But monitors should be at eye-level or below. Otherwise it will put a strain on your eyes. At least this is what the doctor told me when I wondered why my eyes were sore and I couldn't see clearly.
I'm sure most of this crowd spend looong hours staring at the screen, so be nice to your eyes.
My moneys on the Rocketman and Starchaser Industries. http://www.starchaser.co.uk (great site btw.) They've already launched several rockets proving their concept and have their first manned flight planned in Oct 2004.
There's an excellent documentary on Discovery Channel in which it is stated that the worst thing that happened to space development was the space race. Since money wasn't the issue things were bound to get expensive and once the goal had been achieved public interrest rapidly declined, making it even more difficult to justify the pricetag. The Shuttle was a great idea and a marvel of engineering, but an economic disaster.
What is needed to make space available to the public is a bunch of ambitious people on a tight budget. That's pretty much what the X-Prize is for I believe.
How about "Empire"? (1978)
I recall how, many years later, I sent out my fighterplanes to explore the nearby region
to that extremely annoying, repetitive sound effect.. Aaah, those were the days..
What I would like is a larger version of Mr Mallard, capable of carrying a case of beer.
Or perhaps it could be designed as a beer barrel, with the logics and sensors in a half-sphere on top...
it could have three wheels.. and roll around following me on my hovering desert barge..
Just a thought.
I've seen it in action at CeBit. It kind of looks like a shrunken phaser and it takes pictures and scans text which then is transferred via Bluetooth. You could even feed live video wireless to a PC, though the framrate sucked.
I'm not sure about the resolution though.
You would have found that problem already solved..
Solarpanel on your garage and an electrolysis machine the size of a dishwasher, would be, according to the article, enough to power a car driving 200 miles (320 km) per day.
Start with sun and water, get Hydrogen and Oxygene, end up with power and water..
Light is energy
Heat is energy
Matter is energy
Everything is energy, if it's not, then it doesn't exist, does it?
Energy may perhaps be found in forms we don't have a clue about today. As for pure, well.. It's not unthinkable that there is a fundamental form of energy in the universe. But If so we're probably a long way from seeing it. For every layer we peel off we find a new even more unexplicable and improbable. Feels a bit Douglas-Adams-ish..
The Astronuts would lie on its walls so there would not be a problem with the gradient.
When it's time to go to bed you would float into the cylinder strap yourself up and hold on for a minute or so while it accelerated to about 1 G and then you could loosen the straps and go to sleep..
Just make sure they wake you up before they pull the brake...
Well, that's probably what most people think.
Doom is far more well known than Wolf3D because it was far more popular,
and it came at a time when "ordinary" were beginning to get computers.
On the other hand you could claim that the first FPS was one of those Dungeon Games... (Which ever was first, I don't know)
Even the original Battlezone was FPS in a sense though, yes you were acting as a tankdriver and not running as a person. How about CastleMaster?
Didn't the original Ultima have some FPS in it too, when you went down in the dungeons?
So where did it _really_ begin?
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Sorry, _here_ is the software.http://ftp.wustl.edu/~aminet/
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"Besides, on the Amiga I had you couldn't play MP3, much less record CD-RW."
Hmm, could that be because MP3s and CD-RWs didn't exist when it was made? *doh*
I lost interest in Amiga a looong time ago, but I know they're still out there and I'm sure someone could fix your Amiga to both play and burn.
a quick search revealed amigaamp.de
"a powerful realtime MPEG audio player for Amiga computers"
Finding CD-RW drives that support Amiga isn't that hard either..
...and from http://www.amiga-news.de/cgi-bin/anwd-db.pl I'm sure you can find some software to go.
This took me about 2 minutes to find out.
Sorry, you were saying?
I'd define art as anything where the creator was guided by emotional influences rather than cool logic and reasoning.
For example if I were to make a still life painting, were I to take measurements and accurately transfer them to the canvas I
wouldn't consider it art, but if I do it free handed and feel the apple/pear/whatever in my mind, imagining its shape, its taste etc..
that I would consider art.
"I believe in the Spider Robinson viewpoint. We are not our genes. Our genes may define how tall or short we are, the colour of our hair (sans bleaching or dying it), the colour of our eyes, etc. But a person is more then the physical characteristics of their body. Our memories and experiences make us people."
The question, I think, is how our mind and body relate to each other. Our mood can change our body chemistry and vice versa, for example someone tells you a joke, make you happy, make you produce endorphine.. or you take some strong medication that make you depressed. Our genes decide how well/bad this process works. Could I get gene therapy to make me produce a constant flow of endorphines, thus making me always feel good and see everything in a brighter perspective and also making me remember more good things rather than bad, which in turn would perhaps make me act in another way than I would affecting my personality?
Another thing, that I'm not sure is scientifically proven, is "genetic memory" for example someone who has a transplantation takes on personality traits from the donator. In some cases people have claimed they remember things from their donators past life. If that's true, it doesn't prove the memory was in the genes though.
So I don't think there is a clear border between our body and our mind/soul/whatever.
Ehm, I saw this non-existant product displaying some movie at CeBit in Hannover this spring. Great colours, good contrast, no smear, very thin package and very existant..
Granted though that it probably isn't finished as a sellable product yet. There's always a lot of work to be done between prototype and market..
Personally I'll wait until the second or third generation before I get me a 50" OLED-monitor to hang on the wall. By then the quality has gone up and the price has come down...
Supersonic Submarines..
Travelling beneath the surface at Mach 2.
The idea is that the pressure is so high at the nose that water turns into steam
and creates a steambubble through which the rocket-powered sub travels..
The catch is that it has to be launched from a submerged cannon.
And of course, you have to pray there's no whale in your path..
Now there's environmental conscience for ya..
One thing about the global "warming" is that we are still not entirely sure if it will result in a warmer or cooler climate. Perhaps both. There's too many unknown variables to be sure.
For example if the overall temperature in the world rises, then a lot more ice will melt, which will decrease the salt-levels in the seas, which will disrupt the deepsea currents that carry warm water to the north and south and cool water to the equatorial regions. How big effect this might have is uncertain. But I think it likely that the northern and southern parts of earth will get significantly colder, while the equatorial regions might get hotter.
But there are many other things to take into consideration and we can never truly be sure until we are there.
...is a split keyboard so I can put one piece each of the arm rests on a big comfy chair, so I could lean back and get some distance from the monitors and rest my arms so I wouldn't have to worry about any wrist-problems.
Anyone know where to get one?
--- I work with my computer, I eat with my computer, I sleep with my computer... No, wait.. ---
From the article:
"The number of people out there who still have paper play a major role in their life as an information tool is still quite large," Grimes said. "And they told us to help them organize and integrate [what they do] on paper, but without going 100 percent over to a laptop computer device. Because there are times when it's either not socially acceptable or not viable to use a computer and a keyboard in a situation," he said.
So they put a touchpad next to the laptop?
Clumsy.. check this out: www.anoto.com
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Yeah, it looks cool..
But monitors should be at eye-level or below.
Otherwise it will put a strain on your eyes.
At least this is what the doctor told me when I wondered why my eyes were sore and I couldn't see clearly.
I'm sure most of this crowd spend looong hours staring at the screen, so be nice to your eyes.
My moneys on the Rocketman and Starchaser Industries.
http://www.starchaser.co.uk (great site btw.)
They've already launched several rockets proving their concept and have their first manned flight planned in Oct 2004.
There's an excellent documentary on Discovery Channel in which it is stated that the worst thing that happened to space development was the space race. Since money wasn't the issue things were bound to get expensive and once the goal had been achieved public interrest rapidly declined, making it even more difficult to justify the pricetag. The Shuttle was a great idea and a marvel of engineering, but an economic disaster.
What is needed to make space available to the public is a bunch of ambitious people on a tight budget.
That's pretty much what the X-Prize is for I believe.
How about "Empire"? (1978)
I recall how, many years later, I sent out my fighterplanes to explore the nearby region
to that extremely annoying, repetitive sound effect.. Aaah, those were the days..
What I would like is a larger version of Mr Mallard, capable of carrying a case of beer.
Or perhaps it could be designed as a beer barrel, with the logics and sensors in a half-sphere on top...
it could have three wheels.. and roll around following me on my hovering desert barge..
Just a thought.
You mean something like this?
I've seen it in action at CeBit. It kind of looks like a shrunken phaser and it takes pictures and scans text
which then is transferred via Bluetooth.
You could even feed live video wireless to a PC, though the framrate sucked.
I'm not sure about the resolution though.
Apparently it's only a concept product as of yet.
You would have found that problem already solved..
Solarpanel on your garage and an electrolysis machine the size of a dishwasher, would be, according to the article, enough to power a car driving 200 miles (320 km) per day.
Start with sun and water, get Hydrogen and Oxygene, end up with power and water..
True, but..
Light is energy
Heat is energy
Matter is energy
Everything is energy, if it's not, then it doesn't exist, does it?
Energy may perhaps be found in forms we don't have a clue about today. As for pure, well.. It's not unthinkable that there is a fundamental form of energy in the universe. But If so we're probably a long way from seeing it. For every layer we peel off we find a new even more unexplicable and improbable. Feels a bit Douglas-Adams-ish..
It's the same, sorry.
Are you sure?
h an nels/lotr/trailer2_rv7.smi
Not the link at the top, but in the middle..
http://ramhurl.film.com/smildemohurl.ram?file=c
http://www.sf.se/sf/sajter/saganomringen/index_fla t.html
Yes, it's in swedish but you'll find it, but hurry up! It already seems to have trouble..
... a combined sleeping chamber and centrifuge?
The Astronuts would lie on its walls so there would not be a problem with the gradient.
When it's time to go to bed you would float into the cylinder strap yourself up and hold on for a minute or so while it accelerated to about 1 G and then you could loosen the straps and go to sleep..
Just make sure they wake you up before they pull the brake...
Well, that's probably what most people think.
Doom is far more well known than Wolf3D because it was far more popular,
and it came at a time when "ordinary" were beginning to get computers.
On the other hand you could claim that the first FPS was one of those Dungeon Games... (Which ever was first, I don't know)
Even the original Battlezone was FPS in a sense though, yes you were acting as a tankdriver and not running as a person. How about CastleMaster?
Didn't the original Ultima have some FPS in it too, when you went down in the dungeons?
So where did it _really_ begin?
Sorry, _here_ is the software.http://ftp.wustl.edu/~aminet/
"Besides, on the Amiga I had you couldn't play MP3, much less record CD-RW."
Hmm, could that be because MP3s and CD-RWs didn't exist when it was made? *doh*
I lost interest in Amiga a looong time ago, but I know they're still out there and I'm sure someone could fix your Amiga to both play and burn.
a quick search revealed amigaamp.de
"a powerful realtime MPEG audio player for Amiga computers"
Finding CD-RW drives that support Amiga isn't that hard either..
...and from http://www.amiga-news.de/cgi-bin/anwd-db.pl I'm sure you can find some software to go.
This took me about 2 minutes to find out.
Sorry, you were saying?
I'd define art as anything where the creator was guided by emotional influences rather than cool logic and reasoning.
For example if I were to make a still life painting, were I to take measurements and accurately transfer them to the canvas I
wouldn't consider it art, but if I do it free handed and feel the apple/pear/whatever in my mind, imagining its shape, its taste etc..
that I would consider art.
"I believe in the Spider Robinson viewpoint. We are not our genes. Our genes may define how tall or short we are, the colour of our hair (sans bleaching or dying it), the colour of our eyes, etc. But a person is more then the physical characteristics of their body. Our memories and experiences make us people."
The question, I think, is how our mind and body relate to each other. Our mood can change our body chemistry and vice versa, for example someone tells you a joke, make you happy, make you produce endorphine.. or you take some strong medication that make you depressed. Our genes decide how well/bad this process works. Could I get gene therapy to make me produce a constant flow of endorphines, thus making me always feel good and see everything in a brighter perspective and also making me remember more good things rather than bad, which in turn would perhaps make me act in another way than I would affecting my personality?
Another thing, that I'm not sure is scientifically proven, is "genetic memory" for example someone who has a transplantation takes on personality traits from the donator. In some cases people have claimed they remember things from their donators past life. If that's true, it doesn't prove the memory was in the genes though.
So I don't think there is a clear border between our body and our mind/soul/whatever.
Ehm, I saw this non-existant product displaying some movie at CeBit in Hannover this spring. Great colours, good contrast, no smear, very thin package and very existant..
Granted though that it probably isn't finished as a sellable product yet. There's always a lot of work to be done between prototype and market..
Personally I'll wait until the second or third generation before I get me a 50" OLED-monitor to hang on the wall. By then the quality has gone up and the price has come down...
Here's another to add to the list..
Supersonic Submarines..
Travelling beneath the surface at Mach 2.
The idea is that the pressure is so high at the nose that water turns into steam
and creates a steambubble through which the rocket-powered sub travels..
The catch is that it has to be launched from a submerged cannon.
And of course, you have to pray there's no whale in your path..
Now there's environmental conscience for ya..
There's no sig to see here. Move along.
One thing about the global "warming" is that we are still not entirely sure if it will result in a warmer or cooler climate. Perhaps both. There's too many unknown variables to be sure.
For example if the overall temperature in the world rises, then a lot more ice will melt, which will decrease the salt-levels in the seas, which will disrupt the deepsea currents that carry warm water to the north and south and cool water to the equatorial regions. How big effect this might have is uncertain. But I think it likely that the northern and southern parts of earth will get significantly colder, while the equatorial regions might get hotter.
But there are many other things to take into consideration and we can never truly be sure until we are there.
...is a split keyboard so I can put one piece each of the arm rests on a big comfy chair, so I could lean back and get some distance from the monitors and rest my arms so I wouldn't have to worry about any wrist-problems. Anyone know where to get one? --- I work with my computer, I eat with my computer, I sleep with my computer... No, wait.. ---
From the article: "The number of people out there who still have paper play a major role in their life as an information tool is still quite large," Grimes said. "And they told us to help them organize and integrate [what they do] on paper, but without going 100 percent over to a laptop computer device. Because there are times when it's either not socially acceptable or not viable to use a computer and a keyboard in a situation," he said. So they put a touchpad next to the laptop? Clumsy.. check this out: www.anoto.com