When I went to the 1AM showing on release night, there were a lot of interesting people.. When it got to the hacking scene, only a few people cheered, however, they did it with enough vigor that everyone else was caught of guard.. And when I tried to explain to the guy nibbling his foot next to me, "Nmap," I just got a blank stare...
Never had the "benefit" of H2G2 on TV, but after I managed to get in posession of the MP3's of the radio series, I'm not going to complain too loudly. I couldn't help but listening, it was a macabre fascination..
I think I'll avoid such things in the future and stick to the books... It's very, very difficult for movies, radio, or TV to get it right, compared to one's imagination. As far as I'm concerned, anyway. Had a debate one time with a friend as to what the Heart of Gold looked like and we came up with rather different interperetations.
Glad you liked them!
Yeah, Salmon of a Doubt was painfully tantalizing. I eventually hope to own all his books (in hardcopy, at any rate. At the moment I only own one hardcopy of the Ultimate Guide and e-books of the rest) across my shelves. His stuff makes for great reading, great debate, and perfect esoteric references. It's a wonderful thing to be sitting down to drinks with a crowd of people you don't really know, you make an obscure reference to bistromathematics, and boom, you've got a new friend for life because someone picked up on it...
Are you a big DNA fan, or just nursing a current fascination?
Douglas Adams has been my favorite author for quite some time. I've read everything of his that I could come across. Some of his lesser known stuff is on his website, articles that I think you'll particularly enjoy: Little Dongly Things How to Stop Worrying and Love the Internet Frank the Vandal The Private Life of Genghis Kahn He was a geek, though he knew he couldn't begin to pursue it as far as he wanted to, and his death distressed me quite a bit. Those are my favorite extracts from the archives.. Enjoy!
It pobably would be if AT&T wireless hadn't snatched it up back in 1994 or so. At the moment, there's nothing there, I don't think, but if I recall, Lycos tried to pick it up a while ago for their Wired subsidiary and failed. Perhaps AT&T will let it go in Nov. 2005 when it expires, but I wouldn't count on it...
I think that it would help us either way.. If it gives them legal ammo (which is relatively doubtful, it will be claimed that student papers being traded and artist's music being traded are two different things, even if they are not) then that's good for us, but if it swamps them with wasteful requests, that's good too.. More of our requetes means less time for the RIAA's requests, and anything that gets in the RIAA's way is fine by me.
One response was rather, umm, "interesting". I never knew that RFCs could inspire this sort of thought. I was reading your info about the proposed RFC and my mind and fingers strayed to check out my own evil bit...
I've just got my breath back. Shouldn't there be a health warning about playing with your own bits?
I am all for space exploration, and taking a closer look at Mars is wonderful and all, I'm glad someone is scouting out area for my future apartment, but don't we remember what happened LAST time we partnered with Russia on something outside of our atmosphere? The wretched travesty of the ISS is now loping along in a slowly descending orbit, is years and years behind what it was supposed to be, and will, more than likely, never live up to the high aspirations that were originally held for the Freedom, the space station that the United States planned for years before the global consortium got together on the ISS.
Russia is simply not a viable partner, not due to their science (they were in the cold war too, after all) but their financial instability. It's not their fault, but it shouldn't become our space program's problem (again).
There's a great solution to people messaging you at bad times. I'm always on AIM, typically wherever I am, taking it with me wirelessly on my laptop, since I like to be continuously in contact, shbould something important come up. First of all, I have two names, one name for productivity, and one for being more social. Some people have the social name, some have the productive name, some have both. (I love Trillian!)
Next, I always have highly descriptive (and often quite humorous) away messages that A)Inform people as to whay I'm doing, B)Advise them as to whether it is a good time to message me or not, and C)Give them a good chuckle, especially if it's one of those times in which they shouldn't message me. Also, when I really need some time without messages, my away messages tend to be rather spiteful and allow buddies to make the inference that messaging me would be replied to with something rusty, blunt, and flaming. I consider it a form of compensation for my actual presence, however inadequate it may be. People don't even have to message me, they just read my away message and see if it's a good time or not. Actually, if my speculation is correct, there are a whole lot of people who have me on their buddy lists merely to read my away messages, but that's another story entirely.
Well, SIM cards aren't quite non-existant here. We do have them, but only with one provider: T-Mobile. I assume that isn't much of a surprise, since their parent company is German and they exist as more of a force in Europe anyway.
SIM cards ARE handy. When I was in Spain a while back, my friends amused me by taking SIM cards and switching them between phones, phonebooks, etc, included. It's a great idea, especially when your phone gives out. I hope that they will begin to catch on more here, now that T-Mobile has made them available and usable.
This is an unrealistic hope that you're going for, unfortunately... As much as I'd love to get paid for whatever spam I get (Which isn't much, by common standards.. 50 or so per day for three addresses) it would be really hard to pass any legislation to this effect, and even harder to enforce.
What would be more effective, as well as easier to enforce, would be payments going to the networks that are compelled to deliver the spam to your e-mail box, IE, the domain at which your spam arrives.. It can be realistically proven that the incredible volumes of spam are costing them money, if only in bandwidth terms if nothing else. Then companies like Yahoo, Earthlink, &etc could devote the money to more effective anti- spam programs to weed out the rogues, and people who own their own domains could be compensated for the woes of unsolicited and unmitigated e-refuse that their servers are forced to process on a daily basis.
Of course, the option of tracking down the spammer's servers and exposing them to a strong electromagnetic discharge is still an option, however unviable.
Well, perhaps some fusion of the two designs is in order.. Whilst I wouldn't reccomend building a "Tower to the Sky" (Hey, it worked in Babel, didn't it? Didn't it?), an elevator lobby of Petronaus x2 wouldn't be such a bad idea, and if you aren't going to supply office space (and mosque space, &etc) then building a relatively strong structure that could be used as a pre-launch staging area wouldn't be such a bad idea. Cargo and support could be held way up high and served by more conventional elevators at lower cost and higher feasibility.
If you build thinking in the same vein as the Eiffel Tower, in which the structure itself actually weighs less than the atmosphere around it and is actually supported by that atmosphere, then you could get quite a ways up. Of course, you also have to consider, the higher up you go, the more vulnerable your structure becomes, the more prone to damage it is, and the more difficult it is to build. Also, it takes a very tall building before gravity begins to be negated by altitude.
So maybe the tower idea isn't such a great idea anyway. Yet. Perhaps we should take things one step at a time.. Elevator now, since it is more feasible (cough) and building into the sky later when we can work around silly physics. I don't care how we do it, so long as we make a nice, big footprint in space. Quickly.
I've been looking for, but not finding, a good, un-spun, un-restricted news source. The big media outlets are.. Well, not even worth considering. The smallest ones are dubious.. Anyone have any suggestions?
One thing you really have to be careful of, though, is internal threats. Your system CAN be hacked.. If someone within your area has access to the systems themselves, then it's really only that much safer.
In places like universities, they should really be careful who has access, physical and otherwise.. Universities are where we go to learn, but only so much learning is done in class... They can't (and shouldn't) monitor what we learn outside of class, and people are bound to pick up tips that they are all- to- eager to use, who better than against the universty, to which they most likely hold some spite? Not brilliant, sure, but most script kiddies aren't...
Idiots flying isn't that dramatic of a problem, if you go about it properly. You just make the flight portion of the license as difficult to get as a normal pilot's license, with ground school, flight training, annual recertification and the like, and make sure fewer idiots take to the sky than do to the roads. Make so that our flying cars won't fly without the proper certification license (within such- and- such dates) and you won't have the problem of people stealing flying cars....
The thing is, things like starships and other things like that don't have to be waaaaay off. In the 1920's, if you would have said, "We're going to go walk on the moon in a few decades", people would have laughed at you. Back in the day, we couldn't imagine computers that weren't 3 rooms big and weighed several tons.
If anything, we don't think about the future enough. Trash our environment, remain dependent on fossil fuels, not develope more advanced means of transportation with any serious funding... Look at the space program. Back in the day, when we had the Soviets competing with us in the space race, we had incentive and advanced at tremendous pace. It seems that we need impeding global doom to get anything worthwhile done technologically. It would be nice to have the whole "dramatic advances in the field of science" regularly without, "Oh no, The Soviets (Or terrorists, or FemNazis, or New GreenPeace Global Order, whoever the particular flavour of primary global competition is for the era) are competing with us for phoenominal cosmic power! We must immediately engage in every form of one-upmanship possible!"
Of course, I'm a technocrat, so my views may be the slightest bit slanted...
Your dorm bathrooms are certainly cleaner than ours.. Had you dropped a palm in our dorm's bathroom, you would have pulled back a stump when you reached into the toilet. The single-celled bacteria that are large enough to see with the naked eye would have had it in their posession and moved to the showers (their strong hold) so quickly that you wouldn't have had time to notice the amassing forces of green virii amassing for attack from the stall door...
Dare I ask what you were doing with your Palm that near the toilet?
Once someone tried to steal my Palm IIIc... I set it breifly on a bench and turned to greet someone and a guy not far away swiped it. Being somewhat hyper-protective of my stuff, I was around and after him at speeds I had never realized on my own two feet before.. Our path carried us most of the way across the park, over benches, past old couples mumbling darkly about the wastage of youth, through puddles, etc... It ended up in me doing a flying tackle (another new one for me..) to the theif into a picnic table, the palm taking a small flight, and a bit of food being mussed..
It's alright though. The palm survived and it turns out the people at the table were my ex girlfriend and a couple of her friends. She got pepsi all over her...;-)
The way to increase one's profits isn't by alienating your current customer base, but by catering to new ones. If I were a Sun customer, this would send me elsewhere (Linux).
However, as a non-Sun customer, what they should be doing instead is introducing new products that appeal more to me... How about servers geared to small businesses, something that can serve up my local files and host my web page at the same time... That's just off the top of my head. Don't alienate your current customer base.. Cater to new ones.
I'm all for modle rocketry, but they CAN be put to negative use.. I us-, er, someone I know used to take foil and tape it very tightly around their rocket, then take it out to a nearby airport that was also used for military aircraft of a cargo sort. Appearantly, the foil showed up on radar... (ever seen chaff, my friends?)
Also, the person in question managed to put a two-stager through the wing of an ultralight. (He was flying at night! Well, ok, twilight, but he didn't have any lights on! He was merely enforcing the law!!
This being said, how many modle rocketeers use their rockets for anything more than disturbing the local livestock and having one more excuse to watch flame?
-Trev
Bad execution. This is a great idea in theory, but you look at reality and it falls through. Look at where the Do- Not- Call lists are now: In court. Besides, how many spammers are really worried about the legality of their spam, so long as it GETS to you. Many of them have virtual immunity, as they may send the command to mail from their base here in the US, but the actual e-mail is sent from servers outside the United States.
When it comes down to it, there's only one way to defeat spammers: Not buying into their advertising. Unfortunately, far too many people don't understand what a bad idea it is to actually pay attention to Spam.
What does this mean? We, my friends, need to find an alternative method to fight Spam. My guess? We do it by being just as annoying to the spammers as they are to us. There are any number of ways to do this, but what it comes down to is, use good spam intercepting software, and junk mail accounts. MS can afford the space, why not make them use it?
Did anyone else here ever get hic-burps? A really nasty hiccup, you know, the sort that steals all your air and makes your chest feel like someone was having a bit too much fun with an vice grip, followed by a powerful, painful buuuuurraaap that just kind of tears it's way out?
They weren't any fun. Rather embarassing, really. Especially when they reduced me to tears.
It's not funny! Really!
Well, ok. So it kind of is. But only because it doesn't happen to me anmore. Be a great weapon though...
Favorite Barry article of all time, had to plug it.
You fall a close second to my favorite author of all time, the sadly-passed Douglas Adams, author of the magnificent "Hitch-Hiker's Guide" series. It makes me wonder, who was/is your favorite author of all time? And did this person have any influence on your writings?
"Don't Panic"
Seeing as Deep Junior has lost the first match, this would infer to me that Deep Blue was the better player.. But time will tell, I suppose.
Go programmers!
Retinal drawing is another one of those technologies that excites me. There are certain aspects of it that make it more difficult, but not impossible, to develope. Options of clarity become an issue, but with time, it will be worked around.
Imbed the surround-sound speakers in the arms of the glasses, down by the ears, track eye movement, and you've got it all. Something that I always wondered at was, why must we be forced to constrict the computing power to that which can be contained within the eyewear? Why not communicate wirelessly with a pocket-sized unit kept on the person and save the apparatus's spare space for (what will be much needed) battery space. Eventually, technology will advance to the point where all of this wonderful stuff will fit inside of the apparatus, but for now, I think this is doable. We have the computational power, smack on a bluetooth transmitter or something else short-range, incorporate the display (The only thing lacking at the moment) and viola! Dreams- become- reality!
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When I went to the 1AM showing on release night, there were a lot of interesting people.. When it got to the hacking scene, only a few people cheered, however, they did it with enough vigor that everyone else was caught of guard.. And when I tried to explain to the guy nibbling his foot next to me, "Nmap," I just got a blank stare...
Never had the "benefit" of H2G2 on TV, but after I managed to get in posession of the MP3's of the radio series, I'm not going to complain too loudly. I couldn't help but listening, it was a macabre fascination..
I think I'll avoid such things in the future and stick to the books... It's very, very difficult for movies, radio, or TV to get it right, compared to one's imagination. As far as I'm concerned, anyway. Had a debate one time with a friend as to what the Heart of Gold looked like and we came up with rather different interperetations.
Glad you liked them!
Yeah, Salmon of a Doubt was painfully tantalizing. I eventually hope to own all his books (in hardcopy, at any rate. At the moment I only own one hardcopy of the Ultimate Guide and e-books of the rest) across my shelves. His stuff makes for great reading, great debate, and perfect esoteric references. It's a wonderful thing to be sitting down to drinks with a crowd of people you don't really know, you make an obscure reference to bistromathematics, and boom, you've got a new friend for life because someone picked up on it...
Are you a big DNA fan, or just nursing a current fascination?
Douglas Adams has been my favorite author for quite some time. I've read everything of his that I could come across. Some of his lesser known stuff is on his website, articles that I think you'll particularly enjoy:
Little Dongly Things
How to Stop Worrying and Love the Internet
Frank the Vandal
The Private Life of Genghis Kahn
He was a geek, though he knew he couldn't begin to pursue it as far as he wanted to, and his death distressed me quite a bit. Those are my favorite extracts from the archives.. Enjoy!
It pobably would be if AT&T wireless hadn't snatched it up back in 1994 or so. At the moment, there's nothing there, I don't think, but if I recall, Lycos tried to pick it up a while ago for their Wired subsidiary and failed. Perhaps AT&T will let it go in Nov. 2005 when it expires, but I wouldn't count on it...
I think that it would help us either way.. If it gives them legal ammo (which is relatively doubtful, it will be claimed that student papers being traded and artist's music being traded are two different things, even if they are not) then that's good for us, but if it swamps them with wasteful requests, that's good too.. More of our requetes means less time for the RIAA's requests, and anything that gets in the RIAA's way is fine by me.
One response was rather, umm, "interesting". I never knew that RFCs could inspire this sort of thought.
I was reading your info about the proposed RFC and my mind and fingers strayed to check out my own evil bit...
I've just got my breath back. Shouldn't there be a health warning about playing with your own bits?
I am all for space exploration, and taking a closer look at Mars is wonderful and all, I'm glad someone is scouting out area for my future apartment, but don't we remember what happened LAST time we partnered with Russia on something outside of our atmosphere? The wretched travesty of the ISS is now loping along in a slowly descending orbit, is years and years behind what it was supposed to be, and will, more than likely, never live up to the high aspirations that were originally held for the Freedom, the space station that the United States planned for years before the global consortium got together on the ISS.
Russia is simply not a viable partner, not due to their science (they were in the cold war too, after all) but their financial instability. It's not their fault, but it shouldn't become our space program's problem (again).
There's a great solution to people messaging you at bad times. I'm always on AIM, typically wherever I am, taking it with me wirelessly on my laptop, since I like to be continuously in contact, shbould something important come up. First of all, I have two names, one name for productivity, and one for being more social. Some people have the social name, some have the productive name, some have both. (I love Trillian!)
Next, I always have highly descriptive (and often quite humorous) away messages that A)Inform people as to whay I'm doing, B)Advise them as to whether it is a good time to message me or not, and C)Give them a good chuckle, especially if it's one of those times in which they shouldn't message me. Also, when I really need some time without messages, my away messages tend to be rather spiteful and allow buddies to make the inference that messaging me would be replied to with something rusty, blunt, and flaming. I consider it a form of compensation for my actual presence, however inadequate it may be. People don't even have to message me, they just read my away message and see if it's a good time or not. Actually, if my speculation is correct, there are a whole lot of people who have me on their buddy lists merely to read my away messages, but that's another story entirely.
Well, SIM cards aren't quite non-existant here. We do have them, but only with one provider: T-Mobile. I assume that isn't much of a surprise, since their parent company is German and they exist as more of a force in Europe anyway. SIM cards ARE handy. When I was in Spain a while back, my friends amused me by taking SIM cards and switching them between phones, phonebooks, etc, included. It's a great idea, especially when your phone gives out. I hope that they will begin to catch on more here, now that T-Mobile has made them available and usable.
This is an unrealistic hope that you're going for, unfortunately... As much as I'd love to get paid for whatever spam I get (Which isn't much, by common standards.. 50 or so per day for three addresses) it would be really hard to pass any legislation to this effect, and even harder to enforce.
What would be more effective, as well as easier to enforce, would be payments going to the networks that are compelled to deliver the spam to your e-mail box, IE, the domain at which your spam arrives.. It can be realistically proven that the incredible volumes of spam are costing them money, if only in bandwidth terms if nothing else. Then companies like Yahoo, Earthlink, &etc could devote the money to more effective anti- spam programs to weed out the rogues, and people who own their own domains could be compensated for the woes of unsolicited and unmitigated e-refuse that their servers are forced to process on a daily basis.
Of course, the option of tracking down the spammer's servers and exposing them to a strong electromagnetic discharge is still an option, however unviable.
Well, perhaps some fusion of the two designs is in order.. Whilst I wouldn't reccomend building a "Tower to the Sky" (Hey, it worked in Babel, didn't it? Didn't it?), an elevator lobby of Petronaus x2 wouldn't be such a bad idea, and if you aren't going to supply office space (and mosque space, &etc) then building a relatively strong structure that could be used as a pre-launch staging area wouldn't be such a bad idea. Cargo and support could be held way up high and served by more conventional elevators at lower cost and higher feasibility.
If you build thinking in the same vein as the Eiffel Tower, in which the structure itself actually weighs less than the atmosphere around it and is actually supported by that atmosphere, then you could get quite a ways up. Of course, you also have to consider, the higher up you go, the more vulnerable your structure becomes, the more prone to damage it is, and the more difficult it is to build. Also, it takes a very tall building before gravity begins to be negated by altitude.
So maybe the tower idea isn't such a great idea anyway. Yet. Perhaps we should take things one step at a time.. Elevator now, since it is more feasible (cough) and building into the sky later when we can work around silly physics. I don't care how we do it, so long as we make a nice, big footprint in space. Quickly.
I've been looking for, but not finding, a good, un-spun, un-restricted news source. The big media outlets are.. Well, not even worth considering. The smallest ones are dubious.. Anyone have any suggestions?
One thing you really have to be careful of, though, is internal threats. Your system CAN be hacked.. If someone within your area has access to the systems themselves, then it's really only that much safer.
In places like universities, they should really be careful who has access, physical and otherwise.. Universities are where we go to learn, but only so much learning is done in class... They can't (and shouldn't) monitor what we learn outside of class, and people are bound to pick up tips that they are all- to- eager to use, who better than against the universty, to which they most likely hold some spite? Not brilliant, sure, but most script kiddies aren't...
Idiots flying isn't that dramatic of a problem, if you go about it properly. You just make the flight portion of the license as difficult to get as a normal pilot's license, with ground school, flight training, annual recertification and the like, and make sure fewer idiots take to the sky than do to the roads. Make so that our flying cars won't fly without the proper certification license (within such- and- such dates) and you won't have the problem of people stealing flying cars....
The thing is, things like starships and other things like that don't have to be waaaaay off. In the 1920's, if you would have said, "We're going to go walk on the moon in a few decades", people would have laughed at you. Back in the day, we couldn't imagine computers that weren't 3 rooms big and weighed several tons.
If anything, we don't think about the future enough. Trash our environment, remain dependent on fossil fuels, not develope more advanced means of transportation with any serious funding... Look at the space program. Back in the day, when we had the Soviets competing with us in the space race, we had incentive and advanced at tremendous pace. It seems that we need impeding global doom to get anything worthwhile done technologically. It would be nice to have the whole "dramatic advances in the field of science" regularly without, "Oh no, The Soviets (Or terrorists, or FemNazis, or New GreenPeace Global Order, whoever the particular flavour of primary global competition is for the era) are competing with us for phoenominal cosmic power! We must immediately engage in every form of one-upmanship possible!"
Of course, I'm a technocrat, so my views may be the slightest bit slanted...
Your dorm bathrooms are certainly cleaner than ours.. Had you dropped a palm in our dorm's bathroom, you would have pulled back a stump when you reached into the toilet. The single-celled bacteria that are large enough to see with the naked eye would have had it in their posession and moved to the showers (their strong hold) so quickly that you wouldn't have had time to notice the amassing forces of green virii amassing for attack from the stall door...
Dare I ask what you were doing with your Palm that near the toilet?
Once someone tried to steal my Palm IIIc... I set it breifly on a bench and turned to greet someone and a guy not far away swiped it. Being somewhat hyper-protective of my stuff, I was around and after him at speeds I had never realized on my own two feet before.. Our path carried us most of the way across the park, over benches, past old couples mumbling darkly about the wastage of youth, through puddles, etc... It ended up in me doing a flying tackle (another new one for me..) to the theif into a picnic table, the palm taking a small flight, and a bit of food being mussed.. ;-)
It's alright though. The palm survived and it turns out the people at the table were my ex girlfriend and a couple of her friends. She got pepsi all over her...
The way to increase one's profits isn't by alienating your current customer base, but by catering to new ones. If I were a Sun customer, this would send me elsewhere (Linux).
However, as a non-Sun customer, what they should be doing instead is introducing new products that appeal more to me... How about servers geared to small businesses, something that can serve up my local files and host my web page at the same time... That's just off the top of my head. Don't alienate your current customer base.. Cater to new ones.
I'm all for modle rocketry, but they CAN be put to negative use.. I us-, er, someone I know used to take foil and tape it very tightly around their rocket, then take it out to a nearby airport that was also used for military aircraft of a cargo sort. Appearantly, the foil showed up on radar... (ever seen chaff, my friends?)
Also, the person in question managed to put a two-stager through the wing of an ultralight. (He was flying at night! Well, ok, twilight, but he didn't have any lights on! He was merely enforcing the law!!
This being said, how many modle rocketeers use their rockets for anything more than disturbing the local livestock and having one more excuse to watch flame?
-Trev
Bad execution. This is a great idea in theory, but you look at reality and it falls through. Look at where the Do- Not- Call lists are now: In court. Besides, how many spammers are really worried about the legality of their spam, so long as it GETS to you. Many of them have virtual immunity, as they may send the command to mail from their base here in the US, but the actual e-mail is sent from servers outside the United States.
When it comes down to it, there's only one way to defeat spammers: Not buying into their advertising. Unfortunately, far too many people don't understand what a bad idea it is to actually pay attention to Spam.
What does this mean? We, my friends, need to find an alternative method to fight Spam. My guess? We do it by being just as annoying to the spammers as they are to us. There are any number of ways to do this, but what it comes down to is, use good spam intercepting software, and junk mail accounts. MS can afford the space, why not make them use it?
Did anyone else here ever get hic-burps? A really nasty hiccup, you know, the sort that steals all your air and makes your chest feel like someone was having a bit too much fun with an vice grip, followed by a powerful, painful buuuuurraaap that just kind of tears it's way out? They weren't any fun. Rather embarassing, really. Especially when they reduced me to tears. It's not funny! Really!
Well, ok. So it kind of is. But only because it doesn't happen to me anmore. Be a great weapon though...
Favorite Barry article of all time, had to plug it.
You fall a close second to my favorite author of all time, the sadly-passed Douglas Adams, author of the magnificent "Hitch-Hiker's Guide" series. It makes me wonder, who was/is your favorite author of all time? And did this person have any influence on your writings?
"Don't Panic"
Seeing as Deep Junior has lost the first match, this would infer to me that Deep Blue was the better player.. But time will tell, I suppose. Go programmers!
Retinal drawing is another one of those technologies that excites me. There are certain aspects of it that make it more difficult, but not impossible, to develope. Options of clarity become an issue, but with time, it will be worked around.
Imbed the surround-sound speakers in the arms of the glasses, down by the ears, track eye movement, and you've got it all.
Something that I always wondered at was, why must we be forced to constrict the computing power to that which can be contained within the eyewear? Why not communicate wirelessly with a pocket-sized unit kept on the person and save the apparatus's spare space for (what will be much needed) battery space. Eventually, technology will advance to the point where all of this wonderful stuff will fit inside of the apparatus, but for now, I think this is doable. We have the computational power, smack on a bluetooth transmitter or something else short-range, incorporate the display (The only thing lacking at the moment) and viola! Dreams- become- reality!