"There are more details at the Neurodudes blog, which includes a description of the novel method, which can convert any cell - nerve, muscle, etc. - into a light-sensing cell."
How about skin? An awareness of everything around you would rock. Also reminds me of a story I heard about someone having magnetic implanted so they could sense magnetic fields.
It'd be a good excuse to wear my hair in bunches with my undercut, anyway;)
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Even better, on my phone, the default client just works - runs off and downloads any new headers every 10 minutes. Maybe not quite as snappy as a Blackberry, but a damned sight better than any webmail service can do.
Back home, Mail.app and Spotlight give me all the searchy goodness I could want. My free space is limited by how many old HDDs I'm willing to throw into the server. My mail is spam filtered, and despite my not having a Windows PC, virus checked.
Plus, if the worse comes to the worse, and I can't access it any other way, I can always fall back sshing into the server, and running pine.
An awful lot of computer science courses pick weird arse languages precisely because they act as a filter - an attempt to get those who either can't handle anything more complex than C or the favoured toy language du jour, or can't accept that the world's an exciting enough place for there to be room for more than those languages, to drop out. My uni, for example, taught Scheme as the first language, followed by Ada as the second, and didn't even officially teach C - if a course needed it, you were expected to pick it up yourself.
Sure, at the time I hated Ada (couldn't hate Scheme - it was just far, far too elegant). Now, after a few years of seeing what your standard C programmer churns out, I wish fervently and deeply that they were all forced to write in SPARK Ada, just so their awful code wouldn't be foisted on the world.
Embedded isn't just PICs - there's everything all the way up to routers, videophones, and interactive digital television receivers.
These don't run the same sort of low level code as an alarm clock - they're running multiprocessor multithreaded apps with oodles of IPC and computation, full of subtle real time threading issues.
And this is why a lot of them suck - because they need more system engineering than would be required for an 8-bit microcontroller, but often don't get it.
It's always important to use the right tool for the needs of the job, regardless of how it's been pigeon holed.
It's not just a case of features, but of mindset. A lot of embedded programmers prefer writing their entire software stack with direct access to the metal. To do otherwise takes a big adjustment in mindset, and a lot of companies simply don't have the time for it and therefore Linux.
Dunno about you, but the last item of consumer electronics I tried to open didn't involve screws - the entire thing was held together by plastic tabs, designed to self destruct if you tried to open it.
Whilst intelligent fasteners are a step down from screws for ease of customer access, they can only be a step up from these damned tabs.
The problem is more prevalent with hand held mobile apps because they tend to use a third party server as a man in the middle. If this machine stores your authentication information, then it'll prove a juicy target for crackers.
It is critical that the UWB technology be compatible with Bluetooth radios and maintain the core attributes of Bluetooth wireless technology - low power, low cost, ad-hoc networking, built-in security features, and ability to integrate into mobile devices. Backwards compatibility with the over 500 million Bluetooth devices currently on the market is also an important consideration. The Bluetooth SIG is satisfied that MB-OFDM UWB technology, offered by the WiMedia Alliance, is capable of meeting all of these requirements.
I know I'll probably get the piss taken out of me for this, but I tend to do a lot of glowsticking - often up to an hour a day, in the privacy of my home. It's fun and fairly good exercise, plus it means gonig out clubbing all night doesn't leave me a smouldering wreck the morning after.
It mostly involves fluidly moving the hands via the wrists faster than the eye can see, along with a fairly hefty dose of arm waving, continuously, for anywhere from an hour to ten hours.
I've never been able to tell if it's good or bad for me. I don't have RSI, but then I didn't have it before I took up glowsticking, either.
Um, I hate to break it to you, but music isn't unitary. It's not like other products. If I get a bad deal from one company buying 3 units of music, I can't go to another non-cartel company and buy another 3 units, because it won't be the same product I wanted in the first place.
If I went looking for a copy of PPS Project - AC vs DC and came home with The Greatest Country And Western Album Evar!!!11, I'd be a deeply unhappy bunny. If you, on the other hand, have no great passion for music, then by all means go and buy no name music from pretentious indie labels.
Don't know - I know what it is in kilos, but I'm sure as hell not letting you geeks know what it is. Don't drive. 1 litre, 2 litres, and 3 litres./me waves from the UK.
Funny, I was under the imrpession all these instruments were meant to be connected together with shock hardened busses, lots of shielding, etc? Yet despite all this, they're sensitive to a few microwaves.
Yet cars, which have far less equipment protection, and are chock full of processor driven subsystems these days, all of which could be in moderately close exposure to anywhere from 1 to 5 phones, have no problems what so ever.
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"There are more details at the Neurodudes blog, which includes a description of the novel method, which can convert any cell - nerve, muscle, etc. - into a light-sensing cell."
;)
How about skin? An awareness of everything around you would rock. Also reminds me of a story I heard about someone having magnetic implanted so they could sense magnetic fields.
It'd be a good excuse to wear my hair in bunches with my undercut, anyway
Um, what makes you think you can't access mail stored on an IMAP server from anywhere?
Even better, on my phone, the default client just works - runs off and downloads any new headers every 10 minutes. Maybe not quite as snappy as a Blackberry, but a damned sight better than any webmail service can do.
Back home, Mail.app and Spotlight give me all the searchy goodness I could want. My free space is limited by how many old HDDs I'm willing to throw into the server. My mail is spam filtered, and despite my not having a Windows PC, virus checked.
Plus, if the worse comes to the worse, and I can't access it any other way, I can always fall back sshing into the server, and running pine.
An awful lot of computer science courses pick weird arse languages precisely because they act as a filter - an attempt to get those who either can't handle anything more complex than C or the favoured toy language du jour, or can't accept that the world's an exciting enough place for there to be room for more than those languages, to drop out. My uni, for example, taught Scheme as the first language, followed by Ada as the second, and didn't even officially teach C - if a course needed it, you were expected to pick it up yourself.
Sure, at the time I hated Ada (couldn't hate Scheme - it was just far, far too elegant). Now, after a few years of seeing what your standard C programmer churns out, I wish fervently and deeply that they were all forced to write in SPARK Ada, just so their awful code wouldn't be foisted on the world.
Embedded isn't just PICs - there's everything all the way up to routers, videophones, and interactive digital television receivers.
These don't run the same sort of low level code as an alarm clock - they're running multiprocessor multithreaded apps with oodles of IPC and computation, full of subtle real time threading issues.
And this is why a lot of them suck - because they need more system engineering than would be required for an 8-bit microcontroller, but often don't get it.
It's always important to use the right tool for the needs of the job, regardless of how it's been pigeon holed.
It's not just a case of features, but of mindset. A lot of embedded programmers prefer writing their entire software stack with direct access to the metal. To do otherwise takes a big adjustment in mindset, and a lot of companies simply don't have the time for it and therefore Linux.
It's easy to get it right first time - just use a high bit depth public key challenge response system.
Whether it's economical to get it right first time is an entirely different matter.
Dunno about you, but the last item of consumer electronics I tried to open didn't involve screws - the entire thing was held together by plastic tabs, designed to self destruct if you tried to open it.
Whilst intelligent fasteners are a step down from screws for ease of customer access, they can only be a step up from these damned tabs.
That... is absolute genius. Although I'm not sure how you equate suicide bombing to addictive activities like WoW or drugs.
The problem is more prevalent with hand held mobile apps because they tend to use a third party server as a man in the middle. If this machine stores your authentication information, then it'll prove a juicy target for crackers.
Obviously someone's suffering from withdrawal sumptoms. I'm told there are assorted herbal remedies you may find soothing.
When you replace "online gaming" with "smoking crack", the parents post seems far less insightful...
It is critical that the UWB technology be compatible with Bluetooth radios and maintain the core attributes of Bluetooth wireless technology - low power, low cost, ad-hoc networking, built-in security features, and ability to integrate into mobile devices. Backwards compatibility with the over 500 million Bluetooth devices currently on the market is also an important consideration. The Bluetooth SIG is satisfied that MB-OFDM UWB technology, offered by the WiMedia Alliance, is capable of meeting all of these requirements.
Do they not watch Doctor Who in Iceland?
It'll be green skinned monsters and parallel universes before you know it!
Yearly? I thought each years had started blurring into each other, creating the longest running flamewar ever?
Admittedly, it has been a few years since I roamed those haunts...
I know I'll probably get the piss taken out of me for this, but I tend to do a lot of glowsticking - often up to an hour a day, in the privacy of my home. It's fun and fairly good exercise, plus it means gonig out clubbing all night doesn't leave me a smouldering wreck the morning after.
:D
It mostly involves fluidly moving the hands via the wrists faster than the eye can see, along with a fairly hefty dose of arm waving, continuously, for anywhere from an hour to ten hours.
I've never been able to tell if it's good or bad for me. I don't have RSI, but then I didn't have it before I took up glowsticking, either.
Anyone know? Us ravers need to know!
The same could be said about Internet Explorer.
Bi-transsexual organisms with no morals or values hope that Spore will open the way to fully immersing themselves in our youth liberally ;)
On a forum where the entire point is ad hoc group discussion? Why certainly!
Um, I hate to break it to you, but music isn't unitary. It's not like other products. If I get a bad deal from one company buying 3 units of music, I can't go to another non-cartel company and buy another 3 units, because it won't be the same product I wanted in the first place.
If I went looking for a copy of PPS Project - AC vs DC and came home with The Greatest Country And Western Album Evar!!!11, I'd be a deeply unhappy bunny. If you, on the other hand, have no great passion for music, then by all means go and buy no name music from pretentious indie labels.
Obviously you keep very different things in your basement.
;>
Someone locked in my basement wouldn't be going anywhere! *whip crack*
Don't know - I know what it is in kilos, but I'm sure as hell not letting you geeks know what it is. /me waves from the UK.
Don't drive.
1 litre, 2 litres, and 3 litres.
I was under the impression you could authorise up to three computers, which could then play the same media with iTunes, but I could be mistaken.
Um, did nobody tell you about iTunes built in media sharing abilities?
"Hot Product! Windows XP with NEW hat! "
Funny, I was under the imrpession all these instruments were meant to be connected together with shock hardened busses, lots of shielding, etc? Yet despite all this, they're sensitive to a few microwaves.
Yet cars, which have far less equipment protection, and are chock full of processor driven subsystems these days, all of which could be in moderately close exposure to anywhere from 1 to 5 phones, have no problems what so ever.
It's a good thing no one's firing beams of high energy RF radiation all over the show, otherwise we might really be in trouble.
I call BS.