This isn't World War II. Bomber pilots don't have to read maps and keep awesome night vision to see ground targets with no street lighting.
You'll have the head lights on, it's probably just a little bit of blue goes a long way. I know when I use my fluorescent desk lamp I feel far more alert, and able to work later hours when compared to just using the crappy incandescent light bulb in this room. I'm down wit da blue LED - with an on/off switch.
I don't think it would be steam powered, but that's not unreasonable I suppose. GDLs work by a quick relaxation of the rotovibrational modes of the expanding gas, H20 could probably work but wouldn't provide the desired power levels I imagine.
I just brought up the example of boilers because GDLs made in the 60's and 70's were basically the same size and made of steel.
Another problem is determining which song writers/performers/publishers/labels should get the money to begin with. Do they pay people more who get their music pirated more? Do they pay people as a ratio of radio air time? Do they just evenly distribute the money? Like - if that's the case - I'm going to start putting random samples into a synth that just chops them up and spits them out, use every computer controlled sequencing feature, and then demand my fuckin' cut.
...while not as effective at reaching high power levels, they'd probably be cheaper to construct, wouldn't use such brutal chemicals, but would require multiple units to achieve the desired power levels.
Yeah I wouldn't normally support advertising, but I think the value of wikipedia is too high to have it just die off from lack of income.
I support AdWords type advertising, no absurd banners, and only across the top of the article, just above the tabs that say "Article, Discuss, Edit this Page, History".
Heck - if they can generate enough income, contributors to articles who receive a "rating" of some sort from, let's say... 100+ random visitors should get paid for their contribution. It would encourage quality articles, maybe splitting of articles into smaller, more readable topics, etc.
Now to just figure out how far back do you go to reward past contributors. If you edit anonymously you obviously lose the chance at getting paid.
All the copyright holders can do is cross their fingers and hope all this "piracy" gets income from other means or over time.
I look forward to Gene Simmons suing some "freckly-faced college kid" for downloading his music and making it a spectacle on his show. The outcome would probably be the "college kid" wearing all his KISS gear showing up to court, wondering what's wrong with Gene.
When I saw the Kindle I thought "Hey - that's pretty much what I want - but with a touchscreen!!!" At $400... I guess that's reasonable, but even then I'd still want the larger display, with the touchscreen. I don't understand why they can't get the price lower on it. It probably has to do with the volume of manufacturing they're currently doing. I'd forgo the keypad for a virtual keypad, and a larger screen.
I'd have started manufacturing these things 4 years ago if I didn't have piss poor credit, am negative in my bank account and went back to do more school. hehe It just pisses me off that this device hasn't been made yet we've got neural interface helmets now!!
I think the market is much larger for a device like this. It's a natural analog of what we've been writing on for years. The knowledge of having a huge collection of documents you've written on a single USB key instead of carrying around boxes and boxes of binders would make it sell on it's own. People just get pissed off when they have to deal with issues like short battery lifetimes, lost data, blue-screens, dead hard drives, boot up times, etc. If it's specialized for the task of note taking, you don't need to have years of computer experience to figure it out. You turn it on, and start writing.
Well that's exactly why I don't want a tablet PC. They're heavy and lots of bullshit involved with it.
I'm talking about a device designed specifically for the express purpose of replacing a notepad. Not a Palm Pilot, not a Newton, not a tablet PC, not a laptop with a swivel touch screen, not a crackberry, just a display that I can write on, with minimal associated electronics to transfer my simple scribbles and drawings easily to a desktop, usb key, or a memory card.
Wireless networking, websurfing, IM, and audio playback would be nice to have integrated as well.
I guess losing the stylus would be a bit of a pain in the ass though. Maybe a compartment in the back holding spare styluses then?
If it's a little bit on the heavy side because of the battery in it, I would probably be okay with that... my left arm could use some strengthening anyhow...:-)
cool thats something i'd get if I'd want a fully featured laptop plus a notepad. It doesn't look at thin as the Air is, but yeah, that's along the line. My issue is, I have 4 computers already, the last thing I need is another computer. I just want a device, specifically designed for note taking, that will let me just transfer the files over to a desktop or laptop when I get back to my desk. All the OCR/scribble to text software can be on that computer.
I know what'll have to happen to get the product I want though. From what another poster mentioned, yeah - I kind of want a super Newton. I think hardware is at the point to make it work the way a digital notepad should behave, and at a price point that someone could afford it even on a limited budget. From what I've observed, the more features and shit they try to cram into a notepad/tablet unit, the more battery it eats up, you get more software problems, more hardware issues, increased costs, and just distractions from the intended function of the unit. An iPod's primary function is to play music, there's all kinds of little features in there, but few people buy an iPod for that, they buy it to play music. Apple says they're all about the hardware, well here's a piece of hardware that should be revisited in my opinion. I think i'd settle for a low colour display if it meant a unit like this can be built for $200, but obviously there's little room for profit margin in cheap devices... the biggest problem comes into making a cheap display that's 8.5" x 11"...
The MacBook Air needed to have a touch screen. Then I could finally use a laptop that's not a fucking giant block of electronics as a replacement for my clipboard.
They should call it the Breeze or something. And put a low power mode for writing notes. The battery needs to squeeze out 8 hours for the device. It can be slower, that doesn't matter, it just needs to be a replacement for a clipboard.
There needs to be a mode on it called "scribble" or something, where the screen fills with a blank, lined or graph paper-like background, colour selection bar at the top, maybe a clear-screen quick button, a snap-to function for making quick hand drawn graphs, and IM support so you can reply with handwritten IMs, send notes, etc. It makes IM more personalized, and reduces the easily intercept-able plain text messages.
Make a version that's reasonably cheaper, maybe a low-colour display, flash memory storage, slower processor... but again, it's designed for taking notes. Maybe some web surfing as well. The advantage needs to be long battery life to get through an entire day of work or school without having to recharge it or plug it in.
Now I've shared the angst I've had pent up over electronics for the past 5 years. Somebody do something with this. Otherwise I'm just going to make it myself.
Libraries should still keep books, dvd's, cd's etc... all that is great.
But they should begin to digitize the stacks and keep it stored on an easy to access medium. Being able to search the entire stack for terms within all the digitized books would be teh most golden research tool evar. Invest in large LCD screens for purely research purposes - no porn allowed on the super-mega big screens. If access to the crazy computer terminals begins to be in extremely high demand, simply provide time limits for using the high resolution terminals. This can be determined by the number of terminals in use, and then ratio the amount of time available at those terminals based on how busy the library is. User logins according to your library account would obviously be necessary to make this work.
I would go just to use really large or multiple LCD screens so I could have multiple PDFs/documents/resources open and visible all at once while using a word processor at the same time.
In my opinion, I think digitizing and making all the content searchable is just the next obvious step for modernizing libraries. Complex, artistic over the top architecture is really not going to make research any better except for the possibility of good lighting and ventilation. Nothing sucks more than working in a stuffy library with the smell of stale books. Keep the fancy architecture for new libraries, otherwise, I'd invest more in digitization and computer terminals with slick monitors.
The three of them are a bunch of crime murder mystery die-hards and conspired to give the law, and forensic science a run for it's money. No online source confirmed Sean Sturgeon's confession is actually true. Come on, this has to be the hint to us that they're just messing with the police:
Well, one thing stood out in his head in that regard, Grant said. As the officer bent down to take pictures, that's when Reiser said, "You're about to experience chaos" and "for the lack of a better term, farted," Grant said. Jurors tittered. Reiser grinned. "It stayed vividly in my head, unfortunately," the officer said.
Well yeah, the experience could certainly be traumatizing for someone unsuspecting of the effects. I've experienced LSD trips more than once, it can definitely make for a bad time.
Oh I know all about it. I'm not advocating it though. I'm just saying that it could be useful to some extent. What's worse though? Beating the fuck out of people and letting them be emotionally and physically scarred that way, or dose them with LSD and make them feel really paranoid without having to beat the shit out of them?
Well, yeah that might actually be somewhat successful. You'll get a lot of wrong information, but dosing someone with a hallucinogenic drug may make them blurt out all sorts of random shit, some of the things might be what's floating around in their head, other shit just maybe incoherent babbling. It's a matter of someone who knows what the drug feels like to decipher useful information from utter bullshit. I bet making someone feel paranoid while under the influence, and then making them feel like they have the upper hand at some point will probably get some megalomanic response to just express how you can't break them... possibly getting that rant of their evil plans.:-)
Obviously maintaining a military that can obliterate the planet is much more important than a cellular phone network on the moon, feeding the hungry, adding more jobs to the economy that earn above minimum wage, or providing universal health care.
I wonder if it would be this hard to have a battle with the core of Al-Qaeda if it wasn't so obvious that fighting the US military head-on is a futile effort in the long-term. This whole, war on terrorism shit probably would have been dealt with by now... instead we're fighting a war with people who won't even bother shooting and trying to survive, they just blow themselves up trying to kill as many as possible. Does anyone seriously think the Chinese or Russians are just going to wake up one morning and think "hey, the US military is still using computers with Windows XP!!! We upgraded to Vista 2 years ago.... we obviously have an upper hand, let's go take over Hawaii and then California..., then we won't be pirating movies if we control Hollywood."
When he had his intergalactic vision of the extreme extreme past, he misinterpreted the equation for wavelength of c/nu as an unstoppable evil alien force. Nothing like having your mind blank out when all you have is the frequency of an EM wave and you need to convert to wavelength... whoever made the time machine and is fucking with L.Ron's past head, can you please call him again and clear this shit up.
And I totally need to make "i-Meters" and sell them on eBay to curious Scientologists under the company name Pseudology Inc. I promise plenty of blinkenlights and sounds. The machine needs to make a tone that would imply doubtfulness when someone is possibly lying, almost like a "hrmmmmmm" sound. Maybe a little LCD with a smiley face that changes expressions as well just to be over-the-top, or like an electronic slot machine that rolls the wheels each time you take a reading. "Cherry... Cherry... awww Lemon - You're lying!!!"
I promise you that any political party that backs this act in Canada will probably be shooting itself in the foot for the youth vote for probably, the remaining existence of that political party. That's my take on it...
lol 5-6 times a year?!? How much are you dropping each time? Haven't you had one bad trip yet that makes you think you're dying and this is the worst place you want to be?
I have to say citrus flavoured gum is kind of interesting with it though. Just don't get swarmed by mosquitoes on it, you'll have a bad time.:-)
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This isn't World War II. Bomber pilots don't have to read maps and keep awesome night vision to see ground targets with no street lighting.
You'll have the head lights on, it's probably just a little bit of blue goes a long way. I know when I use my fluorescent desk lamp I feel far more alert, and able to work later hours when compared to just using the crappy incandescent light bulb in this room. I'm down wit da blue LED - with an on/off switch.
I don't think it would be steam powered, but that's not unreasonable I suppose. GDLs work by a quick relaxation of the rotovibrational modes of the expanding gas, H20 could probably work but wouldn't provide the desired power levels I imagine.
I just brought up the example of boilers because GDLs made in the 60's and 70's were basically the same size and made of steel.
Another problem is determining which song writers/performers/publishers/labels should get the money to begin with. Do they pay people more who get their music pirated more? Do they pay people as a ratio of radio air time? Do they just evenly distribute the money? Like - if that's the case - I'm going to start putting random samples into a synth that just chops them up and spits them out, use every computer controlled sequencing feature, and then demand my fuckin' cut.
...while not as effective at reaching high power levels, they'd probably be cheaper to construct, wouldn't use such brutal chemicals, but would require multiple units to achieve the desired power levels.
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There's companies that provide portable boiler units, it's not unreasonable to use multiple GDLs in a similar configuration.
Yeah I wouldn't normally support advertising, but I think the value of wikipedia is too high to have it just die off from lack of income.
... 100+ random visitors should get paid for their contribution. It would encourage quality articles, maybe splitting of articles into smaller, more readable topics, etc.
I support AdWords type advertising, no absurd banners, and only across the top of the article, just above the tabs that say "Article, Discuss, Edit this Page, History".
Heck - if they can generate enough income, contributors to articles who receive a "rating" of some sort from, let's say
Now to just figure out how far back do you go to reward past contributors. If you edit anonymously you obviously lose the chance at getting paid.
They can't do shit and they know it.
All the copyright holders can do is cross their fingers and hope all this "piracy" gets income from other means or over time.
I look forward to Gene Simmons suing some "freckly-faced college kid" for downloading his music and making it a spectacle on his show. The outcome would probably be the "college kid" wearing all his KISS gear showing up to court, wondering what's wrong with Gene.
Peer-to-Peer networks were invented to share files.
When I saw the Kindle I thought "Hey - that's pretty much what I want - but with a touchscreen!!!" At $400... I guess that's reasonable, but even then I'd still want the larger display, with the touchscreen. I don't understand why they can't get the price lower on it. It probably has to do with the volume of manufacturing they're currently doing. I'd forgo the keypad for a virtual keypad, and a larger screen.
I'd have started manufacturing these things 4 years ago if I didn't have piss poor credit, am negative in my bank account and went back to do more school. hehe It just pisses me off that this device hasn't been made yet we've got neural interface helmets now!!
I think the market is much larger for a device like this. It's a natural analog of what we've been writing on for years. The knowledge of having a huge collection of documents you've written on a single USB key instead of carrying around boxes and boxes of binders would make it sell on it's own. People just get pissed off when they have to deal with issues like short battery lifetimes, lost data, blue-screens, dead hard drives, boot up times, etc. If it's specialized for the task of note taking, you don't need to have years of computer experience to figure it out. You turn it on, and start writing.
Well that's exactly why I don't want a tablet PC. They're heavy and lots of bullshit involved with it.
:-)
I'm talking about a device designed specifically for the express purpose of replacing a notepad. Not a Palm Pilot, not a Newton, not a tablet PC, not a laptop with a swivel touch screen, not a crackberry, just a display that I can write on, with minimal associated electronics to transfer my simple scribbles and drawings easily to a desktop, usb key, or a memory card.
Wireless networking, websurfing, IM, and audio playback would be nice to have integrated as well.
I guess losing the stylus would be a bit of a pain in the ass though. Maybe a compartment in the back holding spare styluses then?
If it's a little bit on the heavy side because of the battery in it, I would probably be okay with that... my left arm could use some strengthening anyhow...
cool thats something i'd get if I'd want a fully featured laptop plus a notepad. It doesn't look at thin as the Air is, but yeah, that's along the line. My issue is, I have 4 computers already, the last thing I need is another computer. I just want a device, specifically designed for note taking, that will let me just transfer the files over to a desktop or laptop when I get back to my desk. All the OCR/scribble to text software can be on that computer.
I know what'll have to happen to get the product I want though. From what another poster mentioned, yeah - I kind of want a super Newton. I think hardware is at the point to make it work the way a digital notepad should behave, and at a price point that someone could afford it even on a limited budget. From what I've observed, the more features and shit they try to cram into a notepad/tablet unit, the more battery it eats up, you get more software problems, more hardware issues, increased costs, and just distractions from the intended function of the unit. An iPod's primary function is to play music, there's all kinds of little features in there, but few people buy an iPod for that, they buy it to play music. Apple says they're all about the hardware, well here's a piece of hardware that should be revisited in my opinion. I think i'd settle for a low colour display if it meant a unit like this can be built for $200, but obviously there's little room for profit margin in cheap devices... the biggest problem comes into making a cheap display that's 8.5" x 11"...
The MacBook Air needed to have a touch screen. Then I could finally use a laptop that's not a fucking giant block of electronics as a replacement for my clipboard.
They should call it the Breeze or something. And put a low power mode for writing notes. The battery needs to squeeze out 8 hours for the device. It can be slower, that doesn't matter, it just needs to be a replacement for a clipboard.
There needs to be a mode on it called "scribble" or something, where the screen fills with a blank, lined or graph paper-like background, colour selection bar at the top, maybe a clear-screen quick button, a snap-to function for making quick hand drawn graphs, and IM support so you can reply with handwritten IMs, send notes, etc. It makes IM more personalized, and reduces the easily intercept-able plain text messages.
Make a version that's reasonably cheaper, maybe a low-colour display, flash memory storage, slower processor... but again, it's designed for taking notes. Maybe some web surfing as well. The advantage needs to be long battery life to get through an entire day of work or school without having to recharge it or plug it in.
Now I've shared the angst I've had pent up over electronics for the past 5 years. Somebody do something with this. Otherwise I'm just going to make it myself.
Libraries should still keep books, dvd's, cd's etc... all that is great.
But they should begin to digitize the stacks and keep it stored on an easy to access medium. Being able to search the entire stack for terms within all the digitized books would be teh most golden research tool evar. Invest in large LCD screens for purely research purposes - no porn allowed on the super-mega big screens. If access to the crazy computer terminals begins to be in extremely high demand, simply provide time limits for using the high resolution terminals. This can be determined by the number of terminals in use, and then ratio the amount of time available at those terminals based on how busy the library is. User logins according to your library account would obviously be necessary to make this work.
I would go just to use really large or multiple LCD screens so I could have multiple PDFs/documents/resources open and visible all at once while using a word processor at the same time.
In my opinion, I think digitizing and making all the content searchable is just the next obvious step for modernizing libraries. Complex, artistic over the top architecture is really not going to make research any better except for the possibility of good lighting and ventilation. Nothing sucks more than working in a stuffy library with the smell of stale books. Keep the fancy architecture for new libraries, otherwise, I'd invest more in digitization and computer terminals with slick monitors.
whatever. Depression is just the result of life's bullshit. There's every reason to be depressed.
It's just important to enjoy the moments when you're not.
The three of them are a bunch of crime murder mystery die-hards and conspired to give the law, and forensic science a run for it's money. No online source confirmed Sean Sturgeon's confession is actually true. Come on, this has to be the hint to us that they're just messing with the police:
Well, one thing stood out in his head in that regard, Grant said. As the officer bent down to take pictures, that's when Reiser said, "You're about to experience chaos" and "for the lack of a better term, farted," Grant said. Jurors tittered. Reiser grinned. "It stayed vividly in my head, unfortunately," the officer said.
Well yeah, the experience could certainly be traumatizing for someone unsuspecting of the effects. I've experienced LSD trips more than once, it can definitely make for a bad time.
Oh I know all about it. I'm not advocating it though. I'm just saying that it could be useful to some extent. What's worse though? Beating the fuck out of people and letting them be emotionally and physically scarred that way, or dose them with LSD and make them feel really paranoid without having to beat the shit out of them?
Well, yeah that might actually be somewhat successful. You'll get a lot of wrong information, but dosing someone with a hallucinogenic drug may make them blurt out all sorts of random shit, some of the things might be what's floating around in their head, other shit just maybe incoherent babbling. It's a matter of someone who knows what the drug feels like to decipher useful information from utter bullshit. I bet making someone feel paranoid while under the influence, and then making them feel like they have the upper hand at some point will probably get some megalomanic response to just express how you can't break them... possibly getting that rant of their evil plans. :-)
Obviously maintaining a military that can obliterate the planet is much more important than a cellular phone network on the moon, feeding the hungry, adding more jobs to the economy that earn above minimum wage, or providing universal health care.
I wonder if it would be this hard to have a battle with the core of Al-Qaeda if it wasn't so obvious that fighting the US military head-on is a futile effort in the long-term. This whole, war on terrorism shit probably would have been dealt with by now... instead we're fighting a war with people who won't even bother shooting and trying to survive, they just blow themselves up trying to kill as many as possible. Does anyone seriously think the Chinese or Russians are just going to wake up one morning and think "hey, the US military is still using computers with Windows XP!!! We upgraded to Vista 2 years ago.... we obviously have an upper hand, let's go take over Hawaii and then California..., then we won't be pirating movies if we control Hollywood."
When he had his intergalactic vision of the extreme extreme past, he misinterpreted the equation for wavelength of c/nu as an unstoppable evil alien force. Nothing like having your mind blank out when all you have is the frequency of an EM wave and you need to convert to wavelength... whoever made the time machine and is fucking with L.Ron's past head, can you please call him again and clear this shit up.
:-)
And I totally need to make "i-Meters" and sell them on eBay to curious Scientologists under the company name Pseudology Inc. I promise plenty of blinkenlights and sounds. The machine needs to make a tone that would imply doubtfulness when someone is possibly lying, almost like a "hrmmmmmm" sound. Maybe a little LCD with a smiley face that changes expressions as well just to be over-the-top, or like an electronic slot machine that rolls the wheels each time you take a reading. "Cherry... Cherry... awww Lemon - You're lying!!!"
I should really get more sleep.
I promise you that any political party that backs this act in Canada will probably be shooting itself in the foot for the youth vote for probably, the remaining existence of that political party. That's my take on it ...
"Anyone have any idea how these kind of social interaction problems are being dealt with at NASA?"
LOL - I imagine the way people deal with these social interaction problems in many places around the world - ALCOHOL.
lol 5-6 times a year?!? How much are you dropping each time? Haven't you had one bad trip yet that makes you think you're dying and this is the worst place you want to be?
:-)
I have to say citrus flavoured gum is kind of interesting with it though. Just don't get swarmed by mosquitoes on it, you'll have a bad time.
You should listen to breakcore if you like that.