Something that would turn any space or surface your vicinity into a keyboard. It could sort of be like air guitar.
Having a keyboard on the display device can be awkward, cramped, and dirty.
An "air keyboard" could help with carpal-tunnel. You could warp it such that you only move the fingers, never the wrist or forearms.
Technology often follows an "ess-curve", a steep upward slope of exponential improvement followed by a flattening, diminished returns. Micro-electronics is still in the exponential growth part, but will flatten some unknown decade hence. Its always been a decade or two in the future in my life. Trains and automobiles are technologies that achieved most of their efficiencies now. Although the incorporation of computing has reinvigorated them somewhat.
If the storms are strong enough to fry a few com-sats and electric grids.
The 1859 super-storm would have seriously tested our technology.
The only significant use of electric grids was the early telegraphs then.
Maybe some people can multi-task, and others cant so well.
Well-designed clicker tests can tell you if you have been paying attention enough.
I dont mean like every 5 minutes, but 3-4 times a lecture on material presented twice
in the lecture.
Last weeks issue of Nature mentions gene hackers who study newly posted human genomes for interesting DNA. We are somewhere in the "third decade" of sequenced human genomes- that is between 100 and 1000 fully sequenced genomes published so far. There are interesting things remaining to be discovered in this huge mass of data.
Prokaryotes tend to have simple, fully coding genomes. They tend to lose any special genes not necessary for the current environment.
Eukaryotes have large DNAs, some approaching a trillion bases, with up to 99% non-coding junk and lots of duplicated genes. They produce a lot more proteins than simpler microbes. Nikc lane in a letter to Nature a couple months ago suggested the difference was the presence of mitochondiria that gives the
luxury of 20x more energy than basic microbes.
Mark deserves a lot of credit for building one of the worlds largest software companies. But perhaps he is hamming it up now. I just saw him inducted int he California Hall of Fame on Entertainment Tonight. And a trip to China(*), Oprah, Man of the Year, and so on.
(*) A trip will help his Chinese-language studies, a non-trivial hobby with all he has to do.
There a vast number of lower class Americans excluded from jobs because they "cant do the computer". This usually means things like managing email, writing a memo, and entering things into a database. this also means you should have the literacy and math skills of at least and 8th grader, which is a problem too. When you look a community college catalog you see lots of courses addressing these basic skills.
Messing around with sovereign governments is not a game. If you dont understand how you leave footprints on the web you should not get involved. More mature hackers can avoid this.
And facebook is a leading aspect of the "new tech". By tech I mean alternative energy, electric vehicles, stem cells, genetic engineering, smart phones, social computing, etc.
Pardon the pun, but Zuckerberg is the face of this current tech forefront. And he is the archetype of the GenY 20,30-somethings who will lead the current wave of tech.
No, I dont think he a saint nor the smartest tech guy out there.
P.S. I still say "may" because I am not sure if this recession will wallow for another decade, like most of the 2000s so far.
Plus another economic factor may actually lead us out of it. Last time it was housing.
P.P.S. I would have choosen the Tea Party Movement as People of the Year for its effect on the legislation and recent election. It's even bending Obama to their will.
They are further from the glare of the home star, which can be partially masked.
Another exoplanet imaging result found a planet at about the distance of Neptune.
The long-delayed Webb telescope should be great for this kind of searches.
Theres a fringe branch of biology that studies extremophiles - microbes that can live nearly anywhere and metabolize nearly anything.
Biochemical fossils suggests these may be the earliest form of life, before oxygen and carbon dioxide metabolism had evolved.
21 years since the first photorealistic graphic in Abyss and we still require voice actors in animated & real movies.
We no longer need actors bodies as this slashdot thread shows.
And its even more difficult to synthesize an actual celebrity's voice.
Christian Bale(?) had to fight several young Arnie clones in the SkyNet factory. Fortunately I dont think any new voice lines were needed. The original terminator never said much.
By the government, commercial data mining firms, and my employer. As Zuckerberg said, "There is no privacy in the modern world, Learn to live with it."
I heard a geology talk three years ago (during the last commodity runup) that the main limitation on solar technology the relatively rare doping chemicals. there simply isnt enough production in the world to meet projected demand. And this doesnt count other sources of demand such touch electronics, flat screen monitor, electric car batteries, etc. also competing for these chemicals.
Eventually alternative technologies will be developed.
NPR radio had a piece on this yesterday. Primary acquirers of information violating the espionage law have been successfully prosecuted. Re-distributed have been unsuccessfully prosecuted. May require a Supreme Court decision eventually.
Slashdot Mirror
I would guess its more like 99% pirated.
the smell was unbearable after a few weeks
No VCRs in those days too. It was easy to know where I was on Friday!
So by Tigers reasoning, I have the right the just take what I want then.
I dont know why Slashdot stoops to this rumor mongering.
Something that would turn any space or surface your vicinity into a keyboard. It could sort of be like air guitar. Having a keyboard on the display device can be awkward, cramped, and dirty. An "air keyboard" could help with carpal-tunnel. You could warp it such that you only move the fingers, never the wrist or forearms.
Technology often follows an "ess-curve", a steep upward slope of exponential improvement followed by a flattening, diminished returns. Micro-electronics is still in the exponential growth part, but will flatten some unknown decade hence. Its always been a decade or two in the future in my life. Trains and automobiles are technologies that achieved most of their efficiencies now. Although the incorporation of computing has reinvigorated them somewhat.
If the storms are strong enough to fry a few com-sats and electric grids. The 1859 super-storm would have seriously tested our technology. The only significant use of electric grids was the early telegraphs then.
Maybe some people can multi-task, and others cant so well. Well-designed clicker tests can tell you if you have been paying attention enough. I dont mean like every 5 minutes, but 3-4 times a lecture on material presented twice in the lecture.
before magnetic disks and tapes were perfected
Last weeks issue of Nature mentions gene hackers who study newly posted human genomes for interesting DNA. We are somewhere in the "third decade" of sequenced human genomes- that is between 100 and 1000 fully sequenced genomes published so far. There are interesting things remaining to be discovered in this huge mass of data.
Prokaryotes tend to have simple, fully coding genomes. They tend to lose any special genes not necessary for the current environment.
Eukaryotes have large DNAs, some approaching a trillion bases, with up to 99% non-coding junk and lots of duplicated genes. They produce a lot more proteins than simpler microbes. Nikc lane in a letter to Nature a couple months ago suggested the difference was the presence of mitochondiria that gives the luxury of 20x more energy than basic microbes.
Mark deserves a lot of credit for building one of the worlds largest software companies. But perhaps he is hamming it up now. I just saw him inducted int he California Hall of Fame on Entertainment Tonight. And a trip to China(*), Oprah, Man of the Year, and so on.
(*) A trip will help his Chinese-language studies, a non-trivial hobby with all he has to do.
There a vast number of lower class Americans excluded from jobs because they "cant do the computer". This usually means things like managing email, writing a memo, and entering things into a database. this also means you should have the literacy and math skills of at least and 8th grader, which is a problem too. When you look a community college catalog you see lots of courses addressing these basic skills.
I;d think you get similar results. They are a pretty insular much I surmise from the quality of replies.
Messing around with sovereign governments is not a game. If you dont understand how you leave footprints on the web you should not get involved. More mature hackers can avoid this.
And facebook is a leading aspect of the "new tech". By tech I mean alternative energy, electric vehicles, stem cells, genetic engineering, smart phones, social computing, etc. Pardon the pun, but Zuckerberg is the face of this current tech forefront. And he is the archetype of the GenY 20,30-somethings who will lead the current wave of tech. No, I dont think he a saint nor the smartest tech guy out there.
P.S. I still say "may" because I am not sure if this recession will wallow for another decade, like most of the 2000s so far. Plus another economic factor may actually lead us out of it. Last time it was housing.
P.P.S. I would have choosen the Tea Party Movement as People of the Year for its effect on the legislation and recent election. It's even bending Obama to their will.
They are further from the glare of the home star, which can be partially masked. Another exoplanet imaging result found a planet at about the distance of Neptune. The long-delayed Webb telescope should be great for this kind of searches.
Theres a fringe branch of biology that studies extremophiles - microbes that can live nearly anywhere and metabolize nearly anything. Biochemical fossils suggests these may be the earliest form of life, before oxygen and carbon dioxide metabolism had evolved.
21 years since the first photorealistic graphic in Abyss and we still require voice actors in animated & real movies. We no longer need actors bodies as this slashdot thread shows. And its even more difficult to synthesize an actual celebrity's voice.
Christian Bale(?) had to fight several young Arnie clones in the SkyNet factory. Fortunately I dont think any new voice lines were needed. The original terminator never said much.
By the government, commercial data mining firms, and my employer. As Zuckerberg said, "There is no privacy in the modern world, Learn to live with it."
I heard a geology talk three years ago (during the last commodity runup) that the main limitation on solar technology the relatively rare doping chemicals. there simply isnt enough production in the world to meet projected demand. And this doesnt count other sources of demand such touch electronics, flat screen monitor, electric car batteries, etc. also competing for these chemicals.
Eventually alternative technologies will be developed.
NPR radio had a piece on this yesterday. Primary acquirers of information violating the espionage law have been successfully prosecuted. Re-distributed have been unsuccessfully prosecuted. May require a Supreme Court decision eventually.
Memory in UNIVAC . Then Forrester perfected magnetic core memory and IBM magnetic disk memory.