Wow, that's close to what I was thinking of. I didn't know the tongue could be used in this way.
Eventually, it would be cool to have something on your head that was two-way communication with your brain. I have a lot of ideas for applications that can be used with such a device.
For instance:
- Software that intercepts the signals that your eyes or ears send to your brain and reprocesses them so that you can see/hear more.
- Using people's brains for grouped computation.
- Eliminating the need for things like computer screens/TVs and speakers by sending the information to your brain directly.
Does anyone know if any group is doing research on using input devices for your brain from a computer? In other words, a way of sending information back into your brain so that you could know it, hear it, visually see it or feel it?
If you are a reasonably risk-aware teenager today in an affluent, non-violent neighbourhood, you have a risk of dying in the next year of well under one in 1,000, which means that if you stayed that way forever you would have a 50/50 chance of living to over 1,000.
Ok, someone tell me, how the hell did these quacks make it into the news?
Ahh, this would be nice, but the problem is that most likely the standards set for what is secure and what is not will be annoying to those of us in a forum like this.
When I first started reading the/. article, I thought that this was somehow going to have the benifit that you could defocus the lens using some strange jamming technology so that they could not be used in sensitive places (like locker rooms). But I guess not.
Appearently the onslaught of 100,000 whiny geeks has caused them to rethink their changes. For a while the www.google.com page was linking to the new google groups beta. But now it is linking to the old google groups interface. This is at 16:05 GMT.
That's because initially I was going to say "That was one of the best features", refering to the search by date. But then I changed my post to include the other one. Sorry.
A little respect? Hah, unless they put these two features back within a week, they will cease to have any respect from me. I think I can safely cross Google off my "cool geeky things" list.
I'm not sure what motivated such changes, but usually you don't remove enhancesments to software unless they are causing major problems or if they somehow affect your financial bottom line. Somehow I think its related to the latter of the two because I don't see how the former would case problems.
You don't do something like collect nearly all the usenet postings ever made, make it searchable by date and then take it away. Basically people have lost the ability to do historical internet research using google groups. Sort by date is not even close to the same.
The revolution will NOT be televised. The revolution will NOT return after these messages. The revolution will NOT be brought to you by Coke. The revolution will NOT be televised.
Being a geek doesn't mean that you aren't cool. Compare geeks from the 80s and early 90s to ones after the internet boom. The level of respect and admiration for our kind jumped 100 fold.
Mozart certainly was a cool cat, and maybe he didn't take music as the end all and be all, but he certainly was into it as much as any of us are into computers.
Mozart said once that people where not ready for the music that he wanted to play, indicating that he had a different form of music (maybe something like Jazz) that he would rather had been creating. I think this alone indicates his geekyness of the time.
When you think about all the people in history that made sizeable contributions to society (like Galileo, Mozart, Tesla, etc.), did it not seem to you from our perspective that they were more of hobbyists? I'm not trying to belittle them, I'm just saying that when reading about their life, they seemed quite a bit like most of us. So I imagine there is a lot we could learn from their lives and experiences they had within their society.
Over-zealous parents and school teachers are a serious barrier to the adoption of anything in America.
It is not a good reason to change the name simply because people can't accept that the words don't carry the meaning, but how you use them does. After all, check out the latest TV trailers for "Meet the Fockers" (Sequel to Meet the Parents). How can that be socially acceptable title (it may yet not be) and "The Gimp" not be?
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Wow, that's close to what I was thinking of. I didn't know the tongue could be used in this way.
Eventually, it would be cool to have something on your head that was two-way communication with your brain. I have a lot of ideas for applications that can be used with such a device.
For instance:
- Software that intercepts the signals that your eyes or ears send to your brain and reprocesses them so that you can see/hear more.
- Using people's brains for grouped computation.
- Eliminating the need for things like computer screens/TVs and speakers by sending the information to your brain directly.
And that only scratches the surface.
Does anyone know if any group is doing research on using input devices for your brain from a computer? In other words, a way of sending information back into your brain so that you could know it, hear it, visually see it or feel it?
Why didn't this article come out yesterday?
I just took all my cardboard to the recycling center. There was a lot of it too. I could have at least build the first floor.
Lots of great geek-pop references as well.
You mean like Gem and the Holograms.
oh wait...
If you are a reasonably risk-aware teenager today in an affluent, non-violent neighbourhood, you have a risk of dying in the next year of well under one in 1,000, which means that if you stayed that way forever you would have a 50/50 chance of living to over 1,000.
Ok, someone tell me, how the hell did these quacks make it into the news?
Ahh, this would be nice, but the problem is that most likely the standards set for what is secure and what is not will be annoying to those of us in a forum like this.
Decentralized everything
When I first started reading the /. article, I thought that this was somehow going to have the benifit that you could defocus the lens using some strange jamming technology so that they could not be used in sensitive places (like locker rooms). But I guess not.
Appearently the onslaught of 100,000 whiny geeks has caused them to rethink their changes. For a while the www.google.com page was linking to the new google groups beta. But now it is linking to the old google groups interface. This is at 16:05 GMT.
That's because initially I was going to say "That was one of the best features", refering to the search by date. But then I changed my post to include the other one. Sorry.
A little respect? Hah, unless they put these two features back within a week, they will cease to have any respect from me. I think I can safely cross Google off my "cool geeky things" list.
I'm not sure what motivated such changes, but usually you don't remove enhancesments to software unless they are causing major problems or if they somehow affect your financial bottom line. Somehow I think its related to the latter of the two because I don't see how the former would case problems.
You don't do something like collect nearly all the usenet postings ever made, make it searchable by date and then take it away. Basically people have lost the ability to do historical internet research using google groups. Sort by date is not even close to the same.
ability to search by date has been eliminated, as has the ability to deep link to a single post.
What the hell? That was probably two of the most useful features.
Damn you google!
The revolution will NOT be televised.
The revolution will NOT return after these messages.
The revolution will NOT be brought to you by Coke.
The revolution will NOT be televised.
Being a geek doesn't mean that you aren't cool. Compare geeks from the 80s and early 90s to ones after the internet boom. The level of respect and admiration for our kind jumped 100 fold.
Mozart certainly was a cool cat, and maybe he didn't take music as the end all and be all, but he certainly was into it as much as any of us are into computers.
Mozart said once that people where not ready for the music that he wanted to play, indicating that he had a different form of music (maybe something like Jazz) that he would rather had been creating.
I think this alone indicates his geekyness of the time.
'A revolution requires that people leave their house.'
What about the "stay at home" revolution? Doesn't that one count?
When you think about all the people in history that made sizeable contributions to society (like Galileo, Mozart, Tesla, etc.), did it not seem to you from our perspective that they were more of hobbyists? I'm not trying to belittle them, I'm just saying that when reading about their life, they seemed quite a bit like most of us. So I imagine there is a lot we could learn from their lives and experiences they had within their society.
Over-zealous parents and school teachers are a serious barrier to the adoption of anything in America.
It is not a good reason to change the name simply because people can't accept that the words don't carry the meaning, but how you use them does. After all, check out the latest TV trailers for "Meet the Fockers" (Sequel to Meet the Parents). How can that be socially acceptable title (it may yet not be) and "The Gimp" not be?
Graduate from college. ;-)
See them carry Frodo in ways you didn't see in the theater.
Have you every considered starting or participating in an open source software project?
I'm not sure whether you already have or not so appologies if you already have.
Even games with beneficial or neutral content can be harmful to children because of the connection between gameplay and our obesity epidemic.
Yeah and one benifit of adult games is they give you a little exercise.
*snicker*
And one link to a video of the latest cool tech stuff.
Nuff said.
They probably wouldn't seek to ban it if it worked to their advantage.
and extremely flexible, and are both electrically and thermally conducting.
Eh hem, everybody remember what happens to steel wool when you hook it up to a 9 volt battery in science class?