There were two good things in the movie in my opinion. The first is the fact that the movie gave the impression of utter contempt and disregard for humans that was present in the book, especially how Terl acted. Secondly the scene with the rat is similar to the book and tremendiously funny. "Look he's eating rat. He must love rat, its the first thing he found and ate..." or something along thoes lines.
Does anyone know of a portable device that would let you read mp3s directly off cds? You could store a lot more music on a cd and you wouldn't need the memory a traditional mp3 player uses to store the music.
I have a Palm Vx and I noticed the page does not include any info on how to modify the Vx... or even the V as far as I could see. Anyone know if it is possible?
Another usefull thing that could come from this is mass storage with no moving parts. Current static memory is just too slow and expensive. Also moving parts tend to beark easier than a fixed solid device.
Even an email system that would send an encrypted mesage to someone but keep the onetime decription key on your system, when they go to read the message it requests the key, decrypts the mesage to the screen and then deletes the keys on both systems. Mesages could be sent useing current email protocols with just a little something extra for the key. The one of the problems is that you have to trust the recipiant of the message to delete the key. Or could this be done on a time basis using the time off several reliable servers and if it is after a certian time it does not work?
Read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, a virtual world plays a key element in the book and yet if you do die, which happens once in the book, via sword fight, you are just kicked from the server for a given amount of time. The way a virtual world effects the real world should be based on how it is used. Ex. You are killed (read baned) from an IRC server, from that point on you can not affect discussion on the server nor can you see what is hapening on the server. That is a rather crappy example but I can't think of a better one, just read Snow Crash
I ran a similar study and found the loss of rednecks due to death by pickuptruck and be greatly reduced by providing the rednecks with shotguns and hunting grounds. They begin to colect food and reproduce in a self sustaining reaction. The only problem is stoping the rednecks from accidentially shooting each other when they exceed a critical level of beer in their system. Another potential mechanism would be to replace beer with wisky, resulting in a quicker but more expensive reaction.
Apart from the fact that is attached to an iMac the keyboard has major problems. I am a rather big person (6'6") so I get major cramps when using the iMac keyboard. The thing is just too small. It is hard to even fit my hands on the keyboard. As for getting the mouse and the keyboard closer together you can mount your keyboard under your desk on a rack or have the keyboard and mouse at angles to the monitor moving the keyboard a little to the left and the mouse closer to center. I will stick to my Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro.
Would this be better if you could enter simple equations into the database or fractions? So it can accept infinate series? Would be greatly helpfull to Calclus students.
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There were two good things in the movie in my opinion. The first is the fact that the movie gave the impression of utter contempt and disregard for humans that was present in the book, especially how Terl acted. Secondly the scene with the rat is similar to the book and tremendiously funny. "Look he's eating rat. He must love rat, its the first thing he found and ate..." or something along thoes lines.
Does anyone know of a portable device that would let you read mp3s directly off cds? You could store a lot more music on a cd and you wouldn't need the memory a traditional mp3 player uses to store the music.
I have a Palm Vx and I noticed the page does not include any info on how to modify the Vx... or even the V as far as I could see. Anyone know if it is possible?
Another usefull thing that could come from this is mass storage with no moving parts. Current static memory is just too slow and expensive. Also moving parts tend to beark easier than a fixed solid device.
Even an email system that would send an encrypted mesage to someone but keep the onetime decription key on your system, when they go to read the message it requests the key, decrypts the mesage to the screen and then deletes the keys on both systems. Mesages could be sent useing current email protocols with just a little something extra for the key. The one of the problems is that you have to trust the recipiant of the message to delete the key. Or could this be done on a time basis using the time off several reliable servers and if it is after a certian time it does not work?
Read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, a virtual world plays a key element in the book and yet if you do die, which happens once in the book, via sword fight, you are just kicked from the server for a given amount of time. The way a virtual world effects the real world should be based on how it is used. Ex. You are killed (read baned) from an IRC server, from that point on you can not affect discussion on the server nor can you see what is hapening on the server. That is a rather crappy example but I can't think of a better one, just read Snow Crash
I ran a similar study and found the loss of rednecks due to death by pickuptruck and be greatly reduced by providing the rednecks with shotguns and hunting grounds. They begin to colect food and reproduce in a self sustaining reaction. The only problem is stoping the rednecks from accidentially shooting each other when they exceed a critical level of beer in their system. Another potential mechanism would be to replace beer with wisky, resulting in a quicker but more expensive reaction.
Apart from the fact that is attached to an iMac the keyboard has major problems. I am a rather big person (6'6") so I get major cramps when using the iMac keyboard. The thing is just too small. It is hard to even fit my hands on the keyboard. As for getting the mouse and the keyboard closer together you can mount your keyboard under your desk on a rack or have the keyboard and mouse at angles to the monitor moving the keyboard a little to the left and the mouse closer to center. I will stick to my Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro.
Would this be better if you could enter simple equations into the database or fractions? So it can accept infinate series? Would be greatly helpfull to Calclus students.