The reason vector displays use a CRT is because the drawing point is controlled by deflecting it in X and Y axes with a continuous analog voltage on each axis against the charged beam, which strikes the CRT plate phosphor coat and glows at that moving point. That effect can be produced by moving rocking a mirror in X and Y axes, onto which a laser is directed. In the 1980s a laser and mirror apparatus with quick and precise positioning were low brightness, electrically inefficient, and physically large. Now we package it all on a single cheap chip for "picoprojectors" for mobile devices and other laser video projectors. They raster the beam with a single horizontal scanning mirror against a deformed crystal to step vertically into a stack of lines, but two mirrors could be used.
All that new tech that's replaced the CRT provides elements from which a vector display could return. And again, since so much image data is now vector, a vector display could be even higher quality than a pixel display for that data. DLP TVs have a pretty big chamber, even when they're flat. It would be very interesting to see one rigged up with a vector projector also.
Since we can plug in an electric car for repowering in our homes and at our offices (and other destinations), they don't need as far a range. And since we generally use our cars for much shorter trips than the maximum range, that range was wasted capacity anyway, except for rare trips. Trips for which we can rent a car more suited for it.
The main problem with our transit economy has been buying cars with much more capacity than we need, and then looking for excuses to use it. If the lower capacity of early electric cars gets Americans to change our driving habits to use less energy, plus they're more efficient, we'll have won on both the important fronts needed to use energy responsibly.
Once the technology can offer the same full range at the same price for the machines as combustion cars did, we'll largely have outgrown them. But to get there, we need more people to realize that these early versions are completely satisfactory for reasonable use. Which will increase consumption, deliver returns on the initial models' investment, and bring down prices while increasing performance.
I want more Stuxnet attacks on Iran's nuke programme. No invasions, no occupations, no Americans in the line of fire. Way cheaper than any of that, and probably more effective.
Instead of invading enemies, attacking the infrastructure that produces their threats is a much better way to conduct international conflict. I want more of this, and less of the 20th Century wars.
The 1980s arcade games with vector graphics (not raster/bitmap) displays were ahead of their time. Now that we have Flash and SVG that can specify graphics in vector format, we could use display HW that can render with vectors instead of pixels, for even smoother and better looking displays.
The old tech really offered only black and white, but now 30-40 years later we might have figured out how to offer full color. Perhaps even fuller color than with pixels, since pixels are really not fully colored, but a mosaic of color components at varying intensity that blur together to simulate a colored pixel, as in LCD, or a DLP's rotating colored wheel synced to different color frames of the display's grid of mirrors filtering the light. Perhaps if the vector had also been alternated synced to a color wheel like DLP it might have worked. Or perhaps some electromagnetic adjustment of the screen's color emission when the vector moved across it. With the decades of relentless research that has given us today's high performance displays, we might have something vector based that looks better, and maybe requires lighter graphics processing of vector formats into vector display without the rasterization necessary for today's pixel displays.
With the effort put into GM'ing trees, with all the unknown risks and huge costs of any significant deployment, how about just planting more trees that naturally evolved to survive in these ecosystems? Making more things out of wood, and less out of concrete and plastic, sinking atmospheric carbon instead of generating more mines.
That might not sound as sexy, but it does offer profits to the old and powerful owners of large tracts of forests, and countries with historically forested lands that don't have lots of oil and gas deposits, which should benefit from a complete accounting of the costs of carbon pollution vs sequestration.
It's really great that the FBI has finally caught up to these botnet syndicates, and this is now regular police work. I'm glad to be paying for it with my taxes.
It changes height a little, depending on how the feet are bound, but that has absolutely nothing to do with epigenetics, about which you evidently know nothing.
Is there any evidence of epigenetic factors, like mother's or father's diet before or during gestation, that influence height? Can you eat different for taller children?
Is it true that relativity predicts that rotating an object increases its mass? Does this graphene apparatus offer a way to test that theory, as the starting mass is small enough to detect small increases as large relative to the starting mass, and the rotation can be high enough frequency to really see the effects of the phenomenon?
Actually, Aussies and rednecks are the same people. They're both mainly Scots-Irish and some English who got caught in Britain's debt/colonization system, and sent to the wilderness either as prisoners or colonists. Mainly they were conquered people north of London, either Scotland or nearby, who first took over lands in Ireland when Oliver Cromwell conquered and devastated its tribes, then moved overseas when the British Army did even more devastation there.
As for ecosystem damage, you just don't notice how rednecks devastated North America's ecosystem because it's had a couple more centuries than Australia to reach a new balance, and because Australia's ecosystem was already much more different from Europe's than was North America's.
NYC tried this kind of stupid stunt to attack our rats with imported possums. The possums didn't kill the rats, and now Brooklyn is infested with rats and possums.
I expect Guam will remain overrun by snakes, and get overrun by mice. So they'll send in the possums, and Guam will be overrun by snakes, mice and possums.
Why can't we learn that simple attacks on complex problems often just make the problem more complex? Hamfisted slaps at nature always have unintended consequences.
Rights are not privileges. Privileges might be deserved or not. Rights are not "deserved": they are an inalienable feature of a person. Whatever the "creator" is, the creator of actual people that endowed people with inalienable rights is not a person (nor a government), and does not create corporations. People and governments create corporations, which do not have inalienable anything. Corporations are put together and made, and they can be separated from anything that makes them. They have no rights, only privileges actually assigned to the people who are the executives of the corporation.
The entire notion that a corporation is a person is a legal fraud originally perpetrated as a scam by a railroad monopoly. It's only though relentless corporate interference with the law in the US that corporations are treated as "persons" in any way. This fundamental injustice is the deepest flaw in our current democratic republic, and the source of the majority of our hardest to solve problems.
As for privacy, the US government already fails to protect the privacy of actual people according to the enumeration in the Fourth Amendment: "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects". Somehow Supreme Court justices can read that specification and not recognize the right to privacy it not only recognizes, but actually enumerates. To protect the privacy of corporations as a matter of "right" would pervert the fundamental basis of the US government beyond any ability to take it seriously except as a public office of private corporate power.
Is there a good Eclipse IDE plugin that embeds a JavaScript engine in a console? I don't want to develop JavaScript projects with Eclipse (though that's a useful extra); what I want is to use JavaScript as a scripting language to call the Eclipse API, and to do something like what jrunscript does: use JavaScript to call the JDK API and anything else I specify in the classpath. If that's useful, then managing JavaScript projects in the Eclipse IDE would be handy as I'd be creating lots of JavaScripts.
Too dense to understand that a rough example that might not be popular but does explain how the feature works doesn't mean the feature is limited to that example. Even though the ZoneAlarm example should satisfy.
Really, though, you're too dense to understand that such a use case is an arbitrary one that isn't the entire feature. Which is why I mentioned ZoneAlarm for an example. How about "no processes but the ones I've allowed today (before I connected the network) can access my disk or my network, until a dialog box adding them to the ACL is approved"?
I think it would work very well to support rules like "no browser process can access my disk" plus "email processes can access my disk", even if email is running as my user and so are other processes. Think of host firewalls like ZoneAlarm that assign permissions for network access per process per user, but applied to the entire range of HW.
But quantum mechanics does - much to Einstein's consternation over "spooky action at a distance". While distributing entanglement for 2c communication has been experimentally verified only for observation, not changing state remotely, the latter will surely be tested soon. Until then, it's still theoretically possible, and we'll see how it works in practice.
I have. All of which is why I want the machine to have an ASIC that effectively adds an AUTH instruction that takes only a few clock cycles, rather than do this essential operation in software every time, also caching credentials and grants in ASIC RAM or LUT.
I'd like to hear what this new "leader" has to say about the press conference going on right now in DC about documented UFO interference with US nuke weapons facilities.
User and role based authentication/authorization is essential to security, but not sufficient. A machine that brings authentication/authorization down to the process level would be more secure.
I'd like a PC that enforced access control on each process running. Every call to any HW, whether CPU, MMU, GPU, or any bus, to require authentication. A crypto ASIC with scores of simultaneous auth units pointing at each process space and the ACL table for auth in just a few extra clock ticks on operations per process, at startup and randomly every dozen or so calls. More frequently when there's a "heightened alert" either by network notification or during and after other security events like DoS attacks and malware discovery.
We also now create black holes in labs. Could we create pairs of white holes and black holes together in a lab, and study the gradient between them for gravitons? Would we be able to pair them into gravity diodes? If so, could a gravity laser be made from them?
Could we use a gravity laser to focus Hawking radiation onto "blank" quanta to reconstitute the entropic hologram of the complex structure that a black hole reduces to those "blank" quanta when it emits the Hawking radiation?
If so, could we entangle pairs photons, send each member of each pair across space in opposite directions, then work one of the pair against the Hawking radiation to encode it across to the other of the photon pair, which in turn modulates "blank" Hawking radiation at the far end through a gravity laser, reconstituting the quantum entropic state of remote blanks? If so, we'd have teleportation that could run at least double the speed of light on demand (entangled photons rushing at c to opposite points = 2c), and if prepared in advance simply instantaneous teleportation.
Will Hawking finally deserve the "greatest brain of our time" reputation that TV acts like he does?
The United Arab Emirates, followed by their huge cousin Saudi Arabia, are shutting down Blackberry until RIM lets them spy on its data in realtime. RIM has been able to argue it doesn't have such a backdoor feature. Obama has the clout to force this Canadian company to create one. And then the Saudis and the rest of their medieval tyranny neighbors will spy on us. They don't need no steenkin' warrants. And neither does Obama, if he personally decides it's a "state secret".
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The reason vector displays use a CRT is because the drawing point is controlled by deflecting it in X and Y axes with a continuous analog voltage on each axis against the charged beam, which strikes the CRT plate phosphor coat and glows at that moving point. That effect can be produced by moving rocking a mirror in X and Y axes, onto which a laser is directed. In the 1980s a laser and mirror apparatus with quick and precise positioning were low brightness, electrically inefficient, and physically large. Now we package it all on a single cheap chip for "picoprojectors" for mobile devices and other laser video projectors. They raster the beam with a single horizontal scanning mirror against a deformed crystal to step vertically into a stack of lines, but two mirrors could be used.
All that new tech that's replaced the CRT provides elements from which a vector display could return. And again, since so much image data is now vector, a vector display could be even higher quality than a pixel display for that data. DLP TVs have a pretty big chamber, even when they're flat. It would be very interesting to see one rigged up with a vector projector also.
Since we can plug in an electric car for repowering in our homes and at our offices (and other destinations), they don't need as far a range. And since we generally use our cars for much shorter trips than the maximum range, that range was wasted capacity anyway, except for rare trips. Trips for which we can rent a car more suited for it.
The main problem with our transit economy has been buying cars with much more capacity than we need, and then looking for excuses to use it. If the lower capacity of early electric cars gets Americans to change our driving habits to use less energy, plus they're more efficient, we'll have won on both the important fronts needed to use energy responsibly.
Once the technology can offer the same full range at the same price for the machines as combustion cars did, we'll largely have outgrown them. But to get there, we need more people to realize that these early versions are completely satisfactory for reasonable use. Which will increase consumption, deliver returns on the initial models' investment, and bring down prices while increasing performance.
I want more Stuxnet attacks on Iran's nuke programme. No invasions, no occupations, no Americans in the line of fire. Way cheaper than any of that, and probably more effective.
Instead of invading enemies, attacking the infrastructure that produces their threats is a much better way to conduct international conflict. I want more of this, and less of the 20th Century wars.
The 1980s arcade games with vector graphics (not raster/bitmap) displays were ahead of their time. Now that we have Flash and SVG that can specify graphics in vector format, we could use display HW that can render with vectors instead of pixels, for even smoother and better looking displays.
The old tech really offered only black and white, but now 30-40 years later we might have figured out how to offer full color. Perhaps even fuller color than with pixels, since pixels are really not fully colored, but a mosaic of color components at varying intensity that blur together to simulate a colored pixel, as in LCD, or a DLP's rotating colored wheel synced to different color frames of the display's grid of mirrors filtering the light. Perhaps if the vector had also been alternated synced to a color wheel like DLP it might have worked. Or perhaps some electromagnetic adjustment of the screen's color emission when the vector moved across it. With the decades of relentless research that has given us today's high performance displays, we might have something vector based that looks better, and maybe requires lighter graphics processing of vector formats into vector display without the rasterization necessary for today's pixel displays.
With the effort put into GM'ing trees, with all the unknown risks and huge costs of any significant deployment, how about just planting more trees that naturally evolved to survive in these ecosystems? Making more things out of wood, and less out of concrete and plastic, sinking atmospheric carbon instead of generating more mines.
That might not sound as sexy, but it does offer profits to the old and powerful owners of large tracts of forests, and countries with historically forested lands that don't have lots of oil and gas deposits, which should benefit from a complete accounting of the costs of carbon pollution vs sequestration.
It's really great that the FBI has finally caught up to these botnet syndicates, and this is now regular police work. I'm glad to be paying for it with my taxes.
When will the FBI get serious about phishing?
It changes height a little, depending on how the feet are bound, but that has absolutely nothing to do with epigenetics, about which you evidently know nothing.
Is there any evidence of epigenetic factors, like mother's or father's diet before or during gestation, that influence height? Can you eat different for taller children?
Is it true that relativity predicts that rotating an object increases its mass? Does this graphene apparatus offer a way to test that theory, as the starting mass is small enough to detect small increases as large relative to the starting mass, and the rotation can be high enough frequency to really see the effects of the phenomenon?
Actually, Aussies and rednecks are the same people. They're both mainly Scots-Irish and some English who got caught in Britain's debt/colonization system, and sent to the wilderness either as prisoners or colonists. Mainly they were conquered people north of London, either Scotland or nearby, who first took over lands in Ireland when Oliver Cromwell conquered and devastated its tribes, then moved overseas when the British Army did even more devastation there.
As for ecosystem damage, you just don't notice how rednecks devastated North America's ecosystem because it's had a couple more centuries than Australia to reach a new balance, and because Australia's ecosystem was already much more different from Europe's than was North America's.
Aussies are rednecks. Just look at their necks!
NYC tried this kind of stupid stunt to attack our rats with imported possums. The possums didn't kill the rats, and now Brooklyn is infested with rats and possums.
I expect Guam will remain overrun by snakes, and get overrun by mice. So they'll send in the possums, and Guam will be overrun by snakes, mice and possums.
Why can't we learn that simple attacks on complex problems often just make the problem more complex? Hamfisted slaps at nature always have unintended consequences.
Nobody said anything about either morality or "absolute rights". Your strawman is worthless.
Rights are not privileges. Privileges might be deserved or not. Rights are not "deserved": they are an inalienable feature of a person. Whatever the "creator" is, the creator of actual people that endowed people with inalienable rights is not a person (nor a government), and does not create corporations. People and governments create corporations, which do not have inalienable anything. Corporations are put together and made, and they can be separated from anything that makes them. They have no rights, only privileges actually assigned to the people who are the executives of the corporation.
The entire notion that a corporation is a person is a legal fraud originally perpetrated as a scam by a railroad monopoly. It's only though relentless corporate interference with the law in the US that corporations are treated as "persons" in any way. This fundamental injustice is the deepest flaw in our current democratic republic, and the source of the majority of our hardest to solve problems.
As for privacy, the US government already fails to protect the privacy of actual people according to the enumeration in the Fourth Amendment: "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects". Somehow Supreme Court justices can read that specification and not recognize the right to privacy it not only recognizes, but actually enumerates. To protect the privacy of corporations as a matter of "right" would pervert the fundamental basis of the US government beyond any ability to take it seriously except as a public office of private corporate power.
Is there a good Eclipse IDE plugin that embeds a JavaScript engine in a console? I don't want to develop JavaScript projects with Eclipse (though that's a useful extra); what I want is to use JavaScript as a scripting language to call the Eclipse API, and to do something like what jrunscript does: use JavaScript to call the JDK API and anything else I specify in the classpath. If that's useful, then managing JavaScript projects in the Eclipse IDE would be handy as I'd be creating lots of JavaScripts.
Too dense to understand that a rough example that might not be popular but does explain how the feature works doesn't mean the feature is limited to that example. Even though the ZoneAlarm example should satisfy.
Clearly you're committed to staying that dense.
Sometimes, yeah.
Really, though, you're too dense to understand that such a use case is an arbitrary one that isn't the entire feature. Which is why I mentioned ZoneAlarm for an example. How about "no processes but the ones I've allowed today (before I connected the network) can access my disk or my network, until a dialog box adding them to the ACL is approved"?
I think it would work very well to support rules like "no browser process can access my disk" plus "email processes can access my disk", even if email is running as my user and so are other processes. Think of host firewalls like ZoneAlarm that assign permissions for network access per process per user, but applied to the entire range of HW.
But quantum mechanics does - much to Einstein's consternation over "spooky action at a distance". While distributing entanglement for 2c communication has been experimentally verified only for observation, not changing state remotely, the latter will surely be tested soon. Until then, it's still theoretically possible, and we'll see how it works in practice.
I have. All of which is why I want the machine to have an ASIC that effectively adds an AUTH instruction that takes only a few clock cycles, rather than do this essential operation in software every time, also caching credentials and grants in ASIC RAM or LUT.
Then don't get the auth ASIC I helpfully described, or use it infrequently the way I helpfully described.
I'd like to hear what this new "leader" has to say about the press conference going on right now in DC about documented UFO interference with US nuke weapons facilities.
User and role based authentication/authorization is essential to security, but not sufficient. A machine that brings authentication/authorization down to the process level would be more secure.
I'd like a PC that enforced access control on each process running. Every call to any HW, whether CPU, MMU, GPU, or any bus, to require authentication. A crypto ASIC with scores of simultaneous auth units pointing at each process space and the ACL table for auth in just a few extra clock ticks on operations per process, at startup and randomly every dozen or so calls. More frequently when there's a "heightened alert" either by network notification or during and after other security events like DoS attacks and malware discovery.
You should look into quantum entanglement, which would be a radar detector with a builtin lawyer if this weren't a bad metaphor.
We also now create black holes in labs. Could we create pairs of white holes and black holes together in a lab, and study the gradient between them for gravitons? Would we be able to pair them into gravity diodes? If so, could a gravity laser be made from them?
Could we use a gravity laser to focus Hawking radiation onto "blank" quanta to reconstitute the entropic hologram of the complex structure that a black hole reduces to those "blank" quanta when it emits the Hawking radiation?
If so, could we entangle pairs photons, send each member of each pair across space in opposite directions, then work one of the pair against the Hawking radiation to encode it across to the other of the photon pair, which in turn modulates "blank" Hawking radiation at the far end through a gravity laser, reconstituting the quantum entropic state of remote blanks? If so, we'd have teleportation that could run at least double the speed of light on demand (entangled photons rushing at c to opposite points = 2c), and if prepared in advance simply instantaneous teleportation.
Will Hawking finally deserve the "greatest brain of our time" reputation that TV acts like he does?
The United Arab Emirates, followed by their huge cousin Saudi Arabia, are shutting down Blackberry until RIM lets them spy on its data in realtime. RIM has been able to argue it doesn't have such a backdoor feature. Obama has the clout to force this Canadian company to create one. And then the Saudis and the rest of their medieval tyranny neighbors will spy on us. They don't need no steenkin' warrants. And neither does Obama, if he personally decides it's a "state secret".