Too late. Some fans of the movies have already made a bunch of jackets for themselves. Usually when it comes to high-end fan-made replica clothing of this type, it is made from rare materials (sometimes the original stuff) and in very limited quantities, and therefore often fetch a high price, if someone is willing to sell at all. I saw it in The RPF's costuming forum.
Even if the keyboard could be connected, I am not sure that the phone could provide enough current for the controller inside vintage Model Ms. It needs a lot. There are PS2-USB adapters for PCs that can't provide enough. You may need to hack a new power supply.. or make yourself a new controller (starting points: Teensy++, geekhack.org)
There are lots of different adapters, docks and kits for connecting cameras to phones using USB. I have seen that the Apple iPad supports USB keyboards with the proper adapter, and I suppose that the iPhone could too.
Apple seem to be ahead of Microsoft already using capability-based security in the way that apps can be sandboxed in Mac OS X 10.7 ("Lion"). In a sandboxed app, the app does not have complete access to the file system. The file-requester is part of the system and hands the app access to only those files that the user has selected. This reminds me a bit of how access to files was handled in "capdesk".
I would love to work with embedded programming. Low-level is how I started, it is what I love doing the most.
The problem for me is that the ads for these jobs explicitly require a bachelors degree in "engineering" and I have only got a masters degree in "computer science". It does not matter a bit that 90% of the "engineers" from my college took the same courses in as I did. "Engineer": hired, "Computer Systems Specialist": ignored.
Those who are over-sensitive to Wifi are probably over-sensitive to cell-phone towers also.. and those have already been all over London for many years. These people have already been driven off to rural areas where the cell-phone towers are more far between, never able to come back. These people are not heard, They can not use the same communication mediums as the rest of us, and when they are heard, they are regarded as crazy people.
Just you wait a few decades when the health effects are showing themselves in you and me...
How about spending time on making it work?
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How about trying to make the browser faster and more concurrent instead of spending time on unnecessary GUI changes? I often experience a huge slowdown in Firefox when I have five or so Firefox windows -- of which all but one are minimized. I often experience that the entire browser locks up to wait for a request... in another window than the one that I am reading in. I also get the feeling that the so called "awesome" bar becomes slower and slower with time.
How about fixing these issues instead? I am seriously thinking about switching browser because of how slow Firefox has become.
You mention upticks in metabolism. That is very interesting.
I have seen PET-scans from a study where the subject was injected with doped glycose molecules and using a GSM 800 MHz phone while inside the detector. The scans showed a high concentration of glycose -- a blob in the image -- right next to where the antenna was, and only normal levels elsewhere in the head.
Mind you this was somewhat older model of an Ericsson GSM phone with only a single-band that had an actual external antenna.
Seeing that image shed my doubts right there that something is going on. The radiation may not be ionizing but it is definitely doing something.
This particular study did not go into why there was an increase in glucose, it was only showing that there was.
Most routes between Europe and northern Asia (Japan, Korea etc.) go over the North Pole. Many make a short stop in Alaska. The routes may look weird on a flat map, but not so much on a globe.
If planes do this all the time, 24/7, 7 days a week, all year around, then what is the difference? It is precisely as if planes changed the climate.
There is a theory that seeding from airplanes was the main cause of the drought in Etiopia back in the 1980s. I'm not a tin-foil-hat guy, but sometimes weird theories are proven right.
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The Germans used Hollerith machines also in occupied Norway to organize drafting people into German service. Norwegian resistance fighters blew up the machines. Twice.
CRT televisions and computer monitors do emit a small amount of X-rays, and X-rays can cause cancer in large doses. The dose you would get from using a CRT monitor for a year is considered to be negligible, though.
The ultraviolet portion of sunlight will cause skin cancer if you are in the sun too much.
The effect of electromagnetic radiation on human cells can be different for different wavelengths. One problem is that different cell phone standards use different wavelengths, and research on the health effects is lagging behind the deployment of new cell phone standards. The only data that we have is for standards that are being phased out.
Radiation within the frequency bands used older phone standards, such as GSM have been shown to not cause damage to DNA.. which causes cancer.
There are other effects of cell-phone radiation, however...
It has been shown that the same radiation as from GSM phones, at legal levels, can affect the way that DNA is translated into RNA and used to produce proteins. During the time which a brain cell is subjected to radiation, it may produce excess amounts of certain amino acids and less of others. Even if this effect does not affect the DNA itself (cause cancer), it could lead to cell death or otherwise affect the cell for a long time in ways that are still unknown. Two effects that are known are: increased concentration of glucose in the brain cells near the phone, and damage to the blood-brain barrier causing albumen to get in and kill the cell.
However, that was just tests of 1800 GHz (GSM) radiation on humans and rats.
There is practically no research whatsoever of how microwave radiation in the bands used by 3G and 4G affect human cells. An epidemiological study on other frequency bands is telling absolutely nothing. These phones are getting into widespread use about now, but cancer can take 20-30 years to appear. Just look at Chernobyl victims in the Ukraine. There were no more victims of thoroid cancer back in 1986 than the year before. The number of cases have increased and increased, and are now, today, 25 years later, more than ever. You can simply not conduct an epidemiological study 25 years before the effects show themselves.. unless you have a time-machine.
More research is needed. One problem is that it is hard to get young people to conduct this research. There is no prestige and very little money in it. The research findings that exist were made by people near retirement.
I have come across languages in the research realm that present value semantics for the user, but have copy-on-write semantics underneath the hood.
However, to make the language able to guarantee this behaviour, and for multithreaded/parallel programs and without impairing performance that is not so straightforward.
Afghanistan has no known oil reserves, so you can't say that it is for oil.
There have been plans to lay pipelines for oil and gas through Afghanistan, but these projects are still in very early stages and are owned by Asian companies, not the US.
You are evidently using MS Windows, where you sometimes have to maximize to evade clutter.
Unless you have been using multiple workspaces, you can't really compare.
I don't believe in eye tracking as a replacement for the mouse.
Using a mouse, I don't have to stare at the mouse pointer or the target. I can make quick glances at where the pointer and the target is, and then my brain can do the "computations" in the background that allow me to use my hand to move the mouse pointer to the target and do the action I want. This is called proprioception. The brain is trained to use the mouse as an extension of my arm.
There are already phones on the market with both mini-HDMI and USB. Of course there will be people who will ask for Thunderbolt adapter for their cell phones.
You can connect a proper keyboard to an iPad through a USB adapter or Bluetooth, and even some phones come with HDMI these days! Why can't we have them!?
I doubt that they were actually using flame throwers. They must have confused them with some kind of large blowtorch.
A flame thrower propels burning fuel or napalm over a distance. That fuel sticks to whatever it lands on and continues burning. A flame thrower is supposed to inflict serious burns. You can not use a flame thrower to clear snow without a serious risk of starting unintended fires.
Don't dis Multics! Multics was forward-thinking, but perhaps too much so for its own good. Unix got the upper hand much because it ran on cheaper hardware that did not have have an MMU. If someone is planning on creating an OS from scratch to run on mobile or embedded devices, then I think that that person should take a look at Multics first instead of creating yet another Unix copy.
While there is a trend towards touch-screen keyboards on portable devices, I can also see an opposite trend towards more higher-quality mechanical keyboards on stationary PCs.
While there will always be old-timers who love their retro equipment, I think that the largest and fastest growing market segment for tactile keyboards with mechanical key switches is gamers. Every day on gamer-oriented forums, you can see someone wanting to buy a used IBM Model M. The prices on eBay and other auction sites are soaring. Gaming peripheral maker Razer's latest and greatest keyboard has mechanical switches that click, similar to the old Model M. The Das Keyboard is also popular among gamers. More mechanical keyboards are coming: Zowie Celeritas, Leopold, Ducky... (just beware of misleading marketing when visiting gamer brand sites!) Although there is somewhat of a herd mentality among gamers, the gaming community has influenced the rest of the PC world quite much before -- just look at graphics cards.
The second largest group that I see, are the computer professionals who have become older, have more money and demand quality peripherials, plain and simple.
The third group that I see are people who demand something that is more ergonomic. More distinct tactile feedback and lower, more gradual activation force is often perceived as kinder to the fingers.
Myself, I switched from Dell and Keytronic rubber dome keyboards to soft mechanicals this summer, and I don't look back. I have been working as a computer programmer for a lot of my adult life and belong to the second and third groups above. My fingers don't ache a lot at the end of the day, as they could do before. I have also been suck(er)ed in into the keyboard community at Geekhack that I can heartily recommend if you are interested./
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Too late. Some fans of the movies have already made a bunch of jackets for themselves. Usually when it comes to high-end fan-made replica clothing of this type, it is made from rare materials (sometimes the original stuff) and in very limited quantities, and therefore often fetch a high price, if someone is willing to sell at all. I saw it in The RPF's costuming forum.
Even if the keyboard could be connected, I am not sure that the phone could provide enough current for the controller inside vintage Model Ms. It needs a lot. There are PS2-USB adapters for PCs that can't provide enough. You may need to hack a new power supply .. or make yourself a new controller (starting points: Teensy++, geekhack.org)
There are lots of different adapters, docks and kits for connecting cameras to phones using USB. I have seen that the Apple iPad supports USB keyboards with the proper adapter, and I suppose that the iPhone could too.
Apple seem to be ahead of Microsoft already using capability-based security in the way that apps can be sandboxed in Mac OS X 10.7 ("Lion").
In a sandboxed app, the app does not have complete access to the file system. The file-requester is part of the system and hands the app access to only those files that the user has selected.
This reminds me a bit of how access to files was handled in "capdesk".
I would love to work with embedded programming. Low-level is how I started, it is what I love doing the most.
The problem for me is that the ads for these jobs explicitly require a bachelors degree in "engineering" and I have only got a masters degree in "computer science". It does not matter a bit that 90% of the "engineers" from my college took the same courses in as I did. "Engineer": hired, "Computer Systems Specialist": ignored.
Even if you can, there is a huge difference between "opt in" and "opt out".
Those who are over-sensitive to Wifi are probably over-sensitive to cell-phone towers also .. and those have already been all over London for many years.
These people have already been driven off to rural areas where the cell-phone towers are more far between, never able to come back.
These people are not heard, They can not use the same communication mediums as the rest of us, and when they are heard, they are regarded as crazy people.
Just you wait a few decades when the health effects are showing themselves in you and me...
How about trying to make the browser faster and more concurrent instead of spending time on unnecessary GUI changes? ... in another window than the one that I am reading in.
I often experience a huge slowdown in Firefox when I have five or so Firefox windows -- of which all but one are minimized.
I often experience that the entire browser locks up to wait for a request
I also get the feeling that the so called "awesome" bar becomes slower and slower with time.
How about fixing these issues instead?
I am seriously thinking about switching browser because of how slow Firefox has become.
You mention upticks in metabolism. That is very interesting.
I have seen PET-scans from a study where the subject was injected with doped glycose molecules and using a GSM 800 MHz phone while inside the detector. The scans showed a high concentration of glycose -- a blob in the image -- right next to where the antenna was, and only normal levels elsewhere in the head. Mind you this was somewhat older model of an Ericsson GSM phone with only a single-band that had an actual external antenna.
Seeing that image shed my doubts right there that something is going on. The radiation may not be ionizing but it is definitely doing something. This particular study did not go into why there was an increase in glucose, it was only showing that there was.
Most routes between Europe and northern Asia (Japan, Korea etc.) go over the North Pole. Many make a short stop in Alaska. The routes may look weird on a flat map, but not so much on a globe.
If planes do this all the time, 24/7, 7 days a week, all year around, then what is the difference? It is precisely as if planes changed the climate.
There is a theory that seeding from airplanes was the main cause of the drought in Etiopia back in the 1980s.
I'm not a tin-foil-hat guy, but sometimes weird theories are proven right.
The Germans used Hollerith machines also in occupied Norway to organize drafting people into German service.
Norwegian resistance fighters blew up the machines. Twice.
CRT televisions and computer monitors do emit a small amount of X-rays, and X-rays can cause cancer in large doses. The dose you would get from using a CRT monitor for a year is considered to be negligible, though.
The ultraviolet portion of sunlight will cause skin cancer if you are in the sun too much.
The effect of electromagnetic radiation on human cells can be different for different wavelengths. One problem is that different cell phone standards use different wavelengths, and research on the health effects is lagging behind the deployment of new cell phone standards. The only data that we have is for standards that are being phased out.
That study looks at the wrong issues.
Radiation within the frequency bands used older phone standards, such as GSM have been shown to not cause damage to DNA .. which causes cancer.
There are other effects of cell-phone radiation, however...
It has been shown that the same radiation as from GSM phones, at legal levels, can affect the way that DNA is translated into RNA and used to produce proteins. During the time which a brain cell is subjected to radiation, it may produce excess amounts of certain amino acids and less of others. Even if this effect does not affect the DNA itself (cause cancer), it could lead to cell death or otherwise affect the cell for a long time in ways that are still unknown.
Two effects that are known are: increased concentration of glucose in the brain cells near the phone, and damage to the blood-brain barrier causing albumen to get in and kill the cell.
However, that was just tests of 1800 GHz (GSM) radiation on humans and rats.
There is practically no research whatsoever of how microwave radiation in the bands used by 3G and 4G affect human cells. .. unless you have a time-machine.
An epidemiological study on other frequency bands is telling absolutely nothing.
These phones are getting into widespread use about now, but cancer can take 20-30 years to appear.
Just look at Chernobyl victims in the Ukraine. There were no more victims of thoroid cancer back in 1986 than the year before. The number of cases have increased and increased, and are now, today, 25 years later, more than ever.
You can simply not conduct an epidemiological study 25 years before the effects show themselves
More research is needed. One problem is that it is hard to get young people to conduct this research. There is no prestige and very little money in it. The research findings that exist were made by people near retirement.
I have come across languages in the research realm that present value semantics for the user, but have copy-on-write semantics underneath the hood.
However, to make the language able to guarantee this behaviour, and for multithreaded/parallel programs and without impairing performance that is not so straightforward.
The := operator is typed that way because ASCII - 67 does not have any left-arrow character.
There have been plans to lay pipelines for oil and gas through Afghanistan, but these projects are still in very early stages and are owned by Asian companies, not the US.
The [url=http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/looflirpa/e8bc/]Super 3DBoy iPhone Game System[/url] has also already been done before in real life.
You are evidently using MS Windows, where you sometimes have to maximize to evade clutter. Unless you have been using multiple workspaces, you can't really compare.
I don't believe in eye tracking as a replacement for the mouse.
Using a mouse, I don't have to stare at the mouse pointer or the target. I can make quick glances at where the pointer and the target is, and then my brain can do the "computations" in the background that allow me to use my hand to move the mouse pointer to the target and do the action I want. This is called proprioception. The brain is trained to use the mouse as an extension of my arm.
There are already phones on the market with both mini-HDMI and USB.
Of course there will be people who will ask for Thunderbolt adapter for their cell phones.
Yes, but the power consumption of the CPU is still dwarfed by the power consumption of sending and receiving radio signals, so nobody will care.
That broke it for me ...
You can connect a proper keyboard to an iPad through a USB adapter or Bluetooth, and even some phones come with HDMI these days! Why can't we have them!?
I doubt that they were actually using flame throwers. They must have confused them with some kind of large blowtorch. A flame thrower propels burning fuel or napalm over a distance. That fuel sticks to whatever it lands on and continues burning. A flame thrower is supposed to inflict serious burns. You can not use a flame thrower to clear snow without a serious risk of starting unintended fires.
Don't dis Multics! Multics was forward-thinking, but perhaps too much so for its own good. Unix got the upper hand much because it ran on cheaper hardware that did not have have an MMU.
If someone is planning on creating an OS from scratch to run on mobile or embedded devices, then I think that that person should take a look at Multics first instead of creating yet another Unix copy.
While there is a trend towards touch-screen keyboards on portable devices, I can also see an opposite trend towards more higher-quality mechanical keyboards on stationary PCs.
While there will always be old-timers who love their retro equipment, I think that the largest and fastest growing market segment for tactile keyboards with mechanical key switches is gamers. ...
Every day on gamer-oriented forums, you can see someone wanting to buy a used IBM Model M. The prices on eBay and other auction sites are soaring.
Gaming peripheral maker Razer's latest and greatest keyboard has mechanical switches that click, similar to the old Model M. The Das Keyboard is also popular among gamers. More mechanical keyboards are coming: Zowie Celeritas, Leopold, Ducky
(just beware of misleading marketing when visiting gamer brand sites!)
Although there is somewhat of a herd mentality among gamers, the gaming community has influenced the rest of the PC world quite much before -- just look at graphics cards.
The second largest group that I see, are the computer professionals who have become older, have more money and demand quality peripherials, plain and simple.
The third group that I see are people who demand something that is more ergonomic. More distinct tactile feedback and lower, more gradual activation force is often perceived as kinder to the fingers.
Myself, I switched from Dell and Keytronic rubber dome keyboards to soft mechanicals this summer, and I don't look back. I have been working as a computer programmer for a lot of my adult life and belong to the second and third groups above. My fingers don't ache a lot at the end of the day, as they could do before. I have also been suck(er)ed in into the keyboard community at Geekhack that I can heartily recommend if you are interested./