I'll agree with you for the most part about the palm interface, but i would like something more natural, something that could be used very easily even if your a complete moron, yet reconfigurable on the fly for more advanced use. I am looking for something seamless across all apps, that also recognizes the way i use things, and adjust accordingly. Now i know the only way it will ever happen is if i do it myself, so maybe i will. But at the moment i am content with the crap micro$oft throws at me, it gets the job done, and i have not the time to play with anything but.
This is certainly something that should set off a couple alarms in the Micro$oft camp. I really do love competition in such a under-emphasized market. I can't wait for these things to have as much processing power as my home computer has now. I would love to be able to carry around all my games, apps, schedules, and communication gear on something this big without making sacrifices in some form or another.
What i really think is hurting PDAs today is un-inspired designs, and i love to see someone with a new twist on an old idea. But i think that they need to work on new user interface, alot more than they need to work on making them more powerful. A good user interface would make all the difference. There simply is no blueprint for an interface for such a device, but a "windows"ish interface is not the answer.
I hope there will be a modchip available, so i can make my home more compatible with my personal preferences. Cause the last thing i want is that gay clippy thing in my face at 6am telling me to get out of bed cause i am going to be late for work. I don't want a computer to script my life, especially one with Micro$oft inside.
First off, your right about the noise, it doesn't matter how much noise a carrier makes, because stealth is not one of the weapons that is attributed to their use or design in todays navy.
Secondly the answer to the communications problems could possibly be a UltraWide Band transceiver, with like an 4096-bit rsa key that rotates on a monthly, or randomized basis, with multiple back up redundant systems, and if it loses communications it is instructed to fly back to base or self-destruct.
Thirdly military R&D(the stuff that i have heard about) is focused mainly on augmenting a soldier with unmanned UAVs, exoskeletons, and information awareness systems, not replacing him. I guess the military took a lesson from Science Fiction, and decided it probally would not be a good idea to any replace an obedient and well trained soldier with a machine that doesn't understand the human concept of right and wrong(not that everyone does).
P.S. i typed "to" and "too" in my sig cause i hate english, and i wish it would be replaced with something better(none of the current options will suffice, i.e. spanish, swedish, etc.)
the "to" is supposed to be that way "too", i am to lazy to type the extra "o", i think that words that sound alike should be merged into one unifying spelling.
Actually microsoft loses money everytime someone purchases an xbox. So just buy the machine use it for a media box or whatever just don't buy any games, and microsoft will lose about $50 on you.
to stop all of this someday. Whether it is through government intervention or some EULA (Evil Unconstitutional License non-Agreement) clause that says if you use these so called "Fair Use" reverse engineered chips, microsoft has the authority to fry your $199 computer game console, or something to that effect.
I don't think a forum that is read only, can be considered "Alive", but it would probably better to say that the slackware forums has been resurrected, but only partialy so.
I have seen alot of people here who say that gravity can't travel faster than the speed of light and usually back their response up with relativity. But mind you, relativity is still theory not law. Say for example gravity could travel faster than light, we will say that gravity waves travel at 2x the speed of light. Now say we have a way to measure the effect of gravity waves and not of gravity itself, just going to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle to say we can't measure the intensity of gravity waves unless we change their position. Because we would have to use light or energy or something that goes slower than light to measure the speed of the effects, that renders the results of any such attempt to send information or energy this way useless.
Now getting back to what someone asked earlier, what would happen if the sun were to be removed, would the earth spin off or stay in place for 8 minutes. To answer you question i use will use einstien's theory of gravity. He equated space to a 2-d surface, like a trampoline, gravity would warp that surface and create indentions. Ok say i put a bowling ball (sun) on the trampoline, and put a baseball (earth) in orbit of it. Now lets say i pick up the bowling ball quickly (almost instaneously), the baseball does just go off in a straight line, right?. What if i did it slowly?
Now saying that, you all know that you just simply can't move a mass such as the sun faster than the speed of light, heck you can't even make an bowling ball go faster than the speed of light, but the problem is relativity doesn't quite work for very large or very small objects. My theory is that gravity can move faster than the speed of light but the mass that generates it can't so you could never use it to create any paradox that was suggested.
A company called MediaForce mailed dead fish to approximately 2/3 of broadband internet users in australia yesterday. Attached to the fish was a letter detailing each users criminal actions. When asked, "What is the deal with the fish?," a company spokesperson replied, "Mess with us and your internet connection sleeps with the fishes." When asked what that means, the burly man raised a fist and said, "Don't make me do something i am going to regret later." I replied, "to late," and ran away.
Wow, i don't know where that came from, but i hope this brings a new perspective to things.:)
Surely my superhuman qualities, huge brain mass, and good looks qualify me for such an honor.
BTW can i patent myself, more specifically my dna? So that if it is found that i carry some weird mutated form of a gene that cures cancer or something similar, i will make profit off the use of such a gene to help other people.
you know i would love to see a log of all traffic on a site that has been slashdotted. I think it would be cool to see. When your computer comes back on. Could you send me a copy. Cause your server has been/.ed, have a nice day.:)
Ok they said that gravity travels at the speed of light. Ignoring the margin of error for the moment this brings up several things that are interesting. First off, if gravity waves travel at the speed of light, and have no mass ( or very very very very very little) an photons have no mass (or very little) then is there the same wave/particle duality for gravity as there is light? Secondly if there is such a thing as a graviton (gravity particle) then couldn't its energy be determined by substituting it for e in e=mc^2? Oh wait einstien already had a theory about that, in fact it is part of his theory of general relativity.
So being the smarty pants scientist i am, i substitute jupiters mass in and speed into the equation and looky here, it says gravity travels at the speed of light. No i am going to publish a paper on the subject and get ridiculed by smart people
Come on wake up! the only reliable way to test any theory about how fast gravity travels would have to be done in the abscene of it. But assuming einstien was correct and gravity waves do travel at the speed of light, then several things spring to mind. First off there has to be a method of spontaneous generating gravity waves, why you ask, well we do have ways of spontaneous generating light. But this brings up a larger point if you can generate gravity this way, what is stoping you from generating antigravity. Could this be the Unnacounted for "dark energy/mass" that scientists can't find? Maybe the (anti)gravity generated by and an object isn't just related to speed and mass? Is the amount of light generated by an object relative to mass/speed?
Sorry just sort of ranting, please feel free to postulate some more.
Gee i guess i shouldn't joke about something like O'Reilly books. People just don't seem to have a sense of humor any more. I expressed my opinion and got modded down cause i apparently insulted your god or something. For O'Reillys sake calm down.
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I'll agree with you for the most part about the palm interface, but i would like something more natural, something that could be used very easily even if your a complete moron, yet reconfigurable on the fly for more advanced use. I am looking for something seamless across all apps, that also recognizes the way i use things, and adjust accordingly. Now i know the only way it will ever happen is if i do it myself, so maybe i will. But at the moment i am content with the crap micro$oft throws at me, it gets the job done, and i have not the time to play with anything but.
What i really think is hurting PDAs today is un-inspired designs, and i love to see someone with a new twist on an old idea. But i think that they need to work on new user interface, alot more than they need to work on making them more powerful. A good user interface would make all the difference. There simply is no blueprint for an interface for such a device, but a "windows"ish interface is not the answer.
I hope there will be a modchip available, so i can make my home more compatible with my personal preferences. Cause the last thing i want is that gay clippy thing in my face at 6am telling me to get out of bed cause i am going to be late for work. I don't want a computer to script my life, especially one with Micro$oft inside.
Can I preorder one? Would I want too? The answer to both of these questions is a resounding but not surprising "NO".
Secondly the answer to the communications problems could possibly be a UltraWide Band transceiver, with like an 4096-bit rsa key that rotates on a monthly, or randomized basis, with multiple back up redundant systems, and if it loses communications it is instructed to fly back to base or self-destruct.
Thirdly military R&D(the stuff that i have heard about) is focused mainly on augmenting a soldier with unmanned UAVs, exoskeletons, and information awareness systems, not replacing him. I guess the military took a lesson from Science Fiction, and decided it probally would not be a good idea to any replace an obedient and well trained soldier with a machine that doesn't understand the human concept of right and wrong(not that everyone does).
P.S. i typed "to" and "too" in my sig cause i hate english, and i wish it would be replaced with something better(none of the current options will suffice, i.e. spanish, swedish, etc.)
the "to" is supposed to be that way "too", i am to lazy to type the extra "o", i think that words that sound alike should be merged into one unifying spelling.
Actually microsoft loses money everytime someone purchases an xbox. So just buy the machine use it for a media box or whatever just don't buy any games, and microsoft will lose about $50 on you.
to stop all of this someday. Whether it is through government intervention or some EULA (Evil Unconstitutional License non-Agreement) clause that says if you use these so called "Fair Use" reverse engineered chips, microsoft has the authority to fry your $199 computer game console, or something to that effect.
Just my $.02.
Well at least i forgot more about physics, than 99% of americans will ever even think about in an entire lifetime.
Now getting back to what someone asked earlier, what would happen if the sun were to be removed, would the earth spin off or stay in place for 8 minutes. To answer you question i use will use einstien's theory of gravity. He equated space to a 2-d surface, like a trampoline, gravity would warp that surface and create indentions. Ok say i put a bowling ball (sun) on the trampoline, and put a baseball (earth) in orbit of it. Now lets say i pick up the bowling ball quickly (almost instaneously), the baseball does just go off in a straight line, right?. What if i did it slowly?
Now saying that, you all know that you just simply can't move a mass such as the sun faster than the speed of light, heck you can't even make an bowling ball go faster than the speed of light, but the problem is relativity doesn't quite work for very large or very small objects. My theory is that gravity can move faster than the speed of light but the mass that generates it can't so you could never use it to create any paradox that was suggested.
Wow, i don't know where that came from, but i hope this brings a new perspective to things.:)
how do you classify the differences between asexual species?
BTW can i patent myself, more specifically my dna? So that if it is found that i carry some weird mutated form of a gene that cures cancer or something similar, i will make profit off the use of such a gene to help other people.
hey stupid me
you know i would love to see a log of all traffic on a site that has been slashdotted. I think it would be cool to see. When your computer comes back on. Could you send me a copy. Cause your server has been /.ed, have a nice day. :)
Only good ones.
or less accurate, wait lets just say it is based on the same universe, not on any literal works of tolkien.
And already /.ed. Oh well, if it is half as good or better than the stuff Peter Jackson is producing i might have to watch it.
I Can see it now: "Slap this patch on your arm and watch the pounds melt away!"
Click to see amazing before and after blah blah blah.
Something that i understand, that i don't need. That will probally change my life forever.
look at the duality, the same applies to your post
So being the smarty pants scientist i am, i substitute jupiters mass in and speed into the equation and looky here, it says gravity travels at the speed of light. No i am going to publish a paper on the subject and get ridiculed by smart people
Come on wake up! the only reliable way to test any theory about how fast gravity travels would have to be done in the abscene of it. But assuming einstien was correct and gravity waves do travel at the speed of light, then several things spring to mind. First off there has to be a method of spontaneous generating gravity waves, why you ask, well we do have ways of spontaneous generating light. But this brings up a larger point if you can generate gravity this way, what is stoping you from generating antigravity. Could this be the Unnacounted for "dark energy/mass" that scientists can't find? Maybe the (anti)gravity generated by and an object isn't just related to speed and mass? Is the amount of light generated by an object relative to mass/speed?
Sorry just sort of ranting, please feel free to postulate some more.
you mean don't you the coward mean your mommy's tax dollars
Gee i guess i shouldn't joke about something like O'Reilly books. People just don't seem to have a sense of humor any more. I expressed my opinion and got modded down cause i apparently insulted your god or something. For O'Reillys sake calm down.