An asteroid has a much less steep gravity well than the moon. This would save a lot of fuel over a stopover at a moon base. The moon makes no sense as a stepping stone to Mars, but an asteroid might.
Dense areas focused on a common industry (Madison Avenue, Silicon Valley) are useful since the probability of encountering somebody useful by chance is high. In the same fashion meetings are local which is a lot better for budgets.
Bose-Einstein condensates and the Solar Neutrino problems were details of much broader overarching theories which had long since proven their utility. A scientific theory has to be falsifiable, that is it has to predict something that can fail. On the other hand old approaches can become practical when a critical mass of computational power appears. Frankly, I suspect the answers will come out of search and spam filters in which better data and algorithms result in tangible benefits (i.e. $$$).
Assuming that you could lay down the LEDs in a dense display, how could you see it? The contact lens is in contact with the cornea and damn near the pupil, nowhere near the imaging position of the eye. You can't image scratches on your contact lenses or cornea because it isn't anywhere near where the eye focuses. Of course you could generate diffraction patterns that would result in images when focused by the eye but that would require phase modulation and insane resolution.
Of course you could always put a cool LED light show on the irises. Just right for raves and clubs.
Putative eyeglass based designs use a frame mounted projector that fires into a beamsplitter which then re-images the display at a distance (often infinity). As a result they are far more practical.
Basically Jaron Lanier was a "cool" "hip" guy from the mid to late '80's who hyped Virtual Reality as the next big thing. He claimed to have coined the term (which he didn't) and hyped VR as the second coming, with holodeck level VR anytime now (back when 486's were hot stuff). His company VPL cratered and Thompson Capital grabbed everything. In a last ditch effort to keep VPL he announced that we had to keep VR "out of the hands of the military" despite the fact that the DoD and NASA had developed the basic tech ages ago.
So he's a has-been shill from the '80's who was notable for putting his face on a new trend and crashing badly. And he wears dreadlocks. Vanilla Ice. (apologies to Vanilla Ice who has aged better and is still memorable enough to merit disses from Emimem.)
As for the remarkable innovation of the iPhone, basically it's a less capable spiffy implementation of the Palm TX with massive hype.
As for innovation in open source, when FOSS innovates, it is either dismissed as "requiring retraining" or the subject of innumerable lawsuits. The fact that you can mix and match just about any interface or software in Linux is usually put forward as a failing point.
The problem in remote design is that a large percentage of the buttons are unused but different ones are unused for different people/times.
If you only watch Hollywood movies all you need is play, pause etc. But if you are hard of hearing, watch foreign films or watch a lot of anime the subtitle and language buttons are critical. If you are trying to catch details, a-b and slow motion/frame by frame is very handy.
The key is to allow people to abstract the complexity and make the keys needed available when needed. Think LCARS displays.
The best solution would be a polymorphic remote like the Kameleon remotes by Universal. EL displays shift based on the mode of the remote displaying only the keys needed. Using an extension of this or a wiimote/based OSD one could implement a range of modes ranging from total noob to otaku to cinephile.
Pretty ridiculous for two reasons: -Post 9/11 a highjacker has a snowball's chance in hell of surviving against 100-200 unarmed passengers who are convinced that they will die if they do not resist. Pre-9/11 the basic policy was negotiate with the hijacker demands. Now it's kill the mofo.
-Guns in a pressurized airframe are a recipe for disaster. Air marshals pack Glaser Safety Slugs for this reason. A gunfight with multiple people would probably lead to worse casualties than small bombs.
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Of course, they didn't give them the red pill first. Or even do a red pill/blue pill double blind. What kind of research is that? In any case none of them made the jump the first time anyway...
The last time I changed out my hard drive I switched over to Ubuntu 7.10 and haven't looked back. With the exception of a very weird sound setup (I use a weird card to get toslink) everything just works (after automatix2 install). The install is dead simple, and is much superior to the equivalent Windows install in that all the programs that you would have to install separately in a Windows box are done in two passes after install w/ Ubuntu (automatix2 and selection of additional programs). It runs fine on a 4-5 year old box with the occasional slowdown when I push it to the limit (Transcoding video while browsing and playing mp3s).
Ubuntu is very slick and well done, to the point which it is a better experience than windows is.
It's much worse than an over-reliance or mis-application of technology, or having the means justify the end, it's mistaking a means for an end.
Jeff Huber just put up an excellent essay on this which can be summed up by the two quotes by Clausewitz: "Policy is the guiding intelligence and war only the instrument, not vice versa." and "If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each leading to the next, but instead succumb to the idea that the capture of certain geographical points or the seizure of undefended provinces are of value in themselves, we are liable to regard them as windfall profits."
The most efficient "kill-chain" won't do squat unless there is a clear and achievable objective. The other problem is that the "kill-chain" that is being used is purpose built for set piece battles between great powers basically 2nd generation warfare (web 1.0) versus 4th generation asymmetric warfare.
You don't even need Clausewitz, Powell will suffice. To use a shortened version of the Powell doctrine: - Do we have a clear attainable objective? - Have the risks and costs been fully and frankly analyzed? - Have all other non-violent policy means been fully exhausted? - Is there a plausible exit strategy to avoid endless entanglement? - Have the consequences of our action been fully considered?
Those old electronics units are full of lead! By now China is probably running out of lead to paint children's toys with! The scary part is that it's almost true.
My parents can remember the great depression and my father is handy w/ things. The assumption when I was growing up was that you always fix things and keep them going, and if you see something thrown away grab it and fix that too. At worst you figure out how the thing works and have spares for other units. It kept us in cars, TVs etc when times were tough.
I've never lost that habit, and generally build my own stuff (computers, projectors, telescopes, motion stages, CNC machines) so when they break it's just putting things back together. I've never driven but I can tear a car down to it's component parts and put it back together.
Not only does this save me money, but it makes me the company MacGuyver.
The other component for this resurgence is eBay serving as a ready source of spares and repairable goods.
While just a another miniATX it is nice to know that is fully supported by gOS and presumably Ubuntu I was disapointed to not see onboard WiFi with compatible drivers.
My preference would be to get a building designed by a structural engineer and faced w/ a 3D printer. Give me a solid well built building, but add subtle detail like when we had great tradesmen/craftsmen. A CNC/Fab can produce unique subtly varying work at much the same cost as making the same thing over and over. I want fractal ornamentation!
Slashdot Mirror
... move along.
Ahh, the old quantum mind trick!
An asteroid has a much less steep gravity well than the moon. This would save a lot of fuel over a stopover at a moon base. The moon makes no sense as a stepping stone to Mars, but an asteroid might.
Just read the Suck.com article
Dense areas focused on a common industry (Madison Avenue, Silicon Valley) are useful since the probability of encountering somebody useful by chance is high. In the same fashion meetings are local which is a lot better for budgets.
Bose-Einstein condensates and the Solar Neutrino problems were details of much broader overarching theories which had long since proven their utility. A scientific theory has to be falsifiable, that is it has to predict something that can fail. On the other hand old approaches can become practical when a critical mass of computational power appears.
Frankly, I suspect the answers will come out of search and spam filters in which better data and algorithms result in tangible benefits (i.e. $$$).
The definition of a real utility computing environment is one where somebody can hold a coup d'etat in it and make it stick in the real world.
... welcome our new Manimal overlords.
Especially if they are in Neko Mimi Mode.
Assuming that you could lay down the LEDs in a dense display, how could you see it? The contact lens is in contact with the cornea and damn near the pupil, nowhere near the imaging position of the eye. You can't image scratches on your contact lenses or cornea because it isn't anywhere near where the eye focuses. Of course you could generate diffraction patterns that would result in images when focused by the eye but that would require phase modulation and insane resolution.
Of course you could always put a cool LED light show on the irises. Just right for raves and clubs.
Putative eyeglass based designs use a frame mounted projector that fires into a beamsplitter which then re-images the display at a distance (often infinity). As a result they are far more practical.
Basically Jaron Lanier was a "cool" "hip" guy from the mid to late '80's who hyped Virtual Reality as the next big thing. He claimed to have coined the term (which he didn't) and hyped VR as the second coming, with holodeck level VR anytime now (back when 486's were hot stuff). His company VPL cratered and Thompson Capital grabbed everything. In a last ditch effort to keep VPL he announced that we had to keep VR "out of the hands of the military" despite the fact that the DoD and NASA had developed the basic tech ages ago.
So he's a has-been shill from the '80's who was notable for putting his face on a new trend and crashing badly. And he wears dreadlocks. Vanilla Ice. (apologies to Vanilla Ice who has aged better and is still memorable enough to merit disses from Emimem.)
As for the remarkable innovation of the iPhone, basically it's a less capable spiffy implementation of the Palm TX with massive hype.
As for innovation in open source, when FOSS innovates, it is either dismissed as "requiring retraining" or the subject of innumerable lawsuits. The fact that you can mix and match just about any interface or software in Linux is usually put forward as a failing point.
The problem in remote design is that a large percentage of the buttons are unused but different ones are unused for different people/times.
If you only watch Hollywood movies all you need is play, pause etc. But if you are hard of hearing, watch foreign films or watch a lot of anime the subtitle and language buttons are critical. If you are trying to catch details, a-b and slow motion/frame by frame is very handy.
The key is to allow people to abstract the complexity and make the keys needed available when needed. Think LCARS displays.
The best solution would be a polymorphic remote like the Kameleon remotes by Universal. EL displays shift based on the mode of the remote displaying only the keys needed. Using an extension of this or a wiimote/based OSD one could implement a range of modes ranging from total noob to otaku to cinephile.
Pretty ridiculous for two reasons:
-Post 9/11 a highjacker has a snowball's chance in hell of surviving against 100-200 unarmed passengers who are convinced that they will die if they do not resist. Pre-9/11 the basic policy was negotiate with the hijacker demands. Now it's kill the mofo.
-Guns in a pressurized airframe are a recipe for disaster. Air marshals pack Glaser Safety Slugs for this reason. A gunfight with multiple people would probably lead to worse casualties than small bombs.
...Welcome our new Chobit overlords!
Gotta put the reset switch somewhere else 'tho.
Of course, they didn't give them the red pill first. Or even do a red pill/blue pill double blind.
What kind of research is that?
In any case none of them made the jump the first time anyway...
The last time I changed out my hard drive I switched over to Ubuntu 7.10 and haven't looked back. With the exception of a very weird sound setup (I use a weird card to get toslink) everything just works (after automatix2 install). The install is dead simple, and is much superior to the equivalent Windows install in that all the programs that you would have to install separately in a Windows box are done in two passes after install w/ Ubuntu (automatix2 and selection of additional programs). It runs fine on a 4-5 year old box with the occasional slowdown when I push it to the limit (Transcoding video while browsing and playing mp3s).
Ubuntu is very slick and well done, to the point which it is a better experience than windows is.
...Standardize We Must!! RPN, IBM change name we must!!
It's much worse than an over-reliance or mis-application of technology, or having the means justify the end, it's mistaking a means for an end.
Jeff Huber just put up an excellent essay on this which can be summed up by the two quotes by Clausewitz:
"Policy is the guiding intelligence and war only the instrument, not vice versa."
and
"If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each leading to the next, but instead succumb to the idea that the capture of certain geographical points or the seizure of undefended provinces are of value in themselves, we are liable to regard them as windfall profits."
The most efficient "kill-chain" won't do squat unless there is a clear and achievable objective. The other problem is that the "kill-chain" that is being used is purpose built for set piece battles between great powers basically 2nd generation warfare (web 1.0) versus 4th generation asymmetric warfare.
You don't even need Clausewitz, Powell will suffice. To use a shortened version of the Powell doctrine:
- Do we have a clear attainable objective?
- Have the risks and costs been fully and frankly analyzed?
- Have all other non-violent policy means been fully exhausted?
- Is there a plausible exit strategy to avoid endless entanglement?
- Have the consequences of our action been fully considered?
I didn't know DNS was susceptible to lead. Maybe they're using GHB.
Those old electronics units are full of lead! By now China is probably running out of lead to paint children's toys with! The scary part is that it's almost true.
We use defense in depth. Two firewalls! One after another, each providing ROT13 encryption for our VPN. Bring it on hackers!!!
...PhotoGIMP!
My parents can remember the great depression and my father is handy w/ things. The assumption when I was growing up was that you always fix things and keep them going, and if you see something thrown away grab it and fix that too. At worst you figure out how the thing works and have spares for other units. It kept us in cars, TVs etc when times were tough.
I've never lost that habit, and generally build my own stuff (computers, projectors, telescopes, motion stages, CNC machines) so when they break it's just putting things back together. I've never driven but I can tear a car down to it's component parts and put it back together.
Not only does this save me money, but it makes me the company MacGuyver.
The other component for this resurgence is eBay serving as a ready source of spares and repairable goods.
I'd rather have my house cleaned by a sexy anatomically correct robot. I mean we're talking about the best robots can offer!
While just a another miniATX it is nice to know that is fully supported by gOS and presumably Ubuntu I was disapointed to not see onboard WiFi with compatible drivers.
My preference would be to get a building designed by a structural engineer and faced w/ a 3D printer. Give me a solid well built building, but add subtle detail like when we had great tradesmen/craftsmen. A CNC/Fab can produce unique subtly varying work at much the same cost as making the same thing over and over. I want fractal ornamentation!
Erm, Rep Rap
I know, it won't fab everything but the few remaining bits are easy to get.