No, I think that the idea is to use the magnetic component of the electromagnetic wave to produce eddy currents electric circuits. The short duration of the pulse means that the voltage spike is too brief to produce heating, but is big enough to blow transistors etc.
I was a compuserve member way back when the internet was hard to get onto (you couldn't access the net from compuserve when I first signed up). They looked deep into my soul and gave me a number based upon the order in which I joined. About when they let me choose a screen name for myself (all_the_good_names_are_taken@compuserve.com I kid you not.) they introduced this thing called Worlds Away which seems eerily like "there."
I've since left compuserve due to the cost of access and the mountains of rules, but I did hear that worlds away has been replaced by a thing called Dreamscape.
If I were intelliforming myself, I would make at least one of my bodies capable of mining, or at least doing complex fabrication operations. Any explorers need to be able to at least heal themselves, and optimally be able to reproduce unaided, using just the indegenous materials.
Which then begs the question: if you have a reproducing robot, is it just another form of life?
intelliforming and bioforming may simply be two paths to the same thing.
You can forget projector tvs. they are only in the thousands, or perhaps tens of thousands of lumins brightness and it's expensive to get really high res ones.
you can forget crt hugescreens, because they take up a massive volume of space.
LED tvs are huge, but the res and brightness are low.
Big LCDs are pretty good, but not great - bad colour satruation and ghosting are common.
which leaves plasma and oled.
Since oled isn't ready for prime time, you should go see a plasma display someday. just don't touch it, as it gets very hot.
Kim stanley robinson's mars series portrays a successful terraformation, and how the first colonists mourn the loss of the red planet, even though they can now walk about without helmets.
Which leads me to ask, why not leave the planet looking and feeling much the same, but make plants and animals altered to survive the low pressures, cold, lack of a magnetosphere etc. Then make genetically modified humans to populate the place and go forth and subdue it.
In the whole history of life as we know it, life has always adapted to the environment. Why change the winning formula?
I guess that if you rotate the device 90 degrees, so one screen is lying flat on the table, you could have the "onscreen" keyboard be where you would expect a normal laptop keyboard to be.
Or if you were an artist, you could have a colour picker where you would expect an oil pallet to be.
Imagine being able to switch from querty to devorak at a software toggle, *and have all the little letters on the keyboard change automatically!* yay
or not. maybe the best use of rotating the thing 90 degrees would be to pop up custom arcade controllers on demand, or startrek style "follow my finger" sliding bar controls.
ALEC: Yeah, she means you don't exactly look like a soldier there, big guy.
BRAIN: Oh, and you two do? I'm an I.T. concentrate. A battle processor. I'm basically a general, his staff, two database groups, and five logistical support teams, all rolled into one stealth package.
ALEC (laughing disbelievingly): Stealth. Yeah.
BRAIN: People look away. They don't remember me. There, are you happy?
ALEC: Yeah, that still doesn't explain your psychic ability.
BRAIN: Psychic? Please. I combine near-absolute data knowledge with fast Fourier neural nets for heuristics.
ALEC: Heuristics?
BRAIN: Predictions using probability algorithms that are stored in my--Look, are you sure you want to hear this?
MAX: Whatever you call it, you can tell the future.
I think that DOSEmu is an OS simulator, while BOCHS is a hardware emulator. this means that with BOCHS if one day you get bored of Jones in the Fast lane, you can just install another x86 os from (cough) original disks....
Also, I believe that BOCHS is a smarter idea overall, because it deals with the better documented x86 architecture, rather than trying to emulate a bunch of byzantine APIs like WINE or worse yet reserved memory mappings of DOS. but that's just my nontechnical opinion.
I bet the buyer wouldn't want much publicity either.
On the other hand, if they sold one to the right bidder, maybe they might be able to keep going for a couple of months.
Also, here's another depressing story of the original inventors getting shafted: The inventor of the space suit got knocked back by the royal air force. ended up dying in a mental home. The royal air force take his design, build it and fly it in a plane after he's dead.
If there is a need, the technology will be built. The trick is to get some benefit out of being the inventor.
Nice troll lord hunter. the parent is talking about the molecules in liquid crystal displays which have to line up and block the light coming from the backlight. This kind of device takes a lot more time to change state than a device which exploits the emission of photons from electrons which are jumping to a lower energy level (i.e. all light emitting diode technologies).
Try reading this site before calling anybody a moron.
I'm going to bite off a bit more here and respond to your second point: what's the point of having the most expensive, overclocked system that can render a complex game at huge fps if your monitor can only do 40fps? If you are building the ultimate system, you want the bottleneck to be in the user, not the system.
("Can't you see the extra fps? must be your eyes, then. certainly nothing wrong with my system.")
hmmm... What would happen if you were blind in one eye? Would you see a 2d image or a bunch of stripy garbage?
Remember the invention of the Tank.
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The development of the tank was plagued with setbacks and the original inventors were brushed off by the american war office, only to be adopted by the brits.
Even then, the program really didn't get started until after a lot of patriotic young men were were killed on the fields of the first world war.
If we believe the website (especially the third link in the slashdot article) then the solotrek flew, there are two prototypes capable of controlled hover (one of which is slightly damaged in a test flight accident due to a problem with the test rig and not the vehicle) and all of it is available for cash.
If there is a real need for a single occupant exosuit flyer (for instance, making insertions into urban areas and avoiding the whole black hawk down kinda scenario) then somebody will fund it.
Whether its the EU, some asian power who has engineers who work for nothing or Somebody Else.
If the next developer waits until after the solotrek team scatters, then the resulting machine will not be a solotrek. But then again a Panzer is not the tank envisiged by the engineers at the Holt Company USA either.
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No, I think that the idea is to use the magnetic component of the electromagnetic wave to produce eddy currents electric circuits. The short duration of the pulse means that the voltage spike is too brief to produce heating, but is big enough to blow transistors etc.
Just my 2c of freshman college physics.
but imagine if your "smart" BDUs have a software error and suddenly give you a full body "blue screen of death!"
they meant no grid electricity.
You can run your laptop off pedal power if you have to and take a drink from some snow you melted on a campfire, while you talk to anonymous cowards.
I was a compuserve member way back when the internet was hard to get onto (you couldn't access the net from compuserve when I first signed up). They looked deep into my soul and gave me a number based upon the order in which I joined. About when they let me choose a screen name for myself (all_the_good_names_are_taken@compuserve.com I kid you not.) they introduced this thing called Worlds Away which seems eerily like "there."
The keyword you typed at the go prompt was AWAY, so youd type GO: AWAY and be transported to a virtual world which had all the usuall compuserve anal retentive rules to keep everyone playing nice.
I've since left compuserve due to the cost of access and the mountains of rules, but I did hear that worlds away has been replaced by a thing called Dreamscape.
Everything that is old is new again.
The Glider and the Flight suit are missing!
If you read their story at the solotrek site, you'll find that there were TWO prototypes, one of which is fine.
with this guy's comment
How big was the gong, how much did it weigh and how much energy was in that flash (in kj please)?
And if we're going to replicate this experiement, how far was the flash tube from the gong and how was the gong suspended?
If I were intelliforming myself, I would make at least one of my bodies capable of mining, or at least doing complex fabrication operations. Any explorers need to be able to at least heal themselves, and optimally be able to reproduce unaided, using just the indegenous materials.
Which then begs the question: if you have a reproducing robot, is it just another form of life?
intelliforming and bioforming may simply be two paths to the same thing.
Now that is something that I'd pay to see.
however it seems that some assembly is required
You can forget projector tvs. they are only in the thousands, or perhaps tens of thousands of lumins brightness and it's expensive to get really high res ones.
you can forget crt hugescreens, because they take up a massive volume of space.
LED tvs are huge, but the res and brightness are low.
Big LCDs are pretty good, but not great - bad colour satruation and ghosting are common.
which leaves plasma and oled.
Since oled isn't ready for prime time, you should go see a plasma display someday. just don't touch it, as it gets very hot.
when you can change yourself?
Kim stanley robinson's mars series portrays a successful terraformation, and how the first colonists mourn the loss of the red planet, even though they can now walk about without helmets.
Which leads me to ask, why not leave the planet looking and feeling much the same, but make plants and animals altered to survive the low pressures, cold, lack of a magnetosphere etc. Then make genetically modified humans to populate the place and go forth and subdue it.
In the whole history of life as we know it, life has always adapted to the environment. Why change the winning formula?
The brave men and women of the NSDF are already there in force.
I guess that if you rotate the device 90 degrees, so one screen is lying flat on the table, you could have the "onscreen" keyboard be where you would expect a normal laptop keyboard to be.
Or if you were an artist, you could have a colour picker where you would expect an oil pallet to be.
Imagine being able to switch from querty to devorak at a software toggle, *and have all the little letters on the keyboard change automatically!* yay
or not. maybe the best use of rotating the thing 90 degrees would be to pop up custom arcade controllers on demand, or startrek style "follow my finger" sliding bar controls.
Warning! Contains metal cutting laser!
Not recommended for child geniuses or talking dogs under 3 years old.
link to the sky car
You mean like in this episode of dark angel?
MAX: Then what are you?
BRAIN: What am I?
ALEC: Yeah, she means you don't exactly look like a soldier there, big guy.
BRAIN: Oh, and you two do? I'm an I.T. concentrate. A battle processor. I'm basically a general, his staff, two database groups, and five logistical support teams, all rolled into one stealth package.
ALEC (laughing disbelievingly): Stealth. Yeah.
BRAIN: People look away. They don't remember me. There, are you happy?
ALEC: Yeah, that still doesn't explain your psychic ability.
BRAIN: Psychic? Please. I combine near-absolute data knowledge with fast Fourier neural nets for heuristics.
ALEC: Heuristics?
BRAIN: Predictions using probability algorithms that are stored in my--Look, are you sure you want to hear this?
MAX: Whatever you call it, you can tell the future.
I think that DOSEmu is an OS simulator, while BOCHS is a hardware emulator. this means that with BOCHS if one day you get bored of Jones in the Fast lane, you can just install another x86 os from (cough) original disks....
Also, I believe that BOCHS is a smarter idea overall, because it deals with the better documented x86 architecture, rather than trying to emulate a bunch of byzantine APIs like WINE or worse yet reserved memory mappings of DOS. but that's just my nontechnical opinion.
I bet the buyer wouldn't want much publicity either.
On the other hand, if they sold one to the right bidder, maybe they might be able to keep going for a couple of months.
Also, here's another depressing story of the original inventors getting shafted: The inventor of the space suit got knocked back by the royal air force. ended up dying in a mental home. The royal air force take his design, build it and fly it in a plane after he's dead.
If there is a need, the technology will be built. The trick is to get some benefit out of being the inventor.
Nice troll lord hunter. the parent is talking about the molecules in liquid crystal displays which have to line up and block the light coming from the backlight. This kind of device takes a lot more time to change state than a device which exploits the emission of photons from electrons which are jumping to a lower energy level (i.e. all light emitting diode technologies).
Try reading this site before calling anybody a moron.
I'm going to bite off a bit more here and respond to your second point: what's the point of having the most expensive, overclocked system that can render a complex game at huge fps if your monitor can only do 40fps? If you are building the ultimate system, you want the bottleneck to be in the user, not the system.
("Can't you see the extra fps? must be your eyes, then. certainly nothing wrong with my system.")
Had it coming say police.
hmmm... What would happen if you were blind in one eye? Would you see a 2d image or a bunch of stripy garbage?
The development of the tank was plagued with setbacks and the original inventors were brushed off by the american war office, only to be adopted by the brits.
Even then, the program really didn't get started until after a lot of patriotic young men were were killed on the fields of the first world war.
If we believe the website (especially the third link in the slashdot article) then the solotrek flew, there are two prototypes capable of controlled hover (one of which is slightly damaged in a test flight accident due to a problem with the test rig and not the vehicle) and all of it is available for cash.
If there is a real need for a single occupant exosuit flyer (for instance, making insertions into urban areas and avoiding the whole black hawk down kinda scenario) then somebody will fund it.
Whether its the EU, some asian power who has engineers who work for nothing or Somebody Else.
If the next developer waits until after the solotrek team scatters, then the resulting machine will not be a solotrek. But then again a Panzer is not the tank envisiged by the engineers at the Holt Company USA either.
Don't knock iridium.
Iridium was really useful in afghanistan.
I don't know if these blimps are hot enough or low enough to eat a stinger missile, but they'd be sure easier to hit than a satellite.
Can you imagine if the anchor was in a populated area? It would be like the burning of the space elevator in kim stanley robinson's Mars series.
Maybe the baloon might be reeled to the ground in a storm, or use propellors and no anchor this time.