It would work great on the polygonal slab-sides of an M1-Abrahams tank...
Just think... you look down the street and think that the pepsi-cola vending machine looked a little distorted, but it could just be the dust and heat... and then a voice crackles over your radio "Hammer 34... in position..."
which is when you notice that there are a set of treads incongrously sitting under the pepsi cola mahine and most of a bus stop.
On the other hand if tanks could hide in the city as well as a human covered in tree branches and dirt can hide in the jungle somebody had better come up with a foolproof IFF system or we're in for a LOT of friendly fire incidents.
now here's when somebody has to replace "Artificial Inseminator" with "UNIX sys admin" and write something satirical like "I've done the UNIX sysadmin thing too. When you get into restoring some luser's trashing of their data and demanding to see your backup tapes..." and ending with something about rolling blackouts, constant attacks by script kiddies and getting punched, kicked and bitten by the various nutcases that depend on your system...
A 1d desktop is to have all your files and apps arranged linearly. You can do it by clearing you desktop and putting everything in your start menu. (no folders allowed. just scrolling)
A 4d or higher desktop could be as simple as a 2d desktop which allows you to rotate your view in more ways than 2... like ted nelson's zipperlists
A global positioning system (GPS) and independent gyros are used to maintain synchronization between the virtual and physical positioning of the plane and allow real-time flight path correction. The current position of the plane is determined by the onboard GPS module and the gyros are integrated to indicate horizon and heading information as well as determine when the plane should terminate a turn. The navigation software is implemented as an SMF Bundle with native library support to interface with the GPS module and the gyros. The collected data is plugged into positioning algorithms that compare the actual state of the plane with the intended flight path and actuate the servos based on the result.
The plane flies itself using the cerfBoard it has onboard. You tell it where to go by pointing on a map.
It's a lot more advanced than the joystick method. The legitimate reason for doing this is to show that we can control a device that has to react in hard real time with minimal user input from any java capable browser in the world. Think about how many such devices exist? My ex-boss runs an adhesive factory in his spare time... with computer controlled mixers on a proprietary interface hooked up to a modem. His big dream is to get the emergency stop buttons on those mixers onto the internet behind some appropriate security... and if that works, try something a bit more interesting...
A global positioning system (GPS) and independent gyros are used to maintain synchronization between the virtual and physical positioning of the plane and allow real-time flight path correction. The current position of the plane is determined by the onboard GPS module and the gyros are integrated to indicate horizon and heading information as well as determine when the plane should terminate a turn. The navigation software is implemented as an SMF Bundle with native library support to interface with the GPS module and the gyros. The collected data is plugged into positioning algorithms that compare the actual state of the plane with the intended flight path and actuate the servos based on the result.
The breakthrough isn't that a cerfBoard can fly a plane. It's that a cerfboard can fly a plane AND take directions from you in the form of gps coordinates... from any java capable browser.
An earlier poster said that if the RIAA takes her to court then the RIAA have a PR nightmare of picking on a 12 year old girl. if the RIAA doesn't take her to court then all the other people who are sued say "Why won't you drop charges against me?"
if the RIAA take her to court and she wins, then the RIAA can say "Oh, well, in that case we didn't have a chance of winning because they paid their service fee and didn't save the songs. all the rest of you lummoxes are screwed though." and proceed as normal, right?
in a petri dish in your home. At least I hope that they make the batteries with an open standard and none of this "It's broken, go buy another one because opening it with a screwdriver violates our intellectual property and would release oh so dangerous components into the wild"
if the batteries get widespread, they should come with instructions on how to replace the bacterial colony inside them, and detailed safety data sheets. After all, alexander graham bell spilled a lead acid on himself when making the first phone call, and that doesn't stop me from topping up the sulphuric acid in my car battery.
Yeah. open battery technology. And they should also tell you how to replace the high tech membrane and electrolyte solutions if you mess those up too.
A powerful superconducting magnet at higer temperatures is always welcome. MRI and NMR people can now rejoice! more powerful magnetic fields mean better instruments right?
initally, for the very first working batch, it will be worth more than all the grant money expended creating it, otherwise nobody sane would research this idea.
eventually, the dime bag would be worth more if you filled it with dimes.
that's the way all legal technologies go...
(for instance: me sitting on my back porch, typing on a $200 second hand laptop with a $30 wi-fi card)
I'm sure a lot of the grant money is for working out how to encapsulate the sillicon chips with teflon or titanium (or other stuff like exotic carbon) in strategic arrangements so that their outsides are biocompatible and conductive in just the right places, so that one day Bones can wave some strange glowey thing over you, say "Well, i'm just a simple country doctor," and bring you back from the dead.
On the other hand poisonous smart sand would make a fantastic weapon. Make it be able to hop or crawl by giving it little piezoelectric actuators and you could make an ordinary looking patch of sand suddenly come to life when activated by an enemy soldier's touch, swarming over his body and forcing itself under his gas mask seals and into his eyes, nose, ears and mouth. And then it could hide out in the body, waiting for the next victim.
lastly, a listening device the size of a grain of sand could be put into your bedroom and you'd never find it. (hands up who regularly even vaccuumes their room? I always forget. I don't even know how to spell the verb properly.) They say that the goal is to computerise objects by simply spraying smart sand onto it: What if somebody decided to (without your knowledge) computerise your pillow stuffing? Do you know how many Americans pray out their deepest darkest secrets on their knees by their bedsides each night?
Their weaknesses are: The human robot owners live long lives in perfect health, in stupendous luxury.
I love asimov.
Speaking of Asimov, doesn't honda's Asimo have the ability to see where you're pointing, and then go there? I heard Asimo units are working as receptionists where they've been leased.
also, there's products coming out now like Cindy Smart which uses a digital camera and OCR to read flashcards and teach 5 year old girls math and literacy skills.
so I guess what japan wants to do is merge all these technologies into the all purpose robots that we've been dreaming of. Don't worry about robots revolting though. Our AI people have made sure that they've internalised our world views as any good colonised labour force should. Check it out at WordNet - this is what future robots will think of humans and robots
Now what would happen if somebody took that concept and applied it to parsec or the wing commander style flight sims?
I know mech warrior had a nifty little cockpit sim for mall arcade action, but nothing ever had an emersive screen that made your eyes focus on the middle distance.
Throw in 3d glasses, a big subwoofer and hydraulics from an old massage bed while you're at it.
Having two wheels on a rotating arm like that means that the robot can climb a bigger step than a larger diameter wheel can. You could try just driving up such a step if you were in a humvee, but this wheelchair has to run 3 CPUs and who knows how many motors off the onboard batteries....
hmm speaking of humvees, what would happen if you got an ordinary good quality remote control aeroplane, stripped out all the servos and put two servos on an iBot's joystick and one servo on the trigger of a M249 Squad Automatic Weapon mounted securely to the seat? Add a wireless video camera to the picitinny rail on the top of the machine gun, and maybe a bulletproof riotshield bolted to the front and you have the utimate solution for those pesky barricaded hostage situations in tight urban areas.
Wait, urban areas, poor radio reception... maybe make it cable controlled? Or maybe put a laptop and a thermal camera in the seat and let it make its own decisions. you get the picture.
current dna testing relies on "marker" regions which are supposed to be present in a unique combination for each individual. however, because this is not a whole sequence comparison, there is a small chance of a false positive error but smaller than that of false positives using fingerprints. Indeed the marker regions were selected because they were (relatively) fast to test and did not give away information about the suspect (eg. race or eye colour, although one of the markers was later found to be linked to diabetes).
i think that this technology will eventually find its way into our courtrooms, and this is good. what would be bad is if we thought that any technology was so perfect that we didn't need a trial and we could go out hunting bad guys on their dna evidence alone.
there is no substitute for a public trial where all the evidence gets laid out on the table and a reasonable judge ensures that all parties are treated fairly. if that doesn't happen for the least of our citizens, then it's time to go find another country to live and work in. I've moved countries twice, and i'm always watching with my overnight bag under my desk.
beyond crime there are benign uses for dna identification. the Army DNA registry would also serve as a way to identify the dead, who have been blown up beyond recognition. this gives valuable closure for families and loved ones.
paternity testing now requires that you have a live man to take a sample from. with this new tech you could get the dna fingerprint from the inside of a locket or something.
the way i see it, leaving dna is like a form of subconscious, automatic grafitti. we are always tagging our environment with the words "i wuz here."
it's just that these days, there might be people around who care to read it.
Have you ever been asked by your parents to go look for something and then you just peer under your bed for a second and say: "Nup. It's not in my room!"?
That's what spoofing looks like. It would be a greater waste of CPU cycles to redundantly check every result many times over on "trusted machines" if it was easy to spoof a negative result.
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but couldn't this be the thin end of the wedge towards technologically mediated censorship?
' m a programmer with a soldering iron, and I'm not afraid to use it.
after all, almost anything is possible with the a patch... it just takes the will to do it.
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Has anybody thought of active camoflague yet?
It would work great on the polygonal slab-sides of an M1-Abrahams tank...
Just think... you look down the street and think that the pepsi-cola vending machine looked a little distorted, but it could just be the dust and heat... and then a voice crackles over your radio "Hammer 34... in position..."
which is when you notice that there are a set of treads incongrously sitting under the pepsi cola mahine and most of a bus stop.
On the other hand if tanks could hide in the city as well as a human covered in tree branches and dirt can hide in the jungle somebody had better come up with a foolproof IFF system or we're in for a LOT of friendly fire incidents.
looks like you took the bait
now here's when somebody has to replace "Artificial Inseminator" with "UNIX sys admin" and write something satirical like "I've done the UNIX sysadmin thing too. When you get into restoring some luser's trashing of their data and demanding to see your backup tapes..." and ending with something about rolling blackouts, constant attacks by script kiddies and getting punched, kicked and bitten by the various nutcases that depend on your system...
what's so bad IT?
dupe it may be, but has anybody considered using multiple 2d screens arranged at 90 degrees to "fill" a true 3d volume with voxels?
sounds like a job for cluster computing!
My bedroom doesn't have much energy left in it to do work. I set it on fire.
A 1d desktop is to have all your files and apps arranged linearly. You can do it by clearing you desktop and putting everything in your start menu. (no folders allowed. just scrolling)
A 4d or higher desktop could be as simple as a 2d desktop which allows you to rotate your view in more ways than 2... like ted nelson's zipperlists
A global positioning system (GPS) and independent gyros are used to maintain synchronization between the virtual and physical positioning of the plane and allow real-time flight path correction. The current position of the plane is determined by the onboard GPS module and the gyros are integrated to indicate horizon and heading information as well as determine when the plane should terminate a turn. The navigation software is implemented as an SMF Bundle with native library support to interface with the GPS module and the gyros. The collected data is plugged into positioning algorithms that compare the actual state of the plane with the intended flight path and actuate the servos based on the result.
The plane flies itself using the cerfBoard it has onboard. You tell it where to go by pointing on a map.
It's a lot more advanced than the joystick method. The legitimate reason for doing this is to show that we can control a device that has to react in hard real time with minimal user input from any java capable browser in the world. Think about how many such devices exist? My ex-boss runs an adhesive factory in his spare time... with computer controlled mixers on a proprietary interface hooked up to a modem. His big dream is to get the emergency stop buttons on those mixers onto the internet behind some appropriate security... and if that works, try something a bit more interesting...
A global positioning system (GPS) and independent gyros are used to maintain synchronization between the virtual and physical positioning of the plane and allow real-time flight path correction. The current position of the plane is determined by the onboard GPS module and the gyros are integrated to indicate horizon and heading information as well as determine when the plane should terminate a turn. The navigation software is implemented as an SMF Bundle with native library support to interface with the GPS module and the gyros. The collected data is plugged into positioning algorithms that compare the actual state of the plane with the intended flight path and actuate the servos based on the result.
The breakthrough isn't that a cerfBoard can fly a plane. It's that a cerfboard can fly a plane AND take directions from you in the form of gps coordinates... from any java capable browser.
An earlier poster said that if the RIAA takes her to court then the RIAA have a PR nightmare of picking on a 12 year old girl. if the RIAA doesn't take her to court then all the other people who are sued say "Why won't you drop charges against me?"
if the RIAA take her to court and she wins, then the RIAA can say "Oh, well, in that case we didn't have a chance of winning because they paid their service fee and didn't save the songs. all the rest of you lummoxes are screwed though." and proceed as normal, right?
and where's my phonecall
in a petri dish in your home. At least I hope that they make the batteries with an open standard and none of this "It's broken, go buy another one because opening it with a screwdriver violates our intellectual property and would release oh so dangerous components into the wild"
if the batteries get widespread, they should come with instructions on how to replace the bacterial colony inside them, and detailed safety data sheets. After all, alexander graham bell spilled a lead acid on himself when making the first phone call, and that doesn't stop me from topping up the sulphuric acid in my car battery.
Yeah. open battery technology. And they should also tell you how to replace the high tech membrane and electrolyte solutions if you mess those up too.
A powerful superconducting magnet at higer temperatures is always welcome. MRI and NMR people can now rejoice! more powerful magnetic fields mean better instruments right?
...It just isn't evenly distributed yet" - William Gibson.
It's true.
we have flying cars. forget the moller skycar, the future is the xantus powered lift aircraft.
we have jet packs, but now affordable backpack aircraft only nearly nobody wants to build them.
I think some people can't handle the future. they're too afraid of getting smushed up by it.
initally, for the very first working batch, it will be worth more than all the grant money expended creating it, otherwise nobody sane would research this idea.
eventually, the dime bag would be worth more if you filled it with dimes.
that's the way all legal technologies go...
(for instance: me sitting on my back porch, typing on a $200 second hand laptop with a $30 wi-fi card)
I'm sure a lot of the grant money is for working out how to encapsulate the sillicon chips with teflon or titanium (or other stuff like exotic carbon) in strategic arrangements so that their outsides are biocompatible and conductive in just the right places, so that one day Bones can wave some strange glowey thing over you, say "Well, i'm just a simple country doctor," and bring you back from the dead.
On the other hand poisonous smart sand would make a fantastic weapon. Make it be able to hop or crawl by giving it little piezoelectric actuators and you could make an ordinary looking patch of sand suddenly come to life when activated by an enemy soldier's touch, swarming over his body and forcing itself under his gas mask seals and into his eyes, nose, ears and mouth. And then it could hide out in the body, waiting for the next victim.
lastly, a listening device the size of a grain of sand could be put into your bedroom and you'd never find it. (hands up who regularly even vaccuumes their room? I always forget. I don't even know how to spell the verb properly.) They say that the goal is to computerise objects by simply spraying smart sand onto it: What if somebody decided to (without your knowledge) computerise your pillow stuffing? Do you know how many Americans pray out their deepest darkest secrets on their knees by their bedsides each night?
If these walls could talk...
and then convert it into electricity. that's how your neurons work.
Their weaknesses are: The human robot owners live long lives in perfect health, in stupendous luxury.
I love asimov.
Speaking of Asimov, doesn't honda's Asimo have the ability to see where you're pointing, and then go there? I heard Asimo units are working as receptionists where they've been leased.
also, there's products coming out now like Cindy Smart which uses a digital camera and OCR to read flashcards and teach 5 year old girls math and literacy skills.
and finally there is, of course realdoll.
so I guess what japan wants to do is merge all these technologies into the all purpose robots that we've been dreaming of. Don't worry about robots revolting though. Our AI people have made sure that they've internalised our world views as any good colonised labour force should. Check it out at WordNet - this is what future robots will think of humans and robots
Wow, well done.
Now what would happen if somebody took that concept and applied it to parsec or the wing commander style flight sims?
I know mech warrior had a nifty little cockpit sim for mall arcade action, but nothing ever had an emersive screen that made your eyes focus on the middle distance.
Throw in 3d glasses, a big subwoofer and hydraulics from an old massage bed while you're at it.
Having two wheels on a rotating arm like that means that the robot can climb a bigger step than a larger diameter wheel can. You could try just driving up such a step if you were in a humvee, but this wheelchair has to run 3 CPUs and who knows how many motors off the onboard batteries....
hmm speaking of humvees, what would happen if you got an ordinary good quality remote control aeroplane, stripped out all the servos and put two servos on an iBot's joystick and one servo on the trigger of a M249 Squad Automatic Weapon mounted securely to the seat? Add a wireless video camera to the picitinny rail on the top of the machine gun, and maybe a bulletproof riotshield bolted to the front and you have the utimate solution for those pesky barricaded hostage situations in tight urban areas.
Wait, urban areas, poor radio reception... maybe make it cable controlled? Or maybe put a laptop and a thermal camera in the seat and let it make its own decisions. you get the picture.
The slashdot wireless transport protocol will be henceforth called "GritzPants."
COMMAND: Red 1, you've turned off your targeting computer? Is everything all right?
Luke: Use the Force! Read the Source!
current dna testing relies on "marker" regions which are supposed to be present in a unique combination for each individual. however, because this is not a whole sequence comparison, there is a small chance of a false positive error but smaller than that of false positives using fingerprints. Indeed the marker regions were selected because they were (relatively) fast to test and did not give away information about the suspect (eg. race or eye colour, although one of the markers was later found to be linked to diabetes).
i think that this technology will eventually find its way into our courtrooms, and this is good. what would be bad is if we thought that any technology was so perfect that we didn't need a trial and we could go out hunting bad guys on their dna evidence alone.
there is no substitute for a public trial where all the evidence gets laid out on the table and a reasonable judge ensures that all parties are treated fairly. if that doesn't happen for the least of our citizens, then it's time to go find another country to live and work in. I've moved countries twice, and i'm always watching with my overnight bag under my desk.
beyond crime there are benign uses for dna identification. the Army DNA registry would also serve as a way to identify the dead, who have been blown up beyond recognition. this gives valuable closure for families and loved ones.
paternity testing now requires that you have a live man to take a sample from. with this new tech you could get the dna fingerprint from the inside of a locket or something.
the way i see it, leaving dna is like a form of subconscious, automatic grafitti. we are always tagging our environment with the words "i wuz here."
it's just that these days, there might be people around who care to read it.
... all the people, living life in peace...
Had you going there, didn't I?
Have you ever been asked by your parents to go look for something and then you just peer under your bed for a second and say: "Nup. It's not in my room!"?
That's what spoofing looks like. It would be a greater waste of CPU cycles to redundantly check every result many times over on "trusted machines" if it was easy to spoof a negative result.