If these crystals do what they claim, although a holographic monitor may be a few years off, a printer that prints 3D images onto holograhic paper may be in stores quickly, all you need is to be able to give every square millimeter, the light it recieves from the virtual object and apply a reference beam thats out of phase. Then we can have holographic pictures taken by a digital cameras using sterioscopic setup, put through a simple 3D extrapolation program. Oh well my spelling sucks, but you get the point.
--I like replies much more than I like Karma
Stoping light is no big deal
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Now what is important is speeding it up. That is the basis for most sci-fi drives and possibly real space drives in the future.
--"God may not play dice with the universe, but I vill" Einstien in the movie 'I.Q.'
Those of us serving know that the paperless office will never happen, everything has to be filled in triplicate. The pages go as follows:
Copy 1: To the proper destination (If a requesition or time intensive document usualy the trash can)
Copy 2: To be filed localy (Usualy just to prove that you sent it in the first place, but always dissapears when you need to prove it)
Copy 3: To be filled in some large warehouse where everything gets filled. (Ever seen the last scene from raiders of the lost ark?)
Imagine the problems if everything was filled on computers where any dissapearance could be pawned off on a computer error instead of mysterious act of God...
I used to work for a computer resale store and here are the biggest lies I ever heard:
1) Yes we sell licenced copys of windows with every machine. (Win 3.1 days... our copies were on ubiquitus black verbatim disks with pen written lables all registered to elvis...)
2) Wow I can't believe you had problems with the hardware we sold, we test everything top to bottom before we sell it. (Yup we looked at it.. if no smoke stains must be good)
3) Of course a Cirix 486-120Mhz runs almost as fast as a P-120 (yeah in MS dos 6.22 who can tell?)
4) We have a well trained staff who caters to our customers needs. (Yes, and to their own... getting your comp back with 16M of ram instead of 32 but with the resolution turned up fools a lot of people)
Needless to say I didn't work there too long...
Am I the only one who read the press release?
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When everyone is talking about awsome speeds and making it sound like this is a transport between the earth and the ISS, few people took the time to read that this train is designed to transport material around the station for assembly... and travels at a bone breaking speeds varying from one-tenth of an inch to one inch per second. Did anyone read before posting?
It's nice to see old I.C.B.M. designs used as satelite launch vehicles and not the other way around. I say this because a lot of ICBM testing was done with the cover story of being failed sattelite launches. If a craft is launched and falls apart in suborbit, and the people who launched it say it was a failed satelite shot, it's easy to miss when the mock warhead comes down in the middle of the pacific to be picked up by a ship for telemetry download. So perhaps times are really changing now. Or maybe the lies have changed.
Add a small power supply and a projection monitor and it would become possible to have a portable the size of a ciggeratte pack which could operate on any light colored tabletop...
I'll belive in a suit that can bend light when we have soliders out in the field almost completly invisible that can use a laser designator to drop nukes on a zerg... I mean Afghanistan town.
I like the idea of someone going out and building something because he (or she) doesnt like the alternatives. This is really cool, and at least it isnt a sub orbital vehical powered by hydrogen peroxide
If I remember there was an article a few years back that said we only are able to track a small percentages of asteroids in orbits that come near the earth. Now perhaps technology has improved quite a bit in the past couple of years, but it only takes 1 big one to kill most of the earths population. What I'd really like to hear is not the percentage chance of those we know about hitting us, but instead the percentage that we dont know about.
I know the craze in the computer industry has been to make everything smaller, but there are those of us out there who still like to see large motherboards. I mean having a computer that is the size of a toaster is cool, but when you try and upgrade it's pretty much imposible. Add to that the increasing ammount of on board options that come standard (some of which are difficult to completely turn off if you want to use your own sound, video, or drive controlers). I'd just like to see a full size board that can be upgraded easily and has slots to put many cards in.
Perhaps instead of trying to use a lot of different means to determine the chemical makeup. (which has probably been altered to quite an extent by the development process, and the long term exposure to light) we should instead experiment to reproduse the results with chemicals we know to have been avalible back then.
If I pay someone to mow my lawn, and they tear out the grass in places and otherwise do a poor job, I usualy dont hire them again. Furthermore, If i contract out to have house repairs, or perhaps my driveway resurfaced, and the company agrees to do a set job, then they do a poor job of it, and do not live up to their agreement, then i am perfectly within my rights to sue.
Bill Gates in a recent press conference announced that he has decided to move into mir instead of canada. This new development was brought on after he realized he could buy anything he wanted from the russians, and canada sill charges tax. Who has jurisdiction in space? No intergalactic IRS yet... This all has come about after the release of information on Windows Solar system Explorer, planed for release in early 2010, with new advances such as warp drive and faultless operating system. If anyone could get up there and get a G.P.F. I'm sure Bill Gates could...
1. I left no room for a sequal... None... And after this, that is a very good thing!! 2. The studio got a big tax writeoff, which means they can go back to making big films (thats what studios do from time to time... look at tank girl!)
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If these crystals do what they claim, although a holographic monitor may be a few years off, a printer that prints 3D images onto holograhic paper may be in stores quickly, all you need is to be able to give every square millimeter, the light it recieves from the virtual object and apply a reference beam thats out of phase. Then we can have holographic pictures taken by a digital cameras using sterioscopic setup, put through a simple 3D extrapolation program. Oh well my spelling sucks, but you get the point.
--I like replies much more than I like Karma
Now what is important is speeding it up. That is the basis for most sci-fi drives and possibly real space drives in the future.
--"God may not play dice with the universe, but I vill" Einstien in the movie 'I.Q.'
Those of us serving know that the paperless office will never happen, everything has to be filled in triplicate. The pages go as follows:
Copy 1: To the proper destination (If a requesition or time intensive document usualy the trash can)
Copy 2: To be filed localy (Usualy just to prove that you sent it in the first place, but always dissapears when you need to prove it)
Copy 3: To be filled in some large warehouse where everything gets filled. (Ever seen the last scene from raiders of the lost ark?)
Imagine the problems if everything was filled on computers where any dissapearance could be pawned off on a computer error instead of mysterious act of God...
I used to work for a computer resale store and here are the biggest lies I ever heard:
1) Yes we sell licenced copys of windows with every machine. (Win 3.1 days... our copies were on ubiquitus black verbatim disks with pen written lables all registered to elvis...)
2) Wow I can't believe you had problems with the hardware we sold, we test everything top to bottom before we sell it. (Yup we looked at it.. if no smoke stains must be good)
3) Of course a Cirix 486-120Mhz runs almost as fast as a P-120 (yeah in MS dos 6.22 who can tell?)
4) We have a well trained staff who caters to our customers needs. (Yes, and to their own... getting your comp back with 16M of ram instead of 32 but with the resolution turned up fools a lot of people)
Needless to say I didn't work there too long...
When everyone is talking about awsome speeds and making it sound like this is a transport between the earth and the ISS, few people took the time to read that this train is designed to transport material around the station for assembly... and travels at a bone breaking speeds varying from one-tenth of an inch to one inch per second. Did anyone read before posting?
It's nice to see old I.C.B.M. designs used as satelite launch vehicles and not the other way around. I say this because a lot of ICBM testing was done with the cover story of being failed sattelite launches. If a craft is launched and falls apart in suborbit, and the people who launched it say it was a failed satelite shot, it's easy to miss when the mock warhead comes down in the middle of the pacific to be picked up by a ship for telemetry download. So perhaps times are really changing now. Or maybe the lies have changed.
Add a small power supply and a projection monitor and it would become possible to have a portable the size of a ciggeratte pack which could operate on any light colored tabletop...
...can we say worlds larges margarita!!
Now how many months before they come out with a USB version?
Great so I now know when I can shift games without redlining my CPU
I'll belive in a suit that can bend light when we have soliders out in the field almost completly invisible that can use a laser designator to drop nukes on a zerg... I mean Afghanistan town.
I like the idea of someone going out and building something because he (or she) doesnt like the alternatives. This is really cool, and at least it isnt a sub orbital vehical powered by hydrogen peroxide
If I remember there was an article a few years back that said we only are able to track a small percentages of asteroids in orbits that come near the earth. Now perhaps technology has improved quite a bit in the past couple of years, but it only takes 1 big one to kill most of the earths population. What I'd really like to hear is not the percentage chance of those we know about hitting us, but instead the percentage that we dont know about.
I know the craze in the computer industry has been to make everything smaller, but there are those of us out there who still like to see large motherboards. I mean having a computer that is the size of a toaster is cool, but when you try and upgrade it's pretty much imposible. Add to that the increasing ammount of on board options that come standard (some of which are difficult to completely turn off if you want to use your own sound, video, or drive controlers). I'd just like to see a full size board that can be upgraded easily and has slots to put many cards in.
Perhaps instead of trying to use a lot of different means to determine the chemical makeup. (which has probably been altered to quite an extent by the development process, and the long term exposure to light) we should instead experiment to reproduse the results with chemicals we know to have been avalible back then.
If I pay someone to mow my lawn, and they tear out the grass in places and otherwise do a poor job, I usualy dont hire them again. Furthermore, If i contract out to have house repairs, or perhaps my driveway resurfaced, and the company agrees to do a set job, then they do a poor job of it, and do not live up to their agreement, then i am perfectly within my rights to sue.
Bill Gates in a recent press conference announced that he has decided to move into mir instead of canada. This new development was brought on after he realized he could buy anything he wanted from the russians, and canada sill charges tax. Who has jurisdiction in space? No intergalactic IRS yet... This all has come about after the release of information on Windows Solar system Explorer, planed for release in early 2010, with new advances such as warp drive and faultless operating system. If anyone could get up there and get a G.P.F. I'm sure Bill Gates could...
1. I left no room for a sequal... None... And after this, that is a very good thing!! 2. The studio got a big tax writeoff, which means they can go back to making big films (thats what studios do from time to time... look at tank girl!)