What I want is TNG comm badges. And when Ericsson (the three sausages brand) announced Bluetooth, I thought I'd have it.
Picture this: A regular cellphone, just like today's, in my pocket, briefcase, backpack - whereever. Like I care, as long as it's in BT range from my comm badge and earpiece. The comm badges could be styled - different colours, shapes and so on to look like anything from Star Trek comm badges to women's jewelry. If you touch the badge, the voicedial activates and you can go "Computer! Locate Cmdr Taco!" and have the phone dial his cell phone number. (Or just say "Home!" like I do with my Philips SparK (which had working voicedial like five years ago) and it calls home.) The comm badge also activates answering the phone when it rings (when the user wears the earpiece, the phone just whispers "answer it, you bozo" softly in your ear instead of ringing out loud).
The earpiece uses skull resonance for the speech so you won't need the mike boom. This would also make this system perfect for when I'm on my bike.
Add Bluetooth in the laptop and/or PDA to access your address book/LDAP server to find people and you're good to go. If anyone makes this system now, I want a set as royalty for the idea.;-)
For starters, there is no dark side of the moon.:-P All sides of the moon get the same amount of sunlight.
There is a far side of the moon however. Building a telescope there is a good idea, but not something that anyone would want to pay for - atleast not yet. An upgraded Hubble and maybe a new space-based telescope is probably the best we can hope for in the near future.
Copyright is an abstract concept, not a technology that one can circumvent with a device any more than you could circumvent time by resetting your wrist watch.
But alas, the power-hungry morons pushing the DMCA to its limits probably overdosed on LSD and Star Trek in the sixties so they wouldn't know this.
(Well, the slashdot effect replies were even more mandatory, but I was too late to add one of them - I do have some standards even if you can't tell from my posts.... I'll go and take my medicine now, OK?)
Hey, that's what I said the first year that Win2k came out - NT 4 was faster, more stable and didn't force me to turn off a lot of fades, animations and other crap. It's odd how perceptions shift - in a few years we'll both bitch about how Windows XXL is so much more bloated than good, old XP...
Or we'll just all run Linux and say the same things about RH 9.2 versus RH X.o.:-)
It's a cool project, technology-wise, but it's a really, really bad idea in the Real World(TM). Let's not rekindle the arms race, just walk away from this one.
So if you don't have this missile defense system and haven't had it ever, why hasn't anyone thrown an ICBM at you yet? It's not like you all have been good boys all the time, now is it?
So between now and the three years they say this system will take to get operational, the US is a prime target - one fat sitting duck waiting for the hunters to pull the trigger? Well, good-bye y'all. I just hope the terrorists wait a year or so, I want to see if the new Star Trek series is any good.
I think it looks more like Minnie, especially around the eyes.;-)
While we're off the topic, I read the other day that NASA has decided to not send a probe out to Pluto which seems a shame since all the other planets have had some kind of visitor now, even if some of them only had long-distance flybys.
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Picture this: A regular cellphone, just like today's, in my pocket, briefcase, backpack - whereever. Like I care, as long as it's in BT range from my comm badge and earpiece. The comm badges could be styled - different colours, shapes and so on to look like anything from Star Trek comm badges to women's jewelry. If you touch the badge, the voicedial activates and you can go "Computer! Locate Cmdr Taco!" and have the phone dial his cell phone number. (Or just say "Home!" like I do with my Philips SparK (which had working voicedial like five years ago) and it calls home.) The comm badge also activates answering the phone when it rings (when the user wears the earpiece, the phone just whispers "answer it, you bozo" softly in your ear instead of ringing out loud).
The earpiece uses skull resonance for the speech so you won't need the mike boom. This would also make this system perfect for when I'm on my bike.
Add Bluetooth in the laptop and/or PDA to access your address book/LDAP server to find people and you're good to go. If anyone makes this system now, I want a set as royalty for the idea. ;-)
That would be Voyager's EMH after a few beers. ;-)
There is a far side of the moon however. Building a telescope there is a good idea, but not something that anyone would want to pay for - atleast not yet. An upgraded Hubble and maybe a new space-based telescope is probably the best we can hope for in the near future.
But alas, the power-hungry morons pushing the DMCA to its limits probably overdosed on LSD and Star Trek in the sixties so they wouldn't know this.
(Well, the slashdot effect replies were even more mandatory, but I was too late to add one of them - I do have some standards even if you can't tell from my posts. ... I'll go and take my medicine now, OK?)
Wow, I got 4711th post! Whoopee!
Moahahaha, and so on.
Or we'll just all run Linux and say the same things about RH 9.2 versus RH X.o. :-)
It's a cool project, technology-wise, but it's a really, really bad idea in the Real World(TM). Let's not rekindle the arms race, just walk away from this one.
So if you don't have this missile defense system and haven't had it ever, why hasn't anyone thrown an ICBM at you yet? It's not like you all have been good boys all the time, now is it?
So between now and the three years they say this system will take to get operational, the US is a prime target - one fat sitting duck waiting for the hunters to pull the trigger? Well, good-bye y'all. I just hope the terrorists wait a year or so, I want to see if the new Star Trek series is any good.
This feels just like that real-time trip to Alpha Centauri computer game. Can't we do a fast-forward on reality?
Or Sweden, or the rest of Europe?
While we're off the topic, I read the other day that NASA has decided to not send a probe out to Pluto which seems a shame since all the other planets have had some kind of visitor now, even if some of them only had long-distance flybys.