Cadillac was offering as an option a HUD (FLIR) foward looking infra-red system activated with the headlights/wipers 20 years ago.
As a Commercial driver at the time, I wanted the system due to safety concerns as an enhancement on my truck. Much easier to spot the vehicle in front of you in bad weather or the damn dear on the shoulder that's just waiting to jump in front of you during the night but vibration was a big issue. I said, put em on semis for testing and you'll soon figure out how to make them survive the damn vibration at the lowest cost. Would certainly have made the tech available on just about every vehicle by now.
You're talking about a very specfic system designed as a primary purpose of enhancing road safety. That's not in the same field as a general information and entertainment providing device whose main purpose will be designed to provide Google with ad revenue.
But technically I could run a app that is beneficial to my driving. This week end rented a car and got one with a HUD. It displayed three things, the speed limit, the current speed and the navigation instructions. It "floated" over the hood and I could read the information without taking my eyes off the street. This is VERY beneficial when you are currently doing a maneuver in heavy traffic. It also made the audio queues obsolete. (It had none.) Oh and this implementation of a speed limit indicator works, you see your speed and the speed limit all the time. You really have to willfully be speeding, you can't speed "by mistake".
The only thing the Google glasses need are a driving mode.
You MIGHT download an app that might be beneficial to your driving.... presuming it makes up for the loss of attention span on what you're supposed to be focusing on.... DRIVING. It is an uncontestable fact that texting, calling on the phone, and browsing your emal on your smartphone, does lead to an increased risk in auto accidents. How would putting this stuff in your face make it any safer?
We give our legislatures a deservedly bad rap when they think in terms of technology that's already generations obsolete. We should be giving this guy credit for looking ahead.
When Benedict was selected, it was said that an older pope was chosen deliberately so that it wouldn't be a long reign like that of John Paul. Then again no one actually expected that we'd actually have another Papal resignation after only 600 years from the last one.
Totally right. The USA-UK-Canada-Australia alliance is the only superpower in the world.
Then I submit to you sir that the definition of superpower is absolutely rubbish in the context of national security and the global nuclear/cyber/pathogenic possibilities of war. And we should stop reveling in the false security that assessement brings.
My understanding is that you are basically correct.
In-fact, one of the big points about the current anti-missile systems is that they do not have enough capacity to prevent strategic nuclear strikes from Russia or China. The goal is to make sure that they could always nuke us if they needed too. Which is a rather screwed up design feature; but it's understandable that we don't want to undermine their nuclear deterrence.
From my understanding, we're only so-so in interceptin a missle launch we have planned in ADVANCE, judging from the string of failures we've had. I have no confidence in such interception during a surprise attack.
Cannot help but notice that this is a significant departure from OLPC's original vision. Just consider:
* Uses proprietary software.components
* No sugar-UI (the open source educational UI in use in 3 million XO laptops)
* Seems OLPC just picked a random android tablet off the market and added a green cover to it. Does not look rugged, and easily repairable at all (like all OLPC laptops till date).
* No sunlight reflective screen
* No mention of Negroponte
* Closed door development
If I were squinting hard enough, this wouldn't look like anything OLPC has been involved in ever since it started out.
That's largely because it's "original vision" remained just that.... a vision. It really never got to execution. The original laptops never got to the the 100 dollar price point and had a tendency to self destruct under even moderate use.
What it runs on I don't care. So far all of the OLPC laptops have been utter failures in the mission they were designed for. Being cheap robust instruments for the children of the third world. The kind of operating system being used is irrelevant if it's major faults are not otherwise addressed, to whit the tendency for the units to fall completely apart under even benign conditions here in the First World, much less the the Third.
"This is not a project to undertake lightly. Putting something into space involves a good bit of regulatory compliance.....since the launch is likely to take place outside the US."
So, if you use a foreign rocket on foreign soil, WTF does the US government have to regulate it?
There's a whole list of technology the U.S. does NOT want shipped to certain hostile or potentially hostile powers. It's not a laughing matter.
Whatever became of Eudora? When Qualcomm bailed out of it there was talk of integrating it into one of Mozilla's products -- Thunderbird, I guess -- but I haven't heard much about what came of that. So I'm still Macgyvering Eudora to work on XP.
Qualcomm closed the door on Eudora and opensourced it as Penelope.
Btw, anyone here who knows when iTunes comes to Linux?
Isn't it a sacred motto that all Linux users not only must foreswear the use of Apple hardware but refuse to have anything do with Apple save curse it's name at every turn?
That's interesting. on my iPhone, I set up my GMail account as Exchange so my contacts and calendars would sync. I'll have to give this a try on my desktop.
I really haven't used a desktop client for email in years. Where's the gain for the user?
I want my mail and calendar wherever I am. So why keep multiple copies of gigabytes of mail on multiple machines.
If your email accounts are IMAP, you're still only working with one copy of your mail, that on your IMAP server. You just give yourself more interfaces to work with it.
There are non-Presidential elections on the ballot, even in New Jersey.
There are also ballot initiatives in particular, Proposition 1 which is something that sorely needs to pass for the future of higher education in the state.
The discrepencies so far have been in favor of Obama. I've seen two distinct stories about voting machines registering Obama when people tried to vote for Romney. Poll workers blame it on "bad calibration". How the hell does that happen? I can write program in about 10 minutes for something as simple as "choose A or B".
I don't trust electronic voting of any kind. As long as a loosly-knit crew like Anonymous can hack the DOD, I prefer paper ballots whether it be in person or by US Mail.
You ever use a kiosk? Touchscreens can and DO go out of calibration which means that the virtual pointer does no match the position your finger touches on the screen. In my line of work, fixing touchscreen calibrations on Wal-Mart, Sams Club and Rite Aid photo kiosks are a common call.
The financial considerations killed it more than the unstable ground, but the irony of it is that the park that resulted is pretty nice:)
Those four ghost towns are still deserted. There was a story done on them for Weird New Jersey. I'd be careful about visiting them though. If your car dies there, there's literally nothing for miles and last I've heard, packs of feral dogs roaming the area are reason for concern.
If you develop a Windows 8 Metro style app -- it will work immediately on the tablet.
So you'll be able to sell it to all three people with Windows tablets.
If you develop a Windows XP app, it will work on 95% of Windows boxes (maybe more, I'm not sure how many old NT/98/etc machines are still running), and 100% of boxes people are likely to buy software for other than ARM tablets.
Why would Windows devs want to develop new apps that restrict them to a tiny subset of Windows systems, unless Microsoft pay them to do so?
To get on the ground floor of a new platform? If the platform takes off than that's a lot of smart money to be made.
And that will solve his or her discontinued software from Mysteryappwriter#78234 how?
Because he will be in charge of what is on his device, much like if he installed linux on the device, which is what he said he wanted.
I'm just as in charge with my iPhone5 as I was with my Android Optimus. Every bit of software aside from what came with the OS is there because I PUT IT THERE. I couldn't really care less about what zealots from either platform would say, save that I think the above statement is a non-issue. If I wanted something that I'd have to handroll every step, I'd build a custom desktop, and I have. If I'm buying a tablet though, I want instant gratification. I want it to work when I take it out of the box, and I expect certain features available from the getgo. because that's what tablets are about... consuming and using data, not having another device I have to software rebuild from scratch in order to just use.
Is that we have an expanding area of activities that were formally confined to the desktop now being opened up to non-PC devices, i.e. tablets, smartphones, and other smart appliances. These include...
Web Browsing
Content Creation
Game Play
Third Party program operation
Instead of everyone in a household having a PC (including Mac) for these activities, the population will be more diverse.
They also don't like hydro. How can you not like hydro? It's renewable, it doesn't generate waste or pollute the environment. Sure, but it kills the fish. Seriously???? WTF???
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Hydro power plants can have problems with each particular project. The Army Corp of Engineers wanted to dam up the Deleware Water Gap with the Tux Island dam. Project went far enough to create four ghost towns on the New Jersey side. It took about a decade to get the idea across that building dam backing up that much water on ground that was fundamentally unstable was not a good idea.
And it serves to consistently push up the values of some of the terms in Drake's equation.
Unfortunately it's more than matched by the things that are pushing down the numbers in Drake's equation, such that the majority of exoplanets we've discovered show evidence of violent rearrangement of the solar system, especially in the case of Hot Jupiters, which are gas giants that have moved into orbits much closer than they could have formed in. Such rearrangement could spell doom for the rocky inner planets by majorly disrupting their orbits.
The other factors are what seem to be the narrow set of circumstances for producing Earth itself, being at the right distance to prevent Venus or Mars, producing a decent magnetic field to avoid having your atmosphere stripped off, a nicely sized moon for stabilising our axis, Drake's equation is looking lower with each passing year.
Sadly the fact remains Orion can't be built because Nuclear testing in LEO is against stupid laws.
IT'S SPACE DAMNIT, keep your retarded backward laws on earth.
Back in the 60's there were a couple of atomic weapons that were exploded in space in if I recall correctly, Project Starfish. They were known to have some wonky effects on the Van Allen Belts which are rather important to life on this planet. At that point, it was deemed prudent not to play around any further.
you're joking, right? you are aware that the president of USA can override anything and everything he wishes, including making mockery of the constitution, declaring wars which are not wars, re-defining POW status and just carrying out executions without notice.
the outer space treaty is just a feelgood paper.
Technically you are absolutely right. However in the real world, playing global (or space) cowboy has it's repercussions, And since we won't be alone out in space, assuming that the USA has the unfettered ability to act like an ass is parochial, naieve, and dangerously misguided thinking.
.... at the special media event which announced the pre-orders of the iPhone 5. Unlike the iPhone however no specificl launch date or pre-order was done.
Turn them back towards earth and get some super awesome pictures of topless French beachers. Duh.
They're not in space, they are air force satelites that were never launched.
Areceibo was originally an Air Force experiment that got turned over to NASA. They had to do a major workover on it though to get it useful for radio astronomy.
the problem is it doesn't work that way. Instruments designed for pure science frequently don't have a practical application. Unless you're serving DISH customers on Mars there is no practical use for the device.
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Cadillac was offering as an option a HUD (FLIR) foward looking infra-red system activated with the headlights/wipers 20 years ago.
As a Commercial driver at the time, I wanted the system due to safety concerns as an enhancement on my truck. Much easier to spot the vehicle in front of you in bad weather or the damn dear on the shoulder that's just waiting to jump in front of you during the night but vibration was a big issue. I said, put em on semis for testing and you'll soon figure out how to make them survive the damn vibration at the lowest cost. Would certainly have made the tech available on just about every vehicle by now.
You're talking about a very specfic system designed as a primary purpose of enhancing road safety. That's not in the same field as a general information and entertainment providing device whose main purpose will be designed to provide Google with ad revenue.
But technically I could run a app that is beneficial to my driving. This week end rented a car and got one with a HUD. It displayed three things, the speed limit, the current speed and the navigation instructions. It "floated" over the hood and I could read the information without taking my eyes off the street. This is VERY beneficial when you are currently doing a maneuver in heavy traffic. It also made the audio queues obsolete. (It had none.) Oh and this implementation of a speed limit indicator works, you see your speed and the speed limit all the time. You really have to willfully be speeding, you can't speed "by mistake".
The only thing the Google glasses need are a driving mode.
You MIGHT download an app that might be beneficial to your driving.... presuming it makes up for the loss of attention span on what you're supposed to be focusing on.... DRIVING. It is an uncontestable fact that texting, calling on the phone, and browsing your emal on your smartphone, does lead to an increased risk in auto accidents. How would putting this stuff in your face make it any safer? We give our legislatures a deservedly bad rap when they think in terms of technology that's already generations obsolete. We should be giving this guy credit for looking ahead.
When Benedict was selected, it was said that an older pope was chosen deliberately so that it wouldn't be a long reign like that of John Paul. Then again no one actually expected that we'd actually have another Papal resignation after only 600 years from the last one.
Totally right. The USA-UK-Canada-Australia alliance is the only superpower in the world.
Then I submit to you sir that the definition of superpower is absolutely rubbish in the context of national security and the global nuclear/cyber/pathogenic possibilities of war. And we should stop reveling in the false security that assessement brings.
My understanding is that you are basically correct.
In-fact, one of the big points about the current anti-missile systems is that they do not have enough capacity to prevent strategic nuclear strikes from Russia or China. The goal is to make sure that they could always nuke us if they needed too. Which is a rather screwed up design feature; but it's understandable that we don't want to undermine their nuclear deterrence.
From my understanding, we're only so-so in interceptin a missle launch we have planned in ADVANCE, judging from the string of failures we've had. I have no confidence in such interception during a surprise attack.
Cannot help but notice that this is a significant departure from OLPC's original vision. Just consider:
* Uses proprietary software.components * No sugar-UI (the open source educational UI in use in 3 million XO laptops) * Seems OLPC just picked a random android tablet off the market and added a green cover to it. Does not look rugged, and easily repairable at all (like all OLPC laptops till date). * No sunlight reflective screen * No mention of Negroponte * Closed door development
If I were squinting hard enough, this wouldn't look like anything OLPC has been involved in ever since it started out.
That's largely because it's "original vision" remained just that.... a vision. It really never got to execution. The original laptops never got to the the 100 dollar price point and had a tendency to self destruct under even moderate use.
What it runs on I don't care. So far all of the OLPC laptops have been utter failures in the mission they were designed for. Being cheap robust instruments for the children of the third world. The kind of operating system being used is irrelevant if it's major faults are not otherwise addressed, to whit the tendency for the units to fall completely apart under even benign conditions here in the First World, much less the the Third.
"This is not a project to undertake lightly. Putting something into space involves a good bit of regulatory compliance. ....since the launch is likely to take place outside the US."
So, if you use a foreign rocket on foreign soil, WTF does the US government have to regulate it?
There's a whole list of technology the U.S. does NOT want shipped to certain hostile or potentially hostile powers. It's not a laughing matter.
Whatever became of Eudora? When Qualcomm bailed out of it there was talk of integrating it into one of Mozilla's products -- Thunderbird, I guess -- but I haven't heard much about what came of that. So I'm still Macgyvering Eudora to work on XP.
Qualcomm closed the door on Eudora and opensourced it as Penelope.
2012 and still no platform independence...
Btw, anyone here who knows when iTunes comes to Linux?
Isn't it a sacred motto that all Linux users not only must foreswear the use of Apple hardware but refuse to have anything do with Apple save curse it's name at every turn?
When I'm using Linux, I'm using Thunderbird, but I can't access my school's email server because Thunderbird can't do Exchange.
http://davmail.sourceforge.net/
grnbrg.
That's interesting. on my iPhone, I set up my GMail account as Exchange so my contacts and calendars would sync. I'll have to give this a try on my desktop.
I really haven't used a desktop client for email in years. Where's the gain for the user?
I want my mail and calendar wherever I am. So why keep multiple copies of gigabytes of mail on multiple machines.
If your email accounts are IMAP, you're still only working with one copy of your mail, that on your IMAP server. You just give yourself more interfaces to work with it.
There are non-Presidential elections on the ballot, even in New Jersey.
There are also ballot initiatives in particular, Proposition 1 which is something that sorely needs to pass for the future of higher education in the state.
The discrepencies so far have been in favor of Obama. I've seen two distinct stories about voting machines registering Obama when people tried to vote for Romney. Poll workers blame it on "bad calibration". How the hell does that happen? I can write program in about 10 minutes for something as simple as "choose A or B".
I don't trust electronic voting of any kind. As long as a loosly-knit crew like Anonymous can hack the DOD, I prefer paper ballots whether it be in person or by US Mail.
You ever use a kiosk? Touchscreens can and DO go out of calibration which means that the virtual pointer does no match the position your finger touches on the screen. In my line of work, fixing touchscreen calibrations on Wal-Mart, Sams Club and Rite Aid photo kiosks are a common call.
The financial considerations killed it more than the unstable ground, but the irony of it is that the park that resulted is pretty nice :)
Those four ghost towns are still deserted. There was a story done on them for Weird New Jersey. I'd be careful about visiting them though. If your car dies there, there's literally nothing for miles and last I've heard, packs of feral dogs roaming the area are reason for concern.
If you develop a Windows 8 Metro style app -- it will work immediately on the tablet.
So you'll be able to sell it to all three people with Windows tablets.
If you develop a Windows XP app, it will work on 95% of Windows boxes (maybe more, I'm not sure how many old NT/98/etc machines are still running), and 100% of boxes people are likely to buy software for other than ARM tablets.
Why would Windows devs want to develop new apps that restrict them to a tiny subset of Windows systems, unless Microsoft pay them to do so?
To get on the ground floor of a new platform? If the platform takes off than that's a lot of smart money to be made.
And that will solve his or her discontinued software from Mysteryappwriter#78234 how?
Because he will be in charge of what is on his device, much like if he installed linux on the device, which is what he said he wanted.
I'm just as in charge with my iPhone5 as I was with my Android Optimus. Every bit of software aside from what came with the OS is there because I PUT IT THERE. I couldn't really care less about what zealots from either platform would say, save that I think the above statement is a non-issue. If I wanted something that I'd have to handroll every step, I'd build a custom desktop, and I have. If I'm buying a tablet though, I want instant gratification. I want it to work when I take it out of the box, and I expect certain features available from the getgo. because that's what tablets are about... consuming and using data, not having another device I have to software rebuild from scratch in order to just use.
Is that we have an expanding area of activities that were formally confined to the desktop now being opened up to non-PC devices, i.e. tablets, smartphones, and other smart appliances. These include... Web Browsing Content Creation Game Play Third Party program operation Instead of everyone in a household having a PC (including Mac) for these activities, the population will be more diverse.
They also don't like hydro. How can you not like hydro? It's renewable, it doesn't generate waste or pollute the environment. Sure, but it kills the fish. Seriously???? WTF???
>
Hydro power plants can have problems with each particular project. The Army Corp of Engineers wanted to dam up the Deleware Water Gap with the Tux Island dam. Project went far enough to create four ghost towns on the New Jersey side. It took about a decade to get the idea across that building dam backing up that much water on ground that was fundamentally unstable was not a good idea.
And it serves to consistently push up the values of some of the terms in Drake's equation.
Unfortunately it's more than matched by the things that are pushing down the numbers in Drake's equation, such that the majority of exoplanets we've discovered show evidence of violent rearrangement of the solar system, especially in the case of Hot Jupiters, which are gas giants that have moved into orbits much closer than they could have formed in. Such rearrangement could spell doom for the rocky inner planets by majorly disrupting their orbits. The other factors are what seem to be the narrow set of circumstances for producing Earth itself, being at the right distance to prevent Venus or Mars, producing a decent magnetic field to avoid having your atmosphere stripped off, a nicely sized moon for stabilising our axis, Drake's equation is looking lower with each passing year.
Sadly the fact remains Orion can't be built because Nuclear testing in LEO is against stupid laws. IT'S SPACE DAMNIT, keep your retarded backward laws on earth.
Back in the 60's there were a couple of atomic weapons that were exploded in space in if I recall correctly, Project Starfish. They were known to have some wonky effects on the Van Allen Belts which are rather important to life on this planet. At that point, it was deemed prudent not to play around any further.
you're joking, right? you are aware that the president of USA can override anything and everything he wishes, including making mockery of the constitution, declaring wars which are not wars, re-defining POW status and just carrying out executions without notice.
the outer space treaty is just a feelgood paper.
Technically you are absolutely right. However in the real world, playing global (or space) cowboy has it's repercussions, And since we won't be alone out in space, assuming that the USA has the unfettered ability to act like an ass is parochial, naieve, and dangerously misguided thinking.
.... at the special media event which announced the pre-orders of the iPhone 5. Unlike the iPhone however no specificl launch date or pre-order was done.
Turn them back towards earth and get some super awesome pictures of topless French beachers. Duh.
They're not in space, they are air force satelites that were never launched.
Areceibo was originally an Air Force experiment that got turned over to NASA. They had to do a major workover on it though to get it useful for radio astronomy.
the problem is it doesn't work that way. Instruments designed for pure science frequently don't have a practical application. Unless you're serving DISH customers on Mars there is no practical use for the device.