I was about to submit a story about nanofabrication labs, but instead i submitted a story about shooting pumpkins 1000's of yards...:)
back on topic...about 2 weeks ago, some of my peers went on a field trip to the nanofabrication and nanotechnology labs at Penn State University, and from all the stuff they saw and showed me, it was pretty darned cool. They did all sorts of things there...but I thought the coolest thing was the way they would coat metals and such by shooting streams of electrons at a chunk of metal...such as gold....and the microbits of gold would then cover the object in like...1/100000 of an inch layers...this nanotechnology and fabrication stuff is neato.
wow...that is cool. I don't exactly know what to say...that is very very cool. I am trying to think of something funny or interesting or even on topic to say about it, but I can't get over how cool that is. That is just very, very cool.
The 2300$ pricetag seems high, but that is nothing compared to what you are getting. First of all, you are getting your whole editing studio right there....in the palm of your hand...you have the camera, the computer, everything. THis is perfect for people that can't afford high-end editing equipment and such. This is also perfect for anyone that needs to do a lot of on-site editing without dragging along an extra laptop, batteries and all sorts of stuff. It also has a transmeta chip, which means the battery you have will last a lot longer...this alone is worth some extra $$. I think the price is very reasonable for what you are getting. Also, when more companies start to make their own picturebooks, the price will be driven down even further.
the only thing I can think of that would make this thing better is a built in cdburner or dvdram.
No no no...the new Viao laptops look like barf..this isnt' exactly a laptop..this is a erm....not a laptop..I don't exactly know how it would be classified...cameratop?
First of all, I was sort of wondering how it is possible to have a "stroger" focus on video..is that something like a "stronger" focus on video?
This camera/computer thing is pretty neat. There have been a couple of other attempts in the past at this sort of thing. I have a friend who was looking into buying into this sort of thing a while back, but he said that they were severely limited by the speed and by the size of the hard drives. He didn't mind a high-cost, but for what he needed them for (onsite editing and such) they were an impossibility. This new thing seems to have those problems beat, and with a reversible screen to boot. I really like it, and it doesn't look like the new viao! Definitely a plus in my book.
I thought that they meant that the clock gave the illusion that it was LCD by using LED's...at least...that is how i read it...of course...I might be delusional.
I have been saying this for a while, but people like me, who live out in the stix...aren't helped at all by these companies that are loading the internet with highbandwidth connections. Almost all of these new pipes and stuff are only available in large cities. I can't even get cable where I live, and the phonelines are old and not capable of dsl or anything. What would really impress me is a company that sets out to give country folk a connection to the internet. I get 36k on a good day....
Some people say that this will never happen because there isn't enough people living out here to make it economically viable, but I disagree. One satellite dish or something set on a mountain nearby could connect people within a 30 mile radius of me. That is a lot of people...and I know most of them would jump at the chance of getting high speed internet access. I would be willing to pay more than $100 a month for a good connection. Trout Run Pennsylvania needs broadband.:) Thanks for listening to my rant. erm..reading even.
If i told you, I'd have to kill you. There is a prize involved...i don't want anyone stealing my idea to shingle an entire roof with aol cds...so i'm not telling anyone.
My friend and I also worked out a design to build a scooter completely from aol cds....and i mean completely. Sort of scary idea...but if anyone has any aol cds to get rid of, I am in great need of them. Email me please. peter@iceball.net
Maybe I am just paranoid, but if AOL/TimeWarner/whoever else decided to merge with Disney...and then with Microsoft, there would be enough power and money to take over the world.....Of course...I always sorta thought that was what Bill Gates had in mind...
geez! keep it quiet! here..take one of these fully functional ATAT walkers and keep quiet about our cookie plot to take over the world by having personal information about everyone!
Of course...the best idea is to leave cookies enabled and use someone else's computer and let lego track their personal information.
A fully operational AT-AT walker? does that mean I can shove about 30 stormtroopers in it and take over a military base with it? Fully operational and for only 99 dollars? I am gonna buy 20 of them and take over microsoft by force!
but the penguin could definitely be considered cute...but anyone who thinks that an overweight naked demon is cute has problems...or is saddam hussein.
from the experience I have, and the experience several of my friend's have had, we discovered that you can't read during dreams. Does anyone ever remember actually reading something during a dream? Whenever I dream about tests and stuff...I might know the problems and the answer...but I can't read what is on the paper...I dunno why...I see the numbers and letters and stuff..but I can't read it.
Thank goodness I am not the only person that dreams about tetris. I thought I was some sort of freak or something. I often dream that I am part of the falling blocks, and I fall along with them. What is really weird, is sometimes I will wake up on the floor, appearently fallen from my bed. Now what I would like to know...is if my dream caused me to roll off my bed, or if the entire dream occured once I was in the air on the way to the floor...
After some reading and discussion with my friends, I found out that more of your brain is being utilized during dreaming than during the day. That is why everything can seem so real. Dream reality is more real than regular reality because our mind thinks it is. Not only that, but and entire 6 hour dream sequence can take place in a matter of minutes or seconds.. This proves that our brain works about 300 times harder when we reach REM sleep than when we are awake. Some weird stuff.
I was wondering...just because it uses less electricity, does that mean it runs cooler as well? because, in the article, i didn't see anything about how cool this chip runs. The one big point with the crusoe is that it runs a LOT cooler than normal chips, so you have have smaller laptops/palmtops that don't need additional fans/heatsinks etc....does this new intel "speedstep" chip run cooler than the others as well?
It doesn't bother me all that much...after seeing the future of VAIO's....i would rather have a normal yet really nice looking IBM thinkpad with a comparable chip to a Butt-ugly vaio with similar technology. Still, it is a little lame to be copying off of transmeta like that though.
I think barf is a little extreme.....if you look at it while you are drunk, 100 yards away and squinting at an angle, it doesn't really look like barf...then it looks more like dog feces.
I always wanted a viao...but these things are super ugly.
I love this freeboxen thing! I posted my OLD tandy 1000 w/printer/monitor etc...this afternoon...the terms were that the claimee pays shipping...I ALREADY got a claim! This is sweet! i will finally be able to get rid of all these puters in my basement! Thanks...whoever came up with freeboxen...ingenius.
whoa...score 3 funny? I was not intending to make a joke about those quilters or the sewing machines... I was serious about the machines they had...and all these newfangled lights and stuff....it should have been rater +5 scary or something.
Until they have a phone that I can use while having my finger up my nose, I am not impressed....
Of course, Here in trout run, we are still using crank phones and only the rich people (i.e. the ones who flip burgers at mcdonalds) are the ones who have rotary phones. This, like the visor phone, is going to ahve to wait.
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I was about to submit a story about nanofabrication labs, but instead i submitted a story about shooting pumpkins 1000's of yards...:)
back on topic...about 2 weeks ago, some of my peers went on a field trip to the nanofabrication and nanotechnology labs at Penn State University, and from all the stuff they saw and showed me, it was pretty darned cool. They did all sorts of things there...but I thought the coolest thing was the way they would coat metals and such by shooting streams of electrons at a chunk of metal...such as gold....and the microbits of gold would then cover the object in like...1/100000 of an inch layers...this nanotechnology and fabrication stuff is neato.
wow...that is cool. I don't exactly know what to say...that is very very cool. I am trying to think of something funny or interesting or even on topic to say about it, but I can't get over how cool that is. That is just very, very cool.
*hint...ice is cool...so this is sorta ontopic.
The 2300$ pricetag seems high, but that is nothing compared to what you are getting. First of all, you are getting your whole editing studio right there....in the palm of your hand...you have the camera, the computer, everything. THis is perfect for people that can't afford high-end editing equipment and such. This is also perfect for anyone that needs to do a lot of on-site editing without dragging along an extra laptop, batteries and all sorts of stuff. It also has a transmeta chip, which means the battery you have will last a lot longer...this alone is worth some extra $$. I think the price is very reasonable for what you are getting. Also, when more companies start to make their own picturebooks, the price will be driven down even further.
the only thing I can think of that would make this thing better is a built in cdburner or dvdram.
No no no...the new Viao laptops look like barf..this isnt' exactly a laptop..this is a erm....not a laptop..I don't exactly know how it would be classified...cameratop?
First of all, I was sort of wondering how it is possible to have a "stroger" focus on video..is that something like a "stronger" focus on video?
This camera/computer thing is pretty neat. There have been a couple of other attempts in the past at this sort of thing. I have a friend who was looking into buying into this sort of thing a while back, but he said that they were severely limited by the speed and by the size of the hard drives. He didn't mind a high-cost, but for what he needed them for (onsite editing and such) they were an impossibility. This new thing seems to have those problems beat, and with a reversible screen to boot. I really like it, and it doesn't look like the new viao! Definitely a plus in my book.
I thought that they meant that the clock gave the illusion that it was LCD by using LED's...at least...that is how i read it...of course...I might be delusional.
the site is slashdotted already...anyone got a mirror?
If i switched the LEDs to all different colors could i give my clock a tye-dye motif? Or would it just look like a mass of ugly colors then?
I have been saying this for a while, but people like me, who live out in the stix...aren't helped at all by these companies that are loading the internet with highbandwidth connections. Almost all of these new pipes and stuff are only available in large cities. I can't even get cable where I live, and the phonelines are old and not capable of dsl or anything. What would really impress me is a company that sets out to give country folk a connection to the internet. I get 36k on a good day....
:) Thanks for listening to my rant. erm..reading even.
Some people say that this will never happen because there isn't enough people living out here to make it economically viable, but I disagree. One satellite dish or something set on a mountain nearby could connect people within a 30 mile radius of me. That is a lot of people...and I know most of them would jump at the chance of getting high speed internet access. I would be willing to pay more than $100 a month for a good connection. Trout Run Pennsylvania needs broadband.
If i told you, I'd have to kill you. There is a prize involved...i don't want anyone stealing my idea to shingle an entire roof with aol cds...so i'm not telling anyone.
My friend and I also worked out a design to build a scooter completely from aol cds....and i mean completely. Sort of scary idea...but if anyone has any aol cds to get rid of, I am in great need of them. Email me please. peter@iceball.net
Maybe I am just paranoid, but if AOL/TimeWarner/whoever else decided to merge with Disney...and then with Microsoft, there would be enough power and money to take over the world.....Of course...I always sorta thought that was what Bill Gates had in mind...
ship em' to me! there is a contest for creative aol cd usage..and i have a good idea...I only need about 4 or 5 thousand more.
geez! keep it quiet! here..take one of these fully functional ATAT walkers and keep quiet about our cookie plot to take over the world by having personal information about everyone!
Of course...the best idea is to leave cookies enabled and use someone else's computer and let lego track their personal information.
A fully operational AT-AT walker? does that mean I can shove about 30 stormtroopers in it and take over a military base with it? Fully operational and for only 99 dollars? I am gonna buy 20 of them and take over microsoft by force!
but the penguin could definitely be considered cute...but anyone who thinks that an overweight naked demon is cute has problems...or is saddam hussein.
from the experience I have, and the experience several of my friend's have had, we discovered that you can't read during dreams. Does anyone ever remember actually reading something during a dream? Whenever I dream about tests and stuff...I might know the problems and the answer...but I can't read what is on the paper...I dunno why...I see the numbers and letters and stuff..but I can't read it.
Thank goodness I am not the only person that dreams about tetris. I thought I was some sort of freak or something. I often dream that I am part of the falling blocks, and I fall along with them. What is really weird, is sometimes I will wake up on the floor, appearently fallen from my bed. Now what I would like to know...is if my dream caused me to roll off my bed, or if the entire dream occured once I was in the air on the way to the floor...
After some reading and discussion with my friends, I found out that more of your brain is being utilized during dreaming than during the day. That is why everything can seem so real. Dream reality is more real than regular reality because our mind thinks it is. Not only that, but and entire 6 hour dream sequence can take place in a matter of minutes or seconds.. This proves that our brain works about 300 times harder when we reach REM sleep than when we are awake. Some weird stuff.
weird...it works just fine for me...I checked a coupla times by trying the link i made....i dunno...tough beans i suppose.
I was wondering...just because it uses less electricity, does that mean it runs cooler as well? because, in the article, i didn't see anything about how cool this chip runs. The one big point with the crusoe is that it runs a LOT cooler than normal chips, so you have have smaller laptops/palmtops that don't need additional fans/heatsinks etc....does this new intel "speedstep" chip run cooler than the others as well?
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It doesn't bother me all that much...after seeing the future of VAIO's....i would rather have a normal yet really nice looking IBM thinkpad with a comparable chip to a Butt-ugly vaio with similar technology. Still, it is a little lame to be copying off of transmeta like that though.
I think barf is a little extreme.....if you look at it while you are drunk, 100 yards away and squinting at an angle, it doesn't really look like barf...then it looks more like dog feces.
I always wanted a viao...but these things are super ugly.
I love this freeboxen thing! I posted my OLD tandy 1000 w/printer/monitor etc...this afternoon...the terms were that the claimee pays shipping...I ALREADY got a claim! This is sweet! i will finally be able to get rid of all these puters in my basement! Thanks...whoever came up with freeboxen...ingenius.
whoa...score 3 funny? I was not intending to make a joke about those quilters or the sewing machines... I was serious about the machines they had...and all these newfangled lights and stuff....it should have been rater +5 scary or something.
Until they have a phone that I can use while having my finger up my nose, I am not impressed....
Of course, Here in trout run, we are still using crank phones and only the rich people (i.e. the ones who flip burgers at mcdonalds) are the ones who have rotary phones. This, like the visor phone, is going to ahve to wait.