A concept like this one has already been explored at MIT with the Audiopad (Google Cache), used to make music but really could be used as a new, innovative kind of interface.
What I'm waiting for is for someone to combine that Linux HD of the PS2 and the EyeToy into a Minority Report type interface.
Whether or not your speeches will be quoted 30 years from now depends on circumstance, and the talent of your speechwriter, not your stature as a President. If I had to pick between JFK and GWB as President I would stop and think for a couple minutes -- do I want a President who got elected by Big Oil, or one who was elected by the mob? JFK was an asshole. It's not because he put a man on the moon (or, rather, gave a lot of money to the guys who did it) or that he was shot that it makes any difference that he was a terrible President, and a terrible human being.
Because he had to justify Liv Tyler's paycheck and put her in every movie even though her character has one paragraph in the book.;)
I love the movie though. If only they hadn't changed Faramir and, well, the whole ending of TTT... Peter Jackson is still a director I admire. His work is outstanding on many, many levels. And besides, nothing that a guy who directed Dead Alive does can be all bad.
Isn't it obvious -- so everyone and their mom could make bad, one line Lemmings game jokes. Some of them are funny and I've got a couple in mind, but when it's just so easy I pass up.
*goes through the crap on his desk looking for spare mod points*
Grandparent's right, those marketing ploys to dumb down a movie even more by just calling it initials so it will appeal to an even "wider" (i.e. more morons) audience is atrocious, and parent's right, Fox is always the type of company that goes for those cheap ploys.
Yeah, I know what that option is about, but I'm actually a purist when it comes to music and shuffle is a heresy to me. Albums are one work of art, and I listen to them one at a time, like the artist intended me to.
I, for one, think it's really beautiful, and I'm one of those people who don't consider the voice recording option a gadget, but actually something very useful. The "play all our tracks" thing doesn't bother me a minute since I would never do that. It's also quite pretty looking, and a lot cheaper than the iPod. Sounds like I might get it.
I couldn't agree more. The worst part is that whenever I use RealOne (as little as possible) it reinstalls all the stuff I deinstalled (launch program at startup, etc.) so I have to go back to msconfig, the registry, etc. to tidy up its mess each time I use it.
American bills had always been pretty bad because they had to print a lot (several times more than what ciruclates inside the US) since it's an global currency, not just the currency of the US of A, and as a result printing bills had to be very cheap and very fast. They thoguht that conterfeiting was a necessary evil.
And now, even though they'd sooner tear their left arms off and beat themselves to death with them than admit it, those new bills introduce a lot of the security features the Euro (most expensive bills ever made) bills use. Interesting change of policy.
A new Iraqi currency without Saddam's face on it will be introduced soon. I saw a quick glimpse, they're greenbacks. Ahem.
A long long time ago, PDA's didn't have built-in cameras, or tiny keyboards, and wireless computing was holding the infrared port of your PDA an inch close to that of your cellphone, not Wi-Fi.
Can you remember? It was back when the hi-tech Palm to have was the Palm V but Palm IIIs were really the more affordable ones, it was also the height of the war between Palm and Psion. I decided I needed a PDA (I later found out I'm not rich and don't have the need, so I still don't have a PDA), and sampled each of the two big flavas (ooh), i.e. fold-out with keyboard and palm-likes, and found the fold-out kind to be vastly superior to the other, simply because input was made easier by the keyboard.
Even if you know Graffiti, it's a long way to input things. You have to make a movement with your pen. So you can use the virtual keyboard, which eats up half of your screen, but you can only touch one key then move to the other. But then when I used the fold-out PDAs (my preference wasn't towards a Psion but a clone by Ericsson), holding it with both hands in front of me walking on the street, I could type with both thumbs. All things considered, since a keyboard layout is extremely familiar, and since I had two input sticks (my thumbs) instead of only one on the palm, I quickly achieved a much faster input speed, with a bigger screen... I loved it.
Of course it depends on what you use it for. My use for PDA's was to jolt down ideas, so my emphasis was on what I could use to type in a lot of words. If you use it for scheduling, the palm-type might be better. Either way, Psion went out of business shortly thereafter and I always regretted their smart little devices. I know there have been others since then that have used the same basic layout (actually if I had to pick a device I'd probably pick a Hiptop), but my point is that I've always been nostalgic about Psion and it's good to see them back, even with Win installed.
I'm sure we'll see a NetBSD port before the week-end is over anyway, right?;-)
Or, for some evil villain's timer on his computer, because the said villain will be sitting two rows behind the techies in the theater watching Revolutions.;)
A friend of mine who's a professor told me that in order to get something accross you have to repeat it ten times during a lecture or a class, simply because humans have a short attention span and they wander off and on the speech. So it's hardly surprising that one could follow by zipping through it.
This isn't a troll, don't get me wrong the whole idea is amazing, and they're doing a lot more than anyone else is doing, but so far I've only seen pages which describe courses and things like that. There's never much acutal content. Just a short page describing the course. If you're lucky you get links to PDF's assignments and stuff made with Powerpoint, which is a step up, but you never get all the info.
I think we tell ourselves that immortality would be a curse to make ourselves feel better about not having it. Think about it, it takes years, maybe even a lifetime, to know just a big city, or a country. If you were to go backpacking round the world, without paying heed to the time passing (and for good reason), by the time you'd make it back to where you started, everything will have changed so much you could as well go round again.
And if you get tired of that, it'd take at least a few centuries to read all the great literature, watch all the great movies, listen to all the great music... There is so much humanity produced and is producing, that not only is a lifetime not enough, but probably not even eternity. Entropy would take its toll on you before you'd be done with everything you had wanted to do.
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A concept like this one has already been explored at MIT with the Audiopad (Google Cache), used to make music but really could be used as a new, innovative kind of interface.
What I'm waiting for is for someone to combine that Linux HD of the PS2 and the EyeToy into a Minority Report type interface.
Whether or not your speeches will be quoted 30 years from now depends on circumstance, and the talent of your speechwriter, not your stature as a President. If I had to pick between JFK and GWB as President I would stop and think for a couple minutes -- do I want a President who got elected by Big Oil, or one who was elected by the mob? JFK was an asshole. It's not because he put a man on the moon (or, rather, gave a lot of money to the guys who did it) or that he was shot that it makes any difference that he was a terrible President, and a terrible human being.
Because he had to justify Liv Tyler's paycheck and put her in every movie even though her character has one paragraph in the book. ;)
I love the movie though. If only they hadn't changed Faramir and, well, the whole ending of TTT... Peter Jackson is still a director I admire. His work is outstanding on many, many levels. And besides, nothing that a guy who directed Dead Alive does can be all bad.
MTV is to music what appetizers are to world hunger.
Isn't it obvious -- so everyone and their mom could make bad, one line Lemmings game jokes. Some of them are funny and I've got a couple in mind, but when it's just so easy I pass up.
That's beside the point, I was just saying that the DJ's inability to shuffle through your music directory doesn't bother me as I don't use it.
*goes through the crap on his desk looking for spare mod points*
Grandparent's right, those marketing ploys to dumb down a movie even more by just calling it initials so it will appeal to an even "wider" (i.e. more morons) audience is atrocious, and parent's right, Fox is always the type of company that goes for those cheap ploys.
Yeah, I know what that option is about, but I'm actually a purist when it comes to music and shuffle is a heresy to me. Albums are one work of art, and I listen to them one at a time, like the artist intended me to.
I, for one, think it's really beautiful, and I'm one of those people who don't consider the voice recording option a gadget, but actually something very useful. The "play all our tracks" thing doesn't bother me a minute since I would never do that. It's also quite pretty looking, and a lot cheaper than the iPod. Sounds like I might get it.
I couldn't agree more. The worst part is that whenever I use RealOne (as little as possible) it reinstalls all the stuff I deinstalled (launch program at startup, etc.) so I have to go back to msconfig, the registry, etc. to tidy up its mess each time I use it.
...I'll make sure to tell him I saw you could get her for free on the Internet. ;-)
All Malaysians can apply to be the first Malaysian in space, and experience in space is a plus?
That's like Columbus hiring sailors saying "Experience in traveling to America is a plus".
Yes, I know he was trying to reach India.
Surely they only need 950 G5's, cause I could sure use a G5 and a hundred thousand bucks.
You know, to buy 22" LCD displays, iPods and Powermacs. And a Ferrari.
Hahahahaa... I know it's an offtopic troll flamebait and everything, but the randomness made me burst out laughing when I read this... Mod it up.
"There are two things that are infinite : the Universe and human stupidity. Though I'm not too sure about the Universe."
;-)
Sounds like he had the right idea.
American bills had always been pretty bad because they had to print a lot (several times more than what ciruclates inside the US) since it's an global currency, not just the currency of the US of A, and as a result printing bills had to be very cheap and very fast. They thoguht that conterfeiting was a necessary evil.
And now, even though they'd sooner tear their left arms off and beat themselves to death with them than admit it, those new bills introduce a lot of the security features the Euro (most expensive bills ever made) bills use. Interesting change of policy.
A new Iraqi currency without Saddam's face on it will be introduced soon. I saw a quick glimpse, they're greenbacks. Ahem.
A long long time ago, PDA's didn't have built-in cameras, or tiny keyboards, and wireless computing was holding the infrared port of your PDA an inch close to that of your cellphone, not Wi-Fi.
;-)
Can you remember? It was back when the hi-tech Palm to have was the Palm V but Palm IIIs were really the more affordable ones, it was also the height of the war between Palm and Psion. I decided I needed a PDA (I later found out I'm not rich and don't have the need, so I still don't have a PDA), and sampled each of the two big flavas (ooh), i.e. fold-out with keyboard and palm-likes, and found the fold-out kind to be vastly superior to the other, simply because input was made easier by the keyboard.
Even if you know Graffiti, it's a long way to input things. You have to make a movement with your pen. So you can use the virtual keyboard, which eats up half of your screen, but you can only touch one key then move to the other. But then when I used the fold-out PDAs (my preference wasn't towards a Psion but a clone by Ericsson), holding it with both hands in front of me walking on the street, I could type with both thumbs. All things considered, since a keyboard layout is extremely familiar, and since I had two input sticks (my thumbs) instead of only one on the palm, I quickly achieved a much faster input speed, with a bigger screen... I loved it.
Of course it depends on what you use it for. My use for PDA's was to jolt down ideas, so my emphasis was on what I could use to type in a lot of words. If you use it for scheduling, the palm-type might be better. Either way, Psion went out of business shortly thereafter and I always regretted their smart little devices. I know there have been others since then that have used the same basic layout (actually if I had to pick a device I'd probably pick a Hiptop), but my point is that I've always been nostalgic about Psion and it's good to see them back, even with Win installed.
I'm sure we'll see a NetBSD port before the week-end is over anyway, right?
Or, for some evil villain's timer on his computer, because the said villain will be sitting two rows behind the techies in the theater watching Revolutions. ;)
Who the hell modded this informative? It's funny! Mod this one up, it got a chuckle outta me.
A friend of mine who's a professor told me that in order to get something accross you have to repeat it ten times during a lecture or a class, simply because humans have a short attention span and they wander off and on the speech. So it's hardly surprising that one could follow by zipping through it.
This isn't a troll, don't get me wrong the whole idea is amazing, and they're doing a lot more than anyone else is doing, but so far I've only seen pages which describe courses and things like that. There's never much acutal content. Just a short page describing the course. If you're lucky you get links to PDF's assignments and stuff made with Powerpoint, which is a step up, but you never get all the info.
Guess you still have to pay for that.
...when the battery of the Segway has not enough power it will stop?
I'm guessing the plant must be kept away from bright light, never given water, and definitely never, ever be fed after midnight? ;-)
So did you just scroll through the review and post this? I know I did. ;-)
I think we tell ourselves that immortality would be a curse to make ourselves feel better about not having it. Think about it, it takes years, maybe even a lifetime, to know just a big city, or a country. If you were to go backpacking round the world, without paying heed to the time passing (and for good reason), by the time you'd make it back to where you started, everything will have changed so much you could as well go round again.
And if you get tired of that, it'd take at least a few centuries to read all the great literature, watch all the great movies, listen to all the great music... There is so much humanity produced and is producing, that not only is a lifetime not enough, but probably not even eternity. Entropy would take its toll on you before you'd be done with everything you had wanted to do.