Significant efforts are being made by Google and Amazon to scan all books, furthermore it will only be a matter of time before electronic book readers will find a favorable form factor and price. It's going to happen, it's just a question of when. So if I were you, I would begin to sell off all of those books while they are still worth something.
Although you should probably keep the rare books and those with sentimental value... but everything else is just wasting your space and time. Seriously, you are going to spend time to write a personal library tracking app? That's a clear sign to me that you have too much stuff.
Personally, I am in the long arduous process of scanning most of my material possessions. It's a lot of work and yes, it's sad that I wasted money buying these "things" in the first place, but when I am done it's going to be a wondrous thing. With all my data on a hard drive, it's portable, back-up-able, searchable, and pretty much as convenient as possible. It's like a librarian's wet-dream.
This is not THAT outrageous considering some of the real life cases that I have witnessed. In the ghetto, sometimes police get called to a particular address on a semi-regular basis. (Whether for domestic dispute, drug related violence, etc.) I could sort of see this working as a black box... so, when society breaks down, we can see what the heck happened. So, privacy wouldn't be so much of a concern due to the lack of active monitoring... it's just for an unbiased source of evidence when the shit hits the fan. Too often crimes go unpunished due to lack of evidence and police waste a lot of time with people finger pointing.
I read somewhere that the next generation of movie theater projects will be at 4096 * 2160. Would it be possible to get this resolution with a custom DIY projector? I want to know because I would like to experiment with developing games for this platform and I was wondering if I can hack one together. Hi-Res + Large Screen + Many Players = New Genre?
Currently, you can get an rss feed for certain tags on publicly available photos. It would be interesting if they extended this feature for GPS coordinates. (ie, if you want to see what's going on in Central Park, at your college, at Mt Everest, or at Mardi Gras.)
It also would make for some interesting searches. In theory, if they kept track of points, vectors, and times... and lets say that you kept track of the same info, then you could search for all photos that include you!! Also, depending on if they store other meta-data, sorta like ID3 tags for MP3s, you could look for a GPS coordinates that best match a set of keywords.
Example, if you did a search for Lego, the first result would probably be Lego land. (Lots and lots of vacation pics.) The next 2-5 would probably be big, famous Lego artworks that lots of people would take pictures of. You could do a search for waterfalls and find all the most picturesque waterfalls in your area.... In summary; more meta-data = cooler searches.
On the downside, you have to be careful with your meta-data. I can only imagine stalkers having a field day once GPS coordinates are embedded into pictures....Computer generated images would need fake GPS coordinates, NASA would need some other form of GPS for space...
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I just did some moderating and I noticed that most of the posts that caught my attention (aka visible, not collapsed) were already pegged out at 5. Such filtering helps when viewing the site, but it discourages moderators from culling through the dregs to find diamonds.
I'm not going to mention anything about Big Brother, but these love injections sound a lot like soma... but better.
Consider cults, political movements, miltia, etc. If you can get *real* love and devotion from your followers, and the followers recruit followers..if the cult was set up right it would become an awfully powerful church.
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As far as I am concerned, slashdot is one of the top national media outlets.
Significant efforts are being made by Google and Amazon to scan all books, furthermore it will only be a matter of time before electronic book readers will find a favorable form factor and price. It's going to happen, it's just a question of when. So if I were you, I would begin to sell off all of those books while they are still worth something.
Although you should probably keep the rare books and those with sentimental value... but everything else is just wasting your space and time. Seriously, you are going to spend time to write a personal library tracking app? That's a clear sign to me that you have too much stuff.
Personally, I am in the long arduous process of scanning most of my material possessions. It's a lot of work and yes, it's sad that I wasted money buying these "things" in the first place, but when I am done it's going to be a wondrous thing. With all my data on a hard drive, it's portable, back-up-able, searchable, and pretty much as convenient as possible. It's like a librarian's wet-dream.
This is not THAT outrageous considering some of the real life cases that I have witnessed. In the ghetto, sometimes police get called to a particular address on a semi-regular basis. (Whether for domestic dispute, drug related violence, etc.) I could sort of see this working as a black box... so, when society breaks down, we can see what the heck happened. So, privacy wouldn't be so much of a concern due to the lack of active monitoring... it's just for an unbiased source of evidence when the shit hits the fan. Too often crimes go unpunished due to lack of evidence and police waste a lot of time with people finger pointing.
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I read somewhere that the next generation of movie theater projects will be at 4096 * 2160. Would it be possible to get this resolution with a custom DIY projector? I want to know because I would like to experiment with developing games for this platform and I was wondering if I can hack one together. Hi-Res + Large Screen + Many Players = New Genre?
Ah, but maybe he is playing 2 to 3 games at once? Then the total number of "game hours" could far exceed the total number of "real life hours."
Currently, you can get an rss feed for certain tags on publicly available photos. It would be interesting if they extended this feature for GPS coordinates. (ie, if you want to see what's going on in Central Park, at your college, at Mt Everest, or at Mardi Gras.)
... In summary; more meta-data = cooler searches.
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...Computer generated images would need fake GPS coordinates, NASA would need some other form of GPS for space...
It also would make for some interesting searches. In theory, if they kept track of points, vectors, and times... and lets say that you kept track of the same info, then you could search for all photos that include you!! Also, depending on if they store other meta-data, sorta like ID3 tags for MP3s, you could look for a GPS coordinates that best match a set of keywords.
Example, if you did a search for Lego, the first result would probably be Lego land. (Lots and lots of vacation pics.) The next 2-5 would probably be big, famous Lego artworks that lots of people would take pictures of. You could do a search for waterfalls and find all the most picturesque waterfalls in your area.
http://flickr.com/services/feeds/
http://flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gn
On the downside, you have to be careful with your meta-data. I can only imagine stalkers having a field day once GPS coordinates are embedded into pictures.
I just did some moderating and I noticed that most of the posts that caught my attention (aka visible, not collapsed) were already pegged out at 5. Such filtering helps when viewing the site, but it discourages moderators from culling through the dregs to find diamonds.
I'm not going to mention anything about Big Brother, but these love injections sound a lot like soma... but better.
Consider cults, political movements, miltia, etc. If you can get *real* love and devotion from your followers, and the followers recruit followers..if the cult was set up right it would become an awfully powerful church.
This isn't about the transferral of chemicals between two people, it's about biological processes that cause "love" in your body.
With online dating, reading text input can stimulate your body to produce the chemicals in question. Now dreams are entirely different topic.