I remember it well. And Windows got Quicktime. And I discovered they didn't actually port the entire library, which was shall we say interesting when I decided to try and use it as a porting layer for a WYSIWIG industrial page layout program. Which actually worked (most of it was there) but would have been much easier if it was a serious job and not the product of a legal agreement.
Okay except I can't forward port 5500 from my HTC EVO 4G Wimax phone router. I thought of VNC and a bunch of things for Mom but I found TeamViewer in the past and will probably use that this week.
Just realized I have seen the film adaptations but had never actually read the original work. Just skimming it, it looks good! It starts out with a guy and a telescope seeing some outgassing from the rim of Mars.. and then discovering an ash-covered cylinder in a crater... that starts unscrewing its end!
You can use Calibre (free) to convert ePub to mobi for Kindle. I really enjoy my e-ink Kindle. It is very bad at PDFs, but for reading English novels it is great. Amazon's instant satisfaction purchase over wifi is too good. I also read books with an ebook app (CoolReader) on my android phone (green on black night time mode). Even so reading on LED based screens keeps you awake and strains the eyes.
p.s. I should add these notes: - The main way people get information is from repetitive announcements on TV. However, TV broadcasting is not always magically available. For example the antenna on top of Tokyo Tower got bent. So it would be good if there could be a minimal byzantium mesh including some way that smartphone users could have an app that would connect them all together with minimal burden on the mesh. - Meteor strike is another time it might be another interesting type of horrible disaster to consider - Trains or highways may also be damaged, for example this happened in Japan. So possibly a way to coordinate carpools/truckpools/bus transportation between two points to take over mass transit links could be accomplished with help from a mesh.
Scanned the site. Was turned off by the zombie apocalypse ref though I guess it is all in good fun and would help bring in enthusiastic hackers. However it says that due to inability_to_save_the_world they recognize and ignore the possibility of malicious nodes.
I was turned off by zombie reference because we really could have used this in eastern Japan (and Tokyo where I was) during the 2011 tsunami/earthquake. Mobile phones were out, we couldn't tell if people were alive or dead since infrastructure was wiped out. People had to take cars hundreds of km to go find out. People don't have satellite phones really. At one point I found I could skype to China and from there someone could call Japan.
In other words, zombie apocalypse is a good metaphor for total loss of infrastructure and conversion of your world. There is a Japanese manga called Survival, by Takao Saito the author of the famous sniper series Golgo 13. It shows the protagonist trying to save one or two people (who are in total panic mode) and himself (exhausted but logical) in wilderness and city, where everything is destroyed and people and animals have become rabid and murderous. Okay that didn't happen in Japan, at least it wasn't reported like the looting that wasn't reported.
In reality this kind of system would be good for natural disasters (tsunami, earthquake, flood, solar explosion, famine), insurrection (civil war, revolution, martial law, war and bombing) and situations when people just all go crazy (famine, disease outbreaks, religious fanatic outbreaks, zombie apocalypses). It should be obvious that whether the people going crazy and murderous are government, private individuals, or the undead, a Byzantium Mesh needs to be able to deal with malicious attackers and honeypots.
Also I think it would be good to work on a few other things: 1) a network-wide participatory web directory, perhaps using wiki or some other tool so people can announce services in a single location (I am not talking about announcing network capabilities via avahi, but humans announcing their presence and it automatically being registered in one place or I guess being copied to everyone) 2) a person to person messaging bbs so you can find out if someone is okay and message to them (IIRC the phone company tried to do this and it was overloaded and useless but good idea). Text is smartest but letting people record voice messages would be good too. Add a set of emergency messaging threads to this too, divided by arbitrarily defined territories. Then if you need emergency medical help maybe someone can get there. 3) a web site that allows people to ad hoc announce needs, things they can provide, and gather people into car pools or bases to deliver goods (I tried this in the 1995 earthquake in Kobe with a call center to be located at Tokyo U., which they refused to run since they were government run and the government could not decide anything). The first things to go and be needed are toilet paper, water, basic food, information and possibly iodine pills. Also you may have people including infirm or pregnant, and people gather in parks or emergency areas (until they figure out about the zombies or snipers). None of them know what to do and the police are not there. So it would be good to be able to announce bases where people can go, sit down, get things, meet family, etc. like schools.) 4) I would also note that satellite dishes and antennas can become missile targets so if you don't tell people about it, you could end up killing IRL your friendly hacker node owners and babeld gurus on the ground. Or say a warlord or drug-induced crazy police force wants to ruin your network, they could just shoot/lob grenades. So maybe it would be good to be able to manage this shit remotely and obscure it to some extent. Also not clear if the mesh can allow multiple people to provide Internet connectivity to the entire mesh, so perhaps shielded, bounced or landline connections could be priority selected and mesh owner could be alerted that it is okay to
Thank you! How wonderful. I see one recording has five stars and downloaded it. Though I didn't know the title or composer of course I knew the beautiful song as soon as it started streaming from my laptop.. Morning from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46. What a great project, kudos to you too!
I remember seeing in Tokyo something like this.. exactly 20 years ago! I see it is also the first reference in the Siggraph 2012 paper. At that time it was IIRC using a Silicon Graphics graphical supercomputer.. 16-way at the time? I don't remember. I was told that potted plants were wired to the computer so they became antenna and I remember it would work even without touching the plant. Some plants did better with different people. The right stroking would cause 3d graphics of plants built in real time using natural growth algorithms. Christa and Laurent also were at NTT's ATR lab in Kyoto for some time and I think they got a patent on something. Interactive Plant Growing an interactive computer installation. The installation was beautiful and intriguing. (c) 1992, Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau in permanent collection of the ZKM Media Museum, Karlsruhe http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent/WORKS
It would be cool if you can actually address different parts of the plant that react differently to different frequencies, though this isn't shown in the paper really, I guess it is in the demo. I don't know about enjoying touching a cactus more than a fern though! IIRC pines worked well but I don't remember exactly. Anyway, if you use more robust plants they will last longer. It was very memorable and I have a feeling there is a future in it for therapy, not mapping gestures. Although if you could make a musical instrument from a vegetable with some silver ink and play it, that would be cool. Any takers?
This is the guy who dreamed of charging for all Internet based transactions with his own money scheme. When he starts saying the word God several times in a row I start getting violently nauseated. I also question his statement, "We’re going to have to find who’s the best company in China to manufacture our malaria diagnostic device" while "using first world invention, product development, and business development techniques." I state this having helped projects to reduce malaria and treat the sick in Cambodia. When $5 would buy mosquito nets. Does he really need to develop advanced technology, or could the money not be spent on existing projects using low technology? The key really is not Chinese manufacturing. The key which he hinted at is having motivated, experienced problem solvers on the ground who can see what things will work and why, and get immediate feedback and support from home base. The idea of structuring it as a for profit venture, no matter what reasoning he gives, is just the way a shark smiles. It distracts you. Just like how he is pushing the God button. You have to wonder why. Is he a wacko? Maybe, but it is most likely because that is where he plans on getting money. Religious figures do sometimes put money into these things.
P.S. Incidentally, I wonder could blades of silica, carbon or ice be automatically created / sharpened in situ using resources from the asteroid and heat/electricity only? Perhaps an alloy could be created that is stronger than the asteroid's component materials, using same materials and maybe laced with titanium, etc. Also, could heat from fission reactor or solar mirrors be used to soften it up? Perhaps an impact on a semimolten blob would separate more of the mass.
Funny how nobody I think has mentioned that we now have professional asteroid miners, as opposed to the amateurs in the movie.
My idea calls for a swarm of autonomous drills and planes that can cut and shave an asteroid into ribbons that will quickly disperse and burn up in the atmosphere. In other words cutting something into cold bits and pieces instead of trying to blow it up.
By the way I am wondering how long it would take for a giant bandsaw to cut through 100 m of rock? Bandsaw either being tangential to surface, or perhaps like a chain wrapped tightly around it and automatically getting smaller as it cuts in..
Seriously. Did you see Curiosity Mission Control (JPL I think)? Several mac laptops were in use. One desk had a tablet in a clamp, a Mac laptop, and the standard two screens with keyboards, plus paper binders.
You are running a department and will have to make customers and management think you are responsible. Yes, it is the end of jeans and t-shirts. You don't have to wear power outfits. Button down shirts and slacks would do, or the female version. Don't wear sandals or sneakers either. Look for role models.
From Apple's page.. http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/ iCloud, iOS related things, Game Center to play iOS owners, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Vimeo, Sharing, Messages, Gatekeeper. Almost all of the things mentioned have to do with interaction between your Mac and iOS, other people on the Net, and well Gatekeeper is useful but basically it's their store. I'm dubious about PowerNap. Dictation sounds useful. If it really is any good I would buy it from the App Store for my current Mac, if they allowed it.
On the other hand, it seems there are indeed work related improvements. So I will consider it in the future. After making a clone of my hard disk. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7/7/#document-model Apple has added APIs in Lion that, when used properly, enable the following experience. - The user does not have to remember to save documents. All work is automatically saved. - Closing a document or quitting an application does not require the user to make decisions about unsaved changes. - The user does not have to remember to save document changes before causing the document's file to be read by another application (e.g., attaching an open document with unsaved changes to an e-mail). - Quitting an application, logging out, or restarting the computer does not mean that all open documents and windows have to be manually re-opened next time.
Look at the photo. Child sitting on a stool has to look at the ceiling. Don't know where its camera is, but it looks like it is made for navigating hallways not examining patients.
If he is always itching to disclose, who would ever hire him? Answer: the wrong people. Not that it sounds like his skills are so great. I'd be worried about his safety, next time.
I have a MacBook Pro 5.2 running 10.6.8. So far I have luckily stayed away from "upgrades" to later OS X flavors. My Mom tried upgrading to Lion with her iMac and lost a lot of functionality, then limped to experts with a semi trashed system trying to roll back to use the applications that used to work. Since Lion and Mountain Lion sound like totally stupid mobile OS trappings I have no idea why I should even consider upgrading to Mountain Lion. Which is too bad since I have long wanted more advanced technology in areas that would help me in my work, which is why I bought this otherwise fantastic machine. One thing though, even though I have an express slot I'm not sure where to find storage that could take advantage of it, unfortunately. Express to USB3.0 connector anybody? It would help when cloning..
Slashdot Mirror
I remember it well. And Windows got Quicktime. And I discovered they didn't actually port the entire library, which was shall we say interesting when I decided to try and use it as a porting layer for a WYSIWIG industrial page layout program. Which actually worked (most of it was there) but would have been much easier if it was a serious job and not the product of a legal agreement.
Okay except I can't forward port 5500 from my HTC EVO 4G Wimax phone router.
I thought of VNC and a bunch of things for Mom but I found TeamViewer in the past and will probably use that this week.
p.s. that was the HTML version. The link to the downloadable ebooks is:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36/36-h/36-h.htm
Just realized I have seen the film adaptations but had never actually read the original work. Just skimming it, it looks good! It starts out with a guy and a telescope seeing some outgassing from the rim of Mars.. and then discovering an ash-covered cylinder in a crater... that starts unscrewing its end!
You can use Calibre (free) to convert ePub to mobi for Kindle.
I really enjoy my e-ink Kindle. It is very bad at PDFs, but for reading English novels it is great.
Amazon's instant satisfaction purchase over wifi is too good.
I also read books with an ebook app (CoolReader) on my android phone (green on black night time mode). Even so reading on LED based screens keeps you awake and strains the eyes.
p.s. I should add these notes:
- The main way people get information is from repetitive announcements on TV.
However, TV broadcasting is not always magically available. For example the antenna on top of Tokyo Tower got bent.
So it would be good if there could be a minimal byzantium mesh including some way that smartphone users could have an app that would connect them all together with minimal burden on the mesh.
- Meteor strike is another time it might be another interesting type of horrible disaster to consider
- Trains or highways may also be damaged, for example this happened in Japan. So possibly a way to coordinate carpools/truckpools/bus transportation between two points to take over mass transit links could be accomplished with help from a mesh.
Scanned the site. Was turned off by the zombie apocalypse ref though I guess it is all in good fun and would help bring in enthusiastic hackers. However it says that due to inability_to_save_the_world they recognize and ignore the possibility of malicious nodes.
I was turned off by zombie reference because we really could have used this in eastern Japan (and Tokyo where I was) during the 2011 tsunami/earthquake. Mobile phones were out, we couldn't tell if people were alive or dead since infrastructure was wiped out. People had to take cars hundreds of km to go find out. People don't have satellite phones really. At one point I found I could skype to China and from there someone could call Japan.
In other words, zombie apocalypse is a good metaphor for total loss of infrastructure and conversion of your world. There is a Japanese manga called Survival, by Takao Saito the author of the famous sniper series Golgo 13. It shows the protagonist trying to save one or two people (who are in total panic mode) and himself (exhausted but logical) in wilderness and city, where everything is destroyed and people and animals have become rabid and murderous. Okay that didn't happen in Japan, at least it wasn't reported like the looting that wasn't reported.
In reality this kind of system would be good for natural disasters (tsunami, earthquake, flood, solar explosion, famine), insurrection (civil war, revolution, martial law, war and bombing) and situations when people just all go crazy (famine, disease outbreaks, religious fanatic outbreaks, zombie apocalypses). It should be obvious that whether the people going crazy and murderous are government, private individuals, or the undead, a Byzantium Mesh needs to be able to deal with malicious attackers and honeypots.
Also I think it would be good to work on a few other things:
1) a network-wide participatory web directory, perhaps using wiki or some other tool so people can announce services in a single location (I am not talking about announcing network capabilities via avahi, but humans announcing their presence and it automatically being registered in one place or I guess being copied to everyone)
2) a person to person messaging bbs so you can find out if someone is okay and message to them (IIRC the phone company tried to do this and it was overloaded and useless but good idea). Text is smartest but letting people record voice messages would be good too. Add a set of emergency messaging threads to this too, divided by arbitrarily defined territories. Then if you need emergency medical help maybe someone can get there.
3) a web site that allows people to ad hoc announce needs, things they can provide, and gather people into car pools or bases to deliver goods (I tried this in the 1995 earthquake in Kobe with a call center to be located at Tokyo U., which they refused to run since they were government run and the government could not decide anything). The first things to go and be needed are toilet paper, water, basic food, information and possibly iodine pills. Also you may have people including infirm or pregnant, and people gather in parks or emergency areas (until they figure out about the zombies or snipers). None of them know what to do and the police are not there. So it would be good to be able to announce bases where people can go, sit down, get things, meet family, etc. like schools.)
4) I would also note that satellite dishes and antennas can become missile targets so if you don't tell people about it, you could end up killing IRL your friendly hacker node owners and babeld gurus on the ground. Or say a warlord or drug-induced crazy police force wants to ruin your network, they could just shoot/lob grenades. So maybe it would be good to be able to manage this shit remotely and obscure it to some extent. Also not clear if the mesh can allow multiple people to provide Internet connectivity to the entire mesh, so perhaps shielded, bounced or landline connections could be priority selected and mesh owner could be alerted that it is okay to
Thank you! How wonderful. I see one recording has five stars and downloaded it. Though I didn't know the title or composer of course I knew the beautiful song as soon as it started streaming from my laptop.. Morning from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46. What a great project, kudos to you too!
All your bases...
p.s. I don't really remember if they said antenna or not, sounds like the capacitance mentioned in TFA. I thought the roots were wired.
I remember seeing in Tokyo something like this.. exactly 20 years ago!
I see it is also the first reference in the Siggraph 2012 paper.
At that time it was IIRC using a Silicon Graphics graphical supercomputer.. 16-way at the time? I don't remember.
I was told that potted plants were wired to the computer so they became antenna and I remember it would work even without touching the plant. Some plants did better with different people. The right stroking would cause 3d graphics of plants built in real time using natural growth algorithms.
Christa and Laurent also were at NTT's ATR lab in Kyoto for some time and I think they got a patent on something.
Interactive Plant Growing an interactive computer installation.
The installation was beautiful and intriguing.
(c) 1992, Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau
in permanent collection of the ZKM Media Museum, Karlsruhe
http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent/WORKS
It would be cool if you can actually address different parts of the plant that react differently to different frequencies, though this isn't shown in the paper really, I guess it is in the demo. I don't know about enjoying touching a cactus more than a fern though! IIRC pines worked well but I don't remember exactly. Anyway, if you use more robust plants they will last longer. It was very memorable and I have a feeling there is a future in it for therapy, not mapping gestures. Although if you could make a musical instrument from a vegetable with some silver ink and play it, that would be cool. Any takers?
IANAM but would 3D help? Since now we have 3D printers one could build a program that would make a disassemblable colored object.
This is the guy who dreamed of charging for all Internet based transactions with his own money scheme.
When he starts saying the word God several times in a row I start getting violently nauseated.
I also question his statement, "We’re going to have to find who’s the best company in China to manufacture our malaria diagnostic device" while "using first world invention, product development, and business development techniques."
I state this having helped projects to reduce malaria and treat the sick in Cambodia. When $5 would buy mosquito nets. Does he really need to develop advanced technology, or could the money not be spent on existing projects using low technology? The key really is not Chinese manufacturing. The key which he hinted at is having motivated, experienced problem solvers on the ground who can see what things will work and why, and get immediate feedback and support from home base.
The idea of structuring it as a for profit venture, no matter what reasoning he gives, is just the way a shark smiles. It distracts you. Just like how he is pushing the God button. You have to wonder why. Is he a wacko? Maybe, but it is most likely because that is where he plans on getting money. Religious figures do sometimes put money into these things.
Just add a micro-sized nuclear battery. FTFY.
P.S. Incidentally, I wonder could blades of silica, carbon or ice be automatically created / sharpened in situ using resources from the asteroid and heat/electricity only? Perhaps an alloy could be created that is stronger than the asteroid's component materials, using same materials and maybe laced with titanium, etc. Also, could heat from fission reactor or solar mirrors be used to soften it up? Perhaps an impact on a semimolten blob would separate more of the mass.
Funny how nobody I think has mentioned that we now have professional asteroid miners, as opposed to the amateurs in the movie.
My idea calls for a swarm of autonomous drills and planes that can cut and shave an asteroid into ribbons that will quickly disperse and burn up in the atmosphere. In other words cutting something into cold bits and pieces instead of trying to blow it up.
By the way I am wondering how long it would take for a giant bandsaw to cut through 100 m of rock?
Bandsaw either being tangential to surface, or perhaps like a chain wrapped tightly around it and automatically getting smaller as it cuts in..
How would Planetary Resources do it?
Seriously. Did you see Curiosity Mission Control (JPL I think)? Several mac laptops were in use. One desk had a tablet in a clamp, a Mac laptop, and the standard two screens with keyboards, plus paper binders.
You are running a department and will have to make customers and management think you are responsible.
Yes, it is the end of jeans and t-shirts. You don't have to wear power outfits. Button down shirts and slacks would do, or the female version. Don't wear sandals or sneakers either. Look for role models.
10 minutes is fast. Did he have to wait extra time to decompress? Or was his suit at ground level pressure from before launch from the ground?
From Apple's page.. http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/
iCloud, iOS related things, Game Center to play iOS owners, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Vimeo, Sharing, Messages, Gatekeeper. Almost all of the things mentioned have to do with interaction between your Mac and iOS, other people on the Net, and well Gatekeeper is useful but basically it's their store. I'm dubious about PowerNap.
Dictation sounds useful. If it really is any good I would buy it from the App Store for my current Mac, if they allowed it.
On the other hand, it seems there are indeed work related improvements. So I will consider it in the future. After making a clone of my hard disk.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7/7/#document-model
Apple has added APIs in Lion that, when used properly, enable the following experience.
- The user does not have to remember to save documents. All work is automatically saved.
- Closing a document or quitting an application does not require the user to make decisions about unsaved changes.
- The user does not have to remember to save document changes before causing the document's file to be read by another application (e.g., attaching an open document with unsaved changes to an e-mail).
- Quitting an application, logging out, or restarting the computer does not mean that all open documents and windows have to be manually re-opened next time.
Look at the photo. Child sitting on a stool has to look at the ceiling.
Don't know where its camera is, but it looks like it is made for navigating hallways not examining patients.
No, it is 4% efficiency. You mean it makes sense if it is cheap as dirt. Could be.
This is one tech I can do without.
A kill zone in my house? NO.
If he is always itching to disclose, who would ever hire him?
Answer: the wrong people. Not that it sounds like his skills are so great.
I'd be worried about his safety, next time.
I have a MacBook Pro 5.2 running 10.6.8. So far I have luckily stayed away from "upgrades" to later OS X flavors.
My Mom tried upgrading to Lion with her iMac and lost a lot of functionality, then limped to experts with a semi trashed system trying to roll back to use the applications that used to work.
Since Lion and Mountain Lion sound like totally stupid mobile OS trappings I have no idea why I should even consider upgrading to Mountain Lion. Which is too bad since I have long wanted more advanced technology in areas that would help me in my work, which is why I bought this otherwise fantastic machine.
One thing though, even though I have an express slot I'm not sure where to find storage that could take advantage of it, unfortunately. Express to USB3.0 connector anybody? It would help when cloning..