Why bother getting that fancy? You don't have to duplicate an existing fingerprint, you just have to present the same pattern to the lock when imprinting it the first time and then unlocking it later. I can see a market for artificial "finger-keys" that restore some abilities like transferability ("I'll take the kids to the washroom, you get the stuff. Here's my key.") and untrackability. (Buy a few hands of keys and throw each one away after use.)
Just think of the fun when some spy/scum/Gator/Clariaware attaches itself. (A number would count under IE, some seperately.) Some of them would probably be trapped in tight loops trying to spawn seperate programs and failing.
The problem with that is that the people who currently own the stock of Forgent would walk away rich. (It's the same problem as SCO.) Also, they'd be back a month later with another company and more junk patents bought at Crazy Ernie's Discount IP Warehouse and Police Auction.
Sony and Adobe probably could have blown that patent out of the water. They chose to settle. (Maybe they got a discount. Any settlement benefits the Forgery scum-ferrets.) Now any competitors will have to match, raise or call to stay in the game.
Microsoft could pay a settlement and then it would be the OSS companies' turn.
It's amazing how much even a simple motion-platform can fool the brain with matching video. The company once took us all out to a huge arcade place where they had a ReBoot simulator (a mini theater seat section). The first time I just did the ride. The second time I watched the side of the ride to see what our actual motion was--very very little. I wish I'd tried it a third time: watching the film and knowing the tricks to see how effective they were.
It was much better than the huge ancient "Tour of the Universe" simulator that used to be at the CN Tower. I imagine the controls systems are better now as well as understanding of the tricks. ("Tour of the Universe", bah! Capt Moses always only got us to Jupiter. I think he was drunk!)
I don't think you could run at full gallop. If the idea of these platforms is to ease you backwards as fast as you're moving forwards (with a slow return-to-zero drift), then you won't be able to travel faster than the sections can move you backwards as well as zip around to be under your foot.
As other posters have said, I really want to see a movie of this!
I wonder how good those platforms are at getting under your feet in time? Even with sensors in the shoes, getting a section in place might be tricky. (I'm guessing that you don't always have to look in the direction of travel.) Since they're moving even when you step on one, they'd have to be pretty stable so's not to simulate cafeteria trays on a floor of marbles.
Take things on that second site with a big grain of salt. They don't seem to do any fact-checking on submissions to their site. That page may be correct but others certainly aren't (and they've been informed of pages with errors).
(Amazing. Some has an actual application for this technology and it's modded offtopic.)
You might want to check the existing digital projectors to see if any have features to suit your needs. If your screen is flat, the mapping to adjust for the projector location is a lot simpler than ajusting for irregular shapes and colours of the surface.
The link to Experiments in the vaults of castle Scharfenstein sounded interesting, but it died before I could check it. I guess someone decided that they just had to watch that 22M movie.
That could have some advantages. "In order to see this movie properly, we're going to have snuggle in close to see it without distortion. It's not me, you understand, it's just the projection system." (Which would be a disadvantage if you have the Trekkie XXXL Club over.)
How complex are those adjustments? I'm sure that they can handle a tilted or sloped wall, but with an irregular surface, anything mapped to look fine from one angle won't be from another.
I wonder what will happen when someone starts up a blocklist that lists IPs and ranges of IPs as either belonging to sources of VoIP spam or ISPs that do nothing about customers that do that. If people want to, they can refuse all VoIP connections from anyone on the list.
I'm sure it will make the kookboi posts about SPEWS and other lists seem like nothing.
It's a lot more basic than that. They don't want to talk to us until we are a sufficiently evolved consumer market. Other than a latent craving for Slurm, they've left us alone.
Why would I need to discuse something fictional? This is the same group that has patrol of security people dressed like cops. The same one that uses PIs to follow people.
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No doubt this will be declared a subversive act.
Just think of the fun when some spy/scum/Gator/Clariaware attaches itself. (A number would count under IE, some seperately.) Some of them would probably be trapped in tight loops trying to spawn seperate programs and failing.
There's no point in paying them any Danegeld.
Microsoft could pay a settlement and then it would be the OSS companies' turn.
Why stop there? If they raise the price of a licence to one billion dollars, they only have to sell one of them. How hard can that be?
It was much better than the huge ancient "Tour of the Universe" simulator that used to be at the CN Tower. I imagine the controls systems are better now as well as understanding of the tricks. ("Tour of the Universe", bah! Capt Moses always only got us to Jupiter. I think he was drunk!)
As other posters have said, I really want to see a movie of this!
Move your target. Make your goal a 3D simulation of an aircraft hanger. ;)
I wonder how good those platforms are at getting under your feet in time? Even with sensors in the shoes, getting a section in place might be tricky. (I'm guessing that you don't always have to look in the direction of travel.) Since they're moving even when you step on one, they'd have to be pretty stable so's not to simulate cafeteria trays on a floor of marbles.
I'd do it, but .. trapped by flu...... surrounded by tissues..... low on coffee
Take things on that second site with a big grain of salt. They don't seem to do any fact-checking on submissions to their site. That page may be correct but others certainly aren't (and they've been informed of pages with errors).
Yes, that would be rather gauche.
A sequel to this book, The Man Who Mistook His Neighbour for a Hat? (And how does a hat step up? :)
Perhaps you're thinking of the Humble space telescope, or properly MOST? (Darn thing looks like a suitcase-size Kodak.)
You might want to check the existing digital projectors to see if any have features to suit your needs. If your screen is flat, the mapping to adjust for the projector location is a lot simpler than ajusting for irregular shapes and colours of the surface.
It could be much worse. WallClippy: "I see that you appear to be pregnant. May I offer my congratulations?"
The link to Experiments in the vaults of castle Scharfenstein sounded interesting, but it died before I could check it. I guess someone decided that they just had to watch that 22M movie.
That could have some advantages. "In order to see this movie properly, we're going to have snuggle in close to see it without distortion. It's not me, you understand, it's just the projection system." (Which would be a disadvantage if you have the Trekkie XXXL Club over.)
How complex are those adjustments? I'm sure that they can handle a tilted or sloped wall, but with an irregular surface, anything mapped to look fine from one angle won't be from another.
But what if your home already is creepy, dark, and with strange noises from the corners?
If they're still playing after a few minutes, then the call is serious -- or they're hooked.
I'm sure it will make the kookboi posts about SPEWS and other lists seem like nothing.
It's a lot more basic than that. They don't want to talk to us until we are a sufficiently evolved consumer market. Other than a latent craving for Slurm, they've left us alone.
Are you sure? I thought 99.99% of our DNA was Stephen King.
Why would I need to discuse something fictional? This is the same group that has patrol of security people dressed like cops. The same one that uses PIs to follow people.