I thought about making 'real' holograms using this technology. It just _might_ be possible. I think that given enough motivation, and the right people working on this, there can be progress made in the right direction. Why am I hopeful? Well, your mentioning it being impossible motivated me a bit..:)
Now, I will let my imagination run wild and try to address the problems you mentioned. Even though I am no engineer, perhaps something resembling my ideas might be possible. First, holding the fog in its 'proper shape'. How about a system manipulating the airflow around the hologram? Heavy focused airflow. Or how about a magnetically charged fog, the outline of which easily modelled by means of surrounding electromagnetic fields? Crazy? I don't know. Television would have sounded like a pretty crazy idea too some hundred years ago. (...Doesn't prove I'm right, I know...)
Secondly, creating the image? A system of lasers and mirrors (or something able to _quickly_ change the direction of the lightbeams) surrounding the projection?
Now tell me I'm crazy!
Could this be used to create 'real' holograms?
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If the fog somehow is shaped as an object we want to recreate, and projected against from all sides, would this make the object look like a 'real' hologram ('real', like from the movies!) ?
I can already see a lot of applications for this. Bring out the mimejuice! And crack some ice!
Yep, using closed, proprietary, non-standards when there is no absolute need to do so is _very_ irritating.
When creating video clips like this, what is so HARD about using an open, well established standard that everyone (including the few % not running M$ media player) can use?
Btw, This is the first wmv I can't play at first attempt in mplayer under Linux. A file called 'wmv9dmod.dll' seems to be missing - can't find it on my Windows 98 installation either...:(
To be at least a bit on topic, this technology seems awesome! I hope there will be an "affordable" consumer version ready.... Real Soon... For my movie experiences in my living room!
I seriously hate spam. Really. But a few good moments has been cast upon me sifting through Mozilla's "JUNK"-folder.
A fraction of the tens of thousands of spam letters I've received the last three years are quite funny. (Being a former network administrator at an IT-company handling domain registrations, my address is on a _lot_ of spam lists.) Today I still receive at least a hundred per day.
Funny spam #1, with a personal touch:
Subject: Get Null@NullNull.com
[graphic image saying "Be who you are"]
Hi Null,
Chances are you'll switch ISPs in the next year. Or possibly change jobs.
[...]
Avoid the hassle, and always stand out with your own personalized e-mail address:
Null@NullNull.com Now that's unforgettable!
Click here to get Null@NullNull.com now.
-----
Mmm. Just don't forget to expand those macros right (or, preferably, just don't spam me at all). Null@NullNull.com. Yep, that's personal. "Be who you are", indeed.
Funny spam #2: This is a weird one. Someone offering an award for anyone finding some really neat devices, like:
"The mind warper generation 4 Dimensional Warp Generator # 52" and
"The special 23200 or Acme 5X24 series time transducing capacitor
with built in temporal displacement. Needed with complete
jumper|auxiliary system"
Not to mention the infamous "INCREASE YOUR EJACULATION BY 631%" pills. I don't want to know how they came up with that number.
Anyhow, in my IMAP folder, the funniest will stay preserved for the future, where things like these are history ("Granddaddy, we saw a spammer in the museum today. It was really ugly!").
Thanks! I get the impression that those applications mentioned are pretty specific, and close to "workstation" stuff anyway, where you would want to invest in a system designed for these kind of tasks, 64 bit or not.
The "average desktop user", without these specific needs, won't, if I understand this correctly, benefit directly from the fact that the application now is 64 bit. More likely the increase in performance of "Joe User's" desktop computer comes from other architectural improvements in the system, not directly from the transition from 32 -> 64-bit.
As far as I understand, the kind of applications most likely to benefit from going 64-bit are mostly database apps, where access to a 64-bit address space helps when working with huge datasets, and applications doing a lot of integer computations (cryptography?).
Could anyone point out for me a list of benefits for going 64-bit on the "desktop" too?
"Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on efforts to encrypt or otherwise protect content against people who might make perfect digital copies with a computer or other device. But little of this technology has been able to do anything about decidedly easy methods of reproduction such as photocopying a hard copy of a document, or taping a song as it comes out of a stereo's speakers. "
Criminal masterminds, beware! In the future, diabolical acoustic tricks inside the loudspeaker will make every attempted microphone-against-speaker based tape-recording of the song come out as an extra evil rendition of "Don't Copy that Floppy".
And what's this.. "Protect content against people"?
The year 2003. Now we are allowed to copy music we have paid for - our legally acquired songs - between different media and computers only a limited number of times.
From the help page:
[picture of a CD] The Compact Disk icon shows the number of times the song can be downloaded to compact disks.
[picture of a set of headphones] The Headphone icon shows the number of times you can transfer the song to digital media
[picture of a monitor] The Computer icon shows the number of computers you can download your music to in total.
Expect in the near future, this addition to the license:
[picture of an ear] The Ear icon shows the number of times your player will play the song.
And, without any greater stretch of imagination, we finally end up with this:
[picture of a brain] The Brain icon shows the number of times SDMI/DRM/XXX will let you experience our product ("listen to the song") without upgrading your account/brain.
I am no physicist, but is creating an upward force to lift objects (which I suppose is what they are trying to accomplish) really anti-gravity?
Wouldn't an object within a true field (or what you would call it) of lessened gravity be less attracted to the Earth (and the Sun, etc..) to a much larger extent than would be controllable / desirable?
I think of Asimov's story "The Billiard Ball", where a scientist uses a billiard ball shot through a field of "anti-gravity" as a murder weapon.
Since the Earth, and the Solar System itself keeps on moving at their usual speed when the ball enters the field (and stops being affected by gravity - whatever that means) the result is that the ball moves relative to the surface of the Earth at an enormous speed.
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I thought about making 'real' holograms using this technology. It just _might_ be possible. I think that given enough motivation, and the right people working on this, there can be progress made in the right direction. Why am I hopeful? Well, your mentioning it being impossible motivated me a bit.. :)
Now, I will let my imagination run wild and try to address the problems you mentioned. Even though I am no engineer, perhaps something resembling my ideas might be possible. First, holding the fog in its 'proper shape'. How about a system manipulating the airflow around the hologram? Heavy focused airflow. Or how about a magnetically charged fog, the outline of which easily modelled by means of surrounding electromagnetic fields? Crazy? I don't know. Television would have sounded like a pretty crazy idea too some hundred years ago. (...Doesn't prove I'm right, I know...)
Secondly, creating the image? A system of lasers and mirrors (or something able to _quickly_ change the direction of the lightbeams) surrounding the projection?
Now tell me I'm crazy!
If the fog somehow is shaped as an object we want to recreate, and projected against from all sides, would this make the object look like a 'real' hologram ('real', like from the movies!) ?
I can already see a lot of applications for this. Bring out the mimejuice! And crack some ice!
Yep, using closed, proprietary, non-standards when there is no absolute need to do so is _very_ irritating.
:(
... For my movie experiences in my living room!
When creating video clips like this, what is so HARD about using an open, well established standard that everyone (including the few % not running M$ media player) can use?
Btw, This is the first wmv I can't play at first attempt in mplayer under Linux. A file called 'wmv9dmod.dll' seems to be missing - can't find it on my Windows 98 installation either...
To be at least a bit on topic, this technology seems awesome! I hope there will be an "affordable" consumer version ready.... Real Soon
I seriously hate spam. Really. But a few good moments has been cast upon me sifting through Mozilla's "JUNK"-folder.
A fraction of the tens of thousands of spam letters I've received the last three years are quite funny. (Being a former network administrator at an IT-company handling domain registrations, my address is on a _lot_ of spam lists.) Today I still receive at least a hundred per day.
Funny spam #1, with a personal touch:
Subject: Get Null@NullNull.com
[graphic image saying "Be who you are"]
Hi Null,
Chances are you'll switch ISPs in the next year. Or possibly change jobs.
[...]
Avoid the hassle, and always stand out with your own personalized e-mail address:
Null@NullNull.com Now that's unforgettable!
Click here to get Null@NullNull.com now.
-----
Mmm. Just don't forget to expand those macros right (or, preferably, just don't spam me at all). Null@NullNull.com. Yep, that's personal. "Be who you are", indeed.
Funny spam #2: This is a weird one. Someone offering an award for anyone finding some really neat devices, like:
"The mind warper generation 4 Dimensional Warp Generator # 52" and "The special 23200 or Acme 5X24 series time transducing capacitor with built in temporal displacement. Needed with complete jumper|auxiliary system"
Here this letter can be found in its entirety.
Not to mention the infamous "INCREASE YOUR EJACULATION BY 631%" pills. I don't want to know how they came up with that number.
Anyhow, in my IMAP folder, the funniest will stay preserved for the future, where things like these are history ("Granddaddy, we saw a spammer in the museum today. It was really ugly!").
Thanks! I get the impression that those applications mentioned are pretty specific, and close to "workstation" stuff anyway, where you would want to invest in a system designed for these kind of tasks, 64 bit or not.
The "average desktop user", without these specific needs, won't, if I understand this correctly, benefit directly from the fact that the application now is 64 bit. More likely the increase in performance of "Joe User's" desktop computer comes from other architectural improvements in the system, not directly from the transition from 32 -> 64-bit.
As far as I understand, the kind of applications most likely to benefit from going 64-bit are mostly database apps, where access to a 64-bit address space helps when working with huge datasets, and applications doing a lot of integer computations (cryptography?).
Could anyone point out for me a list of benefits for going 64-bit on the "desktop" too?
Regards
"Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on efforts to encrypt or otherwise protect content against people who might make perfect digital copies with a computer or other device. But little of this technology has been able to do anything about decidedly easy methods of reproduction such as photocopying a hard copy of a document, or taping a song as it comes out of a stereo's speakers. "
.. "Protect content against people"?
Criminal masterminds, beware! In the future, diabolical acoustic tricks inside the loudspeaker will make every attempted microphone-against-speaker based tape-recording of the song come out as an extra evil rendition of "Don't Copy that Floppy".
And what's this
Please, people, someone think of the content!
There's always this baby
..you actually let out an a reverbing "Aaaah" when you read this kind of headline.
I didn't.
So OK, I did. But I was already running 2.6.0-test1-mm2 with the O9 scheduler patches.
Here.
The year 2003. Now we are allowed to copy music we have paid for - our legally acquired songs - between different media and computers only a limited number of times.
From the help page:
[picture of a CD] The Compact Disk icon shows the number of times the song can be downloaded to compact disks.
[picture of a set of headphones] The Headphone icon shows the number of times you can transfer the song to digital media
[picture of a monitor] The Computer icon shows the number of computers you can download your music to in total.
Expect in the near future, this addition to the license:
[picture of an ear] The Ear icon shows the number of times your player will play the song.
And, without any greater stretch of imagination, we finally end up with this:
[picture of a brain] The Brain icon shows the number of times SDMI/DRM/XXX will let you experience our product ("listen to the song") without upgrading your account/brain.
"We will have solar energy as soon as the utility companies solve one technical problem -- how to run a sunbeam through a meter."
I am no physicist, but is creating an upward force to lift objects (which I suppose is what they are trying to accomplish) really anti-gravity?
Wouldn't an object within a true field (or what you would call it) of lessened gravity be less attracted to the Earth (and the Sun, etc..) to a much larger extent than would be controllable / desirable?
I think of Asimov's story "The Billiard Ball", where a scientist uses a billiard ball shot through a field of "anti-gravity" as a murder weapon. Since the Earth, and the Solar System itself keeps on moving at their usual speed when the ball enters the field (and stops being affected by gravity - whatever that means) the result is that the ball moves relative to the surface of the Earth at an enormous speed.
I sacrifice my karma on the altar of gratitude.
The Living Robots have one goal, to obtain enough energy to survive and breed.
Sounds a lot like my own life.
Gotta get some more of that breeding, though.