A Couples Projector Mount

Today's brilliant Idea is fairly simple. You and your good lady are chilling of a quiet Sunday evening and decide a movie would be nice but you want to watch in bed. At the minute you can either strain your necks to watch the TV, Watch movie on a laptop which is small and means leaning on one side for the whole time . So I want to make a mount that attaches to a bed and holds a projector allowing a couple to easily show a movie on the ceiling and watch it comfortably in bed.

The frame will probably look something lie this :




So the part marked A is where it attaches to the headboard of a bed I'll have to make some adjustments to make sure it's universal but prob not hard. Part B is the hinge where you can adjust the angle of projection and part C is the platform where the projector sits.

Not much else to say about it really it's very simple and may already exists but seems like something i'd buy.

From Street to |_33+

Ok Crappy title but here's the idea...

This is another charity idea. Now I'm no blleding heart like most (well alot of) my generation I've been so exposed to tragedy and the idea of suffering I've become fairly desensitized. I do however have a lot of time for charity efforts to help the homeless. I'm of the opinion that just about anyone can end up the street as Bill Hicks said all it takes is the right friends, the right girl and the right bar.

Here's the idea..
Take a standard homeless shelter and carefully screen say 200-300 homeless people who are clean and looking to get off he street (Easier said than done, I know). You train them in touch typing and offer them a part in a data entry enterprise. The idea is to offer company's large amounts of data entry at low cost . The cost being enough to run the shelter proving the participants with regular access to beds, food, heat, and showers etc.

Issues..there are a few, the first of which being the screening process i breezed over earlier the reliability and capability of the participants is essential. Second the idea is not to make money, it's just to be able to sustain the shelter this gives the participants a better quality of life, a building block to get back on their feet, a routine, a sense of dignity and contribution.also costs needs to low so as to make it attractive for business to trust their data entry to homeless men and women. To achieve this low cost the pay per person need sot be low, below minimum wage low so this cant count as a job maybe as volunteers fundraising for the shelter either way we need to have a loop hope to allow this.We also don't want to effect any welfare payments . This "Not a job" status is why I've been using the word participants

The irony of me coming up with this is that I type like a drunk Lemar

Using Torrents to make yourself famous

Whenever a new "Now" album is released within 5 minutes it's uploaded to a torrent site where it spreads like wildfire. within a day tens of thousands of ppl will download a copy of that album uploaded from a single source.



So Idea is this . A young band goes out and buuys the latest new album as soon as it hits the shops , rips the songs to mp3 ready to make a torrent file. But you create the torrent file and upload it to the world, slip one of your own tracks in with the songs . Include the track listing with the regular songs and your own . Finally uploaded the torrent and wait for 1000's of ppl to hear your song. Not only are you getting a huge audience to hear your song but they are listening to your song with the impression that your band is good enough to be on the latest now album.

on a side note I don't condone illegal downloading of music .

A Question of Morality...

There are 3 kinds of people when it comes to morality. firstly there's ppl who decide through their life what they want to stand for . These ppl develop a set of morals or basic principles that evolve over their life . These people tend to be self critical and by that I mean they are more likely to admit when they go against their morals , accept it and try to do better.

The 2nd kind of person pick a set of morals (probably given to them by Oprah). These ppl don't pick general guidelines which details whats important and what they want to stand for but super general snappy sounding (some times rhyming) rules that they use to remove any responsibility from the process of making a decision. These ppl say things like "if you're not with me you're against me" and "You have to go after what ever makes you happy no matter what" . I'm saying that these says are bad advise they just don't fit every situation and the idea of growing up is that somewhere along the line you learn to make decisions based on the circumstance .

Number 3 these ppl who pretend there the ppl in number 1 they maybe even believe it the prob is a chicken and egg issue : which came first the behavior or the morals. These ppl act a certain way all their lives with much though to morality or standing for something until a point in their life when they hear a lot of ppl talking about it and decided to invent a set of life long morals. However instead of taking the time to figure what they should be they pick the morals that best explain the way they act . This is lazy and is another way of making acting like a gimp an unquestionable matter of principle.

The thing about morals is that we should all be fairly good at them . Most of us as children have them brainwashed into us . Our parents tell us not to lie, don't call ppl names, say please. Most major religions are based around the notion of "take care of each other", "Don't be a dick", fairly decent base for morals some throw in "don't mind women" for good measure (-; The fact that these moral seems to be a blue print for civilized society seem to point to a notion of religion serving a vital function for human society.

A Fantastic Idea for charity fund raising

I've had an idea for raising money for charity organisations. As some of you may know a number of research projects with a need to use huge amounts of computational power to run numbers and simulations with large numbers of variables use a variation of distributed computing in which the general public up and allow their computer to work on a small subset of the simulation which not busy. Basically this means that if your using 15% of your cpu the other 85% is being used to run the numbers the project needs. With 1000's of ppl signing up this method provides the kind of computer power that would normally require millions of dollars of hardware.

Most of the time we use less than 20% of our CPUs capacity

My idea resolves around identifying company's that would have a use for that kinda of computing power perhaps non charity based research projects and setup a system where by they could pay a charity organisation for the amount of computing time they get through users signing up to help with their project.

This comes at no cost to the general public as the programs only use the cpu power that the user is not. The only cost to the charity is potential setting up the admin involved in a distributed computing scheme. The Company gets access to huge amounts of computing power , good publicity. and a huge saving over buying the equivalent hardware.

Tada.

new year

first run of the new year ... struggle