reason why I haven't applied for Membership until now. I am still hesitant to participate in a full membership, and instead limit myself in a way for reason? You better read on Matey, you may not want me as a full member... After the Car crash in Sept 2006, I had lost a lot of my lifestyle, I was resigned by Educated Medical Men and Women, to seek professional help. I had to go see a shrink for almost a 1/2 year. I have a short term loss of Memory, still to this day, and suffered a form of Post traumatic stress disorder. I understand now how badly a War Veteran suffers if they do not get help when they seek it. Truth?, I can empathize with them in a way too. If you have gamed and talked to me, you may now be assured that Psychology worked for me. I also of a mind that if someone has seen a person in that field, they will be a better person in the long run for doing so too. The Extreme Idiots Motto and Pledge, reminds me somewhat of the oath taken on the Red/Green TV Show. Have any of you readers ever watched that show? The TV show revolves around a group of like minded {ahem}, (men) people, that confess/confide/cajole/act well with each other for camaraderie and a great laugh also. Of course Red/Green was a TV Comedy show, but when the abstract is taken from the show, it remains to have similarities that remain true in the real world. The Producer/Directors of that show, expanded the width and breadth of imagination to the point of ridiculous. Isn't that also being and EXtreme Idiot (XI )also means too? Keep it light, and poke fun at whatever you do? Above all else, be quick to stand in front of the mirror at least once a day, if onlyto have a good chuckle at yourself Is there a Priest in the room please? That was the lighter side, now for the confession I am disabled permanently for the rest of my life in more than 3 ways. That my cards I must play out, I do not ask for, and will not accept, sympathy for who I am.I would sooner share a good laugh, a cold beer, and be in good company people than win a windfall of cash. Speaking of money openly this one time ever, I am not a rich man either, just $20 a month in contribution is a stretch sometime. My income is fixed. Fortunately my Condo is near debt free. That said, I will proceed onward to the physical limitations that sometimes affect others around me. Normal people with healthy hip bone have Microscopic tubules that allow the nerves veins to pass from the backbone spinal cord, through the hip bone tubules unhindered. Once through the hip bone the nerve vein follows a general course down the back of the leg, to finally end up at the feet. In this way we have feeling in our feet, along with feeling in the toes to help our balance when we stand up. Unfortunately for me, my hip bone was totally crushed. There was no two bones fragments in my hip bone that were large enough for the top bone Surgeon in Western Canada to Pin together. Now some of these microscopic hip bone tubules have healed closed tight against the nerve veins. These same nerves veins are supposed to pass through the hip bone freely, unhindered. Some Nerve Veins in my hip are being constantly squeezed in the Hip bone tubules, causing Numbness and constant pain. There is no cure for it. My hips were crushed and have healed this way. The first 2 months in hospital were in a Medical Coma, to avoid going Insane from to much pain to handle.. After 4 moths in bed, I got the OK from the bone specialist to try to stand up. I beat the odds and stood up on the first try with a small wobble to this day. Chances were less than 40% that I could stand up all. Eight months later, resting at home, I came down with Endocartidis, a form of Vegetable blood poisoning, enrolee to the hospital, I Died twice. My blood had turned into a semi-viscous sludge. This was the end of my Original Aeorta Heart Valve. After another 3 months in another Medically Induced Coma, At the same Hospital as I was for all the broken bones, the Heart Surgeons performed Open Heart Surgery to replace my Aeorta Heart Valve with a Bovine Aeorta Heart Valve. A month later, I went home to stay. Here's the good news now... I have stayed out of the Hospital, Since then! (Of Course, this always means there is bad news too, right? I have to go back in ten years for another Open Heart Surgery. This is in perpituitary, meaning it will be done every ten years, for life. In other words, I got ten years to life, as my Sentence for beating the Grim Reaper. I may need to have a zipper installed in the middle of my chest. I'm thinking this will be cheaper, easier, and faster, For Medicare in Canada, than using those costly stainless steel staples the Doctors used the first time to close the incision in my chest? But, still there is another thing that tops all that? I have something that very few people alive have at all! I have a, "BEST BEFORE DATE", Heart Aeorta Valve Guaranteed good until 2017? And if the Valve fails,? GOD forbid that bro! I don't want anything back in return either, I'm keeping this valve thank you, until it expires not me! The date of Surgery is printed on a card, signed by the Heart Surgeon, which I was told to always carry with me in my wallet, Why on God's little Green and blu Planet called Earth, would a rescue team look into a man's wallet first and formats when he is having heart failure? OHH Yeah, I think we have a hidden candidate for (XI), but as I need the gu in another few years, His name is withdraw and will be kept in a secret file at my home. {PSSSTTT, its on the same medical card, the Doctor gave me to carry in my wallet. An Administrator thought up the Card thing, where to put it, and instruction for the organ donor recipient too?, HUH? I'll be DARNED, they got me coming and going too now! if the valve fails and I don't make it, then they get to take whatever they want from me! I knew there was a catch somewhere in this whole deal Anyways? Its a frigid 2fer Card, Rescue or harvest Card, whichever is easiest or in more demand I guess…I'M DOOMED, ha ha ha ROFL, Hilarious, Ain't it? Would you believe that Heart Surgeon also offered me a VCR Tape of the actual Surgery performed on my Heart? I began to realize just what this man was offering me, he had cracked open my chest, stopped my heart, opened my heart, did what he had too, then glued/stitched/stapled the whole thing shut. And to top that, I would see myself coming back from the DEAD TOO!, when they gave me a shot of Electricity to re-start my heart!!! "NAAAAAA, thanks anyways Doc", I said, "but I think I'll pass on that movie, Even those high paid, big time actors don't like to watch themselves on the big screen do they?" That made me think of others that maybe took the VCR tape home, from their Heart Surgery? Lotsa weird and wonderful people in this world, ha ha Wonder what they did with it? Maybe they did the following below?… I'm in the living room going through the TV channels for me and My Missus, when I tell her, "There's nothing on TV tonight again for the third time this week, you go get the fat fryer hot for the french fries and beer for us. I'll warm up the ole VCR and pop in the Heart Surgery Movie, so we can both watch them cut me open again? Hey don't forget to bring the Ketchup here for the french fries this time will you? We used Mayonnaise instead of ketchup on the fries the last time we saw this show,. The Mayo reminded me of that toe infection I had last month. Couldn't eat another bite of food either, drat! hungry all night thinking about Mayo and toes…blaaah. I'm gonna stick to the ketchup from now on instead. At least then I'm only reminded about those blood sucking property taxes that we need to pay before September 1st. I got a small bit of advice for any of you who get what I just wrote. Live each and every day to the fullest. Reach out and Grab the Golden Ring, Guys. (The Nut Cracker said I am not an Insane Person, I just have to deal with the hand I got dealt, I'm a totally normal person, according the the Best sound Medical advice on the Western Coast of Canada. I better keep telling myself I'm an idiot, its safer that way right? { Does anybody know the definition of a normal person? Damned if I can figure that one out?} Thanks Guys! NeilR JDClampett p.s. (for all you younger people out there, go to UTube, type in " Beverly Hillbillies" ), the Sit Back and Enjoy the 1960 Black and white 1/2 hour Comedy TV Show. {I hope.} I did when I was ten years old on live, not taped, TV too. Thats darn near fifty years ago,YIKES, I'm Officially an Old Fart Now!! Miller time Guys SEEYA

I must be an idiot to want to be a member? ha ha Point comes to mind, do you have any Canadians here? Do you want any Canadians here? I don't want the French Canadians here, they got a crazy French first and only language law now in Quebec? Strange thing is, its against the Canadian constitution as it is written. But the stranger part of this, is the fact that Quebec has a not withstanding clause in our constitution, and they didn't sign the document? Definitely and Idiot to accept that aren't we in the Western Canada? Now, here's my point? I'm a Western Canadian. No ifs or buts or maybe's... I'm forced retired from an Auto Accident since 2007, from a Real Great Union Job that paid me $23.75 hr/with full medical and benefits, including full pay for ten sick days with a Doctors note every year too. And to top it off . 4 weeks fully paid vacations a year to boot! Life was good back then, I try not to dwell on it to much, if I do I get into the booze and get depressed. The guy that hit me was a BUM!. Piss poor insurance, and I was in the second car that day, which of course the missus just insured without me looking into the matter...She put minimum insurance on it.... Her fault not mine, I don't rub it in, so I guess I do love the ole lady right?? True Proof, of a Real Idiot? I was a Long Haul Trucker, that traveled all across North America in the 1980's and 90's, but I never saw a place so screwed up like Quebec. That said, I, like many other Western Canadians, would not trade and of the French Canadians to any other part of the World for anything. So,....I am an Idiot... I definitely fit right in with the rest of you guys too.... As for the Frenchmen back East? Lay off willya Pal, they are Canadians Idiots too...We all are up here to tell the truth? Who else puts up with the B.S. politics we have, takes a shit kicking in the Winter, and manages to stay Polite to the World too? A shitload of Idiots, that's who I really hope you enjoyed an Idiot writing a blog here? But then, you are an Idiot too, to have read this crap this far right? P.S. Nope, I don't wanna be an Admin, ever thanks.... Neil r../