See Through Materials?
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For example, rubidium would normally absorb the dark red laser light used by Dr. Walsworth and his colleagues, because rubidium atoms are easily excited by the frequency of that light.
But by shining a second laser, with a slightly different frequency, through the gas, the researchers rendered it transparent.
Ok, maybe I am way off here, but couldn't this leave open the possibility that at some point in the future we could use lasers to render any material anywhere transparent? Imagine shinning a special light at a building and seeing right through it (in the visible spectrum). Gee, the FBI would have tons of fun:)
Actually, this ability to recover from stupid errors is a great equalizer on the web. It means that amateurs can make sites that even if they aren't pretty they are readable. If IE worked like Netscape then there would be less amateur and hobby sites and more "professional" and hence commerical sites. IE lets even a 10 year old with bad coding skills or a mother of 4 put up a site with bugs and all that but its still viewable to their audience (their friends and family etc...) These types of sites are more in the spirit of what the web used to be, tons of little tiny sites, all made as a labor of love and not to make a quick buck.
I had an idea that you could have an ad-skipping VCR or Tivo that used the closed captioning system to skip commericals. It would require a net connection, but every once in a while it could d/l all the text of the most common commericals. Whenever it found that text in the CC it would delete that from the recording.
I remember reading a few weeks ago (I forget where, it was a link from the last space elevator story) that right now we have the tech to make a 1 mile high skyscraper, there just is no economic incentive. So I could definitly see 31mi. in the next 50-100 years. All it takes is one advance in building materials. And if you think that is unrealistic, look what easy to manufacture steel did to the size of buildings, they went up by at least a factor of 30 in 50 years I would think.
Re:Megascale Engineering
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I've been reading about how astronomers want to deploy new space telescopes over the next 15 years or so so that they can search for new planets optically. Obviosly this takes stronger telescopes than we have been using. What I am curious is if any current telescopes could pick up any megascale engineering constructs such as a Ringworld? I know no one would ever get the funing to go looking but it might be cheaper/easier to look for some of them than to look for planets.
I wrote a version for my TI-81 in high school, filled almost all of its memory and used every available variable. It was two player though. How did you do the computer player's logic? I never could think of a fair way to do that.
Re:Actually a Popular Amiga game originally
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I remember playing "Bombs Away" on the TRS-80 in grade school in the mid 80's. No destructible terrain and only one weapon, but it was pretty juch the same game.
Even if they do have a valid patent on hyperlinking, shouldn't they sue either the web browser companies (MS, Netscape and Opera) or the people who use hyperlinks (web page authors)? All the ISP does is transmit requests for data and data, the actual use of a hyperlink takes place on a users computer. God does BT need a good bitch slapping.
I've been trying to express this thought for years and haven't been able to phrase it half as well. The mac gui really does emotionally and intellectually regress those that use it.
Maybe we should attach a keyboard and LCD to our toasters too, that way we can interract with it on a deeper level, and make it harer to toast bread. A lot of jobs on a computer only need (or only should need) a few clicks of a mouse and not dozens of key presses.
Or even just a rewording of what is there? After all if there is a security hole and MS describes it one way, can't Bugtraq describe it a slightly different way. Aren't there certain types of info that aren't copyrightable, like certain simple instructions or descriptions, either because they are too generic/common or that is just the only way to represent the information (i.e. I can't copyright "2+2=4")?
>...than in todays economy, with unemployment at >an all time low and employers begging for >workers, than reading someone bitch about how >shitty their job is.
Yeah, you can look at it as bitching, or as a view from the inside of how shitty they treat the customer. If I were a PacBell customer, I'd be pretty damn glad I saw this article. As it is I am still a little suspicious of how my ISP's tech support works behind the scenes.
>Third, Java on the server is the best thing >since sliced bread. Let me ask you one >question. Why? As in why the hell would you >ever use Java server side rather than Perl, >or even better, PHP. Both Perl and PHP run >perfectly fine on Linux. And as for being >open, Perl is under the GPL, how much more >open can you be?
Probably for the same reason I don't use Perl or PHP, I like the organization and separation that Java/O-O gives and it is just easier to program in and read. Plus I can develop Java on my Windows PC and deploy it to our Linux server with no problems.
Re:Anecdotes missing from previous releases?
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I saw a bit on Talk Soup about a similar scam about 2 years ago. Basically a guy dressed up as a guard and told people the ATM was messed up but he could take their deposits, eventually the guy got busted. Of course the Talk Soup guys did a parody where their security guard ended up handing out a lot of his own cash to the people making withdraws....
If anyone cares, I looked this up on Map Blast and Terra Server. What purpose this has, I don't know,but it was still kind of cool. I can't tell if the building is residential or commercial so who knows if it is a scam or running out of someone's bedroom.
Its funny that everyone is finally getting around to stealing this feature from Be. Although I personally couldn't stand it and wish I could turn it off in Be.
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For example, rubidium would normally absorb the dark red laser light used by Dr. Walsworth and his colleagues, because rubidium atoms are easily excited by the frequency of that light.
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But by shining a second laser, with a slightly different frequency, through the gas, the researchers rendered it transparent.
Ok, maybe I am way off here, but couldn't this leave open the possibility that at some point in the future we could use lasers to render any material anywhere transparent? Imagine shinning a special light at a building and seeing right through it (in the visible spectrum). Gee, the FBI would have tons of fun
Yeah, who do they think they are, BT?
Actually, this ability to recover from stupid errors is a great equalizer on the web. It means that amateurs can make sites that even if they aren't pretty they are readable. If IE worked like Netscape then there would be less amateur and hobby sites and more "professional" and hence commerical sites. IE lets even a 10 year old with bad coding skills or a mother of 4 put up a site with bugs and all that but its still viewable to their audience (their friends and family etc...) These types of sites are more in the spirit of what the web used to be, tons of little tiny sites, all made as a labor of love and not to make a quick buck.
Pages of comments and no one has made a Rush reference? They knew there was a black hole there back in 1975. :)
I'd go with Paradigm speakers and a Yamaha amp. The Paradigms never fail to impress me and the Yamaha Dolby Digital/DTS amps are also very good.
I had an idea that you could have an ad-skipping VCR or Tivo that used the closed captioning system to skip commericals. It would require a net connection, but every once in a while it could d/l all the text of the most common commericals. Whenever it found that text in the CC it would delete that from the recording.
Do you mean the counter-weight that is used to make lifting an elevator easier? (Sorry, I don't know too much about elevators).
I remember reading a few weeks ago (I forget where, it was a link from the last space elevator story) that right now we have the tech to make a 1 mile high skyscraper, there just is no economic incentive. So I could definitly see 31mi. in the next 50-100 years. All it takes is one advance in building materials. And if you think that is unrealistic, look what easy to manufacture steel did to the size of buildings, they went up by at least a factor of 30 in 50 years I would think.
I've been reading about how astronomers want to deploy new space telescopes over the next 15 years or so so that they can search for new planets optically. Obviosly this takes stronger telescopes than we have been using. What I am curious is if any current telescopes could pick up any megascale engineering constructs such as a Ringworld? I know no one would ever get the funing to go looking but it might be cheaper/easier to look for some of them than to look for planets.
I wrote a version for my TI-81 in high school, filled almost all of its memory and used every available variable. It was two player though. How did you do the computer player's logic? I never could think of a fair way to do that.
I remember playing "Bombs Away" on the TRS-80 in grade school in the mid 80's. No destructible terrain and only one weapon, but it was pretty juch the same game.
AKA Exit Traffic, AKA what porn sites do.
Even if they do have a valid patent on hyperlinking, shouldn't they sue either the web browser companies (MS, Netscape and Opera) or the people who use hyperlinks (web page authors)? All the ISP does is transmit requests for data and data, the actual use of a hyperlink takes place on a users computer. God does BT need a good bitch slapping.
I've been trying to express this thought for years and haven't been able to phrase it half as well. The mac gui really does emotionally and intellectually regress those that use it.
Maybe we should attach a keyboard and LCD to our toasters too, that way we can interract with it on a deeper level, and make it harer to toast bread. A lot of jobs on a computer only need (or only should need) a few clicks of a mouse and not dozens of key presses.
I want to buy a sticker of Calvin pissing on the sort of people who buy pissing Calvin stickers.
Or even just a rewording of what is there? After all if there is a security hole and MS describes it one way, can't Bugtraq describe it a slightly different way. Aren't there certain types of info that aren't copyrightable, like certain simple instructions or descriptions, either because they are too generic/common or that is just the only way to represent the information (i.e. I can't copyright "2+2=4")?
A Star Control 2 reference, I'm impressed. Hopefully the inhabitents of the gas giant don't buy second rate automated probes to explore the galaxy.
Damn, thats ironic. That episode was on last night on the local Fox station.
Maybe when this comes out I can cool the RAM to superconducting temperatures and use the judder effect to launch my computer into space.
>...than in todays economy, with unemployment at
>an all time low and employers begging for
>workers, than reading someone bitch about how
>shitty their job is.
Yeah, you can look at it as bitching, or as a view from the inside of how shitty they treat the customer. If I were a PacBell customer, I'd be pretty damn glad I saw this article. As it is I am still a little suspicious of how my ISP's tech support works behind the scenes.
>Third, Java on the server is the best thing
>since sliced bread. Let me ask you one
>question. Why? As in why the hell would you
>ever use Java server side rather than Perl,
>or even better, PHP. Both Perl and PHP run
>perfectly fine on Linux. And as for being
>open, Perl is under the GPL, how much more
>open can you be?
Probably for the same reason I don't use Perl or PHP, I like the organization and separation that Java/O-O gives and it is just easier to program in and read. Plus I can develop Java on my Windows PC and deploy it to our Linux server with no problems.
I saw a bit on Talk Soup about a similar scam about 2 years ago. Basically a guy dressed up as a guard and told people the ATM was messed up but he could take their deposits, eventually the guy got busted. Of course the Talk Soup guys did a parody where their security guard ended up handing out a lot of his own cash to the people making withdraws....
If anyone cares, I looked this up on Map Blast and Terra Server. What purpose this has, I don't know,but it was still kind of cool. I can't tell if the building is residential or commercial so who knows if it is a scam or running out of someone's bedroom.
I just went to ebay and I can't view any of the auctions, they are down. Could eBay actually get Slashdotted? :)
Its funny that everyone is finally getting around to stealing this feature from Be. Although I personally couldn't stand it and wish I could turn it off in Be.