What is the point of having an ultra-thin display when the base required to hold it makes the device have the same footprint as a CRT TV? This might have been a good seller if it had been something you could hang on your wall, but even then, most people have enough space in their homes that they don't really *need* an ultra-thin display (and would not pay a premium for it)
I there is a market for ultra-thin displays, but it is for tablet devices and laptops, not TVs. I believe Sony realized this and is simply moving towards that market.
In that video, they mention "they are working with several sites" to provide compatible apps... so really this is just the scenario where everyone has to rewrite their flash apps in a compatible way. The video provides no technical solutions for apps which have not been rewritten.
Back in my high school's UNIX system I used to like piping binary files to people terminals. It worked pretty well as a DoS and made a loud racket with the all the BEL characters.
Cntl-S could also be used to halt people's sessions, and "+++" would screw with people on dial up sessions.
Nintendo should work on a fMRI-based game interface that can translate your thoughts into game actions. That should get the price of fMRI scanners down to a few hundred dollars each and immensely benefit medical research.
Once they are done with that, they can work on a DNA sequencing controller that customizes your on-screen avatar to look and act like you based on your genetic sequence.
And so forth, until all medical equipment and tests costs a few hundred dollars each.
His theory was wrong because it needs another term. One that accounts for your chances of making it to national media as a result of your calculations.
In galactic terms, the assumption of the Drake equation is that you won't raise a flashing neon sign the size of Jupiter, with the words "Intelligent life here, please drop by for a good time!". Doing so will render the equation invalid.
I'm actually in the process of hacking together something similar with a 405nm violet laser pointer, a sheet of glow-in-the-dark material, and a moving mirror. The laser pointer leaves a bright trace on the phosphorescent sheet. My notion was to build a small robot that could write glowing messages as it moved across the glow in the dark sheet.
Anyhow, these guys are apparently working on a full-color version. I think what makes this possible now is the cheap availability of blu-ray laser diodes with sufficiently high wavelength to cause materials to phosphoresce. Red or green lasers do not work (I've tried). These guys were probably waiting for laser technology to catch up to them.
I've occasionally thought it would be interesting to use this kind of technology for home plumbing. For example, when you turn on your sink and ask for hot water, instead of having a continuous flow in a pipe from the hot water heater to the sink (which wastes a lot of energy), why not use a pneumatic tube system to deliver a packet of hot water to the sink?
Are you fucking high?
I'm sure they said the same thing to the fellow who thought packet switching was better than circuit switching for a global comminications network. Maybe this guy is on to something. In addition to hot and cold water, you could get your mail delivered at the tap, along with beer, spirits or whiskey. All at the push of a button, through the magic of packet switching. Not such a crazy idea when you think about it.
You do realize that most of those are photography tricks where someone has set their desktop backgrounds to be a photo of the background and taken the a picture from just the right angle?
This would be awesome for augmented reality in a hand held device. If you could make it so you could look through it to your surroundings, and overlay useful information. The tricky part would be tracking where the user's eyes were relative to the device so you could properly position the overlay.
...would have cost about the same, would have been upgradeable to new bands and waveforms, and would have left some room for actual passengers in the cabin.
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I think the Sony OLED TV didn't sell was because it was a ridiculous design. Look at the picture:
http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/techno-techno-techno/css/sony-xel-1-oled.jpg
What is the point of having an ultra-thin display when the base required to hold it makes the device have the same footprint as a CRT TV? This might have been a good seller if it had been something you could hang on your wall, but even then, most people have enough space in their homes that they don't really *need* an ultra-thin display (and would not pay a premium for it)
I there is a market for ultra-thin displays, but it is for tablet devices and laptops, not TVs. I believe Sony realized this and is simply moving towards that market.
In that video, they mention "they are working with several sites" to provide compatible apps ... so really this is just the scenario where everyone has to rewrite their flash apps in a compatible way. The video provides no technical solutions for apps which have not been rewritten.
Photoshop 1.0 actually ran on a B&W Mac? Seriously? What's the point in that?
Although, if anyone know where I can find a copy of this for my Mac Plus, let me know...
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Photoshop 1.0 actually ran on a B&W Mac? Seriously? What's the point in that?
Although, if anyone know where I can find a copy of this for my Mac Plus, let me know...
Back in my high school's UNIX system I used to like piping binary files to people terminals. It worked pretty well as a DoS and made a loud racket with the all the BEL characters.
Cntl-S could also be used to halt people's sessions, and "+++" would screw with people on dial up sessions.
The good ol' days.
What kind of super powers do I get if I drink that water?
It was bad enough when computers were made out of mere sand, now they will be made out of coal?
Can't they make computers out of sapphires or something so I can feel sophisticated when I buy it?
They should send a Roomba to Mars. Vacuum up all that pesky red sand.
Nintendo should work on a fMRI-based game interface that can translate your thoughts into game actions. That should get the price of fMRI scanners down to a few hundred dollars each and immensely benefit medical research.
Once they are done with that, they can work on a DNA sequencing controller that customizes your on-screen avatar to look and act like you based on your genetic sequence.
And so forth, until all medical equipment and tests costs a few hundred dollars each.
What's the millage on those things? And how many MPG does it get?
how does that work when the prof writes something on the blackboard?
That's when the "blind" kid goes up to the front of the room and gropes the prof.
"Oh, sorry about that, I was just trying to read the blackboard..."
For some reason though, this only happens when the prof is a pretty female TA.
His theory was wrong because it needs another term. One that accounts for your chances of making it to national media as a result of your calculations.
In galactic terms, the assumption of the Drake equation is that you won't raise a flashing neon sign the size of Jupiter, with the words "Intelligent life here, please drop by for a good time!". Doing so will render the equation invalid.
I'm actually in the process of hacking together something similar with a 405nm violet laser pointer, a sheet of glow-in-the-dark material, and a moving mirror. The laser pointer leaves a bright trace on the phosphorescent sheet. My notion was to build a small robot that could write glowing messages as it moved across the glow in the dark sheet.
Anyhow, these guys are apparently working on a full-color version. I think what makes this possible now is the cheap availability of blu-ray laser diodes with sufficiently high wavelength to cause materials to phosphoresce. Red or green lasers do not work (I've tried). These guys were probably waiting for laser technology to catch up to them.
I've occasionally thought it would be interesting to use this kind of technology for home plumbing. For example, when you turn on your sink and ask for hot water, instead of having a continuous flow in a pipe from the hot water heater to the sink (which wastes a lot of energy), why not use a pneumatic tube system to deliver a packet of hot water to the sink?
Are you fucking high?
I'm sure they said the same thing to the fellow who thought packet switching was better than circuit switching for a global comminications network. Maybe this guy is on to something. In addition to hot and cold water, you could get your mail delivered at the tap, along with beer, spirits or whiskey. All at the push of a button, through the magic of packet switching. Not such a crazy idea when you think about it.
Damn it. I knew I should have sold back my college Physics textbooks when I had the chance...
You do realize that most of those are photography tricks where someone has set their desktop backgrounds to be a photo of the background and taken the a picture from just the right angle?
This would be awesome for augmented reality in a hand held device. If you could make it so you could look through it to your surroundings, and overlay useful information. The tricky part would be tracking where the user's eyes were relative to the device so you could properly position the overlay.
An American phone.
Surely not the people who loudly yak away on their cellphones in public where everyone can hear.
User: Oh, look, someone sent me a text file
User: *double-click*
Computer: Launching trusted executable...
Trojan: Got ya, sucker.
Seriously Intel, TXT? What were you thinking?
Why didn't it make the list?
3) New OS, no new screen savers?
Seriously, how about using power management instead? Screen savers were meant to protect CRTs, back in the days before power management existed.
...to search for Google.
...would have cost about the same, would have been upgradeable to new bands and waveforms, and would have left some room for actual passengers in the cabin.