Yes, I understand that, but as far as I know, there is no mainstream device that lets you slip on glasses and view soundwaves as they are emitted or rebounding from objects. Just because the whole point of THIS thing is to not have a HUD, doesn't mean that it couldn't be even more useful with a HUD. Yes one application could be to have less visual clutter, at the loss of the accuracy that comes with having a visual aid, but another application could be to pair echolocation with a visualization of the echolocation to increase accuracy. Imagine soldiers being able to pinpoint the locations of enemy soldiers through their goggles based on sound, as opposed to having to make some stupid clicking noise constantly that wouldn't be nearly as accurate.
I'm really interested in how these sorts of discoveries will be implemented when Augmented Reality becomes more mainstream with wearable computing. It would be fascinating to have a HUD that visualized echolocation in the form of showing soundwaves and their locations etc. Obviously it'd have to be tweaked so as not to overload your senses, but it could be a very cool thing to view. Finally I would be able to see the same thing all those kids who use acid see.
" Maybe I missed something, but can't this be used to help the blind navigate around their homes or even outdoors? It's the first thing I would think of rather than fighter pilots."
" this crap isn't modding. modding is when you change your computer. if you buy it all "tricked out" then you're just lame and haven't done any modding."
This is just a troll. Yeah you didn't actually mod it your self, you bought it modded, but that doesn't make you lame. How the FUCK does that make you lame? This is the same attitude as the carmodders who think people who buy cars like the Lexus IS300 etc are lame because it comes premodded. Just because someone doesn't want to spend the same amount of time as you to mod something a little more to their tastes, does not mean they are lame. They just have different priorities than you. I could just as easily say you're lame for spending the time to MOD YOUR FUCKING COMPUTER. But I won't, because I think in the end, it looks cool regardless of whether it was bought that way or done by hand, and I have more class than to put other people down like that.
" For those of you too lazy to read the articles, here's the phone number to call:
1-877-779-3974
Let's/. their phone system!"
O' how I long for the day when VoIP is so far developed that I could Slashdot their phoneline by clicking a link. Perhaps a link that started up a modem that dialed their number and played a recording. That would be clever. Heh, they pay for every 800 call they get too.
"If it helps, substitute "computer geek" for "hacker", and my meaning should be clearer."
My case still rests....and for the record, I meant the old meaning of hacker. But how many computer geeks do you know that don't pirate games? I would put forth that the vast majority do, simply because they can and their risk of getting caught gets lower with the more they know about computers.
Its funny....I look at this whole SCO mess.....and I look forward to the end of it not so much to be done with it.....but just to see what sort of retaliation everybody attached will exact on them/Darl.
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"The bullshit-o-meter EXPLODES at the nice little bit about how they won't discuss specific energy conversion rates in detail. It doesn't help that this is being published in Science for People Who Think They're Trendy(aka Wired)."
Wow, I agreed with everything you said EXCEPT this trollish remark. What do you have against Wired? Granted they don't get as technical as many scientific journals, but they aren't trying to. And why do you assume Wired is for 'trendy' people? What about people who are very interested in science, technology, and society but don't have time to do in depth research or get bored at reading pages of numbers? Just because a magazine or its readers don't appeal to you, does not give you the right to take dirty shots at them.
I sure as hell don't see the readers of Wired saying "Yeah, those guys at the Website For People Who Think They're Smarter Than They Are (aka Slashdot)".
" If I'd a game company, I'd take care of potential Linux customers."
Aside from the comments about how Linux users might be more likely to pirate the games instead of buying them.....I'd like to point out the fact that the Linux userbase is literally NOTHING compared to the Windows userbase. I'm sorry, Linux is nice...but you Linux advocates have to realize that while your system might be superior in many ways....it still just lacks the pure numbers of Windows, or even Mac.
So, of course you'll get karma for making a pro-linux comment, but you'd never get modded down here for the fact that your idea of taking care of linux users is just a BAD BUSINESS IDEA (at the time). It's a waste of money on support and development when you could make a lot more money for a lot less by developing/support a Windows market.
So in summary, wishful thinking never hurt anyone....but your idea is not good business move. No hard feelings.
"Dr Edwards said. "There's no smoke, there's no pillars of fire and there's no loud rumbling noises. There's just this thing that slowly ascends the ribbon into space." "
Well, I don't know about you...but after Nasa's last brush with space.....I would personally prefer there be NO 'pillars of fire' and 'loud rumbling noises'. Or foam.
And if the Cowboy Neal has bothered to even read the blurb he cut/pasted, he might have noticed that it stated exactly this 2 LINES above where he makes his suggests his prank. Wow....I think of myself as a lazy person who never RTFA...but not even RYFP (reading your fucking post).......that just takes things to a whole new level.
"Any 3D desktop that works will have to be extraordinarily revolutionary just to be useable."
Which makes me wonder.....do we even need a 3D desktop at this point? Why not let there be a 2D desktop projected into 3D space, and still enable the machine to display other apps in full 3D when necessary.
Just because a display has the ability to display true 3D objects (or simulated I guess) doesn't mean it should display EVERYTHING in 3D. A 2D desktop might be the most efficient design of a desktop, and maybe we should just leave it at that.
This looks like an EXTREMELY cool and revolutionary invention, solving both the display AND input problem in one fell swoop. However, before people start to think I'm some PR person, I would like to ask a couple critical questions which I can't find anywhere, perhaps someone knows the answers.
Would it need to be filled up? How expensive would this unit be? Would I have to do anything special to 'refill' the display, and if so, how much would it cost and how long would it last?
And why shouldn't he. I actually had no clue who this guy was until he mentioned the melting clocks. While you may think you were funny making that joke (and it was an admittedly funny joke) he was busy letting a lot of people know who Dali was through one of his most recognizeable pieces.
I'm surprised people are mentioning XP. The first thing I thought of when I read this post was Apple's Pile System which I can't find a link to for the life of me. Basically it sorts things into graphical piles on the desktop, with more recent stuff near the top. You can kind of move the mouse through the stack and see what each thing is. It was on Slashdot a while ago, but I can't find it even with Google.
Somehow, just somehow, I knew that the biocomputing was coming. And that the person who brought it to us would be a drunk DJ/Scientist who accidentally spilled his beer on a cd.
Yes, the key to biocomputing has been unlocked,
and it is beer.
All behold and bow down before the oncoming might of the free (as in beer) biocomputing technology.
Actually, flying around those levels is my favorite part, whether it be in a helicopter, jet, or prop plane. It's just a very cool feeling to fly overhead and know there are real players fighting below you, and then shooting all of them. I dunno, I'm sure many people are either in the infantry camp or in the vehicle camp, I'm a vehicle man myself, but to each his own.p.
Like a few others have mentioned, BF1942 has made vehicles very popular in large FPS games. This is not only because its a cool concept, but when you start getting games with up to 64 players (or several thousand like in Planetside) vehicles become a necessity. A game with that many players would be no fun in the large playing space you'd need to accomidate them all. Additionally, they add many new strategic elements. Speed, a third dimension (aircraft), fire support, transportation, armor, etc. So just because you don't like them, and one implementation of them has failed in a game, does not mean they aren't wildy successful, cuz they are.
" Why would you want to 'wear' a computer? There are very few of us who need to stay connected 24/7."
I would ask why WOULDN'T you? If you could have easy access to the internet or your files whereever you went, and didn't need to carry a handheld constantly, it would be a godsend. Not to mention I have an almost fetish-like fantasy for becoming a gargoyle like the ones in Snowcrash.
While the 'dumbest common denominator' segment as I like to call them may enjoy both Nintendo and AOL because of the ease of which you can pick up their products, gamers who are looking for a good gaming experience are going to be disappointed with the lag and connectivity issues. Likewise, with AOL, many people sign up because they heard about this 'cool new interweb thing' and once they realize that the net exists OUTSIDE of AOL, they dumb it like a rock. There's a reason AOL is panicking about losing its userbase.
The content on AOL is simply NOT WORTH PAYING FOR. I mean, why should you pay top dollar out of all dialup ISPs out there ($24 a month!!!!) for a slow connection that boots you all the time, has a horrible mail client that thinks its helpful for deleting my mail after a certain number of days, and feeds me tons of ads (which slow the connection even more!). This is on top of the fact that they require you to have their clunky memory hogging software open to be connected. Now, I don't mean this whole post as a flame against AOL, but these are relevant facts. Anybody who's used the service would back me up on it. I unfortunately am stuck using AOL while I am home because my mother likes it and pays for it.
I'm sure I'm not alone when I remember the days back on AOL playing GS3, and making a new character under all of my friends screennames. I even remember when DR started and played that since its infancy. I still have 4 players saved on my account which is on hold to this day. I still pay the fee to keep them, even if I'm not playing because I will someday want to play them again. Now THAT is proof that Simutronics makes quality games. I should really see whats up with DR lately. Hell, that game is more immersive than SWG will EVER be.
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Which is why you'll never get to be President.
This is just a troll. Yeah you didn't actually mod it your self, you bought it modded, but that doesn't make you lame. How the FUCK does that make you lame? This is the same attitude as the carmodders who think people who buy cars like the Lexus IS300 etc are lame because it comes premodded. Just because someone doesn't want to spend the same amount of time as you to mod something a little more to their tastes, does not mean they are lame. They just have different priorities than you. I could just as easily say you're lame for spending the time to MOD YOUR FUCKING COMPUTER. But I won't, because I think in the end, it looks cool regardless of whether it was bought that way or done by hand, and I have more class than to put other people down like that.
You mean we'll actually get to meet face to face the people who used to anonymously harass us?
I think I speak for all of Slashdot when I say in my best Mr. Burns impression, "Excellent......."
O' how I long for the day when VoIP is so far developed that I could Slashdot their phoneline by clicking a link. Perhaps a link that started up a modem that dialed their number and played a recording. That would be clever. Heh, they pay for every 800 call they get too.
My case still rests....and for the record, I meant the old meaning of hacker. But how many computer geeks do you know that don't pirate games? I would put forth that the vast majority do, simply because they can and their risk of getting caught gets lower with the more they know about computers.
Wow, I agreed with everything you said EXCEPT this trollish remark. What do you have against Wired? Granted they don't get as technical as many scientific journals, but they aren't trying to. And why do you assume Wired is for 'trendy' people? What about people who are very interested in science, technology, and society but don't have time to do in depth research or get bored at reading pages of numbers? Just because a magazine or its readers don't appeal to you, does not give you the right to take dirty shots at them.
I sure as hell don't see the readers of Wired saying "Yeah, those guys at the Website For People Who Think They're Smarter Than They Are (aka Slashdot)".
Not to judge people....but how many 'hacker types' do you know that buy all of their software, especially games?
Aside from the comments about how Linux users might be more likely to pirate the games instead of buying them.....I'd like to point out the fact that the Linux userbase is literally NOTHING compared to the Windows userbase. I'm sorry, Linux is nice...but you Linux advocates have to realize that while your system might be superior in many ways....it still just lacks the pure numbers of Windows, or even Mac.
So, of course you'll get karma for making a pro-linux comment, but you'd never get modded down here for the fact that your idea of taking care of linux users is just a BAD BUSINESS IDEA (at the time). It's a waste of money on support and development when you could make a lot more money for a lot less by developing/support a Windows market.
So in summary, wishful thinking never hurt anyone....but your idea is not good business move. No hard feelings.
Well, I don't know about you...but after Nasa's last brush with space.....I would personally prefer there be NO 'pillars of fire' and 'loud rumbling noises'. Or foam.
Which makes me wonder.....do we even need a 3D desktop at this point? Why not let there be a 2D desktop projected into 3D space, and still enable the machine to display other apps in full 3D when necessary.
Just because a display has the ability to display true 3D objects (or simulated I guess) doesn't mean it should display EVERYTHING in 3D. A 2D desktop might be the most efficient design of a desktop, and maybe we should just leave it at that.
Would it need to be filled up?
How expensive would this unit be?
Would I have to do anything special to 'refill' the display, and if so, how much would it cost and how long would it last?
Yes, the key to biocomputing has been unlocked,
and it is beer.
All behold and bow down before the oncoming might of the free (as in beer) biocomputing technology.
Actually, flying around those levels is my favorite part, whether it be in a helicopter, jet, or prop plane. It's just a very cool feeling to fly overhead and know there are real players fighting below you, and then shooting all of them. I dunno, I'm sure many people are either in the infantry camp or in the vehicle camp, I'm a vehicle man myself, but to each his own.p.
Apparently its not Slashdot proof either.
I would ask why WOULDN'T you? If you could have easy access to the internet or your files whereever you went, and didn't need to carry a handheld constantly, it would be a godsend. Not to mention I have an almost fetish-like fantasy for becoming a gargoyle like the ones in Snowcrash.
The content on AOL is simply NOT WORTH PAYING FOR. I mean, why should you pay top dollar out of all dialup ISPs out there ($24 a month!!!!) for a slow connection that boots you all the time, has a horrible mail client that thinks its helpful for deleting my mail after a certain number of days, and feeds me tons of ads (which slow the connection even more!). This is on top of the fact that they require you to have their clunky memory hogging software open to be connected. Now, I don't mean this whole post as a flame against AOL, but these are relevant facts. Anybody who's used the service would back me up on it. I unfortunately am stuck using AOL while I am home because my mother likes it and pays for it.
Hehe, he said poodlefuckers.