This is such an old concept, probably over ten years old already.
I first read about this in 1990 or so in Omni Magazine (yes, Omni). They spoke about putting a comblike device into your corpus calossum (the bundle of nerve fibers that connect the left and right hemispheres of your brain). The device would evesdrop on the transmissions carried across this conduit. Accroding to the article, you would wear the comb and an attached cpu for the last months of your life. During this time, the comb and cpu would record your consciencness. When you die, they'd upload you into a more permanent unit. They'd make you a body, complete with a monitor for your head, displaying your image when you looked your best. They even suggested hooking your new brain up to optical and touch sensors, giving you eyes and fingers, and some form of movement device.
The last issue of wired magazine (january 2000) also ran a similar story.
That's pretty absurd. Just think of all the math operations any kind of new product uses, whether it is electronic or not. No matter high tech it is, the product would either use some math for its operation or have used it during it's development.
Newton developed calculus. If we had to pay royalties to his heirs (or maybe to the newton corporation!) every time we took a derivative or modeled a process with a differential equation...we'd..we'd...well, i don't know what would happen, but it seems crazy.
Even though this IDCT approx is a new idea and could probably legally get patented, it totally shouldn't be. Another approx, the sterling approx, says that ln(x!)=xlnx-x. Every time this is used, no one pays anything, no one owns it.
You definetly make a point, but.. The guy that the box was shipped to had nothing to do with the mishap. If he was, they'd be pressing charges. Even if he was involved, MS shouldn't be allowed to call the cops and get action on a whim. He didn't do anything, he shouldn't have the cops at his house. UPS maybe, but not the cops.
If you shipped a package to someone, ie you paid ups to send mom her christmas gift and it accidently goes to someone else, what does the NYPD have to do with it?? Who cares how much the thing costs, it's irrevelant. Why not call UPS and have them fix the problem??
As it was already said, the main juice of this article was MS called NYPD to fix their problem with UPS. (Already said), who paid for this? It costs resources to have the cops come to an address. What about the dude that was getting mugged in the other neighborhood while these coppers were kissing MS butt?? Gimmie a break. You try calling NYPD and tell them that you UPS'd a package somewhere and it got sent to the wrong addy, see how fast they tell you to call UPS, and then see how fast they laugh at your face (through the phone).
Again, being redundant, MS must have SOME CLOUT to get the police to fix a problem that UPS should have.
Bottom line...MS NOT ONLY HAS THE POWER TO CONTROL (most of) CONSUMER COMPUTING, THEY CAN CONTROL THE %&*$ING COPS TOO!
Forget us private citizens, why not give it to soldiers?
You have every single air force pilot, infantry grunt, what have you...sporting one of these tiny devices under his big ol' "24th MI BATILLON KICKS ASS" skull and eagle tattoo. This way, if he gets captured, Norman Schwartzsneeze can know the exact position of the POW camp or where ever it is "they" take captured US soldiers.
What if the enemy finds out about our country's little secret? What if Omar Obdell Rockmond reads slashdot? I'd hate to me a captured army man...I'm sure they'd perform a little exploaratory surgery...eeeeccchhh!!!
Global disaster on Earth, everyone dead. Oh, there's the Mars Colony. Stranded like Gilligian on a piece of red rock where nothing grows. Point is, I'm sure that if we do establish a colony on Mars, it will be very dependent on Earth for resources for a very long, long time.
Like another reply stated, wearables have been around for a while here in the US. A couple of guys at MIT media lab were doing projects. Wired had an article a few months back...they described a very interesting "augmented reality". Some of the applications of wearables discussed (for personal use): Eyewear that recognizes faces and pulls up personal data on the person you are looking at, viewed through your flashy lenses Standard web surf/email stuff, also viewed through eyepeices In the work place, the applications are far more high tech and useful. The article described airplane manufacturers, mainly the guys who do the wiring, being able to use a wearable to follow a wiring plan. The plan would be projected onto an eyepiece similar to the one the woman in the photo was wearing. With it wirers could do the job by superimposing the plan onto their work and simply following the lines. Neat stuff. In all, wearables are dorky and bulky for personal use. What the hell are you going to use it for? If you do find a good use, is it worth walking around looking like a lost trekkie?
OK, I'm kind of new to these super fast computer models (>800MHz) and I am completely amazed to see that they're using compressors to cool their chips. I remember about 7 or 8 years back hearing about the pentium design having the flaw of overheating. What a great fusion of technology (old and new) of having a refridgeration unit built right into your PC. Say goodbye to your heat sink, your "thin fin" cooling mechanisms. So a few years down the line when I finally buy my GHz home computer I will not only be buying myself a superfast computer, I'll be buying a refridgerator similar to the one that I keep in my dorm room. I didn't read the entire article in Tom's, so I'm wondering about two important things. A) How much more energy will my computer be using? Refridgeration systems cost money to run, will it be economical for me to keep it on 24/7? It will be like having two refridgerators in my home in use. B) How much will my new beer cooler/computer cost? I figure tack on an extra couple of hundred dollars for the refridgeration unit. Energy. We US'ers already comsume far more energy per capita than any other country in the world. Now with our new PC's that need refridgeration units, I'm sure our per capita energy consumption will skyrocket. Any thoughts?
So now that Goto.com has secured it's right's to it's bland green circle-yellow square logo, they could always upgrade to the traffic light in the future, couldn't they? Hell, Disney won't be using it. Maybe nab a few people to their site who mistook it for the old disney go logo. Pretty much now goto won a free logo from this, the traffic light disney used. This case reeks of bullshit. Yeah it's good to see a big co falling to a little co for a change, but seriously, those logos are different. Shame on you goto.com for abusing the system.
People are going to blow this out of proportion, because the headlines contain the word "nuclear". While this disaster doesn't seem anywhere near the magnitude of TMI, Chernobyl, Windscale, I'm sure the media is going to make it seem like is. I sure hope fusion research doesn't suffer... But seriously, if the public is to be wooed into accepting nuclear technology, we should be more careful with our isotopes.
Wah wah wah, face recognition is going to lead to a big brother society, the government is going to sell my face to door to door salesmen...Quit it! Why is everyone so afraid of this face recognition stuff? I think it's cool, maybe I'll be able to go to the atm without my card and still pull enough loot for new palm pilot external mouse I had my eye on. People who are afraid that face recognition technology will lead to a decrease in their personal privicay have big egos. The governmet doesn't care what you look like, unless you're a terrorist.
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This is such an old concept, probably over ten years old already.
I first read about this in 1990 or so in Omni Magazine (yes, Omni). They spoke about putting a comblike device into your corpus calossum (the bundle of nerve fibers that connect the left and right hemispheres of your brain). The device would evesdrop on the transmissions carried across this conduit. Accroding to the article, you would wear the comb and an attached cpu for the last months of your life. During this time, the comb and cpu would record your consciencness. When you die, they'd upload you into a more permanent unit. They'd make you a body, complete with a monitor for your head, displaying your image when you looked your best. They even suggested hooking your new brain up to optical and touch sensors, giving you eyes and fingers, and some form of movement device.
The last issue of wired magazine (january 2000) also ran a similar story.
Anyone ever see that skin for winamp called "woodamp?" It looks just like this guy's palm pilot.
I guess wood paneling isn't just for dentist waiting rooms and station wagons anymore.
OK, I can't resist..."I have wood on my palm!!"
Sorry
That's pretty absurd. Just think of all the math operations any kind of new product uses, whether it is electronic or not. No matter high tech it is, the product would either use some math for its operation or have used it during it's development.
Newton developed calculus. If we had to pay royalties to his heirs (or maybe to the newton corporation!) every time we took a derivative or modeled a process with a differential equation...we'd..we'd...well, i don't know what would happen, but it seems crazy.
Even though this IDCT approx is a new idea and could probably legally get patented, it totally shouldn't be. Another approx, the sterling approx, says that ln(x!)=xlnx-x. Every time this is used, no one pays anything, no one owns it.
This article inspired me to compose a hikau. Here it is.
Selling off the dead
Bones for sale! Bones are for sale!
Skeleton warehouse
Thank you.
You definetly make a point, but..
The guy that the box was shipped to had nothing to do with the mishap. If he was, they'd be pressing charges.
Even if he was involved, MS shouldn't be allowed to call the cops and get action on a whim. He didn't do anything, he shouldn't have the cops at his house. UPS maybe, but not the cops.
I don't think you get it.
If you shipped a package to someone, ie you paid ups to send mom her christmas gift and it accidently goes to someone else, what does the NYPD have to do with it?? Who cares how much the thing costs, it's irrevelant. Why not call UPS and have them fix the problem??
As it was already said, the main juice of this article was MS called NYPD to fix their problem with UPS. (Already said), who paid for this? It costs resources to have the cops come to an address. What about the dude that was getting mugged in the other neighborhood while these coppers were kissing MS butt?? Gimmie a break. You try calling NYPD and tell them that you UPS'd a package somewhere and it got sent to the wrong addy, see how fast they tell you to call UPS, and then see how fast they laugh at your face (through the phone).
Again, being redundant, MS must have SOME CLOUT to get the police to fix a problem that UPS should have.
Bottom line...MS NOT ONLY HAS THE POWER TO CONTROL (most of) CONSUMER COMPUTING, THEY CAN CONTROL THE %&*$ING COPS TOO!
Heh...the transceiver "doo-hicky" will no doubt run on a coded frequency.
Why not use PGP to code the data? oops, PGP is crackable....back to the drawing board!
Forget us private citizens, why not give it to soldiers?
You have every single air force pilot, infantry grunt, what have you...sporting one of these tiny devices under his big ol' "24th MI BATILLON KICKS ASS" skull and eagle tattoo. This way, if he gets captured, Norman Schwartzsneeze can know the exact position of the POW camp or where ever it is "they" take captured US soldiers.
What if the enemy finds out about our country's little secret? What if Omar Obdell Rockmond reads slashdot? I'd hate to me a captured army man...I'm sure they'd perform a little exploaratory surgery...eeeeccchhh!!!
Global disaster on Earth, everyone dead. Oh, there's the Mars Colony. Stranded like Gilligian on a piece of red rock where nothing grows. Point is, I'm sure that if we do establish a colony on Mars, it will be very dependent on Earth for resources for a very long, long time.
Like another reply stated, wearables have been around for a while here in the US. A couple of guys at MIT media lab were doing projects. Wired had an article a few months back...they described a very interesting "augmented reality". Some of the applications of wearables discussed (for personal use): Eyewear that recognizes faces and pulls up personal data on the person you are looking at, viewed through your flashy lenses Standard web surf/email stuff, also viewed through eyepeices In the work place, the applications are far more high tech and useful. The article described airplane manufacturers, mainly the guys who do the wiring, being able to use a wearable to follow a wiring plan. The plan would be projected onto an eyepiece similar to the one the woman in the photo was wearing. With it wirers could do the job by superimposing the plan onto their work and simply following the lines. Neat stuff. In all, wearables are dorky and bulky for personal use. What the hell are you going to use it for? If you do find a good use, is it worth walking around looking like a lost trekkie?
yeah dude, doom IS the best thing to happen to us since intellivision
OK, I'm kind of new to these super fast computer models (>800MHz) and I am completely amazed to see that they're using compressors to cool their chips. I remember about 7 or 8 years back hearing about the pentium design having the flaw of overheating. What a great fusion of technology (old and new) of having a refridgeration unit built right into your PC. Say goodbye to your heat sink, your "thin fin" cooling mechanisms. So a few years down the line when I finally buy my GHz home computer I will not only be buying myself a superfast computer, I'll be buying a refridgerator similar to the one that I keep in my dorm room. I didn't read the entire article in Tom's, so I'm wondering about two important things. A) How much more energy will my computer be using? Refridgeration systems cost money to run, will it be economical for me to keep it on 24/7? It will be like having two refridgerators in my home in use. B) How much will my new beer cooler/computer cost? I figure tack on an extra couple of hundred dollars for the refridgeration unit. Energy. We US'ers already comsume far more energy per capita than any other country in the world. Now with our new PC's that need refridgeration units, I'm sure our per capita energy consumption will skyrocket. Any thoughts?
So now that Goto.com has secured it's right's to it's bland green circle-yellow square logo, they could always upgrade to the traffic light in the future, couldn't they? Hell, Disney won't be using it. Maybe nab a few people to their site who mistook it for the old disney go logo. Pretty much now goto won a free logo from this, the traffic light disney used. This case reeks of bullshit. Yeah it's good to see a big co falling to a little co for a change, but seriously, those logos are different. Shame on you goto.com for abusing the system.
Doom is still my favorite..
People are going to blow this out of proportion, because the headlines contain the word "nuclear". While this disaster doesn't seem anywhere near the magnitude of TMI, Chernobyl, Windscale, I'm sure the media is going to make it seem like is. I sure hope fusion research doesn't suffer... But seriously, if the public is to be wooed into accepting nuclear technology, we should be more careful with our isotopes.
I'm thinking lawsuit.
well, it seems to me that having your face on file isn't as bad as it sounds. doesn't the dmv already have us on file?
Wah wah wah, face recognition is going to lead to a big brother society, the government is going to sell my face to door to door salesmen...Quit it! Why is everyone so afraid of this face recognition stuff? I think it's cool, maybe I'll be able to go to the atm without my card and still pull enough loot for new palm pilot external mouse I had my eye on. People who are afraid that face recognition technology will lead to a decrease in their personal privicay have big egos. The governmet doesn't care what you look like, unless you're a terrorist.