His device seems like a drastic overkill. A full-blown CPU? A polymer dynamic screen? A modem??? How about sticking with the original idea of printing stuff on paper. Think about it.
Static text - just print it
Text input - a sticky matrix with hair-thin wires held apart by a very thin layer of insulating gel. Write on top of it with a pen and wires stick together. With enough wires you should be able to read off pixels quite easily at a speed considerably faster than optical scanning.
Connectivity can be provided by a simple computer port. Plug it into a USB port and put a small serial controller chip on the paper. The chip can be made small as a speck of dust with current tech, then draw lines with conducting foil for edge contacts and have a clipboard-like contraption to hold the paper to the port adapter.
Mass production is, of course, possible. You could just make the entire paper one large wire grid with bus lines on the edges. The chip could be built using a separate assembly on a silicon platform and soldered in at the last moment. There would be some problems with gel stiffnes, to ensure that only a pen or something sharp like it would penetrate it, but this certainly is not insurmountable. So what do you think?
I have both W2K and Linux on my machine at home and there were no problems whatsoever with getting either to install correctly. W2K didn't even touch my LILO in the MBR and installed the loader on its partition, like we all hoped W95 would do. No more messing with that NT loader madness in NT4, just use LILO for everything. There was a small glitch with the disk manager though, it showed some of the Linux partitions as "Free space". It could be because I set my extended partition to Linux Extended, to avoid having the drives show up in anything DOS, but W2K's failure to recognize them as a valid partition suggests either an honest mistake or a deliberate attempt to make people erase their non-MS partitions:) In either case, the document on how to remove offending partitions that W2K doesn't recognize, is appropriate.
Am I being naive or is it strange that the stock price rose after the company declared that it is operating at a loss? Seems to me like the stock is being inflated way past its real value and is bound to crash sooner or later...
With Windows I distinctly remember having to press ALT first in some combinations. Specifically, if I create a keyboard shortcut to launch the command prompt with Ctrl+Alt+D, pressing it in that order does not always work. Because the Alt key is a toggle, it sometimes is ignored. Has anyone else experienced such a problem?
How did they manage to put a 486 chip on a Socket7 motherboard? That motherboard appears to be quite new, with an AGP slot and SDRAM. Also, the temperatures don't look real. It is not possible to get -40 with a conventional freezer. Adding cold beverages does not lower the temperature inside the freezer (it should actually raise the temperature, due to additional heat being introduced into the system).
The problem really is that if you let a disabled child live, he'll get a chance to pass on his defective genes and cause more children like him to be born afterward. Simple sterilization should be good enough to stop defect propagation and after a few generations, the original problem of having defective children should be drastically reduced in frequency. Selective breeding really is a good idea. Just ask the Bene Gesserit...
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- Static text - just print it
- Text input - a sticky matrix with hair-thin wires held apart by a very thin layer of insulating gel. Write on top of it with a pen and wires stick together. With enough wires you should be able to read off pixels quite easily at a speed considerably faster than optical scanning.
- Connectivity can be provided by a simple computer port. Plug it into a USB port and put a small serial controller chip on the paper. The chip can be made small as a speck of dust with current tech, then draw lines with conducting foil for edge contacts and have a clipboard-like contraption to hold the paper to the port adapter.
Mass production is, of course, possible. You could just make the entire paper one large wire grid with bus lines on the edges. The chip could be built using a separate assembly on a silicon platform and soldered in at the last moment. There would be some problems with gel stiffnes, to ensure that only a pen or something sharp like it would penetrate it, but this certainly is not insurmountable.So what do you think?
I have both W2K and Linux on my machine at home and there were no problems whatsoever with getting either to install correctly. W2K didn't even touch my LILO in the MBR and installed the loader on its partition, like we all hoped W95 would do. No more messing with that NT loader madness in NT4, just use LILO for everything. There was a small glitch with the disk manager though, it showed some of the Linux partitions as "Free space". It could be because I set my extended partition to Linux Extended, to avoid having the drives show up in anything DOS, but W2K's failure to recognize them as a valid partition suggests either an honest mistake or a deliberate attempt to make people erase their non-MS partitions :) In either case, the document on how to remove offending partitions that W2K doesn't recognize, is appropriate.
Am I being naive or is it strange that the stock price rose after the company declared that it is operating at a loss? Seems to me like the stock is being inflated way past its real value and is bound to crash sooner or later...
With Windows I distinctly remember having to press ALT first in some combinations. Specifically, if I create a keyboard shortcut to launch the command prompt with Ctrl+Alt+D, pressing it in that order does not always work. Because the Alt key is a toggle, it sometimes is ignored. Has anyone else experienced such a problem?
Because all blue-green algae are forming a corporation, it makes you not an infringer, but a manager of a corporate branch!
How did they manage to put a 486 chip on a Socket7 motherboard? That motherboard appears to be quite new, with an AGP slot and SDRAM. Also, the temperatures don't look real. It is not possible to get -40 with a conventional freezer. Adding cold beverages does not lower the temperature inside the freezer (it should actually raise the temperature, due to additional heat being introduced into the system).
The problem really is that if you let a disabled child live, he'll get a chance to pass on his defective genes and cause more children like him to be born afterward. Simple sterilization should be good enough to stop defect propagation and after a few generations, the original problem of having defective children should be drastically reduced in frequency. Selective breeding really is a good idea. Just ask the Bene Gesserit...