If its like most existing displays (and it looks like it is), it shouldn't be a problem. I've got a pair of goggle type displays and while I usually wear contacts when using them I can use my glasses with them just as well.
Last year my community went wireless thanks to a small start up. 802Link started by going to the chamber of commerce and the various downtown improvement groups and convinced them to launch a wireless network, working a lot on tourism (the community has 3 or 4 big festivals a year).
His original plan was to sell the service like an ISP but last time I talked to the owner he had made it more reliant on consulting and setting up wireless networks. Now the business is attracting as many industrial clients as commercial operations.
To a degree the city has also latched on but working with the local businesses is the key to getting your own city to go wireless. And it does attract people. In a city of around 10,000 its pretty common to see two or three laptops or palmtops downtown on any given day
Juvenile? I can see the valid point, pretty much everyone wants privacy, but I think the hardware hackers have done a very good job of differenciating themselves from the negitive images of software hackers (specifically crackers) and the prankster images like revenge of the nerds.
People are facinated with hardware hacking, and that's the first step in preventing the legions of tin foil hats from marching. There's a string of books out there on the subject, a few magizines on modding, and its poping up on TV. Combine that with the intenet and you've got a new sensation.
The analogy is heavily used but todays electronics geeks and hardware hackers are a side step from the car tuners of previous generations. Just about anyone can associtate with that.
First, there is real competition for Apple's iTMS service, a number of them. Napster2, Real's music store, Walmart.com, just to name a few. I seriously doubt Apple will run scared because M$ has poped into the game, expecailly since this has been a widly anticipated move on Microsoft's part.
Secondly, For the average user there is no difference between what Apple is selling and what MS is offering. They don't care about bit rates, they just know what's easier to use. To me MS's site looks a lot like walmart's music store (admittedly I didn't do a lot of navigating there)and that's a PITA to use. If MS is the same way, I think people will stay with iTMS. iPod or none.
Personally I've make a keyring out of a set of PCI bridge chips here I've also built coasters out of a cut up logic board and some plexiglass, similar to the ones at thinkgeek The light elements from old scanners are nothing more than CCFLs so there are any number of uses for them when you pair them with an old wall wart.
While I'm sure there is a real psychologist on/. but the only person that can really give you advice on this matter is yourself. If you don't think you're really for college quite yet, don't waste the money/scholarships/time until you are. Anymore you will need a college degree to get a job that doesn't require you saying "Would you like fries with that" or "Paper or Plastic" but if you need some time to clear your head, make some time.
If you really think you're that clever come up with a killer idea, make it work and use it when you're ready to go on to more education, but don't think you will be able to coast on your innate cleverness for the rest of your life, because there's no way in hell its going to happen.
I don't know what type of trail you've got on your but the ones I've been on tend to have log books partially for search and rescue but it also seems to be taken as a badge of honor. One of the camps I do alot of work with has a knob hike trail and the log book at the entrance/exit is always filled with notes (hiked in x minutes). Badges of honor I guess.
I see the search and rescue need for these systems and I think most hikers do. In that respect I think the only tin foil hats you have to deal with are on the heads of people who will probably never be on those trails.
If you're really worried about people fearing for their identities I think the best thing is be honest and don't hide the system. A trail box with an explanation of why the system is there as is probably more than enough. You might even make it double as a first step on a geocache or a traditional log book if you really think there are going to be a log of geeks on your trails.
The Curve of Binding Energy covers many of the same problems from the 70s, so disreguarding these problems as "hogwash" would be irresponcible. From what I remember from reading it, and what pops up in the mass media (like this wired article) it seems as if many of the warnings that popped up over 30 years ago were disreguarded. Measures that might have been put into place, like many other aspects of the govenrment, have simply fallen behind the times due to lack of concern, lack of money or both.
While you can get material for a dirty bomb from discarded medical supplies or from nature you seem to be forgetting that a large part of terrorism is psychological. The idea of material being stolen from a supposedly secure nuclear facility would concern me much more than some material taken from old medical supplies or smuggled into the country.
Yes, there's probably a better chance of an old soviet nuke showing up than some terrorist homebrew, but ignoring potential threats from inside our borders is part of the reason 9/11 occured.
Seems to me that the article is forgetting that Apple has been, and probably will always be, a hardware company. It's certainly not going to change as long as Jobs still has influence at Apple. Any attempt to change that has failed misserably (the clone era) or died an obscure death (attempts at porting the Mac OS to x86, some of which were successful to a degree)
Even the rare bit of software that Apple has developed has been serving some other purpose, like iTunes and iTMS selling iPods. So to apple the question is going to be "What will we sell if we port the frameworks?" If it isn't overpriced hardware theres no chance in hell of it happening.
Furthermore what Apple has done with Darwin and keeping that open source has been tied down with conditions and restrictions that to barely support open source development.
Sure it would be great to see Apple throwing its weight behind *nix to form an alliance that could present a channenge to Microsoft, but in reality its never going to happen.
So far in our history robots have mainly been seen as con-artistry, mechanical devices installed on an assembly line, as glorified remote control cars (in the case of battlebots and similar events), or as either part or whole of fictional dystopias (The Matrix or The Terminator series). Not a pleasant represntation to say the least. So my question is
How and when do you see society at large adopting robots that can pass the Turing Test or in some other way approch self-substanciation?
What needs to happen for us to see and enjoy the benifits that non-organic intellegence has to offer. If we fail to take those steps do you see us entering the wars envisioned in The Matrix?
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Delete the spam and you'll probably save 80TBs, just be careful about deleting things from Nigeria...
That is the BEST NEWS EVER! How come he didn't tell us about this before?
well, he's just now resigning....
If its like most existing displays (and it looks like it is), it shouldn't be a problem. I've got a pair of goggle type displays and while I usually wear contacts when using them I can use my glasses with them just as well.
Get above that and the cost rises in leaps and bounds
Some commercial displays
His original plan was to sell the service like an ISP but last time I talked to the owner he had made it more reliant on consulting and setting up wireless networks. Now the business is attracting as many industrial clients as commercial operations.
To a degree the city has also latched on but working with the local businesses is the key to getting your own city to go wireless. And it does attract people. In a city of around 10,000 its pretty common to see two or three laptops or palmtops downtown on any given day
Juvenile? I can see the valid point, pretty much everyone wants privacy, but I think the hardware hackers have done a very good job of differenciating themselves from the negitive images of software hackers (specifically crackers) and the prankster images like revenge of the nerds.
People are facinated with hardware hacking, and that's the first step in preventing the legions of tin foil hats from marching. There's a string of books out there on the subject, a few magizines on modding, and its poping up on TV. Combine that with the intenet and you've got a new sensation.
The analogy is heavily used but todays electronics geeks and hardware hackers are a side step from the car tuners of previous generations. Just about anyone can associtate with that.
First, there is real competition for Apple's iTMS service, a number of them. Napster2, Real's music store, Walmart.com, just to name a few. I seriously doubt Apple will run scared because M$ has poped into the game, expecailly since this has been a widly anticipated move on Microsoft's part.
Secondly, For the average user there is no difference between what Apple is selling and what MS is offering. They don't care about bit rates, they just know what's easier to use. To me MS's site looks a lot like walmart's music store (admittedly I didn't do a lot of navigating there)and that's a PITA to use. If MS is the same way, I think people will stay with iTMS. iPod or none.
There's more catching up to do than you realize.
Personally I've make a keyring out of a set of PCI bridge chips here I've also built coasters out of a cut up logic board and some plexiglass, similar to the ones at thinkgeek The light elements from old scanners are nothing more than CCFLs so there are any number of uses for them when you pair them with an old wall wart.
While I'm sure there is a real psychologist on /. but the only person that can really give you advice on this matter is yourself. If you don't think you're really for college quite yet, don't waste the money/scholarships/time until you are. Anymore you will need a college degree to get a job that doesn't require you saying "Would you like fries with that" or "Paper or Plastic" but if you need some time to clear your head, make some time.
If you really think you're that clever come up with a killer idea, make it work and use it when you're ready to go on to more education, but don't think you will be able to coast on your innate cleverness for the rest of your life, because there's no way in hell its going to happen.
I don't know what type of trail you've got on your but the ones I've been on tend to have log books partially for search and rescue but it also seems to be taken as a badge of honor. One of the camps I do alot of work with has a knob hike trail and the log book at the entrance/exit is always filled with notes (hiked in x minutes). Badges of honor I guess.
I see the search and rescue need for these systems and I think most hikers do. In that respect I think the only tin foil hats you have to deal with are on the heads of people who will probably never be on those trails.
If you're really worried about people fearing for their identities I think the best thing is be honest and don't hide the system. A trail box with an explanation of why the system is there as is probably more than enough. You might even make it double as a first step on a geocache or a traditional log book if you really think there are going to be a log of geeks on your trails.
While you can get material for a dirty bomb from discarded medical supplies or from nature you seem to be forgetting that a large part of terrorism is psychological. The idea of material being stolen from a supposedly secure nuclear facility would concern me much more than some material taken from old medical supplies or smuggled into the country.
Yes, there's probably a better chance of an old soviet nuke showing up than some terrorist homebrew, but ignoring potential threats from inside our borders is part of the reason 9/11 occured.
I knew the patent office was slow, but dang. April Fools day was over a month ago...
I've also used tradepub.com for some free magizines subscriptions.
If you're careful eBay has some excellent deals. The challenge of course is not falling into an addiction.
For RAM I tend to use Ramseeker.com, while its mainly mac oriented I think they're added a PC section
Seems to me that the article is forgetting that Apple has been, and probably will always be, a hardware company. It's certainly not going to change as long as Jobs still has influence at Apple. Any attempt to change that has failed misserably (the clone era) or died an obscure death (attempts at porting the Mac OS to x86, some of which were successful to a degree)
Even the rare bit of software that Apple has developed has been serving some other purpose, like iTunes and iTMS selling iPods. So to apple the question is going to be "What will we sell if we port the frameworks?" If it isn't overpriced hardware theres no chance in hell of it happening.
Furthermore what Apple has done with Darwin and keeping that open source has been tied down with conditions and restrictions that to barely support open source development.
Sure it would be great to see Apple throwing its weight behind *nix to form an alliance that could present a channenge to Microsoft, but in reality its never going to happen.
I knew I should have climbed into that dumpster...
So far in our history robots have mainly been seen as con-artistry, mechanical devices installed on an assembly line, as glorified remote control cars (in the case of battlebots and similar events), or as either part or whole of fictional dystopias (The Matrix or The Terminator series). Not a pleasant represntation to say the least. So my question is How and when do you see society at large adopting robots that can pass the Turing Test or in some other way approch self-substanciation? What needs to happen for us to see and enjoy the benifits that non-organic intellegence has to offer. If we fail to take those steps do you see us entering the wars envisioned in The Matrix?