Once upon a time I took apart a Tac-2 and wired it into a pair of wool gloves, The joystick didn't have microswitches but contacts, so the functionality was easy to modify. The contacts were strategically placed on fingertips of the both hands. The gloves worked quite well actually and felt intuitive.
Solution: Build a sort of docking tunnel, through which the trains come to the station. The tunnel has hydraulic/pneumatic system which the train drags along and loads while braking. The loaded energy is transferred to another train (or the same train) by a system at the other end of the station to give the train some initial speed. Or have the hand-straps be connected to a dynamo, so everybody can participate. All in all the system should make hisses and poofs and generally create a sense of great wonder.
I happened to listen to early Jean Michel Jarre music while watching the video, and it was really fitting. I bet this piece ends up to the playlists of VJ's around the world.
Unless he's talking abut color codes and security clearances I don't think he's being overly paranoid. Although tampering with a computer is highly suspicious.
Clouds do not only cool. During the nights when heat is radiating upwards from the ground they can act as an entrapment. Basically the net effect of clouds could be positive if they only appeared during nights.
There actually exists a sideparty of the Assembly Demo/Lan/Festival event in Helsinki that's called Boozembly. The very first Assembly events back in 90s were total drinkfests. Maybe that's something Finnish or Nordic but what I've gathered nerds generally are more wasted (and not only on alcohol) than regular people.
There's a reason why they don't use real IP numbers in the movies. What are the chances that you hit some real and current IP by making numbers up? AFAIK IP's are not geographically equally distributed either.
There's a reason why they don't use real IP number in the movies. What's the probability of hitting a real and current IP by chance? Which country has most IP numbers and how are they shared between countries?
Exactly. It's great that Apple sells a device called iPolarizer to find the exact position. It works by aligning the electromagnetic fields of the connector and the plug to the same plane of reference. The effect lasts for a few weeks until you need to polarize the connectors again. There's also an app to visualize the process.
On the other hand one can build a HTPC or a personal NAS, which basically is a traditional PC.
Maybe that kind of a machine doesn't qualify as a PC when it acts mostly as data storage or server, but basically any screen at home becomes "a monitor" and any input device a "a keyboard". Together they create your personal computing environment. You don't even have to be at your home. Any screen can replay your data.
It's about transformation of the concept rather than PC vanishing. Or actually it does vanish eventually and becomes omnipresent.
It's a bit more complicated, because everyone can print their money. The US have to compete with other economies, who all like to have a bit weaker currency than the other.
Couldn't that be solved by creating intelligent micro-grids, which contribute the extra energy back to the greater grid? Instead of continuing along mega-powerplant route it might be useful to create many smaller and local power plants.
Cyber warfare ultimately and logically leads to blowing up servers or other physical acts along the route.
It's also problematic and not in the lightest sense that the people who make privatization and outsourcing recommendations are often themselves working as consultans for possible future contractors.
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I wonder what's the rationale for not confirming any identification in the first place. Wouldn't it be beneficial for a service like this to build confidential relationships between the users (and the service)?
It seems that we need to couple Large Hadron Collider with stock market to advance science. It's somewhat tragic that money is the driving force of development.
If you can stop deforestation, reduce the amount of cattle and stop the release of greenhouse gases the predictions will be wrong. Actually, the amount of greenhouse gases would need to be lowered to the state where they were before the excessive human interaction with Earth's ecosystem.
Deforestation (half ot the tropical rainforests gone already) and cattle keeping amplify the greehouse effect by themselves already - the processes of human society add to the totality. The processes and methods need to be advanced.
If the surround sound comes from a movie DVD it's already compressed to oblivion. AC3 6 channel total is about 450 kbit/s, and the codec makes the sound feel like dynamically equalized by default. I have worked at surround film sound studios and the original sound directly from the timeline is just amazing. I wholeheartedly agree with you about quality. It's appalling that we have been conditioned (marketed) to perceive poor quality sound as the best possible.
100 year of progress to have the best possible quality for the mass market has been broken. CD's have been abandoned and they have been replaced with lossy compressed sound. We are at the early stage of digitalizing everything, and the quest for the quality has started again.
Most people don't really care about the specifcs of technology. The feeling that you can have (or did have) from a great song on an old cassette playing through the small speakers inside a car while the motor is running and wheels turning is still great! The same goes with playing songs via your phone's speakers to your friends and sharing the joy. Some times crappy quality is all that is needed.
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Once upon a time I took apart a Tac-2 and wired it into a pair of wool gloves, The joystick didn't have microswitches but contacts, so the functionality was easy to modify. The contacts were strategically placed on fingertips of the both hands. The gloves worked quite well actually and felt intuitive.
Solution: Build a sort of docking tunnel, through which the trains come to the station. The tunnel has hydraulic/pneumatic system which the train drags along and loads while braking. The loaded energy is transferred to another train (or the same train) by a system at the other end of the station to give the train some initial speed. Or have the hand-straps be connected to a dynamo, so everybody can participate. All in all the system should make hisses and poofs and generally create a sense of great wonder.
I'd say they are having a learning experience while covering immediate needs with a proven setup.
I happened to listen to early Jean Michel Jarre music while watching the video, and it was really fitting. I bet this piece ends up to the playlists of VJ's around the world.
Solution as clear as the sky: Attach a propel to the LHC.
It's somewhat a mystery that we have not self destructed yet. I can't say if it's because we are not reasonable enough or that we are.
Unless he's talking abut color codes and security clearances I don't think he's being overly paranoid. Although tampering with a computer is highly suspicious.
Clouds do not only cool. During the nights when heat is radiating upwards from the ground they can act as an entrapment. Basically the net effect of clouds could be positive if they only appeared during nights.
There actually exists a sideparty of the Assembly Demo/Lan/Festival event in Helsinki that's called Boozembly. The very first Assembly events back in 90s were total drinkfests. Maybe that's something Finnish or Nordic but what I've gathered nerds generally are more wasted (and not only on alcohol) than regular people.
There's a reason why they don't use real IP numbers in the movies. What are the chances that you hit some real and current IP by making numbers up? AFAIK IP's are not geographically equally distributed either.
There's a reason why they don't use real IP number in the movies. What's the probability of hitting a real and current IP by chance? Which country has most IP numbers and how are they shared between countries?
It was supposed to be femail transmission but they typoed it - and lived in solitude for ever after.
Exactly. It's great that Apple sells a device called iPolarizer to find the exact position. It works by aligning the electromagnetic fields of the connector and the plug to the same plane of reference. The effect lasts for a few weeks until you need to polarize the connectors again. There's also an app to visualize the process.
But how do we know if people are lying or not?
I'm wondering whether I should yell YOU FUCKING LIAR for every eight sudden call taker around me or carry a D8 dice on me and let it roll.
On the other hand one can build a HTPC or a personal NAS, which basically is a traditional PC.
Maybe that kind of a machine doesn't qualify as a PC when it acts mostly as data storage or server, but basically any screen at home becomes "a monitor" and any input device a "a keyboard". Together they create your personal computing environment. You don't even have to be at your home. Any screen can replay your data.
It's about transformation of the concept rather than PC vanishing. Or actually it does vanish eventually and becomes omnipresent.
LHC@home has been around for years (They used to run simulations but the project wasn't awfully active in the construction phase).
There are actually multitude of projects available.
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php
That list doesn't include projects like http://renderfarm.fi/ and probably many others.
It's a bit more complicated, because everyone can print their money. The US have to compete with other economies, who all like to have a bit weaker currency than the other.
Couldn't that be solved by creating intelligent micro-grids, which contribute the extra energy back to the greater grid? Instead of continuing along mega-powerplant route it might be useful to create many smaller and local power plants.
Cyber warfare ultimately and logically leads to blowing up servers or other physical acts along the route.
It's also problematic and not in the lightest sense that the people who make privatization and outsourcing recommendations are often themselves working as consultans for possible future contractors.
The object is clearly made for accurate projectile shooting in the class room.
How do we know that this isn't the world's second protractor?
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I wonder what's the rationale for not confirming any identification in the first place. Wouldn't it be beneficial for a service like this to build confidential relationships between the users (and the service)?
It seems that we need to couple Large Hadron Collider with stock market to advance science. It's somewhat tragic that money is the driving force of development.
The human reward system is amazingly rigid.
If you can stop deforestation, reduce the amount of cattle and stop the release of greenhouse gases the predictions will be wrong. Actually, the amount of greenhouse gases would need to be lowered to the state where they were before the excessive human interaction with Earth's ecosystem.
Deforestation (half ot the tropical rainforests gone already) and cattle keeping amplify the greehouse effect by themselves already - the processes of human society add to the totality. The processes and methods need to be advanced.
If the surround sound comes from a movie DVD it's already compressed to oblivion. AC3 6 channel total is about 450 kbit/s, and the codec makes the sound feel like dynamically equalized by default. I have worked at surround film sound studios and the original sound directly from the timeline is just amazing. I wholeheartedly agree with you about quality. It's appalling that we have been conditioned (marketed) to perceive poor quality sound as the best possible.
100 year of progress to have the best possible quality for the mass market has been broken. CD's have been abandoned and they have been replaced with lossy compressed sound. We are at the early stage of digitalizing everything, and the quest for the quality has started again.
Most people don't really care about the specifcs of technology. The feeling that you can have (or did have) from a great song on an old cassette playing through the small speakers inside a car while the motor is running and wheels turning is still great! The same goes with playing songs via your phone's speakers to your friends and sharing the joy. Some times crappy quality is all that is needed.