... for when you walk into a structure intentionally shielded against cell phone communications. (I don't have a cellphone, as a true nerd I don't feel the need to talk to people that much) Just so you'll know what to do if you need to use a phone real fast...
It seems I've been in this thread before. Actually I'm sure I've made this same point before. Is there a dejaslashdot.com? I know, search/. in messages...
Well it might be illigal to jam cell phones in your cinema or theatre, but no-one said anything about fitting wire mesh in stratigic parts of the walls..
That would include... well, should I really be telling anyone how to make a Faraday shield, considering...
Someone really should start up a business doing that.
considering the possible liability? IANAL but I wouldn't want to do that (it seems it could be legally similar enough to jamming, in spite of the fact that nothing is transmitted), to (Dramatic Enactment follows) have a movie showing be interrupted by a screaming woman saying "HELP! DOES ANYONE HAVE A CELL PHONE? My husband is having a HEART ATTACK and my GODDAMN CELL PHONE DOESN'T WORK!" Time could be lost before figuring out that NO cell phone works in the theater and the management figures out to call for help. The movie showing gets ruined for everyone.
Build a system with all OSS and put it on display. Explain that the warrenty is "ONLY HARDWARE" (I know, nobody gets that one... but we must try) and just give them the choice
Doesn't Microsoft make retailers sign contracts that they will ONLY sell MS system software on the Intel-compatible hardware they sell? I recall a court case or two about this a few years ago.
Everyone knew the original Napster and its followons Kazaa, Gnutella, and EtCetera [sorry] have only one practical purpose, to copy commercial files without paying royalties while attempting to hide the fact, and get around ISP's AUP's recarding illegal activity (using their service to host and distribute material without copyright holder's permission). I actually heard of independent musicians putting their own music on Napster, but that's a very small minority of what's "shared" and is riding piggy-back on a system doing copyright violations.
Those who have perfectly legal files to "share" put them on websites or ftp sites. I don't think it would bother me too much if file-sharing programs were made illegal, since there are other ways to share files that are legally sharable on the Internet.
The laws concerning copyright of written text weren't changed when the Xerox ocopy machine became available. Should copyright laws on music recordings be changed just because it's so easy to store, copy and "share" such recordings? I don't see any argument other than "I want my free [commercial] music" and that's not a good enough reason.
I thought that was half the reason megacompanies merge into these huge f'in' megaliths, to do this kind of cross-promotion. Just the fact that they run this "Top 100 Movies Of All Time, The Really Truly Definitive List" makes Time no more of a "News" magazine than People or the TV show Entertainment Tonight.
from which one can extract energy, but of course some processes are more efficient than others, and I'm not that familiar with the technologies and how efficient they are, but the name Stirling engine comes to mind as a possibility. This prompted me to actually READ TFA, and incredibly, Stirling engine is not mentioned. Here's a FAQ: http://www.stirlingengine.com/faq/one?scope=public &faq_id=1
am desperatley waiting for the fusion revolution in +/- 50 years tho, i drool at the thought of unlimited energy. It will happen...
And within ten years of "unlimited" energy everyone* will have the electric-power equivalent of SUV's to go to soccer practice and the supermarket. If it's literally freem poower use will expand to meet the the generation (and distribution! We'll need fatter wires) capability.
*For pedants, this word is used idiomatically, not literally. Thank you for your understanding.
Have each key be a small LCD screen, it will (if turned on) display the keybord layout, and the key displays will change from lower to upper case when shift is pressed. Okay, so that's a little TOO cute and nerdy...
I'll also take the variable force springs
How about if you can specify the force for each key? Even make it have Model-M clickable or 'mushy' feel.
A row of buttons for macros
For many years I've visualized a keyboard with e built-in LCD display and functions where you can make macros on the keyboard so pressing a key or combo causes an easily-programmed letter sequence to be sent, rather than just one letter. There have always been macro programs, but these macros will go with you when you take your keyboard.
I was a hunt-and-peck typist when I started playing with computer (the ones with full keyboards attached) 28 years ago on CRT terminals, Decwriters and those beloved ASR-33's, but with typing all my comments on Slashdot (and Usenet newsgroups, and mailing lists, and BBS's before then, and yes, even a little code documentation:) ), it seems that somewhere along the way I became a touch typist. I may not be putting the right fingers in the right places, but I seem to get by.
The problem with DVORAK: Using others' computers
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Does anyone use this or any other alternative layout? How hard is it to go back and forth between your favorite keyboard/computer and a regular QWERTY layout? It seems this would be a problem.
I've got everything from their first album up to Seventh Son on remastered CD, and i still listen to my 20 year old tapes.
Actually, there's another abomination being done with recently-released (in the past 10 to 15 years or so) CD's (new releases as well as 're-mastered'), called hypercompression, based on the idea that "The LOUDER it is, the more it sells". Here's a link describing it in excruciating detail:
Different process, but similar concepts. Lots of old music recordings get "destroyed" by digital remastering.
In a case like this (with both the cartoons and the music), i would personally put up with hiss, scratches, dirt and pops until they've got the remastering tools perfected.
I've done audio restoration on a mostly-hobby and sometimes-paid basis, and I agree with many others' posts here, it's more the operator than the tools that causes the problem. You can put things on automatic and it will get rid of clicks on LP's amazingly enough, but closer listening shows larger clicks replaced with dropouts at the former click locations, and some highly percussive sounds such as castanets, snare drum, or plucked guitars can end up being 'declicked' by the detection algorithm. It takes a lot longer to carefully listen to the result compared with the original, to find and remove inappropriate 'corrections'. I don't see software being able to reliably distinguish between signal and noise until after the (Vinge) Signularity.
Here's a blatant commercial link, a CD of many different approaches to restoration of a quite old recording, along with the original: http://pmerecords.com/AudioRestore.cfm I don't get any money for sales, but I'm the only one with two tracks. This is a fairly rough original recording, and was fairly hard to work with compared to most LP's or even most '78's. I used inexpensive software (Wave Corrector and Cool Edit 2000 [now Adobe Audition]), but I think my tracks stand up well to the others. On one of the other tracks you can hear the 'alien trashmasher' effect I mention trying to avoid in my track description. Many listeners still preferred the original, un-'restored' track.
An effect that noise reduction (as opposed to click removal) can have is the swshing and/or underwater effect often heard in MP3 encodings (they use the same FFT process). It's often better to leave some of the hiss than to try to remove it all and have the desired sound messed with.
(Dunno what key I hit before, but it was obviously the wrong one) As I was quoting:
His latest project: setting up Skype for phone service, as soon as he can import a microphone and speakers.
Maybe someday package delivery services will accept longitude and latitude (now often called "GPS coordinates") as a delivery address, and if it's not practical to drive a truck there, have an airplane do a "drop shipment" with a parachute. Would a hard drive survive such a shipment?
I recall reading about doing this - acceleration raises the energy or 'temperature' of a vacuum (it creates particles with energy) analogous to how compressing a gas raises its temperature, and likewise, stopping acceleration lowers the energy just as releasing the pressure on a gas lowers its temperature. If you have a box with a vacuum (temperature at absolute zero) in it, then accelerate it, creating energy inside, and allow the energy to dissipate (so the temperature is again at absolute zero), then remove the acceleration, the box will have negative energy in it.
This is more of a thought experiment than something that can easily be done. Googling "zero point energy" should give more info/a better explanation, though it looks like there's some crap ("devoted to the new energy technology") out there too.
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... for when you walk into a structure intentionally shielded against cell phone communications. (I don't have a cellphone, as a true nerd I don't feel the need to talk to people that much) Just so you'll know what to do if you need to use a phone real fast...
/. in messages...
It seems I've been in this thread before. Actually I'm sure I've made this same point before. Is there a dejaslashdot.com? I know, search
Well it might be illigal to jam cell phones in your cinema or theatre, but no-one said anything about fitting wire mesh in stratigic parts of the walls..
That would include... well, should I really be telling anyone how to make a Faraday shield, considering...
Someone really should start up a business doing that.
considering the possible liability? IANAL but I wouldn't want to do that (it seems it could be legally similar enough to jamming, in spite of the fact that nothing is transmitted), to (Dramatic Enactment follows) have a movie showing be interrupted by a screaming woman saying "HELP! DOES ANYONE HAVE A CELL PHONE? My husband is having a HEART ATTACK and my GODDAMN CELL PHONE DOESN'T WORK!" Time could be lost before figuring out that NO cell phone works in the theater and the management figures out to call for help. The movie showing gets ruined for everyone.
but IIRC there's still "My Music" and "My Pictures".
You mean they didn't change these to "The RIAA's Music" and "The MPAA's Pictures"???
Maybe the skill from tapping those colored squares they use as the interface on Star Trek screens is directly transferrable to a keyboard.
And to think the standard colored-square touch-screen layout will still be QWERTY.
Here's an oldie - Millennium-Year Application Software System a.k.a MyAss will now be called The Application Software System (The Ass).
There are already "compatibilities" kludged (the nicest word I can think of) into things like the DOS command window, as in:
cd \"my documents"
or for full-andcomplete 8.3 filename compatibility, the infamous:
cd \mydocu~1
OTOH, such programs are pretty damn ancient in net.time, and should be relegated to a directory off of root named something like \user_8_3\
I guess thismeans Longhorn will be "Shorthorn compatible."
i wonder how buffer overflows will be handeled
If it runs Microsoft software, they won't be.
Why would any consumer want more crap to uninstall when they get their new computer?
Huh? Consumers only uninstall things when they believe it will give them more disk or RAM (sic) space...
Build a system with all OSS and put it on display. Explain that the warrenty is "ONLY HARDWARE" (I know, nobody gets that one... but we must try) and just give them the choice
Doesn't Microsoft make retailers sign contracts that they will ONLY sell MS system software on the Intel-compatible hardware they sell? I recall a court case or two about this a few years ago.
Everyone knew the original Napster and its followons Kazaa, Gnutella, and EtCetera [sorry] have only one practical purpose, to copy commercial files without paying royalties while attempting to hide the fact, and get around ISP's AUP's recarding illegal activity (using their service to host and distribute material without copyright holder's permission). I actually heard of independent musicians putting their own music on Napster, but that's a very small minority of what's "shared" and is riding piggy-back on a system doing copyright violations.
Those who have perfectly legal files to "share" put them on websites or ftp sites. I don't think it would bother me too much if file-sharing programs were made illegal, since there are other ways to share files that are legally sharable on the Internet.
The laws concerning copyright of written text weren't changed when the Xerox ocopy machine became available. Should copyright laws on music recordings be changed just because it's so easy to store, copy and "share" such recordings? I don't see any argument other than "I want my free [commercial] music" and that's not a good enough reason.
Isn't that a conflict of interest?
I thought that was half the reason megacompanies merge into these huge f'in' megaliths, to do this kind of cross-promotion. Just the fact that they run this "Top 100 Movies Of All Time, The Really Truly Definitive List" makes Time no more of a "News" magazine than People or the TV show Entertainment Tonight.
When will the genius of Ed Wood finally be recognized?
That should be the GENUS of Ed Wood...
From TFA:
A polymath who is as comfortable talking about the Law of the Sea as he is the plumbing nightmares inherent when 200 men a day urinate in a submarine,
Okay, gee, what a mental image, I really didn't have to read that. For some reason I don't want to drink anything now...
I know, why don't they 'man' submarines with women, since it seems women don't do that in submarines...
from which one can extract energy, but of course some processes are more efficient than others, and I'm not that familiar with the technologies and how efficient they are, but the name Stirling engine comes to mind as a possibility. This prompted me to actually READ TFA, and incredibly, Stirling engine is not mentioned. Here's a FAQ:c &faq_id=1
http://www.stirlingengine.com/faq/one?scope=publi
am desperatley waiting for the fusion revolution in +/- 50 years tho, i drool at the thought of unlimited energy. It will happen...
And within ten years of "unlimited" energy everyone* will have the electric-power equivalent of SUV's to go to soccer practice and the supermarket. If it's literally freem poower use will expand to meet the the generation (and distribution! We'll need fatter wires) capability.
*For pedants, this word is used idiomatically, not literally. Thank you for your understanding.
I'll take the blank keys from this one
Have each key be a small LCD screen, it will (if turned on) display the keybord layout, and the key displays will change from lower to upper case when shift is pressed. Okay, so that's a little TOO cute and nerdy...
I'll also take the variable force springs
How about if you can specify the force for each key? Even make it have Model-M clickable or 'mushy' feel.
A row of buttons for macros
For many years I've visualized a keyboard with e built-in LCD display and functions where you can make macros on the keyboard so pressing a key or combo causes an easily-programmed letter sequence to be sent, rather than just one letter. There have always been macro programs, but these macros will go with you when you take your keyboard.
I was a hunt-and-peck typist when I started playing with computer (the ones with full keyboards attached) 28 years ago on CRT terminals, Decwriters and those beloved ASR-33's, but with typing all my comments on Slashdot (and Usenet newsgroups, and mailing lists, and BBS's before then, and yes, even a little code documentation :) ), it seems that somewhere along the way I became a touch typist. I may not be putting the right fingers in the right places, but I seem to get by.
Does anyone use this or any other alternative layout? How hard is it to go back and forth between your favorite keyboard/computer and a regular QWERTY layout? It seems this would be a problem.
I've got everything from their first album up to Seventh Son on remastered CD, and i still listen to my 20 year old tapes.
s /8A133F52D0FD71AB86256C2E005DAF1C
Actually, there's another abomination being done with recently-released (in the past 10 to 15 years or so) CD's (new releases as well as 're-mastered'), called hypercompression, based on the idea that "The LOUDER it is, the more it sells". Here's a link describing it in excruciating detail:
http://www.prorec.com/prorec/articles.nsf/article
Different process, but similar concepts. Lots of old music recordings get "destroyed" by digital remastering.
In a case like this (with both the cartoons and the music), i would personally put up with hiss, scratches, dirt and pops until they've got the remastering tools perfected.
I've done audio restoration on a mostly-hobby and sometimes-paid basis, and I agree with many others' posts here, it's more the operator than the tools that causes the problem. You can put things on automatic and it will get rid of clicks on LP's amazingly enough, but closer listening shows larger clicks replaced with dropouts at the former click locations, and some highly percussive sounds such as castanets, snare drum, or plucked guitars can end up being 'declicked' by the detection algorithm. It takes a lot longer to carefully listen to the result compared with the original, to find and remove inappropriate 'corrections'. I don't see software being able to reliably distinguish between signal and noise until after the (Vinge) Signularity.
Here's a blatant commercial link, a CD of many different approaches to restoration of a quite old recording, along with the original:
http://pmerecords.com/AudioRestore.cfm
I don't get any money for sales, but I'm the only one with two tracks. This is a fairly rough original recording, and was fairly hard to work with compared to most LP's or even most '78's. I used inexpensive software (Wave Corrector and Cool Edit 2000 [now Adobe Audition]), but I think my tracks stand up well to the others. On one of the other tracks you can hear the 'alien trashmasher' effect I mention trying to avoid in my track description. Many listeners still preferred the original, un-'restored' track.
An effect that noise reduction (as opposed to click removal) can have is the swshing and/or underwater effect often heard in MP3 encodings (they use the same FFT process). It's often better to leave some of the hiss than to try to remove it all and have the desired sound messed with.
(Dunno what key I hit before, but it was obviously the wrong one) As I was quoting:
His latest project: setting up Skype for phone service, as soon as he can import a microphone and speakers.
Maybe someday package delivery services will accept longitude and latitude (now often called "GPS coordinates") as a delivery address, and if it's not practical to drive a truck there, have an airplane do a "drop shipment" with a parachute. Would a hard drive survive such a shipment?
His latest project: setting up Skype for phone service, as soon as he can import a microphone and speakers.
when they need to make an emergency call and the signal can't get out.
I recall reading about doing this - acceleration raises the energy or 'temperature' of a vacuum (it creates particles with energy) analogous to how compressing a gas raises its temperature, and likewise, stopping acceleration lowers the energy just as releasing the pressure on a gas lowers its temperature.
If you have a box with a vacuum (temperature at absolute zero) in it, then accelerate it, creating energy inside, and allow the energy to dissipate (so the temperature is again at absolute zero), then remove the acceleration, the box will have negative energy in it.
This is more of a thought experiment than something that can easily be done. Googling "zero point energy" should give more info/a better explanation, though it looks like there's some crap ("devoted to the new energy technology") out there too.