* less resupply problems (lay a power cable to the forward camp instead of moving trucks full of ammo)
Geez, can you imagine the logistics of this? This may work for defined areas of control, but this proposal is for light infantry. If that were the case light infantry would have to protect their power cable in addition to performing their mission. Given the current tactics of light infantry (in the USMC at least), there is no way this approach will work.
Did either of you guys actually read the white paper on the site. They are using a radio isotope power source (alpha particles) to heat the gas (carbon dioxide, nitrogen,and helium). They say the source has a half life of 138 days. They are estimating 60 days of use before there is a reduction in the heat delivered per shot. This is also a closed system that recycles its gas so I guess that could potentialy be 60 days of continious use, 170 shots per minute. Also shooting doesn't generate heat, the heat is generated continously in the gas chamber.
silent
Probably not. They are getting the laser effect by having the hot pressurized gas shoot into the chamber at super sonic speed. It depressurizes, and cools very quickly which causes a lot of electrons in the gas drop down an orbit all at the same time and emit a photon. It would probably make less noise then an M16 though.
They are saying that from the time the trigger is pulled until the time pulse leaves the weapon would be about 40 milliseconds with the laser beam striking a target at 1500 m (1640 yards) 0.905 milliseconds after that. (no dodging this one)
For some users (sniper, etc) this would be a great weapon. I would imagine that in the future an infantry squad in the field would have at least one member with one of these weapons as well as members with advanced "conventional" weapons.
* if using invisible light (IR/UV) doesn't give away your position through muzzle flashes
True enough for unsophisticated enemy forces. However, night vision optics are becoming more available and tuning them to "see" IR/UV is fairly trivial. Indeed there is evidence that Iraqi forces are using significant numbers of night vision devices.
They are talking about a laser pulse that lasts.35 seconds so I doubt that you will be seeing the flash even with night vision gogles. For that matter since laser light is coherent and doesn't spread out much, if you do see the flash that means that the shooter is aiming at your face and you will probably be dead before your brain figures out what is saw. A more realistic way to detect it would be to look for heat coming from the radiator on the side of the stock. I don't know how much heat is given off but humans give off quite a bit of heat anyway so it might not make that much of a differance. An interesting counter messure though might be an automatic weapon that looks for a small square of heat and automaticly fires a round into the gas chamber in the stock. I imagine that having the high pressure chamber pierced would cause "issues" for the person holding the weapon.
They also talk about using wasted energy from the power supply to power some of the solders other devices.
...but I *really* don't think I'll need a net enabled fridge. It's not that hard to go downstairs and check what I need. Or even check when I get home. Or even ring my girlfriend and ask her.
Being the System Administrator at work, and being responsible for machines all over the building, I really appreciate that fact that most newer printers and fax machines have a built in web server that allows me to quickly look at the status of the machine when someone calls to say they can't print.
A quick look will tell me right away if the machine has paper or if there is an error on the touch screen. Then I know if I should start there or farther up stream. (ie. print servers/queues). This ends up saving me a lot of time and the users think I am great because I can talk them through simple things. (most users like to feel like they were part of the solution)
Trying to do the same by having the user read off the error messages to me can take three times as long.
I can see a time in the future when I call GE to complain that my new refrigerator has a problem and the tech tells me to go to my PC put in my fidges URL, click on the download error log button and email it to him.
After looking at the log he would then talk me through changing a couple of settings to account for humidity, how often it needs to defrost, etc.
Didn't I see a Sony big-wig showing off a set top box a few months ago that was running Linux? Seems to me he also showed that it could send video wirelessly to any screen on the stage.
Also there is the following from
http://www.forbes.com/2002/12/18/cx_ld_1218sony. ht ml
Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) and Matsushita, both of Japan, said the operating system will be based on open-source Linux and will be available in March. The software will be used in non-PC devices like TV set-top boxes, digital cameras and DVD players.
Increasingly, content that flows through these and other electronics will be networked via the Internet, and in the future they will all be able to communicate and share information. Part of what will be required is a common underlying software layer that runs on all electronic devices...
More clues can be found here:
http://net4tv.com/voice/story.cfm?storyid=3744
Sony showed its desire to go broadband. They say they weren't announcing any actual products and that these were just technology demonstrations.
First up was Real Networks demonstrating its broadband streaming technology. Sure the demonstration was at the unrealistic speed of a local network, but the demo guy assured us that it would look "almost as good" over a cable modem.
Next up for the Sony PlayStation2 was... wait for it... Linux. Weird, huh? But there it was running the latest version of Netscape Navigator for Linux on a VGA monitor. No it won't work well on your TV because the browser isn't designed to display on TV.
Even more of a shock was seeing America Online on the PS2. We were expecting the battle cry "You've Got Linux!" as it booted up with the favorite non-Microsoft operating system that nine out of ten geeks ask for by name. This dynamic duo were not, however, being displayed on a television, and it closely resembled the PC version of AOL being displayed on a VGA monitor connected to the PS2
What Sony DIDN'T show was a web browser for television. When asked if AOL intended to bring AOLTV to the PlayStation console, the demo guy just smiled and said simply that it was being discussed.
A third demo stand at the PS2 broadband booth showed a hi-definition 1080i movie that had been recorded onto the hard drive of the PS2....
Also look at my own prediction number two in the following post:
2) In five years streaming video will be good enough that video over the internet will be the "TV" of choice for most of the/. crowd and will be making the same waves in the main stream press that Linux and open source is making now. (with the same dire predictions from the entrenched dinosaurs)
Finally, from the front page on/.
from the weakest-link dept. securitas writes "Sony, IBM and Butterfly.net will announce and demonstrate a new grid computing network for PS2 online gaming at the Game Developers Conference next week.
Perhaps something like on-demand interactive games/video/internet/email delivered over broadband and stored/run in your Sony media/dvd set top box and then played/displayed on any TV, PC, or laptop/tablet screen in your house either through wires or wirelessly?
Many of these devices (at least the ones from Sony) will be running an version of embedded Linux.
The grid part allows content to be stored and streamed from close to where it is being requested , reducing bandwidth bottlenecks and allowing content providers to place thier material on the grid (for a fee?) without having to invest in thier own streaming servers and internet pipes.
Perhaps the grid will then track viewership of a product and kick a percent back to the developers and advertisers.
Expect a huge uproar with tails of piracy and armagaden to come (you know congress will be involved) once the networks and greedywood see independent "internet radio" type video programing start to gain market share.
Is anyone else considering just blocking ALL email coming from hotmail? I know it sounds draconian, and I actually have 3 or 4 friends that would be put out but it seems that about half of my spam these days is coming from hotmail accounts.
Perhaps if the word got out that people were blocking hotmail accounts they would clean things up a bit.
Another major source of spam here is.br . Since I don't speak spanish or whatever that gobbledy gook is I have a rule that autodeletes everything coming from.br .
This sort of thing would be most usfull to me for email. I am an several mailing lists and I end up saving email with useful technical info in folders all over the place then searching through them two months later when I need to figure out something on one of my systems.
I also recieve/send a lot of email to customers, vendors and co-workers that I like to keep around so that I can look back through when the brown stuff starts flying.
Something like this built into Mozilla would be great for me.
I am already down to 1 show per week (which I end up missing about once a month because I am too busy having a life that night to watch someone elses pretend life).
All my news comes via the internet.
Three predictions for you...
1) In five years one eighth of the population will use a cell phone for their primary number and will either not have a land line at home or will have local service only with no long distance.
2) In five years streaming video will be good enough that video over the internet will be the "TV" of choice for most of the/. crowd and will be making the same waves in the main stream press that Linux and open source is making now. (with the same dire predictions from the entrenched dinosaurs)
3) Said dinosaurs will be announcing a new encryption standard for video which is "Unbreakable! Unlike the last standard which was hacked 14 days after it was announced..."
I exchanged email with Jim Sorenson about a year and a half ago.
I asked him to allow his codec to be used as a module in xanim. I mentioned that at the time the author of xanim was saying on his web site that he was even willing to sign a non-disclosure if that is what it took.
The reply I got (to paraphrase) was that he would love to do that but the contract with apple forbids it.
Apple doesn't really want Linux users to be able to view Quicktime.
One of the things I really dislike about apple (the company) is that they are two faced. They claim to want to be open and to support open source but they don't.
It is all just PR. In the end apple is as propriatary as microsoft.
Real, a much smaller company, dosn't seem to have any problems putting a unix version of their player out there, apple wouldn't either if they wanted to. The fact is that they don't want to. I am sure that Jobs would be quite happy if just Linux went away.
I make it a habit to email the editor, the web master, and the marketing department of any site that I find that puts video out in only microsoft or quicktime format. I make sure that my email is formal and polite and include my real name and contact info. I explain to them that I would have loved to use their web site but unfortunatly was not able to and had to go elsewhere...oh and would they consider putting out their video in a more accessable format in the future.
I think that a lot of times the marketing folks (who by the way have more pull then you think) have no idea that there are people that can't use their web site. They also have no idea how many of us there are. If you politely mention that they are losing market share these folks tend to listen.
This is what happens to me. I have a linux firewall attached to the DSL modem. Since the only time it goes down is when we loose power my IP almost never changes. I also have a little perl script that checks my IP once in a while and keeps me up to date with dyndns.
I heartily recommend dyndns by the way. I have set up a couple of friends with linux firewalls and dyndns so I can ssh into their firewall whenever I want. This makes it really easy to keep their machines up to date and gives them the warm fuzzies when I grep through/var/log/messages and email them a few port scan attempts.
The DSL installer didn't do anything at all to my PC. He showed up, saw that I was running linux and sat around an BS's with me about computers for a while. He also runs Linux. He then gave me a sheet of paper with dns info, a 3 com ethernet card , and a cd with IE and some other junk on it. (I mounted the CD just to see what was on it.)
I do virtually all my config using my favorite config tool though (vi), so that is mostly an issue for interfaces they've changed. Some of the new GUI prefs tools are pretty nice, though, so I may well start using them.
With RedHat 7.2 and 7.3 I found the GUI tools had a habit of overwriting changes you had made by hand. In most cases using either the GUI tools or configuring by hand worked but mixing was a pain. Has RedHat worked on this any?
the thing that bothered me the most is that it was nothing like the story that was portrayed in the mummy returns. the rock, instead of almost dying in the desert and being saved by anubis, was shot with a poisoned arrow and almost died from that. the sorceress saved him. also, there wasn't an army of the undead anywhere to be seen
I was under the impression that the events in the begining of The Mummy Returns took place well after the events in this movie. It looks to me as though they are setting up for a series. It will also probably be a tragidy in the greek sense. ( good guy trying hard has success but eventually falls hard due to combo of basic character flaws and gods plotting against him.)
Anyone remember reading a short scifi story years ago in which people used something called slow glass to hold light and images?
In this story they could manufacture slow glass that would hold on to light for a specific time before it passed through.
This was used for street lighting and to capture images that would show up days, months, even years later.
In the story a police detective and a bunch of press and people were attending a party to watch the image that was going to come out of a pane of slow glass that evening.
I seem to recall that a murder had been commited in front of the pane years ago and everyone wanted to see if the right person had gotten the chair. ( or something like that)
I don't know if it qualifies as major but I have 15 people in the office using jzip instead of winzip. I also have them using LeachFTP.
The 2 of us who use secure shell use TERATERM and I use The Gimp for the little bit of graphics work I do.
We tried Star Office but we have a lot of "spread sheets from hell" with a ton of links in them. The guy who does most of the spread sheets wants his Excel so I didn't push the issue.
I worked from home for my last job. As a backup to my DSL line I had dialup accounts set up an ready to go on two different "free" internet sevices. (one had an ad-ware client that I had to run and one didn't. I still haven't figured out how the one with no ads planned to make any money) When the dsl went down I just dialed into one or the other and was able to work at reduced speed.
For my current job we have a frame to corp. headquorters and then go out to the internet from there. Since the main office has multiple T1's the internet connection is more reliable then DSL but I still have an ad-ware connection set up and ready to click on. Last week one of the Cisco routers had a melt down and I was suddenly the most popular guy in the office.
It took me 10 minutes the other day at work to find and get connected to a local free internet service. (wanted to do something the firewall doesn't allow)
I had to fill out some marketing questions but there was no way to check to see if I was lying about who I was.
There are so many of these free internet connections avalible now that it would be tough to monitor them all looking for a particular user.
If you had a laptop with a modem and were willing to move around it would be even harder.
Every time I hit a web site that has only QT or only Windows Media I write a calm friendly email to the web master, the head of the marketing department and any executives that I can track down explaining that I wanted to enjoy their site but since there is no Unix player I couldn't.
I also tell them about xanim and Apples refusal to supply a codec and lastly that they should consider using a format that is viewable/listenable by everyone such as Real Audio or streaming MP3.
I always point out that on the xanim home page the author states that he is willing to sign a non-disclosure agreement and is willing to work for no compensation or support from Apple.
Since I write in a _friendly_ tone I often get an email back from one or more people in the company.
I don't know if it was my email that did it but I have seen a couple of web sites start supporting other formats shortly after I wrote.
I find that the marketing department in particular is usually very sensitive to people being turned away from the web site.
If everyone on slashdot started doing this I think that Apples customers would apply all the pressure needed to get Apple to support xanim.
One thing that might be cool is a folding screen. Imagine a unit the thickness of the Palm V, but with Twice the screen area. When you are done using it, fold it in half. You still couldn't hold it in the palm of your hand, but at least you could carry it around. Unfortunately, such folding screen technology is ten or twenty years off, from what I've heard.
A roll up screen would probably work pretty well. ( something like the "globals" on Earth Final Conflict)
Also what about 2 palm sized displays with a hinge in the middle that fold together when you are done.
My favorite idea however, is a palm type device the that works like the present ones do when you are holding it in one hand but that unfolds to reveal a small keybord when you are sitting at a table or on a plane. You could then just plug your Sony "Movie Man" (R) sunglasses with the built in heads up display into the jack on the top and be able to work as if you were using a laptop.
I then put c:\windows\local\cleanall.bat as the last line in my autoexec.bat file (c:\windows\local is the directory that all my bat files and command line programs are sitting in. This way I could add it to my path easily)
Windows convieniently needs to be rebooted about once every day or two so all cookies and temp files get deleated.
Note: You have to delete most of this stuff booted to msdos because windows won't let you so deleting it on the way in is convienient. You may also have to rem cleanall.bat out of your autoexec.bat file temporarily if you are installing new software that reboots as part of the install.
Come on... stop whining. It only takes a couple of seconds to register for an ID on slashdot. If you really have something to say worth reading then sign in. Its not like questions to a game developer about what kind of car he drives are going to put the secret police after you.
The problem is, that as a group, 'Slashdot readers' aren't really all that smart.
The topics and discusions covered tend to draw techical/scientific people here. When I ask my friends if they ever read/. the ones that say yes tend to be those that I consider the smarter ones.
There are plenty among us that ARE super-smart...but seperating the wheat from the chaffe is pretty damn hard...and the only way to do it is to be knowledgable in the first place.
I have things setup here so that I see the highest rated comments first. I think that the moderation system does a pretty good job of bringing the best comments to the surface. You find fewer "crack pots" spouting off here because they get slammed or moderated down if they don't present credible arguments. There is also less "silly science" here because no matter what people write about, someone here is enough of an expert to know if they have the facts straight. I often find that the comments are as or even more interesting then the articles they are about.
Slashdot Mirror
Did either of you guys actually read the white paper on the site. They are using a radio isotope power source (alpha particles) to heat the gas (carbon dioxide, nitrogen,and helium). They say the source has a half life of 138 days. They are estimating 60 days of use before there is a reduction in the heat delivered per shot. This is also a closed system that recycles its gas so I guess that could potentialy be 60 days of continious use, 170 shots per minute. Also shooting doesn't generate heat, the heat is generated continously in the gas chamber.
Probably not.
They are getting the laser effect by having the hot pressurized gas shoot into the chamber at super sonic speed. It depressurizes, and cools very quickly which causes a lot of electrons in the gas drop down an orbit all at the same time and emit a photon. It would probably make less noise then an M16 though.
They are saying that from the time the trigger is pulled until the time pulse leaves the weapon would be about 40 milliseconds with the laser beam striking a target at 1500 m (1640 yards) 0.905 milliseconds after that. (no dodging this one)
For some users (sniper, etc) this would be a great weapon. I would imagine that in the future an infantry squad in the field would have at least one member with one of these weapons as well as members with advanced "conventional" weapons.
They are talking about a laser pulse that lasts
They also talk about using wasted energy from the power supply to power some of the solders other devices.
I, for one, refuse to buy anything Disney puts out. They are a greedy bunch and don't deserve a single penny of my money.
Being the System Administrator at work, and being responsible for machines all over the building, I really appreciate that fact that most newer printers and fax machines have a built in web server that allows me to quickly look at the status of the machine when someone calls to say they can't print.
A quick look will tell me right away if the machine has paper or if there is an error on the touch screen. Then I know if I should start there or farther up stream. (ie. print servers/queues). This ends up saving me a lot of time and the users think I am great because I can talk them through simple things. (most users like to feel like they were part of the solution)
Trying to do the same by having the user read off the error messages to me can take three times as long.
I can see a time in the future when I call GE to complain that my new refrigerator has a problem and the tech tells me to go to my PC put in my fidges URL, click on the download error log button and email it to him.
After looking at the log he would then talk me through changing a couple of settings to account for humidity, how often it needs to defrost, etc.
Also there is the following from
http://www.forbes.com/2002/12/18/cx_ld_1218sony
More clues can be found here:
http://net4tv.com/voice/story.cfm?storyid=3744
Also look at my own prediction number two in the following post:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=48171&cid=4
Finally, from the front page on
Perhaps something like on-demand interactive games/video/internet/email delivered over broadband and stored/run in your Sony media/dvd set top box and then played/displayed on any TV, PC, or laptop/tablet screen in your house either through wires or wirelessly?
Many of these devices (at least the ones from Sony) will be running an version of embedded Linux.
The grid part allows content to be stored and streamed from close to where it is being requested , reducing bandwidth bottlenecks and allowing content providers to place thier material on the grid (for a fee?) without having to invest in thier own streaming servers and internet pipes.
Perhaps the grid will then track viewership of a product and kick a percent back to the developers and advertisers.
Expect a huge uproar with tails of piracy and armagaden to come (you know congress will be involved) once the networks and greedywood see independent "internet radio" type video programing start to gain market share.
I stand corrected then... Portuguese..... I don't speak Portuguese and don't know anyone in Brazil...
Is anyone else considering just blocking ALL email coming from hotmail? I know it sounds draconian, and I actually have 3 or 4 friends that would be put out but it seems that about half of my spam these days is coming from hotmail accounts.
.br . Since I don't speak spanish or whatever that gobbledy gook is I have a rule that autodeletes everything coming from .br .
Perhaps if the word got out that people were blocking hotmail accounts they would clean things up a bit.
Another major source of spam here is
This sort of thing would be most usfull to me for email. I am an several mailing lists and I end up saving email with useful technical info in folders all over the place then searching through them two months later when I need to figure out something on one of my systems.
I also recieve/send a lot of email to customers, vendors and co-workers that I like to keep around so that I can look back through when the brown stuff starts flying.
Something like this built into Mozilla would be great for me.
I am already down to 1 show per week (which I end up missing about once a month because I am too busy having a life that night to watch someone elses pretend life).
/. crowd and will be making the same waves in the main stream press that Linux and open source is making now. (with the same dire predictions from the entrenched dinosaurs)
All my news comes via the internet.
Three predictions for you...
1) In five years one eighth of the population will use a cell phone for their primary number and will either not have a land line at home or will have local service only with no long distance.
2) In five years streaming video will be good enough that video over the internet will be the "TV" of choice for most of the
3) Said dinosaurs will be announcing a new encryption standard for video which is "Unbreakable! Unlike the last standard which was hacked 14 days after it was announced..."
We are discussing players not servers.
They may or may not be the same thing but since the codec is required to view recent quicktime video the result is the same.
I asked him to allow his codec to be used as a module in xanim. I mentioned that at the time the author of xanim was saying on his web site that he was even willing to sign a non-disclosure if that is what it took.
The reply I got (to paraphrase) was that he would love to do that but the contract with apple forbids it.
Apple doesn't really want Linux users to be able to view Quicktime.
One of the things I really dislike about apple (the company) is that they are two faced. They claim to want to be open and to support open source but they don't.
It is all just PR. In the end apple is as propriatary as microsoft.
Real, a much smaller company, dosn't seem to have any problems putting a unix version of their player out there, apple wouldn't either if they wanted to. The fact is that they don't want to. I am sure that Jobs would be quite happy if just Linux went away.
I make it a habit to email the editor, the web master, and the marketing department of any site that I find that puts video out in only microsoft or quicktime format. I make sure that my email is formal and polite and include my real name and contact info. I explain to them that I would have loved to use their web site but unfortunatly was not able to and had to go elsewhere...oh and would they consider putting out their video in a more accessable format in the future.
I think that a lot of times the marketing folks (who by the way have more pull then you think) have no idea that there are people that can't use their web site. They also have no idea how many of us there are. If you politely mention that they are losing market share these folks tend to listen.
I heartily recommend dyndns by the way. I have set up a couple of friends with linux firewalls and dyndns so I can ssh into their firewall whenever I want. This makes it really easy to keep their machines up to date and gives them the warm fuzzies when I grep through
The DSL installer didn't do anything at all to my PC. He showed up, saw that I was running linux and sat around an BS's with me about computers for a while. He also runs Linux. He then gave me a sheet of paper with dns info, a 3 com ethernet card , and a cd with IE and some other junk on it. (I mounted the CD just to see what was on it.)
With RedHat 7.2 and 7.3 I found the GUI tools had a habit of overwriting changes you had made by hand. In most cases using either the GUI tools or configuring by hand worked but mixing was a pain. Has RedHat worked on this any?
I was under the impression that the events in the begining of The Mummy Returns took place well after the events in this movie. It looks to me as though they are setting up for a series. It will also probably be a tragidy in the greek sense. ( good guy trying hard has success but eventually falls hard due to combo of basic character flaws and gods plotting against him.)
Anyone remember reading a short scifi story years ago in which people used something called slow glass to hold light and images?
In this story they could manufacture slow glass that would hold on to light for a specific time before it passed through.
This was used for street lighting and to capture images that would show up days, months, even years later.
In the story a police detective and a bunch of press and people were attending a party to watch the image that was going to come out of a pane of slow glass that evening.
I seem to recall that a murder had been commited in front of the pane years ago and everyone wanted to see if the right person had gotten the chair. ( or something like that)
It was a pretty good story.
www.dyndns.org gets you half way there.
There is ... you just have to look for it.
I don't know if it qualifies as major but I have 15 people in the office using jzip instead of winzip. I also have them using LeachFTP.
The 2 of us who use secure shell use TERATERM and I use The Gimp for the little bit of graphics work I do.
We tried Star Office but we have a lot of "spread sheets from hell" with a ton of links in them. The guy who does most of the spread sheets wants his Excel so I didn't push the issue.
I worked from home for my last job. As a backup to my DSL line I had dialup accounts set up an ready to go on two different "free" internet sevices. (one had an ad-ware client that I had to run and one didn't. I still haven't figured out how the one with no ads planned to make any money) When the dsl went down I just dialed into one or the other and was able to work at reduced speed.
For my current job we have a frame to corp. headquorters and then go out to the internet from there. Since the main office has multiple T1's the internet connection is more reliable then DSL but I still have an ad-ware connection set up and ready to click on. Last week one of the Cisco routers had a melt down and I was suddenly the most popular guy in the office.
It took me 10 minutes the other day at work to find and get connected to a local free internet service. (wanted to do something the firewall doesn't allow)
I had to fill out some marketing questions but there was no way to check to see if I was lying about who I was.
There are so many of these free internet connections avalible now that it would be tough to monitor them all looking for a particular user.
If you had a laptop with a modem and were willing to move around it would be even harder.
Every time I hit a web site that has only QT or only Windows Media I write a calm friendly email to the web master, the head of the marketing department and any executives that I can track down explaining that I wanted to enjoy their site but since there is no Unix player I couldn't.
I also tell them about xanim and Apples refusal to supply a codec and lastly that they should consider using a format that is viewable/listenable by everyone such as Real Audio or streaming MP3.
I always point out that on the xanim home page the author states that he is willing to sign a non-disclosure agreement and is willing to work for no compensation or support from Apple.
Since I write in a _friendly_ tone I often get an email back from one or more people in the company.
I don't know if it was my email that did it but I have seen a couple of web sites start supporting other formats shortly after I wrote.
I find that the marketing department in particular is usually very sensitive to people being turned away from the web site.
If everyone on slashdot started doing this I think that Apples customers would apply all the pressure needed to get Apple to support xanim.
A roll up screen would probably work pretty well. ( something like the "globals" on Earth Final Conflict)
Also what about 2 palm sized displays with a hinge in the middle that fold together when you are done.
My favorite idea however, is a palm type device the that works like the present ones do when you are holding it in one hand but that unfolds to reveal a small keybord when you are sitting at a table or on a plane. You could then just plug your Sony "Movie Man" (R) sunglasses with the built in heads up display into the jack on the top and be able to work as if you were using a laptop.
Are these the very bright blueish tinted lights that I see on cars once in a while?
I hate those. They completely distroy my night vision when I meet a car using them.
On the windows machine that I am typing this from I created a batch file called cleanall.bat that does the following:
/y c:\windows\tempor~1\*.* /y c:\windows\cookies\*.* /y c:\windows\temp\*.* /y c:\windows\history\*.*
deltree
deltree
deltree
deltree
I then put c:\windows\local\cleanall.bat as the last line in my autoexec.bat file
(c:\windows\local is the directory that all my bat files and command line programs are sitting in. This way I could add it to my path easily)
Windows convieniently needs to be rebooted about once every day or two so all cookies and temp files get deleated.
Note: You have to delete most of this stuff booted to msdos because windows won't let you so deleting it on the way in is convienient. You may also have to rem cleanall.bat out of your autoexec.bat file temporarily if you are installing new software that reboots as part of the install.
Come on... stop whining. It only takes a couple of seconds to register for an ID on slashdot. If you really have something to say worth reading then sign in. Its not like questions to a game developer about what kind of car he drives are going to put the secret police after you.
The topics and discusions covered tend to draw techical/scientific people here. When I ask my friends if they ever read
I have things setup here so that I see the highest rated comments first.
I think that the moderation system does a pretty good job of bringing the best comments to the surface. You find fewer "crack pots" spouting off here because they get slammed or moderated down if they don't present credible arguments. There is also less "silly science" here because no matter what people write about, someone here is enough of an expert to know if they have the facts straight. I often find that the comments are as or even more interesting then the articles they are about.