A IR LED and IR sensor with simple amp into a cheap a2d. A deep red works too but it is really measuring blood oxygen which is out of phase with heartbeat.
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/bios/grove/paranoid.htm
Take what Andy Grove said...
Replace company/firm etc.. with Nation.
Now consider carefully that "they all are out to get us" as even viewpoint in stjobe's comment so clearly expresses...
Then to remain and not die of entropy a sucessful country must consider Andy Grove's maxim as well as Sun Tzu's.
What is the justification for sales tax on an internet purchase? Did the state or county provide some service or infrastructure that supported the internet sale? Did the state or county or city bring anything to the table?
So if you are sued in another country (UK) by some jerk who feels he can burn you in your country... The logical response is to place a contract with say a service in Russia or Columbia or somewhere where records are by word of mouth... to termniate the jerk....
I am NOT advocating it just pointing it out as a logical course of action one might consider... One must admit it would be much cheaper than an international court case against some rich S.O.B.
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward - yes he is! An Anonymous Coward has less cred than a Movie Star. Show some strength and at least choose a nym. As for the world - What have you done yourself to make it a better place?
as for Dyson... Project Orion rocked... His physics rocked. His space science is a path the Human race was too chicken and bureaucratic to tread.
Dyson sphere Main article: Dyson sphere " One should expect that, within a few thousand years of its entering the stage of industrial development, any intelligent species should be found occupying an artificial biosphere which completely surrounds its parent star.[16] "
In 1960 Dyson wrote a short paper for the journal Science, entitled "Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation".[17] In it, he theorised that a technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilization might completely surround its native star with artificial structures in order to maximise the capture of the star's available energy. Eventually, the civilisation would completely enclose the star, intercepting electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths from visible light downwards and radiating waste heat outwards as infrared radiation. Therefore, one method of searching for extraterrestrial civilisations would be to look for large objects radiating in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Dyson conceived that such structures would be clouds of asteroid-sized space habitats, though science fiction writers have preferred a solid structure: either way, such an artifact is often referred to as a Dyson sphere, although Dyson himself used the term "shell". Dyson says that he used the word "artificial biosphere" in the article meaning a habitat, not a shape.[18]
[edit] Dyson tree Main article: Dyson tree
Dyson has also proposed the creation of a Dyson tree, a genetically-engineered plant capable of growing on a comet. He suggested that comets could be engineered to contain hollow spaces filled with a breathable atmosphere, thus providing self-sustaining habitats for humanity in the outer solar system. " Plants could grow greenhouses...just as turtles grow shells and polar bears grow fur and polyps build coral reefs in tropical seas. These plants could keep warm by the light from a distant Sun and conserve the oxygen that they produce by photosynthesis. The greenhouse would consist of a thick skin providing thermal insulation, with small transparent windows to admit sunlight. Outside the skin would be an array of simple lenses, focusing sunlight through the windows into the interior... Groups of greenhouses could grow together to form extended habitats for other species of plants and animals.[19] "
[edit] Space colonies " I've done some historical research on the costs of the Mayflower's voyage, and on the Mormons' emigration to Utah, and I think it's possible to go into space on a much smaller scale. A cost on the order of $40,000 per person [1978 dollars] would be the target to shoot for; in terms of real wages, that would make it comparable to the colonisation of America. Unless it's brought down to that level it's not really interesting to me, because otherwise it would be a luxury that only governments could afford.[16] "
Freeman Dyson has been interested in space travel since he was a child, reading such science fiction classics as Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker. As a young man, he worked for General Atomics on the nuclear-powered Orion spacecraft. He hoped Project Orion would put men on Mars by 1965, Saturn by 1970. He's been unhappy for a quarter-century on how the government conducts space travel: " The problem is, of course, that they can't afford to fail. The rules of the game are that you don't take a chance, because if you fail, then probably your whole program gets wiped out.[16] "
He still hopes for cheap space travel, but is resigned to waiting for private entrepreneurs to develop something new--and cheap. "
"Greatspirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
And God knows there are a sh*tload of mediocre minds involved with gerbil wormening Not to mention with Lefties, politicians, movie stars.. If movie stars are in favour of it, it pretty much guarantees it's a bad idea.
Freeman Dyson has, apparently, angered all the right people. FOR MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY the eminent physicist Freeman Dyson has quietly resided in Princeton, N.J., on the wooded former farmland that is home to his employer, the Institute for Advanced Study, this country's most rarefied community of scholars. Lately, however, since coming "out of the closet as far as global warming is concerned," as Dyson sometimes puts it, there has been noise all around him. Chat rooms, Web threads, editors' letter boxes and Dyson's own e-mail queue resonate with a thermal current of invective in which Dyson has discovered himself variously described as "a pompous twit," "a blowhard," "a cesspool of misinformation," "an old coot riding into the sunset" and, perhaps inevitably, "a mad scientist." Dyson had proposed that whatever inflammations the climate was experiencing might be a good thing because carbon dioxide helps plants of all kinds grow. Then he added the caveat that if CO2 levels soared too high, they could be soothed by the mass cultivation of specially bred "carbon-eating trees,"
His most useful contribution to science was the unification of the three versions of quantum electrodynamics invented by Feynman, Schwinger and Tomonaga.
Wikipedia on Freeman Dyson Although Dyson has won numerous scientific awards, he has never won a Nobel Prize, which has led Nobel physics laureate Steven Weinberg to state that the Nobel committee has "fleeced" Dyson. Dyson has said that "I think it's almost true without exception if you want to win a Nobel Prize, you should have a long attention span, get ahold of some deep and important problem and stay with it for 10 years. That wasn't my style."
Dyson worked as an analyst for RAF Bomber Command at RAF Wyton during World War II, where he would come to create what would be later known as operational research..... his major awards and accomplishments run for pages....
I went through total hell thinking something was wrong with me. I couldn't be blacklisted for having been laid off. It was insane to even think that way....
I couldn't get another communications sector engr. job. The kids were stressed in college-one dropping out and still not getting his life back together. I had to re-invent myself into a new career. A hard and painful task at the 47-53 age range. I needed to borrow from my parents to save the house and the wife didn't understand...
Now I find out that there is a good chance we were blacklisted everywhere... That churches and businesses and pols supported this because it was so PC-CORRECT and LIBERAL to want to give INDENTURED SERVANTS (H1B visa holders) jobs and deny them to CITIZENS who worked hard for the MOT for years and years........
Well I hope that there is a HELL and these corporate and other leaders rot in hell forever for the crime they committed against 10s of thousands of us!
IF there is an army of class action lawyers out there that want to pursue this.... you have my aid and comfort.
A government: Of the people, By the people and For the people seems to be something Bureaucrats and Politicians are incapable of understanding and executing.
The PLATO System in various universities and research institutions had a "net" play over dedicated lines of many games in the late 70s. They had this orange yellow plasma display terminal. The never ending star trek universe game that (not to be confused with the other star trek games) was net play with stats etc across the planet. Somebody was always playing. You staged revolutions on captive planets and stuff to emerge as a power.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATOWikipedia on Plato.
first widely used starting in the early 1970s
Follow the link - the online version had queues to play it.
I used it at the University of Nebraska (Lincoln) and remember playing people in Europe and maybe Japan.
So if they look at everything will they spy on my e-mails back and forth with my patent lawyers? Are they going to look at my collaborative R&D going back and forth? Will they look at DARPA contract work too?
If not how are they separating all this?
Are all their workers citizens that passed top secret clearance? if Not - Why are they not being ARRESTED for SPYING?
If you had a virtualized machine image just for NetFlix it might be possible to get around all this BS. Let M$S search a virtual machine that only has a video player and NetFlix. Another one for I-Tunes Another one for whatever... Sit them all on a secure platform.
Only NetFlix vids and M$S read only image on the netflix "machine".
Unless they up the power frequency in these bulbs to over 1000HZ they are worse for your eyes. The eye muscles can respond to the 50/60HZ variation in fluorescent lights. This causes eye fatigue and is generally not good.
Having worked on a couple of these projects I am glad to see the lack of imagination, shown by slashdotters, on the forms and uses military robots are and will be used for. That means we still have an edge.
So...
If I view the sonic formed beam as a case of sniping... and create a piece of hardware that project back and ids the beam forming speakers then BLASTS them with a SMALL LASER... do I get to fight the BOSS DAEMON?
Slashdot Mirror
With the X-47B the game changes....
It can fly and fight with the man observing the "loop" on a few planes.
Autonomously fly,
Autonomously or on designation fight air-to-air
Autonomously or on designation carry out ground attacks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbbMMAThTiYVideo advertisement for X47B
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFZleD4_lk&feature=relatedVideo of test flight of the proof of concept X47A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlRR2MPU0UVideo of unveiling
BTW several have already been delivered to the Navy for testing and certification.
X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Taking Shape On Board USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)
http://www.sofmag.com/wp/2010/02/x-47b-unmanned-combat-air-system-taking-shape-on-board-lincoln/SOF Mag on the X-47B
It is going to be sweet.
I have to view this as NASA bureaucrats being scared of SpaceX designing and building a better ship.
It seems to me that moving the power distribution out of the mine NEGATES the supposed archive integrity of the deep mine.
Experts?
A IR LED and IR sensor with simple amp into a cheap a2d.
A deep red works too but it is really measuring blood oxygen which is out of phase with heartbeat.
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/bios/grove/paranoid.htm Take what Andy Grove said... Replace company/firm etc.. with Nation. Now consider carefully that "they all are out to get us" as even viewpoint in stjobe's comment so clearly expresses... Then to remain and not die of entropy a sucessful country must consider Andy Grove's maxim as well as Sun Tzu's.
I seem to remember accessing FAT in Linux before the dates these patents were filed. So... how can they be vaild Patents?
You don't have to send people and animals to other star systems!
Send robot probes with DNA sequences stored on computer chips.
These ships would have no life to protect and could travel faster!
When they find a suitable planet... recreate life, human and other, from the synthetic lab.
What is the justification for sales tax on an internet purchase?
Did the state or county provide some service or infrastructure that supported the internet sale?
Did the state or county or city bring anything to the table?
No?
Why then they should bug off!
So if you are sued in another country (UK) by some jerk who feels he can burn you in your country...
The logical response is to place a contract with say a service in Russia or Columbia or somewhere where records are by word of mouth...
to termniate the jerk....
I am NOT advocating it just pointing it out as a logical course of action one might consider...
One must admit it would be much cheaper than an international court case against some rich S.O.B.
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward - yes he is!
An Anonymous Coward has less cred than a Movie Star.
Show some strength and at least choose a nym.
As for the world - What have you done yourself to make it a better place?
as for Dyson...
Project Orion rocked...
His physics rocked.
His space science is a path the Human race was too chicken and bureaucratic to tread.
Dyson sphere
Main article: Dyson sphere
" One should expect that, within a few thousand years of its entering the stage of industrial development, any intelligent species should be found occupying an artificial biosphere which completely surrounds its parent star.[16] "
In 1960 Dyson wrote a short paper for the journal Science, entitled "Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation".[17] In it, he theorised that a technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilization might completely surround its native star with artificial structures in order to maximise the capture of the star's available energy. Eventually, the civilisation would completely enclose the star, intercepting electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths from visible light downwards and radiating waste heat outwards as infrared radiation. Therefore, one method of searching for extraterrestrial civilisations would be to look for large objects radiating in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Dyson conceived that such structures would be clouds of asteroid-sized space habitats, though science fiction writers have preferred a solid structure: either way, such an artifact is often referred to as a Dyson sphere, although Dyson himself used the term "shell". Dyson says that he used the word "artificial biosphere" in the article meaning a habitat, not a shape.[18]
[edit] Dyson tree
Main article: Dyson tree
Dyson has also proposed the creation of a Dyson tree, a genetically-engineered plant capable of growing on a comet. He suggested that comets could be engineered to contain hollow spaces filled with a breathable atmosphere, thus providing self-sustaining habitats for humanity in the outer solar system.
" Plants could grow greenhouses...just as turtles grow shells and polar bears grow fur and polyps build coral reefs in tropical seas. These plants could keep warm by the light from a distant Sun and conserve the oxygen that they produce by photosynthesis. The greenhouse would consist of a thick skin providing thermal insulation, with small transparent windows to admit sunlight. Outside the skin would be an array of simple lenses, focusing sunlight through the windows into the interior... Groups of greenhouses could grow together to form extended habitats for other species of plants and animals.[19] "
[edit] Space colonies
" I've done some historical research on the costs of the Mayflower's voyage, and on the Mormons' emigration to Utah, and I think it's possible to go into space on a much smaller scale. A cost on the order of $40,000 per person [1978 dollars] would be the target to shoot for; in terms of real wages, that would make it comparable to the colonisation of America. Unless it's brought down to that level it's not really interesting to me, because otherwise it would be a luxury that only governments could afford.[16] "
Freeman Dyson has been interested in space travel since he was a child, reading such science fiction classics as Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker. As a young man, he worked for General Atomics on the nuclear-powered Orion spacecraft. He hoped Project Orion would put men on Mars by 1965, Saturn by 1970. He's been unhappy for a quarter-century on how the government conducts space travel:
" The problem is, of course, that they can't afford to fail. The rules of the game are that you don't take a chance, because if you fail, then probably your whole program gets wiped out.[16] "
He still hopes for cheap space travel, but is resigned to waiting for private entrepreneurs to develop something new--and cheap.
"
the Zealots are always willing to burn a heretic.
Dyson is one of the greats and as Einstein said:
"Greatspirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
And God knows there are a sh*tload of mediocre minds involved with gerbil wormening
Not to mention with Lefties, politicians, movie stars..
If movie stars are in favour of it, it pretty much guarantees it's a bad idea.
Freeman Dyson has, apparently, angered all the right people.
FOR MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY the eminent physicist Freeman Dyson has quietly resided in Princeton, N.J., on the wooded former farmland that is home to his employer, the Institute for Advanced Study, this country's most rarefied community of scholars. Lately, however, since coming "out of the closet as far as global warming is concerned," as Dyson sometimes puts it, there has been noise all around him. Chat rooms, Web threads, editors' letter boxes and Dyson's own e-mail queue resonate with a thermal current of invective in which Dyson has discovered himself variously described as "a pompous twit," "a blowhard," "a cesspool of misinformation," "an old coot riding into the sunset" and, perhaps inevitably, "a mad scientist." Dyson had proposed that whatever inflammations the climate was experiencing might be a good thing because carbon dioxide helps plants of all kinds grow. Then he added the caveat that if CO2 levels soared too high, they could be soothed by the mass cultivation of specially bred "carbon-eating trees,"
His most useful contribution to science was the unification of the three versions of quantum electrodynamics invented by Feynman, Schwinger and Tomonaga.
Wikipedia on Freeman Dyson
Although Dyson has won numerous scientific awards, he has never won a Nobel Prize, which has led Nobel physics laureate Steven Weinberg to state that the Nobel committee has "fleeced" Dyson. Dyson has said that "I think it's almost true without exception if you want to win a Nobel Prize, you should have a long attention span, get ahold of some deep and important problem and stay with it for 10 years. That wasn't my style."
Dyson worked as an analyst for RAF Bomber Command at RAF Wyton during World War II, where he would come to create what would be later known as operational research. .... his major awards and accomplishments run for pages....
Dyson Sphere, Project Orion - on and on.,.
his home page:
http://www.sns.ias.edu/~dyson/
I went through total hell thinking something was wrong with me. I couldn't be blacklisted for having been laid off. It was insane to even think that way.... I couldn't get another communications sector engr. job. The kids were stressed in college-one dropping out and still not getting his life back together. I had to re-invent myself into a new career. A hard and painful task at the 47-53 age range. I needed to borrow from my parents to save the house and the wife didn't understand... Now I find out that there is a good chance we were blacklisted everywhere... That churches and businesses and pols supported this because it was so PC-CORRECT and LIBERAL to want to give INDENTURED SERVANTS (H1B visa holders) jobs and deny them to CITIZENS who worked hard for the MOT for years and years........ Well I hope that there is a HELL and these corporate and other leaders rot in hell forever for the crime they committed against 10s of thousands of us! IF there is an army of class action lawyers out there that want to pursue this.... you have my aid and comfort.
Ah, but you forget the masses have turned Global Warming into a New Age Religion...
You can not attack their God(ess).
youtube and liveleak's material is not on TV unless it is Gore's stupid cable channel.
,,, Shoutcast etc.. software channels like The Atlanta Blues Society..
I am more likely to watch them in a given day than broadcast TV.
If I want I movie... bittorrent - and not any content from a broadcaster....
and that holds for XXX too.
BBC is fricking boring.... BORING!
Sat/Cable - Andrew Bourdain maybe history chan and nat geo chan otherwise forget it...
Now for the Number one USE of the internet WoW....
Blizzard is the only one responsible for that not any tax funded circle jerks...
News.... Blogs, LiveLeak actual news sources - not bbc fox etc....
Music
Software.... Debian etc...
So...
Why do some folks feel their jones needs a subsidy at the expense of users and all of the above?
Isn't it rude?
Of course a friend of the Devil is a friend of mine....
BTW - trackers still have it on PirateBay and elsewhere in hi-def.
A government: Of the people, By the people and For the people seems to be something Bureaucrats and Politicians are incapable of understanding and executing.
first widely used starting in the early 1970s
Follow the link - the online version had queues to play it. I used it at the University of Nebraska (Lincoln) and remember playing people in Europe and maybe Japan.
Saw a HP-25C calculator still work after falling off an 11 story dorm.
Does it run on ReactOS? If it does then a complete M$S clone is much closer.
hmm. Next week I have some time. I will have to down load it and try it on the KVM-QEMU virtual image of ReactOS.
So if they look at everything will they spy on my e-mails back and forth with my patent lawyers?
Are they going to look at my collaborative R&D going back and forth?
Will they look at DARPA contract work too?
If not how are they separating all this?
Are all their workers citizens that passed top secret clearance?
if Not - Why are they not being ARRESTED for SPYING?
If you had a virtualized machine image just for NetFlix it might be possible to get around all this BS.
Let M$S search a virtual machine that only has a video player and NetFlix.
Another one for I-Tunes
Another one for whatever...
Sit them all on a secure platform.
Only NetFlix vids and M$S read only image on the netflix "machine".
DRM is worked around.
Unless they up the power frequency in these bulbs to over 1000HZ they are worse for your eyes.
The eye muscles can respond to the 50/60HZ variation in fluorescent lights.
This causes eye fatigue and is generally not good.
Having worked on a couple of these projects I am glad to see the lack of imagination, shown by slashdotters, on the forms and uses military robots are and will be used for.
That means we still have an edge.
So... ... do I get to fight the BOSS DAEMON?
If I view the sonic formed beam as a case of sniping... and create a piece of hardware that project back and ids the beam forming speakers then BLASTS them with a SMALL LASER
Puff_is_Here