It's like reading a magazine and throwing out the first 8 magazine subscription cards but then seeing the 9th and saying "hmm, if they're willing to go through that much effort maybe I should subscribe."
The Onion had a great spoof on just this very thing a while ago. Anyone else remember this? I could't find a link to the article.
when I can sit down at a desk with maybe just a keyboard, and plug in the sound screen and everything directly into my head.
Why the hell would you want a keyboard? Eventually you'd hope they could interface directly with the motor cortex as well and determine how you are trying to move. Thus simulate a keyboard, ski slope, whatever.
Believe you me, if you publish a book called "The Big Book Of Hitmen" listing hundreds of phone numbers for hitmen, you'll be arrested in fairly short order.
The police wouldn't have time to arrest me: I'd have 5000 hitmen after me!
The book is still covered by the 1st amendment. This has held up in court several times with books about murder etc.
If I put up a web page with links to tens of thousands of dollars of pirated software,
As long as you are not actually hosting the illegal software, this SHOULD be covered under the first amendment. Of course, you'd actually end up in jail.
Annoy
Can't agree with everything he says (click past the shocker intro), but you've got to admit that he has guts...
What's wrong is that it's a government (both parties) purchased by business, not a government elected by the people. Without real campaign finance reform and/or a revolution...
Couldn't agree more. But do you really think these same jackass politicians are really going to cut-off their own gravy train?
Yea, right... turn the USA into the 4th Reich -- perhaps. Become honest -- not a chance.
Almost anything new (and decent) these days will support up to 1600x1200 with the DVI interface (eg the Geforce4). Watch out though, the max resolution of the cards are often not supported with DVI.
Using Powerstrip (etc) as others have mentioned should get you the native screen resolution.
Lucky guy... The NEC can do P-I-P so you can eg. watch TV and the computer at the same time. I've dreamed of attaching 2x of the Panasonic 52", but cannot justify spending $25000 on monitors.
As the article states, new buckling spring keyboards are available. This is the company that bought the design of the original IBM PC keyboard. The equivalent model is the "Customizer" for $49. Not a bad deal for those of us who hate crappy $9 membrane keyboards. Just don't type while your spouse is trying to sleep...
FWIF, another company with great, although expensive ($150), programable BS keyboards.
all that computing power, and this is what they do with it. they could be working on protein folding, doing advanced simulation on an alternative fuel engine, heck, they could leave it sitting there idly testing the reimann hypothesis,
They are doing these type of things as well. But the money has to come from somewhere. And it mostly comes from DOD -- hence the weapons research.
Hopefully this will force EDS to port I-Deas to Linux as well.
I had been trying without success to get SDRC to port to linux before they were bought out. I was really pissed off when SDRC ported it to Windows and my employer took away my HP-UX.
For email, I only use IMAP (no POP). It rocks. Unfortunately Earthlink sucks... ahem I mean they don't support IMAP yet, but that account is a spam-trap anyhow.
Web bookmarks are more of a problem. Creating a webpage is one solution, but not optimal. So far I'm still looking.
As for data, I stay away from MS products whenever possible, Luckily I mostly use LaTeX.
I've wanted to setup a NAS of some sort, and mount the same home directory from all machines. MacOSX 10.5 should understand SMB much better, but I'd rather stay away from that. Still not sure best solution here either.
I hope after 1.0 is realeased the developers will have time to finally address the completely unstable plugin interface on Linux (plugin barfs ==> Mozilla crashes).
[not complaining, just anxious to have resolved what is IMHO a huge bug]
Yes, the image is a "virtual" image -- you would have to look though some sort of screen to see the image -- but it _would_ appear to "float" behind the screen.
A hologram can be thought of as acting like a time-shifted "window" onto the scene recorded. If a true full-spectrum hologram was created the light you would see from the hologram would be "exactly" as if you were looking through a window at the subject.
I would think this would work similarly (as stated above), except the different frames would be electronically created in real time. Electronically created colograms are nothing new, but the resolution required is staggering.
I took my optics class at U. Michigan from one of the "fathers" of holography. He showed us some large holograms created in the former USSR that were truly amazing.
He also told us that in the former USSR they made "true" 3D movies by recording holograms of different scenes on a several square-meter piece of film, varying the reference beam angle between frames. By then scanning the reference beam through these same angles in the "theater" the audience looking through the film "screen" would see the movie.
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The Onion had a great spoof on just this very thing a while ago. Anyone else remember this? I could't find a link to the article.
(BTW, I agree with your points too...)
Oh Great! Now you've done it.
Why the hell would you want a keyboard? Eventually you'd hope they could interface directly with the motor cortex as well and determine how you are trying to move. Thus simulate a keyboard, ski slope, whatever.
Scary possibilities, sure. But awesome ones too.
The police wouldn't have time to arrest me: I'd have 5000 hitmen after me!
The book is still covered by the 1st amendment. This has held up in court several times with books about murder etc.
Completely fucking different and you know it!
The correct comparison is having someone arrested for listing the phone number of a hitman.
It should not be illegal to publish information.That is what the first amendment is all about.
As long as you are not actually hosting the illegal software, this SHOULD be covered under the first amendment. Of course, you'd actually end up in jail.
Annoy Can't agree with everything he says (click past the shocker intro), but you've got to admit that he has guts...
Couldn't agree more. But do you really think these same jackass politicians are really going to cut-off their own gravy train? Yea, right... turn the USA into the 4th Reich -- perhaps. Become honest -- not a chance.
You've forgotten the ENTIRE viewpoint of these people (eg Ashcroft et al):
Hacking == Terrorism
Don't forget: Hack into a computer and it's life in prison. Killing someone can get you less time!
WTF are these people smoking? 'cause _it_ sure can't be legal either.
Almost anything new (and decent) these days will support up to 1600x1200 with the DVI interface (eg the Geforce4). Watch out though, the max resolution of the cards are often not supported with DVI.
... The NEC can do P-I-P so you can eg. watch TV and the computer at the same time. I've dreamed of attaching 2x of the Panasonic 52", but cannot justify spending $25000 on monitors.
Using Powerstrip (etc) as others have mentioned should get you the native screen resolution.
Lucky guy
Consider that a 1TFLOP system would currently be ranked the #24 most powerful computer in the world
As other people have said, this must be a typo.
Digital cable != HDTV.
...you can buy something similar
You yourself admit that this would kill Apple's hardware business.
Well guess what? Apple makes 90% of its money in the hardware business! It would be the death of Apple, and then of OSX.
I'm no fan of RDRAM though. Not that I necessarily dislike the technology, but the tactics.
As the article states, new buckling spring keyboards are available. This is the company that bought the design of the original IBM PC keyboard. The equivalent model is the "Customizer" for $49. Not a bad deal for those of us who hate crappy $9 membrane keyboards. Just don't type while your spouse is trying to sleep...
FWIF, another company with great, although expensive ($150), programable BS keyboards.
They validate the algorithms using experimental data.
The ASCI computers for instance are undoubtedly being validated against the last few nuclear tests.
This is harder than it might sound.
BTW "big things are easier to simulate than small things" (in another reply) is utter crap.
Goes to show you though that using "off-the-shelf" hardware is not necessarily the best thing to do.
"Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" was a Chinese fable.
i.e. not meant to be taken literally.
It is a great movie once you keep that fact in mind.
Hopefully this will force EDS to port I-Deas to Linux as well.
I had been trying without success to get SDRC to port to linux before they were bought out. I was really pissed off when SDRC ported it to Windows and my employer took away my HP-UX.
For email, I only use IMAP (no POP). It rocks. Unfortunately Earthlink sucks ... ahem I mean they don't support IMAP yet, but that account is a spam-trap anyhow.
Web bookmarks are more of a problem. Creating a webpage is one solution, but not optimal. So far I'm still looking.
As for data, I stay away from MS products whenever possible, Luckily I mostly use LaTeX.
I've wanted to setup a NAS of some sort, and mount the same home directory from all machines. MacOSX 10.5 should understand SMB much better, but I'd rather stay away from that. Still not sure best solution here either.
WTF was this moderated as funny? It is freakin TRUE!
Moz sure has shaped up since the early betas!
I hope after 1.0 is realeased the developers will have time to finally address the completely unstable plugin interface on Linux (plugin barfs ==> Mozilla crashes).
[not complaining, just anxious to have resolved what is IMHO a huge bug]
For those of us who despised the little bastard on STNG, here is the registration info from InterNIC:
Administrative Contact:
Wheaton, Wil wil@wilwheaton.net
2222 Foothill Blvd.
#E347
La Canada, CA 91011
US
310-201-6565
Really him? Who knows. The sad part is this address is pretty close to my house... Not that I've been crank calling him or anything.
Yes, the image is a "virtual" image -- you would have to look though some sort of screen to see the image -- but it _would_ appear to "float" behind the screen.
A hologram can be thought of as acting like a time-shifted "window" onto the scene recorded. If a true full-spectrum hologram was created the light you would see from the hologram would be "exactly" as if you were looking through a window at the subject.
I would think this would work similarly (as stated above), except the different frames would be electronically created in real time. Electronically created colograms are nothing new, but the resolution required is staggering.
I took my optics class at U. Michigan from one of the "fathers" of holography. He showed us some large holograms created in the former USSR that were truly amazing.
He also told us that in the former USSR they made "true" 3D movies by recording holograms of different scenes on a several square-meter piece of film, varying the reference beam angle between frames. By then scanning the reference beam through these same angles in the "theater" the audience looking through the film "screen" would see the movie.