Errrr... It IS on the main page. What are you smoking ?
You didn't quite get it.
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It could be used for cops. Like, say, the cop has its gun recognize HIS fingerprints, so if the bad guy manages to get his hands on the policeman's gun, he can't use it anyway. That's one of the use for such a gun.
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Science faction By Fiona Williams July 5 2003
Imagine a gun that uses fingerprint scanning to prevent you firing a shot, brain implants that let you tap into people's memories and a newspaper that updates itself when a big story breaks. It's not science fiction, it's science fact, as technologists catch up with - and surpass - the benchmarks set by sci-fi writers and filmmakers.
Set in the not-too-distant future, sci-fi films offer insights into what the world might be like and what impact evolving technologies might have on daily life, says Dean Economou, chief technologist of the CSIRO's Centre for Networking Technologies for the Information Economy (CENTIE ). Economou says the fact that cloning, virtual reality and biometrics are commonplace concepts today is partly due to representations of the technologies in film and science-fiction literature and that scientists have taken many cues from what they've seen take place on screen.
"Artists are generally very good at reflecting human nature in the tenor of their times and sometimes that leads to very valuable insights," Economou says. "If you're not constrained by knowledge of things you can't do or think you can't do, I think you can come up with some really nice insights.
"[The films] mean people have a vocabulary about the future and you find a lot of the young researchers were very inspired by 2001, Star Trek, Blade Runner or The Matrix. In a very real way, the technologists are inspired by the sci-fi people and the sci-fi people are similarly inspired by the technologists."
More than merely being inspired by technologists, filmmakers are actively seeking out scientists for advice and input. Whereas early science-fiction filmmakers could take a liberal dose of artistic licence when grappling with scientific concepts, modern science has taken away this luxury for today's filmmakers and called for accuracy in science-fiction filmmaking like never before.
Upon its release last year, Steven Spielberg's Minority Report, set in the not-too-distant future, featured a wealth of hi-tech gadgetry. The film sees Tom Cruise head up a futuristic pre-crime division that prevents murder by arresting would-be perpetrators before they act, based on the psychic evidence of three "pre-cognitive" siblings. The film is highly regarded for its accuracy in projecting what life will be like in 2054 as all objects and gadgets featured in the film have very real foundations in existing technologies.
John Underkoffler is a graduate of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with more than a decade of experience in the organisation's Media Lab. As Minority Report's science and technological adviser, he played a key role in ensuring the gadgets and technology featured in the film had firm foundations in scientific studies.
"Steven insisted early on that this not be 'science fiction' per se in the way it is usually understood," Underkoffler says. "But rather what he called 'future reality'; it should be a recognisable extrapolation of what we have today with the technologies that are just emerging. What would be trends in a future that is just distant enough [to be] really interesting to look at and is engaging, but at the same time is recognisably bridgeable to now and then."
Underkoffler became involved in Minority Report when the film's production designer Alex McDowell and prop master Jerry Moss led a delegation to MIT to discuss future technology. Spielberg then convened a much-vaunted two-day roundtable think tank with Underkoffler and futurist colleagues, such as Generation X author Douglas Coupland, where he says they "ate Spielberg's bagels and drank his coffee and came up with a giant waldorf salad of notions". Many of the original ideas to stem from that meeting were retained in the final cut of the film, such as the weaponry - vomit-inducing "sick sticks" and acoustic concussion guns.
Much has been made of the "gestural recognition interface" operated by Cruise's character in t
Eh eh eh... I worked at a large ISP here in Quebec, and a lady called to unsubscribe. When we asked the reason, she said "Your competitor Internet is much better, your Internet sucks". She was referring to our main site, which is configured by default when installing the installkit for the service. She didn't know she could go anywhere else, so for 2 months, she was on http://www.infinit.com/... And she found our competitor's website quite better, so she left, there was no way we could make her understand that THAT is not the Internet...
I patent the process of filing a patent for a patent of filing a process for a patent of filing a process for a patent of wanting to file a process for a patent of trying to be filing a process for a patent of filing a process for a patent of filing a process for a patent of filing a process for a patent of filing a process for a patent of filing a process for a patent of filing a process...
We got it. Damn... That one's getting old. My grandma made that joke on Slashdot in 1843.
The casinos are a governmental institute. And they do NOT deny that they decide the payback to the customers. In fact, just after a strike a couple of years ago, they programmed the slots to pay less, in order to cover up for the loss they made during the strike. They did not say it publicly, but it was the rumor going and a good friend of mine who works there confirmed it to me. Nonetheless, people still went to put their money in those damn machines.
In short : Blackjack rules. At least, the odds are genuine !
Hire me ! I have plenty of experience with RPG. I finished Final Fantasy 1 to 3, 7 to 10, and I promise I'll do my best while working for you to finish the new releases on time. I also have good experience with Secret of Mana, Breath of Fire, 7th Saga, Zelda, and many others...
I already do all this with a device called a laptop computer.
A Palm is devised to be a small, efficient organiser, with some apps to help you do some basic tasks. No, I don't want to watch the simpsons on a 3 inches screen. I want to watch it on my 15 inches laptop screen. My PDA is used to keep my life organised, and make it so that if I go on a 2 weeks trip I don't even have to recharge it (same reason why I don't buy color PDAs, it sucks too much battery). Want to input faster on your PDA ? Well, if you REALLY need to, they have some external keyboards. But I can input really fast using my laptop...
I tell you, my Palm has 8 megs of memory, and I don't need more. It's really enough for some little games, get my news with AvantGo, and a couple of offline webpages with Plucker. So why a gig in my Palm, when I can get 30 in my laptop with a much bigger screen for all multimedia purposes ?
Bah... Almost all newer PDA have expansion slots (be it Springboard on Handspring or SD in Palms). 128 megs or even 256 megs cartdrige are relatively cheap, and heck, with the applications taking only a few kilobytes (the monopoly game I have takes less than 200k), you can go a long way. I don't see use for a gigabyte of data on a PDA...
Well, putting PROFESSIONNAL is a guarantee that the thing is solid, serious, efficient. You know, like MCP, Microsoft Certified Professionnal, are sol...
The second episode of Animatrix is now available. Slashdot it here.
If THIS is newsworthy...
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If this is newsworthy, then this is too :
I developped a telepathic form of communication through IP. You want some proof ?
Close your eyes. What do you see? All black ? THAT'S MY WALLPAPER, ALL BLACK, NO DRAWING ! Wow... You see, through telepathy via IP, I was able to show you MY desktop !
If this doesn't make Slashdot frontpage, what will?
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Errrr... It IS on the main page. What are you smoking ?
It could be used for cops. Like, say, the cop has its gun recognize HIS fingerprints, so if the bad guy manages to get his hands on the policeman's gun, he can't use it anyway. That's one of the use for such a gun.
Science faction
By Fiona Williams
July 5 2003
Imagine a gun that uses fingerprint scanning to prevent you firing a shot, brain implants that let you tap into people's memories and a newspaper that updates itself when a big story breaks. It's not science fiction, it's science fact, as technologists catch up with - and surpass - the benchmarks set by sci-fi writers and filmmakers.
Set in the not-too-distant future, sci-fi films offer insights into what the world might be like and what impact evolving technologies might have on daily life, says Dean Economou, chief technologist of the CSIRO's Centre for Networking Technologies for the Information Economy (CENTIE ). Economou says the fact that cloning, virtual reality and biometrics are commonplace concepts today is partly due to representations of the technologies in film and science-fiction literature and that scientists have taken many cues from what they've seen take place on screen.
"Artists are generally very good at reflecting human nature in the tenor of their times and sometimes that leads to very valuable insights," Economou says. "If you're not constrained by knowledge of things you can't do or think you can't do, I think you can come up with some really nice insights.
"[The films] mean people have a vocabulary about the future and you find a lot of the young researchers were very inspired by 2001, Star Trek, Blade Runner or The Matrix. In a very real way, the technologists are inspired by the sci-fi people and the sci-fi people are similarly inspired by the technologists."
More than merely being inspired by technologists, filmmakers are actively seeking out scientists for advice and input. Whereas early science-fiction filmmakers could take a liberal dose of artistic licence when grappling with scientific concepts, modern science has taken away this luxury for today's filmmakers and called for accuracy in science-fiction filmmaking like never before.
Upon its release last year, Steven Spielberg's Minority Report, set in the not-too-distant future, featured a wealth of hi-tech gadgetry. The film sees Tom Cruise head up a futuristic pre-crime division that prevents murder by arresting would-be perpetrators before they act, based on the psychic evidence of three "pre-cognitive" siblings. The film is highly regarded for its accuracy in projecting what life will be like in 2054 as all objects and gadgets featured in the film have very real foundations in existing technologies.
John Underkoffler is a graduate of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with more than a decade of experience in the organisation's Media Lab. As Minority Report's science and technological adviser, he played a key role in ensuring the gadgets and technology featured in the film had firm foundations in scientific studies.
"Steven insisted early on that this not be 'science fiction' per se in the way it is usually understood," Underkoffler says. "But rather what he called 'future reality'; it should be a recognisable extrapolation of what we have today with the technologies that are just emerging. What would be trends in a future that is just distant enough [to be] really interesting to look at and is engaging, but at the same time is recognisably bridgeable to now and then."
Underkoffler became involved in Minority Report when the film's production designer Alex McDowell and prop master Jerry Moss led a delegation to MIT to discuss future technology. Spielberg then convened a much-vaunted two-day roundtable think tank with Underkoffler and futurist colleagues, such as Generation X author Douglas Coupland, where he says they "ate Spielberg's bagels and drank his coffee and came up with a giant waldorf salad of notions". Many of the original ideas to stem from that meeting were retained in the final cut of the film, such as the weaponry - vomit-inducing "sick sticks" and acoustic concussion guns.
Much has been made of the "gestural recognition interface" operated by Cruise's character in t
A penguin's just a penguin.
Yeah... At a friend's house. :-)
Quite funny :-)
We got it. Damn... That one's getting old. My grandma made that joke on Slashdot in 1843.
In short : Blackjack rules. At least, the odds are genuine !
Oh, not THAT kind of RPG... ;-)
Thanks for expaining it to him. ;-)
Oh wait, that's the case here too... Nevermind.
I'll make millions, but the more time it takes to get processed, the more I lose money. Think I'm gonna sue them on top of that.
A Palm is devised to be a small, efficient organiser, with some apps to help you do some basic tasks. No, I don't want to watch the simpsons on a 3 inches screen. I want to watch it on my 15 inches laptop screen. My PDA is used to keep my life organised, and make it so that if I go on a 2 weeks trip I don't even have to recharge it (same reason why I don't buy color PDAs, it sucks too much battery). Want to input faster on your PDA ? Well, if you REALLY need to, they have some external keyboards. But I can input really fast using my laptop...
I tell you, my Palm has 8 megs of memory, and I don't need more. It's really enough for some little games, get my news with AvantGo, and a couple of offline webpages with Plucker. So why a gig in my Palm, when I can get 30 in my laptop with a much bigger screen for all multimedia purposes ?
Bah... Almost all newer PDA have expansion slots (be it Springboard on Handspring or SD in Palms). 128 megs or even 256 megs cartdrige are relatively cheap, and heck, with the applications taking only a few kilobytes (the monopoly game I have takes less than 200k), you can go a long way. I don't see use for a gigabyte of data on a PDA...
Oh, nevermind...
The variant would be "In soviet russia, the monitor is watched by YOU !".
But, isn't it what we're doing in America too? OK, I'm confused now.
How many "one of the strongest test" will we need to go against DMCA ?
OSOpinion also has a good article about it. Less technical, more informative.
This screams 802.11... :-I I'd be afraid that this device would be queryable. If they managed to fit a webserver in a fly, why not.
Yeah, and pee every 10 minutes when driving from NY to LA, therefore taking 3 weeks to make the trip. ;-)
Well, putting PROFESSIONNAL is a guarantee that the thing is solid, serious, efficient. You know, like MCP, Microsoft Certified Professionnal, are sol...
Oh wait.
It says :
.02... from a guy who has 0 accepted stories, 7 rejected. ;-)
"Hmm, this story is boring, it'll get rejected. BUT, if I had a link to a GNU project, it'll get posted... Cool !"
Sorry for the sarcasm, but not everything should revolve around GNU... 'neway. Just my
The second episode of Animatrix is now available. Slashdot it here.
I developped a telepathic form of communication through IP. You want some proof ?
Close your eyes. What do you see? All black ? THAT'S MY WALLPAPER, ALL BLACK, NO DRAWING ! Wow... You see, through telepathy via IP, I was able to show you MY desktop !
If this doesn't make Slashdot frontpage, what will?