.NET is the worst name-taker of the bunch. Maybe I'll come up with a nice new app and call it.COM - we'll see how that one flies.
It's a pain to Google for something named like that and commonly used words being used for products just makes it tougher to find information about online and gather statistics on it's usage.
That sounds like a good idea - not too terribly hard to put together, I'd venture.
On smaller scales and ones that are growing, it could be an easy to manage alternative.
On a large scale, though, it would probably be cheaper to buy the super-high-speed direct connection to the internet outright and then farm it out on an internal network.
Apollo Diamond, Inc. (http://www.apollodiamond.com/) currently sells optical grade synthetic diamonds at a quality, scale and cost perfect for mass use in new technologies and devices. An arrangement could be made to bring the cost of new products and research way down to consumer levels.
You can also buy diamonds in wafer form for other uses. With 3mm, 10mm, and soon, 25mm square wafers available, they are perfect for MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) optical systems or any other kind of semiconductor or microelectronics applications.
From their site:
"Apollo advanced technology diamond, a new high purity Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) grown monocrystal diamond is available in large sizes for advanced industrial applications. The diamond is low nitrogen type IIa bulk crystal and comes in water white optical grade or traditional manufacturing grade single crystal blocks."
and...
"The Apollo semiconductor/optical grade diamond is a new, high purity chemical vapor deposition grown monocrystal diamond wafer, available in large sizes for high performance semiconductor and optical applications. These diamonds are low nitrogen, type IIa monocrystalline diamond wafer crystals, water white optical grade, and suitable for semiconductor and optical applications."
Note: I don't work for Apollo Diamonds or for anyone else in the industry.
This would be a prime opportunity to make a completely different final trilogy - to complete the story and provide another feel. The first set was funny, adventurous and believeable - adolescent, even. The second was for a younger stage of life. What could the third be like? Starting with the feel at the end of the current storyline, using new technology, becoming more serious with the story and portrayal? Not so much an apology as a completion. Their quality scales may have been reversed, but then so was the order in which we watched them. The best may be yet to come.
The final three could be like he's never done and we've never seen before - they could be larger in size, scale and epicness than even the Lord of the Rings films. They could be mature, thoughtful, genuinely funny, dramatic and moving films that could sweep the Oscars and be everything anyone ever could have hoped for in Star Wars movies!
We can only hope to find the force is strong with Lucas.
If bicycles had just come out and you couldn't simply go out, buy one and immediately compete in races and perform stunts, people would still be willing to practice and put in the time needed to learn the skills that make it second-nature.
How long after getting your first bike were you completely comfortable and proficient at riding it? It took more than a day and involved some bumps and scrapes, I'm sure. It took some training to get good at.
You only had to learn it once, though. Years later, it's just like... well, riding a bike.
Every follow-on product in the head and eye-tracking device market will be able to take advantage of the motor skills and reflexes honed by devices like these.
When we pick up a new game, using the WASD keys for movement and the mouse for looking around is not something most of us have to concentrate on. We don't have to relearn the skills. The first time required some getting used to, though. Some training and practice was needed, but those skills are ingrained now and won't soon be forgotten.
It's going to be the same for alternate input devices that require fine motor control, too. Once the mind makes a complete mapping between the results on the screen (or wherever) and the muscles and nerves, the mechanics will be relegated to subconscious control and the interface will be transparent - the actions will be instinctual.
Everyone who rides one had their first bike, and while I haven't yet used head or eye-tracking devices, I'm sure I will. My first one might just have training wheels, too.
Speaking of Mr. Asher's past, let's not forget that another of his companies, Database Technologies (now DBT Online) provided the voter lists for Florida during the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, believed to have been purged of about 57,700 eligible voters that were incorrectly identified as felons. It was said that of the 80% of these voters that would have gone to the polls, 90% of them would have voted for Al Gore.
A DBT vice-president, Martin L. Fagan, was quoted as saying "Given the outcome of our work in Florida and with a new president in place, we think our services will expand across the country."
2) "Communication service" means a service directly or indirectly provided to facilitate the origination, transmission, emission, or reception of signs, signals,
writing, images, sounds, data, or intelligence of any nature by any means, including:
(A) telephone or cellular telephone;
(B) wire or wireless, radio, microwave, electromagnetic, photoelectric, photo-electronic, fiber optical, photo-optical, cable television, satellite, or data transmission; or
(C) an Internet-based distribution system, network, or facility.
This bill appears to be focused primarily at digital services, but the current wording is so vague that it seems to also cover snail-mail in general, as well as other delivery and courier services.
You'd better not forget to put a return address on your letters. That could be considered concealing the existence or place of origin of your communication from a communication service provider
'A "blog" is an online diary. Just because it's a "journal", doesn't make it journalism, by the practical definition.'
Not all what people are calling blogs are just journal and online gossip columns - there are quite a few out there that have a lot of good information and intelligent, timely conversation. I don't usually go a day without checking Metafilter, Kuro5hin, and not least Slashdot (you know where!)
These sites announce and discuss news, happenings and issues on average much sooner and with much more intelligence than more common news and media outlets - showing a wide variety of opinions and viewpoints on everything. It's easy to spot important comments, ideas, and trends when you've got the benefit of community discussion to fill out the picture. Some of these sites use voting and moderation to help elevate messages that need to be seen to the users' eye, allowing them to easily find the highlights of any discussion or issue.
There are even specialty "blogs" that offer information on more specific areas of interest. The state of the art in blogging and scripting in general is being developed and discussed right in front of your eyes at Dave Winer's Scripting News. Scripting News focuses on scripting languages (python primarily) and blogging using the Radio Userland system, a rich weblogging environment that allows the interface and performace of sites to be scripted and adjusted as much as you like. It can utilize live news feeds from other systems and sources, as well. The New York Times recently agreed to distribute NYTimes.com content to sites using Radio. Winer's site highlights the technological aspects of running blogs and gives a lot of good information and tools for creating incredible sites using technologies like XML-RPC, SOAP, python, and others. The links to other sites for their comments and viewpoints also provide a good view of issues and the community in general.
Celebrities are even doing it: Adam Curry of MTV and broadcast fame does with great results and Wil Wheaton runs a pretty good site using another blogging system called Movable Type. There are some pretty professional sites springing up using the tools available.
The timeliness of sites like Slashdot and Metafilter keep participants up to date and informed on relevant issues. We all know that to be true.
The types of functionality available to the blogging community cover a wide span of needs and purposes. If all you want is a journal that a couple of people can read - you can have that. If you want to have a place to store all of your bookmarks and discuss and share them with others - you can have that, too. If you want something that will integrate all of your news and discussion - you can have it. If you want to compete with Big Media, you're fully free and capable of doing just that, as well.
With such a wide choice of blogging themes, it's easy to see that there is room for much diversity with this technology. All roses may be flowers, but so are dandelions - Ferarris may be cars, but what I'm driving's definitely just a car! "Blog", while a catchy name, is still a broad category. It's like saying "web page" - it could mean anything. Once "blogging" is mainstream, it will be time to make some new categories and descriptions.
Not a plug... but I sure wouldn't mind having one..
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One thing they should do is clip the edges of the images displayed on each monitor so that the relative edges of the images meet seamlessly between each monitor. When turning or moving, your environment shouldn't jump four inches in either direction as the view is changed!
If the displays were aligned in this fashion, the illusion of multiple window panes through which one can view a singular world would be experienced. More horizontal stretch would occur, but if a system were to be designed to take full advantage of multiple-monitor displays in providing peripheral vision and side views, the effect would be to allow you to view more of the displayed world, maintaining image aspect ratios and rates of angular movement when moving through the environment.
It's time for some games to start supporting multiple monitors for different displays. Mech games could take on new dimensions of realism. Flight and driving simulators and games would spring to life! How'd you like to be able to sneak quick glances at your wingman without shattering the reality of the evolving action?
Reality is simulated best when we move our heads to change the view of our environment - not when we move the view around in a window directly ahead, with us remaining perfectly still. Making sure we match view variations with what our brains expect from solid worlds will make our created worlds even more immersive and lifelike.
Almost like the beginnings of an online WAVE program.
"Come on, kids! Get free prizes!
For every person you report who abuses or uses unusually any technology or computer, or seems like they might, you get a free pair of Nikes or a CD player! Additional prizes available for reporting often!
Most situations that are brought up here for legal advice are issues at the bleeding edge of freedom and technology laws. As such, I enjoy reading about them and seeing the discussions they generate. If nothing else, they inform readers of the current state of relevant legal issues and help them share their insights of Stuff that Most Definitely Matters.
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So why not have an MP3 format that securely maintains one copy of itself, which can only be accessed by one user at a time and not duplicated, only moved?
I am impressed by the maturity shown to the global community by this white-hat hacker in discussing security issues for the Internet. This kind of attitude will go far in showing the true difference between those sincerely interested in the security of our communications and "script-kiddies" only out for personal glorification and status among their peers. I liked the clarification about his role as a hacker in the traditional sense of the word. Too often these days the word "hacker" is thrown around indiscriminately and the insights shown in this interview may help to show the general public what the difference is.
Slashdot Mirror
.NET is the worst name-taker of the bunch. Maybe I'll come up with a nice new app and call it .COM - we'll see how that one flies.
It's a pain to Google for something named like that and commonly used words being used for products just makes it tougher to find information about online and gather statistics on it's usage.
So basically they don't want kids taking the shirts off their dolly.
Better start checking IDs for all those Barbie dolls! We've got to think of the children!
That sounds like a good idea - not too terribly hard to put together, I'd venture.
On smaller scales and ones that are growing, it could be an easy to manage alternative.
On a large scale, though, it would probably be cheaper to buy the super-high-speed direct connection to the internet outright and then farm it out on an internal network.
Apollo Diamond, Inc. (http://www.apollodiamond.com/) currently sells optical grade synthetic diamonds at a quality, scale and cost perfect for mass use in new technologies and devices. An arrangement could be made to bring the cost of new products and research way down to consumer levels.
You can also buy diamonds in wafer form for other uses. With 3mm, 10mm, and soon, 25mm square wafers available, they are perfect for MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) optical systems or any other kind of semiconductor or microelectronics applications.
From their site:
"Apollo advanced technology diamond, a new high purity Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) grown monocrystal diamond is available in large sizes for advanced industrial applications. The diamond is low nitrogen type IIa bulk crystal and comes in water white optical grade or traditional manufacturing grade single crystal blocks."
and...
"The Apollo semiconductor/optical grade diamond is a new, high purity chemical vapor deposition grown monocrystal diamond wafer, available in large sizes for high performance semiconductor and optical applications. These diamonds are low nitrogen, type IIa monocrystalline diamond wafer crystals, water white optical grade, and suitable for semiconductor and optical applications."
Note: I don't work for Apollo Diamonds or for anyone else in the industry.
This would be a prime opportunity to make a completely different final trilogy - to complete the story and provide another feel. The first set was funny, adventurous and believeable - adolescent, even. The second was for a younger stage of life. What could the third be like? Starting with the feel at the end of the current storyline, using new technology, becoming more serious with the story and portrayal? Not so much an apology as a completion. Their quality scales may have been reversed, but then so was the order in which we watched them. The best may be yet to come.
The final three could be like he's never done and we've never seen before - they could be larger in size, scale and epicness than even the Lord of the Rings films. They could be mature, thoughtful, genuinely funny, dramatic and moving films that could sweep the Oscars and be everything anyone ever could have hoped for in Star Wars movies!
We can only hope to find the force is strong with Lucas.
If bicycles had just come out and you couldn't simply go out, buy one and immediately compete in races and perform stunts, people would still be willing to practice and put in the time needed to learn the skills that make it second-nature.
How long after getting your first bike were you completely comfortable and proficient at riding it? It took more than a day and involved some bumps and scrapes, I'm sure. It took some training to get good at.
You only had to learn it once, though. Years later, it's just like... well, riding a bike.
Every follow-on product in the head and eye-tracking device market will be able to take advantage of the motor skills and reflexes honed by devices like these.
When we pick up a new game, using the WASD keys for movement and the mouse for looking around is not something most of us have to concentrate on. We don't have to relearn the skills. The first time required some getting used to, though. Some training and practice was needed, but those skills are ingrained now and won't soon be forgotten.
It's going to be the same for alternate input devices that require fine motor control, too. Once the mind makes a complete mapping between the results on the screen (or wherever) and the muscles and nerves, the mechanics will be relegated to subconscious control and the interface will be transparent - the actions will be instinctual.
Everyone who rides one had their first bike, and while I haven't yet used head or eye-tracking devices, I'm sure I will. My first one might just have training wheels, too.
But your way means I'd have to stop running...
Speaking of Mr. Asher's past, let's not forget that another of his companies, Database Technologies (now DBT Online) provided the voter lists for Florida during the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, believed to have been purged of about 57,700 eligible voters that were incorrectly identified as felons. It was said that of the 80% of these voters that would have gone to the polls, 90% of them would have voted for Al Gore.
A DBT vice-president, Martin L. Fagan, was quoted as saying "Given the outcome of our work in Florida and with a new president in place, we think our services will expand across the country."
This bill appears to be focused primarily at digital services, but the current wording is so vague that it seems to also cover snail-mail in general, as well as other delivery and courier services.
You'd better not forget to put a return address on your letters. That could be considered concealing the existence or place of origin of your communication from a communication service
provider
Makes me think of Twiki from Buck Rogers..
Not all what people are calling blogs are just journal and online gossip columns - there are quite a few out there that have a lot of good information and intelligent, timely conversation. I don't usually go a day without checking Metafilter, Kuro5hin, and not least Slashdot (you know where!)
These sites announce and discuss news, happenings and issues on average much sooner and with much more intelligence than more common news and media outlets - showing a wide variety of opinions and viewpoints on everything. It's easy to spot important comments, ideas, and trends when you've got the benefit of community discussion to fill out the picture. Some of these sites use voting and moderation to help elevate messages that need to be seen to the users' eye, allowing them to easily find the highlights of any discussion or issue.
There are even specialty "blogs" that offer information on more specific areas of interest. The state of the art in blogging and scripting in general is being developed and discussed right in front of your eyes at Dave Winer's Scripting News. Scripting News focuses on scripting languages (python primarily) and blogging using the Radio Userland system, a rich weblogging environment that allows the interface and performace of sites to be scripted and adjusted as much as you like. It can utilize live news feeds from other systems and sources, as well. The New York Times recently agreed to distribute NYTimes.com content to sites using Radio. Winer's site highlights the technological aspects of running blogs and gives a lot of good information and tools for creating incredible sites using technologies like XML-RPC, SOAP, python, and others. The links to other sites for their comments and viewpoints also provide a good view of issues and the community in general.
Celebrities are even doing it: Adam Curry of MTV and broadcast fame does with great results and Wil Wheaton runs a pretty good site using another blogging system called Movable Type. There are some pretty professional sites springing up using the tools available.
The timeliness of sites like Slashdot and Metafilter keep participants up to date and informed on relevant issues. We all know that to be true.
The types of functionality available to the blogging community cover a wide span of needs and purposes. If all you want is a journal that a couple of people can read - you can have that. If you want to have a place to store all of your bookmarks and discuss and share them with others - you can have that, too. If you want something that will integrate all of your news and discussion - you can have it. If you want to compete with Big Media, you're fully free and capable of doing just that, as well.
With such a wide choice of blogging themes, it's easy to see that there is room for much diversity with this technology. All roses may be flowers, but so are dandelions - Ferarris may be cars, but what I'm driving's definitely just a car! "Blog", while a catchy name, is still a broad category. It's like saying "web page" - it could mean anything. Once "blogging" is mainstream, it will be time to make some new categories and descriptions.
www.poetictech.com
:)
'nuff said
Not a plug... but I sure wouldn't mind having one..
One thing they should do is clip the edges of the images displayed on each monitor so that the relative edges of the images meet seamlessly between each monitor. When turning or moving, your environment shouldn't jump four inches in either direction as the view is changed!
If the displays were aligned in this fashion, the illusion of multiple window panes through which one can view a singular world would be experienced. More horizontal stretch would occur, but if a system were to be designed to take full advantage of multiple-monitor displays in providing peripheral vision and side views, the effect would be to allow you to view more of the displayed world, maintaining image aspect ratios and rates of angular movement when moving through the environment.
It's time for some games to start supporting multiple monitors for different displays. Mech games could take on new dimensions of realism. Flight and driving simulators and games would spring to life! How'd you like to be able to sneak quick glances at your wingman without shattering the reality of the evolving action?
Reality is simulated best when we move our heads to change the view of our environment - not when we move the view around in a window directly ahead, with us remaining perfectly still. Making sure we match view variations with what our brains expect from solid worlds will make our created worlds even more immersive and lifelike.
Time to have some fun!
In this light, I wonder if the "seineewerasreenigneepacsten" issue would have played out any differently..
Almost like the beginnings of an online WAVE program.
"Come on, kids!
Get free prizes!
For every person you report who abuses or uses unusually any technology or computer, or seems like they might, you get a free pair of Nikes or a CD player!
Additional prizes available for reporting often!
Most situations that are brought up here for legal advice are issues at the bleeding edge of freedom and technology laws. As such, I enjoy reading about them and seeing the discussions they generate.
If nothing else, they inform readers of the current state of relevant legal issues and help them share their insights of Stuff that Most Definitely Matters.
So why not have an MP3 format that securely maintains one copy of itself, which can only be accessed by one user at a time and not duplicated, only moved?
The Stowaway Keyboard
I am impressed by the maturity shown to the global community by this white-hat hacker in discussing security issues for the Internet.
This kind of attitude will go far in showing the true difference between those sincerely interested in the security of our communications and "script-kiddies" only out for personal glorification and status among their peers.
I liked the clarification about his role as a hacker in the traditional sense of the word. Too often these days the word "hacker" is thrown around indiscriminately and the insights shown in this interview may help to show the general public what the difference is.