If the eye is already defunct, why not remove the eye and implant the camera? It could probably be incorperated into an artifical eye with out much problem. Circuits and cameras are already tiny and the power requirements can't be very high. (nerves deal in microvolts?) A wearable inductive recharger and you are good to go. Reattach the muscle and you could even look around. I can understand the external camera for the early R&D, but I hope the final product is fully implanted.
I imagine an external camera would be much easier to clean/upgrade. Also, it's possible that things like focusing the camera might generate some noise, which might be rather annoying if the camera were actually integrated with your skull.
Wiis are everywhere I go these days. There was a stack at the local BestBuy that was gathering dust just a few days ago. I asked the manager and he said they had even more in back. Sales have fallen dramatically after the holidays apparently.
Care to mention where this Best Buy is? I'm sure a number of slashdotters would love to know so that they can hurry over and buy them.
I may not agree with his stance on every single issue, but I have to say, I don't think I've ever felt genuinely excited about the prospect of any particular candidate becoming president before this election. Usually I'm just hoping for the guy I mind the least to get in.
It's kind of weird, but I actually disagree with him on the majority of issues he has stated positions on, but I'm still quite excited about his candidacy. As of now, I'd be quite happy to see him win. Maybe it's just a testament to how bad all of the other candidates are, and how likable Obama is?
Does anybody know what the implications of Sarbanes-Oxley are for doing this? After all, Disney is a public company, and SOX has a number of regulations regarding how public companies are permitted to store their data. Are hosted apps ok?
So why do they go to the South Pole, if there is no business plan? Research. So where do they get the money to do research? Probably a government research grant.
Not to nitpick, but there are actually more than 20,000 tourists who go to Antarctica each year. In fact, a number of environmentalists have started calling for quotas to limit the number of tourists.
However, PS3 sales are still somewhat lower than they could be, as evidenced by the lack of shipping units on Amazon. Any time Amazon gets a number of them to sell, sales surge - in-between that, third-party sellers list units for about $100 more.
It might be in short supply on amazon, but there's still other online stores who carry it at retail price:
Isn't this backwards? It seems that NASA should try to make use of private industry whenever possible, and only when private industry is unable to provide what they need should they build their own system from scratch. Otherwise NASA's government monopoly ends up trying to compete with private industry, which generally isn't a good thing. In fact, even NASA's charter says that they should use commercial resources to the "maximum extent possible."
This snippet from a recent release by the Space Frontier Foundation phrases it nicely:
"We applaud the House Democratic leadership for being responsible stewards of taxpayer funds by applying the FY 2007 NASA budget cuts to the unaffordable aspects of Dr. Griffin's Moon-Mars plans. The Democratic Party appears to understand that the taxpayers of this nation just aren't interested in supporting what they see as business as usual at NASA. We are hoping that the Republicans join them soon," said Werb. "This should be a wake-up call for Dr. Griffin that his plans, to pour billions of dollars into massive new launch systems that nobody else wants or needs, are going nowhere. It is time for the agency to re-think how it puts people and payloads into space. It is time for the agency to trust the power of free enterprise."
The Foundation has long held that government designed and operated systems are wasteful, self-defeating dead-ends that will keep the cost of going into space so high that no long-term human exploration or settlement program will be possible. The Foundation believes that the CEV and its launcher are essentially repeats of the shuttle and space station programs, which have consumed hundreds of billions of dollars yet completely failed to meet their promised goals.
"NASA needs to stop competing with the private sector. Sending the CEV to the ISS is not only bad policy, undercutting private sector efforts to raise financing for the same purpose, but the rush to do so requires huge increases in federal funding for the CEV that is just not politically viable" said Rick Tumlinson of the Foundation. "We urge NASA to stick to its real job of exploring the far frontier, of supporting science and discovery, and hand over ISS transportation to American entrepreneurs."
Tumlinson concluded "It is important for NASA to understand this is not a fight they are going to win, even if they restore some of the funding this year. The trend in Congress is going the other way towards balanced budgets, and a better return on investment to the American people. If America really wants to open space to the people, then we cannot dump hundreds of billions into government-based technologies. It simply will not work. We must try something new."
3) We should leave all of space exploration up to private industry: Private industry will only do something if they know they can get money for it. Can you show me the business plan to make money off of trips to the moon? Trips to the ISS? Remember, you have to have a net profit on these endeavors. Until the cost and risk are reduced to manageable levels, the private industry will not do this on their own.
And yet, Bigelow Aerospace (funded by billionaire Robert Bigelow) seems pretty confident that all the money they're putting into developing private space stations (a prototype of which was put into orbit last year) will end up turning a profit.
Like I said, I don't know the facts of the case. Maybe he didn't do anything except picket. All I know is that 12 people on a jury all agreed that he did more than picket, and he sounds pretty wacky from the quotes in these articles.
All I'm saying is that it's possible the guy really is a stalker, and he was legitimately convincted. I don't automatically assume his story is more credible.
Huh? Unless I'm mistaken, he wasn't convicted on a "stalking" charge. He was convicted for threatening to interfere with a religion.
I hate marketing. Suborbital is NOT SPACE TOURISM! The other four space tourists entered orbit -- a controlled entry into space, and stayed there. A suborbital trip is a rocket ride. Fun, yes, but not space travel.
Although I think it would be in fact technically space tourism, I disagree with the submission's claim that they would be the "fifth space tourist." Note that this is an assertion by the submitter, not the contest itself. In fact, the contest doesn't even make any claims that the winner will be on the first commercial suborbital trip. If they were on the first commercial suborbital trip, there would also be several other passengers on board at the same time.
If you're willing to use an emulator and ask nicely, I have originals of both Nocturn in the Moonlight and Symphony of the Night here that I wouldn't mind sharing backups of.:)
Thank you very much for the kind offer, but I think I'm going to be a bit of a purist and pass on that.;)
Coincidentally, from checking out the Wii60.com link in your comment, it looks like Konami may soon be announcing several games for the Wii. I wonder if they have an exclusive agreement for SotN for the XBox...
No need. Playstation emulator and an old disc do nicely. From what I understand, they haven't updated the graphics at all, which is a pity.:(
I've actually considered that -- I just remembered I have a PS2, so wouldn't even need the emulator. Amazingly, it looks like an "old disc" of C:SotN would end up costing $50+ on eBay.
I guess it depends on how loosely worded the bill ends up being and how many loopholes get thrown in by senators catering to special interests (read: corporate campaign sponsors).
Question: Is there any way to word a Net Neutrality bill without loopholes which wouldn't also interfere with legitimate activity?
The article lists the following as one of the Xbox Live Arcade titles:
"Castlevania: Symphony of the Night" from Konami is a faithful version of this legendary classic updated for Xbox Live Arcade and featuring the game's full soundtrack and memorable side-scrolling vampire-hunting action.
Reading that line was literally the first time I felt any sort of regret for getting a Wii instead of an Xbox 360.;)
Jonathan E. Green1,4, Jang Wook Choi1,4, Akram Boukai1, Yuri Bunimovich1, Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin1,3, Erica DeIonno1, Yi Luo1,3, Bonnie A. Sheriff1, Ke Xu1, Young Shik Shin1, Hsian-Rong Tseng2,3, J. Fraser Stoddart2 and James R. Heath1
The primary metric for gauging progress in the various semiconductor integrated circuit technologies is the spacing, or pitch, between the most closely spaced wires within a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) circuit1. Modern DRAM circuits have 140 nm pitch wires and a memory cell size of 0.0408 mum2. Improving integrated circuit technology will require that these dimensions decrease over time. However, at present a large fraction of the patterning and materials requirements that we expect to need for the construction of new integrated circuit technologies in 2013 have 'no known solution'1. Promising ingredients for advances in integrated circuit technology are nanowires2, molecular electronics3 and defect-tolerant architectures4, as demonstrated by reports of single devices5, 6, 7 and small circuits8, 9. Methods of extending these approaches to large-scale, high-density circuitry are largely undeveloped. Here we describe a 160,000-bit molecular electronic memory circuit, fabricated at a density of 1011 bits cm-2 (pitch 33 nm; memory cell size 0.0011 mum2), that is, roughly analogous to the dimensions of a DRAM circuit1 projected to be available by 2020. A monolayer of bistable, [2]rotaxane molecules10 served as the data storage elements. Although the circuit has large numbers of defects, those defects could be readily identified through electronic testing and isolated using software coding. The working bits were then configured to form a fully functional random access memory circuit for storing and retrieving information.
Also, an interesting bit from the very end of the paper:
Many scientific and engineering challenges, such as device robustness, improved etching tools and improved switching speed, remain to be addressed before the type of crossbar memory described here can be practical. Nevertheless, this 160,000-bit molecular memory does indicate that at least some of the most challenging scientific issues associated with integrating nanowires, molecular materials, and defect-tolerant circuit architectures at extreme dimensions are solvable. Although it is unlikely that these digital circuits will scale to a density that is only limited by the size of the molecular switches, it should be possible to increase the bit density considerably over what is described here. Recent nano-imprinting results suggest that high-throughput manufacturing of these types of circuits may be possible29. Finally, these results provide a compelling demonstration of many of the nanotechnology concepts that were introduced by the Teramac supercomputer several years ago, albeit using a circuit that contained a significantly higher fraction of defective components than did the Teramac machine4.
Not really. All that needs to happen is for plane insurance companies to adjust their rates based on whether or not a plane has this system equipped. If the rate decrease is enough to offset the cost of the system, airlines will install it, otherwise, they won't.
Practically? Yes. Although then the publication should register as a lobby.
Here's a more immediate example... Microsoft pays for advertising on slashdot. Microsoft also has political interests, some of which are discussed on slashdot. Does slashdot have to register as a lobby?
From my reading, ExxonMobil would have to contract with the newspaper a payment of $1,000 contingent specifically on the paper publishing an editorial suggesting that its readers write covered officials urging specific action.
What if ExxonMobil just happens to buy ad space in newspapers which have pro-Exxon editorials, and stops contracts with papers which have anti-Exxon editorials?
For example, if ExxonMobil pays me $1000 to write a blog post that urges my (over 500) readers to write their Congressional delegation to vote in favor of a bill that opens up ANWR, I would have to register as a lobbyist.
If ExxonMobil pays $1000 for an ad in a newspaper, do all columnists writing for that paper have to register as lobbyists?
Translation: If you want to be a lobbyist, you must follow the rules for being a lobbyist. If you're lobbying 500 or more people, you fit the description of a lobbyist no matter how you're do it. Internet grassroots lobby movements are not just as susceptible to oversight as the DC Congressional dinner party lobbyists.
I'm sure your post here on slashdot will be read by more than 500 people. Should you have to register and report quarterly to Congress?
I thought this was kind of surprising, especially considering how often people tend to lament the state of US science:
In the past 20 years, the USA has sixteen institutions which have won three or more prizes, but elsewhere in the world (Table 3) only the College de France has achieved three Nobel prizes. Since 1986 the previously Nobel-successful UK research institutions (University of Cambridge, the MRC Molecular Biology Unit at Cambridge, University of Oxford and Imperial College, London) have declined from seventeen prizes 67-86 to only three.
Say a company created a console with the sole intent of KNOWING people were going to hack it. I can udnerstand the companies wanting to prevent people from playing downloaded ISO's, but that's not what I'm referring to. I'm refering to the Xbox DVR or Linux Box, things like that.
If word gets out into the hacking community that the new Gametron 3000 is designed in such a way to ENCOURAGE people to muck with the innards...well, it might do something good.
It isn't a console, but the GP2X linux-based portable does something much along these lines.
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If the eye is already defunct, why not remove the eye and implant the camera? It could probably be incorperated into an artifical eye with out much problem. Circuits and cameras are already tiny and the power requirements can't be very high. (nerves deal in microvolts?) A wearable inductive recharger and you are good to go. Reattach the muscle and you could even look around. I can understand the external camera for the early R&D, but I hope the final product is fully implanted.
I imagine an external camera would be much easier to clean/upgrade. Also, it's possible that things like focusing the camera might generate some noise, which might be rather annoying if the camera were actually integrated with your skull.
Wiis are everywhere I go these days. There was a stack at the local BestBuy that was gathering dust just a few days ago. I asked the manager and he said they had even more in back. Sales have fallen dramatically after the holidays apparently.
Care to mention where this Best Buy is? I'm sure a number of slashdotters would love to know so that they can hurry over and buy them.
I may not agree with his stance on every single issue, but I have to say, I don't think I've ever felt genuinely excited about the prospect of any particular candidate becoming president before this election. Usually I'm just hoping for the guy I mind the least to get in.
It's kind of weird, but I actually disagree with him on the majority of issues he has stated positions on, but I'm still quite excited about his candidacy. As of now, I'd be quite happy to see him win. Maybe it's just a testament to how bad all of the other candidates are, and how likable Obama is?
Does anybody know what the implications of Sarbanes-Oxley are for doing this? After all, Disney is a public company, and SOX has a number of regulations regarding how public companies are permitted to store their data. Are hosted apps ok?
So why do they go to the South Pole, if there is no business plan? Research. So where do they get the money to do research? Probably a government research grant.
Not to nitpick, but there are actually more than 20,000 tourists who go to Antarctica each year. In fact, a number of environmentalists have started calling for quotas to limit the number of tourists.
However, PS3 sales are still somewhat lower than they could be, as evidenced by the lack of shipping units on Amazon. Any time Amazon gets a number of them to sell, sales surge - in-between that, third-party sellers list units for about $100 more.
It might be in short supply on amazon, but there's still other online stores who carry it at retail price:
http://ps3finder.com/
At the moment, you can by the retail box at Gamestop.com and circuitcity.com, and bundles at several other stores.
Isn't this backwards? It seems that NASA should try to make use of private industry whenever possible, and only when private industry is unable to provide what they need should they build their own system from scratch. Otherwise NASA's government monopoly ends up trying to compete with private industry, which generally isn't a good thing. In fact, even NASA's charter says that they should use commercial resources to the "maximum extent possible."
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This snippet from a recent release by the Space Frontier Foundation phrases it nicely:
http://www.space-frontier.org/PressReleases/2007/
"We applaud the House Democratic leadership for being responsible stewards of taxpayer funds by applying the FY 2007 NASA budget cuts to the unaffordable aspects of Dr. Griffin's Moon-Mars plans. The Democratic Party appears to understand that the taxpayers of this nation just aren't interested in supporting what they see as business as usual at NASA. We are hoping that the Republicans join them soon," said Werb. "This should be a wake-up call for Dr. Griffin that his plans, to pour billions of dollars into massive new launch systems that nobody else wants or needs, are going nowhere. It is time for the agency to re-think how it puts people and payloads into space. It is time for the agency to trust the power of free enterprise."
The Foundation has long held that government designed and operated systems are wasteful, self-defeating dead-ends that will keep the cost of going into space so high that no long-term human exploration or settlement program will be possible. The Foundation believes that the CEV and its launcher are essentially repeats of the shuttle and space station programs, which have consumed hundreds of billions of dollars yet completely failed to meet their promised goals.
"NASA needs to stop competing with the private sector. Sending the CEV to the ISS is not only bad policy, undercutting private sector efforts to raise financing for the same purpose, but the rush to do so requires huge increases in federal funding for the CEV that is just not politically viable" said Rick Tumlinson of the Foundation. "We urge NASA to stick to its real job of exploring the far frontier, of supporting science and discovery, and hand over ISS transportation to American entrepreneurs."
Tumlinson concluded "It is important for NASA to understand this is not a fight they are going to win, even if they restore some of the funding this year. The trend in Congress is going the other way towards balanced budgets, and a better return on investment to the American people. If America really wants to open space to the people, then we cannot dump hundreds of billions into government-based technologies. It simply will not work. We must try something new."
The Foundation's White Paper, Unaffordable and Unsustainable? Signs of Failure in NASA's Earth-to-Orbit Space Transportation Strategy, is at: http://www.space-frontier.org/Presentations/unaff
3) We should leave all of space exploration up to private industry: Private industry will only do something if they know they can get money for it. Can you show me the business plan to make money off of trips to the moon? Trips to the ISS? Remember, you have to have a net profit on these endeavors. Until the cost and risk are reduced to manageable levels, the private industry will not do this on their own.
And yet, Bigelow Aerospace (funded by billionaire Robert Bigelow) seems pretty confident that all the money they're putting into developing private space stations (a prototype of which was put into orbit last year) will end up turning a profit.
Like I said, I don't know the facts of the case. Maybe he didn't do anything except picket. All I know is that 12 people on a jury all agreed that he did more than picket, and he sounds pretty wacky from the quotes in these articles.
All I'm saying is that it's possible the guy really is a stalker, and he was legitimately convincted. I don't automatically assume his story is more credible.
Huh? Unless I'm mistaken, he wasn't convicted on a "stalking" charge. He was convicted for threatening to interfere with a religion.
I hate marketing. Suborbital is NOT SPACE TOURISM! The other four space tourists entered orbit -- a controlled entry into space, and stayed there. A suborbital trip is a rocket ride. Fun, yes, but not space travel.
Although I think it would be in fact technically space tourism, I disagree with the submission's claim that they would be the "fifth space tourist." Note that this is an assertion by the submitter, not the contest itself. In fact, the contest doesn't even make any claims that the winner will be on the first commercial suborbital trip. If they were on the first commercial suborbital trip, there would also be several other passengers on board at the same time.
If you're willing to use an emulator and ask nicely, I have originals of both Nocturn in the Moonlight and Symphony of the Night here that I wouldn't mind sharing backups of. :)
;)
Thank you very much for the kind offer, but I think I'm going to be a bit of a purist and pass on that.
Coincidentally, from checking out the Wii60.com link in your comment, it looks like Konami may soon be announcing several games for the Wii. I wonder if they have an exclusive agreement for SotN for the XBox...
No need. Playstation emulator and an old disc do nicely. From what I understand, they haven't updated the graphics at all, which is a pity. :(
I've actually considered that -- I just remembered I have a PS2, so wouldn't even need the emulator. Amazingly, it looks like an "old disc" of C:SotN would end up costing $50+ on eBay.
I guess it depends on how loosely worded the bill ends up being and how many loopholes get thrown in by senators catering to special interests (read: corporate campaign sponsors).
Question: Is there any way to word a Net Neutrality bill without loopholes which wouldn't also interfere with legitimate activity?
The article lists the following as one of the Xbox Live Arcade titles:
;)
"Castlevania: Symphony of the Night" from Konami is a faithful version of this legendary classic updated for Xbox Live Arcade and featuring the game's full soundtrack and memorable side-scrolling vampire-hunting action.
Reading that line was literally the first time I felt any sort of regret for getting a Wii instead of an Xbox 360.
Umm, Nature?
Yeah... I actually thought it was kind of funny that the parent article we're all discussing right now is from Nature.
The piece on Yahoo! News was pretty low on details, so here's the abstract from the Nature paper:
A 160-kilobit molecular electronic memory patterned at 1011 bits per square centimetre
Jonathan E. Green1,4, Jang Wook Choi1,4, Akram Boukai1, Yuri Bunimovich1, Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin1,3, Erica DeIonno1, Yi Luo1,3, Bonnie A. Sheriff1, Ke Xu1, Young Shik Shin1, Hsian-Rong Tseng2,3, J. Fraser Stoddart2 and James R. Heath1
The primary metric for gauging progress in the various semiconductor integrated circuit technologies is the spacing, or pitch, between the most closely spaced wires within a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) circuit1. Modern DRAM circuits have 140 nm pitch wires and a memory cell size of 0.0408 mum2. Improving integrated circuit technology will require that these dimensions decrease over time. However, at present a large fraction of the patterning and materials requirements that we expect to need for the construction of new integrated circuit technologies in 2013 have 'no known solution'1. Promising ingredients for advances in integrated circuit technology are nanowires2, molecular electronics3 and defect-tolerant architectures4, as demonstrated by reports of single devices5, 6, 7 and small circuits8, 9. Methods of extending these approaches to large-scale, high-density circuitry are largely undeveloped. Here we describe a 160,000-bit molecular electronic memory circuit, fabricated at a density of 1011 bits cm-2 (pitch 33 nm; memory cell size 0.0011 mum2), that is, roughly analogous to the dimensions of a DRAM circuit1 projected to be available by 2020. A monolayer of bistable, [2]rotaxane molecules10 served as the data storage elements. Although the circuit has large numbers of defects, those defects could be readily identified through electronic testing and isolated using software coding. The working bits were then configured to form a fully functional random access memory circuit for storing and retrieving information.
Also, an interesting bit from the very end of the paper:
Many scientific and engineering challenges, such as device robustness, improved etching tools and improved switching speed, remain to be addressed before the type of crossbar memory described here can be practical. Nevertheless, this 160,000-bit molecular memory does indicate that at least some of the most challenging scientific issues associated with integrating nanowires, molecular materials, and defect-tolerant circuit architectures at extreme dimensions are solvable. Although it is unlikely that these digital circuits will scale to a density that is only limited by the size of the molecular switches, it should be possible to increase the bit density considerably over what is described here. Recent nano-imprinting results suggest that high-throughput manufacturing of these types of circuits may be possible29. Finally, these results provide a compelling demonstration of many of the nanotechnology concepts that were introduced by the Teramac supercomputer several years ago, albeit using a circuit that contained a significantly higher fraction of defective components than did the Teramac machine4.
This is a good example of market failure.
Not really. All that needs to happen is for plane insurance companies to adjust their rates based on whether or not a plane has this system equipped. If the rate decrease is enough to offset the cost of the system, airlines will install it, otherwise, they won't.
Practically? Yes. Although then the publication should register as a lobby.
Here's a more immediate example... Microsoft pays for advertising on slashdot. Microsoft also has political interests, some of which are discussed on slashdot. Does slashdot have to register as a lobby?
No, but if they paid the columnist that $1000 to stump for them, then I would say that it is fair to be asked to register.
So they can pay the paper that pays the columnist, but they can't pay the columnist?
From my reading, ExxonMobil would have to contract with the newspaper a payment of $1,000 contingent specifically on the paper publishing an editorial suggesting that its readers write covered officials urging specific action.
What if ExxonMobil just happens to buy ad space in newspapers which have pro-Exxon editorials, and stops contracts with papers which have anti-Exxon editorials?
For example, if ExxonMobil pays me $1000 to write a blog post that urges my (over 500) readers to write their Congressional delegation to vote in favor of a bill that opens up ANWR, I would have to register as a lobbyist.
If ExxonMobil pays $1000 for an ad in a newspaper, do all columnists writing for that paper have to register as lobbyists?
Translation: If you want to be a lobbyist, you must follow the rules for being a lobbyist. If you're lobbying 500 or more people, you fit the description of a lobbyist no matter how you're do it. Internet grassroots lobby movements are not just as susceptible to oversight as the DC Congressional dinner party lobbyists.
I'm sure your post here on slashdot will be read by more than 500 people. Should you have to register and report quarterly to Congress?
I thought this was kind of surprising, especially considering how often people tend to lament the state of US science:
In the past 20 years, the USA has sixteen institutions which have won three or more prizes, but elsewhere in the world (Table 3) only the College de France has achieved three Nobel prizes. Since 1986 the previously Nobel-successful UK research institutions (University of Cambridge, the MRC Molecular Biology Unit at Cambridge, University of Oxford and Imperial College, London) have declined from seventeen prizes 67-86 to only three.
Say a company created a console with the sole intent of KNOWING people were going to hack it. I can udnerstand the companies wanting to prevent people from playing downloaded ISO's, but that's not what I'm referring to. I'm refering to the Xbox DVR or Linux Box, things like that.
If word gets out into the hacking community that the new Gametron 3000 is designed in such a way to ENCOURAGE people to muck with the innards...well, it might do something good.
It isn't a console, but the GP2X linux-based portable does something much along these lines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X
http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/Main_Page