This thing is an arm with a central axis. To simulate forward motion it would have to do this in a circle. At speed it would feel like being in a centrifuge.
Two things allow you to realize you are in motion- external references and acceleration.
The first could be taken care of through VR goggles or something; once that is done, acceleration can be simulated by the motion of the arm. Besides how many roller coasters have long straightaways with no vertical or horziontal motion?
Roller coasters don't have real "G" forces
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but most importantly, no real G-forces
Roller coasters have "G" forces only in one direction... down. Other forces felt on the ride, the ones that press you into your seat in loops and curves are centrifugal forces created by the curvature of the track... which is easily replicated by the motion of the robot swinging the seat in a circle. Variations on the angle of the chair will reproduce centrifugal force in any direction you want.
These forces are measured in "G's" relative to the gravity of the earth, but they are not gravitational forces.
Create a standard for it all, and you've got some remarkable integration.
But I don't want my toaster oven noticing that this is the third time this week I've had toast slathered with 1/4 stick of butter and two teaspoons of honey, double checking with the bathroom scale, collaborating with the fridge to lock me out, then instructing my tivo to stop recording the x-files and start recording all those home workout shows and exercise infomercials, then finally telling my puter not to let me log into/. until I do a few situps first.
I still don't see what the hype of a tablet PC is all about, for much less you can pick a a PC, or even a laptop and a Wacom Graphics tablet.
Insightful?
What are you going to do, walk around with it strapped to your leg?
The entire point of the tablet pc is so you can use it standing or walking, situations where you can't easily open your laptop.
In terms you might understand, it's the equivalent of having a clipboard and being able to jot notes and flip through pages of info. Yes, you can also use the clibboard on top of a desk, but that's not the idea- the idea is mobility.
Apparently, people would never buy the phone if it felt like the cheap peice of 3"x2" circuit board that really was!
Anyone else wish electronics were much heavier?
My 10 month old Sony VCR (that I got as a gift) is so light, every time I pop in a tape, it gets pushed a little further back into the console. Every couple of weeks I have to pull the VCR back to the front of the shelf.
My 14 year old Sharp VCR doesn't have that problem, it weighs at least four times as much and stays put. I would stack the heavy one on top of the light one, but it's practically twice the size. I'd epoxy the Sony to the shelf, but figure it's going to die soon anyway.
Corded phones- I still like corded phones, but they're so light nowadays when you walk away from the desk, you pull the base with you. The old bases were heavy enough that didn't happen, but now you pretty much have to screw the thing to a wall or your desk.
TVs- ok, it's nice that TVs are much lighter, easier to move, especially when you have kids who end up losing stuff behind the tv console.
Hmmm- I didn't see anywhere in the article where Grove said it is "unsolvable". Lets read what the article actually said:
He said the company' engineers "just can't get rid of" power leakage.
Sounds to me like he is just saying Intel hasn't solved it yet (but neither has anybody else).
Man, I could swear I read "stops power leakage on Intel chips" on that list of "1001 uses for duct tape."
does the US have this kind of problem (maybe not NASA, but commercial satellites going up, or military stuff), and the media just doesn't make a big deal of it?
Yeah, it makes the papers, headlines even. I don't remember anything recently, but back in '99 there was a string of six failures resulting in some $3.5 billion in losses, including the explosion of a tried and true Titan IV which destroyed a $1B super secret spy satellite, and the failure of a couple of new Delta III rockets. Plenty of info on Google about these, it was big news back then.
Why do we see all these articles about "alternative" uses for the X10s? Doesn't anybody out there use them for their intended purpose, to spy on the neighbor's daughter?
The lawn is usually closed, they open it up during the summer now and then, but usually when i walk by it's closed. It's closed right now, probably letting the grass recover after the fashion show.
You can't sit at the tables this week, all the open areas are taken up by the booths selling holiday knicknacks.
It's a nice park and all, but it seems that it's more for use by paid parties (fashion show, circus, microsoft, and the current booths) than for the people.
This is Bryant park we're talking about. You could walk around the perimiter in about 2 minutes (if you speedwalk). It's two blocks from Times Square, so it's noisy, crowded, and pretty expensive.
Fresh air? You kidding, there's no such thing as fresh air in NYC.
It's a nice, cozy park, except it's really crowded; during lunch it's difficult to find a chair or table. The lawn is frequently closed so the grass gets a chance to breathe after hosting the fashion show, circus, the myriad of functions. Right now most of the free space is taken up by holiday shopping stalls.
Hmm... the antennas are probably just out of LoS... should run downstairs and pick up a pringles can and play with it.
If you have so much expensive equipment, you should consider everything, including arson!
No, there's really no way to prevent arson.
You can take reasonable steps to prevent small fires from breaking out, or even expensive measures like halon to protect large server rooms from large fires. But you just cannot stop a dedicated arsonist, especially if he has access to the room you're trying to protect. Any anti-fire system can easily be defeated or bypassed by someone who's had time to plan ahead... which an arsonist usually does.
And if you protect your servers from the actual fire, what good is it if the building collapses down around them? Once the floor goes, it doesn't matter how well you protected that room.
Thus the importance of backups and disaster recovery plans. There's no way to stopping a dedicated arsonist, but you can back up your data easily enough.
It's time for the industry as a whole to look at different approaches The time-honored method of signature scanning is a little worn and weary given new viruses coming out
True, but most of the new viruses that come out are produced by script kiddies and their virus construction kits, and heuristics work well for detecting these.
Besides, AV software does not stand alone. AV security includes scanning, monitoring and blocking at the mail servers and firewalls, good communication between av software companies and IT AV staff, desktop security policies, and the most important, user training. Admittedly the last is the hardest, but well informed users are less likely to infect themselves and risk infecting everyone else.
so why would you insist on living in this particular appartment, trusting this particular super?
Well, it's in a nice neighborhood, my boss and her boss and the ceo live there as well, as do many of my co-workers. There's a doorman, elevator, cable, dishwasher, washing machine and dryer... it's just comfortable. If it just wasn't so expensive and so insecure...
There is a building across the street, which is full of those wierdo artist types. I had an apartment there too... but the walls started to crumble and everything started breaking, so I bailed. The building almost collapsed, but I hear it's been propped up and doing pretty well now. Still, I don't know if I'd move back in there.
There's another building down the street where I could move... I hear it's incredibly secure. Actually, it can be just as insecure, but at least there are no hidden entrances. Many of the residents of that building go around helping each other ensuring everyone knows how to lock all the doors and windows. All the electrical outlets are some wierd type and so none of my appliances from my apartment work, although I hear they are making adapters for most of them nowadays. The only problem is I gotta do everything for myself. Which means either I find a few kind neighbors to help me build and operate the dishwasher, or have a bunch of snobby neighbors yell RTFMP at me. Everytime I'm confused, I get a few helpful answers and twice as many RTFMPs.
Until people can use their 36" widescreen tv and in the linux apartments, there won't be any mass migration there...
If you had a nice apartment in the middle of New York, and you constantly left the front door unlocked, and then one day somebody walked in stole your stereo, I'd feel bad for you. But, you know, not too bad.
But it's not like that at all. It's more like I lock my front door. I ask my super "am I secure?" and the super replies "yes, absolutely."
Then I learn there's a fire escape. I say "The fire escape was unlocked." and the super replies "oh, yes, it was unlocked." So I lock the fire escape.
Then I find a closet door isn't a closet at all, but leads directly to the next apartment. I lock that. Suddenly, a section of all turns out to have a door that's been wallpapered over. Under the rug there's a trapdoor leading to the apartment below me. Hidden behind the fridge is a dumbwaiter. The entire fireplace rotates ala Indy Jones. I cry in exasperation to my super, who just says "well, aside from all those holes, your apartment is secure."
I had some win98 machines, no problems. Installed Win2K, all sorts of errors during install. Reinstalled 98, no problem, retry with 2K, errors. I replaced the memory (due to past experience) and voila, no problems with the install.
A similar thing happened with Win3.11 and NT4- the NT4 machines kept having problems until we swapped out the memory.
My WinME computer has been running 24x7 for two years, gets rebooted every two months or so, usually because blackouts shut the system down (old house, easily blown fuses).
The funny thing is, I haven't shut down the WinMe machine in two years... when I tried the other day to move the machine, it wouldn't shut down. Windows shut down fine, but there's a short in the powersupply that the hardware doesn't shut off!
Looks like I know how I'll be spending all of next week. I expect to see the email from my boss forwarded from the CTO forwarded from the CEO by 10:30 monday morning.
I'd love to reply and say "tell the RIAA to blow it out their ass", but I doubt that will get me too far. So instead, I'll have to dig up cache server and firewall logs, app managment logs, probably send around a few hunter/killer apps to look for mp3 caches. As far as I know, no one is running P2P on my network, but god help the sap I catch doing it this week...
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Else in 5 years we will still be seeing "Amazon Seeks '10-Click, three Jumps and a Crtl-F' Shopping Cart Patent" headlines here.
Two articles after the "10-click, Ctrl-F and Three Jumps shopping cart patent sought by Amazon" article.
This thing is an arm with a central axis. To simulate forward motion it would have to do this in a circle. At speed it would feel like being in a centrifuge.
Two things allow you to realize you are in motion- external references and acceleration.
The first could be taken care of through VR goggles or something; once that is done, acceleration can be simulated by the motion of the arm. Besides how many roller coasters have long straightaways with no vertical or horziontal motion?
but most importantly, no real G-forces
Roller coasters have "G" forces only in one direction... down. Other forces felt on the ride, the ones that press you into your seat in loops and curves are centrifugal forces created by the curvature of the track... which is easily replicated by the motion of the robot swinging the seat in a circle. Variations on the angle of the chair will reproduce centrifugal force in any direction you want.
These forces are measured in "G's" relative to the gravity of the earth, but they are not gravitational forces.
I've got a working C-64 that's been through a dozen moves, an infinite number of Jumpman inspired rages, and two boys' adolescensce. Space? Hah!
Yeah, the 64 may be sturdy, but how many joysticks have you burned through?
Create a standard for it all, and you've got some remarkable integration.
/. until I do a few situps first.
But I don't want my toaster oven noticing that this is the third time this week I've had toast slathered with 1/4 stick of butter and two teaspoons of honey, double checking with the bathroom scale, collaborating with the fridge to lock me out, then instructing my tivo to stop recording the x-files and start recording all those home workout shows and exercise infomercials, then finally telling my puter not to let me log into
Ok, Swedish or not, any company that can skin a cat with a balloon from 300 km away has my complete and total attention.
Awesome! I could use one, to fry those damn cats that are howling all night in the alley.
I still don't see what the hype of a tablet PC is all about, for much less you can pick a a PC, or even a laptop and a Wacom Graphics tablet.
Insightful?
What are you going to do, walk around with it strapped to your leg?
The entire point of the tablet pc is so you can use it standing or walking, situations where you can't easily open your laptop.
In terms you might understand, it's the equivalent of having a clipboard and being able to jot notes and flip through pages of info. Yes, you can also use the clibboard on top of a desk, but that's not the idea- the idea is mobility.
Apparently, people would never buy the phone if it felt like the cheap peice of 3"x2" circuit board that really was!
Anyone else wish electronics were much heavier?
My 10 month old Sony VCR (that I got as a gift) is so light, every time I pop in a tape, it gets pushed a little further back into the console. Every couple of weeks I have to pull the VCR back to the front of the shelf.
My 14 year old Sharp VCR doesn't have that problem, it weighs at least four times as much and stays put. I would stack the heavy one on top of the light one, but it's practically twice the size. I'd epoxy the Sony to the shelf, but figure it's going to die soon anyway.
Corded phones- I still like corded phones, but they're so light nowadays when you walk away from the desk, you pull the base with you. The old bases were heavy enough that didn't happen, but now you pretty much have to screw the thing to a wall or your desk.
TVs- ok, it's nice that TVs are much lighter, easier to move, especially when you have kids who end up losing stuff behind the tv console.
Hmmm- I didn't see anywhere in the article where Grove said it is "unsolvable". Lets read what the article actually said: He said the company' engineers "just can't get rid of" power leakage. Sounds to me like he is just saying Intel hasn't solved it yet (but neither has anybody else).
Man, I could swear I read "stops power leakage on Intel chips" on that list of "1001 uses for duct tape."
does the US have this kind of problem (maybe not NASA, but commercial satellites going up, or military stuff), and the media just doesn't make a big deal of it?
Yeah, it makes the papers, headlines even. I don't remember anything recently, but back in '99 there was a string of six failures resulting in some $3.5 billion in losses, including the explosion of a tried and true Titan IV which destroyed a $1B super secret spy satellite, and the failure of a couple of new Delta III rockets. Plenty of info on Google about these, it was big news back then.
Does this mean that smuggling OncoMice across the border to Canadian medical researchers will become the new Hot Item on the black market?
A bigger question- can I patent the process of smuggling OncoMice across the border?
#100 - The "All your base are belong... oh shit!" signal.
Why do we see all these articles about "alternative" uses for the X10s? Doesn't anybody out there use them for their intended purpose, to spy on the neighbor's daughter?
Ha!
The lawn is usually closed, they open it up during the summer now and then, but usually when i walk by it's closed. It's closed right now, probably letting the grass recover after the fashion show.
You can't sit at the tables this week, all the open areas are taken up by the booths selling holiday knicknacks.
It's a nice park and all, but it seems that it's more for use by paid parties (fashion show, circus, microsoft, and the current booths) than for the people.
This is Bryant park we're talking about. You could walk around the perimiter in about 2 minutes (if you speedwalk). It's two blocks from Times Square, so it's noisy, crowded, and pretty expensive.
Fresh air? You kidding, there's no such thing as fresh air in NYC.
It's a nice, cozy park, except it's really crowded; during lunch it's difficult to find a chair or table. The lawn is frequently closed so the grass gets a chance to breathe after hosting the fashion show, circus, the myriad of functions. Right now most of the free space is taken up by holiday shopping stalls.
Hmm... the antennas are probably just out of LoS... should run downstairs and pick up a pringles can and play with it.
If you have so much expensive equipment, you should consider everything, including arson!
No, there's really no way to prevent arson.
You can take reasonable steps to prevent small fires from breaking out, or even expensive measures like halon to protect large server rooms from large fires. But you just cannot stop a dedicated arsonist, especially if he has access to the room you're trying to protect. Any anti-fire system can easily be defeated or bypassed by someone who's had time to plan ahead... which an arsonist usually does.
And if you protect your servers from the actual fire, what good is it if the building collapses down around them? Once the floor goes, it doesn't matter how well you protected that room.
Thus the importance of backups and disaster recovery plans. There's no way to stopping a dedicated arsonist, but you can back up your data easily enough.
It's time for the industry as a whole to look at different approaches The time-honored method of signature scanning is a little worn and weary given new viruses coming out
True, but most of the new viruses that come out are produced by script kiddies and their virus construction kits, and heuristics work well for detecting these.
Besides, AV software does not stand alone. AV security includes scanning, monitoring and blocking at the mail servers and firewalls, good communication between av software companies and IT AV staff, desktop security policies, and the most important, user training. Admittedly the last is the hardest, but well informed users are less likely to infect themselves and risk infecting everyone else.
Interesting- seems like they're telling you to remove all certificates, not just those from Microsoft.
so why would you insist on living in this particular appartment, trusting this particular super?
Well, it's in a nice neighborhood, my boss and her boss and the ceo live there as well, as do many of my co-workers. There's a doorman, elevator, cable, dishwasher, washing machine and dryer... it's just comfortable. If it just wasn't so expensive and so insecure...
There is a building across the street, which is full of those wierdo artist types. I had an apartment there too... but the walls started to crumble and everything started breaking, so I bailed. The building almost collapsed, but I hear it's been propped up and doing pretty well now. Still, I don't know if I'd move back in there.
There's another building down the street where I could move... I hear it's incredibly secure. Actually, it can be just as insecure, but at least there are no hidden entrances. Many of the residents of that building go around helping each other ensuring everyone knows how to lock all the doors and windows. All the electrical outlets are some wierd type and so none of my appliances from my apartment work, although I hear they are making adapters for most of them nowadays. The only problem is I gotta do everything for myself. Which means either I find a few kind neighbors to help me build and operate the dishwasher, or have a bunch of snobby neighbors yell RTFMP at me. Everytime I'm confused, I get a few helpful answers and twice as many RTFMPs.
Until people can use their 36" widescreen tv and in the linux apartments, there won't be any mass migration there...
Wait a second, just what is hogwash exactly?
It's the excuse the farmer's daughter uses when you ask her to the dance- Sorry, I gotta stay home and wash the hog.
If you had a nice apartment in the middle of New York, and you constantly left the front door unlocked, and then one day somebody walked in stole your stereo, I'd feel bad for you. But, you know, not too bad.
But it's not like that at all. It's more like I lock my front door. I ask my super "am I secure?" and the super replies "yes, absolutely."
Then I learn there's a fire escape. I say "The fire escape was unlocked." and the super replies "oh, yes, it was unlocked." So I lock the fire escape.
Then I find a closet door isn't a closet at all, but leads directly to the next apartment. I lock that. Suddenly, a section of all turns out to have a door that's been wallpapered over. Under the rug there's a trapdoor leading to the apartment below me. Hidden behind the fridge is a dumbwaiter. The entire fireplace rotates ala Indy Jones. I cry in exasperation to my super, who just says "well, aside from all those holes, your apartment is secure."
Yeah, me too.
I had some win98 machines, no problems. Installed Win2K, all sorts of errors during install. Reinstalled 98, no problem, retry with 2K, errors. I replaced the memory (due to past experience) and voila, no problems with the install.
A similar thing happened with Win3.11 and NT4- the NT4 machines kept having problems until we swapped out the memory.
My WinME computer has been running 24x7 for two years, gets rebooted every two months or so, usually because blackouts shut the system down (old house, easily blown fuses).
The funny thing is, I haven't shut down the WinMe machine in two years... when I tried the other day to move the machine, it wouldn't shut down. Windows shut down fine, but there's a short in the powersupply that the hardware doesn't shut off!
Only if you have a boat...
but in a few years, it'll trickle into the main stream...
In a few years? I bet we see spammers selling nanotech paint within a few weeks!
Looks like I know how I'll be spending all of next week. I expect to see the email from my boss forwarded from the CTO forwarded from the CEO by 10:30 monday morning.
I'd love to reply and say "tell the RIAA to blow it out their ass", but I doubt that will get me too far. So instead, I'll have to dig up cache server and firewall logs, app managment logs, probably send around a few hunter/killer apps to look for mp3 caches. As far as I know, no one is running P2P on my network, but god help the sap I catch doing it this week...