I think the idea of large cumbersom objects being foldable/rollable was demostrated well in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation when Captain Picard fell in love with the ship's new doctor and she whipped out a full sized piano she had rolled up to roughly the size of a stromboli! It would be convienient for people with laptops who perfer full full sized keyboards when they don't have to worry about space considerations, like in a hotel room. Once they are able to do this with monitors, a whole new era of portable computing will start. Rollable (or at least foldable) cell phones will probably be the next wave of compact communication.
This was a thread during the whole TiVo hacking topic. Jim Buzzbee was cool enough to post with a link to a wonderful individual who hacked together his own TiVo/Satalite reciever with full menus and even a remote. The plans are here. I really wanna make one if I can scrounge up the money!!
I didn't realiz that, but there were more suggestions for use of the DC than just that, but I'm too lazy to look through all those threads and find hard evidence, so you win this round;)
Already people hacking the DC have figured out how it could be used more many other reasons other than a gaming console... Check the old/. thread and as soon as this service is available, someone is gonna figure out how to save the games to disk, and circumvent payment (I give it 3 months). Sega is gonna have a major piracy problem on their hands. Not only that, but if they port Bleem! to the DC, Sony will have Sega's ass on a platter!
I must say, I feel even better than I usually do about using such a wonderfully fabulous mail program. Being a teenage boy, I have to mack it with the ladies, that goes without saying. In an ever technology laiden world, the girls I chill with tend to want to chat over *shudder* AOL, so I'm more than happy to use AIM, but when it comes to getting gobs and gobs of terrible fwd's from them, a smile comes to my face when they write a day later and say, "DON'T OPEN THAT OTHER MAIL I SENT YOU!! IT HAS A VIRUS!!" Who would have thought "Happy99.exe" could be evil?;) Thanks pine!
Scientists have been using children as test subjects in seeing how well humans can control their own brainwaves, and using them to trigger computer events. They would set the kid up with some nifty electrodes on his or her head and a game would run where the child would see a dolphin swimming on the screen and they would have to try to use their mind to keep the dolphin above the waterline. Their score would increase depending on how long they kept the dolphin up. I can't say I remember what the results where, but check www.discovery.com and see if they have anything.
Unless you really don't have the room, start collecting old 486's/Pentiums/whatevers, and cluster the hell out those things! I know I'd like a beowulf in my closet! And all the chicks dig it too!
Under any normal circumstances, any religion started by a bad scifi writer that believes we were planted here on Earth by an alien race and that we will one day be collected by that race and taken to our real home planet would have absolutely no credibility whatsoever. Unfortunately said religion is supported by numerous Hollywood actors. Hollywood actors have money. Now the church of Scientology has money. Now they have credibility. *sigh*
First of all, couldn't any kind of transmitter be blocked my a lead shielded briefcase? If someone is going to have the testicular fortitude to steal a super-secrect gov't lappy, he's gotta have some smarts and some commons sense, at least he should. Nextly, why not just have a hardware key system for such things? Years ago I bought a copy of the Encyclopedia Britanica on CD and to use it you needed a small plug inserted in your parallel port to use it, lest it not work at all and to prevent copying (it was expensive). So if you want to use it, you gotta have the key, or even maybe, give one to one agent and another to another agent, and they both have to be inserted to make the laptop work.
Very similarly I believe in Pittsburg's hockey arena fan disturbance was such a problem that they built a courtroom under the arena to dispense instant justice during rowdy games!
If you are intersted in getting reviews of websites offering the same or similar services, everyweek in Newsweek magazine in the Cyberscope section they rate 3 competing sites against one another. Quite useful!
Dr. Dre is a revolutionary in the field of rap and music in general. He created gangsta rap. He has money to wipe his ass with, and yet he feels so violated. This goes to show what some artists are really after: the money, not the music. And this seems appropriate for an artist in a genre that takes little or no skill to produce. Some rhymns and a computer beat generator and I could be a rapper. I'm not particularly scared though, once his smart lawyers educate him on how unphesable his idea his, he will back off.
For years I used real player without a hitch and then one day for one reason or another Real got the idea that their program needs to be the endall be all for all types of media play! They encorporate everything but the kitchen sink into their program and forget that the vast majority of people who use it just want to be able to play real media files and not to use all the bells and whistles of streaming news and interactive content that come with it. It's worthless now. The program is a good 2 - 6 meg download just for the ability to play real media, and even the most basic package of downloads includes things most people never want or need!! Real, if you are listening, please, distribute a version with simple barebones realmedia playing capability. If I want a browser, I'll get a browser. If I want an mp3 player, I'll get an mp3 player...etc...etc
I've taken the time to mess around with the BeOS, and it is an extrodinarily user friendly, stable, and asthetically pleasing operating system. However, it lacks one thing...ANYTHING! Be does include some nice programs for the most basic of tasks (email, web, word processing), but it because it lacks almost any hardware support, most average users are barred from using it. It developers took the wee bit of extra time to develop cross-platform drivers for their products, Microsoft wouldn't be the staple that it is today. There is absolutly nothing wrong with Be, in fact there are many things very very right with it, but it lacks any sort of support by the industry, and that will be its downfall. Users today have given the majority of their support to Linux and because of user and industry support, the Linux movement is growing because it is more useable with modern equiptment, but Be is limited by a small group of developers and a few devoted users. God Speed Be, you have my vote, if you could all my hardware to run at par on your OS!
When QNX first started releasing a free version to average users I remember a thread about it in a listserv I was on so I checked it out. I was astounded by the fact that the whole thing fit on a floppy and soon started carrying a diskette with me with my dial-up infoz everywhere I went. I'd be in department stores and the clerk would be away from the desk and I'd toss in a floppy, reboot, and sit there happily checking my mail...till I was shown out by security. THANKS QNX!
You figure, when you download a new distro, you're just gonna end up burning it on a CD for your bandwidth-ly challenges friends and co-workers, so it just makes more sense to distribute this way as an option anyway!
This could be adapted to cluster computing for much MUCH MUCH! faster transfer rates between nodes! That way also you don't have to worry about all the wires in the fast ethernet setup.
The beauty of online documentation is being able to find what you want, and quickly! If you look at the phone-books that come with programs like Cool Edit, you know that finding anything specific is a task that takes a bit of time. With online documentation, you have the "Find" feature allowing you to enter keywords and getting references to exactally what is needed, when you need it. This works only if the documentation is kept separate from the program so if the program dies, the documentation does not!
...and pay respects to the man that has made my teenage years easier by allowing me to download pr0n faster and to pack it away from my parents more efficiently! You will be truely missed, and I thank you for all you have done. Rest in peace.
About a year ago at the end of my junior year of highschool I was tested and diagnosed with ADHD at my own request. One of the suggestions made was that I have a laptop in class to make my notes considering I type much MUCH faster than I write by hand. I will be getting my own laptop soon as a graduaction gift, but have used one in class at various times and besides that added advantage of being able to listen to the teacher and blindly type at the same time, I also have access to various cd-rom encyclopedias and whatnot. My school also has a DHCP server, allowing me to plug-in and access the network and all my c++ files in apcs class. There is also the added bonus of taking mp3s with me and playing Half-life between class, but hey, I'm just in it for the education;)
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I think the idea of large cumbersom objects being foldable/rollable was demostrated well in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation when Captain Picard fell in love with the ship's new doctor and she whipped out a full sized piano she had rolled up to roughly the size of a stromboli! It would be convienient for people with laptops who perfer full full sized keyboards when they don't have to worry about space considerations, like in a hotel room. Once they are able to do this with monitors, a whole new era of portable computing will start. Rollable (or at least foldable) cell phones will probably be the next wave of compact communication.
This was a thread during the whole TiVo hacking topic. Jim Buzzbee was cool enough to post with a link to a wonderful individual who hacked together his own TiVo/Satalite reciever with full menus and even a remote. The plans are here. I really wanna make one if I can scrounge up the money!!
I didn't realiz that, but there were more suggestions for use of the DC than just that, but I'm too lazy to look through all those threads and find hard evidence, so you win this round ;)
Already people hacking the DC have figured out how it could be used more many other reasons other than a gaming console... Check the old /. thread and as soon as this service is available, someone is gonna figure out how to save the games to disk, and circumvent payment (I give it 3 months). Sega is gonna have a major piracy problem on their hands. Not only that, but if they port Bleem! to the DC, Sony will have Sega's ass on a platter!
I must say, I feel even better than I usually do about using such a wonderfully fabulous mail program. Being a teenage boy, I have to mack it with the ladies, that goes without saying. In an ever technology laiden world, the girls I chill with tend to want to chat over *shudder* AOL, so I'm more than happy to use AIM, but when it comes to getting gobs and gobs of terrible fwd's from them, a smile comes to my face when they write a day later and say, "DON'T OPEN THAT OTHER MAIL I SENT YOU!! IT HAS A VIRUS!!" Who would have thought "Happy99.exe" could be evil? ;) Thanks pine!
Scientists have been using children as test subjects in seeing how well humans can control their own brainwaves, and using them to trigger computer events. They would set the kid up with some nifty electrodes on his or her head and a game would run where the child would see a dolphin swimming on the screen and they would have to try to use their mind to keep the dolphin above the waterline. Their score would increase depending on how long they kept the dolphin up. I can't say I remember what the results where, but check www.discovery.com and see if they have anything.
Unless you really don't have the room, start collecting old 486's/Pentiums/whatevers, and cluster the hell out those things! I know I'd like a beowulf in my closet! And all the chicks dig it too!
Well, now there is precidence and we will all have to hope active rulings are made as apposed to passive now.
Under any normal circumstances, any religion started by a bad scifi writer that believes we were planted here on Earth by an alien race and that we will one day be collected by that race and taken to our real home planet would have absolutely no credibility whatsoever. Unfortunately said religion is supported by numerous Hollywood actors. Hollywood actors have money. Now the church of Scientology has money. Now they have credibility. *sigh*
First of all, couldn't any kind of transmitter be blocked my a lead shielded briefcase? If someone is going to have the testicular fortitude to steal a super-secrect gov't lappy, he's gotta have some smarts and some commons sense, at least he should.
Nextly, why not just have a hardware key system for such things? Years ago I bought a copy of the Encyclopedia Britanica on CD and to use it you needed a small plug inserted in your parallel port to use it, lest it not work at all and to prevent copying (it was expensive). So if you want to use it, you gotta have the key, or even maybe, give one to one agent and another to another agent, and they both have to be inserted to make the laptop work.
Damnit Jim, I'm a Doctor not a Taiwanese factory worker!
Very similarly I believe in Pittsburg's hockey arena fan disturbance was such a problem that they built a courtroom under the arena to dispense instant justice during rowdy games!
If you are intersted in getting reviews of websites offering the same or similar services, everyweek in Newsweek magazine in the Cyberscope section they rate 3 competing sites against one another. Quite useful!
I'm taking bets on how long it'll take to port napster to a mobile phone. I just have to call Vegas for the odds first.
Dr. Dre is a revolutionary in the field of rap and music in general. He created gangsta rap. He has money to wipe his ass with, and yet he feels so violated. This goes to show what some artists are really after: the money, not the music. And this seems appropriate for an artist in a genre that takes little or no skill to produce. Some rhymns and a computer beat generator and I could be a rapper. I'm not particularly scared though, once his smart lawyers educate him on how unphesable his idea his, he will back off.
For years I used real player without a hitch and then one day for one reason or another Real got the idea that their program needs to be the endall be all for all types of media play! They encorporate everything but the kitchen sink into their program and forget that the vast majority of people who use it just want to be able to play real media files and not to use all the bells and whistles of streaming news and interactive content that come with it. It's worthless now. The program is a good 2 - 6 meg download just for the ability to play real media, and even the most basic package of downloads includes things most people never want or need!! Real, if you are listening, please, distribute a version with simple barebones realmedia playing capability. If I want a browser, I'll get a browser. If I want an mp3 player, I'll get an mp3 player...etc...etc
I've taken the time to mess around with the BeOS, and it is an extrodinarily user friendly, stable, and asthetically pleasing operating system. However, it lacks one thing...ANYTHING! Be does include some nice programs for the most basic of tasks (email, web, word processing), but it because it lacks almost any hardware support, most average users are barred from using it. It developers took the wee bit of extra time to develop cross-platform drivers for their products, Microsoft wouldn't be the staple that it is today. There is absolutly nothing wrong with Be, in fact there are many things very very right with it, but it lacks any sort of support by the industry, and that will be its downfall. Users today have given the majority of their support to Linux and because of user and industry support, the Linux movement is growing because it is more useable with modern equiptment, but Be is limited by a small group of developers and a few devoted users. God Speed Be, you have my vote, if you could all my hardware to run at par on your OS!
When QNX first started releasing a free version to average users I remember a thread about it in a listserv I was on so I checked it out. I was astounded by the fact that the whole thing fit on a floppy and soon started carrying a diskette with me with my dial-up infoz everywhere I went. I'd be in department stores and the clerk would be away from the desk and I'd toss in a floppy, reboot, and sit there happily checking my mail...till I was shown out by security. THANKS QNX!
You figure, when you download a new distro, you're just gonna end up burning it on a CD for your bandwidth-ly challenges friends and co-workers, so it just makes more sense to distribute this way as an option anyway!
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This could be adapted to cluster computing for much MUCH MUCH! faster transfer rates between nodes! That way also you don't have to worry about all the wires in the fast ethernet setup.
The beauty of online documentation is being able to find what you want, and quickly! If you look at the phone-books that come with programs like Cool Edit, you know that finding anything specific is a task that takes a bit of time. With online documentation, you have the "Find" feature allowing you to enter keywords and getting references to exactally what is needed, when you need it. This works only if the documentation is kept separate from the program so if the program dies, the documentation does not!
I'd like to remove my hat for a moment...
/me removes hat
...and pay respects to the man that has made my teenage years easier by allowing me to download pr0n faster and to pack it away from my parents more efficiently! You will be truely missed, and I thank you for all you have done. Rest in peace.
At least when you have to reboot when it crashes, everything is in memory and won't take as long as a desktop...*sigh*
About a year ago at the end of my junior year of highschool I was tested and diagnosed with ADHD at my own request. One of the suggestions made was that I have a laptop in class to make my notes considering I type much MUCH faster than I write by hand. I will be getting my own laptop soon as a graduaction gift, but have used one in class at various times and besides that added advantage of being able to listen to the teacher and blindly type at the same time, I also have access to various cd-rom encyclopedias and whatnot. My school also has a DHCP server, allowing me to plug-in and access the network and all my c++ files in apcs class. There is also the added bonus of taking mp3s with me and playing Half-life between class, but hey, I'm just in it for the education ;)