Anyway, that's irrelevant to the topic. Have you women, in this underground network, ever conspired to take over the world?
For example, is Fiona Carly of HP part of your network?
Being visible may not be a good thing, btw. Especially if it makes you a target. Regardless, I'd think this network needs to get involved in getting girls into the network so that when they get into college and workforce you have even better/stronger connections.
There's already very many old-boys networks around. It'd be ironically just if there were a few women's networks to advance the cause and needs of women.
Here's a thread talking about some of the first female contributors to the computing field, programming, etc. Not Open Source, but still very core stuff.
Was it Ada who also did the frequency hopping stuff that the military later used for their torpedoes and is now being used in such things as TDMA(or is it CDMA?)
I'd imagine that a disproportionate gender ratio in the engineering disciplines is bad because, as in medicine, concerns of women, which may differ from concerns of men, get less attention because they just aren't conceived in the minds of men.
If women don't participate in this exciting new revolution, the internet, e-commerce, and Open Source, among others, will they be left behind? Will there be a missing perspective? How do we change this?
I (a man) graduated with an English Lit degree and the ratios in my major were probably in the neighborhood described above. I suppose similar ratios exist in education. I don't recall the women trying to figure out what to do to change this, no one wondered if the men would be left behind or if they could provide a missing perspective. In fact I would argue that those so absorbed in science and technology may be missing out in the fascinating world of literature (or maybe not).
What, so if they aren't complaining, or they are too busy to think about it, or if they don't realize there is a problem, or because they don't see the problem means there isn't one to be tackled? Just because there is a gender ratio doesn't mean its a good thing.
I certainly have better things to do than participate in many open source revolutions. I however have a choice because I am connected to the system, if nothing else through my friends, my job, and through Slashdot.
Sigh. I don't know, but I think everyone needs to be concerned about deficiences in the system. Because if there is a deficiency, then there is a problem just waiting to be uncovered, and if everyone is part of the system, everyone is affected.
Two arguments: If women are no different then men, then there is no *need* to push them into the field, because men can do just as well in stead of women. If this were true, then I would think women would already be involved as much as men, because they are no different then men. Since they are not involved, I would take that to mean there is a difference somewhere, either on the personal level(which I don't believe) or the social level.
If women are needed in the field, and they are held back because society hasn't yet adapted to the changing world, and we don't do our part to help, we are as guilty as those who do their part to hinder. We're just watching them close the world off to women.
I'm wondering if you could get your wife to think about this and reply, actually.
What's wrong with the excuse that you're a bad student? It worked with me =)
Just get your act together. Either she's a fair prof and you're not putting in enough effort, or she's unfair and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it except give your best.
In either case the only thing you can do is try to learn as much as possible, pass the class, and go on with your life.
I don't think it matters that Linux was crafted by a male or female set of hands. I think it does matter that women are not more a part of the Open Source movement or part of being online because both are revolutions of power away from central authorities and in the hands of people who now have voices.
If women aren't involved(out of lack of foresight), then they aren't given voices, or the choice to speak, and everyone loses.
Some of us, I'm sure. Most don't have the energy/initiative/ability.
I'm unsure whether this counts as dating, most of what goes on here. Either is promiscuous general group sharing or it's solid friendship for 4 years or it's two people clinging together and getting married after graduation.
Dating would seem to suggest experimentation, exploration, etc. There aren't enough women here for that to be true for the men, and the women don't seem to want to bother with all the men.
Still, the lop-sided ration makes for interesting situations.
Why do people say that when they're about to be rude?
Regardless, learning linux is a big step. It's adoption of the standard. And from that point, one can easily fall into the trap of accomplishing much more.
Considering that I believe there is a tremendous gender gap in computing, it's a good thing(even if not a great thing) that there is a site for women and Linux. What else needs to be done is to introduce women to computing in general as well, rather than leaving it a man's market and the domain of the arcane, mystic, and powerful.
How much of this difference is also fostered by boys learning from men and girls learning from women, btw?
Just the fact that boys see men using numbers and girls see women using landmarks?
Anyway, I'm proud to announce that I am a man/boy/male that uses landmarks, lefts and rights, and locations rather than numbers. I have horrible distance/time perception. How can anyone tell, other than guessing, scale, distance, time, etc?
Anyway, one of the problems I can immediately see/grok is that, at least when I went to college these past 5 years, is that there was a ratio of like 20:1 of male to female in the CS department.
It was slightly better in the EE department, of like 8:1, but that's still pretty bad.
Maybe this is different in other schools, states, or countries, but that would seem to put an damper on the party spirit already. Any female contributors to the Open Source, internet, or computing world have very many hurdles. I'd say they deserve congrats for that.
This brings a different problem to light, on how to change this statistic. If women don't participate in this exciting new revolution, the internet, e-commerce, and Open Source, among others, will they be left behind? Will there be a missing perspective? How do we change this?
It isn't enough that women be part of the creative-web design aspects of the internet. They need to be involved in the design, development, and implementation of it as well. I apologize if my stereotypes are outdated. Perhaps women are a very big part of the movement; just that in my corner of the world, I haven't seen it yet.
I'm not saying rid ourselves of ambiguity and vagueness. They are way too much fun. But, like Grafiti is to Palms and Visors, some sort of reduced instruction set language for enhanced communications.
Being able to think to each other will open other opportunities for poetry and creativity as well. Imagine 'seeing' someone else's imagination? I believe our imagination is every bit as powerful and stimulating as a real sunset, a real rainbow, a landscape, or artwork. Heck, every piece of art or poetry is, in effect, hampered by our inability to express the concept perfectly, limited as it were by two dimensional mediums, paints, pigments, materials, etc.
Just how much can we scale? No one really knows, right? We have extreme cases, like idiot savants and autistic people, as well as geniuses and prodigies and such, but as we become ever more connected and ever more indulged with an influx of information and sensory data, will we cope?
I would like to think so. I would imagine that even as computers get faster and more powerful, as we get more resources we'd just adapt more deftly. We'd invent languages and message passing technologies to reduce overhead and miscommunication, and increase the capbility and efficiency of our world. It's now the world of 24x7, right? I guess one of the biggest limitations right now is sleep. Once we can tackle that problem, we'd have twice as much brainpower*time, right?
How do we know that it's possible to surpass human intelligence? That humans just won't keep advancing? Do we know that there are limitations to what we can do?
I'd say that our brains are marvelously developed but have been underutilized for the past thousand years, barring the musical genius or the uber-warrior-general. We keep pumping information and data into ourselves and our children, and surprisingly, we keep up. Imagine humanity years from now, born plugged into a network, some sort of global consciousness. Is it possible? I think so. Can we keep up? Yes to that, too. Imagine communications without all of the ambiguity and vagueness of body language and speech. Sure it won't be perfect, but it's an incredible vision.
A good deal of the research is done in order to better understand ourselves.
There are also those who study just to do it. I don't know that anyone is doing it to make a better brain(yet).
There are also autistic people and idiot savants that actually demonstrate some of the tradeoffs we may have made to gain our intelligence. I also don't know if it can be reconciled, the ability to tap into our brains in the same way and still retain human flexibility and adaptability.
But the fact that people are born with supercomputing capabilities means that it may be very possible, for a slight trade off in social ability or manual dexterity or what-not, to gain ever more brain power.
Newer VW cars have something called tiptronic transmissions; normally they behave as automatic, but when you flip a switch you can control the up or down shift at appropriate RPMs, giving you, in reality, both automatic and manual transmissions in one.
And in the computing world we have BeOS and the soon to be released Mac OSX to give us intuitive interfaces and immediate productivity as well as powerful and useful design.
So it may very well be possible to have your cake and eat it too =)
We really don't know what the limits of our brain is. We have examples of idiot savants and autistic people as extremes, but they aren't quite right. Or child geniuses, prodigies, and talent.
I'd imagine that, as fast as we make our artificial brains and intelligences, that people would keep up and stay ahead. I'd imagine it would actually be easier to train and grow a person surrounded by weather data all their life and have a much more accurate prediction device than any supercomputer.
Ick. Imagine. A kid, from birth, born blind and deaf but hooked up through various sensors to weather devices all over the world, and as an a adult being able to 'see' weather?
We'll come up with ever more efficient message passing algorithms and encoding methods to overcome the natural inefficiency of communication, and begin to harness the power of multiprocessing, human style.
We'll figure out how to train, teach, and educate kids so that we stay ahead of the race. Everyone knows how much of a joke most school systems in the US are, right? How much time is wasted with bullying, rote exercises, stupid lectures? Does anyone else think the system actually slows down and retards the children?
I don't know. It sounds like you're describing me =)
My dad doesn't think I'm autistic, though he does acknowledge that I'm different.
I grew up very comfortable being intelligent, always getting straight A's and always doing the best, though not without effort. Talent would only get one so far, and effort will bridge the rest.
I'll tell you what I'm like now.
I love to read. Everything. Anything. Anytime. It's compulsive--a book or text or box of cereal in hand, and I read it.
I'm endlessly fascinated with the world. A leaf, a bug, a rock, a tree. If it's there, I'm fascinated.
I'm fearless. I'm confident. I'm decisive. I'm reckless. I'm bold. I'm impulsive. I'm arrogant. I'm self-assured. Those are all faults and strengths.
I'm always driven to challenge myself. If I take the easy way now, it will just become harder later. Always better to take the harder challenge, now, when you can see it, when you can chose, then when you have no choice and are forced to take the harder path.
Life is meant to be lived. Savor food, sleep, and dreams. The feel of fabrics and woods, the colors, the sounds.
It's hard for me to understand people. For someone so intelligent, to be so blank or dumb is hard to fathom. People think I'm mocking them, or teasing them, or playing with them. Why aren't you angry? Why aren't you pissed? Why do you keep asking this? This is common sense?
If it's common sense, why don't I understand it?
I was very lucky to have understanding and totally supportive parents. I've made many comments to the point that I don't need God because I have my dad. He was my role model and my mentor and my idol. Even if he is imperfect and human. My mom gives everything for me.
On my part I've already said how bold/confident/reckless/brash I am. I'm totally unself conscious. I don't care much about other people, or what they think. Perhaps that is why I don't understand them? Nonetheless, it's a perfect combination for success. You just don't fear. Failure. Shame. Frustration. Doubt. Guilt. I feel none of them.
I don't think I'm autistic. Or at least if I am, I'm very social, friendly, and out-going.
What Apple seems to be doing is offering a *reasonable* configuration in an (my opinion) an attractive case with a useable OS.
The point is not configurability, which is what the B&W G4/G3s offer, but single-minded ease of use. Like a playstation or dreamcast. Unlike a home stereo system made of any number of components, wires, and boxes. Which can also be used to describe the modern PC.
Apple is targeting a market which doesn't value the tinker factor as much as it values the use and 'feel' factor.
Would you complain similarly of the Palm or Visor in how limited they are?
Oh well. I'd imagine, if I were Steve Jobs, which I am not, that the iiMac would include:
Video camera + mic for video conferencing, if we're going to try to push the internet concept.
Airport of course. Imagine video conferencing without the hassle of networking, wires, or setup?
Touch screen, of course! It's as natural as voice recognition, which will come with OS9. Point, tap, speak!
Voice recognition with OS9. Voice passwords and such.
People recognition. Not just powering up when you touch the keyboard or mouse, but when you move or sit down in front of the computer. Like those new men's urinals that require no hands to operate? It'd be nifty.
Anything else? There must be other people here who have ideas!
If you were at a conference with thousands of people wearing badges, rather than recognizing faces, would not an electronic wireless badge identification system be much easier and less intrusive? Imagine that the name, profile, and picture flashed on a Visor or something as you approached them? Or if you must have your HUD, that as the person approached that they would have their name float above them, as well as a short description being read to you or something.
All of a sudden images of Quake3Arena pop into my head =)
Are the ones we catch. The ones who get nominated for Darwin awards. The ones who fail.
You will never see a smart criminal because they don't get caught. They get elected for office, own corporations, control institutions, etc. They figure out how to use the system to their advantage.
They probably aren't that different than successful businessmen, excepting that successful businessmen also, as a side effect, benefit the country, the people, or the economy.
May be able to escape fairly easily, as it is *only* 50m range, where the other implementations are both more powerful and expensive, with up to 200ft or 300ft(I guess 100m then) ranges.
Any guesses if French Mac lovers will be able to do something about this as the iBook ships en masse?
Meaning that IBM, Intel, HP, Dell, and whatnot, with the more expensive and more powerful and more capable IEEE 802.11 implementations will have big headaches selling to the French, and perhaps other governments/countries.
Curious:Did no one consider this when IEEE 802.11 was drafted and implemented?
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How else will I get intelligent children?
Anyway, that's irrelevant to the topic. Have you women, in this underground network, ever conspired to take over the world?
For example, is Fiona Carly of HP part of your network?
Being visible may not be a good thing, btw. Especially if it makes you a target. Regardless, I'd think this network needs to get involved in getting girls into the network so that when they get into college and workforce you have even better/stronger connections.
There's already very many old-boys networks around. It'd be ironically just if there were a few women's networks to advance the cause and needs of women.
-AS
No, come to think of it, it wasn't Ada that did the frequency hopping bit.
That was a female actress in the US, I think. Anyone remember her name? Shame on me for not knowing it.
-AS
Isn't this some of what the question asked?
Here's a thread talking about some of the first female contributors to the computing field, programming, etc. Not Open Source, but still very core stuff.
Was it Ada who also did the frequency hopping stuff that the military later used for their torpedoes and is now being used in such things as TDMA(or is it CDMA?)
-AS
I'd imagine that a disproportionate gender ratio in the engineering disciplines is bad because, as in medicine, concerns of women, which may differ from concerns of men, get less attention because they just aren't conceived in the minds of men.
If women don't participate in this exciting new revolution, the internet, e-commerce, and Open Source, among others, will they be left behind? Will there be a missing perspective? How do we change this?
I (a man) graduated with an English Lit degree and the ratios in my major were probably in the neighborhood described above. I suppose similar ratios exist in education.
I don't recall the women trying to figure out what to do to change this, no one wondered if the men would be left behind or if they could provide a missing perspective. In fact I would argue that those so absorbed in science and technology may be missing out in the fascinating world of literature (or maybe not).
What, so if they aren't complaining, or they are too busy to think about it, or if they don't realize there is a problem, or because they don't see the problem means there isn't one to be tackled? Just because there is a gender ratio doesn't mean its a good thing.
I certainly have better things to do than participate in many open source revolutions. I however have a choice because I am connected to the system, if nothing else through my friends, my job, and through Slashdot.
Sigh. I don't know, but I think everyone needs to be concerned about deficiences in the system. Because if there is a deficiency, then there is a problem just waiting to be uncovered, and if everyone is part of the system, everyone is affected.
Two arguments: If women are no different then men, then there is no *need* to push them into the field, because men can do just as well in stead of women. If this were true, then I would think women would already be involved as much as men, because they are no different then men. Since they are not involved, I would take that to mean there is a difference somewhere, either on the personal level(which I don't believe) or the social level.
If women are needed in the field, and they are held back because society hasn't yet adapted to the changing world, and we don't do our part to help, we are as guilty as those who do their part to hinder. We're just watching them close the world off to women.
I'm wondering if you could get your wife to think about this and reply, actually.
-AS
What's wrong with the excuse that you're a bad student? It worked with me =)
Just get your act together. Either she's a fair prof and you're not putting in enough effort, or she's unfair and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it except give your best.
In either case the only thing you can do is try to learn as much as possible, pass the class, and go on with your life.
-AS
I don't think it matters that Linux was crafted by a male or female set of hands. I think it does matter that women are not more a part of the Open Source movement or part of being online because both are revolutions of power away from central authorities and in the hands of people who now have voices.
If women aren't involved(out of lack of foresight), then they aren't given voices, or the choice to speak, and everyone loses.
-AS
Some of us, I'm sure. Most don't have the energy/initiative/ability.
I'm unsure whether this counts as dating, most of what goes on here. Either is promiscuous general group sharing or it's solid friendship for 4 years or it's two people clinging together and getting married after graduation.
Dating would seem to suggest experimentation, exploration, etc. There aren't enough women here for that to be true for the men, and the women don't seem to want to bother with all the men.
Still, the lop-sided ration makes for interesting situations.
-AS
Why do people say that when they're about to be rude?
Regardless, learning linux is a big step. It's adoption of the standard. And from that point, one can easily fall into the trap of accomplishing much more.
Considering that I believe there is a tremendous gender gap in computing, it's a good thing(even if not a great thing) that there is a site for women and Linux. What else needs to be done is to introduce women to computing in general as well, rather than leaving it a man's market and the domain of the arcane, mystic, and powerful.
-AS
How much of this difference is also fostered by boys learning from men and girls learning from women, btw?
Just the fact that boys see men using numbers and girls see women using landmarks?
Anyway, I'm proud to announce that I am a man/boy/male that uses landmarks, lefts and rights, and locations rather than numbers. I have horrible distance/time perception. How can anyone tell, other than guessing, scale, distance, time, etc?
-AS
Just Kidding!
Anyway, one of the problems I can immediately see/grok is that, at least when I went to college these past 5 years, is that there was a ratio of like 20:1 of male to female in the CS department.
It was slightly better in the EE department, of like 8:1, but that's still pretty bad.
Maybe this is different in other schools, states, or countries, but that would seem to put an damper on the party spirit already. Any female contributors to the Open Source, internet, or computing world have very many hurdles. I'd say they deserve congrats for that.
This brings a different problem to light, on how to change this statistic. If women don't participate in this exciting new revolution, the internet, e-commerce, and Open Source, among others, will they be left behind? Will there be a missing perspective? How do we change this?
It isn't enough that women be part of the creative-web design aspects of the internet. They need to be involved in the design, development, and implementation of it as well. I apologize if my stereotypes are outdated. Perhaps women are a very big part of the movement; just that in my corner of the world, I haven't seen it yet.
Anyone want to correct me?
-AS
I totally agree.
I'm not saying rid ourselves of ambiguity and vagueness. They are way too much fun. But, like Grafiti is to Palms and Visors, some sort of reduced instruction set language for enhanced communications.
Being able to think to each other will open other opportunities for poetry and creativity as well. Imagine 'seeing' someone else's imagination? I believe our imagination is every bit as powerful and stimulating as a real sunset, a real rainbow, a landscape, or artwork. Heck, every piece of art or poetry is, in effect, hampered by our inability to express the concept perfectly, limited as it were by two dimensional mediums, paints, pigments, materials, etc.
Painting across the cyberscape =)
-AS
Would anyone be willing to comment on this?
Just how much can we scale? No one really knows, right? We have extreme cases, like idiot savants and autistic people, as well as geniuses and prodigies and such, but as we become ever more connected and ever more indulged with an influx of information and sensory data, will we cope?
I would like to think so. I would imagine that even as computers get faster and more powerful, as we get more resources we'd just adapt more deftly. We'd invent languages and message passing technologies to reduce overhead and miscommunication, and increase the capbility and efficiency of our world. It's now the world of 24x7, right? I guess one of the biggest limitations right now is sleep. Once we can tackle that problem, we'd have twice as much brainpower*time, right?
-AS
How do we know that it's possible to surpass human intelligence? That humans just won't keep advancing? Do we know that there are limitations to what we can do?
I'd say that our brains are marvelously developed but have been underutilized for the past thousand years, barring the musical genius or the uber-warrior-general. We keep pumping information and data into ourselves and our children, and surprisingly, we keep up. Imagine humanity years from now, born plugged into a network, some sort of global consciousness. Is it possible? I think so. Can we keep up? Yes to that, too. Imagine communications without all of the ambiguity and vagueness of body language and speech. Sure it won't be perfect, but it's an incredible vision.
-AS
A good deal of the research is done in order to better understand ourselves.
There are also those who study just to do it. I don't know that anyone is doing it to make a better brain(yet).
There are also autistic people and idiot savants that actually demonstrate some of the tradeoffs we may have made to gain our intelligence. I also don't know if it can be reconciled, the ability to tap into our brains in the same way and still retain human flexibility and adaptability.
But the fact that people are born with supercomputing capabilities means that it may be very possible, for a slight trade off in social ability or manual dexterity or what-not, to gain ever more brain power.
-AS
Without going into flames here=)
Newer VW cars have something called tiptronic transmissions; normally they behave as automatic, but when you flip a switch you can control the up or down shift at appropriate RPMs, giving you, in reality, both automatic and manual transmissions in one.
And in the computing world we have BeOS and the soon to be released Mac OSX to give us intuitive interfaces and immediate productivity as well as powerful and useful design.
So it may very well be possible to have your cake and eat it too =)
-AS
We really don't know what the limits of our brain is. We have examples of idiot savants and autistic people as extremes, but they aren't quite right. Or child geniuses, prodigies, and talent.
I'd imagine that, as fast as we make our artificial brains and intelligences, that people would keep up and stay ahead. I'd imagine it would actually be easier to train and grow a person surrounded by weather data all their life and have a much more accurate prediction device than any supercomputer.
Ick. Imagine. A kid, from birth, born blind and deaf but hooked up through various sensors to weather devices all over the world, and as an a adult being able to 'see' weather?
We'll come up with ever more efficient message passing algorithms and encoding methods to overcome the natural inefficiency of communication, and begin to harness the power of multiprocessing, human style.
We'll figure out how to train, teach, and educate kids so that we stay ahead of the race. Everyone knows how much of a joke most school systems in the US are, right? How much time is wasted with bullying, rote exercises, stupid lectures? Does anyone else think the system actually slows down and retards the children?
Just how capable are we?
-AS
I don't know. It sounds like you're describing me =)
My dad doesn't think I'm autistic, though he does acknowledge that I'm different.
I grew up very comfortable being intelligent, always getting straight A's and always doing the best, though not without effort. Talent would only get one so far, and effort will bridge the rest.
I'll tell you what I'm like now.
I love to read. Everything. Anything. Anytime. It's compulsive--a book or text or box of cereal in hand, and I read it.
I'm endlessly fascinated with the world. A leaf, a bug, a rock, a tree. If it's there, I'm fascinated.
I'm fearless. I'm confident. I'm decisive. I'm reckless. I'm bold. I'm impulsive. I'm arrogant. I'm self-assured. Those are all faults and strengths.
I'm always driven to challenge myself. If I take the easy way now, it will just become harder later. Always better to take the harder challenge, now, when you can see it, when you can chose, then when you have no choice and are forced to take the harder path.
Life is meant to be lived. Savor food, sleep, and dreams. The feel of fabrics and woods, the colors, the sounds.
It's hard for me to understand people. For someone so intelligent, to be so blank or dumb is hard to fathom. People think I'm mocking them, or teasing them, or playing with them. Why aren't you angry? Why aren't you pissed? Why do you keep asking this? This is common sense?
If it's common sense, why don't I understand it?
I was very lucky to have understanding and totally supportive parents. I've made many comments to the point that I don't need God because I have my dad. He was my role model and my mentor and my idol. Even if he is imperfect and human. My mom gives everything for me.
On my part I've already said how bold/confident/reckless/brash I am. I'm totally unself conscious. I don't care much about other people, or what they think. Perhaps that is why I don't understand them? Nonetheless, it's a perfect combination for success. You just don't fear. Failure. Shame. Frustration. Doubt. Guilt. I feel none of them.
I don't think I'm autistic. Or at least if I am, I'm very social, friendly, and out-going.
=)
-AS
Well yeah, in that case, the iMac has a USB port.
Not much tinkering, I think, as much as utility.
I concede your point, but just a little. If someone knows how to make and debug USB devices, they'd be able to play with the iMac as well.
-AS
Has it's bonuses. If everyone is so contrary, then being reasonable gets you some karma points because, well, you're reasonable.
Not to abuse the system, but if the system encourages us to be reasonable, hey, that's good right?
-AS
Just because you don't like iMacs?
What Apple seems to be doing is offering a *reasonable* configuration in an (my opinion) an attractive case with a useable OS.
The point is not configurability, which is what the B&W G4/G3s offer, but single-minded ease of use. Like a playstation or dreamcast. Unlike a home stereo system made of any number of components, wires, and boxes. Which can also be used to describe the modern PC.
Apple is targeting a market which doesn't value the tinker factor as much as it values the use and 'feel' factor.
Would you complain similarly of the Palm or Visor in how limited they are?
-AS
And rumors at that!
Oh well.
I'd imagine, if I were Steve Jobs, which I am not, that the iiMac would include:
Video camera + mic for video conferencing, if we're going to try to push the internet concept.
Airport of course. Imagine video conferencing without the hassle of networking, wires, or setup?
Touch screen, of course! It's as natural as voice recognition, which will come with OS9. Point, tap, speak!
Voice recognition with OS9. Voice passwords and such.
People recognition. Not just powering up when you touch the keyboard or mouse, but when you move or sit down in front of the computer. Like those new men's urinals that require no hands to operate? It'd be nifty.
Anything else? There must be other people here who have ideas!
-AS
If you were at a conference with thousands of people wearing badges, rather than recognizing faces, would not an electronic wireless badge identification system be much easier and less intrusive? Imagine that the name, profile, and picture flashed on a Visor or something as you approached them? Or if you must have your HUD, that as the person approached that they would have their name float above them, as well as a short description being read to you or something.
All of a sudden images of Quake3Arena pop into my head =)
-AS
Are the ones we catch. The ones who get nominated for Darwin awards. The ones who fail.
You will never see a smart criminal because they don't get caught. They get elected for office, own corporations, control institutions, etc. They figure out how to use the system to their advantage.
They probably aren't that different than successful businessmen, excepting that successful businessmen also, as a side effect, benefit the country, the people, or the economy.
-AS
May be able to escape fairly easily, as it is *only* 50m range, where the other implementations are both more powerful and expensive, with up to 200ft or 300ft(I guess 100m then) ranges.
Any guesses if French Mac lovers will be able to do something about this as the iBook ships en masse?
-AS
Meaning that IBM, Intel, HP, Dell, and whatnot, with the more expensive and more powerful and more capable IEEE 802.11 implementations will have big headaches selling to the French, and perhaps other governments/countries.
Curious:Did no one consider this when IEEE 802.11 was drafted and implemented?
-AS