Have any of these flying cars yet broken ground? I can see the point of working out the rules before they do, but it will be a while yet. I don't think the Moller Skycar flies yet, and I haven't seen any others that do. When will we see one that really flies?
You could use emacspeak, or for a more modern solution try something like a custom hook together of festival for voice synthesis(use a better voice though, not the default one) and sphinx2 for voice recognition. Here's the URL's:
Festival - http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
Sphinx2 - http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/
There's a guy at Humbug who is blind and uses a linux box. Just put these two pieces of software together in some sort of shell, use lynx for web browsing, and hook together other apps. For hardware just use a multi-symultanious and full-duplex sound card, with a headset earphone and mike. Hope this helps.
It sounds like this guy has a bit of an attitude problem. Okay it was a stupid post, but he didn't need to respond like that. It's not a good way to endear yourself to the users. Nowhere there did they expect him to be perfect, or 24hour support. They just asked some questions.
Don't get into free software developement if you are not prepared to answer stupid questions.
I want a device similiar to the units shown on Star Trek Enterprise, with a bright OLED display a bit bigger than your palm, with sound, voice recognition, and touch sensitive. You could use a pen or the voice recognition. It would also contain a digital camera, and could have other devices plugged into it. A StrongARM processor, with 256MB of RAM and 10GB of flash should be sufficient. Anyone know how to go about getting components like the OLED display and to build devices like the Star Trek ones?
Yeah, they look nice and bright, and you can see them at any angle. Are full colour ones available yet? Maybe someone could hack their own monitor, or some sort of computer pad.
I've been thinking about the possibility of a having a cool looking computer pad like those ones on Enterprise, and I'm looking for a small display a bit bigger than your hand. And can you construct your own touch screen system for an LCD display? To get the best brightness I would probably need OLED.
> Of corse, if they were to sell them, they should sell to the Department of Defense. Just slap a few machine guns on the front of it, and they will buy a dozen of 'em...
This is evidence of why most humans should stay at home and not leave. You are illogical. Why do we need 15 different national space programs all trying to do the same thing? What does it gain? Why not consolidate all these groups into one, and get something worthwhile done. It is the only logical path forward.
How does competition cut costs? I cuts them in maintience. It gets rid of people with expertise and promotes the morons. You would end up losing all the great minds of the program, and crashing all the shuttles after a few years.
Swap the money that the military gets with the money that NASA gets. So NASA would get what the current military budget is, and the military would get what NASA currently gets. This would fix numerous problems. Firstly man would be on Mars within a decade and cheap access to space would be realised. Secondly, the USA wouldn't be a superpower so there would be no reason for anyone to attack them.
No it wouldn't. A tourist paying $10 million wouldn't cover the costs of his own launch. Instead they should work on cheap access to space with an SSTO that would eliminate the use of the shuttle for passenger and logistics cargo, then use cheap ELVs for the rest.
Are there styles available for KDE 2.2 other than Liquid? I'd like to see something a bit more innovative than his rip off of Mac OS X. What others are available and is there a website that features them?
I'm a developer on the FlightGear project, and living in Brisbane. I'd like to be able to do a Work-in-progress session, but I'm not sure exactly what this sort of thing means. Has anyone done these before, and could give me some advice? We have all sorts of unique features and we need more developers, so this could be quite useful. Thanks
Deuterium Oxide is less than 10% heavier than standard water. Think deuterium contains 1 proton and one neutron. This is only 1 atomic weight heavier than Hydrogen. The Oxygen however has 6(?) protons and 6 neutrons giving it an atomic wieght of 12. A standard water molecule would thus have an atomic weight of 14. A heavy water molecule has an atomic weight of 18. Not much difference really.
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Have any of these flying cars yet broken ground? I can see the point of working out the rules before they do, but it will be a while yet. I don't think the Moller Skycar flies yet, and I haven't seen any others that do. When will we see one that really flies?
David
You don't need a *formal* background to do anything. Anyone can study in there own time, to learn to do these sorts of things.
I may be reading it wrong, but if you don't have a formal background in DSP you can't claim the bounty. Is it just me or this unfair?
Is EXT3 in Linus' tree yet? Other thing I'm wondering is if it's worth moving to the Alan Cox tree to get it?
You could use emacspeak, or for a more modern solution try something like a custom hook together of festival for voice synthesis(use a better voice though, not the default one) and sphinx2 for voice recognition. Here's the URL's:
Festival - http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
Sphinx2 - http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/
There's a guy at Humbug who is blind and uses a linux box. Just put these two pieces of software together in some sort of shell, use lynx for web browsing, and hook together other apps. For hardware just use a multi-symultanious and full-duplex sound card, with a headset earphone and mike. Hope this helps.
David
It sounds like this guy has a bit of an attitude problem. Okay it was a stupid post, but he didn't need to respond like that. It's not a good way to endear yourself to the users. Nowhere there did they expect him to be perfect, or 24hour support. They just asked some questions.
Don't get into free software developement if you are not prepared to answer stupid questions.
I want a device similiar to the units shown on Star Trek Enterprise, with a bright OLED display a bit bigger than your palm, with sound, voice recognition, and touch sensitive. You could use a pen or the voice recognition. It would also contain a digital camera, and could have other devices plugged into it. A StrongARM processor, with 256MB of RAM and 10GB of flash should be sufficient. Anyone know how to go about getting components like the OLED display and to build devices like the Star Trek ones?
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Yeah, they look nice and bright, and you can see them at any angle. Are full colour ones available yet? Maybe someone could hack their own monitor, or some sort of computer pad.
David
I've been thinking about the possibility of a having a cool looking computer pad like those ones on Enterprise, and I'm looking for a small display a bit bigger than your hand. And can you construct your own touch screen system for an LCD display? To get the best brightness I would probably need OLED.
It's just like bin/laden claiming responsibility for better security in the USA.
Anyone know if slashdot.org uses mod_gzip? It may help with those massive comment pages....
Also do all browsers handle mod_gzip'ed files?
Another question - why not mod_bzip2? Bzip2 is about 30% better than gzip IIRC.
David
Or you can try KStars, for a more modern Ephemeris/star chart program.
You can download it at http://kstars.sf.net
> Of corse, if they were to sell them, they should sell to the Department of Defense. Just slap a few machine guns on the front of it, and they will buy a dozen of 'em...
Good idea. Then give the DoD's funding to NASA.
This is evidence of why most humans should stay at home and not leave. You are illogical. Why do we need 15 different national space programs all trying to do the same thing? What does it gain? Why not consolidate all these groups into one, and get something worthwhile done. It is the only logical path forward.
How does competition cut costs? I cuts them in maintience. It gets rid of people with expertise and promotes the morons. You would end up losing all the great minds of the program, and crashing all the shuttles after a few years.
The Agenda VR3 has been out for ages running on Linux. It looks much cooler than this one.
Swap the money that the military gets with the money that NASA gets. So NASA would get what the current military budget is, and the military would get what NASA currently gets. This would fix numerous problems. Firstly man would be on Mars within a decade and cheap access to space would be realised. Secondly, the USA wouldn't be a superpower so there would be no reason for anyone to attack them.
A win-win situation. Simple.
No it wouldn't. A tourist paying $10 million wouldn't cover the costs of his own launch. Instead they should work on cheap access to space with an SSTO that would eliminate the use of the shuttle for passenger and logistics cargo, then use cheap ELVs for the rest.
David
>We are able to study scripts written as far as 4000 years ago.
Wow. I didn't realise people were writing scripts back then. Were they using Perl or just shell scripts?
Are there styles available for KDE 2.2 other than Liquid? I'd like to see something a bit more innovative than his rip off of Mac OS X. What others are available and is there a website that features them?
David
I'm a developer on the FlightGear project, and living in Brisbane. I'd like to be able to do a Work-in-progress session, but I'm not sure exactly what this sort of thing means. Has anyone done these before, and could give me some advice? We have all sorts of unique features and we need more developers, so this could be quite useful. Thanks
David
What's wrong with WxPython? I've seen software on Linux and Windows that uses that. What is the difference between WxPython and IBM's one?
David
Deuterium Oxide is less than 10% heavier than standard water. Think deuterium contains 1 proton and one neutron. This is only 1 atomic weight heavier than Hydrogen. The Oxygen however has 6(?) protons and 6 neutrons giving it an atomic wieght of 12. A standard water molecule would thus have an atomic weight of 14. A heavy water molecule has an atomic weight of 18. Not much difference really.
David