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2. Java sucks because everything is passed by reference: When you take upper level classes and concepts like the call stack are explained to you, you will realize that passing Objects around by value is expensive, inefficient and wasteful. Even in C/C++ non-primitives are usually passed by reference either via pointers or explicit references.

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2. Java sucks because it forces you to write code to handle potential errors in a program: This reason is so illogical it does not deserve an answer.

The logo on the IWSC site is exactly the sort of thing we keep seeing from wearables. You end up looking like some cheesy 70's sci-fi superhero, complete with wacky headgear and utility belt.

Surely the way to go is in the palmtop area. People would be much more comfortable with a wallet-sized thing, perhaps with unfoldable screen to get a readable area.

Who, apart from real geeks, actually wants to wear peripherals?

The logo on the IWSC site is exactly the sort of thing we keep seeing from wearables. You end up looking like some cheesy 70's sci-fi superhero, complete with wacky headgear and utility belt.

Surely the way to go is in the palmtop area. People would be much more comfortable with a wallet-sized thing, perhaps with unfoldable screen to get a readable area.

Who, apart from real geeks, actually wants to wear peripherals?

They have wireless networking, speech recognition, and a thingie that brings up information based on context -- so when the guy is talking about a subject it will bring up information on what he is talking about.

Hi, I'm the grad student at Georgia Tech doing the "just-in-time information retrieval" based on speech.

I feel that I should give credit where it's due. While the work mentioned above is fun because I rigged it up to do speech recognition (yes, in an Emacs shell buffer), it's actually using Brad Rhodes's Remembrance Agent which has been around almost as long as wearable computers.

Take a look here to see some of the more current work going on in the Contextual Computing Group at Georgia Tech. (The page has only recently been put up so please forgive any dead links you find; they'll be fixed before the weekend).

--Ben

They have wireless networking, speech recognition, and a thingie that brings up information based on context -- so when the guy is talking about a subject it will bring up information on what he is talking about.

Hi, I'm the grad student at Georgia Tech doing the "just-in-time information retrieval" based on speech.

I feel that I should give credit where it's due. While the work mentioned above is fun because I rigged it up to do speech recognition (yes, in an Emacs shell buffer), it's actually using Brad Rhodes's Remembrance Agent which has been around almost as long as wearable computers.

Take a look here to see some of the more current work going on in the Contextual Computing Group at Georgia Tech. (The page has only recently been put up so please forgive any dead links you find; they'll be fixed before the weekend).

--Ben

I attended Georgia Tech's Information Design and Technology program. The program is cross-disciplinary (isn't everything thse days)concentrating on the intersection on theory and practice in new media design. I really liked the program because a lot of the emphasis is on doing and thinking at the same time.

The faculty tend to come from programs/backgrounds like English, Film, Design, Theatre, and Critical Theory, but are interested in the application of technology to those disciplines and then what impact that can have on the industry as a whole. They are generally very well known in their fields. Jay Bolter , Terry Harpold , and Janet Murray are well known for their writings. Matthew Causey is an avant garde theatre director of note. Ellen Strain and Greg VanHoosier-Carey have received a NEA grant to develop a CD-ROM to teach film history, history of the South, and film editing techniques which is amazing (note- these people are friends so this is a total plug). The department chair, Robert Kolker , is the author (note - not developer) of another CD-ROM dealing with film, Film, Form, and Culture which was landmark a couple of years ago. Diane Gramola is a well known digital artist (she does cool 3D stuff definately check out the site) who has been involved with organzing SIG-Graph.

The program teaches interactive design (both web on "traditional" interacive design), some graphical design, some web and multimedia scripting, audio and video production and editing, and HCI, as well as some really interesting/cutting edge material like the theoretical (I mean critical theory a la Beaudrillard here) impacts of the technologies and their uses. As you can see the program covers a lot of ground and can allow students to go in a lot of different directions.

Graduates have gone on the PhD programs, started their own companies, and gone on to work places like Macquarium (note this is a shamelessly self-serving plug - that is me), IXL, and IBM.

Anyway, that is the scoop.

In response to the stuff above about "skipping grad school, you don't need it to get a job, etc", just think about what it is that you want to do. Grad school should be about a lot more than getting a job. It should (even at the Master's level) be about advancing knowledge. If you aren't interested in that then don't bother going. I highly recommend the program, if nothing else it is a lot of fun and a good way to get out the IT or .com rat race.

I attended Georgia Tech's Information Design and Technology program. The program is cross-disciplinary (isn't everything thse days)concentrating on the intersection on theory and practice in new media design. I really liked the program because a lot of the emphasis is on doing and thinking at the same time.

The faculty tend to come from programs/backgrounds like English, Film, Design, Theatre, and Critical Theory, but are interested in the application of technology to those disciplines and then what impact that can have on the industry as a whole. They are generally very well known in their fields. Jay Bolter , Terry Harpold , and Janet Murray are well known for their writings. Matthew Causey is an avant garde theatre director of note. Ellen Strain and Greg VanHoosier-Carey have received a NEA grant to develop a CD-ROM to teach film history, history of the South, and film editing techniques which is amazing (note- these people are friends so this is a total plug). The department chair, Robert Kolker , is the author (note - not developer) of another CD-ROM dealing with film, Film, Form, and Culture which was landmark a couple of years ago. Diane Gramola is a well known digital artist (she does cool 3D stuff definately check out the site) who has been involved with organzing SIG-Graph.

The program teaches interactive design (both web on "traditional" interacive design), some graphical design, some web and multimedia scripting, audio and video production and editing, and HCI, as well as some really interesting/cutting edge material like the theoretical (I mean critical theory a la Beaudrillard here) impacts of the technologies and their uses. As you can see the program covers a lot of ground and can allow students to go in a lot of different directions.

Graduates have gone on the PhD programs, started their own companies, and gone on to work places like Macquarium (note this is a shamelessly self-serving plug - that is me), IXL, and IBM.

Anyway, that is the scoop.

In response to the stuff above about "skipping grad school, you don't need it to get a job, etc", just think about what it is that you want to do. Grad school should be about a lot more than getting a job. It should (even at the Master's level) be about advancing knowledge. If you aren't interested in that then don't bother going. I highly recommend the program, if nothing else it is a lot of fun and a good way to get out the IT or .com rat race.

I attended Georgia Tech's Information Design and Technology program. The program is cross-disciplinary (isn't everything thse days)concentrating on the intersection on theory and practice in new media design. I really liked the program because a lot of the emphasis is on doing and thinking at the same time.

The faculty tend to come from programs/backgrounds like English, Film, Design, Theatre, and Critical Theory, but are interested in the application of technology to those disciplines and then what impact that can have on the industry as a whole. They are generally very well known in their fields. Jay Bolter , Terry Harpold , and Janet Murray are well known for their writings. Matthew Causey is an avant garde theatre director of note. Ellen Strain and Greg VanHoosier-Carey have received a NEA grant to develop a CD-ROM to teach film history, history of the South, and film editing techniques which is amazing (note- these people are friends so this is a total plug). The department chair, Robert Kolker , is the author (note - not developer) of another CD-ROM dealing with film, Film, Form, and Culture which was landmark a couple of years ago. Diane Gramola is a well known digital artist (she does cool 3D stuff definately check out the site) who has been involved with organzing SIG-Graph.

The program teaches interactive design (both web on "traditional" interacive design), some graphical design, some web and multimedia scripting, audio and video production and editing, and HCI, as well as some really interesting/cutting edge material like the theoretical (I mean critical theory a la Beaudrillard here) impacts of the technologies and their uses. As you can see the program covers a lot of ground and can allow students to go in a lot of different directions.

Graduates have gone on the PhD programs, started their own companies, and gone on to work places like Macquarium (note this is a shamelessly self-serving plug - that is me), IXL, and IBM.

Anyway, that is the scoop.

In response to the stuff above about "skipping grad school, you don't need it to get a job, etc", just think about what it is that you want to do. Grad school should be about a lot more than getting a job. It should (even at the Master's level) be about advancing knowledge. If you aren't interested in that then don't bother going. I highly recommend the program, if nothing else it is a lot of fun and a good way to get out the IT or .com rat race.

I attended Georgia Tech's Information Design and Technology program. The program is cross-disciplinary (isn't everything thse days)concentrating on the intersection on theory and practice in new media design. I really liked the program because a lot of the emphasis is on doing and thinking at the same time.

The faculty tend to come from programs/backgrounds like English, Film, Design, Theatre, and Critical Theory, but are interested in the application of technology to those disciplines and then what impact that can have on the industry as a whole. They are generally very well known in their fields. Jay Bolter , Terry Harpold , and Janet Murray are well known for their writings. Matthew Causey is an avant garde theatre director of note. Ellen Strain and Greg VanHoosier-Carey have received a NEA grant to develop a CD-ROM to teach film history, history of the South, and film editing techniques which is amazing (note- these people are friends so this is a total plug). The department chair, Robert Kolker , is the author (note - not developer) of another CD-ROM dealing with film, Film, Form, and Culture which was landmark a couple of years ago. Diane Gramola is a well known digital artist (she does cool 3D stuff definately check out the site) who has been involved with organzing SIG-Graph.

The program teaches interactive design (both web on "traditional" interacive design), some graphical design, some web and multimedia scripting, audio and video production and editing, and HCI, as well as some really interesting/cutting edge material like the theoretical (I mean critical theory a la Beaudrillard here) impacts of the technologies and their uses. As you can see the program covers a lot of ground and can allow students to go in a lot of different directions.

Graduates have gone on the PhD programs, started their own companies, and gone on to work places like Macquarium (note this is a shamelessly self-serving plug - that is me), IXL, and IBM.

Anyway, that is the scoop.

In response to the stuff above about "skipping grad school, you don't need it to get a job, etc", just think about what it is that you want to do. Grad school should be about a lot more than getting a job. It should (even at the Master's level) be about advancing knowledge. If you aren't interested in that then don't bother going. I highly recommend the program, if nothing else it is a lot of fun and a good way to get out the IT or .com rat race.

I attended Georgia Tech's Information Design and Technology program. The program is cross-disciplinary (isn't everything thse days)concentrating on the intersection on theory and practice in new media design. I really liked the program because a lot of the emphasis is on doing and thinking at the same time.

The faculty tend to come from programs/backgrounds like English, Film, Design, Theatre, and Critical Theory, but are interested in the application of technology to those disciplines and then what impact that can have on the industry as a whole. They are generally very well known in their fields. Jay Bolter , Terry Harpold , and Janet Murray are well known for their writings. Matthew Causey is an avant garde theatre director of note. Ellen Strain and Greg VanHoosier-Carey have received a NEA grant to develop a CD-ROM to teach film history, history of the South, and film editing techniques which is amazing (note- these people are friends so this is a total plug). The department chair, Robert Kolker , is the author (note - not developer) of another CD-ROM dealing with film, Film, Form, and Culture which was landmark a couple of years ago. Diane Gramola is a well known digital artist (she does cool 3D stuff definately check out the site) who has been involved with organzing SIG-Graph.

The program teaches interactive design (both web on "traditional" interacive design), some graphical design, some web and multimedia scripting, audio and video production and editing, and HCI, as well as some really interesting/cutting edge material like the theoretical (I mean critical theory a la Beaudrillard here) impacts of the technologies and their uses. As you can see the program covers a lot of ground and can allow students to go in a lot of different directions.

Graduates have gone on the PhD programs, started their own companies, and gone on to work places like Macquarium (note this is a shamelessly self-serving plug - that is me), IXL, and IBM.

Anyway, that is the scoop.

In response to the stuff above about "skipping grad school, you don't need it to get a job, etc", just think about what it is that you want to do. Grad school should be about a lot more than getting a job. It should (even at the Master's level) be about advancing knowledge. If you aren't interested in that then don't bother going. I highly recommend the program, if nothing else it is a lot of fun and a good way to get out the IT or .com rat race.

I attended Georgia Tech's Information Design and Technology program. The program is cross-disciplinary (isn't everything thse days)concentrating on the intersection on theory and practice in new media design. I really liked the program because a lot of the emphasis is on doing and thinking at the same time.

The faculty tend to come from programs/backgrounds like English, Film, Design, Theatre, and Critical Theory, but are interested in the application of technology to those disciplines and then what impact that can have on the industry as a whole. They are generally very well known in their fields. Jay Bolter , Terry Harpold , and Janet Murray are well known for their writings. Matthew Causey is an avant garde theatre director of note. Ellen Strain and Greg VanHoosier-Carey have received a NEA grant to develop a CD-ROM to teach film history, history of the South, and film editing techniques which is amazing (note- these people are friends so this is a total plug). The department chair, Robert Kolker , is the author (note - not developer) of another CD-ROM dealing with film, Film, Form, and Culture which was landmark a couple of years ago. Diane Gramola is a well known digital artist (she does cool 3D stuff definately check out the site) who has been involved with organzing SIG-Graph.

The program teaches interactive design (both web on "traditional" interacive design), some graphical design, some web and multimedia scripting, audio and video production and editing, and HCI, as well as some really interesting/cutting edge material like the theoretical (I mean critical theory a la Beaudrillard here) impacts of the technologies and their uses. As you can see the program covers a lot of ground and can allow students to go in a lot of different directions.

Graduates have gone on the PhD programs, started their own companies, and gone on to work places like Macquarium (note this is a shamelessly self-serving plug - that is me), IXL, and IBM.

Anyway, that is the scoop.

In response to the stuff above about "skipping grad school, you don't need it to get a job, etc", just think about what it is that you want to do. Grad school should be about a lot more than getting a job. It should (even at the Master's level) be about advancing knowledge. If you aren't interested in that then don't bother going. I highly recommend the program, if nothing else it is a lot of fun and a good way to get out the IT or .com rat race.

I attended Georgia Tech's Information Design and Technology program. The program is cross-disciplinary (isn't everything thse days)concentrating on the intersection on theory and practice in new media design. I really liked the program because a lot of the emphasis is on doing and thinking at the same time.

The faculty tend to come from programs/backgrounds like English, Film, Design, Theatre, and Critical Theory, but are interested in the application of technology to those disciplines and then what impact that can have on the industry as a whole. They are generally very well known in their fields. Jay Bolter , Terry Harpold , and Janet Murray are well known for their writings. Matthew Causey is an avant garde theatre director of note. Ellen Strain and Greg VanHoosier-Carey have received a NEA grant to develop a CD-ROM to teach film history, history of the South, and film editing techniques which is amazing (note- these people are friends so this is a total plug). The department chair, Robert Kolker , is the author (note - not developer) of another CD-ROM dealing with film, Film, Form, and Culture which was landmark a couple of years ago. Diane Gramola is a well known digital artist (she does cool 3D stuff definately check out the site) who has been involved with organzing SIG-Graph.

The program teaches interactive design (both web on "traditional" interacive design), some graphical design, some web and multimedia scripting, audio and video production and editing, and HCI, as well as some really interesting/cutting edge material like the theoretical (I mean critical theory a la Beaudrillard here) impacts of the technologies and their uses. As you can see the program covers a lot of ground and can allow students to go in a lot of different directions.

Graduates have gone on the PhD programs, started their own companies, and gone on to work places like Macquarium (note this is a shamelessly self-serving plug - that is me), IXL, and IBM.

Anyway, that is the scoop.

In response to the stuff above about "skipping grad school, you don't need it to get a job, etc", just think about what it is that you want to do. Grad school should be about a lot more than getting a job. It should (even at the Master's level) be about advancing knowledge. If you aren't interested in that then don't bother going. I highly recommend the program, if nothing else it is a lot of fun and a good way to get out the IT or .com rat race.

I attended Georgia Tech's Information Design and Technology program. The program is cross-disciplinary (isn't everything thse days)concentrating on the intersection on theory and practice in new media design. I really liked the program because a lot of the emphasis is on doing and thinking at the same time.

The faculty tend to come from programs/backgrounds like English, Film, Design, Theatre, and Critical Theory, but are interested in the application of technology to those disciplines and then what impact that can have on the industry as a whole. They are generally very well known in their fields. Jay Bolter , Terry Harpold , and Janet Murray are well known for their writings. Matthew Causey is an avant garde theatre director of note. Ellen Strain and Greg VanHoosier-Carey have received a NEA grant to develop a CD-ROM to teach film history, history of the South, and film editing techniques which is amazing (note- these people are friends so this is a total plug). The department chair, Robert Kolker , is the author (note - not developer) of another CD-ROM dealing with film, Film, Form, and Culture which was landmark a couple of years ago. Diane Gramola is a well known digital artist (she does cool 3D stuff definately check out the site) who has been involved with organzing SIG-Graph.

The program teaches interactive design (both web on "traditional" interacive design), some graphical design, some web and multimedia scripting, audio and video production and editing, and HCI, as well as some really interesting/cutting edge material like the theoretical (I mean critical theory a la Beaudrillard here) impacts of the technologies and their uses. As you can see the program covers a lot of ground and can allow students to go in a lot of different directions.

Graduates have gone on the PhD programs, started their own companies, and gone on to work places like Macquarium (note this is a shamelessly self-serving plug - that is me), IXL, and IBM.

Anyway, that is the scoop.

In response to the stuff above about "skipping grad school, you don't need it to get a job, etc", just think about what it is that you want to do. Grad school should be about a lot more than getting a job. It should (even at the Master's level) be about advancing knowledge. If you aren't interested in that then don't bother going. I highly recommend the program, if nothing else it is a lot of fun and a good way to get out the IT or .com rat race.

I attended Georgia Tech's Information Design and Technology program. The program is cross-disciplinary (isn't everything thse days)concentrating on the intersection on theory and practice in new media design. I really liked the program because a lot of the emphasis is on doing and thinking at the same time.

The faculty tend to come from programs/backgrounds like English, Film, Design, Theatre, and Critical Theory, but are interested in the application of technology to those disciplines and then what impact that can have on the industry as a whole. They are generally very well known in their fields. Jay Bolter , Terry Harpold , and Janet Murray are well known for their writings. Matthew Causey is an avant garde theatre director of note. Ellen Strain and Greg VanHoosier-Carey have received a NEA grant to develop a CD-ROM to teach film history, history of the South, and film editing techniques which is amazing (note- these people are friends so this is a total plug). The department chair, Robert Kolker , is the author (note - not developer) of another CD-ROM dealing with film, Film, Form, and Culture which was landmark a couple of years ago. Diane Gramola is a well known digital artist (she does cool 3D stuff definately check out the site) who has been involved with organzing SIG-Graph.

The program teaches interactive design (both web on "traditional" interacive design), some graphical design, some web and multimedia scripting, audio and video production and editing, and HCI, as well as some really interesting/cutting edge material like the theoretical (I mean critical theory a la Beaudrillard here) impacts of the technologies and their uses. As you can see the program covers a lot of ground and can allow students to go in a lot of different directions.

Graduates have gone on the PhD programs, started their own companies, and gone on to work places like Macquarium (note this is a shamelessly self-serving plug - that is me), IXL, and IBM.

Anyway, that is the scoop.

In response to the stuff above about "skipping grad school, you don't need it to get a job, etc", just think about what it is that you want to do. Grad school should be about a lot more than getting a job. It should (even at the Master's level) be about advancing knowledge. If you aren't interested in that then don't bother going. I highly recommend the program, if nothing else it is a lot of fun and a good way to get out the IT or .com rat race.

I attended Georgia Tech's Information Design and Technology program. The program is cross-disciplinary (isn't everything thse days)concentrating on the intersection on theory and practice in new media design. I really liked the program because a lot of the emphasis is on doing and thinking at the same time.

The faculty tend to come from programs/backgrounds like English, Film, Design, Theatre, and Critical Theory, but are interested in the application of technology to those disciplines and then what impact that can have on the industry as a whole. They are generally very well known in their fields. Jay Bolter , Terry Harpold , and Janet Murray are well known for their writings. Matthew Causey is an avant garde theatre director of note. Ellen Strain and Greg VanHoosier-Carey have received a NEA grant to develop a CD-ROM to teach film history, history of the South, and film editing techniques which is amazing (note- these people are friends so this is a total plug). The department chair, Robert Kolker , is the author (note - not developer) of another CD-ROM dealing with film, Film, Form, and Culture which was landmark a couple of years ago. Diane Gramola is a well known digital artist (she does cool 3D stuff definately check out the site) who has been involved with organzing SIG-Graph.

The program teaches interactive design (both web on "traditional" interacive design), some graphical design, some web and multimedia scripting, audio and video production and editing, and HCI, as well as some really interesting/cutting edge material like the theoretical (I mean critical theory a la Beaudrillard here) impacts of the technologies and their uses. As you can see the program covers a lot of ground and can allow students to go in a lot of different directions.

Graduates have gone on the PhD programs, started their own companies, and gone on to work places like Macquarium (note this is a shamelessly self-serving plug - that is me), IXL, and IBM.

Anyway, that is the scoop.

In response to the stuff above about "skipping grad school, you don't need it to get a job, etc", just think about what it is that you want to do. Grad school should be about a lot more than getting a job. It should (even at the Master's level) be about advancing knowledge. If you aren't interested in that then don't bother going. I highly recommend the program, if nothing else it is a lot of fun and a good way to get out the IT or .com rat race.

You've got far far to much to worry about in those 4 minutes of liftoff to add a large container of combustables to that cargo bay. Better to design a resupply ship and send up all the feul without people being anywhere close to it.

Do you really think that the amount of fuel on board a space tug that can fit into the Shuttle cargo bay is at all consequential compared to the 102,619 pounds of liquid H2 and 1,359,142 pounds of liquid O2 onboard the external tank at liftoff?

However, an unmanned shuttle equivalent is always something that I've thought would be a good idea. One concept that was floated around in the early 80s was the Shuttle-C ("C" for cargo). Also, what about Robert Zubrin's Ares booster idea? The Ares would simply be a cargo section attached to an STS external tank and SRB package with Shuttle main engines strapped to the bottom of the ET.

Yesterday while reading the GeorgiaTech technique yesterday I noted that the school officials raised a number of valid points such as

Apart from the fact that Tech feels it is not under any legal obligation to enact a ban, attempting to ban Napster without limiting Internet access in other ways is nearly impossible from a technological standpoint. "At a university like Georgia Tech, such a solution is impractical. Further, even if we found a temporary method, our students are bright enough to find ways around it," said Harty.

Too true, blocking Napster's default port simply means that other ports will be used.

"We will, of course, take swift action regarding any specific instances of infringement of your clients' copyrighted materials once they are brought to our attention."

Under the provisions detailed in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Tech is considered an Internet Service Provider.

So there will still be disciplinary action against those who have been shown to violate copyright materials. So what is the point of asking for a ban except as a hamfisted attempt to bully schools that have a combined legal might that dwarfs Metallica's?

Here's a link to that article online, for anyone interested.

If you are in the Atlanta area, check out the Aware Home Research Initiative.

The Aware Home project is basically of very big geek house. Not only is most everything in the house connected, but the level of technology is also beyond what is currently on the market. just imagine it: a huge house that is heavily-funded and contains nothing but cool uber-toys.

Unfortunatly, you can't live there since it is a research project of Georgia Tech. But there are numerous students that [will] live there to do "research". Forget the dorm, give my me cyber-house!

--weenie NT4 user: bite me!

Take a short trip down to Home Park (roughly the neighborhood between 10th and 16th Streets north of Ga Tech). Take a look at git.ads or the campus newspaper for people looking for housemates or to rent a house with.

Home Park is full of houses of Ga Tech people very eager to have/share a high speed connection. Also it's damn close to the GT campus itself which is one of the most wired places in the country thanks to the 1996 Olympics (fiber, fiber everywhere), so I am sure DSL will be easy to find.

I am not a wreck anymore (pun intended) but I do live about 2 miles north of Tech and my ADSL happily clocks at 1.5Mbps down :-)...

JEff

I'm sure many colleges offer study in the history of computers/technology. I know Georgia Tech does. Look here. It seems pretty broad including stuff like sociology too.

-tim

The preface to Writing Space reads:

You may make as many electronic copies of this text as you wish. You may distribute these copies to anyone under any terms. You may give the disks away or sell them. If you can convince someone to pay you for an electronic copy of this text, take the money.

This was written in the late 80's, and sounds a lot like the GPL applied to a piece of scholarship.

Incidently, Writing Space is availible from Eastgate Systems in electronic form for $10US. :-)

I meant no disrepsect. I literally meant I'd rather use Dylan (even though it's noi longer supported).

Actually, the best language I've ever programmed in is NewtonScript created by Walter Smith who, ironically, later left Apple to work on Windows CE (now he works on Windows Update).

It's worth checking out (NewtonScript, that is. Not Windows Update).

Kevin Fox

Ward Cunningham designed the first such web site of which I am aware (called a Wiki, or a Wiki-Wiki) several years ago. Co-webs have been in use for quite some time, though they tend to be somewhat more sophisticated than a mere place to dump ftp -- usually providing editors and "smart" pre-parsers to facilitate collaboration by newbies.'

See, e.g., this swiki page.

Despite the skepticism, these things work very well and are rarely the subject of abuse. A sandbox is provided for people who just want to play, and folks are generally quite courteous as a matter of practice. We use one for the Squeak Smalltalk open source community, which you can access from the main (traditional) web site page for Squeak.. The Swiki is one of the primary repositories of information for the Squeak community.

We have found cowebs an excellent vehicle for collaboratively creating documentation for open source projects that have run too long without doco support.. While it is not a great place to build final documents, it is a great place to gather information, and over time mold into the same.

IIRC, there was an article right here on /. about a 2.4GHz wireless DIY project a while ago... or maybe that was kuro5hin...

Anyway, if you have line-of-sight between the two houses, I'd go for wireless (preferably RF/microwave rather than 802.11 or other shorter-range types). Here's a list of links that you might want to take a look at:

Wireless Projects, Vendors, and Products: Big collection of links on all sorts of wireless networking. If you can't find something here, give up.

This is a general outline of wireless LAN.

Ah, here's a bit from /. (not the one I was looking for, but oh well...) about boosting Apple's AirPort to give better range.

..Ah, here we are - the DIY 10Mbit/s microwave project that was linked from /. earlier this year. This guy knows what he's doing, and it's not too expensive either.

Hope these help...

The URL for the GVU center is www.gvu.gatech.edu

--weenie NT4 user: bite me!

• zoomable UIs (Pad++)
• two-handed user interfaces (e.g. toolglasses and magic lenses)
• smarter desktops(e.g. Apple Data Detectors, LiveDoc, CyberDesk)

By far the holy grail of heads-up displays is the MicroOptical Integrated Eyeglass Display. Thad Starner, another of the MIT grads working with wearables (now at Georgia Tech) has a pair.

• Wearable Computer
• Wearable Computing Intro Page
• Wearable Computing Portal
• Wearable Computing Resource Page
• WearableGear.com
• Wearables Central
• Wearables WebCrawler Search Engine
• Wearables Webring
• WearableTech Corp.
• Wired News: Annotated Reality
• Wired News: Intel Chips In On Future Devices
• Wired News: Waiting For Wearable Wearables
• Wraith Projects
• Xybernaut

Impossible means no one's done it yet.

Here I have a whole bunch of links to further information about wearable computers and "enhanced reality" for anyone interested:

• A Brief History Of Wearable Computing
• Affective Computing
• BBC News: Japan Eyes Wearable PC
• Charmed Technology
• CNET.com: 10 Technologies That Will Take Over - #8
• CNN: Excuse Me, Is That A Monitor On Your Head?
• CNN: MIT 'Cyborgs' Bridge Gap Between Man And Machine
• CNN: Turn On, Jack In, And Geek Out With Wearable PC
• CNN: Wearable Systems May Cut Labor, Save Time
• CNN: Xybernaut Now Has Linux For Wearable PCs
• CNN Poll: Do You Want A Wearable Computer?
• Computer For The 21st Century, The
• ComputerWorld: Wearable Computers - Digitally Attired
• Context-Aware Computing
• CTHEORY: Body Delirium
• DisplayWear Incorporated
• Extreme Computing
• Handykey, Inc. Wearable Computing Page
• Houston Chronicle: Future Phones Home, The
• ICBorg
• Intelligent Information Filters And Enhanced Reality, by Alexander Chislenko
• ISWC- International Symposium on Wearable Computers
• Marvin Elizondo's Wearable Computing Page
• MicroOptical
• MIT-IDEO Wearables Intro
• NetWork Fusion: Armani, Karan, Xybernaut? 02/01/999
• PBS: Scientific American Frontiers Transcripts - Inventing The Future (Aired Fall 1996)
• PC World News: Wearable PC To Debut At Comdex
• PopSci.com Headlines: CyberFashions
• Slashdot Articles: Wearable PCs Under Linux
• Smart Rooms
• TechWearable
• TekGear
• Wearable Computer
• Wearable Computing Intro Page
• Wearable Computing Portal
• Wearable Computing Resource Page
• WearableGear.com
• Wearables Central
• Wearables WebCrawler Search Engine
• Wearables Webring
• WearableTech Corp.
• Wired News: Annotated Reality
• Wired News: Intel Chips In On Future Devices
• Wired News: Waiting For Wearable Wearables
• Wraith Projects
• Xybernaut

Impossible means no one's done it yet.

Here I have a whole bunch of links to further information about wearable computers and "enhanced reality" for anyone interested:

• A Brief History Of Wearable Computing
• Affective Computing
• BBC News: Japan Eyes Wearable PC
• Charmed Technology
• CNET.com: 10 Technologies That Will Take Over - #8
• CNN: Excuse Me, Is That A Monitor On Your Head?
• CNN: MIT 'Cyborgs' Bridge Gap Between Man And Machine
• CNN: Turn On, Jack In, And Geek Out With Wearable PC
• CNN: Wearable Systems May Cut Labor, Save Time
• CNN: Xybernaut Now Has Linux For Wearable PCs
• CNN Poll: Do You Want A Wearable Computer?
• Computer For The 21st Century, The
• ComputerWorld: Wearable Computers - Digitally Attired
• Context-Aware Computing
• CTHEORY: Body Delirium
• DisplayWear Incorporated
• Extreme Computing
• Handykey, Inc. Wearable Computing Page
• Houston Chronicle: Future Phones Home, The
• ICBorg
• Intelligent Information Filters And Enhanced Reality, by Alexander Chislenko
• ISWC- International Symposium on Wearable Computers
• Marvin Elizondo's Wearable Computing Page
• MicroOptical
• MIT-IDEO Wearables Intro
• NetWork Fusion: Armani, Karan, Xybernaut? 02/01/999
• PBS: Scientific American Frontiers Transcripts - Inventing The Future (Aired Fall 1996)
• PC World News: Wearable PC To Debut At Comdex
• PopSci.com Headlines: CyberFashions
• Slashdot Articles: Wearable PCs Under Linux
• Smart Rooms
• TechWearable
• TekGear
• Wearable Computer
• Wearable Computing Intro Page
• Wearable Computing Portal
• Wearable Computing Resource Page
• WearableGear.com
• Wearables Central
• Wearables WebCrawler Search Engine
• Wearables Webring
• WearableTech Corp.
• Wired News: Annotated Reality
• Wired News: Intel Chips In On Future Devices
• Wired News: Waiting For Wearable Wearables
• Wraith Projects
• Xybernaut

Impossible means no one's done it yet.

finding out what is on is not much of a problem if you have an internet connection, you can use this if you are in the states ftp://foobar.resnet.gatech.edu/pub/, this if you are in Germany http://yasd.dhs.org/en
and I just wrote one for if you live in Canada, (no web page yet). I think I will either merge mine with the German one, or roll my own UI. I would like it to be similar to the Guide Plus feature of some RCA TVs. This weekend I will have some time to get some code down for the UI, trying to decide whether or not to use GTK or tcl/tk..

I've continued looking in the week since I posted this question, and finally managed to find a place with good extensive data, albeit rather old (October 1998). They've apparently been doing these surveys for years at Georgia Tech. See GVU's WWW User Surveys for the whole thing, and specifically the Technology Demographics section for direct information on my question.

I've continued looking in the week since I posted this question, and finally managed to find a place with good extensive data, albeit rather old (October 1998). They've apparently been doing these surveys for years at Georgia Tech. See GVU's WWW User Surveys for the whole thing, and specifically the Technology Demographics section for direct information on my question.

MPEGs...how 1995!

For a more broadly useful video format, Apple will have to port QuickTime to Linux. For a company that used to officially support MkLinux, you'd think they'd get off of their collective ass and at least release binaries. Hell, you can even stream Quicktime from Linux, but you can't watch it.

There used to be, as of a few months ago, a petition up at neutron.resnet.gatech.edu/qt-petit ion.html, but that appears to have gone away. (As has the server.) Maybe the guy graduated and took his server with him.

I'm told that xanim plays Quicktime, but I've never tried it. Still, I'd like to have a plug-in, and something that supports that full functionality of Quicktime. I wish Apple would do something about it.

-Waldo

Just in case anyone else was wondering, it can be downloaded here.
And here is a good "How to get started" -document.

When I visited PARC in the early eighties,...

The Xerox PARC GUI lives on today as part of the free Squeak Smalltalk environment.

You can get a some idea of what things looked like back then (including seeing Smalltalk-72 in action) from the screenshots at: http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/683

Those of you who have your online roots in the BBS world may remember a company called Telegrafix, who created a vector graphics / page layout language called RIPScrip and a corresponding graphical terminal program called RIPTerm.

In early 1995, responding to the initial announcement that Unisys would be enforcing its patent (which resulted in GIF support being dropped from RIPScrip 2), Telegrafix distributed an open letter suggesting the creation of a patent-free GIF replacement using LZHUF compression, and claimed to have implimented such. Perhaps not a terribly useful idea now that PNG exists, but an interesting little historical footnote none the less.

Peace,
vilvoy

One of the classes I took last semester had such an application but it was rather simple (not very complex UML diagrams). I planned to hack at it but never found a good book on UML so I never did. Here's a link to the application for Windows, Macs, and *nix.

First of all, there is Broadcast 2000, a GPL non-linear editor. For your video capturing needs, try dvgrab (assuming that you've got a IEEE-1394 compliant capture card). And as a cheap plug for my own program, I am the author of gvplay, a simple Gnome/GTK video player. I wrote gvplay to help render my special effect (object replacement through tracking and edge detection).

but I haven't seen much UI innovation recently

That's because you didn't go look for it.

Morphic
Native Oberon
Bricks
Merlin
Photon

There's more...

Jason Kau writes " is a working paper on the economics of open source software from the Nation Bureau of Economic Research entitled "The Simple Economics of Open Source". Focuses primarily on Apache, Perl, and Sendmail but mentions Linux, Debian, VA Linux, etc. It's a 40 page PDF document. Some background in Economics would probably be helpful. " something you should

Our Operating Systems I Class uses linux (embedded) on little bitty compaq skiff boards. Take a look at the Spring 2000 class page!

Here at Georgia Tech They're experimenting with such a concept in a Junior-level OS class.
CS3210 I was almost involved with the course but I ended up having way too stuff on my plate aleready this semester. Alas, as the course looks extremely interesting.

Anyway, check it out!

- Pizza

Here at Georgia Tech They're experimenting with such a concept in a Junior-level OS class.
CS3210 I was almost involved with the course but I ended up having way too stuff on my plate aleready this semester. Alas, as the course looks extremely interesting.

Anyway, check it out!

- Pizza

You might say, well these are procedural machine definitions and you would be right, but they are only because of the computing environment available and targeted by the laguage writers.

And it did happen (in a sense) years ago with the Burroughs B1700 which was a micro coded machine that when it task switched, would load in different microcode for the task being switched in (as my understanding and memory go). The machines read in could even reconfigure the machine word size so you could be process switching between a 32 bit Cobol machine and a 64 bit Algol machine.

I suspect the same model of machine could have a seperate task for each object, configured optimally for that object ...

Here is a description from the Unisys site on the B1700:

In the small computer market, the company introduced the B1700 in 1972 to compete with IBM's System/3. For a small machine the B1700 was very remarkable in that it provided virtual memory capabilities and variable micrologic in the processor, so that it could behave as either a word or character-oriented machine. Burroughs provided interpreters for COBOL, FORTRAN, BASIC, and RPG as well as emulators for the older B200 and B300 machines. The various models of the B1700 had from 24,000 to 378,000 bytes of memory and sold for $22,000 to $87,000. Sales of the 1700 series were relatively strong. The Yugoslavia n State Bank ordered 74 of them for use at its branches and in all, over 1300 B1700s were sold during its first three years. Burrou ghs 3d gen newsletter

Too bad OO was just a glimmer then.

More importantly, Alan Kay introduced the concept of personal computing and media. Previously, computers were considered devices meant to be used only by businesses and corporations. His vision of individuals owning and using computers was quite radical in the late '60s. To this day, some of his visions have still not been achieved, mainly the Dynabook (read his bio).

And yes, he did invent the now ubiquitous overlapping window interface.

Currently, Alan Kay is working on the Squeak programming langauge, which is a variant of Smalltalk. You can check out his page on the Squeak Swiki at http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/378

--Ivan, weenie NT4 user: bite me!

I'm almost certain that someone else has posted this but, just in case, here it is:

QuickTime client for Linux petition

Hopefully enough interest will generate the kind of discussion at Apple's leadership that Linux needs to get some attention for a streaming client.

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>> C will always be the language of choice for platforms.


Why? Is this for technical or social reasons?
Lisp and Smalltalk have been used to implement operating systems,HTTP servers, and database systems and quite efficient and powerful ones at that. What advantage does C have besides being close to the hardware?

examples:
Li sp Machines
CL-HTTP Hypermedia Server
Squeak
Pluggable Webserver and Swiki
MinneStore
GemStone