The sad thing is some prick is going to get their kicks out of making a virus that will cause these mobile phones to constantly call 911, and it could place lives at risk by jamming 911 call centers. Didn't they already have a computer virus like that which used modems?
Sorry for sounding like too much of a novice here, but I've been trying to find sites with information about programming applications for mobile phones that take advantage of the bluetooth functioin. No, I am not interested in making a virus! Does anybody know what the best sites are? What kind of programming language and development environment do they require? Can you use Java to make applications that work on all mobile phones with bluetooth? I'm surprised that bluetooth viruses are being created when I can't even find any comprehensive information about programming for bluetooth mobile phones.
Ever see those movies Airplane and Airplane 2? You know how there's those scenes where everyone forms a line to bitch-slap a hysterical passenger? Well that's what's going on here with all the "No" replies I'm getting. I already got a satisfactory boolean answer with the first posted reply- enough already! I was just wondering if OS X Server was getting market share but appeared as FreeBSD online, the way Safari identifies itself as Mozilla to web servers. I was just curious. I got responses from people who know their stuff. The matter is closed. Move along.
That is great and all, but I believe the problem with all that, is that you -still- can't intereact with the 3D object you're seeing, at the place where it -appears-.
I do a lot of what you said. I've actually been using an Olympus DS-2000 digital voice recorder to record dreams and archive them on my PowerBook for the past 2 years. The audio compression works so amazingly well that it makes it feasible to do so. Before that I used dream journals. I agree that keeping a journal helps. It's surprising how the memories of a dream start flooding back when you start recording it, even if you feel like you don't remember much before doing so. The test that I've practiced is reading text twice over to see if it changes. The method you describe sounds a lot like the MILD technique. Napping helps as well. I've also read that spinning around apparently helps keep you in a dream if you feel like you're waking up, for some reason.
The Sharp Actius RD3D canbe used with games. It comes bundled with James Bond 007: Nightfire, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003, and Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2.
As for other uses, Dynamic Digital Depth has photo viewer, movie player, molecular viewer, and PowerPoint plugin that are bundled with the Actius RD3D as well. They can also be used with other autostereo displays.
Have you heard of Big3D.com? They can produce large lenticular prints. However they use Photoshop layers to produce the 3D effect, so although there will be parallax between the layers, each layer will appear flat.
Have you heard of light and sound machines? They use flashing LEDs and pulsing sounds or binaural beats to induce certain brainwave frequencies through something called the frequency following effect. I can even recall seeing one of these machines on the net that actually used a mild electrical charge pulsing at these frequencies as well.
Another thing you ought to know about lucid dreaming is that text in dreams does not stay constant. While you're dreaming, if you read anything then read it again a second time, it will change. The sleeping mind doesn't have the external stimuli to keep the dream imagery constant.
Psychologists didn't believe that it was possible that people could be conscious while dreaming. However some sleep researchers found out that wherever your eyes are looking at in a dream is where your eyes are facing in REM. They found one subject with a constant pattern in his REM activity- his eyes kept moving from side to side- while he dreamt of watching a Ping-Pong game. Sleep researchers used this to prove lucid dreaming exists. They got subjects to perform a pattern of eye movements when they achieved lucidity while dreaming, which they recorded with polygraphs so they had actual evidence.
I'm curious to know if anyone out there has any experience with enhancing the ability to have lucid dreams. I actually have a NovaDreamer, but the thing just wakes me up. And I'd like to know what these "computerized dream-inducers" mentioned in the article are. Could it be this? I heard that taking the nutritional supplement 5HTP enhances dreaming, but I've never tried it. I've tried Melatonin, but that doesn't seem to affect me.
Anyone have an idea what these things mentioned in the article are? I know about the NovaDreamer from the Lucidity Institute, but I'm not aware of any other gadgets.
Surely the same institution that came up with a distributed computing software project such as Folding@Home can handle a menial financial and record-keeping software project. If they made their own, using the GPL, then other universities could adopt it as well, and contribute to its development.
If you didn't use verified voting, you could just integrate electronic voting with set-top boxes and allow people to vote using the TV remote! You would probably have a higher voter turnout. The remotes are eventually going to have fingerprint scanners anyway for DRM.
The Omega Directive overrides the Prime Directive. All trekkies must destroy this book on bookstore shelves everywhere or else it could spell disaster for the Alpha Quadrant.
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The sad thing is some prick is going to get their kicks out of making a virus that will cause these mobile phones to constantly call 911, and it could place lives at risk by jamming 911 call centers. Didn't they already have a computer virus like that which used modems?
But you could have fun by bitch-slaping your mother in law and blaming it on a virus that infected your cybernetic arm.
Sorry for sounding like too much of a novice here, but I've been trying to find sites with information about programming applications for mobile phones that take advantage of the bluetooth functioin. No, I am not interested in making a virus! Does anybody know what the best sites are? What kind of programming language and development environment do they require? Can you use Java to make applications that work on all mobile phones with bluetooth? I'm surprised that bluetooth viruses are being created when I can't even find any comprehensive information about programming for bluetooth mobile phones.
Ever see those movies Airplane and Airplane 2? You know how there's those scenes where everyone forms a line to bitch-slap a hysterical passenger? Well that's what's going on here with all the "No" replies I'm getting. I already got a satisfactory boolean answer with the first posted reply- enough already! I was just wondering if OS X Server was getting market share but appeared as FreeBSD online, the way Safari identifies itself as Mozilla to web servers. I was just curious. I got responses from people who know their stuff. The matter is closed. Move along.
over one million new domains were hosted on FreeBSD over the last year
Since OS X (Darwin) is based on FreeBSD, does this mean that the Netcraft figures counted OS X Server hosts as FreeBSD?
You can get a Sharp Actius RD3D with Linux installed. The 3D effect works under Linux.
That is great and all, but I believe the problem with all that, is that you -still- can't intereact with the 3D object you're seeing, at the place where it -appears-.
Yes you can. There are 3D input devices such as mice, joysticks, gloves, and haptic devices.
I do a lot of what you said. I've actually been using an Olympus DS-2000 digital voice recorder to record dreams and archive them on my PowerBook for the past 2 years. The audio compression works so amazingly well that it makes it feasible to do so. Before that I used dream journals. I agree that keeping a journal helps. It's surprising how the memories of a dream start flooding back when you start recording it, even if you feel like you don't remember much before doing so. The test that I've practiced is reading text twice over to see if it changes. The method you describe sounds a lot like the MILD technique. Napping helps as well. I've also read that spinning around apparently helps keep you in a dream if you feel like you're waking up, for some reason.
Will an All-Dome Laser Projection Planetarium suffice?
Here is a list of autostereo displays, that includes SeeReal. A few of them have head tracking.
The Sharp Actius RD3D can be used with games. It comes bundled with James Bond 007: Nightfire, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003, and Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2.
As for other uses, Dynamic Digital Depth has photo viewer, movie player, molecular viewer, and PowerPoint plugin that are bundled with the Actius RD3D as well. They can also be used with other autostereo displays.
Canon was going to produce a 3D lens for their XL1 DV cam, but they canned the idea.
Have you heard of Big3D.com? They can produce large lenticular prints. However they use Photoshop layers to produce the 3D effect, so although there will be parallax between the layers, each layer will appear flat.
Check this out if you want a 3D display for protein structures.
That would be a beowoof cluster.
I saw that too. They started to teach a second parrot by making it watch the first one, which made the second one more competitive and eager to learn.
Have you heard of light and sound machines? They use flashing LEDs and pulsing sounds or binaural beats to induce certain brainwave frequencies through something called the frequency following effect. I can even recall seeing one of these machines on the net that actually used a mild electrical charge pulsing at these frequencies as well.
Another thing you ought to know about lucid dreaming is that text in dreams does not stay constant. While you're dreaming, if you read anything then read it again a second time, it will change. The sleeping mind doesn't have the external stimuli to keep the dream imagery constant.
Psychologists didn't believe that it was possible that people could be conscious while dreaming. However some sleep researchers found out that wherever your eyes are looking at in a dream is where your eyes are facing in REM. They found one subject with a constant pattern in his REM activity- his eyes kept moving from side to side- while he dreamt of watching a Ping-Pong game. Sleep researchers used this to prove lucid dreaming exists. They got subjects to perform a pattern of eye movements when they achieved lucidity while dreaming, which they recorded with polygraphs so they had actual evidence.
I'm curious to know if anyone out there has any experience with enhancing the ability to have lucid dreams. I actually have a NovaDreamer, but the thing just wakes me up. And I'd like to know what these "computerized dream-inducers" mentioned in the article are. Could it be this? I heard that taking the nutritional supplement 5HTP enhances dreaming, but I've never tried it. I've tried Melatonin, but that doesn't seem to affect me.
Anyone have an idea what these things mentioned in the article are? I know about the NovaDreamer from the Lucidity Institute, but I'm not aware of any other gadgets.
Surely the same institution that came up with a distributed computing software project such as Folding@Home can handle a menial financial and record-keeping software project. If they made their own, using the GPL, then other universities could adopt it as well, and contribute to its development.
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Wow. I didn't know Google was doing that. It reminds me of what Amazon.com is doing.
If you didn't use verified voting, you could just integrate electronic voting with set-top boxes and allow people to vote using the TV remote! You would probably have a higher voter turnout. The remotes are eventually going to have fingerprint scanners anyway for DRM.
The Omega Directive overrides the Prime Directive. All trekkies must destroy this book on bookstore shelves everywhere or else it could spell disaster for the Alpha Quadrant.