According to the article, they still have no manufacturing process that can even make this work, not even on the fairly high-denomination bills they are considering.
Of course, I've never washed a pair of pants with hundreds of dollars (or Euros, or what-have-you) in them. I try to keep a better track on my high value bills.
The thing that interested me the most was the idea of making them R/W. Wouldn't that make the bills easily hackable? How long until there is a value in it?
Yes, I did see that whole series of threads. After I posted, unfortunately. Well, that is why I try to distinguish opinions and hazy recollections from solid facts:)
I am glad to now know the correct information on that tiny trivia fact, however.
I've already got the first versions of two of my apps ready to test on a Zaurus. Now I just need to get one:)
I have ported two "nifty" (but not "killer") apps, one being a system control utility called ALD; the other being a cycle training aid. I need to improve the graphics a bit, however.
The man who gave us Robotics, Androids, and the three immutable Laws of Robotics.
Amusing stuff, really, but he did coin the term Robot, if I recall correctly.
There are a couple of other greats, such as Buckminster Fuller, but I guess he isn't really sci-fi. He gave us shopping mall doors (the automatic kind), and ATM machines.
According to a friend attached to NASA, the countdown from 10 is attributed to Flash Gordon.
And, lest we forget, Philip K Dick, author of such things as "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" (done in the movie Bladerunner).
Also, Arthur C. Clarke invented the HAL9000, which gave us a computer that was capable of handling a space mission, while most computers were still just figuring out how to add up large number sets. Many current scientific endeavours are named after HAL.
Just a few more bits.
-WS
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Sure you can beat it.
How about Death playing cribbage, or Death trying to find a diamond that's "friendly"?
Death is, without doubt, the coolest Discworld character. Always funny.:)
Actually, almost all of the games can be played on most platforms. There are, for example, frotz front-ends for Palm, WinCE, Linux, Windows, and a whole bunch of others.
Also, the frotz stuff is fairly easy to write games for, so be sure to try your hand at it!
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Wow. How many decimals of accuracy is he expecting from these kids?
Heck even milspec doesn't exceed 4 digit precision in many cases...
Of course, when I was a kid we weren't plotting intercept courses for asteroids in 2nd grade:)
I must concur. I was a Wesley hater, and I still am. I am also one of those dorks who overly associated Mr Wheaton with some of the stupid stuff his character did.
I must say however, that after reading this, reading the other interview he recently did, and reading his site; This guy is a hell of a lot cooler than I am.
I am very impressed, I loved the various movie references (Especially the Monty Python bit at the end there, that was classic), and I must say I was very impressed by his general "humanity".
Hell of a guy. Especially to let the vindictive like of/. get ahold of him:)
He also made me go lookup geekcode for the first time in a while. I had almost forgotten it!! This is especially sad, since I have mine posted on my/. account:)
The are still dozens of text interface (called Interactive Fiction, now) games still being made. In fact, Zork is still available in some places. I continue to enjoy playing them, and have a program called FrotzCE for my handlheld. It runs most of the major ones.
Excuse me... Perhaps, before you pull out the bigger attitude stick, you should re-read. Free-loading off of people is when a bunch of wanna-be kernel programmers hang out around someone trying to make a FREE program in their abundant spare time, asking questions they could have found the answers to themselves. If more people out there said "I read the IEEE-1394 spec, but I can't figure out how to interface 'x' to it correctly; help?" and less people asked "What port does SMTP work on?", a HELL of a lot more development would get done.
Go ask your freaking sys-admin if you think that they believe in telling every single user the commands for vi again.
If you can't find the manual, or it makes no sense, that is one thing. If you haven't even bothered to look, then you are a waste of space.
All newbies should RTFM before they even bother to open their mouths. People who just try and 'freeload' on the knowledge that others have acquired are sad.
Of course, there is also a difference between asking How, and asking Why. I for one will always enlighten those seeking to understand, but I tell those looking for additional documented facts to open the damn book.
Regarding efficient, in a word: no.
These systems, much like an OS/390 are written and built around a whole different theory of architecture. They are also often custom made for specific solutions. The system for 'missile guidance simulations' would have different cards, different chips, and way different software from the system for 'global thermo-nuclear warfare simulations'.
Sure, I could use one. Not to replace typing, perhaps, but to augment. I would love to have phrases like 'foreach', 'while(', etc... mapped to a 'virtual key' of some sort.
Wow, I haven't thought of that game in a few years:)
I seem to recall REALLY stinking at it...
On topic, however, I think these have a lot more use than a power glove. I can see where major motions might be needed at first, but eventually they could detect millimeter finger travel, allowing for a 2.1 Million Key Keyboard, or some such.
Of course, the best use is for operator controlled surgical/mechanical machines. Being able to duplicate the finesse of an expert in an environment that a human could never operate in would be wonderful.
This has already been submitted as news before. If you people are hard up for new stories, why not try posting this?
The use of an unmanned spy plane is pretty cool, and I wonder how long it would take to find out who actually sent it. Probably about 15 minutes of deductive reasoning...
When you put it that way, it puts a whole new light on it. Perhaps part of our problem is that we have Puritan roots, and believe that the 'authorities' be they secular or ecclesiastical have the right to control our lives. Perhaps we need to think more in the terms of the REPUBLIC which we are, and stop voting for these idiots!
I don't think anything will be severely changed by this, however. Every signifigant invention has been opposed by someone. Usually, this hasn't proved too serious. I am sure that the Big Bad Corporations are not immune to the market effects of adding 'security' to every digital device.
To get to my point, this too shall pass. People will make the needed choices, and Congress will react accordingly. However, terrorists attacking the US will certainly make life more 'challenging' for a while.
The BSD license is my favorite, because it not a viral license, like the GPL. Most of the code I write for public use now is under it; whereas about six months ago I was toying with GPL.
Besides, FreeBSD actually is a very well known OS in the web-hosting/ISP realm. That's where I first learned of it, and where many of my friends still use it. It's also rather addicting:)
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I wouldn't worry yet.
According to the article, they still have no manufacturing process that can even make this work, not even on the fairly high-denomination bills they are considering.
Of course, I've never washed a pair of pants with hundreds of dollars (or Euros, or what-have-you) in them. I try to keep a better track on my high value bills.
The thing that interested me the most was the idea of making them R/W. Wouldn't that make the bills easily hackable? How long until there is a value in it?
-WS
Yes, I did see that whole series of threads. After I posted, unfortunately. Well, that is why I try to distinguish opinions and hazy recollections from solid facts :)
I am glad to now know the correct information on that tiny trivia fact, however.
-WS
I've already got the first versions of two of my apps ready to test on a Zaurus. Now I just need to get one :)
I have ported two "nifty" (but not "killer") apps, one being a system control utility called ALD; the other being a cycle training aid. I need to improve the graphics a bit, however.
Anybody else got there Zaurus yet?
-WS
Let's not forget his shoe answering machine, in "The Nude Bomb". That one was of the funniest little bits I recall from my childhood.
-WS
The man who gave us Robotics, Androids, and the three immutable Laws of Robotics.
Amusing stuff, really, but he did coin the term Robot, if I recall correctly.
There are a couple of other greats, such as Buckminster Fuller, but I guess he isn't really sci-fi. He gave us shopping mall doors (the automatic kind), and ATM machines.
According to a friend attached to NASA, the countdown from 10 is attributed to Flash Gordon.
And, lest we forget, Philip K Dick, author of such things as "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" (done in the movie Bladerunner).
Also, Arthur C. Clarke invented the HAL9000, which gave us a computer that was capable of handling a space mission, while most computers were still just figuring out how to add up large number sets. Many current scientific endeavours are named after HAL.
Just a few more bits.
-WS
Sure you can beat it.
:)
How about Death playing cribbage, or Death trying to find a diamond that's "friendly"?
Death is, without doubt, the coolest Discworld character. Always funny.
-WS
Also, the frotz stuff is fairly easy to write games for, so be sure to try your hand at it!
-WS
Heck even milspec doesn't exceed 4 digit precision in many cases...
Of course, when I was a kid we weren't plotting intercept courses for asteroids in 2nd grade
-WS
I must say however, that after reading this, reading the other interview he recently did, and reading his site; This guy is a hell of a lot cooler than I am.
I am very impressed, I loved the various movie references (Especially the Monty Python bit at the end there, that was classic), and I must say I was very impressed by his general "humanity".
Hell of a guy. Especially to let the vindictive like of
He also made me go lookup geekcode for the first time in a while. I had almost forgotten it!! This is especially sad, since I have mine posted on my
-WS
Try this site: http://www.xyzzynews.com/
-WS
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What he's proposing is a system that can interpret data patterns, and do some action based on them. Then what the heck would I do for a living?
Of course, the fact that the AI may only be as intelligent as an average day-trader may mean there is hope for us all...
-WS
Go ask your freaking sys-admin if you think that they believe in telling every single user the commands for vi again.
If you can't find the manual, or it makes no sense, that is one thing. If you haven't even bothered to look, then you are a waste of space.
-WS
Perhaps in the future, we will prove this theory, perhaps not.
-WS
Of course, there is also a difference between asking How, and asking Why. I for one will always enlighten those seeking to understand, but I tell those looking for additional documented facts to open the damn book.
-WS
Here's some info: http://www.cray.com/products/systems/t3e/>
Regarding efficient, in a word: no.
These systems, much like an OS/390 are written and built around a whole different theory of architecture. They are also often custom made for specific solutions. The system for 'missile guidance simulations' would have different cards, different chips, and way different software from the system for 'global thermo-nuclear warfare simulations'.
Cool to play on, though.
-WS
I'd use it more like a macro keyboard, really.
-WS
I seem to recall REALLY stinking at it...
On topic, however, I think these have a lot more use than a power glove. I can see where major motions might be needed at first, but eventually they could detect millimeter finger travel, allowing for a 2.1 Million Key Keyboard, or some such.
Of course, the best use is for operator controlled surgical/mechanical machines. Being able to duplicate the finesse of an expert in an environment that a human could never operate in would be wonderful.
-WS
Don't be silly. Of course it can. The only question is will this stuff be around long enough to bother? I sense a BetaMax product here...
Besides, how much is the RIAA willing to pay? This could well become a class action suit in the future.
-WS
Will they eventually be beaten into the ground by female warriors? (And would they especially mind, or just take photos?
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On the topic of 'already resolved', how did it happen?
-WS
The use of an unmanned spy plane is pretty cool, and I wonder how long it would take to find out who actually sent it. Probably about 15 minutes of deductive reasoning...
Rated -1 for pointng out old news.
-WS
I don't think anything will be severely changed by this, however. Every signifigant invention has been opposed by someone. Usually, this hasn't proved too serious. I am sure that the Big Bad Corporations are not immune to the market effects of adding 'security' to every digital device.
To get to my point, this too shall pass. People will make the needed choices, and Congress will react accordingly. However, terrorists attacking the US will certainly make life more 'challenging' for a while.
-WS
Besides, FreeBSD actually is a very well known OS in the web-hosting/ISP realm. That's where I first learned of it, and where many of my friends still use it. It's also rather addicting
-WS