Go read Handhelds.org - Linux has been doing small screens for ages. Combine it with exisiting media apps like xmms and mplayer and you're a long way there already. Maybe WinXP isn't ideal, but there's plenty of other stuff that is. Try to think outside the windows your mind is trapped in.
And here's the link. Yes, it fits in your dashboard too.
$1200 is pretty steep, for just an underpowered small PC - it's probably an overpriced "industrial" board that's been repackaged, and I'm not sure the 266MHz box will play DVD's and run those funky xmms plugins quite as well as a GHz VIA board. When counting the cost of you're in-car PC, don't forget the touchscreen and tiny-LCD display either - typing's a bitch when you're driving.
2 questions about the first copy then - what if it was not copied, but streamed from a CD jukebox? What about the "fair use" option to make a backup copy, and what if after making that backup copy (to disk) the original was damaged? Wouldn't these be within the law? Ignoring the whole profit motive, that is.
Many countries have a system whereby loser pays court costs. So in many countries it doesn't make sense to make legal threats you can't back up. But in the US this isn't the case, which means SCO can pull this shit and companies must do the "safe" thing, regardless of whether it's due to baseless allegations. SCO is exploiting the system, and it looks more and more like paraphrased extortion every day.
How about a genetic-algorithm aircraft designer? Take the X-Plane sim with some pre-defined flightpaths, and let a "plane building program" iterate over a few thousand generations until it optimises the airframe design? Eg, feed designs into X-Plane and see which design flies the course the fastest, carries the heaviest loads, etc, etc. Whoa. That would take some cunning coding, but the results could be, um, useful.
I think the answer is electromagnetics with some chemical helpers to let you ingore the real world. If there's a way of targeting a small electromagnetic pulse at a neuronal level (eg external to the body, and in 3D), that might work and would be far less invasive than implants. It would of course involve different targets for everyone and be a bitch to train for each person.
On a completely unrelated AI topic, if someone successfully modelled the human brain in software, then downloaded a map of an existing person's brain, how would you really know it worked, unless you also modelled the expected IO interfaces such as eyes, ears, nerves, and muscles and voice?
"It's using all the CPU but it's not *doing* anything!"
Yes and no. Spam almost never contains valid automatible contact information for the Spammer, but the Advertiser absolutely has to have some way of being contacted. It's hard work chasing spammers, so there's my usual anti-spam technique - piss off as many "Spammer Customers" as I can. I appear to have been removed from spam lists several times just for hassling a few CEOs...
Absolutely. I dunno about that movie in particular, but I'm in NZ, and even local video stores have been told that if they sell "grey imports" (from *any* region) then their supply of mainstream/MPAA movies will stop. How this is legal is beyond me.
No, that's the problem with cartels like the MPAA. People with often accept "good enough" if their preferred features are too hard.
MPAA makes it too hard for consumers to get region free DVD players (yes Geek Boy, your PC will do it just fine with DeCSS), and even out-of-region DVDs are very hard to find off the shelf, due to their strongarm tactics against stores renting them. Most folks will just go and rent something in-zone from their local, and play it on the DVD player they bought locally too.
I think your free-market faith is a little misplaced. Traditional market forces don't really apply when the market is essentially controlled by one supplier.
I didn't get their Dev Kit, because the Sample kit was enough for what I needed, however the docs do cover this. The Java approach seems to be the standard easy way of using the device, but the Dev Kit does support custom applications and firmware. The Datasheet shows that "OEM" code on a layer above the device server, and the FAQ says it is written for a Borland Compiler. Looks like writing a truely embedded app running on the XPort should work just fine.
I've got one. It's neat alright, if you want to network something that's already got serial comms in it.
Basically it provides a baby webserver, and lets you pass serial commands over the IP link. It's got an 8051 onboard, but the idea is to store a Java Applet onboard and present that via the webserver. The user can then use the Applet to talk to the device. The XPort then shuttles data to and from the serial over Ethernet
I guess you can do trickier stuff if you want to hack the firmware, but for me, it's just fine serving up a web interface to my previously serial interfaced EFI computer.
There's a pretty good list of names there, but funnily enough, no mention of Lockheed, Boeing, NASA or the other Government funded big boys of the space industry. Surely they're not afraid that deregulation might allow a little competition?
And another thing, who on earth are the Objectivist Center and Reason Foundation??
I think CMS would be better placed in X than in Gimp. X should support CMYK windows with specified gamuts and temps, so Gimp etc can just output without drama. IMO, this sort of thing is a display issue anyway - making each app handle it just gets messy.
As an ex-prepress geek, I for one hated juggling Quark, Photoshop, PageMaker, Freehand, MacOS, the RIP, and the which ever printer we were using today, just to get a decent output that looked like it supposed to.
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Fair enough, but I hope it's your business. If not, might be time to rethink things...
Who do you work for? I work for me, but other people pay me to do stuff for them.
Don't you really mean... Weapons of Mass Distribution!
the main reason for me to put a computer in my car is to untether myself from work
Actually, it sounds like you're tethering yourself to work even more.
And here's the link. Yes, it fits in your dashboard too.
$1200 is pretty steep, for just an underpowered small PC - it's probably an overpriced "industrial" board that's been repackaged, and I'm not sure the 266MHz box will play DVD's and run those funky xmms plugins quite as well as a GHz VIA board. When counting the cost of you're in-car PC, don't forget the touchscreen and tiny-LCD display either - typing's a bitch when you're driving.
2 questions about the first copy then - what if it was not copied, but streamed from a CD jukebox? What about the "fair use" option to make a backup copy, and what if after making that backup copy (to disk) the original was damaged? Wouldn't these be within the law? Ignoring the whole profit motive, that is.
Many countries have a system whereby loser pays court costs. So in many countries it doesn't make sense to make legal threats you can't back up. But in the US this isn't the case, which means SCO can pull this shit and companies must do the "safe" thing, regardless of whether it's due to baseless allegations. SCO is exploiting the system, and it looks more and more like paraphrased extortion every day.
Plane building program, you say...
How about a genetic-algorithm aircraft designer? Take the X-Plane sim with some pre-defined flightpaths, and let a "plane building program" iterate over a few thousand generations until it optimises the airframe design? Eg, feed designs into X-Plane and see which design flies the course the fastest, carries the heaviest loads, etc, etc. Whoa. That would take some cunning coding, but the results could be, um, useful.
I think the answer is electromagnetics with some chemical helpers to let you ingore the real world. If there's a way of targeting a small electromagnetic pulse at a neuronal level (eg external to the body, and in 3D), that might work and would be far less invasive than implants. It would of course involve different targets for everyone and be a bitch to train for each person.
On a completely unrelated AI topic, if someone successfully modelled the human brain in software, then downloaded a map of an existing person's brain, how would you really know it worked, unless you also modelled the expected IO interfaces such as eyes, ears, nerves, and muscles and voice?
"It's using all the CPU but it's not *doing* anything!"
Yes and no. Spam almost never contains valid automatible contact information for the Spammer, but the Advertiser absolutely has to have some way of being contacted. It's hard work chasing spammers, so there's my usual anti-spam technique - piss off as many "Spammer Customers" as I can. I appear to have been removed from spam lists several times just for hassling a few CEOs...
/me hopes his ex is reading this and figures shit out.
BTW: Real cyclists don't wear underwear.
BTW: Real cyclists shave their legs.
Hmmm. Are real cyclists women?
Absolutely. I dunno about that movie in particular, but I'm in NZ, and even local video stores have been told that if they sell "grey imports" (from *any* region) then their supply of mainstream/MPAA movies will stop. How this is legal is beyond me.
No, that's the problem with cartels like the MPAA. People with often accept "good enough" if their preferred features are too hard.
MPAA makes it too hard for consumers to get region free DVD players (yes Geek Boy, your PC will do it just fine with DeCSS), and even out-of-region DVDs are very hard to find off the shelf, due to their strongarm tactics against stores renting them. Most folks will just go and rent something in-zone from their local, and play it on the DVD player they bought locally too.
I think your free-market faith is a little misplaced. Traditional market forces don't really apply when the market is essentially controlled by one supplier.
Not anymore...
You're not saying very much then are you?
No, of course not.
I didn't get their Dev Kit, because the Sample kit was enough for what I needed, however the docs do cover this. The Java approach seems to be the standard easy way of using the device, but the Dev Kit does support custom applications and firmware. The Datasheet shows that "OEM" code on a layer above the device server, and the FAQ says it is written for a Borland Compiler. Looks like writing a truely embedded app running on the XPort should work just fine.
I've got one. It's neat alright, if you want to network something that's already got serial comms in it.
Basically it provides a baby webserver, and lets you pass serial commands over the IP link. It's got an 8051 onboard, but the idea is to store a Java Applet onboard and present that via the webserver. The user can then use the Applet to talk to the device. The XPort then shuttles data to and from the serial over Ethernet
I guess you can do trickier stuff if you want to hack the firmware, but for me, it's just fine serving up a web interface to my previously serial interfaced EFI computer.
I fully expect grid computing to prove this possible within the next five years.
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Here's the game!
There's a pretty good list of names there, but funnily enough, no mention of Lockheed, Boeing, NASA or the other Government funded big boys of the space industry. Surely they're not afraid that deregulation might allow a little competition?
And another thing, who on earth are the Objectivist Center and Reason Foundation??
Perhaps he was just confusing it with Unobtanium?
I think CMS would be better placed in X than in Gimp. X should support CMYK windows with specified gamuts and temps, so Gimp etc can just output without drama. IMO, this sort of thing is a display issue anyway - making each app handle it just gets messy.
As an ex-prepress geek, I for one hated juggling Quark, Photoshop, PageMaker, Freehand, MacOS, the RIP, and the which ever printer we were using today, just to get a decent output that looked like it supposed to.