A company wants to mine an asteroid. They have the resources to launch a spacecraft and perform the task. The company goes on with it's plans. You want to mine the asteroid. You have no resources to launch a spacecraft and perform the task. You realize this, and go on with your life.
The company has full right to mine as much as they want to. I reiterate, they aren't taking anything away from you!
How is it that a company is stealing when they are doing something that is completely out of your reach? In order to take something away from you, you would have to possess that thing.
Space isn't possessed by anyone yet, and so it is open for the first person to get there. If a person lays claim to a space object, there has to be some way for them to realistically accomplish that claim. If they can't, they lose. And because space is outside the borders of any government, earth laws do not apply.
If you're really worried about it, launch your own ship and do your own mining. If you have no plans to do that though, quite complaining. They aren't taking anything away from you. Get over it.
Well, you're right, it's seems easy. But where will you get this magical 'balance sensor'?
Aceleration/tilt sensors are used very often, sometimes a gyro, and there has even been talk of using an internal pendulum system for balance feedback. Using a system like this is a fairly good way of getting a walking biped. The problems arise when you don't have a level surface for your biped to walk on.
To perfectly mimic human walking, each leg would need 6 or more degrees of freedom. 2 for the hip, 1 for the knee, 3 for the ankle.
So imagine you have a bipedal robot that has a correct walk including hip movements for the transfer of balance between each leg. Now tilt the surface by a few degrees. Suddenly one leg needs to move less than the other, suddenly the ankle needs to change it's orientation so that the foot strikes the ground correctly, etc.
Now take this scenario to a rapidly changing surface such as a hill or rocky terrain. You can see how bad it could get.
But you would think that if you have a correct walking algorithm, no matter what surface you're on you would be able to adjust it for a good walking gait. Unfortunately, the robot needs some way of knowing what it will be stepping on before it ever does. It also needs to react quickly to feedback from sensors on it's feet and legs to adjust to anything it's previous scan didn't pick up correctly.
Because of the many factors, digital walking still has to get to the point where the computer can do all of this on the fly.
I think right now analog walking is the way to go. Analog creatures already walk quickly and easily on 4 legs, and it's easier to adapt them to two legs. It's just waiting on the right kind of sensors. My 4 legged bots are doing well, but I don't have enough money to work on a biped right now.
The fact that it can climb stairs is especially cool, given the extensive rebalancing done every moment in a step, and the feedback sensors needed to read these motions properly.
Well...
You're right, the ability to climb stairs with a bipedal robot is impressive, but when you find out they programmed it specifically for those steps it becomes a little bit less impressive.
The Honda engineers, in fact, admitted that if the steps were changed by only an inch in width the robot wouldn't be able to handle them. Instead of sensing it's environment there, it's just reverting to a subroutine for those steps. The thing that stinks is that they pull it off without anyone knowing. I might go so far as to say that it reeks.
But ya, the fact that they're walking on two legs in the first place is pretty cool. Now if only it didn't walk like a stick was up it's butt.:)
Why is it that every piece of hardware that comes out seems to come with a million comments saying how it isn't 'this' or 'that' and they need to face up to the truth and do something impossible?
The fact of the matter is, you have nothing to base your argument on beside how 'typical' tends to mean something in particular. If you take in in the true sense of the word, it means the chip will use less than.8 watts at certain times also. There is no data for either argument though, so the point is moot.
My guess is that the 2.4 watts comes into play when running 3D apps. That's not bad at all, IMO. Just try to find a 3D card out there that uses less.
How about a video chipset that consumes less than one watt of power? Wouldn't *that* make more sense?
0.8watts typical power consumption, 2.4watts maximum power consumption
Looks like you didn't read the article.
Out of all the world's laptops, how many are *really* being used primarily for 3D video games?
How about those coders (like myself) who code in 3D while on the plane, or in bed, or wherever? I hate the fact that I can't see my results immediately while I'm programming. I don't want to transfer it to my desktop.
And, again, like the other poster said, laptops aren't used for 3D typically because they can't be used for 3D typically.
If I want a low power consumption 350MHz Pentium I can get one from Intel.
There's the crap, genius.
The Crusoe performs on par with a slightly lower speed P-III. I should know, I've tested one (the 700Mhz version) and the benchmark results are about 20% lower on average on the Crusoe than on a P-III 700. But at the same time, I've gotten close to 300% more battery life. Quite a nice trade, IMO.
"Soft machines" isn't a completely accurate term because it leads one to think of the Crusoe as old technology. I am not aware of any "soft machine" that performs the same functions as Transmeta's Code Morphing layer. Not to mention that the Crusoe emulates a 32 bit x86 on a 128 bit VLIW architecture, something that previous "soft machines" have not done. This results in quite different performance than you may be used to.
I considered your post a troll because of the obvious inflammatory tone in your writing. If you were in fact serious, I apologize.
As far as the H1B thing goes... I don't know. In fact, I don't care. If he's staying, good for him. I hardly think his financial security rests on him keeping an H1B though. He's already a millionaire. If they sponsored it, that's nice. I don't see how it makes any difference though.
Does anyone have recommendations for 3D modeling/rendering programs that will produce images of a quality that's at least as good as Moonlight 3D?
Yes!
Try Blender. While it's technically not a raytracer, it's rendering engine is still very capable. Look at the gallery on their site and be amazed.:)
The learning curve is high, but if you're at all interested in this art form, try Blender! You can use it for animations and game development as well. And only 1.5M!
I find it quite annoying when trolls like this get moderated up. Why do I browse at +2 if I'm going to get crap like this?
That aside though, in case anyone took that seriously.. it's completely inaccurate. Anyone who's read the pertinent information would know better. So just go on to the next post, and hopefully this will be mod'd down soon.
The other guy is wrong. You can encode DivX in realtime. I do it all the time on my system, and my system sucks compared to most. K6-2 500, 128M RAM.
Anyway, I'm able to encode it quite easily as I watch TV on my card. Granted, DivX mangles the picture at times, but at TV resolutions it's acceptable. And because the recorded video is a fraction of the normal size, your hard drive speed isn't as much of a concern.
I use AporticDoc for all my literature needs. Also, DocConvert will make AportisDoc files out of Word files.
I just c&p, convert, install. That has to be one of the most useful features to me.
Of course, never forget HackMaster. And PocketChess, Fretboard (if you're a stringed instrument player), SharpCalc, LauncherIII (for a better interface), and some others that I probably can't remember.
Am I the only one that thinks that picture in the middle looks like two Birth control cases?
Now, because every part of your life needs to be immersed in video, we present Video Birth Control. Guaranteed to provide you with excellent, thought-provoking entertainment the entire time you're swallowing your pill.
Or maybe it just shows video of babies crying. That would be pretty good birth control.
There's something you can do, but it's up to you to figure out how. I think the only reason I realize this is because of my own depression/suicidal tendencies before I ever got into the industry.
Don't let anything bother you.
If you say 'no', and they say 'yes', they're trying to control you. Don't let them.
Don't care. Forget about the money you make, about your deadlines, and about everything else in your life that you could waste your life away thinking about.
Find something that you truly, genuinely enjoy. When stress starts, reference the first three points, and think about that very enjoyable thing.
Now, I'm not about to tell you 'snap out of it', but that's really the only way it can be described. At some point after feeling the way you do, something will click and you'll be happy. What's important is that you realize it when it happens, so that you can take action.
The thing is, it has to be an internal mechanism. You have to be the one who subconsciously causes that mechanism to start. When this happens, you'll realize that everything happening around you is pointless. Everything that people insist on you doing is pointless. No deadline or any other stress mean anything.
Now, at that point, you may think that you'll be left suicidal. I'm here to tell you, that's not true. This is what happens afterward. Once you realize everything around you is pointless, you'll start searching for things that do matter. Maybe it's your wife. Maybe it's your child. Maybe it's spending time with your family. Maybe it's religion. Whatever it is, don't let it go at that point. You have to hold on to the feeling until it's a natural part of your personality. (Yes, that means quite a while)
But then, you can walk around in your haze, intensely aware of pointlessness swarming around you, and not let it touch you. You can make your money, though it won't matter anymore. It will give you new ways to spend that money though... ways that aren't so pointless.
Anyway, to sum everything up, it's all in your hands. 'You are the master of your destiny', to quote a too-often used cliche. You are the one who will ultimately decide what your life is worth. Relying on others to decide for you will only make you feel worse.
They're successful, sure, but their bugs always get turned into 'bugs in linux' by the press
Know why? Because they are the most known distribution. Also, because they were the first known Linux based company with a huge IPO.
Now, I'm sure you realize that, but you have to stop and listen to your argument. You 'don't mind that they're successful', but you don't like their success.
What should they do? Put their big business plans on hold to satify you? Who are you? Do you contribute to the Open Source movement as much as all the developers in RedHat?
If the answer is 'no', then you and everyone else who is complaining should SHUT UP. If you aren't doing as much as they are, you have no right to complain about what they do.
I can't remember the last time anyone said 'Slackware? That buggy piece of crap?
Well, we could rephrase that to 'Slackware? That ancient piece of crap?' The last major Slackware release was 7.1. Go download 7.1. Now wallow in misery as you update almost every stinking package that you just downloaded.
While RedHat releases buggy software now and then, it's fixed within a few weeks, just like everything else that's open source. So get over it. Things don't come to a halt when an exploit is found in Sendmail. If you're affected, fix it, but don't go complaining about the distribution being at fault.
See, that's what I thought too. But then I realized you could use this for a much more broad range of applications. I mean, we're basically talking about the equivilent to go-go-gadget binoculars. Imagine the spy uses!
Or here's an idea: Incorporate the sunglasses with bluetooth. You sit in your car and the car's cameras/control panel become peripherals. You go to the game, and bluetooth stations around the bleachers feed live broadcasts of the action for you to view 'full-lense'. You sit down at your desktop, and you're presented with your screen in the glasses.
Basically, the only thing making this impossible right now is the bandwidth of wireless protocols, and the size of wearable PC technology.
Not that it's here now, but I've got an awesome use for you...
Imagine a wearable that uses an ordinary pair of sunglasses for the screen. The screen can span across an entire lense. It also keeps track of eye location and facial movement. It's connected to an extremely small, built-in camera. So far, not altogether unlikely.
You put it on and calibrate it's eye sensor much like you calibrate the screen of a palmpilot. Look at a moving X or something.
Now, as you are driving, the visible screen would appear in an upper corner of your vision. The area where telephone poles, etc. would normally be. As you look around, you see something on the road but can't quite tell what it is... you twitch your cheek, or some other programmable signal, and the built-in camera focuses and zooms in on said object displaying the resulting image in the small viewport in your field of vision. It could even be controlled by micro-piezo servos so that it can track the object as your head moves.
Now, personally, I think that would be the perfect function of this technology. Maybe some others can think of more uses.
In any event, the only way this type of thing can be possible is if we start small. (Wearable PC's)
btw, whoever goes on to invent this contraption, please remember me with royalties.:)
Um, how long have you been following the crusoe news? (Read: you don't know what you're talking about.)
First of all, the Crusoe implements the x86 instruction set on top of a VLIW 128-bit processor. The x86 portion is performed in software where the code is broken down and optimized. (The more often a piece of code is run, the faster it gets.) Does this sound like calculator material to you?
Not only that, but the processor is "equivilent" in power to a P-III 500. Now, I don't know about you, but I think Quake plays quite well on a machine that fast. Not to mention, the 3D card is the more important link in that chain anyway.
So to sum up, get your facts straight before spouting off verses of opinion as fact. It'll make you happier in the long run.
As far as I can tell, this has nothing to do with going to space. It's talking about once you're already there. Isn't accelerating 200kg to 180,000mph in 3 months a little low to actually break out of earth's gravity? Unless they are referring to hitching a ride on the magnetosphere. But they never actually said anything about leaving earth on one of these, just travelling in space.
I think a lot of people assume 3D shooters and such would be good for this, but I say RTS.
Think of it, being able to gaze onto a virtual gameboard running AOE or Civ:CTP, or even a modernized Risk or Axis&Allies. I think this is a logical extension of the current boardgame. Instead of static pieces, you would have moving characters just like the star wars game. But add in the cool environment too. Mountains, water, etc.
Not that I should care what you think, but it does deserve a response...
Actually, I *do* know them well. I used the term "fairly" because you can always know a person better if you've met them in real life. But since I haven't, I know them _fairly_ well. I've been conversing with most of them individually for about 4 years. That's enough time to get to know them. And because they happen to be in other states/countries, I have very good reason to not have met them in person.
Just because you can't hold a few hundred friendships doesn't mean that no one else can. I pride myself on my friendships. You should try it sometime.
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ok, let's go over this again.
A company wants to mine an asteroid. They have the resources to launch a spacecraft and perform the task. The company goes on with it's plans. You want to mine the asteroid. You have no resources to launch a spacecraft and perform the task. You realize this, and go on with your life.
The company has full right to mine as much as they want to. I reiterate, they aren't taking anything away from you!
How is it that a company is stealing when they are doing something that is completely out of your reach? In order to take something away from you, you would have to possess that thing.
Space isn't possessed by anyone yet, and so it is open for the first person to get there. If a person lays claim to a space object, there has to be some way for them to realistically accomplish that claim. If they can't, they lose. And because space is outside the borders of any government, earth laws do not apply.
It isn't that complicated.
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Finders, Keepers.
If you're really worried about it, launch your own ship and do your own mining. If you have no plans to do that though, quite complaining. They aren't taking anything away from you. Get over it.
The end.
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he, funny, I don't feel foolish.
Suppose it's possible that I know something you don't know?
nah, never.
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Well, you're right, it's seems easy. But where will you get this magical 'balance sensor'?
Aceleration/tilt sensors are used very often, sometimes a gyro, and there has even been talk of using an internal pendulum system for balance feedback. Using a system like this is a fairly good way of getting a walking biped. The problems arise when you don't have a level surface for your biped to walk on.
To perfectly mimic human walking, each leg would need 6 or more degrees of freedom. 2 for the hip, 1 for the knee, 3 for the ankle.
So imagine you have a bipedal robot that has a correct walk including hip movements for the transfer of balance between each leg. Now tilt the surface by a few degrees. Suddenly one leg needs to move less than the other, suddenly the ankle needs to change it's orientation so that the foot strikes the ground correctly, etc.
Now take this scenario to a rapidly changing surface such as a hill or rocky terrain. You can see how bad it could get.
But you would think that if you have a correct walking algorithm, no matter what surface you're on you would be able to adjust it for a good walking gait. Unfortunately, the robot needs some way of knowing what it will be stepping on before it ever does. It also needs to react quickly to feedback from sensors on it's feet and legs to adjust to anything it's previous scan didn't pick up correctly.
Because of the many factors, digital walking still has to get to the point where the computer can do all of this on the fly.
I think right now analog walking is the way to go. Analog creatures already walk quickly and easily on 4 legs, and it's easier to adapt them to two legs. It's just waiting on the right kind of sensors. My 4 legged bots are doing well, but I don't have enough money to work on a biped right now.
Oh well... hope this might help.
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The fact that it can climb stairs is especially cool, given the extensive rebalancing done every moment in a step, and the feedback sensors needed to read these motions properly.
:)
Well...
You're right, the ability to climb stairs with a bipedal robot is impressive, but when you find out they programmed it specifically for those steps it becomes a little bit less impressive.
The Honda engineers, in fact, admitted that if the steps were changed by only an inch in width the robot wouldn't be able to handle them. Instead of sensing it's environment there, it's just reverting to a subroutine for those steps. The thing that stinks is that they pull it off without anyone knowing. I might go so far as to say that it reeks.
But ya, the fact that they're walking on two legs in the first place is pretty cool. Now if only it didn't walk like a stick was up it's butt.
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Why is it that every piece of hardware that comes out seems to come with a million comments saying how it isn't 'this' or 'that' and they need to face up to the truth and do something impossible?
.8 watts at certain times also. There is no data for either argument though, so the point is moot.
The fact of the matter is, you have nothing to base your argument on beside how 'typical' tends to mean something in particular. If you take in in the true sense of the word, it means the chip will use less than
My guess is that the 2.4 watts comes into play when running 3D apps. That's not bad at all, IMO. Just try to find a 3D card out there that uses less.
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How about a video chipset that consumes less than one watt of power? Wouldn't *that* make more sense?
0.8watts typical power consumption, 2.4watts maximum power consumption
Looks like you didn't read the article.
Out of all the world's laptops, how many are *really* being used primarily for 3D video games?
How about those coders (like myself) who code in 3D while on the plane, or in bed, or wherever? I hate the fact that I can't see my results immediately while I'm programming. I don't want to transfer it to my desktop.
And, again, like the other poster said, laptops aren't used for 3D typically because they can't be used for 3D typically.
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ok, you're hearing me.
If I want a low power consumption 350MHz Pentium I can get one from Intel.
There's the crap, genius.
The Crusoe performs on par with a slightly lower speed P-III. I should know, I've tested one (the 700Mhz version) and the benchmark results are about 20% lower on average on the Crusoe than on a P-III 700. But at the same time, I've gotten close to 300% more battery life. Quite a nice trade, IMO.
"Soft machines" isn't a completely accurate term because it leads one to think of the Crusoe as old technology. I am not aware of any "soft machine" that performs the same functions as Transmeta's Code Morphing layer. Not to mention that the Crusoe emulates a 32 bit x86 on a 128 bit VLIW architecture, something that previous "soft machines" have not done. This results in quite different performance than you may be used to.
I considered your post a troll because of the obvious inflammatory tone in your writing. If you were in fact serious, I apologize.
As far as the H1B thing goes... I don't know. In fact, I don't care. If he's staying, good for him. I hardly think his financial security rests on him keeping an H1B though. He's already a millionaire. If they sponsored it, that's nice. I don't see how it makes any difference though.
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Does anyone have recommendations for 3D modeling/rendering programs that will produce images of a quality that's at least as good as Moonlight 3D?
:)
Yes!
Try Blender. While it's technically not a raytracer, it's rendering engine is still very capable. Look at the gallery on their site and be amazed.
The learning curve is high, but if you're at all interested in this art form, try Blender! You can use it for animations and game development as well. And only 1.5M!
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I find it quite annoying when trolls like this get moderated up. Why do I browse at +2 if I'm going to get crap like this?
That aside though, in case anyone took that seriously.. it's completely inaccurate. Anyone who's read the pertinent information would know better. So just go on to the next post, and hopefully this will be mod'd down soon.
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And I thought I was the only one who noticed that in January! :)
Honestly, the number of people who don't read these days...
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The other guy is wrong. You can encode DivX in realtime. I do it all the time on my system, and my system sucks compared to most. K6-2 500, 128M RAM.
Anyway, I'm able to encode it quite easily as I watch TV on my card. Granted, DivX mangles the picture at times, but at TV resolutions it's acceptable. And because the recorded video is a fraction of the normal size, your hard drive speed isn't as much of a concern.
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It needs *ONE* geek sitting up in his room at three in the morning going "Oh wow."
:)
Sorry, I just had to point this out... You do know what you're telling geeks to do, right?
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It needs *ONE* geek sitting up in his room at three in the morning going "Oh wow."
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I haven't seen it mentioned yet...
I use AporticDoc for all my literature needs. Also, DocConvert will make AportisDoc files out of Word files.
I just c&p, convert, install. That has to be one of the most useful features to me.
Of course, never forget HackMaster. And PocketChess, Fretboard (if you're a stringed instrument player), SharpCalc, LauncherIII (for a better interface), and some others that I probably can't remember.
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Am I the only one that thinks that picture in the middle looks like two Birth control cases?
Now, because every part of your life needs to be immersed in video, we present Video Birth Control. Guaranteed to provide you with excellent, thought-provoking entertainment the entire time you're swallowing your pill.
Or maybe it just shows video of babies crying. That would be pretty good birth control.
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There's something you can do, but it's up to you to figure out how. I think the only reason I realize this is because of my own depression/suicidal tendencies before I ever got into the industry.
Don't let anything bother you.
If you say 'no', and they say 'yes', they're trying to control you. Don't let them.
Don't care. Forget about the money you make, about your deadlines, and about everything else in your life that you could waste your life away thinking about.
Find something that you truly, genuinely enjoy. When stress starts, reference the first three points, and think about that very enjoyable thing.
Now, I'm not about to tell you 'snap out of it', but that's really the only way it can be described. At some point after feeling the way you do, something will click and you'll be happy. What's important is that you realize it when it happens, so that you can take action.
The thing is, it has to be an internal mechanism. You have to be the one who subconsciously causes that mechanism to start. When this happens, you'll realize that everything happening around you is pointless. Everything that people insist on you doing is pointless. No deadline or any other stress mean anything.
Now, at that point, you may think that you'll be left suicidal. I'm here to tell you, that's not true. This is what happens afterward. Once you realize everything around you is pointless, you'll start searching for things that do matter. Maybe it's your wife. Maybe it's your child. Maybe it's spending time with your family. Maybe it's religion. Whatever it is, don't let it go at that point. You have to hold on to the feeling until it's a natural part of your personality. (Yes, that means quite a while)
But then, you can walk around in your haze, intensely aware of pointlessness swarming around you, and not let it touch you. You can make your money, though it won't matter anymore. It will give you new ways to spend that money though... ways that aren't so pointless.
Anyway, to sum everything up, it's all in your hands. 'You are the master of your destiny', to quote a too-often used cliche. You are the one who will ultimately decide what your life is worth. Relying on others to decide for you will only make you feel worse.
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They're successful, sure, but their bugs always get turned into 'bugs in linux' by the press
Know why? Because they are the most known distribution. Also, because they were the first known Linux based company with a huge IPO.
Now, I'm sure you realize that, but you have to stop and listen to your argument. You 'don't mind that they're successful', but you don't like their success.
What should they do? Put their big business plans on hold to satify you? Who are you? Do you contribute to the Open Source movement as much as all the developers in RedHat?
If the answer is 'no', then you and everyone else who is complaining should SHUT UP. If you aren't doing as much as they are, you have no right to complain about what they do.
I can't remember the last time anyone said 'Slackware? That buggy piece of crap?
Well, we could rephrase that to 'Slackware? That ancient piece of crap?' The last major Slackware release was 7.1. Go download 7.1. Now wallow in misery as you update almost every stinking package that you just downloaded.
While RedHat releases buggy software now and then, it's fixed within a few weeks, just like everything else that's open source. So get over it. Things don't come to a halt when an exploit is found in Sendmail. If you're affected, fix it, but don't go complaining about the distribution being at fault.
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Micron also asserted that the added cost for the eCache is minimal - "virtually free" are the words Micron's Dean Klein used.
Ordinary Athlon - $600
Athlon with Mamba(TM) - $850
Cutting edge technology, now matter how "free", tends to overly inflate prices. 'Twould be nice if it didn't though.
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See, that's what I thought too. But then I realized you could use this for a much more broad range of applications. I mean, we're basically talking about the equivilent to go-go-gadget binoculars. Imagine the spy uses!
Or here's an idea: Incorporate the sunglasses with bluetooth. You sit in your car and the car's cameras/control panel become peripherals. You go to the game, and bluetooth stations around the bleachers feed live broadcasts of the action for you to view 'full-lense'. You sit down at your desktop, and you're presented with your screen in the glasses.
Basically, the only thing making this impossible right now is the bandwidth of wireless protocols, and the size of wearable PC technology.
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Not that it's here now, but I've got an awesome use for you...
:)
Imagine a wearable that uses an ordinary pair of sunglasses for the screen. The screen can span across an entire lense. It also keeps track of eye location and facial movement. It's connected to an extremely small, built-in camera. So far, not altogether unlikely.
You put it on and calibrate it's eye sensor much like you calibrate the screen of a palmpilot. Look at a moving X or something.
Now, as you are driving, the visible screen would appear in an upper corner of your vision. The area where telephone poles, etc. would normally be. As you look around, you see something on the road but can't quite tell what it is... you twitch your cheek, or some other programmable signal, and the built-in camera focuses and zooms in on said object displaying the resulting image in the small viewport in your field of vision. It could even be controlled by micro-piezo servos so that it can track the object as your head moves.
Now, personally, I think that would be the perfect function of this technology. Maybe some others can think of more uses.
In any event, the only way this type of thing can be possible is if we start small. (Wearable PC's)
btw, whoever goes on to invent this contraption, please remember me with royalties.
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Um, how long have you been following the crusoe news? (Read: you don't know what you're talking about.)
First of all, the Crusoe implements the x86 instruction set on top of a VLIW 128-bit processor. The x86 portion is performed in software where the code is broken down and optimized. (The more often a piece of code is run, the faster it gets.) Does this sound like calculator material to you?
Not only that, but the processor is "equivilent" in power to a P-III 500. Now, I don't know about you, but I think Quake plays quite well on a machine that fast. Not to mention, the 3D card is the more important link in that chain anyway.
So to sum up, get your facts straight before spouting off verses of opinion as fact. It'll make you happier in the long run.
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As far as I can tell, this has nothing to do with going to space. It's talking about once you're already there. Isn't accelerating 200kg to 180,000mph in 3 months a little low to actually break out of earth's gravity? Unless they are referring to hitching a ride on the magnetosphere. But they never actually said anything about leaving earth on one of these, just travelling in space.
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I think a lot of people assume 3D shooters and such would be good for this, but I say RTS.
:)
Think of it, being able to gaze onto a virtual gameboard running AOE or Civ:CTP, or even a modernized Risk or Axis&Allies. I think this is a logical extension of the current boardgame. Instead of static pieces, you would have moving characters just like the star wars game. But add in the cool environment too. Mountains, water, etc.
So what's that, a measly 500 teravoxels?
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Not that I should care what you think, but it does deserve a response...
Actually, I *do* know them well. I used the term "fairly" because you can always know a person better if you've met them in real life. But since I haven't, I know them _fairly_ well. I've been conversing with most of them individually for about 4 years. That's enough time to get to know them. And because they happen to be in other states/countries, I have very good reason to not have met them in person.
Just because you can't hold a few hundred friendships doesn't mean that no one else can. I pride myself on my friendships. You should try it sometime.
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