You have forgotten one thing... this was created in the MIT media lab.
As you can see on the barcodes on the side of their 2000 dollar dual page sony trinitron monitor, that's where the work took place, meaning that they could not get a patent themselves, but rather would have to go through a process with the lab, which would then in turn probably license out the technology like they have done so many times in the past.
But remember, it's not just tinkering, but tinkering on MIT's equipment, meaning it's really MIT Media Lab doing the tinkering.
I would definitely have to say that my favorite teacher was an english teacher... however, that's not what he taught...
To all you other posters, computer science teachers aren't important because they teach you how to code... teachers are important because they help you learn how to think.
This english teacher I had for several years in both a program for the intelligent kids (~15 of us)and then for english. What made him important is that he interacted with us, and treated us as equals. And he really directed us as to how to think and to be critical and develop our sense of selves and intelligence. And for that, he has my ultimate respect. He didn't teach me something concrete, like grammar or perl, but he taught me a way of living, something way more important.
Well, I've been using a wearable for a while now, and have used four such displays... First let me start off by saying that for in depth information on the wearable computers the mailling list, wear-hard@haven.org is a great resource...
As for displays, one could buy one for ~3500 dollars us, such as the microopticalcorp.com's 1/4 vga display embedded in the glasses. That's for big spenders...
Next, you could buy a premade monocle such as the i-glasses that are sometimes advertised on top of slashdot. These are ~300 dollars and are decent quality...
After that, you could go to what I have - a hacked monocle sony glasstron a35 in a pair of large sunglasses. These are ~640 by 480 at a fuzzy quality. This cost me 350 bucks...
After that, you could salvage a camcorder view finder that accepts ntsc from a scan convertor. This could cost as little as 50 bucks with any resolution from 1/4 vga up to vga depending on quality...
Note that he says "mint complete", not "mint condition", implying that it is in a completeness comparable with a mint release of such items, instead of implying that the items are in a condition comparable to a mint release... This could be argued in case of fraud charges...
Also, a picture would be nice tough guy, or is the.50 cent charge for adding pictures too rich for you blood?
as for not letting your clients carry a laptop without a case, well.... what are you, their mother? Why do you care?
No. Even worse - I am their tech director, and as such I am responsible for making sure all their computers work. So I care if a laptop falls. Becuase it will probably be damaged, and a damaged laptop is a bitch to fix.
It looks like a black and white iBook! It's got a handle! What were they thinking?
a) The Vaio's were and are really slick looking magnesium-encased computers. This black and white thing looks like the Panasonic Tough-book - a really blocky, non-slick looking box.
b) It's got a handle! You can't carry a computer like that by it's handle. It will get scratched, it is not protected, and if you drop it, it is lost! I do not let anyone of my clients carry a computer more than two feet with out putting it in a case. Believe me, you do not want to see what a laptop looks like after a two foot drop to a floor. Yes, even a carpeted floor! A handle is cute, but without a case, it is asking for trouble!
Sony, if you are listening, you are making a huge mistake!
You are confused. I-Paq is different from I-Paq. Compaq, being the people that they are, stupidly decided to name about 90 percent of their consumer products I-Paq.
Even Apple doesn't name everything I-Mac.
Anyway, the article is talking about I-Paq the legacy free desktop interent appliance, and you are talking about I-Paq the Pocket PC PSPC handheld.
Don't you see what is going to happen? If this is released, it will open up the doors for average users to come in and use linux. AOL = Average. The market share of linux will go way up. Is that good? You will no longer be elite for using it. You will no longer be 1/1000 of the customers, allowing your voice to be heard loud and clear. You will no longer be able to say "Man, get Linux, Windows sucks." Linux will suck. Linux will become bloated. The next port will be the blue screen of death. A lot of people use Linux for their ego's. They don't want AOL to open up the Linux platform, that's why their bitching about the quality of AOL. Everybody knows AOL is the greatest ISP ever conceived. And damn, they must be good, they send out personalized CD's to everybody in the continental United States. So why don't you want AOL on Linux? Because you want to be cool. Well, so do I. As of this writing, I am switching to FreeBSD. HAHAHA. RTFM. No more wimpy average joe Linux.
What are you? On crack? There was a whole lawsuit against Sony for releasing a Cassette player, and then a cassette recorder (both video). Sony almost lost due to the MPAA claiming that it would reduce revenues for the theatres. TV stations shouldn't really care due to the presence of commercials (except cable channels - HBO perhaps). However, this kind of storage and copying method was flawed due to it's analog nature which causes the quality to degrade with each copying, and degrade by itself with time. Now, with digital methods like the Tivo and Replay copying and storage has the potential to become to TV what mp3's and napster became to music. But, with all this speak and propaganda, one still has to realize: most TV is free anyway, and as long as you keep the original commercials, why do the companies really care??? It's giving them more eyes in order to sell ads (granted they can't tell how many, but they couldn't really do that with antenna watchers either).
Now, normally I try to refrain from cursing, but this really fucking gets me mad. See, I'm under the age of 18 and live in a relatively small town. Being a teenager, I like to have fun, and normally, do to the undue stress of school, am forced to do it on Friday and Saturday night. Come Friday, I get together with some of my friends and think of things to do. We can go walk around town. Nope. We get stopped by the cops. "Go home, damn hoodlums." Ok. Bad idea. We can go see a movie - "We are only playing R movies currently son, and even if we were playing a PG -13 it's after 6:30, sorry, no parents no movie. Damn kids." Ok. No movie then. Um... how about going bowling. "This is Friday night, it's 8. The ADULTS who WORK and are BETTER THAN KIDS are here. It's Over 21 night. Now get out of here, damn kids. Well, come back come monday afternoon." Ok. No bowling. What is there to do? Well, hmm... Billy's parents aren't home, we can go over to his house and get ass wasted. Sounds like a plan. No one is going to stop us. If only we could play Soldier of Fortune or play at the Arcade. Damn. Oh well. Drinking it is. Now, a half hour later - Shit man, Billy's not looking good. What's wrong? Oh damn man, he's passed out. Not good. Well, why'd he want to drink so much anyway? Um, I guess because he's not allowed to, so he's driven to drink in a binge of rebellious frustration. If we can't bowl, or watch a movie, or drink legaly, we'll drink in the bushes or the basement and do it until we passout. If only we could see a movie or drink at a bar. Damn, if the drinking age was 18 again, drinking problems in teenagers would lower drastically - we'd be drinking in a safe environment instead of the unsafe, but inevitable basement. Also, food for thought - settlements just came in at the billions against companies like Phillip Morris because people who willingly smoked smoked. Hmm...What about the teenagers that died because they were out doing something that could have been avoided had they had somewhere to go that was safe and clean - like the movies! or and Arcade! Maybe we can make a list of the thousands that have died, show it to the MPAA or the movie theaters and tell them to tell their parents-with-dead-kids that they can't come in later than 6:30, or perhaps to the people who are forcing the arcades to crack down on underaged "MINORS". And as for the drinking, if I am 18, I am old enough to vote, determining the health and future of our country for atleast the next 4 years, I am allowed to be drafted against my will into the army so that I can fight for our country and die, but I am not old enough to drink, play videogames, or go see movies. And this is freedom? THis is the new world? This is America? I saw we start a new settlement to flee this opression and break free of old beuracrats and their legislature that is killing us in more ways than one. Sound familiar? Thought so. Hypocrits.
Look buddy, I made the wearable with money I got for building websites. The wearable has very real, useful applications. It allows me to take notes in school, carry the internet with me, and have online versions of my textbooks - I don't have to carry them, and I can search them easily. The reason why I built it was so that I could go out - I was spending a lot of time on the computer doing useful things, like building the websites that fund me. So, I built the wearable and now am able to travel and work. Yes I have gone camping. I am a competitive cycler as well as varsity cross country. I have had girlfriends, and in case you didn't read my post, I talked about an almost current one. Getting stoned does not appeal to me. And I am A+ certified. And don't give me any of this "you're canadian" or "you took the bait" stuff. That's what ruins slashdot. I read it probably twice a month now due to people like you. Wearable computers are the future, and if you don't like it - fine, I will just be out with my friends while you're sitting in your loser seat.
I think, as a teen who uses a wearable computer and uses AIM to talk with everyone all the time, that your understanding of why teens use AIM is incomplete. Sure, we can talk to many people, and do other things while talking to them. But, I use AIM because sometimes phone conversations have certain disadvantages, such as the monitoring of my phone usage by parents (vs the inability of my parents to monitor my computer usage), and, as you alluded to - the ease of introduction on AOL. There is a certain lady who I am really into, and I used to be good friends with her but that died. Now I am interested in her again, but just talking to her in person to start off with would be to, um, big. So AIM started us off. Then I alluded to my wanting of a phone conversation, which happened, and then she finally comes over to my house. This is because AIM is less personal and more universal. People are more accepting. But, there are huge disadvantages - I am a sarcastic character, but also despides the acronymns "jk" and "lol", so my sarcasm and inuendos are often lost. This however, makes a good transition to the use of the phone.
More on topic, however, I feel that "texting" has its uses. For instance, when speaking would not be appropriate, or would not be so private. Say, on a train, or in a movie. In the states there was a Motorola Ad campaign a while back showing a man at the opera who received a phone call in the middle of the performance who was later chastised heavily and embarassed, then it shows a man who was able to receive a text message through a motorola device and communicate inconspicously. Or if you are speaking of private matters and don't want to run the risk of someone overhearing you, or what you are saying would offend someone. This addition to cell phones is enormously beneficial. However, I think that this should be used sparingly, and where it is appropriate, not just where it is a nother option. If I had my choice of talking to someone over the phone vs. the AIM network, I would choose the former, same goes for cellphone voice vs. texting, but there are cases where the later in both scenarios are the more desireable, and thus, should not be dismissed.
People will flock to new technology that makes their tv's better quality and/or thin? Hell. HDTV and plasma screens by companies like Phillips have pretty much failed. The only people that buy them are rich executives, companies, and audiophiles. Where's the flock?
ICE - T. Duh. He's a l33t h4xor and a failed musician, and don't forget a self-proclaimed "pimp." He attended E3, holds seminars, and pretends like he knows his ass from a exterm. Oh well. Close enough.
Wow. Big mistake. Had a little accident and posted an email I was responding to on this site. I am sorry about that, just wanting to let you know that it wasn't my words. I got that information off of the wear-hard@have.org mailing list which discusses wearable computers, and we were discussing the usability of that unit. We have been talking about it for about three days now and have decided (or atleast I have) that it is a great unit, but eats up so much power that sticking to a PC 104 or a SBC Low power unit is alot more viable. Other than that, ideas like David Weekly's, to use it as a portable server or what not are really good. I think it would make a cool game server - like that purple Linksys (i think) unit about 6 months back. Bring it to a LAN party, slap it in - with modest games you could even run X servers for people to run games off that machine. Don't know why you would - but you could. The possibilities are endless - but I think that this isn't such a great advance. I could build you a very simmilar unit from an Advantech Single Board PC - using standard Celeron CPU, a rise card, any graphics card - it has an AGP slot and all off the shelf units. It would be cheaper too. They even sell a case. A build it your own Espresso . . .
The site does not list their prices - but other units cost about 400 dollars, so this one would probably be about 550. Pretty good price - and its all pretty standard stuff so you have compatability and expandability.
It looks neet to me. Take a look at the photos page, they show all sides of the unit, plus it being dwarfed by it's pariferials.
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Says it supports Linux.
Power Adapter: Auto-switching. Input: 100V ~ 240V, 50 ~ 60Hz, 1.1A; Output: 15V DC, 3.0A; weighs 250g. That's 45W peak power draw available to the PC. Ouch...
Some stats:
Intel Celeron 466/500/533 MHz INTEL 810 series Chipset Integrated 4MB AGP Graphics Integrated 3D Wavetable Sound 64MB SDRAM; upgradeable to 128MB 6GB Hard Drive; upgradeable to 12GB Built-in Speaker PS/2 KB Port, PS/2 Mouse Port, Microphone Port, Earphone Port, USB Ports x2, External VGA Port, S-VIDEO Out Port Touch Pad & Scrolling up/down Button Small Docking includes: 24x CD-ROM, 1.44MB Floppy Drive, Serial Port, Parallel Port, USB Ports x2 100~240V 50/60Mhz Auto Swiching AC Adapter Carrying Case Touch Pad & Scrolling up/down Button 0.99 lb, 5.90 x 4.17 x 1.26 (LxWxH)
Pricing: from $899.00-$1243.00
S-Video for your M1 Speaker and Earphone ports for use with voice recognition software.
Some extrapolation from other products. I bet it sucks down about 20Watts in use. To me this means 16x18650 Li-Ion cells will power it for about 4-5 hours depending on the quality of your switching power supply. That would end up being a pack about twice the size of the unit.
How about a slashdot interview with Jeeves? I bet it would be much more logically, insightful, and interesting than one with Jon Katz. No, it's not rough, check out the answer Jeeves gave me . . .
Who's the friendliest bear around? Guess who? It's pooh. Now look at that - pure insight. Non of this pinko stuff, none of this "from hellmouth", pure insight. Pooh!
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If you believe this I'll sell you a bridge! By the way, selling of this bridge is perfectly legal. In 1934 when the Brooklyn bridge was constructed they created a treaty saying that New Jersey and New York shared the bridge (damns Jersians) and that neither could exploit the bridge. However, the failed to include an addendum that limited "others" from exploiting the bridge. In 1977 they realized their mistake and tried to rectify it. They proposed a new bill that stated that no one would exploit the bridge. But then the mafia realized that that would no longer allow them to run the tolls on the bridge and they put a horse in the New York representatives bed. The New Jersey representitive was drunk at the time of the vote (damn Jersians). Thus, we can, through a loop hole, exploit the bridge all we want. So, we're selling you a square inch of the bridge to you. Seeing as you now live on the moon (by buying that acre for 10 dollars we claimed the land you own, all your photo-id, and your soul - bet you didn't read the hidden text!) you will never go to this bridge, so you just get a piece of paper saying it's yours. Due to our morals (we are merely "leasing" the land to you losers) we won't prosecute and driver who drives on the land or any Mafioso who tries to claim rights to toll it. So, everything works and your bridge is all ready for you. Just sign here and your square inch of the brooklyn bridge is ready for you purchase.
What really gets me angry is how there is no mention of IRC. For about as long as MP3's have been available, I have been on DALnet trading mp3s with "bots". This is almost identical to what is being done on Napster. And, anyone who has ever been on IRC, will immediately see the strong resemblance between Napster and IRC, especially when it gets down to the Channels. Napster is nothing original, it's just a user-friendly (aka: usable by techno-ignorants) implementation of a foundation laid by IRC about 3 years earlier. I find it almost impossible to believe that he arrived at Napster with no influence at all from IRC, and when he mentions that there was no simmilar way to obtain MP3s, he is overlooking the easiest of the time, IRC. It really gets my goat how this guy is taking the credit for what has already been done, and is still widely being used even today. For an experiment, pick up an IRC client, log into DalNet or EFFnet or some similar server, do a channel search for the word MP3 and limit results to rooms with 30 to 200 people. You will get probably 150 rooms, all organized into genre by room topic, and filled with bots ready to fill your harddrive. SO remember, NAPSTER IS NOTHING NEW, IT'S LIKE SAYING FORD INVENTED THE CAR! (Dailmer and one other guy in Germany did) FORD JUST MADE IT AVAILABLE TO THE MASSES. That is nothing to be overlooked, but certainly it should be known that the two achievements are not synonymous.
I recently read some of the "shrink-licenses" and was thinking about this (after just e-mailing my math thesis/paper to my professor) for a while. Most of the contracts say something along the lines of "if you open this box or tear the wrapping, you are entering into a binding contract". So, what if you got some clerk to open the software for you (say you have arthritis or want to check to see if the disk is there), then he entered into the contaract, not you. Then, could you do whatever you want and never be bound to that contract, because you didn't open/tear the wrapping?
The Fujitsu Biblo mf3 has a high power 3d accelerator card aimed at DVD watchers, but more than capable for a mid-res game of your favorite flavor 'o quack, i mean quake ; )
This whole theory of immortality through virtual clones is a fallacy. If you have a copy of yourself living on, you, yourself, are not experiancing what is happening, other people simply experiance "you" "happening". So, for now, the best bet is cryogenically freezing yourself, which right now is stupid, since the cryogenics expand and break all essential organs. So, God meant for us to die, and we are built with an expiration date. Stop trying to fight it. Now, utilizing the human brain is good for processing power, but wouldn't it be more feasable to design a system that works "like" our brain, with more optimizations? Instead of trying to get wetware in a box? I think so.
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You have forgotten one thing... this was created in the MIT media lab.
As you can see on the barcodes on the side of their 2000 dollar dual page sony trinitron monitor, that's where the work took place, meaning that they could not get a patent themselves, but rather would have to go through a process with the lab, which would then in turn probably license out the technology like they have done so many times in the past.
But remember, it's not just tinkering, but tinkering on MIT's equipment, meaning it's really MIT Media Lab doing the tinkering.
~Patrick (IIRC)
Lets a bunch and make a beowulf cluster out of em!
I would definitely have to say that my favorite teacher was an english teacher... however, that's not what he taught...
To all you other posters, computer science teachers aren't important because they teach you how to code... teachers are important because they help you learn how to think.
This english teacher I had for several years in both a program for the intelligent kids (~15 of us)and then for english. What made him important is that he interacted with us, and treated us as equals. And he really directed us as to how to think and to be critical and develop our sense of selves and intelligence. And for that, he has my ultimate respect. He didn't teach me something concrete, like grammar or perl, but he taught me a way of living, something way more important.
Well, I've been using a wearable for a while now, and have used four such displays... First let me start off by saying that for in depth information on the wearable computers the mailling list, wear-hard@haven.org is a great resource...
As for displays, one could buy one for ~3500 dollars us, such as the microopticalcorp.com's 1/4 vga display embedded in the glasses. That's for big spenders...
Next, you could buy a premade monocle such as the i-glasses that are sometimes advertised on top of slashdot. These are ~300 dollars and are decent quality...
After that, you could go to what I have - a hacked monocle sony glasstron a35 in a pair of large sunglasses. These are ~640 by 480 at a fuzzy quality. This cost me 350 bucks...
After that, you could salvage a camcorder view finder that accepts ntsc from a scan convertor. This could cost as little as 50 bucks with any resolution from 1/4 vga up to vga depending on quality...
How about releasing a windows version? God, it's like those game developers don't even know we exist!!!
Note that he says "mint complete", not "mint condition", implying that it is in a completeness comparable with a mint release of such items, instead of implying that the items are in a condition comparable to a mint release... This could be argued in case of fraud charges...
.50 cent charge for adding pictures too rich for you blood?
Also, a picture would be nice tough guy, or is the
~Patrick
Don't subscribe, use the software, but not the servers. NAPIGATOR.COM.....Works like a charm
as for not letting your clients carry a laptop without a case, well.... what are you, their mother? Why do you care?
No. Even worse - I am their tech director, and as such I am responsible for making sure all their computers work. So I care if a laptop falls. Becuase it will probably be damaged, and a damaged laptop is a bitch to fix.
~Patrick
It looks like a black and white iBook! It's got a handle! What were they thinking?
a) The Vaio's were and are really slick looking magnesium-encased computers. This black and white thing looks like the Panasonic Tough-book - a really blocky, non-slick looking box.
b) It's got a handle! You can't carry a computer like that by it's handle. It will get scratched, it is not protected, and if you drop it, it is lost! I do not let anyone of my clients carry a computer more than two feet with out putting it in a case. Believe me, you do not want to see what a laptop looks like after a two foot drop to a floor. Yes, even a carpeted floor! A handle is cute, but without a case, it is asking for trouble!
Sony, if you are listening, you are making a huge mistake!
~Patrick
You are confused. I-Paq is different from I-Paq. Compaq, being the people that they are, stupidly decided to name about 90 percent of their consumer products I-Paq.
Even Apple doesn't name everything I-Mac.
Anyway, the article is talking about I-Paq the legacy free desktop interent appliance, and you are talking about I-Paq the Pocket PC PSPC handheld.
Don't you see what is going to happen? If this is released, it will open up the doors for average users to come in and use linux. AOL = Average. The market share of linux will go way up. Is that good? You will no longer be elite for using it. You will no longer be 1/1000 of the customers, allowing your voice to be heard loud and clear. You will no longer be able to say "Man, get Linux, Windows sucks." Linux will suck. Linux will become bloated. The next port will be the blue screen of death. A lot of people use Linux for their ego's. They don't want AOL to open up the Linux platform, that's why their bitching about the quality of AOL. Everybody knows AOL is the greatest ISP ever conceived. And damn, they must be good, they send out personalized CD's to everybody in the continental United States. So why don't you want AOL on Linux? Because you want to be cool. Well, so do I. As of this writing, I am switching to FreeBSD. HAHAHA. RTFM. No more wimpy average joe Linux.
Laugh, it's funny.
What are you? On crack? There was a whole lawsuit against Sony for releasing a Cassette player, and then a cassette recorder (both video). Sony almost lost due to the MPAA claiming that it would reduce revenues for the theatres. TV stations shouldn't really care due to the presence of commercials (except cable channels - HBO perhaps). However, this kind of storage and copying method was flawed due to it's analog nature which causes the quality to degrade with each copying, and degrade by itself with time. Now, with digital methods like the Tivo and Replay copying and storage has the potential to become to TV what mp3's and napster became to music. But, with all this speak and propaganda, one still has to realize: most TV is free anyway, and as long as you keep the original commercials, why do the companies really care??? It's giving them more eyes in order to sell ads (granted they can't tell how many, but they couldn't really do that with antenna watchers either).
Now, normally I try to refrain from cursing, but this really fucking gets me mad. See, I'm under the age of 18 and live in a relatively small town. Being a teenager, I like to have fun, and normally, do to the undue stress of school, am forced to do it on Friday and Saturday night. Come Friday, I get together with some of my friends and think of things to do. We can go walk around town. Nope. We get stopped by the cops. "Go home, damn hoodlums." Ok. Bad idea. We can go see a movie - "We are only playing R movies currently son, and even if we were playing a PG -13 it's after 6:30, sorry, no parents no movie. Damn kids." Ok. No movie then. Um... how about going bowling. "This is Friday night, it's 8. The ADULTS who WORK and are BETTER THAN KIDS are here. It's Over 21 night. Now get out of here, damn kids. Well, come back come monday afternoon." Ok. No bowling. What is there to do? Well, hmm... Billy's parents aren't home, we can go over to his house and get ass wasted. Sounds like a plan. No one is going to stop us. If only we could play Soldier of Fortune or play at the Arcade. Damn. Oh well. Drinking it is. Now, a half hour later - Shit man, Billy's not looking good. What's wrong? Oh damn man, he's passed out. Not good. Well, why'd he want to drink so much anyway? Um, I guess because he's not allowed to, so he's driven to drink in a binge of rebellious frustration. If we can't bowl, or watch a movie, or drink legaly, we'll drink in the bushes or the basement and do it until we passout. If only we could see a movie or drink at a bar. Damn, if the drinking age was 18 again, drinking problems in teenagers would lower drastically - we'd be drinking in a safe environment instead of the unsafe, but inevitable basement. Also, food for thought - settlements just came in at the billions against companies like Phillip Morris because people who willingly smoked smoked. Hmm...What about the teenagers that died because they were out doing something that could have been avoided had they had somewhere to go that was safe and clean - like the movies! or and Arcade! Maybe we can make a list of the thousands that have died, show it to the MPAA or the movie theaters and tell them to tell their parents-with-dead-kids that they can't come in later than 6:30, or perhaps to the people who are forcing the arcades to crack down on underaged "MINORS". And as for the drinking, if I am 18, I am old enough to vote, determining the health and future of our country for atleast the next 4 years, I am allowed to be drafted against my will into the army so that I can fight for our country and die, but I am not old enough to drink, play videogames, or go see movies. And this is freedom? THis is the new world? This is America? I saw we start a new settlement to flee this opression and break free of old beuracrats and their legislature that is killing us in more ways than one. Sound familiar? Thought so. Hypocrits.
/End Rant.
Look buddy, I made the wearable with money I got for building websites. The wearable has very real, useful applications. It allows me to take notes in school, carry the internet with me, and have online versions of my textbooks - I don't have to carry them, and I can search them easily. The reason why I built it was so that I could go out - I was spending a lot of time on the computer doing useful things, like building the websites that fund me. So, I built the wearable and now am able to travel and work. Yes I have gone camping. I am a competitive cycler as well as varsity cross country. I have had girlfriends, and in case you didn't read my post, I talked about an almost current one. Getting stoned does not appeal to me. And I am A+ certified. And don't give me any of this "you're canadian" or "you took the bait" stuff. That's what ruins slashdot. I read it probably twice a month now due to people like you. Wearable computers are the future, and if you don't like it - fine, I will just be out with my friends while you're sitting in your loser seat.
I think, as a teen who uses a wearable computer and uses AIM to talk with everyone all the time, that your understanding of why teens use AIM is incomplete. Sure, we can talk to many people, and do other things while talking to them. But, I use AIM because sometimes phone conversations have certain disadvantages, such as the monitoring of my phone usage by parents (vs the inability of my parents to monitor my computer usage), and, as you alluded to - the ease of introduction on AOL. There is a certain lady who I am really into, and I used to be good friends with her but that died. Now I am interested in her again, but just talking to her in person to start off with would be to, um, big. So AIM started us off. Then I alluded to my wanting of a phone conversation, which happened, and then she finally comes over to my house. This is because AIM is less personal and more universal. People are more accepting. But, there are huge disadvantages - I am a sarcastic character, but also despides the acronymns "jk" and "lol", so my sarcasm and inuendos are often lost. This however, makes a good transition to the use of the phone.
More on topic, however, I feel that "texting" has its uses. For instance, when speaking would not be appropriate, or would not be so private. Say, on a train, or in a movie. In the states there was a Motorola Ad campaign a while back showing a man at the opera who received a phone call in the middle of the performance who was later chastised heavily and embarassed, then it shows a man who was able to receive a text message through a motorola device and communicate inconspicously. Or if you are speaking of private matters and don't want to run the risk of someone overhearing you, or what you are saying would offend someone. This addition to cell phones is enormously beneficial. However, I think that this should be used sparingly, and where it is appropriate, not just where it is a nother option. If I had my choice of talking to someone over the phone vs. the AIM network, I would choose the former, same goes for cellphone voice vs. texting, but there are cases where the later in both scenarios are the more desireable, and thus, should not be dismissed.
People will flock to new technology that makes their tv's better quality and/or thin? Hell. HDTV and plasma screens by companies like Phillips have pretty much failed. The only people that buy them are rich executives, companies, and audiophiles. Where's the flock?
ICE - T. Duh. He's a l33t h4xor and a failed musician, and don't forget a self-proclaimed "pimp." He attended E3, holds seminars, and pretends like he knows his ass from a exterm. Oh well. Close enough.
~Patrick
Wow. Big mistake. Had a little accident and posted an email I was responding to on this site. I am sorry about that, just wanting to let you know that it wasn't my words. I got that information off of the wear-hard@have.org mailing list which discusses wearable computers, and we were discussing the usability of that unit. We have been talking about it for about three days now and have decided (or atleast I have) that it is a great unit, but eats up so much power that sticking to a PC 104 or a SBC Low power unit is alot more viable. Other than that, ideas like David Weekly's, to use it as a portable server or what not are really good. I think it would make a cool game server - like that purple Linksys (i think) unit about 6 months back. Bring it to a LAN party, slap it in - with modest games you could even run X servers for people to run games off that machine. Don't know why you would - but you could. The possibilities are endless - but I think that this isn't such a great advance. I could build you a very simmilar unit from an Advantech Single Board PC - using standard Celeron CPU, a rise card, any graphics card - it has an AGP slot and all off the shelf units. It would be cheaper too. They even sell a case. A build it your own Espresso . . .
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http://www.advantech.com/products/sbc/pcm-9574.
there's even one with scsi (5.75 * 8 inches)
http://www.advantech.com/products/sbc/pcm-9570.
The site does not list their prices - but other units cost about 400 dollars, so this one would probably be about 550. Pretty good price - and its all pretty standard stuff so you have compatability and expandability.
> > http://www.ibuypower.com/product-pc/pocket-epc.htm
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It looks neet to me. Take a look at the photos page, they show all sides of the unit, plus it being dwarfed by it's pariferials.
http://www.saintsong.com.tw/it/english/ithome.h
Says it supports Linux.
Power Adapter: Auto-switching.
Input: 100V ~ 240V, 50 ~ 60Hz, 1.1A;
Output: 15V DC, 3.0A; weighs 250g.
That's 45W peak power draw available to the PC. Ouch...
Some stats:
Intel Celeron 466/500/533 MHz
INTEL 810 series Chipset
Integrated 4MB AGP Graphics
Integrated 3D Wavetable Sound
64MB SDRAM; upgradeable to 128MB
6GB Hard Drive; upgradeable to 12GB
Built-in Speaker
PS/2 KB Port, PS/2 Mouse Port, Microphone Port,
Earphone Port, USB Ports x2, External VGA Port,
S-VIDEO Out Port
Touch Pad & Scrolling up/down Button
Small Docking includes: 24x CD-ROM, 1.44MB Floppy
Drive, Serial Port, Parallel Port, USB Ports x2
100~240V 50/60Mhz Auto Swiching AC Adapter
Carrying Case
Touch Pad & Scrolling up/down Button
0.99 lb, 5.90 x 4.17 x 1.26 (LxWxH)
Pricing: from $899.00-$1243.00
S-Video for your M1
Speaker and Earphone ports for use with voice recognition software.
Some extrapolation from other products.
I bet it sucks down about 20Watts in use.
To me this means 16x18650 Li-Ion cells will power it for about
4-5 hours depending on the quality of your switching power supply.
That would end up being a pack about twice the size of the unit.
I'd be worried about cooling.
How about a slashdot interview with Jeeves? I bet it would be much more logically, insightful, and interesting than one with Jon Katz. No, it's not rough, check out the answer Jeeves gave me . . .
Who's the friendliest bear around? Guess who? It's pooh. Now look at that - pure insight. Non of this pinko stuff, none of this "from hellmouth", pure insight. Pooh!
If you believe this I'll sell you a bridge! By the way, selling of this bridge is perfectly legal. In 1934 when the Brooklyn bridge was constructed they created a treaty saying that New Jersey and New York shared the bridge (damns Jersians) and that neither could exploit the bridge. However, the failed to include an addendum that limited "others" from exploiting the bridge. In 1977 they realized their mistake and tried to rectify it. They proposed a new bill that stated that no one would exploit the bridge. But then the mafia realized that that would no longer allow them to run the tolls on the bridge and they put a horse in the New York representatives bed. The New Jersey representitive was drunk at the time of the vote (damn Jersians). Thus, we can, through a loop hole, exploit the bridge all we want. So, we're selling you a square inch of the bridge to you. Seeing as you now live on the moon (by buying that acre for 10 dollars we claimed the land you own, all your photo-id, and your soul - bet you didn't read the hidden text!) you will never go to this bridge, so you just get a piece of paper saying it's yours. Due to our morals (we are merely "leasing" the land to you losers) we won't prosecute and driver who drives on the land or any Mafioso who tries to claim rights to toll it. So, everything works and your bridge is all ready for you. Just sign here and your square inch of the brooklyn bridge is ready for you purchase.
What really gets me angry is how there is no mention of IRC. For about as long as MP3's have been available, I have been on DALnet trading mp3s with "bots". This is almost identical to what is being done on Napster. And, anyone who has ever been on IRC, will immediately see the strong resemblance between Napster and IRC, especially when it gets down to the Channels.
Napster is nothing original, it's just a user-friendly (aka: usable by techno-ignorants) implementation of a foundation laid by IRC about 3 years earlier. I find it almost impossible to believe that he arrived at Napster with no influence at all from IRC, and when he mentions that there was no simmilar way to obtain MP3s, he is overlooking the easiest of the time, IRC.
It really gets my goat how this guy is taking the credit for what has already been done, and is still widely being used even today. For an experiment, pick up an IRC client, log into DalNet or EFFnet or some similar server, do a channel search for the word MP3 and limit results to rooms with 30 to 200 people. You will get probably 150 rooms, all organized into genre by room topic, and filled with bots ready to fill your harddrive.
SO remember, NAPSTER IS NOTHING NEW, IT'S LIKE SAYING FORD INVENTED THE CAR! (Dailmer and one other guy in Germany did) FORD JUST MADE IT AVAILABLE TO THE MASSES. That is nothing to be overlooked, but certainly it should be known that the two achievements are not synonymous.
I recently read some of the "shrink-licenses" and was thinking about this (after just e-mailing my math thesis/paper to my professor) for a while. Most of the contracts say something along the lines of "if you open this box or tear the wrapping, you are entering into a binding contract". So, what if you got some clerk to open the software for you (say you have arthritis or want to check to see if the disk is there), then he entered into the contaract, not you. Then, could you do whatever you want and never be bound to that contract, because you didn't open/tear the wrapping?
The Fujitsu Biblo mf3 has a high power 3d accelerator card aimed at DVD watchers, but more than capable for a mid-res game of your favorite flavor 'o quack, i mean quake ; )
http://www.dynamism.com/mf3/index.shtml
This whole theory of immortality through virtual clones is a fallacy. If you have a copy of yourself living on, you, yourself, are not experiancing what is happening, other people simply experiance "you" "happening". So, for now, the best bet is cryogenically freezing yourself, which right now is stupid, since the cryogenics expand and break all essential organs. So, God meant for us to die, and we are built with an expiration date. Stop trying to fight it. Now, utilizing the human brain is good for processing power, but wouldn't it be more feasable to design a system that works "like" our brain, with more optimizations? Instead of trying to get wetware in a box? I think so.