in fact, my students and I are already producing such devices in small numbers in my laboratory at the University of Washington, in Seattle. These lenses don’t give us the vision of an eagle or the benefit of running subtitles on our surroundings yet. But we have built a lens with one LED, which we’ve powered wirelessly with RF. What we’ve done so far barely hints at what will soon be possible with this technology.
At 32 I have just started needing correction and contacts are not that bad. Just do not handle any kind of hot pepper before you install or remove them.
On the other hand they're great for onions. My wife can chop onions without any problems as long as she's wearing her contacts. With her glasses on she suffers as much as anyone.
So it's probably a little bit further along than your teleportation research. Are you using rabbits too?
Heh. They're the primary subjects. Magicians have been teleporting rabbits into special receptacles for ages. Though what the top hats are for, I'm unsure of. Maybe they're just pretty packaging for the power supply.
Makes me wonder however if it would be self-contained (unlikely) or have to communicate with some hardware either broadcasting near your location or probably worn on your person somewhere.
Well, it's unlikely to have much processing power and still actually stay in your eye, but I don't see too much downside of it connecting to a small (or large depending on the requirements) wearable computer on a personal network for the processing of information or connecting to the web for information to correlate or display. e.g. If it's giving you directions to the closest ATM the wearable could get your GPS position, look up the ATM and then display little arrows on the lens. I doubt they can build this into the lens itself. That functionality may even be an app on your Android phone. That;s probably powerful enough to manage much of what folks would want. No need to lug around a whole PC.
Or just sell the non-DRM version for $60 and the DRM version for $20 on an as-is and unsupported basis.
Or really, Sell the full (non-DRM) version for $30 or $40. I'd buy that. Here, games cost $90+. That's bullshit. The Aussie dollar is at.9 $US so there's absolutely no excuse except that they can. So fuck 'em. I'm not buying their crap game. Specially when it has horrendous DRM. When they come out with a game that I really decide I must have I will buy it, patch (crack) it and play it but that's a couple of games per year instead of the dozen or more I'd buy in North America at half the price.
Oh, and I buy Stardock games, games from GOG, games form the specials bin on Steam, the Orange Box because it was great value. They're all good value. Is that too much to ask.
While I'm ranting off-topic, why does some DRM refuse to allow me to play my games if I have certain programs installed ? If the DRM is there it's because I bought the game. Once the game is cracked the DRM doesn't get to check. Yes, I have a program that can read ISOs but if you were an ISO you'd be cracked but thankyou for showing me the error of my ways. I'll find that crack now and uninstall your stupid DRM. DUH !
Keys haven't been very big for over a century, it doesn't take much pocket space to carry a few.
Maybe your keys are small. Some genius at Holden designed a car key that's 3" long and over an inch wide.
Combine that with house keys, bike lock keys and whatnot and suddenly it's looking like purse time. Unless it's Winter and then I have lots of big pockets.
As a Sysadmin I do occasionally use other software and I freely admit that any pain I cause myself by compiling from source when the package is available is my own fault but that's how I often prefer to do it and I enjoy the challenge so there are two reasons why I don't complain.
With Windows on the other hand either the option is in the black box or... well, the option doesn't exist so don't even ask.
So what you're saying is you were too stupid to use the distro's package system.
Oh, I shouldn't say that. Windows has no such beast so you can hardly be blamed for not knowing there was an easier way. So you were too uninformed to do that.
Japan will be sad to hear they're not "civilized" anymore.
Well, they don't seem to care about world opinion on whaling.
They seem to have the attitude that - For scientific purposes we're trying to see whether we can drive these populations extinct to see whether that will increase the price of whaleburgers.
I always loved the US idea of declaring someone to be a juvenile, yet trying them as an adult in order to get a harsher punishment.
Either someone is a juvenile or they aren't...and if you try a 16 year-old as an adult and they are acquitted, does that mean they can now drink and drive like an adult as well?
Chances are, if their crime was deemed brutal enough for them to be tried as an adult, they already were drinking and/or driving like one. Mind you, in the U.S. Kids can legally drive at 16 or something so that may not be any big deal. Binge drinking at 16 however is likely to be relevant.
I think it's a brilliant idea as long as it's Microsoft that pays it. So long as M/S software is the root cause of 99.x% of malware then they should pay the monthly fee to allow each instance of their software to be on the net. Maybe that would be an incentive for them to clean up their act.
WE WON the Cold War, the least we should get out of it is the right to spell however we want and to keep our superior gallons over them crappy ass metric liters. Liters is for Coke, not gas.
Aww, hey, don't feel bad. Just because the British Gallon is bigger than the American one:
... one British (imperial) gallon equals 1.2009 gallons US
I'm not even going to go into litres.
Google has asked the NSA to come help them secure their network. The conflict of interests there is staggering. For the NSA to succeed at their given mission they rely heavily on insecure systems so they can gather information.
I didn't know they'd done that, but still, if the NSA really are experts in this area, I can't see why they couldn't make the Google network as secure against outside threats as possible while having Google host their own equipment internally.
I'm pretty sure that beats having the NSA + World + Dog all snooping around in there considering the NSA are going to try whether anyone else likes it or not.
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I disagree. For one, your bold makes some areas factually false, such as Linux costing money.
Well, of course Linux costs money. Assuming we're talking businesses here and not just some guy in his parents' basement, there is the cost of Admins - different admins for every O/S - even Linux and this being a business they may have systems which depend on the O/s working flawlessly and actually pay a company for their version of Linux so they can get paid support.
And in other areas, it is functionally false, because most medium and larger companies have more than one OS. As such, your argument seems false on every measure I can conceive.
Well, one false statement of yours hardly invalidates his argument.
I've always thought of OSes as something that tended towards a natural monopoly.
Only because those that make OSs make programs that run on them. The OS is irrelevant if everyone developed for every OS. So, who picks what they don't develop for? Well, someone that makes an OS, along with, say, the most popular "productivity suite" on the planet.
Except that just as in your original example of phone companies AND his O/S example, once one version has a great enough market share, it's not commercially worth it for any developer to write code for the smaller systems. Sure you can argue a single data point of Flash programmers, but that would hardly be possible if Adobe wasn't one of the companies which released their software on multiple platforms to enable this. Java too ? Not really, that was created by one of the "little" guys and then the big guys adopted it and tried to twist (extend) it as usual to incompatibility, but that's a different rant.
No, Google has a temporary hold on the market because they're superior to all competition, much like yahoo, or altavista once were. If Google fails to maintain that superiority then they will lose their market share.
There is nothing in Google that forces people to use Google. Searching for a store doesn't force you to use Google maps/Google Earth to find it. Installing Google earth doesn't change your browser to Chrome.
You're tilting at straw men to mix a couple of metaphors. Do try to use correct logic in your arguments.
Yeah but researchers think even a small snippet of paper that says "I played with my dollie today" and buried under a log cabin is useful. They are a little bit...... strange.
Ahh, so from that snippet of paper we can see that some child was old enough to write and their favourite toy was a dollie since they found that significant enough to commit to paper. Not only that but that child had literacy and access to a pen and to paper. Also, since gender stereotyping is pretty strong, we can probably also assume that that child was a girl which may also be significant since education wasn't considered the province of girls in many societies for a long time.
So, yes, there may be "valuable" (to someone) information in that which you thought was absolutely worthless.
Then again, maybe the paper was put there by god in order to test us.
When Ubuntu 10.x LTS is released I'm going to try again, but I'm not expecting any better results. Microsoft, as evil as they are, simply provide better longterm support. They have to - business demands it.
Sure they do. I remember buying a Microsoft force feedback joystick a few months before XP came out and XP not even supporting their own hardware. Smooth guys. Thanks for nothing.
Yeah, I know. That's what I get for buying M/S. Well, I learned my lesson. Never again. Ever.
The other good news is that being a pirate allows you to do your part in combating global warming, since, as this graph clearly shows, an increase in the number of pirates will decrease average global temperature.
Hmm, I was worried about this with "Global Warming" happening at the same time as all the Somali Pirates, but it's working out now. They've changed the term to "Climate Change" and it's been a lovely, cool Summer here in Melbourne. None of this 45 Celcius junk they were having before these pirates got going.
May his noodly appendages continue to move in their mysterious ways.
I feel as you do. I looked up references online though and it's in the OED. Sadly, that pretty much makes it a word. The language will evolve. Sadly, it will often evolve as a result of uneducated people making mistakes and sharing their mistakes with their uneducated associates.
Seriously, it's just a word. It doesn't matter what anyone says, some folks will always be dicks. It doesn't matter what term they use to abuse someone, it's sill going to be the same put-down.
I think the downs syndrome actor from the "retarded policeman" youtube clips says it best here... "I may have Downs syndrome but you people are fucking retarded".
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Get back to us when you have some sorta prototype.
From the blog of one of the scientists involved:
in fact, my students and I are already producing such devices in small numbers in my laboratory at the University of Washington, in Seattle. These lenses don’t give us the vision of an eagle or the benefit of running subtitles on our surroundings yet. But we have built a lens with one LED, which we’ve powered wirelessly with RF. What we’ve done so far barely hints at what will soon be possible with this technology.
That sounds like a working prototype to me.
At 32 I have just started needing correction and contacts are not that bad. Just do not handle any kind of hot pepper before you install or remove them.
On the other hand they're great for onions. My wife can chop onions without any problems as long as she's wearing her contacts. With her glasses on she suffers as much as anyone.
So it's probably a little bit further along than your teleportation research. Are you using rabbits too?
Heh. They're the primary subjects. Magicians have been teleporting rabbits into special receptacles for ages. Though what the top hats are for, I'm unsure of. Maybe they're just pretty packaging for the power supply.
Makes me wonder however if it would be self-contained (unlikely) or have to communicate with some hardware either broadcasting near your location or probably worn on your person somewhere.
Well, it's unlikely to have much processing power and still actually stay in your eye, but I don't see too much downside of it connecting to a small (or large depending on the requirements) wearable computer on a personal network for the processing of information or connecting to the web for information to correlate or display. e.g. If it's giving you directions to the closest ATM the wearable could get your GPS position, look up the ATM and then display little arrows on the lens. I doubt they can build this into the lens itself. That functionality may even be an app on your Android phone. That;s probably powerful enough to manage much of what folks would want. No need to lug around a whole PC.
I hope you have vibrate on too or you're going to miss a lot of calls.
Or just sell the non-DRM version for $60 and the DRM version for $20 on an as-is and unsupported basis. Or really, Sell the full (non-DRM) version for $30 or $40. I'd buy that. Here, games cost $90+. That's bullshit. The Aussie dollar is at .9 $US so there's absolutely no excuse except that they can. So fuck 'em. I'm not buying their crap game. Specially when it has horrendous DRM. When they come out with a game that I really decide I must have I will buy it, patch (crack) it and play it but that's a couple of games per year instead of the dozen or more I'd buy in North America at half the price.
Oh, and I buy Stardock games, games from GOG, games form the specials bin on Steam, the Orange Box because it was great value. They're all good value. Is that too much to ask.
While I'm ranting off-topic, why does some DRM refuse to allow me to play my games if I have certain programs installed ? If the DRM is there it's because I bought the game. Once the game is cracked the DRM doesn't get to check. Yes, I have a program that can read ISOs but if you were an ISO you'd be cracked but thankyou for showing me the error of my ways. I'll find that crack now and uninstall your stupid DRM. DUH !
Keys haven't been very big for over a century, it doesn't take much pocket space to carry a few.
Maybe your keys are small. Some genius at Holden designed a car key that's 3" long and over an inch wide. Combine that with house keys, bike lock keys and whatnot and suddenly it's looking like purse time. Unless it's Winter and then I have lots of big pockets.
As a Sysadmin I do occasionally use other software and I freely admit that any pain I cause myself by compiling from source when the package is available is my own fault but that's how I often prefer to do it and I enjoy the challenge so there are two reasons why I don't complain. With Windows on the other hand either the option is in the black box or ... well, the option doesn't exist so don't even ask.
Sorry, my point was that they don't seem to hold world opinion too highly. Not that they aren't civilised.
So what you're saying is you were too stupid to use the distro's package system. Oh, I shouldn't say that. Windows has no such beast so you can hardly be blamed for not knowing there was an easier way. So you were too uninformed to do that.
Japan will be sad to hear they're not "civilized" anymore.
Well, they don't seem to care about world opinion on whaling.
They seem to have the attitude that - For scientific purposes we're trying to see whether we can drive these populations extinct to see whether that will increase the price of whaleburgers.
I always loved the US idea of declaring someone to be a juvenile, yet trying them as an adult in order to get a harsher punishment.
Either someone is a juvenile or they aren't...and if you try a 16 year-old as an adult and they are acquitted, does that mean they can now drink and drive like an adult as well?
Chances are, if their crime was deemed brutal enough for them to be tried as an adult, they already were drinking and/or driving like one. Mind you, in the U.S. Kids can legally drive at 16 or something so that may not be any big deal. Binge drinking at 16 however is likely to be relevant.
Who do they think they are, bankers?
I think it's a brilliant idea as long as it's Microsoft that pays it. So long as M/S software is the root cause of 99.x% of malware then they should pay the monthly fee to allow each instance of their software to be on the net. Maybe that would be an incentive for them to clean up their act.
WE WON the Cold War, the least we should get out of it is the right to spell however we want and to keep our superior gallons over them crappy ass metric liters. Liters is for Coke, not gas.
Aww, hey, don't feel bad. Just because the British Gallon is bigger than the American one:
Google has asked the NSA to come help them secure their network. The conflict of interests there is staggering. For the NSA to succeed at their given mission they rely heavily on insecure systems so they can gather information.
I didn't know they'd done that, but still, if the NSA really are experts in this area, I can't see why they couldn't make the Google network as secure against outside threats as possible while having Google host their own equipment internally.
I'm pretty sure that beats having the NSA + World + Dog all snooping around in there considering the NSA are going to try whether anyone else likes it or not.
Changes made to bold text: I disagree. For one, your bold makes some areas factually false, such as Linux costing money.
Well, of course Linux costs money. Assuming we're talking businesses here and not just some guy in his parents' basement, there is the cost of Admins - different admins for every O/S - even Linux and this being a business they may have systems which depend on the O/s working flawlessly and actually pay a company for their version of Linux so they can get paid support.
And in other areas, it is functionally false, because most medium and larger companies have more than one OS. As such, your argument seems false on every measure I can conceive.
Well, one false statement of yours hardly invalidates his argument.
I've always thought of OSes as something that tended towards a natural monopoly.
Only because those that make OSs make programs that run on them. The OS is irrelevant if everyone developed for every OS. So, who picks what they don't develop for? Well, someone that makes an OS, along with, say, the most popular "productivity suite" on the planet.
Except that just as in your original example of phone companies AND his O/S example, once one version has a great enough market share, it's not commercially worth it for any developer to write code for the smaller systems. Sure you can argue a single data point of Flash programmers, but that would hardly be possible if Adobe wasn't one of the companies which released their software on multiple platforms to enable this. Java too ? Not really, that was created by one of the "little" guys and then the big guys adopted it and tried to twist (extend) it as usual to incompatibility, but that's a different rant.
No, Google has a temporary hold on the market because they're superior to all competition, much like yahoo, or altavista once were. If Google fails to maintain that superiority then they will lose their market share. There is nothing in Google that forces people to use Google. Searching for a store doesn't force you to use Google maps/Google Earth to find it. Installing Google earth doesn't change your browser to Chrome. You're tilting at straw men to mix a couple of metaphors. Do try to use correct logic in your arguments.
"Sony is rightly at fault, and is guaranteed to fix this in a matter of days. "
My PS3 is now officially a BRICK. It will NO LONGER POWER ON.
Sony now has one week to answer for this. If I don't get an answer, I'm going to crack heads.
Umm, I don't know how they're going to apply a patch to your console if it won't power on.
Yeah but researchers think even a small snippet of paper that says "I played with my dollie today" and buried under a log cabin is useful. They are a little bit...... strange.
Ahh, so from that snippet of paper we can see that some child was old enough to write and their favourite toy was a dollie since they found that significant enough to commit to paper. Not only that but that child had literacy and access to a pen and to paper. Also, since gender stereotyping is pretty strong, we can probably also assume that that child was a girl which may also be significant since education wasn't considered the province of girls in many societies for a long time. So, yes, there may be "valuable" (to someone) information in that which you thought was absolutely worthless. Then again, maybe the paper was put there by god in order to test us.
When Ubuntu 10.x LTS is released I'm going to try again, but I'm not expecting any better results. Microsoft, as evil as they are, simply provide better longterm support. They have to - business demands it.
Sure they do. I remember buying a Microsoft force feedback joystick a few months before XP came out and XP not even supporting their own hardware. Smooth guys. Thanks for nothing. Yeah, I know. That's what I get for buying M/S. Well, I learned my lesson. Never again. Ever.
The other good news is that being a pirate allows you to do your part in combating global warming, since, as this graph clearly shows, an increase in the number of pirates will decrease average global temperature.
Hmm, I was worried about this with "Global Warming" happening at the same time as all the Somali Pirates, but it's working out now. They've changed the term to "Climate Change" and it's been a lovely, cool Summer here in Melbourne. None of this 45 Celcius junk they were having before these pirates got going. May his noodly appendages continue to move in their mysterious ways.
I feel as you do. I looked up references online though and it's in the OED. Sadly, that pretty much makes it a word. The language will evolve. Sadly, it will often evolve as a result of uneducated people making mistakes and sharing their mistakes with their uneducated associates.
Utter rubbish. Irregardless is a perfectly cromulent word.
Exactly. It embiggens the language.
Seriously, it's just a word. It doesn't matter what anyone says, some folks will always be dicks. It doesn't matter what term they use to abuse someone, it's sill going to be the same put-down. I think the downs syndrome actor from the "retarded policeman" youtube clips says it best here ... "I may have Downs syndrome but you people are fucking retarded".
I hate vokens too. The uncloseable ones are really low.