This (tacking a touchscreen onto a chair) is done a lot in industry, especially for joystick/teleoperated machines. Looks like this guy had fun with a low-budget version.
Industry examples:
Mining (my company, and we doubled the size of the touchscreen on the latest model.)
I just use a Micro ATX motherboard (LAN+Video onboard) with a Sound Blaster Live! OEM board and a surplus point-of-sale monitor (6") for my live shows.
Why not mount them as virtual drives (as with the utilities you found) and then use the SUBST command to map that virtual drive into a subdirectory?
(Disk Management lets you do this too.)
You'd have to get fancy to get past 26 drive letters though, maybe a batch file to switch in the.iso's needed?
C:\>subst/?
Associates a path with a drive letter.
SUBST [drive1: [drive2:]path]
SUBST drive1:/D
drive1: Specifies a virtual drive to which you want to assign a path.
[drive2:]path Specifies a physical drive and path you want to assign to
a virtual drive.
/D Deletes a substituted (virtual) drive.
Type SUBST with no parameters to display a list of current virtual drives.
The events in Cuckoo's Egg (according to Stoll) was the first real eye-opener for the US about the threat from international crackers/hackers, and the book made the whole issue understandable to laypeople. Underground documents the legal cases of many prominent figures in the scene (with a focus on Australia).
Found a more comprehensive title list. The one with the teleoperated machine (with goggles, gloves and haptic interface) was called "Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy."
Often overlooked is the Danny Dunn series from the 50's and 60's. This series had some far out stuff (anti-gravity paint, time travel, the "Honey I shrunk the kids" machine.)
However, some really spot-on predictions were:
-The Home Computer ("The Homework Machine")
-X10 (not the cameras, "The Automated House")
-Miniature Submarines (proper name for these? was in "On the Ocean Floor")
-Teleoperation / augmented reality (I can't remember which one, had a tele-operated machine that looked like a butterfly)
"Turn the Machine up to 10! Time for a staff meeting..."
Assuming Fantasy is relevant...
Automated Mining Facilities
on
Mining On The Moon
·
· Score: 2, Informative
We can't even create automated mining facilities on Earth for fuck's sack, how are we going to get them working on the moon?
Why wasn't this flagged as "Troll"?
Several automated mining projects have started up on Earth in the last couple of years. They're all working pretty well last I heard. I'm involved with a couple of them.
True, getting something similar going on the moon would be exponentially harder (radiation hardening of electronics, fuel sources, etc.) but it IS being done here on Earth.
Something similar is Thoughtslinger, which "lets you and your co-workers converse, share files, and simultaneously co-edit shared documents." It's not up yet, but looks like it will be interesting when it's ready.
By 'filtering' - are we referring to a third-party site that checks over your email, filters it, and sends everything but SPAM to your "real" address?
Problem: I think spammers run a loop of every possible email address, at the major ISP's.
Example: My wife has never, ever posted to Usenet, a web site, etc etc. even under an alias. Completely unknown to the outside world.
But she gets 5x the spam that I do. Why? Her email address is short - only 3 letters before the @. Occasionally one slips through that has the victims listed in 'cc' instead of 'bcc' - and many start with the same letter.
Thief had me seriously freaked out when I'd play it late at night - and you had to play with the lights out to avoid any glare so you could see in the game.
I finished it aged ago - I should go and get Thief II for Halloween!
I once worked in a lab with about 30 Sun Sparcstations (very sweet). They were lined up along two sides of a corridor, typically, you would be working at one of them in the "middle" of the corridor.
We would record short.au files from a station with a microphone, and rcp them into/dev/audio on the machines around where someone was working alone. Things like "Psst!" and "Hey you!" and farting sounds.
People were constantly turning around to see who it was - the machines immediately behind the victim were best, or we'd move along one machine at a time.
We even got this working from the office PC's on a completely different floor - someone would go to the lab, we'd "find" them with rwho, and do this until they returned looking a bit freaked.
Fortunately it got old before anyone started refusing to go to the lab alone!
I occasionally do "live" music improvisation with Fruity Loops and other packages.
I'm too cheap to use a laptop like many other electronic musicians, so I'm building a case out of wood. The original case is too much of a pain to carry, so I just used a plain motherboard on a board last time.
Now I'm making a proper case, out of wood, to be painted black. This plexiglass project looks really sweet, though!
Why wood? Where do mere mortals get Plexiglass and the tools to cut/shape it anyway?
When I finish my box, I'll post pictures and submit it - this story was accepted, right?:)
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This (tacking a touchscreen onto a chair) is done a lot in industry, especially for joystick/teleoperated machines. Looks like this guy had fun with a low-budget version.
Industry examples:
Mining (my company, and we doubled the size of the touchscreen on the latest model.)
Forestry (Simulator)
"Well, umm. Yes there is a single source of global information. It's called GPS."
What if your robots are underground? No GPS there...
(I work for a company doing underground robotics)
Nope, you got it backwards.
:)
1. I gave +1 Insightful
2. Slashdot gave it -1 Redundant ???
3. So I posted in order to undo it and complain
Maybe an April Fool's thing?
I just modded this up - good comment re comparing it to poker. But now it's at a point less. Somebedy else modding it down?
An All American Association Against Advocacy Adressing Any And All Acronyms Abroad
"Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Reason: Too much repetition." haha
I just use a Micro ATX motherboard (LAN+Video onboard) with a Sound Blaster Live! OEM board and a surplus point-of-sale monitor (6") for my live shows.
Cheesy photos here.
That gives you MIDI, audio in/out. Upgrade to a more recent sound card if you wish.
Eventually I'll put it in a proper case, probably wood or plexiglass. Still smaller than even the smallest tower.
Leif aka Schema
Why not mount them as virtual drives (as with the utilities you found) and then use the SUBST command to map that virtual drive into a subdirectory?
.iso's needed?
/?
/D
/D Deletes a substituted (virtual) drive.
(Disk Management lets you do this too.)
You'd have to get fancy to get past 26 drive letters though, maybe a batch file to switch in the
C:\>subst
Associates a path with a drive letter.
SUBST [drive1: [drive2:]path]
SUBST drive1:
drive1: Specifies a virtual drive to which you want to assign a path.
[drive2:]path Specifies a physical drive and path you want to assign to
a virtual drive.
Type SUBST with no parameters to display a list of current virtual drives.
The "Meatball" is NASA's internal slang term for the version of their logo with the blue ball.
http://www.nasa.gov/images/hotnasa.gif
I've never even heard of this game so I wanted to learn more, but no link was given. (shame!)
So here it is: http://www.darkageofcamelot.com/
That sounds about right...
We're waiting for the intergalactic highway to come through, of course.
From the article:
In an interesting sidenote to CP/M development, and as noted in "The History of MSDOS" written by Leven Antov
Didn't he also write the Satanic Bible?
I detect a theme here....
What about:
The Cuckoo's Egg (Cliff Stoll)
and my favorite
Underground?
The events in Cuckoo's Egg (according to Stoll) was the first real eye-opener for the US about the threat from international crackers/hackers, and the book made the whole issue understandable to laypeople. Underground documents the legal cases of many prominent figures in the scene (with a focus on Australia).
Found a more comprehensive title list. The one with the teleoperated machine (with goggles, gloves and haptic interface) was called "Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy."
Often overlooked is the Danny Dunn series from the 50's and 60's. This series had some far out stuff (anti-gravity paint, time travel, the "Honey I shrunk the kids" machine.)
However, some really spot-on predictions were:
-The Home Computer ("The Homework Machine")
-X10 (not the cameras, "The Automated House")
-Miniature Submarines (proper name for these? was in "On the Ocean Floor")
-Teleoperation / augmented reality (I can't remember which one, had a tele-operated machine that looked like a butterfly)
"Turn the Machine up to 10! Time for a staff meeting..."
Assuming Fantasy is relevant...
We can't even create automated mining facilities on Earth for fuck's sack, how are we going to get them working on the moon?
Why wasn't this flagged as "Troll"?
Several automated mining projects have started up on Earth in the last couple of years. They're all working pretty well last I heard. I'm involved with a couple of them.
A few links off the top of my head:
Mine Automation at LKAB
Mining Automation Program
Automated Mining Systems, Inc. (disclaimer, I work there)
Also this Slashdot story about the topic.
True, getting something similar going on the moon would be exponentially harder (radiation hardening of electronics, fuel sources, etc.) but it IS being done here on Earth.
Something similar is Thoughtslinger, which "lets you and your co-workers converse, share files, and simultaneously co-edit shared documents." It's not up yet, but looks like it will be interesting when it's ready.
We could probably adapt some of our terrestial robotic mining technology for this.
:)
(Blatant plug, I know!
By 'filtering' - are we referring to a third-party site that checks over your email, filters it, and sends everything but SPAM to your "real" address?
Problem: I think spammers run a loop of every possible email address, at the major ISP's.
Example: My wife has never, ever posted to Usenet, a web site, etc etc. even under an alias. Completely unknown to the outside world.
But she gets 5x the spam that I do. Why? Her email address is short - only 3 letters before the @. Occasionally one slips through that has the victims listed in 'cc' instead of 'bcc' - and many start with the same letter.
(How else could she have gotten on these lists?)
Surely not Stephen "Fuck the Creationists Hawking??
Looking Glass Studios made some pretty damn scary and atmospheric games.
Thief had me seriously freaked out when I'd play it late at night - and you had to play with the lights out to avoid any glare so you could see in the game.
I finished it aged ago - I should go and get Thief II for Halloween!
I once worked in a lab with about 30 Sun Sparcstations (very sweet). They were lined up along two sides of a corridor, typically, you would be working at one of them in the "middle" of the corridor.
.au files from a station with a microphone, and rcp them into /dev/audio on the machines around where someone was working alone. Things like "Psst!" and "Hey you!" and farting sounds.
We would record short
People were constantly turning around to see who it was - the machines immediately behind the victim were best, or we'd move along one machine at a time.
We even got this working from the office PC's on a completely different floor - someone would go to the lab, we'd "find" them with rwho, and do this until they returned looking a bit freaked.
Fortunately it got old before anyone started refusing to go to the lab alone!
Home Depot?? Cool, I'll go there this weekend. Thanks for the tip.
I occasionally do "live" music improvisation with Fruity Loops and other packages.
:)
I'm too cheap to use a laptop like many other electronic musicians, so I'm building a case out of wood. The original case is too much of a pain to carry, so I just used a plain motherboard on a board last time.
Now I'm making a proper case, out of wood, to be painted black. This plexiglass project looks really sweet, though!
Why wood? Where do mere mortals get Plexiglass and the tools to cut/shape it anyway?
When I finish my box, I'll post pictures and submit it - this story was accepted, right?