"Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked women. Women's magazines also feature pictures of naked women. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is lumpy and hairy and should not be seen by the light of day." -- Dave Barry
That is pretty awesome. The only major differences I had imagined was a much bigger sphere, so that the ground would feel more "flat", and the projectors would augment some sort of 3D glasses that you wear, so that you would have depth in the projections.
Or set up a local network? The problem with having it's own DSL/Cable interface is that I *would* have to physically swap it with my computer, as I don't think you can have more than one DSL interface in a home on the same line. Perhaps you can with cable, but that would seem like a waste of resources when you can just gateway a home network through a computer.
Atoms made these days are getting worse and worse. They are filling them mostly with air these days so that you get less actual nucleic matter per bag!
Sounds like you've got a bad collection of atoms there. For most of us, atoms are generally getting more and more dense as the universe is cooling down...
You should probably check with your local atom distributor and make sure they're sending you the cool stuff, and not just a bunch of hot air...
What I would like to see is a gaming console with a built in Cable/DSL gateway router.
That would be an incredible waste of resources considering that the console could just have a 10/100 ethernet adapter which would connect to a separate Cable/DSL gateway router. This would have the beneifit of making the console cheaper, and it would work with people who already have a Cable/DSL router.
I've been waiting for someone (maybe the military) to build a large "hampster ball" environment, where you can not only see everything in 3D, but you can walk around in it too. Of course the "ball" would have to be fairly large to be able to walk around on what would feel like fairly flat ground, and that means more mass to torque against to keep the person "centered" inside the bottom, but I'd imagine there'd be a lot of potential in such a setup, if it could be done.
I'd be a lot more realistic (but much more difficult to implement) than the "CAVE" projects that I've heard about. Also, If the sphere were some sort of a mesh, you might even find a way to project peripheral background images onto the inside of the sphere (cloud texture, ground texture, etc), so that it seems to better fill your peripheral vision.
Basically, it's good to see mainstream coverage for this story.
This makes me wonder who owns TechTV and how long can they continue to do anything that bites at the huge media conclomerates. I really appreciate their efforts and I hope they can continue to carry these sort of opinions so freely, but it saddens me that it seems *odd* that they can get away with any negative press against a large organization. It's a bad sign of our times when there is only one or a few major outlets (with convenient exposure to the public at large) which will say anything negative about large corporations and/or their ??AA organizations.
Over the past few hundred years, we've shifted from control by the church, to control by an elected government, to (soon to be) control by the black-hearted mega-conglomerates.
2. This is more difficult one to implement. I think application should have some levels of access on your system and they should be disabled by default
It sounds like you're describing some of the fundamental features of a "capability-oriented" operating system, such as EROS.
I'd imagine the software for this would work a lot like freenet, assuming it will be fault-tolerant and hot-swappable. Files would probably be scattered about in such a way that if a piece is temporarily unavailable, it would find the missing piece elsewhere, with the possibility of additional storage coming online or going offline randomly...
I agree. I quit buying ATI because of their horrible drivers and the crappy software that came with it. Their video capture software left a lot of room for improvment. I hate GUIs which are over-done in appearance which hide the buggy bloated code underneath.
I miss not having the ability to capture TV images, but then again I don't watch much TV anymore anyway.
The idea behind the suggestion is that subscribers would be able to actually read the stories before the/. effect shuts down the affected sites.
I agree with this. I hate getting to sites that are already down. I would definitely put down money for a subscription if this feature were added, though I think 30 minutes would be more reasonable.
they both fit in a pocket comfortably, so from a consumer standpoint they are of the same value -- pocketable. As opposed to a CD player which isn't. That's the only real contrast that a comnsumer cares about.
Mini-CDR(W)'s are getting cheap these days.. about 50 cents per disc at compusa... That's about.. oh.. 1/24th of the cost of Dataplay's discs; though it's only 1/2 capacity, so more like 1/12 the cost. And it's not encumbered with copy protections.
The article mentions how we'd needs hundreds of thousands of CD-ROM's to make a dent in the 120TB drive, but the author didn't consider the future of optical storage. One company I've been keeping my eye on is Constellation 3D. They are making a "Fluorescent Multi-layer Disc" (FMD) which holds information in many layers (12-30), with an initial storage capacity of about 20-100 Gigabytes. I really hope this takes off, as I remember a day when a CD-ROM was a massive amount of information (exceeding most hard drives at the time), but nowadays we use them as we did floppy drives back then:)
It'd be nice to have an optical disk capacity comparable to hard drives again so that it is practical to do backups.
Nice oversimplification. There are people who have a much more complicated problem than you assume. I regularly get 10-12 hours of sleep a night, and I still feel like sleeping all day, especially around 2-4 in the afternoon. I have to do everything to keep myself awake: drink coffee, walk around the office, listen to loud music on my headphones, take a break outside in the sunlight, etc. My commute home at the end of the workday is often a battle to stay awake while driving. Then I get home and sleep until about midnight. I spend a couple of hours of free time and finally go back to sleep for another 4-6 hours before going back to work.
Just what am I supposed to do? If I did what my body is telling me, I'd probably sleep 18 hours of the day. I'd love to give this a try, but I don't really have narcolepsy, as I am able to stay awake, though sometimes the effort to do so is quite substantial. I'm willing to spend whatever it takes to be able to live a normal life like everyone else and feel at least marginally awake for the entire daylight period. I'd like to have more free time and be able to get away with sleeping less, but whenever I do, I wind up in sleep debt, and I usually wind up sleeping all weekend as well...
PS: I tried looking around online for anyone who sold this, maybe just to try it, but it seems to elude my search capabilities.
Without even a hint as to what the questions/answers were suggesting, it wound up telling me I had an Asian fetish... I even avoided the obvious answers and it still outed me:-P
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When will this idea go away? Haven't you ever thought of the possibility that perhaps something in the BIOS would reset those memory addresses when you do a "reboot"?
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Most likely, we will still partition disks; but instead of a swap file, you'd probably reserve a coule of gig for "memory space" where programs make a copy from the "disk space" for running.
I'll make this brief: the multi-million-dollar-contract ballplayer is far more important than the hard-working tech geek, and that's why he gets the big bucks. People care far more about what the ball player does than what the tech geek does, and when the big-league sports player screws up, far more people will notice the effects than when the tech geek screws up.
What about the techgeek that wrote the software that prints your paychecks? I bet people will "care far more" and will "notice the effects" if that person screws up.
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Why can't someone write some sort of community system where whenever a piece of email is reported as spam, some sort of hash is generated from the spam document body and then uploaded to a central server so that it can be distrubuted to everyone else (before they load their email client) so that spam is automatically filtered when it is downloaded?
I've always wondered when Windows was going to have nifty 3d interface like some games.... Now I just want to know when Microsoft is going to add support for navigating your file system in a 3d environment, slaying old temp files with a light saber, and using force push and force pull to "move" files...
The problem with laptops is they cost twice as much and half as much upgrade-ability. I wish I could just go to a computer show, pick up a laptop case, a CPU, memory, hard drive, and LCD and put together my own laptop, but that's not really possible. There aren't standard parts like desktop PCs.
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I've seen a lot of "case mods", but this has to be by-far the most practical of them all. It's portable, it has a handle, and the insides are very easily accessible. Find a toolbox that has a bit more protection for ruggedness (rubber corners maybe?) and maybe a little deeper to provide room for cables, mouse, and a small keyboard and you have the perfect LAN party box:)
Djvu is actually quite an impressive file format. We've used it where I work, and it typically gets a 3 meg 200dpi PNG-compressed document image down to around 50-150k, and it is still remarkably as clear as the original. What I understand that it does is separate the background from the foreground, compress the foreground in non-lossy format, and then compress the background using a lossy wavelet-based format. Then the final display decoder merges the two together quite well...
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I agree completely with this statement. Minus the "Ugh."
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"Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked women. Women's magazines also feature pictures of naked women. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is lumpy and hairy and should not be seen by the light of day." -- Dave Barry
Thanks for the link!
Or set up a local network? The problem with having it's own DSL/Cable interface is that I *would* have to physically swap it with my computer, as I don't think you can have more than one DSL interface in a home on the same line. Perhaps you can with cable, but that would seem like a waste of resources when you can just gateway a home network through a computer.
I'd be a lot more realistic (but much more difficult to implement) than the "CAVE" projects that I've heard about. Also, If the sphere were some sort of a mesh, you might even find a way to project peripheral background images onto the inside of the sphere (cloud texture, ground texture, etc), so that it seems to better fill your peripheral vision.
Over the past few hundred years, we've shifted from control by the church, to control by an elected government, to (soon to be) control by the black-hearted mega-conglomerates.
I'd imagine the software for this would work a lot like freenet, assuming it will be fault-tolerant and hot-swappable. Files would probably be scattered about in such a way that if a piece is temporarily unavailable, it would find the missing piece elsewhere, with the possibility of additional storage coming online or going offline randomly...
I miss not having the ability to capture TV images, but then again I don't watch much TV anymore anyway.
Mini-CDR(W)'s are getting cheap these days.. about 50 cents per disc at compusa... That's about.. oh .. 1/24th of the cost of Dataplay's discs; though it's only 1/2 capacity, so more like 1/12 the cost. And it's not encumbered with copy protections.
It'd be nice to have an optical disk capacity comparable to hard drives again so that it is practical to do backups.
Nice oversimplification. There are people who have a much more complicated problem than you assume. I regularly get 10-12 hours of sleep a night, and I still feel like sleeping all day, especially around 2-4 in the afternoon. I have to do everything to keep myself awake: drink coffee, walk around the office, listen to loud music on my headphones, take a break outside in the sunlight, etc. My commute home at the end of the workday is often a battle to stay awake while driving. Then I get home and sleep until about midnight. I spend a couple of hours of free time and finally go back to sleep for another 4-6 hours before going back to work.
Just what am I supposed to do? If I did what my body is telling me, I'd probably sleep 18 hours of the day. I'd love to give this a try, but I don't really have narcolepsy, as I am able to stay awake, though sometimes the effort to do so is quite substantial. I'm willing to spend whatever it takes to be able to live a normal life like everyone else and feel at least marginally awake for the entire daylight period. I'd like to have more free time and be able to get away with sleeping less, but whenever I do, I wind up in sleep debt, and I usually wind up sleeping all weekend as well...
PS: I tried looking around online for anyone who sold this, maybe just to try it, but it seems to elude my search capabilities.
Without even a hint as to what the questions/answers were suggesting, it wound up telling me I had an Asian fetish... I even avoided the obvious answers and it still outed me :-P
When will this idea go away? Haven't you ever thought of the possibility that perhaps something in the BIOS would reset those memory addresses when you do a "reboot"?
Most likely, we will still partition disks; but instead of a swap file, you'd probably reserve a coule of gig for "memory space" where programs make a copy from the "disk space" for running.
What about the techgeek that wrote the software that prints your paychecks? I bet people will "care far more" and will "notice the effects" if that person screws up.
Why can't someone write some sort of community system where whenever a piece of email is reported as spam, some sort of hash is generated from the spam document body and then uploaded to a central server so that it can be distrubuted to everyone else (before they load their email client) so that spam is automatically filtered when it is downloaded?
Ugh.. been playing to much JK2 lately...
The problem with laptops is they cost twice as much and half as much upgrade-ability. I wish I could just go to a computer show, pick up a laptop case, a CPU, memory, hard drive, and LCD and put together my own laptop, but that's not really possible. There aren't standard parts like desktop PCs.
I've seen a lot of "case mods", but this has to be by-far the most practical of them all. It's portable, it has a handle, and the insides are very easily accessible. Find a toolbox that has a bit more protection for ruggedness (rubber corners maybe?) and maybe a little deeper to provide room for cables, mouse, and a small keyboard and you have the perfect LAN party box :)
There's a technical description here.