Sentence Group A
He’s being such a milksop nowadays.
She doesn’t play Halo any more.
Sentence Group B
He’s being such a milksop any more.
She doesn’t play Halo nowadays.
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Alex: the problem I see with lasers (I haven’t read your entire exchange) is that if you move your eyes, the projected image will not move with your line of site. Unless they got crazy stuff that will conpensate for that. Then there’s the issue of the focal length of the eye changing as you look at different things. This assumes that the laser is doing an overlay, and not meant to block out everything completely.. and if that were the case, you’d have to worry about your peripheral vision.
Alex: I’ll go with the goggle optics until I can get wet-wiredSkennedy: Yeah, I’m of that mind myself. Though I don’t know if wet-ware works will ever actually take off. I think we’ll see transmission to the optical nerve or similar before that, perhaps, via a ‘ballcap’.
Alex: transmission to a receiver on the optical nerve would be just fine by me. But I’ll wait until v2.3 before I commit
Alex: or, wire it in to your brain so you see a “window” in your mind with the info in itSkennedy: I just think copper (and similar) isn’t going to cut it. We can calibrate lasers so they apply their heat at a specific precise distance under your skin. I wonder if we’ll find some way to provide electrical stimulation to the optical nerves without directly physically accessing those nerves.
Alex: precision growth of new nerves that will act as the go-between between the grey matter, and the hardware.
Alex: little organisms that’ll be grown using your DNA, but built to perform the function of interacting with the hardware
Alex: *Shrugs*Skennedy: Ooh. I’m so posting this.
I mean, seriously. Why are we using copper to transmit signals through the body (and yes we are doing that) when we should be building a tertiary nervous structure using our own genetic material? I mean, we should use our own body’s natural method of transmitting electrical impulses.
Alex and I talked a bit more, and he said that stylistically he’d want that to terminate behind the ear. Which is where people with cochlear implants have their terminal.
Speaking of which, wouldn’t cochlear implants benefit from using a grown nerve to transmit electrical impulses?
All that cyberpunk wetware crap? Think of it this way: If we could grow new sets of nerves to allow external devices to interact with our senses in new ways, why would we concern ourselves with installing hardware into our bodies? We’d have built a naturally infection-free direct transmission method allowing us to change our augmenting hardware as easily as we change hats.
I almost want to start writing a novel just so I can explore this.
Can we talk?
I’m hot for video glasses, or eyephones, or whatever terminology you want to use. You may think I am jumping on the technology bandwagon now that it’s hot, but you would be so, so terribly wrong.
Of all the toys in sci-fi, of all the anime standards, THIS is the part I coveted with the fierceness of a thousand suns. I saw Johnny Mnemonic and I didn’t care that it had the worst acting of all time, I wanted that interface.
When I had to create a graphic example of what the future might be like for I Love Bees, I made contact lens displays (scroll down to find it amongst the Special Commendations).
We’ve finally reached the point where very slim glasses-based displays will show a full 640×480 resolution (the stark minimum for any modern computer display) with vga and RCA connections as well as surround-sound based earphones. The best of their set simulates an 80″ display at 1 meter.
This is good enough to play video games and watch movies. Heck, one of them is “tailored for the wii” though I suggest you’re going to kill yourself on a coffee table or brain someone with that combination.
That’s pretty awesome (It’s utility, I mean), but what it really means is we’re only a few years away from affordable, fairly unnoticeable displays with enough detail that I could edit video while sitting in the airport waiting for a plane, with privacy.
Start considering other advances in technology, and soon I won’t even have to open a laptop in the cramped window seat. Three to five years might find me plugging into an ultra-mobile PC powerful enough to handle major tasks – a display-turned-touchpad for manipulation and video glasses for my display.
So hot. So very hot.
Having dinner and drinks with Colleen last night was pretty great. We hit up that local joint, Charley’s, and I had a fantastic chicken kebab. We have some old college buddies that might be getting together for a reunion of sorts, which is a … complicated matter. It will, one way or another, be entertaining. :D
Work has me thoughtful. Continue reading ‘State of the skennedy’
I wonder if the CSL will ever realize that I put my headphones in precisely when she starts getting too loud on her very, very personal calls.
See, like today I know that she’s asking one of her children (I hope it’s one of her children) if they -really- want to move in with her again because she’ll of course make them stop listening to certain music and watch certain movies and make her go to church etc. I could not plug my ears before hearing that the child’s life could be worse, she could be beaten bloody, “she knows from experience”… I’m like WHY do I know these things?
Beh.
I always think forgetting my phone at home is no big deal until I’m thinking of getting lunch alone and I start getting antsy ’cause I can’t make phone calls in my few minutes of freedom. *chuckle*
Clearly I need to start reincorporating social time. The Project I’ve been working on has sucked away countless, countless hours.
So, I need some peoples over at my place for movies and foodage. Drop me an email (thisljname at gmail) if you’re interested in coming alll the wayyyy out to plymouth, and we’ll have some fun. :) Maybe Serenity or A Wrinkle in Time or something else fun.
I even have a nice big table for board games… or haunted mansion games. :D
*snicker* This was fairly cute.
Julie, Colleen, Adam and Tina and I were all Video majors at MU, and so we often starred in each other’s videos for class. Years later, Julie posts one up on ye olde myspace, and you reap the rewards. I do have a cameo. ;)
I was looking at the ice pack in my freezer, and noticed it suggested you put it on top of your food in the cooler because “cold travels downward”.
Let’s keep in mind we’re not talking about cold wind, but warm and cold things in direct contact.
Uhm hm. Shouldn’t there be a law that you can’t manufacture and sell something without a clue as to why it works?
netmouse had me sift through books she no longer wanted, and I am geeked! I have a dozen books I always wanted to read, including a few nice hardcovers. I also have some books from an author friend I was planning on checking out, and one of these days I might get around to that kushiel series and see what you all keep fussing about. ;)
Meanwhile, I’m irritated at how my laptop is totally occupied with converting video files, leaving me with the work laptop for feeding my crack web addiction. For two to six hours at a time, I just tell it to look at a video segment, run a few filters, and get back to me.
One of these days I’d really like to pick up a VGA to RCA adapter – specifically, I’d like to play my NES, SNES, Genesis etc emulators on the big TV.
In other news, my tax return is going to pretty much be eaten up by my bills and the trip lucy and I are FINALLY taking to Chicago (we’ve been planning to go together for six months or more). Not being able to use it for toys or business gave me the incentive to actually write my boss last night and ask him if we could talk about changing my job title (etc) to reflect what I actually do.
That’s a big step for me.
