A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
- Robert Heinlein
Monday, October 25, 2004
Friday, October 22, 2004
Thursday, October 21, 2004
Election 2004 - Bush and Kerry on Technology
Those who didn't hear enough about technology in the presidential debates now have a handy cheat sheet of responses from both leading candidates to 12 questions posed by the Computing Technology Industry Association earlier this month.
Election 2004 - Bush and Kerry on Technology
Election 2004 - Bush and Kerry on Technology
Sunday, October 17, 2004
JibJab.com
John Edwards in a bikini brief? Dick Cheney making an obscene gesture? The political satirists at JibJab are at it again. Watch it @ JibJab.com
Thursday, October 14, 2004
Google Desktop Search Download
To use Google's desktop application, people download the file, which is a thin 400K, or about half the size of its toolbar application. (Users must have 128MB of memory installed on their PC, but the application uses only about 8MB.) The software then scans the hard drive in the background to index the full text of Word, Outlook e-mail, Excel files, text files, AOL chat logs, and saved Web pages from Internet Explorer--a process that typically takes between five and six hours. Then as the application runs, it indexes new documents and visited Web pages in real time.
(People using Firefox and other browsers will not be able to record their Web history using the application.)
Google Desktop is then seamlessly integrated with the Web browser; people with the software will see an extra tab for "desktop" when they visit Google.com. When a search text is typed in the search box, Google will return a list of Web results and a set of desktop results at the top of the page, earmarked with a new logo that's like a multicolored Olympic ring.
Helpful link at OReily
(People using Firefox and other browsers will not be able to record their Web history using the application.)
Google Desktop is then seamlessly integrated with the Web browser; people with the software will see an extra tab for "desktop" when they visit Google.com. When a search text is typed in the search box, Google will return a list of Web results and a set of desktop results at the top of the page, earmarked with a new logo that's like a multicolored Olympic ring.
Helpful link at OReily
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Scientists gingerly tap into brain's power
Braingate / Brain Machine Interface (BMI)
A 25-year-old quadriplegic sits in a wheelchair with wires coming out of a bottle-cap-size connector stuck in his skull. The wires run from 100 tiny sensors implanted in his brain and out to a computer. Using just his thoughts, this former high school football player is playing the computer game Pong.
A 25-year-old quadriplegic sits in a wheelchair with wires coming out of a bottle-cap-size connector stuck in his skull. The wires run from 100 tiny sensors implanted in his brain and out to a computer. Using just his thoughts, this former high school football player is playing the computer game Pong.
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