Slashdot Mirror


User: Lumpy

Lumpy's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
20,433
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 20,433

  1. Re:Don't forget about the end purpose of all that on 'Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm,' Says Google Glass Team · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oddly, I wear a dead heads up display panel all day long every day, they are called GLASSES. it's just the projector display section is defective, but the image enhancement section still works.

  2. Re:Nokia was first with this idea on 'Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm,' Says Google Glass Team · · Score: 0

    You do realize that is the man that invented all the technology in "project glass" what google is doing is completely based off of his research and designs.

    Prof Mann is the Tesla of this century and is pushing the limits of the technology. He was wearing the equivalent of "project glass" back in 1997 just as full glasses.

    He invented it all, not google engineers.

  3. Re:Well according to Bill Gates on 'Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm,' Says Google Glass Team · · Score: 1

    Mostly because the tablet makers were retarded and did not allow me to make phone calls from the tablet.

  4. Re:Heh. on 'Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm,' Says Google Glass Team · · Score: 4, Funny

    And two in his home.....

    Dammit, I let the secret out, Oh well.

    Will you please put some clothes on when you walk around in the living room. Us at the Cable company are grossed out.

    And please move the bedroom cable box to the left a little and put the bottle of hand cream elsewhere, it has been blocking our view and we have been using it as a kind of torture device for the new employees.

  5. Re:already the norm on 'Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm,' Says Google Glass Team · · Score: 5, Informative

    I find it convenient. If you buy a non crappy BT headset you don't even notice you are wearing it. I also find it convieient that I dont need the headset in the car and the car is a large speakerphone so everyone can join in on the call. Finally, my BT helmet completes the trifecta while I am on the motorcycle.

    What is inconvenient, is that Car makers and helmet makers are too lazy to make a proper HUD system to show information in my line of sight.

    Having a camera/webcam strapped to my head is not highly important in any way. I already have that in my secondary BT headset, a LooxCie camera/BT headset. It's actually quite worthless having a camera on my head all day long, unless I want to live cast boring as hell things... Which is what people do with these.

    The biggest convenience is I can easily unplug by removing the headset and upgrades to newer tech at a whim. Silly people that want surgery to have their interface will always be using way out of date hardware.

    Anyone using implants will be using tech that is at least 5 years out of date, the FDA approval of devices for implant will take at least that long. Let alone that the $199 premium headset will cost $999 plus $12,500 for insertion by a surgeon.

  6. Re:What's different about an ereader? on When Your e-Books Read You · · Score: 1

    "What I'll do when dead-tree books are killed off, I don't know."

    Resort to pirated DRM removed versions that can be read on an ereader that has all it's spyware removed.

  7. Easy. on Ask Slashdot: VPN Service For a Deployed US Navy Ship? · · Score: 1

    Rackspace, Amazon, any of the companies that give you a server in a rack on a OC48. Have them install linux and you maintain the VPN install.

    You will maintain full control and it will not show up on most nations known VPN blocklists.

  8. Re:What's different about an ereader? on When Your e-Books Read You · · Score: 2

    bought a dead tree book at Barnes and noble?: Noted.

    All this stuff you point out already happens and is in your lexis Nexis report for $50.00 Yes I can see what books you have bought already.

    worried about privacy? get rid of your bank accounts, ATM cars and Credit cards. Although give it time and the security cameras at the stores will identify and log you.

  9. Re:But think of the advertisers on When Your e-Books Read You · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I am. That way I can buy one cheap to hack and make into a normal device.

    Kind of like the Kindle "special offers edition" Smacked those ad's and other crud right out of there. Yes I shed a tear nightly for all the engineers that live on the streets due to my actions.

  10. Re:One word for ya: Streamripper on Don't Forget: "Six Strikes" Starts This Weekend · · Score: 1

    Problem is it's all low grade bitrates only useful for the $3.99 earbuds. Private sharing groups are still where it's at for FLAC or super high bitrate high end ripped music.

  11. Re:Gold on A Cashless, High-Value, Anonymous Currency: How? · · Score: 0

    Bullshit.

    Cite proof and stop being a pussy and use your account.

  12. Re:Gold on A Cashless, High-Value, Anonymous Currency: How? · · Score: 1, Offtopic


    Gold:
    [x] Cashless
    [x] High-Value - for now
    [x] Anonymous

    Gold is currently in a price bubble, same with silver. it will come crashing down.

  13. Re:Bitcoin hacked? Um no on A Cashless, High-Value, Anonymous Currency: How? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Yes it can be hacked and guys have already proven you can counterfit Bitcoin by copying and spending the same bitcoins twice before the use of a bitcoin has been noticed by the system.

    This is the problem a single bitcoin can be replicated over and over, so the mechanisim to show that a bitcoin was spent can be gamed in a way to spend the same bitcoin twice.

  14. Gold pressed Latinum. on A Cashless, High-Value, Anonymous Currency: How? · · Score: 0

    Honestly, you will NEVER have a digital cashless anonymous currency. It just cant be done. bitcoin is proof that it cant be done.

  15. Re:Van Art on Ask Slashdot: How To Add New Tech To Old Van? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Coolest one I saw was all airbrushed to look like an un-populated circuit board. The detail in the paint was incredible.

    The guy had about $15,000 in tech inside and a stereo that would do 155Db in a SPL contest. The coolest part was the dashboard was 3 7" LCD monitors all running from a single mini ITX pc. you could change the gauges to anything you wanted and from the 13" touchscreen where the stereo would be you can select the GPS and then flick it to the dash. (it ran linux)

    He then fired up the HUD that was very cool but fuzzy because of the double reflection from the windshield. He has not found the right coating to apply to the windshield to remove the double reflection, but the HUD projection from the projector (not a display, a projector) covered most of the windshield and would overlay turn by turn arrows and info as well as cues from his custom collision avoidance system.

    IT was very cool, but I am unsure of how much was "mock up" in the HUD and "sensors"

  16. How to do it? on Ask Slashdot: How To Add New Tech To Old Van? · · Score: 1

    Go out and buy it and install it. http://dakotadigital.com/ has all you need for the high tech dash. Add in a nice double din navigation unit or two. Fiberglass in a 15" outdoor transreflective touchscreen monitor and hook up a PC, You can make a custom fiberglass dashboard based off the old one quite easily once you learn fiberglass.

    http://www.garbled.net/tim/fiberglass.html

    This is done every day, just check out the custom car shows to find old 1950's trucks with a full digital dash, I saw an awesome slammed, shaved, and chopped 1962 mustang that had all dakoda digital dash and a really cool 15" touchscreen built into the dash.

    Or do you mean, "how cant I build a high tech van for little to no money." That I cant help you with. What you want to do will cost several thousand dollars to do it right no matter what direction you choose.

  17. Re:price no greater than $49.95 on Comcast Pays $800,000 To U.S. For Hiding Stand-Alone Broadband · · Score: 2

    They did upgrade to fiber, just not fiber to your house. Fiber to the house is dumb as they dont have the bandwidth back at the OTN to give you more than what the RG6 coax can give you.

    Your speed limitation is the Executives being cheap not the technology.

  18. Re:I need to make a call. on Comcast Pays $800,000 To U.S. For Hiding Stand-Alone Broadband · · Score: 1

    Glad to see comcast employees are still here astroturfing.

  19. Re:Why make them available at all? on Comcast Pays $800,000 To U.S. For Hiding Stand-Alone Broadband · · Score: 2

    Because there is a law that states they cant require other services to be bundled. Granite State Communications is breaking the law by requiring a phone line. They are banking on that you wont complain to the FCC About it because you are not educated in the law to know this.

  20. They now need to go after Verizon. on Comcast Pays $800,000 To U.S. For Hiding Stand-Alone Broadband · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Verizon recently sent out letters claiming that you cant have un-bundled DSL anymore and demanded I call and change my service to something that has a phone line. I refused and I still only have DSL and no phone line. I still get calls claiming that I have to convert from them.

    This is illegal, yet the FCC is not jumping on them or Frontier for pulling pretty much the exact same stunt. I am all for forcing companies to comply, but apply it across the board evenly. And no I'm not a Comcast fanboi, I worked there, I know how evil they are. But I dont like single sided enforcement.

  21. Re:Is that the so called "american dream"? on Dr. Dobb's 2012 Salary Survey · · Score: 1, Troll

    Please take some time and travel the south. Racisim is alive and well. There is segregation enforced by fear in some states in the south.

    Places like NYC and Chicago are very different.

  22. Re:First step in building things in orbit? on Pentagon's In-Orbit Satellite Recycling Program Moving Forward · · Score: 1

    And spacelab before it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacelab

    OR Mir? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir

    ISS is just the latest beta test. we really need to get serious and build a real space station.

  23. Why not just de-orbit them? on Pentagon's In-Orbit Satellite Recycling Program Moving Forward · · Score: 2

    small "microsats" with a single use booster. Release one that attaches to the target and then fires it's booster to deorbit the target. IF you used a solid fuel rocket you could make it very small and highly effective.

  24. Re:Is that the so called "american dream"? on Dr. Dobb's 2012 Salary Survey · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Then there is the culture shock, homesickness, political chaos, social isolation, the German expectation of punctuality. "
    Wait, you talking about Germany or the United States? God help you if your skin is any color than pale white and move to the USA. You want social isolation, be a color other than white.

  25. Re:Mixed feelings on ADA May Force Netflix To Provide Closed Captioning On Content · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "On one hand this sucks. The amount of revenue you bring in by making your content accessible is not going to pay the cost of doing so."

    HUH? The Subtitles are on the DVD's they are ripping to create their content. It costs them nothing to send a fricking text stream.