Actually, this was my first GNAA post. First In Soviet Russia, too! I didn't forget to check "post anonymously", rather I wasn't logged in and my browser autocompleted my login info and I didn't notice because I was rushing for fp.... ah well, maybe it's time to make a new account, I don't want to be associated with this:(
Remember this article? Yeah, I know, completely different technologies, but it seems like after decades of mediocre weather forecasting the technology is suddenly jumping forward all at once.
But please don't call these 'wearable'... We already did this with cellphones, PDAs, and walkmans, and we didn't start calling these 'wearable' just because our coat has a special pocket for them, did we?
I agree there's definitely some issues with the buzzword surrounding this technology. What a pointless adjective: it's on your body, you're wearing it, we get it.
Ironically, half of CMU's
"wearable" computing projects don't even appear to be wearable!! Start with the TIA-P link and you'll see what I mean... apparently, being able to hold it in your hand makes it "wearable". I just submitted this post with my wearable mouse:P
We need a new term for this sort of thing. Actually, we need two more terms. One for the useful stuff, and one for the stuff pointlessly sewn into clothing that can't even be washed because it has electronics in it.
There's been a few comments about how the whole wearable computing thing is silly, and "it's an MIT" thing. Let me clear this up a bit. Maybe it started as an MIT thing way back in the late 50's/early 60's, at least according to this paper. But I know Carnegie Mellon has been working on this stuff for over 5 years because they had ongoing wearable computer projects when I was a freshman there in 98'. And there's a lot of others besides MIT and CMU working on this stuff, just look here under the Organizations section.
This area of technology is already being targeted at consumers. Try to have a little imagination and realize how powerful this technology could be. For example, what if you had a little speech translator that fit in your ear, recognized nearby spoken speech in foreign languages, traslated it to your language, and used a voice synthesizer to repeat it back to you in your native tongue. Just wait a few years and you'll be saying "damn, I need one of those".
You didnt put my jacket in the wash.. er.. did you?
I think you're onto something here. What do you do when your wearable computer starts to stink? You can't put it in the washing machine. I doubt it's dry-cleanable...
I think you're reading into my posts too much. I'm not blaming anyone (or anything). The first post was mostly meant as a joke, and in the second I was just trying to say that capitalism, like most things in life, is a double-edged sword. Don't get me wrong, I'm extremely glad I'm living in a capitalist society, seeing as what the other options are.
And capitalism doesn't do that for you? People buying things fund creativity, intelligence, wit, and determination.
I don't argue what you're saying, but I think creativity, intelligence, wit, and determination would still exist just as much without capitalism. I was just pointing out that too often we put more value on money than on what's really important in life.
The other option is doing things, albeit out of the goodness of your heart or for the betterment of humanity, without a chance of having a better financial/materialistic life for it. It's hard to be motivated with just a "thanks" or "oh, that's neat" when you're living just like everybody else, more than likely poor.
You could be right, but I've always found that doing something that's appreciated by other people is the most rewarding aspect of life, and it really doesn't matter if I get paid for it or not. I don't usually feel appreciated for the things I *do* get paid for, and that's not very satisfying in the end.
Besides, money can often ruin creativity, like when an artist finds something that "works" and becomes formulaic in order to maximize financial gain.
In the Information Age we can see more clearly than ever before that what makes human beings precious is creativity, intelligence, wit and determination.
And here I thought it was how much money you make. Guess I'm still stuck in the Capitalism Age.
damnit... I bumped my touchpad and it managed to scroll down to submit AND click it. Anyway I was saying that it seemed like they were trying to make the technology seem more important than it really is. But I'm probably reading into it too much:)
They will be better able to know where they must deploy people to test for the spread of the agent
Ah. Good point. And they'll better know what areas to evactuate.
I know this is getting a little OT, and it's not the job of weather forecasters, but how do they detect the agent in the first place? I'm sure for a given sample of atmosphere, they could detect various dangerous biological/chemical agents, but it's not like we can have sensors for this stuff everywhere. And there's always the possibilty of some new agent being developed that we don't know how to detect.
I guess this get's back to my original point that it seemed a little out of place to be making such a comment in the article. Like they're trying to make this new technologi
If successful, the new technology could also be used to track the low-level winds that could carry a biological, chemical, or radiological attack.
What's the point if the system can't detect the biological/chemical element in question? Even if they knew where the element was released, and they could track the low-level winds, I doubt they could accurately predict how it would disperse. Even with more accurate & detailed data, the weather is a very chaotic and unpredictable system. But at least we'll be able to detect weather patterns missed by current technologies, so it's a good step forward.
With the quality of certain top posts on Slashdot, you really start to wonder what the general mentality is around here... Taco, we need better filters.
There *are* better filters: Preferences, Comments, Scroll down to Reason Modifiers, -6 for "Funny", Scroll down to Save. No more funny jokes.
The RIAA has been steadfast in trying to kill P2P networks altogether and haven't gone after Apache, Netscape or MS because there are big players involved with the server architecture who have extensive legal and market battles under their belts (MS especially).
If this is really the case, I wonder what will happen when MS enters the P2P market? Back in the spring they announced a some software called
threedegrees. Yes, it only facilitates groups of 10 people, but a user can be in multiple groups so a lot of filesharing can still occur. I haven't heard anything about this project in months, so maybe it fizzled out.
It would be great to see M$ and the RIAA battle it out, but I wouldn't be surprised if threedegrees included some invasive technologies to aid the RIAA in tracking down pirates.
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Actually, this was my first GNAA post. First In Soviet Russia, too! I didn't forget to check "post anonymously", rather I wasn't logged in and my browser autocompleted my login info and I didn't notice because I was rushing for fp.... ah well, maybe it's time to make a new account, I don't want to be associated with this :(
But at least I got my first fp.
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Remember this article? Yeah, I know, completely different technologies, but it seems like after decades of mediocre weather forecasting the technology is suddenly jumping forward all at once.
Ironically, half of CMU's "wearable" computing projects don't even appear to be wearable!! Start with the TIA-P link and you'll see what I mean... apparently, being able to hold it in your hand makes it "wearable". I just submitted this post with my wearable mouse
We need a new term for this sort of thing. Actually, we need two more terms. One for the useful stuff, and one for the stuff pointlessly sewn into clothing that can't even be washed because it has electronics in it.
There's been a few comments about how the whole wearable computing thing is silly, and "it's an MIT" thing. Let me clear this up a bit. Maybe it started as an MIT thing way back in the late 50's/early 60's, at least according to this paper. But I know Carnegie Mellon has been working on this stuff for over 5 years because they had ongoing wearable computer projects when I was a freshman there in 98'. And there's a lot of others besides MIT and CMU working on this stuff, just look here under the Organizations section.
This area of technology is already being targeted at consumers. Try to have a little imagination and realize how powerful this technology could be. For example, what if you had a little speech translator that fit in your ear, recognized nearby spoken speech in foreign languages, traslated it to your language, and used a voice synthesizer to repeat it back to you in your native tongue. Just wait a few years and you'll be saying "damn, I need one of those".
You didnt put my jacket in the wash.. er.. did you?
I think you're onto something here. What do you do when your wearable computer starts to stink? You can't put it in the washing machine. I doubt it's dry-cleanable...
I think you're reading into my posts too much. I'm not blaming anyone (or anything). The first post was mostly meant as a joke, and in the second I was just trying to say that capitalism, like most things in life, is a double-edged sword. Don't get me wrong, I'm extremely glad I'm living in a capitalist society, seeing as what the other options are.
And capitalism doesn't do that for you? People buying things fund creativity, intelligence, wit, and determination.
I don't argue what you're saying, but I think creativity, intelligence, wit, and determination would still exist just as much without capitalism. I was just pointing out that too often we put more value on money than on what's really important in life.
The other option is doing things, albeit out of the goodness of your heart or for the betterment of humanity, without a chance of having a better financial/materialistic life for it. It's hard to be motivated with just a "thanks" or "oh, that's neat" when you're living just like everybody else, more than likely poor.
You could be right, but I've always found that doing something that's appreciated by other people is the most rewarding aspect of life, and it really doesn't matter if I get paid for it or not. I don't usually feel appreciated for the things I *do* get paid for, and that's not very satisfying in the end.
Besides, money can often ruin creativity, like when an artist finds something that "works" and becomes formulaic in order to maximize financial gain.
Charities and Institutions think, Windows and money belong physically to the geeks.
but I could be wrong
In the Information Age we can see more clearly than ever before that what makes human beings precious is creativity, intelligence, wit and determination.
And here I thought it was how much money you make. Guess I'm still stuck in the Capitalism Age.
damnit... I bumped my touchpad and it managed to scroll down to submit AND click it. Anyway I was saying that it seemed like they were trying to make the technology seem more important than it really is. But I'm probably reading into it too much :)
They will be better able to know where they must deploy people to test for the spread of the agent
Ah. Good point. And they'll better know what areas to evactuate.
I know this is getting a little OT, and it's not the job of weather forecasters, but how do they detect the agent in the first place? I'm sure for a given sample of atmosphere, they could detect various dangerous biological/chemical agents, but it's not like we can have sensors for this stuff everywhere. And there's always the possibilty of some new agent being developed that we don't know how to detect.
I guess this get's back to my original point that it seemed a little out of place to be making such a comment in the article. Like they're trying to make this new technologi
If successful, the new technology could also be used to track the low-level winds that could carry a biological, chemical, or radiological attack.
What's the point if the system can't detect the biological/chemical element in question? Even if they knew where the element was released, and they could track the low-level winds, I doubt they could accurately predict how it would disperse. Even with more accurate & detailed data, the weather is a very chaotic and unpredictable system. But at least we'll be able to detect weather patterns missed by current technologies, so it's a good step forward.
With the quality of certain top posts on Slashdot, you really start to wonder what the general mentality is around here... Taco, we need better filters.
There *are* better filters: Preferences, Comments, Scroll down to Reason Modifiers, -6 for "Funny", Scroll down to Save. No more funny jokes.
Personally, I like to laugh once in a while.
The RIAA has been steadfast in trying to kill P2P networks altogether and haven't gone after Apache, Netscape or MS because there are big players involved with the server architecture who have extensive legal and market battles under their belts (MS especially).
If this is really the case, I wonder what will happen when MS enters the P2P market? Back in the spring they announced a some software called threedegrees. Yes, it only facilitates groups of 10 people, but a user can be in multiple groups so a lot of filesharing can still occur. I haven't heard anything about this project in months, so maybe it fizzled out.
It would be great to see M$ and the RIAA battle it out, but I wouldn't be surprised if threedegrees included some invasive technologies to aid the RIAA in tracking down pirates.