CO2 has a relatively warm freezing point, -78C, compared with -196 for nitrogen, and -182 for oxygen. So, it's convenient for that reason too. I'm sure you could make a similar system for our atmosphere, though liquid nitrogen is trickier to deal with than CO2.
The surgeon example is very relevant - a surgeon is going to have a hard time using their existing senses when the probe has been inserted via a leg vein and is now inside the heart. I'd rather the surgeon gained an extra sense for that occasion than opened me up to get his hands inside! Direct tactile feedback isn't possible since the instrument isn't controlled with an interface the shape/size of the probe. This new technology, while stimulating the tongue, leads to the brain interpreting it in the most relevant way, so if they're right, after some training, the sensations are "felt" wherever is most sensible for the surgeon.
For the pilot example, the pilot would no longer need to check the admittedly effective horizon meter - he would gain an extra sense of the horizon directly, freeing him to concentrate on the other controls. Presumably this would feel far more intuitive than glancing at the meter periodically.
Now, I'm not so sure a tongue interface is destined for common usage, because it interferes with talking and eating! But they also mention using the forehead. Dorky looking, but more practical.
It's around 750 kilos, so I see 300 as being pretty tricky... You'd need to lose 350, so by your guesstimates, the electric motors and batteries would need to weigh in at 100kg. Not very likely.
Maybe 500 - that's not bad. And yes, lots of people drive SMART cars here (UK) - even more on the continent. The parent of your post was specifically talking about a one-person car, the SMART is for two.
I was wondering about this - the Trade Descriptions Act says that goods must be fit for their intended purpose (is there a US equivalent?). And as sold, you can't play the game at all. And yet it is most definitely sold as a game. It does list an internet connection as a requirement. But as a requirement to play the game.
But you're not being sold a game, you can't even play it single player until it's unlocked. It seems to me that you should be entitled to a refund even after opening it, at least in the UK.
That does look interesting. But there's a big difference.
Grouper has a central server that clients must connect to. So, it's harder to verify end-to-end encryption, and they can definitely log IPs, which I believe they could be forced to hand over on demand?
Even if no oil was needed for power stations, massive amounts would be needed for transport.
And even if the hydrogen economy actually works (centralised non-oil energy production, hydrogen cars), oil would still be valuable as feedstock for plastics / petrochemicals.
Oil will never be worthless, because it is prepackaged energy and complexity - it has inherent value.
Yes, primarily the fingerprint data - the way the UK ID card system is being setup, it will be a government database. A wide range of civil servants (including the spooks) and the police will have your fingerprint data. If you're under surveillance for any reason, it would be much easier for someone to identify you by taking prints (say from your car door, or a door handle anywhere).
I also am disturbed by the increase in police fingerprint data - recent laws here mean that your fingerprints go on file in a national database permanently if you're charged and later found innocent. That's just not right in my mind...
Also, because a compulsory card would cover the whole country, it's qualitatively different from the other cards you mention - they're optional. (it's rather impractical to avoid the UK SS id analog, National Insurance number - but it's possible and legal) None of the cards you mention are needed on a daily basis in the UK, although NIN will be on your employment records.
Bear in mind too, that if you were to present the proposed UK ID card to anyone, they then have your fingerprints. Unpleasant if it becomes commonplace as a form of identification, because your fingerprints could so easily become part of corporate databases... Perhaps I'm more worried about the loss of anonymity, an important factor in preserving privacy.
Install a switch, which selects Japanese or US region. The article is about playing US games on your Japan region cube, but I suspect it would work both ways.
Ah, you quoted him saying it wasn't an Office 2003 replacement before mentioning bloat, so I thought you were talking about feature comparison.
Yeah, I've not had OO crash opening a normalish Word doc, but even on a complicated one, why should it crash? An error, and it can't open that document, fine. The original article asked for our experiences and expectations. While OOo isn't just supposed to be an Office replacement, it's obviously part of the project goal. I do expect OOo to be able to open the most commonly used corporate word processing document type, and it isn't very good at that.
In my experience, it mangles Word docs in most cases, and crashes in a small fraction.
If OOo had perfect im/export for Word 2000 format, then at least anyone using real Word could read your documents with minimal hassle. It's an old format, MS can't change it - and they need to support reading it for a good few years yet.
Many corporations are still using win2k, and office2k, so this would be a big help. And since OOo was founded in 2000, you'd think this would have been the format to aim for!
He was having problems opening a Word document. (a problem I have had many times with OO) That's one of the extra features bloating Office?
It's good to know Office Longhorn will be stripped down so it's just a infection vector.
We don't have this problem in the UK. A few years back, they introduced a nice new tech for vending machines.
First you have to understand that very few machines take notes here - our coin money has a reasonable value, and is the norm for machines.
The new vending machines check the coins by size, weight and electrical conductivity (all the coins have a slightly different alloy). Any change in coins, and just recalibrate the machines using software.
(train ticket machines do take notes, so I assume they're still afflicted. They take credit card/switch too though)
TRGpro good... I completely agree on colour, too. Save it for the laptops, I want my batteries to work for a fortnight. Personal preference, of course.
I have a fairly effective wireless connection over IR using a Siemens S35. Reasonable phone, got for £40 on eBay. The Nokia 6210 works, too, I've heard. This isn't a speedy connection, and it's dialup, which confuses some apps, but it's an excellent way to check email on the move.
I would think you could get an always on connection through the sonyericcson T68, that has IR and GPRS.
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Brainstorm. It was okay.
They wanted our nice young, warm planet. They'd been living on Mars long enough that it had become cold as the sun cooled.
Oh, and we made tasty snacks.
CO2 has a relatively warm freezing point, -78C, compared with -196 for nitrogen, and -182 for oxygen. So, it's convenient for that reason too. I'm sure you could make a similar system for our atmosphere, though liquid nitrogen is trickier to deal with than CO2.
The surgeon example is very relevant - a surgeon is going to have a hard time using their existing senses when the probe has been inserted via a leg vein and is now inside the heart. I'd rather the surgeon gained an extra sense for that occasion than opened me up to get his hands inside! Direct tactile feedback isn't possible since the instrument isn't controlled with an interface the shape/size of the probe. This new technology, while stimulating the tongue, leads to the brain interpreting it in the most relevant way, so if they're right, after some training, the sensations are "felt" wherever is most sensible for the surgeon.
For the pilot example, the pilot would no longer need to check the admittedly effective horizon meter - he would gain an extra sense of the horizon directly, freeing him to concentrate on the other controls. Presumably this would feel far more intuitive than glancing at the meter periodically.
Now, I'm not so sure a tongue interface is destined for common usage, because it interferes with talking and eating! But they also mention using the forehead. Dorky looking, but more practical.
Well, there's the SMART car: here.
It's around 750 kilos, so I see 300 as being pretty tricky... You'd need to lose 350, so by your guesstimates, the electric motors and batteries would need to weigh in at 100kg. Not very likely.
Maybe 500 - that's not bad. And yes, lots of people drive SMART cars here (UK) - even more on the continent. The parent of your post was specifically talking about a one-person car, the SMART is for two.
You can passive cool up to a 5700 (some here) using one of these.
So, a silent card with 256MB that should pretty happily play HL2. Most of the models have dual-head, some have video in/out too.
I was wondering about this - the Trade Descriptions Act says that goods must be fit for their intended purpose (is there a US equivalent?). And as sold, you can't play the game at all. And yet it is most definitely sold as a game. It does list an internet connection as a requirement. But as a requirement to play the game.
But you're not being sold a game, you can't even play it single player until it's unlocked. It seems to me that you should be entitled to a refund even after opening it, at least in the UK.
That does look interesting. But there's a big difference.
Grouper has a central server that clients must connect to. So, it's harder to verify end-to-end encryption, and they can definitely log IPs, which I believe they could be forced to hand over on demand?
Even if no oil was needed for power stations, massive amounts would be needed for transport. And even if the hydrogen economy actually works (centralised non-oil energy production, hydrogen cars), oil would still be valuable as feedstock for plastics / petrochemicals. Oil will never be worthless, because it is prepackaged energy and complexity - it has inherent value.
Yes, primarily the fingerprint data - the way the UK ID card system is being setup, it will be a government database. A wide range of civil servants (including the spooks) and the police will have your fingerprint data. If you're under surveillance for any reason, it would be much easier for someone to identify you by taking prints (say from your car door, or a door handle anywhere).
I also am disturbed by the increase in police fingerprint data - recent laws here mean that your fingerprints go on file in a national database permanently if you're charged and later found innocent. That's just not right in my mind...
Also, because a compulsory card would cover the whole country, it's qualitatively different from the other cards you mention - they're optional. (it's rather impractical to avoid the UK SS id analog, National Insurance number - but it's possible and legal) None of the cards you mention are needed on a daily basis in the UK, although NIN will be on your employment records. Bear in mind too, that if you were to present the proposed UK ID card to anyone, they then have your fingerprints. Unpleasant if it becomes commonplace as a form of identification, because your fingerprints could so easily become part of corporate databases... Perhaps I'm more worried about the loss of anonymity, an important factor in preserving privacy.
Or like this...
Install a switch, which selects Japanese or US region. The article is about playing US games on your Japan region cube, but I suspect it would work both ways.
Do bear in mind that the proposed UK ID card would most likely contain not just a photo, but also fingerprint and iris scan data.
This particular ID card is a real problem for privacy, not just a distraction.
Ah, you quoted him saying it wasn't an Office 2003 replacement before mentioning bloat, so I thought you were talking about feature comparison.
Yeah, I've not had OO crash opening a normalish Word doc, but even on a complicated one, why should it crash? An error, and it can't open that document, fine. The original article asked for our experiences and expectations. While OOo isn't just supposed to be an Office replacement, it's obviously part of the project goal. I do expect OOo to be able to open the most commonly used corporate word processing document type, and it isn't very good at that. In my experience, it mangles Word docs in most cases, and crashes in a small fraction.
If OOo had perfect im/export for Word 2000 format, then at least anyone using real Word could read your documents with minimal hassle. It's an old format, MS can't change it - and they need to support reading it for a good few years yet. Many corporations are still using win2k, and office2k, so this would be a big help. And since OOo was founded in 2000, you'd think this would have been the format to aim for!
He was having problems opening a Word document. (a problem I have had many times with OO) That's one of the extra features bloating Office? It's good to know Office Longhorn will be stripped down so it's just a infection vector.
We don't have this problem in the UK. A few years back, they introduced a nice new tech for vending machines.
First you have to understand that very few machines take notes here - our coin money has a reasonable value, and is the norm for machines.
The new vending machines check the coins by size, weight and electrical conductivity (all the coins have a slightly different alloy). Any change in coins, and just recalibrate the machines using software.
(train ticket machines do take notes, so I assume they're still afflicted. They take credit card/switch too though)
TRGpro good... I completely agree on colour, too. Save it for the laptops, I want my batteries to work for a fortnight. Personal preference, of course. I have a fairly effective wireless connection over IR using a Siemens S35. Reasonable phone, got for £40 on eBay. The Nokia 6210 works, too, I've heard. This isn't a speedy connection, and it's dialup, which confuses some apps, but it's an excellent way to check email on the move. I would think you could get an always on connection through the sonyericcson T68, that has IR and GPRS.