That is reminiscent of the ten gates of being or awreness ( I freakin' forgot) purported in certain Zen sects. Both knowing and not knowing, but at the same time not both of those, and also YES both of of those, but not neither of of those, and also definately either of the aforementioned possibilities. If you study Zen enough, I assure you, your brain will hurt as it never has before.
It could also be argued that science is used to control people...or capitalism for that matter. It all boils down to one things....human nature. There is a place for science and a place for religion, and they are on each one side of the coin. The thing we have to do is see the coin as a whole. It is best to realize that science AND religion are cohesive and not neccessarily "against" or "opposite" eachother Thus one may achieve harmony with both the knowable and the unknowable.
I could had rambled on for paragraphs lining my thoughts out, but I ended it abrubtly because what's the point? And you have the audacity to simply ignore me just because my sig suggested that you do. Oh well......who cares anyways!
Of course describing energy as quanta is just a way for us to understand how things work. Anytime we discover and present a theory as to how things work in the universe we are presenting a picture or an incomplete slice of the whole (as how we understand it). Sure it helps us understand better, but we have to realize that it is not the way things work out per say (as a whole). Meandering on: A GUT theory is an admiral thing to strive for, but we must understand what it must take to come to such a comprehensive theory. All present theories will have to be thrown out of the window. They will never make cohesive integral sense incorporated into a GUT. Each time we delve further into quantumn particles we find more and more suprises. Likewise with peering into the vastness of space. It is all so amazing and we must realize that any theories we come up with will never be able to describe things as a whole. It is basically the universe trying to understand itself...when it already knows. Dang....now I am getting into Zen philosophy so I will jsut shut up becasue I don't know where this is leading towards.
Here is an interesting question: How much computer data storage would be required to hold every single type of media created by humans in their whole history of being. I am talking about every single movie, every song, every written work, all the books, all the newspapers & magazines. All the folklore and tales. All the mathematical and scinetific journals. All the philosophical and poetic works.....everything! Keeping in mind that it would be compressed to afford maximum storage with minimal loss of quality using all forms of compression available today. It boggles my mind to think of all the works that we humans have produced. All that information.
I'll bet you haven't even listened to a Minidisc recording. The bit rate is more than the standard 128kb for most MP3's. I think Minidisc quality is equal, if not better than MP3.
How is this better than say a Minidisc? As far as I can tell it is not. A Minidisc is still more versatile. THe only advantage this might have over Minidisc is a slightly higher (very slight) recording capaicity, and that it may be able to record faster tha nreal time. Granted I took a fleeting look at the article, but it didn't seem to have much REAL info at all, besides a couple of really neato! pictures. The problem is that when any company comes out with a new watch-what-I-can-do product, they don't seem to realize that the consumer needs, and wants a lot of info about the technical aspects of thier product. The consumer is more aware than ever, and they want to know exactly how and so-and-so's product is better than any others. Some lame blurb about the coolness, of fashion factor does not suit the average consumer one iota! As far as I can tell, this is a predictable manifestation stemming from the x-Pandium form factor which does nothing to improve upon what is already available through the Minidisc. I already burn all my MP3's to regular sized CD-ROM's, and have been doing so for a while. If this player can double as a general data storage medium for a computer, then it might have something going for it. As of now, I have no idea whether it can or not, but I tend to think not.
DVD uses a 680+/- nanometer beam, while CD-ROM uses one around 740-/+. Since CD-ROM lasers are just outside the visible spectrum, then DVD beams can't be far off of the red part of the spectrum. They are also more visble to the eye. That being said, I still don't know if this new technology uses blue or violet.
Warning: I am making the possibly misguided assumption that this new technology is based on "blue laser" wavelengths".
I have long since wondered when blue laser technology would fit into the "grand scheme" of data storage needs. Standards serve both to implemement existing technology as soon as possible in order to acquire more investment dollars, and in order to ensure compatibility with existing and established markets and products. However, standards also serve to hamper technological advancements. Just look at the X86 architecture (or whatever it's called). On the other hand, standards also ensure compatibility with a wide variety of manufacturers and products. They generally make our lives much easier.
I believe that in order to push this new technology, and also to provide compatibility with the existing infrastructure, early developers of this technology will have to make some compromises. These compromises will be most notable in the actual user-cost. My reasoning being, is that they will have to make their product with two different lasers. One that uses the blue wavelength, and one that uses the old DVD standard. This will increase the cost untill they can figure a way to use a single laser to do both, like Sony has done with their Playstation2. I think this format has the potential to do very well, except for the standards issue. If the general public can accept the early high costs of this technology and view it as a true leap, it will quickly become cheaper and more usefull. If not, then it will die a quick death, and be thrown towards a niche category like perhaps the Minidisc is in America. Standards are again, both a blessing and a curse.
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Apparently YOU haven't chosen to ignore it. Furthermore; since most people (according to you) choose to ignore my original post anyways, I can't help but wonder why you have taken the time and energy to post a reply to this in the freakin' first place.
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How difficult would it be to attach a Xybernaut-type of headmounted display and hook up a camcorder battery to a regular off-the-shelf unit? I sense that it would be an equivalent hack.
Dang typos....I hate 'em!
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That thing is HUGE! What is the point, othr thatn to devise a portable means of power? The 'portable' unit is not much smaller than the original. I know the motherboard is the main culprit, but jeez....wasn't there some minor componet that could have been eliminated to make it just that much smaller? Now the portable Atari 2600 I can see because the original case was WAY bigger than it really needed to be, but the portable NES does not acquire much of an advantage over the original design as fasr as I can tell from the really quick look I have thus seen.
This molecular self-assembling thing has been a valid and valuable concept for a few years now. So, some Yayhoo has been able to validly (and possibly repeatably) produce some actual(if not conceptual) results in which this established area of research benefits the field of microprocessors. I am more than sure that such conceptual and technological ramifications have been adequately explored in the past. "Big whoop!" I say. So what else is new in the world of News For Nerds? Case in point: so as to not redeem myself as a possible flamebait, I will concede that I have NOT actually read the article yet.
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Damn.. I will have to remember that "per se" thing. Thanks!
That is reminiscent of the ten gates of being or awreness ( I freakin' forgot) purported in certain Zen sects. Both knowing and not knowing, but at the same time not both of those, and also YES both of of those, but not neither of of those, and also definately either of the aforementioned possibilities. If you study Zen enough, I assure you, your brain will hurt as it never has before.
It could also be argued that science is used to control people...or capitalism for that matter. It all boils down to one things....human nature. There is a place for science and a place for religion, and they are on each one side of the coin. The thing we have to do is see the coin as a whole. It is best to realize that science AND religion are cohesive and not neccessarily "against" or "opposite" eachother Thus one may achieve harmony with both the knowable and the unknowable.
I could had rambled on for paragraphs lining my thoughts out, but I ended it abrubtly because what's the point? And you have the audacity to simply ignore me just because my sig suggested that you do. Oh well ......who cares anyways!
Of course describing energy as quanta is just a way for us to understand how things work. Anytime we discover and present a theory as to how things work in the universe we are presenting a picture or an incomplete slice of the whole (as how we understand it). Sure it helps us understand better, but we have to realize that it is not the way things work out per say (as a whole). Meandering on: A GUT theory is an admiral thing to strive for, but we must understand what it must take to come to such a comprehensive theory. All present theories will have to be thrown out of the window. They will never make cohesive integral sense incorporated into a GUT. Each time we delve further into quantumn particles we find more and more suprises. Likewise with peering into the vastness of space.
It is all so amazing and we must realize that any theories we come up with will never be able to describe things as a whole. It is basically the universe trying to understand itself...when it already knows. Dang....now I am getting into Zen philosophy so I will jsut shut up becasue I don't know where this is leading towards.
Don't you mean anecdote? Unless you consider "Discs of Tron" as some sort of vile disease or something.
Just wait for the technology to trickle down. You'll be able to get womething on par with this for $3000 in about, oh say......30 yrs.
Here is an interesting question: How much computer data storage would be required to hold every single type of media created by humans in their whole history of being. I am talking about every single movie, every song, every written work, all the books, all the newspapers & magazines. All the folklore and tales. All the mathematical and scinetific journals. All the philosophical and poetic works.....everything!
Keeping in mind that it would be compressed to afford maximum storage with minimal loss of quality using all forms of compression available today. It boggles my mind to think of all the works that we humans have produced. All that information.
even IBM isn't THAT dumb!
No I am serious, can you just imagine it?
Sho-nuff!
I'll bet you haven't even listened to a Minidisc recording. The bit rate is more than the standard 128kb for most MP3's. I think Minidisc quality is equal, if not better than MP3.
How is this better than say a Minidisc? As far as I can tell it is not. A Minidisc is still more versatile. THe only advantage this might have over Minidisc is a slightly higher (very slight) recording capaicity, and that it may be able to record faster tha nreal time. Granted I took a fleeting look at the article, but it didn't seem to have much REAL info at all, besides a couple of really neato! pictures. The problem is that when any company comes out with a new watch-what-I-can-do product, they don't seem to realize that the consumer needs, and wants a lot of info about the technical aspects of thier product. The consumer is more aware than ever, and they want to know exactly how and so-and-so's product is better than any others. Some lame blurb about the coolness, of fashion factor does not suit the average consumer one iota! As far as I can tell, this is a predictable manifestation stemming from the x-Pandium form factor which does nothing to improve upon what is already available through the Minidisc. I already burn all my MP3's to regular sized CD-ROM's, and have been doing so for a while. If this player can double as a general data storage medium for a computer, then it might have something going for it. As of now, I have no idea whether it can or not, but I tend to think not.
DVD uses a 680+/- nanometer beam, while CD-ROM uses one around 740-/+. Since CD-ROM lasers are just outside the visible spectrum, then DVD beams can't be far off of the red part of the spectrum. They are also more visble to the eye. That being said, I still don't know if this new technology uses blue or violet.
Warning: I am making the possibly misguided assumption that this new technology is based on "blue laser" wavelengths".
I have long since wondered when blue laser technology would fit into the "grand scheme" of data storage needs. Standards serve both to implemement existing technology as soon as possible in order to acquire more investment dollars, and in order to ensure compatibility with existing and established markets and products. However, standards also serve to hamper technological advancements. Just look at the X86 architecture (or whatever it's called). On the other hand, standards also ensure compatibility with a wide variety of manufacturers and products. They generally make our lives much easier.
I believe that in order to push this new technology, and also to provide compatibility with the existing infrastructure, early developers of this technology will have to make some compromises. These compromises will be most notable in the actual user-cost. My reasoning being, is that they will have to make their product with two different lasers. One that uses the blue wavelength, and one that uses the old DVD standard. This will increase the cost untill they can figure a way to use a single laser to do both, like Sony has done with their Playstation2. I think this format has the potential to do very well, except for the standards issue. If the general public can accept the early high costs of this technology and view it as a true leap, it will quickly become cheaper and more usefull. If not, then it will die a quick death, and be thrown towards a niche category like perhaps the Minidisc is in America. Standards are again, both a blessing and a curse.
Apparently YOU haven't chosen to ignore it. Furthermore; since most people (according to you) choose to ignore my original post anyways, I can't help but wonder why you have taken the time and energy to post a reply to this in the freakin' first place.
How difficult would it be to attach a Xybernaut-type of headmounted display and hook up a camcorder battery to a regular off-the-shelf unit? I sense that it would be an equivalent hack.
Please place body of subject right here in this very spot..........:_________
That thing is HUGE! What is the point, othr thatn to devise a portable means of power? The 'portable' unit is not much smaller than the original. I know the motherboard is the main culprit, but jeez....wasn't there some minor componet that could have been eliminated to make it just that much smaller? Now the portable Atari 2600 I can see because the original case was WAY bigger than it really needed to be, but the portable NES does not acquire much of an advantage over the original design as fasr as I can tell from the really quick look I have thus seen.
By jobe...I think you've got yerself an idea there! Shall I take heed to your advice? Sho-nuff I deem your response as: score 0 - redundant
In addition, I just can't wait for an MP3 player to be written for this thing. I just wish I could do it myself!
That's it man! There is nothing more to this lame post.
This molecular self-assembling thing has been a valid and valuable concept for a few years now. So, some Yayhoo has been able to validly (and possibly repeatably) produce some actual(if not conceptual) results in which this established area of research benefits the field of microprocessors. I am more than sure that such conceptual and technological ramifications have been adequately explored in the past. "Big whoop!" I say. So what else is new in the world of News For Nerds? Case in point: so as to not redeem myself as a possible flamebait, I will concede that I have NOT actually read the article yet.
Isn't this just a Peltier cooler with improved materials?
......cause that would be cool....and allow more pirated movies to be more easily available for trading ...heh heh heh!