What you say is logical, but I still don't think you will end up being right; I think the USNs experiments with mass drivers and directed energy weapons will quickly make any new type of missile a great big "meh". Actually, if you think about that, it would probably take us back to the battleship era; surface combatants with a mix of conventional and ablative armor, active defenses consisting of smaller mass drivers and directed energy weapons and a few missiles, with offensive batteries of large mass drivers, and possibly pulsed laser missile warheads?
or I could be wrong. i just think we'll have a game changer before we are all reduced to using submarines.
I really hate to say anything critical to a 5 digit slashdot ID, but I'll just assume you are being sarcastic.
There are a multitude of manufacturing processes that would benefit from being in a no- or low-gravity environment, just as there are quite a few that require vacuum.
While "Space has a lot of vacuum", there are a BUNCH of rocks pretty close. the moon is the closest, but there are quite a few others that are reasonably close. and there is plenty of water; we just found a bunch more in the moons polar region. Plenty of oxygen, also; it's currently bound up with other elements, but that's just a process away. biomass...well, who knows. There might be a bunch on one of the jovian moons, or one of the more easily reached asteroids might be a big frozen fishstick. no way to tell until we go look.
the FACT is, we could have easily had a lunar base since the mid 70's; getting all the parts there is the only hard part. once it's there, it would be almost immediately extremely profitable; the aforementioned manufacturing processes alone would take care of that. and it's damned near free to get something from the moon back to earth, all it takes is a pretty puny catapult.
with all that recently found water, breathable air and drinkable water would be simpler to obtain that it is on a nuclear sub, which by the way is a pretty good model and supplier of the basic power-plant, until such time as you get enough mirrors made.
Anyone in the component industry who thought about it would tell you that a gigantic "clean room" environment, with 1/6th Gravity, and free vacuum, would eventually pay for itself. I'm not certain, but I'm pretty sure that any pharmaceutical company would say so, also.
One other thing, I almost hate to mention: whoever has a moonbase, a solar furnace, and a catapult would automatically have the most potent & versatile weapon in the history of mankind.
Maybe Palm will get it's corporate head out of it's ass, and make a slightly modified palm TX (2005) with a 10" screen. optionally, Throw in a SLC SSD slot along with the SDHC slot so the user can add as much storage as they want. It would probably be a good idea to put a faster ARM in; the original cab be clocked up to 500Mhz, but faster is always better. maybe make it user replaceable? that would rock... It would probably be good to upgrade the WiFi from 802.11b. and the bluetooth is only 1.1, but both are understandable in a 2005 device, right? One thing that would be essential, to me at least, would be the ability to run Palm OS as well as WebOS; WebOS is great, Linux based, but there are Debian builds that will run fine on a Palm TX anyway. and I have hundreds of Palm OS applications.
Realistically, just take stock Palm TX guts and a 10" screen and I'd be a happy camper.
Even more realistically, I know there is almost no possible chance that Palm corporate will do anything sane before they go out of business.
If you want true 3D, you don't need glasses, you need holographic projection.
I've seen working examples as simple as a aquarium filled with very fine glycerin mist with (if memory serves, this was 5-6 years ago) 6 sets of RGB lasers lighting up the droplets at the point where 2 or more similar frequency lasers intersect; the demo I saw had a pretty terrible "framerate", something like 10fps. But that should be an easily solvable hardware problem with enough money thrown at it; you could, I would think, even do away with the enclosure (and possible even the lasers) by doing something with an electromagnetic field and the proper teeny tiny particles.
I think even the aforementioned primitive demo could have gotten a usable frame-rate with the proper software controlling things.
as to "The 3D picture can be created using a handheld with dual 3-megapixel cameras and an 800-MHz TI OMAP 3630 chipset", I imagine that's just an attempt to hype a ancillary product; I'm betting you could do just as well with 2 camera phones duct taped together.
If that sort of thing happens relatively often, it does sound like one of your "foes" might be targeting you. I don't see anything that could be considered a troll in your post. In reference to your OP, though, have you looked in to the original infoseek formula?
I've been using the above-mentioned device as my EXCLUSIVE means of reading non-fiction for the last 3 years; The screen size is a little annoying, but after the first book, I really didn't notice. I read at least 3 hours per day (I'm retired) and sometimes as much as 8. Turning the page is unconscious; you either press down on the multi-selector, or tap the screen. Most of the reader software comes with a "timed scroll" feature, but I hate it so don't use it. I charge it every other day, whether it needs it or not. usually not. Oh, the reason I started using it: I was getting to the age where I was getting farsighted; I was having to hold the books further and further away in order to see them. Now, when I have my reading glasses I can put the font on its "small" setting and get an entire page on the screen at once; without glasses, I put it on medium, which gives me 12 lines at a time. I have ONE device that lets me read, download new books to read (project Gutenberg of Australia ROCKS, btw), that I can hand to my 6 year old to play Pokemon in a GB emulator, or to my 17 year old to watch a movie, TV or to IM, or to my GF to work on the shopping list or whatever, depending on who is the most bored. I wish it had a bigger display, preferably something like e-ink. but until something matches at least some of its feature set, I'm sticking with my Palm TX.
"Most" open? Let me ask your opinion of something; what If you could get a device that had a smaller than usual screen at 4", but 320x480, 65k colors, touchscreen, adjustable backlight, switches between landscape & portrait. SD/SDIO/MMC/SDHC slot. 128mb flash storage, with 100mb user accessible. 300Mhz ARM-based intel processor, which can be overclocked up to 520Khz. 802.11b WiFi, Bluetooth 1.1, IR I/O. 1 Speaker and a stereo headphone jack. Charges either via AC adapter or USB. It has good handwriting recognition, based on jot; out of the box it can work with office format documents, read PDF's, play MP3's, Surf the web (after connecting with either WiFi or Bluetooth), Display images or video at up to 30fps, exchange client, operate as a remote terminal for a remote computer, watch TV through a mobile phone video provide service (using WiFi). With a little installing of free software it runs Java, opera browser, at least 6 different e-reader software packages (it will NOT run Microsoft Reader, though, so everything but.LIT format works). The development library is extensive and open source; over 50,000 3rd party applications exist that will run on it. It makes a pretty decent TV remote control, also. It's been available since late 2005, and is now available new for $199. What do you think? aside from the screen size, pretty phreaking awesome eBook, right?
Whoa. I just did a little research on this; KB977165, the apparent cause of this, is the "fix" for the recently reported "17 year old vulnerability", which (as far as I can tell) was nothing of the sort, but the NTVDM (MSA979682). The NTVDM is a "feature", not a bug; any exploit of it is something that was by design allowed to happen; Microsoft "patching it" is a Scary Thing. That we are seeing blue-screens from this is not surprising. it IS surprising that they are trying to play this off as a XP-only problem, since essentially every version of windows is reporting problems.
Reasons I have absolutely no worries about this issue:
1) My main OS is Win2k; I triple boot Win2k, WinXP & Win2008. One of them will boot. 2) I know, and love, Knoppix. Win2k8 treats Debian as a virus, or I would still have a Debian boot. 3) I have other computers that I can...
a) Back up important data to
b) Mount the data-containing drive in 4) I back up important things to Google Docs 5) I back up critical things to a encrypted file on my offsite webserver. 6) I'm not an idiot.
My 1st thought was "Damn. I've been hearing about $10,000 to put up 1kg for almost 15 years now; when is it finally going to get here"? My 2nd thought was that I'm not going to update my plans for a primarily Solar Powered, electrostatic ion thruster propelled, Black Sabbath "Sabotage" playing mars probe. It would take about 15 years to get there.
Well, yeah. I'm guessing. I did look into it for deeper details, but couldn't really find any. But, it's something of an educated guess. I like to think I know something about how corporations think; They have something that has profit potential; if they hand it over to the preservationists, the preservationists have a legal right to make copies of it; this would likely reduce the profit potential. I'm not saying the preservationists have profit in mind; I AM saying that they probably wouldn't consider providing their services to CBS unless they got a free and clear copy of the show out of it. If CBS flat out told them that they couldn't have a copy, but were welcome to preserve the media, they might even go for it. AND... I don't like Rand. I've been a Pagan for 35 years, and a Libertarian for 15.
yeah. I get it. My point is is that if they were merely interested in preserving the media, CBS would probably be all for it. But (I would bet) there aren't; they want to preserve it, AND release it.
If they were actually interested primarily in preserving a historical artifact, they would agree to do it and allow CBS to retain sole possession. CBS might even sweeten the deal a little and let them have a 160x140 15fps version to release into the wild in return...unless they really are concerned with music copyrights, or something on that line.
Considering that even KKK or neo-nazi websites as a rule do NOT encourage people to kill other people, they typically are platforms used to encourage others to adopt their views.
There were several factors; This was in Paris, TN for one thing, and a very well paying job for the area, which never has enough jobs. It was also 1986. He could have had 5 people with essentially the same qualifications there to interview the next morning. Also, the person in question was the OWNER; he built the factory from the ground up over a 30+ year period, was in his 70's, and I doubt he was very used to anyone disagreeing with him. He also, probably, didn't have a firm grasp on what it was I did for the company. I also said "You are kidding" when he said it was OK to drink Coffee at your desk but not Pepsi, because he took me so off guard and it sounded so bizarre. He obviously had some sort of reason he thought the way he did, I obviously thought it was a joke.
You are sort of right, but the situation was a little different than you describe; I had gotten to work early, the people walking in when I was walking out were people who had just got there getting their coffee. We were on the shop ethic primarily though; fixed breaks throughout the plant. I think he perceived me as talking back to him when I couldn't believe it was alright to drink Coffee in the mornings, but not soft drinks, and said "your kidding".
No, I had a lot of respect for the guy...he was in his 70's, built the company from scratch, and by the time I realized he wasn't kidding, it was already at the quit or be fired stage. Since I had absolutely nothing lined up, and their were really not many jobs at the time, I went ahead with fired so I could score unemployment.
Sort of different, sort of similar. I was working doing CAD at a place called Campbell-Rhea in the mid 80's. My habit at the time was when i got to work, I would grab a bottle of Pepsi from the machine in the breakroom, go to my cube, and review what I had to do for the day, what I did yesterday, while sipping Pepsi. One day, the owner was walking by in the hall as I was walking out of the breakroom, trying to dodge the various people grabbing their morning coffee; when I got to my cube, my department head told me the boss wanted to see me. went to his office, and he started asking why I was taking a break before I even got to work. I told him that I didn't like coffee, so unlike everyone else, I grabbed a Pepsi when I first got in. long story short, Coffee was perfectly acceptable 1st thing at the job drink, but soft drinks were only for breaks. I was still sort of caffeine shy, and very confused; I kept thinking he was trying to haze me in some way, so i tried to get him to explain it. 10 minutes after I walked into his office, he was nice enough to give me the option of quitting, or being fired. BTW, I was his fastest, most accurate CAD guy out of 7. got a raise 2 weeks before this for productivity. The Moral: The Boss is the Boss. sometimes they do stupid shit. either live with it, or leave.
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What you say is logical, but I still don't think you will end up being right; I think the USNs experiments with mass drivers and directed energy weapons will quickly make any new type of missile a great big "meh".
Actually, if you think about that, it would probably take us back to the battleship era; surface combatants with a mix of conventional and ablative armor, active defenses consisting of smaller mass drivers and directed energy weapons and a few missiles, with offensive batteries of large mass drivers, and possibly pulsed laser missile warheads?
or I could be wrong. i just think we'll have a game changer before we are all reduced to using submarines.
I really hate to say anything critical to a 5 digit slashdot ID, but I'll just assume you are being sarcastic.
There are a multitude of manufacturing processes that would benefit from being in a no- or low-gravity environment, just as there are quite a few that require vacuum.
While "Space has a lot of vacuum", there are a BUNCH of rocks pretty close. the moon is the closest, but there are quite a few others that are reasonably close. and there is plenty of water; we just found a bunch more in the moons polar region. Plenty of oxygen, also; it's currently bound up with other elements, but that's just a process away. biomass...well, who knows. There might be a bunch on one of the jovian moons, or one of the more easily reached asteroids might be a big frozen fishstick. no way to tell until we go look.
the FACT is, we could have easily had a lunar base since the mid 70's; getting all the parts there is the only hard part.
once it's there, it would be almost immediately extremely profitable; the aforementioned manufacturing processes alone would take care of that. and it's damned near free to get something from the moon back to earth, all it takes is a pretty puny catapult.
with all that recently found water, breathable air and drinkable water would be simpler to obtain that it is on a nuclear sub, which by the way is a pretty good model and supplier of the basic power-plant, until such time as you get enough mirrors made.
Anyone in the component industry who thought about it would tell you that a gigantic "clean room" environment, with 1/6th Gravity, and free vacuum, would eventually pay for itself. I'm not certain, but I'm pretty sure that any pharmaceutical company would say so, also.
One other thing, I almost hate to mention: whoever has a moonbase, a solar furnace, and a catapult would automatically have the most potent & versatile weapon in the history of mankind.
What comes to mind when I say "long term survival of the human race"?
Maybe Palm will get it's corporate head out of it's ass, and make a slightly modified palm TX (2005) with a 10" screen. optionally, Throw in a SLC SSD slot along with the SDHC slot so the user can add as much storage as they want. It would probably be a good idea to put a faster ARM in; the original cab be clocked up to 500Mhz, but faster is always better. maybe make it user replaceable? that would rock...
It would probably be good to upgrade the WiFi from 802.11b. and the bluetooth is only 1.1, but both are understandable in a 2005 device, right?
One thing that would be essential, to me at least, would be the ability to run Palm OS as well as WebOS; WebOS is great, Linux based, but there are Debian builds that will run fine on a Palm TX anyway. and I have hundreds of Palm OS applications.
Realistically, just take stock Palm TX guts and a 10" screen and I'd be a happy camper.
Even more realistically, I know there is almost no possible chance that Palm corporate will do anything sane before they go out of business.
I think I would pass on that; it didn't work out so well for the last folks who tried it.
If you want true 3D, you don't need glasses, you need holographic projection.
I've seen working examples as simple as a aquarium filled with very fine glycerin mist with (if memory serves, this was 5-6 years ago) 6 sets of RGB lasers lighting up the droplets at the point where 2 or more similar frequency lasers intersect; the demo I saw had a pretty terrible "framerate", something like 10fps. But that should be an easily solvable hardware problem with enough money thrown at it; you could, I would think, even do away with the enclosure (and possible even the lasers) by doing something with an electromagnetic field and the proper teeny tiny particles.
I think even the aforementioned primitive demo could have gotten a usable frame-rate with the proper software controlling things.
as to "The 3D picture can be created using a handheld with dual 3-megapixel cameras and an 800-MHz TI OMAP 3630 chipset", I imagine that's just an attempt to hype a ancillary product; I'm betting you could do just as well with 2 camera phones duct taped together.
If that sort of thing happens relatively often, it does sound like one of your "foes" might be targeting you. I don't see anything that could be considered a troll in your post.
In reference to your OP, though, have you looked in to the original infoseek formula?
I've been using the above-mentioned device as my EXCLUSIVE means of reading non-fiction for the last 3 years; The screen size is a little annoying, but after the first book, I really didn't notice. I read at least 3 hours per day (I'm retired) and sometimes as much as 8.
Turning the page is unconscious; you either press down on the multi-selector, or tap the screen. Most of the reader software comes with a "timed scroll" feature, but I hate it so don't use it. I charge it every other day, whether it needs it or not. usually not.
Oh, the reason I started using it: I was getting to the age where I was getting farsighted; I was having to hold the books further and further away in order to see them. Now, when I have my reading glasses I can put the font on its "small" setting and get an entire page on the screen at once; without glasses, I put it on medium, which gives me 12 lines at a time.
I have ONE device that lets me read, download new books to read (project Gutenberg of Australia ROCKS, btw), that I can hand to my 6 year old to play Pokemon in a GB emulator, or to my 17 year old to watch a movie, TV or to IM, or to my GF to work on the shopping list or whatever, depending on who is the most bored.
I wish it had a bigger display, preferably something like e-ink. but until something matches at least some of its feature set, I'm sticking with my Palm TX.
"Most" open? .LIT format works). The development library is extensive and open source; over 50,000 3rd party applications exist that will run on it. It makes a pretty decent TV remote control, also.
Let me ask your opinion of something; what If you could get a device that had a smaller than usual screen at 4", but 320x480, 65k colors, touchscreen, adjustable backlight, switches between landscape & portrait. SD/SDIO/MMC/SDHC slot. 128mb flash storage, with 100mb user accessible. 300Mhz ARM-based intel processor, which can be overclocked up to 520Khz. 802.11b WiFi, Bluetooth 1.1, IR I/O. 1 Speaker and a stereo headphone jack. Charges either via AC adapter or USB. It has good handwriting recognition, based on jot; out of the box it can work with office format documents, read PDF's, play MP3's, Surf the web (after connecting with either WiFi or Bluetooth), Display images or video at up to 30fps, exchange client, operate as a remote terminal for a remote computer, watch TV through a mobile phone video provide service (using WiFi). With a little installing of free software it runs Java, opera browser, at least 6 different e-reader software packages (it will NOT run Microsoft Reader, though, so everything but
It's been available since late 2005, and is now available new for $199. What do you think? aside from the screen size, pretty phreaking awesome eBook, right?
Whoa.
I just did a little research on this; KB977165, the apparent cause of this, is the "fix" for the recently reported "17 year old vulnerability", which (as far as I can tell) was nothing of the sort, but the NTVDM (MSA979682).
The NTVDM is a "feature", not a bug; any exploit of it is something that was by design allowed to happen; Microsoft "patching it" is a Scary Thing.
That we are seeing blue-screens from this is not surprising. it IS surprising that they are trying to play this off as a XP-only problem, since essentially every version of windows is reporting problems.
Reasons I have absolutely no worries about this issue:
1) My main OS is Win2k; I triple boot Win2k, WinXP & Win2008. One of them will boot.
2) I know, and love, Knoppix. Win2k8 treats Debian as a virus, or I would still have a Debian boot.
3) I have other computers that I can...
a) Back up important data to
b) Mount the data-containing drive in
4) I back up important things to Google Docs
5) I back up critical things to a encrypted file on my offsite webserver.
6) I'm not an idiot.
I've been doing that with "XCOPY" on my dos 6.21 box.
My 1st thought was "Damn. I've been hearing about $10,000 to put up 1kg for almost 15 years now; when is it finally going to get here"?
My 2nd thought was that I'm not going to update my plans for a primarily Solar Powered, electrostatic ion thruster propelled, Black Sabbath "Sabotage" playing mars probe.
It would take about 15 years to get there.
I have to admit that was an interesting reply.
Heh.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/18/cbs-uncovers-rare-ja.html#comment-691290
I love it when I'm right.
Well, yeah. I'm guessing. I did look into it for deeper details, but couldn't really find any.
But, it's something of an educated guess.
I like to think I know something about how corporations think; They have something that has profit potential; if they hand it over to the preservationists, the preservationists have a legal right to make copies of it; this would likely reduce the profit potential.
I'm not saying the preservationists have profit in mind; I AM saying that they probably wouldn't consider providing their services to CBS unless they got a free and clear copy of the show out of it. If CBS flat out told them that they couldn't have a copy, but were welcome to preserve the media, they might even go for it.
AND... I don't like Rand. I've been a Pagan for 35 years, and a Libertarian for 15.
yeah. I get it.
My point is is that if they were merely interested in preserving the media, CBS would probably be all for it. But (I would bet) there aren't; they want to preserve it, AND release it.
If they were actually interested primarily in preserving a historical artifact, they would agree to do it and allow CBS to retain sole possession. CBS might even sweeten the deal a little and let them have a 160x140 15fps version to release into the wild in return...unless they really are concerned with music copyrights, or something on that line.
You are not a very popular person around here, I bet.
I think I can predict 2 things from what I've read about this:
1) The offer to provide free preservation requires CBS to do some form of release of the material, or sign away dome of their rights.
2) If the preservers signed binding agreements that they would not retain a copy of the material, I bet CBS would be happy for them to preserve it.
Considering that even KKK or neo-nazi websites as a rule do NOT encourage people to kill other people, they typically are platforms used to encourage others to adopt their views.
Free Speech, in other words.
And me without mod points.
Unfortunately, I can imagine this. We need the specs badly, so we can determine whether we are talking a fembot skynet or not.
Industrial tribunal? Do those actually exist somewhere in the world?
There were several factors; This was in Paris, TN for one thing, and a very well paying job for the area, which never has enough jobs. It was also 1986. He could have had 5 people with essentially the same qualifications there to interview the next morning.
Also, the person in question was the OWNER; he built the factory from the ground up over a 30+ year period, was in his 70's, and I doubt he was very used to anyone disagreeing with him. He also, probably, didn't have a firm grasp on what it was I did for the company.
I also said "You are kidding" when he said it was OK to drink Coffee at your desk but not Pepsi, because he took me so off guard and it sounded so bizarre. He obviously had some sort of reason he thought the way he did, I obviously thought it was a joke.
You are sort of right, but the situation was a little different than you describe; I had gotten to work early, the people walking in when I was walking out were people who had just got there getting their coffee.
We were on the shop ethic primarily though; fixed breaks throughout the plant. I think he perceived me as talking back to him when I couldn't believe it was alright to drink Coffee in the mornings, but not soft drinks, and said "your kidding".
No, I had a lot of respect for the guy...he was in his 70's, built the company from scratch, and by the time I realized he wasn't kidding, it was already at the quit or be fired stage. Since I had absolutely nothing lined up, and their were really not many jobs at the time, I went ahead with fired so I could score unemployment.
Sort of different, sort of similar.
I was working doing CAD at a place called Campbell-Rhea in the mid 80's. My habit at the time was when i got to work, I would grab a bottle of Pepsi from the machine in the breakroom, go to my cube, and review what I had to do for the day, what I did yesterday, while sipping Pepsi.
One day, the owner was walking by in the hall as I was walking out of the breakroom, trying to dodge the various people grabbing their morning coffee; when I got to my cube, my department head told me the boss wanted to see me. went to his office, and he started asking why I was taking a break before I even got to work. I told him that I didn't like coffee, so unlike everyone else, I grabbed a Pepsi when I first got in.
long story short, Coffee was perfectly acceptable 1st thing at the job drink, but soft drinks were only for breaks.
I was still sort of caffeine shy, and very confused; I kept thinking he was trying to haze me in some way, so i tried to get him to explain it.
10 minutes after I walked into his office, he was nice enough to give me the option of quitting, or being fired.
BTW, I was his fastest, most accurate CAD guy out of 7. got a raise 2 weeks before this for productivity.
The Moral: The Boss is the Boss. sometimes they do stupid shit. either live with it, or leave.