Maybe we Canadians should start swapping perscription drugs for iTunes, iPills.ca? 99 cents a pop (tune).
Robert Goddard proposed this in 1904
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I'm not sure if that makes this a "new" idea. In a paper Robert Goddard, the father of modern rocketry, wrote in his freshman year at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, he proposed, "in detail a railway line between Boston and New York, in which the cars were run in an evacuated tube and were prevented from metal-to-metal contact with the guide rails by electromagnets."
This quote is from a Goddard Biography by Edward Pendray.
Goddard estimated a Boston to New York travel time of 10 minutes.
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If Sony were to do this, doubtful since they seem to be ultra-control freaks, they could create the best computer system since the C64. Think about it, a great multimedia machine and the GNU compilers to take advantage of it. I guess I can always dream.
With 100 GByte hard drives coming soon(if there not here already), why don't we just keep a copy of every page we visit(maybe just a text copy) on our hard drive in a permenant cache. Or maybe bookmark certain domain names for this treatement.
That way each person has partial mirrors of their favorite sites, and in the event that one is shut down the community can try to rebuild the site.
One advantage of this is copyright people would have a hard time criticizing this practice as web browsers and servers are already caching lots of web content. We could then make our cache searchable and shareable ala gnutella. And hey, we'd have an easier time putting up mirrors of media slip ups, like Time/Warner linking to the DeCSS code before they're "corrected".
Icon based interfaces are crude and slow, the only reason for their adoption is that 3 year olds can use them. We communicate through language and its time to communicate with computers in our language.
A shell interface which leverages the rich diversity of Unix commands into a powerful interface my grandfather can use should be possible. An environment in which users could type anything from: What's 2+2? to: Encrypt that last email from Alice and send it to Bob. or:Remind me to take out the garbage before dinner.
(If you want to change the priority of the job just change the manner of your request. Asking nicely will get you a quick response, while berating the computer will lower the priority of the job.)
It wouldn't take too much to get something like this working at a simple level, but it would be alot easier if there were any open source natural language interface to work from. I haven't found any yet, but would love to know if one exists.
The thing that excites me about this stuff is that once its working we could try to splice in voice recognition. Just what do you think you're doing Dave!!!
Just read some of the stories about peoples 1st computers and noted that many C64 users mentioned using Logo. Just wondering what ever happened to Logo? Is it being maintained, has it developed? Just curious.
H. C. Manoharan, C. P. Lutz & D. M. Eigler, Nature403, 512-515(2000).
In this experiment a few Cobalt atoms were deposited on a Copper surface. Using a scanning tunneling microscope the Co atoms were gently dragged into an elliptic(coral) structure, and one Co atom was placed at the focus of the ellipse. (The images of this stuff are gorgeous and more cool STM images of atoms and atomic maniputation can be found at the STM Image Gallery).
Due to the magnetic nature of the Co atom electrons near the atom tend to align their spins with the Co magnetic field screening the magnetic moment. This local phenomina can be imaged by the STM, the surprising result is that another mirage image appears at the second focus of the ellipse. This suggests some sort of long range electon ordering.
These experiments are being done with a low temperature ultra-high vacuum stm (this stuff is damn hard) and to reproduce these same results in a next generation processor as a means to transport data is unlikely in the near future. Nevertheless, these results will have a great effect in our understanding of macroscopic quantum systems and ordering.
Corporations are using tracking software as a feedback mechanism to asses advertising effectivness in a retail control system. This gives them powers that were formerly held by governments(through propaganda) over the people of the world regardless of the country they inhabit.
One might say that in the past countries went to war with one another for economic and material gains(food, wealth, land) but in todays world why not choose a multinational corporation to attack. A war between countries seems like an outdated concept. Especially seeing as global corporations are often richer than many countries in the world.
I wonder what role governments will play in these battles, I guess it will depend on strongly on where we spend our money. If we give 20% to government through taxation and at most 20% to any large multinational things might be ok. But once the amount of our personal income going to a single multinational exceeds that going to our government we could be in trouble.(The exact numbers are probably off a bit due to government and company overhead but you get the idea).
U. Leonhard and P. Piwnicki, Physical Review Letters, 84, 822-825(2000).
This is the actual reference to the paper proposing optical black holes. It has been published in what is arguably the most respected physics journal(not some speculative rag). Many of you are asking about a material in which the speed of light is very slow. Such a material was demonstrated last year:
L. V. Hau, S. E. Harris, Z. Dutton, and C. H. Behroozi, Nature(London) 397, 594(1999).
In this paper Hau et. al. demonstrated that light traveling through a Bose Einstein Condensate is slowed to a mere 17 m/s. This is slower than most bicycles ride(as illustrated by the cover of that weeks nature). To find out what Bose Einstein Condensate is you can refer to:
Anderson, M. H., Ensher, J. R., Matthews, M. R., Wieman, C. E. & Cornell, E. A. Observation of Bose-Einstein condensation in a dilute atomic vapor. Science 269, 198-201 (1995).
Now go to your local University Physics Library and look a few of these things up before advertising your ignorance and pronouncing that this is bullshit just cause you read some bullshit article on real science
Does this CAD program export GDSII files. It seems like many industry companies use these files but its very hard to find CAD programs costing less than $10,000 that support this format.
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The only way 3Dwm's will become useful is if they display more that just 2d windows in the 3rd dimension. You've got to be giving the user more information in the 3rd dimension. eg. If you're surfing the web you could see the page you're on in the context of the page links, displayed in the 3rd dim. Or if you were writing a program perhaps subroutines could appear in added dimensions. That would be cool! (and perhaps useful)
I was thinking of taking advantage of the limited viewing angle of a TFT display. Why not construct a TFT type display where the light channels were etched in such a way(and at such an angle) that each eye would see a different image of the same display.
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Maybe we Canadians should start swapping perscription drugs for iTunes, iPills.ca? 99 cents a pop (tune).
I'm not sure if that makes this a "new" idea. In a paper Robert Goddard, the father of modern rocketry, wrote in his freshman year at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, he proposed, "in detail a railway line between Boston and New York, in which the cars were run in an evacuated tube and were prevented from metal-to-metal contact with the guide rails by electromagnets." This quote is from a Goddard Biography by Edward Pendray. Goddard estimated a Boston to New York travel time of 10 minutes.
If Sony were to do this, doubtful since they seem to be ultra-control freaks, they could create the best computer system since the C64. Think about it, a great multimedia machine and the GNU compilers to take advantage of it. I guess I can always dream.
With 100 GByte hard drives coming soon(if there not here already), why don't we just keep a copy of every page we visit(maybe just a text copy) on our hard drive in a permenant cache. Or maybe bookmark certain domain names for this treatement.
That way each person has partial mirrors of their favorite sites, and in the event that one is shut down the community can try to rebuild the site.
One advantage of this is copyright people would have a hard time criticizing this practice as web browsers and servers are already caching lots of web content. We could then make our cache searchable and shareable ala gnutella. And hey, we'd have an easier time putting up mirrors of media slip ups, like Time/Warner linking to the DeCSS code before they're "corrected".
Then offer to sell it back to SDMI to help fund their other battles.
Icon based interfaces are crude and slow, the only reason for their adoption is that 3 year olds can use them. We communicate through language and its time to communicate with computers in our language.
A shell interface which leverages the rich diversity of Unix commands into a powerful interface my grandfather can use should be possible. An environment in which users could type anything from: What's 2+2? to: Encrypt that last email from Alice and send it to Bob. or:Remind me to take out the garbage before dinner.
(If you want to change the priority of the job just change the manner of your request. Asking nicely will get you a quick response, while berating the computer will lower the priority of the job.)
It wouldn't take too much to get something like this working at a simple level, but it would be alot easier if there were any open source natural language interface to work from. I haven't found any yet, but would love to know if one exists.
The thing that excites me about this stuff is that once its working we could try to splice in voice recognition. Just what do you think you're doing Dave!!!
Just read some of the stories about peoples 1st computers and noted that many C64 users mentioned using Logo. Just wondering what ever happened to Logo? Is it being maintained, has it developed? Just curious.
If you look at the screen shots, one of them shows the device playing MP3's! I'm sold!
Ok the reference for this work is:
H. C. Manoharan, C. P. Lutz & D. M. Eigler, Nature403, 512-515(2000).
In this experiment a few Cobalt atoms were deposited on a Copper surface. Using a scanning tunneling microscope the Co atoms were gently dragged into an elliptic(coral) structure, and one Co atom was placed at the focus of the ellipse. (The images of this stuff are gorgeous and more cool STM images of atoms and atomic maniputation can be found at the STM Image Gallery).
Due to the magnetic nature of the Co atom electrons near the atom tend to align their spins with the Co magnetic field screening the magnetic moment. This local phenomina can be imaged by the STM, the surprising result is that another mirage image appears at the second focus of the ellipse. This suggests some sort of long range electon ordering.
These experiments are being done with a low temperature ultra-high vacuum stm (this stuff is damn hard) and to reproduce these same results in a next generation processor as a means to transport data is unlikely in the near future. Nevertheless, these results will have a great effect in our understanding of macroscopic quantum systems and ordering.
Corporations are using tracking software as a feedback mechanism to asses advertising effectivness in a retail control system. This gives them powers that were formerly held by governments(through propaganda) over the people of the world regardless of the country they inhabit.
One might say that in the past countries went to war with one another for economic and material gains(food, wealth, land) but in todays world why not choose a multinational corporation to attack. A war between countries seems like an outdated concept. Especially seeing as global corporations are often richer than many countries in the world.
I wonder what role governments will play in these battles, I guess it will depend on strongly on where we spend our money. If we give 20% to government through taxation and at most 20% to any large multinational things might be ok. But once the amount of our personal income going to a single multinational exceeds that going to our government we could be in trouble.(The exact numbers are probably off a bit due to government and company overhead but you get the idea).
Optical Black Holes reference:
U. Leonhard and P. Piwnicki, Physical Review Letters, 84, 822-825(2000).
This is the actual reference to the paper proposing optical black holes. It has been published in what is arguably the most respected physics journal(not some speculative rag). Many of you are asking about a material in which the speed of light is very slow. Such a material was demonstrated last year:
L. V. Hau, S. E. Harris, Z. Dutton, and C. H. Behroozi, Nature(London) 397, 594(1999).
In this paper Hau et. al. demonstrated that light traveling through a Bose Einstein Condensate is slowed to a mere 17 m/s. This is slower than most bicycles ride(as illustrated by the cover of that weeks nature). To find out what Bose Einstein Condensate is you can refer to:
Anderson, M. H., Ensher, J. R., Matthews, M. R., Wieman, C. E. & Cornell, E. A. Observation of Bose-Einstein condensation in a dilute atomic vapor. Science 269, 198-201 (1995).
Now go to your local University Physics Library and look a few of these things up before advertising your ignorance and pronouncing that this is bullshit just cause you read some bullshit article on real science
And a multiplayer melee mode would make it fantastic!
Does this CAD program export GDSII files. It seems like many industry companies use these files but its very hard to find CAD programs costing less than $10,000 that support this format.
The only way 3Dwm's will become useful is if they display more that just 2d windows in the 3rd dimension. You've got to be giving the user more information in the 3rd dimension. eg. If you're surfing the web you could see the page you're on in the context of the page links, displayed in the 3rd dim. Or if you were writing a program perhaps subroutines could appear in added dimensions. That would be cool! (and perhaps useful)
I was thinking of taking advantage of the limited viewing angle of a TFT display. Why not construct a TFT type display where the light channels were etched in such a way(and at such an angle) that each eye would see a different image of the same display.