In the bowels of a military hospital, working 11 hour shifts on death march.
Some Asshole in the next room where-in lies the thermostat, Decided that they should turn the temp down and lock the door over the holidays To save energy.
Not realizing, in the bowels of the hospital, in a room once marked O.R. That turning a thermostat to 45, will in fact make the room 45... and not just settle on ambient temp.
11 hour shifts, trying to type with a coat, and hat and gloves on.
Anyone Else think "Deep Impact" is a bad name for something that it going to (albeit a small chance) fracture something big and scary like a comet... look out Tia Leoni! I would prefer something like "Comet Harvester" or "Gold Rush" or "Snowflake"... something that doesn't elicit images of 4km tidal waves and mass histeria.
I would have titled it "Neuromancer style...", ahh the days playing Cyberpunk with paper and pencil have long gone the way of the Dodo... Steve Jackson Games - where for art thou?
For all you "Bots take over the world" types..
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If anything, as far back as RUR or Frankenstein, to more modern "creation" stories go (Pokemon the Movie - "Mew 2"), the idea is simple:
1) People wish to procreate, beyond simple flesh reproduction, our *MINDS* wish to create life.
2) LOVE whatever you create. In all these stories the key is care and love is left because the scientist is more concerned with "the experiment". Just like making a kid, if you create a life - you are responsible for raising that life in a loving environment.
3) 1+2: Creation takes love, the whole "two parents" is rather convenient in the regard.
Is it possible to store the config/files remotely? I'd love to have a "diskless" system where I could carry a CD around that has my "host" configured. Pop in the CD on any machine and boot to my desktop, have access to my files, etc.
Thats funny, I was just posting my project (WebP2P) to freshmeat.
The idea is to create a P2P network that actually runs using PHP pages as the peers... technically it would be "pure browser" since tha pages use http to communicate.
I wonder (thinking of all these angles of observation), if given observation points on multiple planets, if you would get an actual "3d" representation of the local universe.. or if the distances involved would require the observation points to be further apart.
Wasn't there a project recently (OSDN-related), that did this. Someone posts an order, people "bid" to work on the GPLed code, etc... it kinda flopped.
I guess his primary difference is the OCM is the contractor.. "subcontracting" the coders instead of some completely un-regulated bid-market.
*BUT* trained nerve impulses are a one-way trip. Martial arts works because you have trained your spine to respond to commands (Eye sees punch and issues info, spine handles reaction). That is why there is so little conscious thought involved in mastery-level physical movement (and I would suspect even coding).
I imagine that someone using such an implant would be MUCH faster that expected after a period of training... Usually your reaction time is slowed because you don't normally do the action (hit the buzzer when I flash a light), if you did it 8 hours/day for a year, you'd train your spine to do the action for you. The signal from your eye would literally trigger the movement, you might not even realize you were doing it.
Give it 10 years in general use (work out the bugs and improve efficiency), and I'd be happy to have a set of "trodes" installed.
I was thinking about that the other day, that SUN's "Lava-Lamp" random number generator was no different than the cup of tea in the Inifinite Improbability Drive.
Handheld games in trading card packs
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Combine T-ink with E-ink and you have a playing card that is like a little nintendo...
Or Better yet, all those trading card games could REALLY interact with a "player".. so you lay down your cards and they literally store hitpoints and such, or special moves/rules/ etc.
Its like a key point in a spy novel... no one thought about this hunk of art lying around, until revolutionaries use it to orchestrate a massive simultaneous attack (or a bunch of artsy types use it for massive simultaneous silliness)
Just thought I'd drop a line and mention a quick thought. With the water battery, could you use a solar oven during the day to build the pressure? Then via cooling or some other mechanism (like venting one side) you would then harvest energy from the cell...
Sunlight Water Input > Chamber 1 > Water Battery > Chamber 2 > Valve.
(Chamber 1 and 2 being separated)
1. Sunlight heats/pressurizes chamber 1 and 2 (like a solar oven) 2. Valve is opened on Chamber 2 to create pressure differential (tuned to battery output) 3. When pressure differential is gone, (and energy output stops/slows) valve is closed, water is allowed to enter chamber 2, and chamber 1, and the heating cycle (1) starts again.
Depending on what kind of pressure could be created, and how slow the release is, a parallel group of these might make for an interesting emergency power system.
This is my way of preventing patents, posting ideas on slash!
(obligitory obvious prior art posting to prevent people from patenting this stuff) Isaac Asimov "I, Robot".. a space-based power station near the sun that beams the solar energy back to earth. Major plot that the station is taken over by a "religious" robot.
It makes me wonder more if a dyslexic could still read it. Being that a "normal" brain can read the correct spelling and the garbled spelling, can a dyslexic read either?
Could this be as close to a "brain-cluster" as possible?
You set 10 people together to discuss an idea or problem in a conference call mode, let them figure out a protocol.. Or, each person is patched into three other "mind-nodes", auditory only, and must precede all communications with a command. The voice packets are then sen to the appropriate node
"Bill, what if...,Bill" "Jane, how about.., Jane".. when I say Jane, she gets my next statement, but Bill can't hear it.
Course, what happens when people start hallucinating from the sensory dep?
Now, build a "PNG-Proxy" web-site. Enter a URL, it grabs the page and renders it to a snapshot of the website... so Bayesian (or other text-based) Filtering does nothing... you're looking as a screen shot (maybe even convenience image map as well) of the web page.
Jeez, next they'll be using some of those 30 year old operating systems, anyone ever heard of UNIX - that antiquated stuff! Good thing we've got 30 years of operating system progress, and look at my windows box (let me reboot first...). (thats a joke in case you are clue impaired)
Just because a technology is old doesn't mean that it can't be a great workhorse. Its like Zen, the master returns to the beginning and does almost the same as he did form the start - because it works... just throw in a few of the little lessons learned, and you're good to go. Ever *wonder* why soviet craft are STILL flying after all this time with almost no mods? Don't f*ck with a good thing
So, if I get a prof that just uses the tool as a shortcut, as long as I can create something that is well composed, has style and diction... I get an A!
My father told me of a classmate that wrote the first half of an essay answer as best he could, but ran out of ideas, and started writing about Mickey Mouse's great acheivements in science. The guy got an A, because the overworked grad student just looked at the first sentance to see if you were on track, and then gave you credit for that!
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So, this means we should go around modeling anything and everything now, before the law passes.. so we can have prior art?
A poem:
In the bowels of a military hospital,
working 11 hour shifts
on death march.
Some Asshole in the next room
where-in lies the thermostat,
Decided that they should
turn the temp down
and lock the door
over the holidays
To save energy.
Not realizing,
in the bowels of the hospital,
in a room once marked O.R.
That turning a thermostat to 45,
will
in fact
make the room 45...
and not just settle
on ambient temp.
11 hour shifts, trying to
type with a coat, and hat
and gloves on.
I brought a space heater.
It helped a little.
I was very unhappy.
Anyone Else think "Deep Impact" is a bad name for something that it going to (albeit a small chance) fracture something big and scary like a comet... look out Tia Leoni! I would prefer something like "Comet Harvester" or "Gold Rush" or "Snowflake" ... something that doesn't elicit images of 4km tidal waves and mass histeria.
Is it a sign of slashdot that one of the guys I used to play Cyberpunk with responded to my thread?
I would have titled it "Neuromancer style...", ahh the days playing Cyberpunk with paper and pencil have long gone the way of the Dodo... Steve Jackson Games - where for art thou?
If anything, as far back as RUR or Frankenstein, to more modern "creation" stories go (Pokemon the Movie - "Mew 2"), the idea is simple: 1) People wish to procreate, beyond simple flesh reproduction, our *MINDS* wish to create life. 2) LOVE whatever you create. In all these stories the key is care and love is left because the scientist is more concerned with "the experiment". Just like making a kid, if you create a life - you are responsible for raising that life in a loving environment. 3) 1+2: Creation takes love, the whole "two parents" is rather convenient in the regard.
And instead of hauling a broken machine back after a prolonged firefight in which it became damaged, you can eat it...
Dip it in soapy water and look for the bubbles.. oh, is that an innertube? wonder if you could use a spectrometer to hunt for the O2 coming out.
Is it possible to store the config/files remotely? I'd love to have a "diskless" system where I could carry a CD around that has my "host" configured. Pop in the CD on any machine and boot to my desktop, have access to my files, etc.
Thats funny, I was just posting my project (WebP2P) to freshmeat.
The idea is to create a P2P network that actually runs using PHP pages as the peers... technically it would be "pure browser" since tha pages use http to communicate.
During the war they promised me there'd be flying cars, where's my flying car? --Red
I wonder (thinking of all these angles of observation), if given observation points on multiple planets, if you would get an actual "3d" representation of the local universe.. or if the distances involved would require the observation points to be further apart.
funny, if that were a linked list, it would break halfway through.. should be:
int i;
for (i = ADMIN_LIST_SIZE; i >= 0; i--) {
delete admins[i];
}
Wasn't there a project recently (OSDN-related), that did this. Someone posts an order, people "bid" to work on the GPLed code, etc... it kinda flopped.
I guess his primary difference is the OCM is the contractor.. "subcontracting" the coders instead of some completely un-regulated bid-market.
*BUT* trained nerve impulses are a one-way trip. Martial arts works because you have trained your spine to respond to commands (Eye sees punch and issues info, spine handles reaction). That is why there is so little conscious thought involved in mastery-level physical movement (and I would suspect even coding). I imagine that someone using such an implant would be MUCH faster that expected after a period of training... Usually your reaction time is slowed because you don't normally do the action (hit the buzzer when I flash a light), if you did it 8 hours/day for a year, you'd train your spine to do the action for you. The signal from your eye would literally trigger the movement, you might not even realize you were doing it. Give it 10 years in general use (work out the bugs and improve efficiency), and I'd be happy to have a set of "trodes" installed.
I was thinking about that the other day, that SUN's "Lava-Lamp" random number generator was no different than the cup of tea in the Inifinite Improbability Drive.
Combine T-ink with E-ink and you have a playing card that is like a little nintendo... Or Better yet, all those trading card games could REALLY interact with a "player".. so you lay down your cards and they literally store hitpoints and such, or special moves/rules/ etc.
Its like a key point in a spy novel... no one thought about this hunk of art lying around, until revolutionaries use it to orchestrate a massive simultaneous attack (or a bunch of artsy types use it for massive simultaneous silliness)
Just thought I'd drop a line and mention a quick thought. With the water battery, could you use a solar oven during the day to build the pressure? Then via cooling or some other mechanism (like venting one side) you would then harvest energy from the cell...
Sunlight
Water Input > Chamber 1 > Water Battery > Chamber 2 > Valve.
(Chamber 1 and 2 being separated)
1. Sunlight heats/pressurizes chamber 1 and 2 (like a solar oven)
2. Valve is opened on Chamber 2 to create pressure differential (tuned to battery output)
3. When pressure differential is gone, (and energy output stops/slows) valve is closed, water is allowed to enter chamber 2, and chamber 1, and the heating cycle (1) starts again.
Depending on what kind of pressure could be created, and how slow the release is, a parallel group of these might make for an interesting emergency power system.
This is my way of preventing patents, posting ideas on slash!
(obligitory obvious prior art posting to prevent people from patenting this stuff) Isaac Asimov "I, Robot" .. a space-based power station near the sun that beams the solar energy back to earth. Major plot that the station is taken over by a "religious" robot.
It makes me wonder more if a dyslexic could still read it. Being that a "normal" brain can read the correct spelling and the garbled spelling, can a dyslexic read either?
Could this be as close to a "brain-cluster" as possible?
,Bill" "Jane, how about.., Jane".. when I say Jane, she gets my next statement, but Bill can't hear it.
You set 10 people together to discuss an idea or problem in a conference call mode, let them figure out a protocol.. Or, each person is patched into three other "mind-nodes", auditory only, and must precede all communications with a command. The voice packets are then sen to the appropriate node
"Bill, what if...
Course, what happens when people start hallucinating from the sensory dep?
Now, build a "PNG-Proxy" web-site. Enter a URL, it grabs the page and renders it to a snapshot of the website... so Bayesian (or other text-based) Filtering does nothing... you're looking as a screen shot (maybe even convenience image map as well) of the web page.
Jeez, next they'll be using some of those 30 year old operating systems, anyone ever heard of UNIX - that antiquated stuff! Good thing we've got 30 years of operating system progress, and look at my windows box (let me reboot first...). (thats a joke in case you are clue impaired)
Just because a technology is old doesn't mean that it can't be a great workhorse. Its like Zen, the master returns to the beginning and does almost the same as he did form the start - because it works... just throw in a few of the little lessons learned, and you're good to go. Ever *wonder* why soviet craft are STILL flying after all this time with almost no mods? Don't f*ck with a good thing
So, if I get a prof that just uses the tool as a shortcut, as long as I can create something that is well composed, has style and diction... I get an A!
My father told me of a classmate that wrote the first half of an essay answer as best he could, but ran out of ideas, and started writing about Mickey Mouse's great acheivements in science. The guy got an A, because the overworked grad student just looked at the first sentance to see if you were on track, and then gave you credit for that!