There's also the hypothesis that advanced civilizations want nothing to do with the likes of us Earthlings... and that their advanced communications are highly-directed and not radiating out to the entire universe.
And here's one of the most ambiguous mixed letter sentences in English:
"The sprehas had ponits and patles"
This might come out as...
The sherpas had pitons and plates.
The shapers had points and pleats.
The seraphs had pintos and petals.
The sphaers had pinots and palets.
The sphears had potins and peltas.
Okay, so bananas aren't *all* going to die, but even in that snopes page:
"Lack of genetic diversity does place the banana in a precarious position, and the danger posed by Race 4 [the fungus strain] to the Cavendish is real."
Hmmm. Maybe it's time we create a wiki page that curates a more complete history of interesting UI devices -- and we'll avoid all the "PivotViewer" and Microsoft Tags stuff... And make it searchable.
Early prototypes are usually attached to a wire... :P I'm sure this little robo-caterpillar will be wireless and rolling around the streets in no time.
I think this gallery is not meant to highlight the most popular examples in each category -- but the curiosities and the oddballs of each category. So that just means the heavy slant towards Intel-based systems means Intel designs some weird and unpopular UI devices.... Although it does seem to include a few of the more popular user interfaces eg. IBM's little red dot on laptop keyboards. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/bibuxton/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=6 0
agreed, teka... kinect is cool b/c it's a hackable platform. sure, there may be other devices that are better suited for specific tasks -- but the point is that the kinect has volume production behind it, so it'll be accessible to hobbyists who might want to tinker with it.
Pixelation, I'm sure the sharks will feel more violated, tho, b/c their DNA is being used. A zebra can't change its stripes, but those stripes aren't directly inherited from generation to generation....
Actually.. it looks like Judgment Day is supposed to be here in a couple days: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(Terminator)#Terminator:_The_Sarah_Connor_Chronicles
A ccording to the TSCC timeline, April 19th 2011 is when Skynet is turned on and the machines attack on the 21st....
I think you've correctly pointed out that there's not a direct causation relationship between a good education and good economic performance... But it'd be nice to have a better educated population, too. :P
I think I'd like Gameful better if it has more games that were like Luis von Ahn's games -- where the game actually directly produced usable stuff.... Maybe I just haven't seen enough Gameful examples?
hmm. not sure about bomber pilots wearing eyepatches... but I'd think bombs are mostly dropped by drones now, so no eyepatches necessary for drone pilots.
I'm not in a huge rush for putting people on other planets... I think we should focus on creating a self-sustaining artificial environment that people could live in permanently. So no more space stations with "supply shipments" going up to them.
Once we figured that out, then people could just go anywhere in the solar system as long as the radiation/zeroG/boredom didn't kill them first....
Thanks, Jay, for pointing out some of the spinoff benefits from the Space Race...
But it's not "sad" to see the end of the Cold War, is it? It just means that technology is getting harder to develop at the same rate because it's already so advanced. If we could keep up the same pace, we'd hit the Singularity pretty soon. :P
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And here's one of the most ambiguous mixed letter sentences in English:
"The sprehas had ponits and patles"
This might come out as...
The sherpas had pitons and plates.
The shapers had points and pleats.
The seraphs had pintos and petals.
The sphaers had pinots and palets.
The sphears had potins and peltas.
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"Lack of genetic diversity does place the banana in a precarious position, and the danger posed by Race 4 [the fungus strain] to the Cavendish is real."
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But it's cool that they cost less than one meeellion dollars....
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(Terminator)#Terminator:_The_Sarah_Connor_Chronicles
A ccording to the TSCC timeline, April 19th 2011 is when Skynet is turned on and the machines attack on the 21st....
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I think you've correctly pointed out that there's not a direct causation relationship between a good education and good economic performance... But it'd be nice to have a better educated population, too. :P
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Once we figured that out, then people could just go anywhere in the solar system as long as the radiation/zeroG/boredom didn't kill them first....
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But it's not "sad" to see the end of the Cold War, is it? It just means that technology is getting harder to develop at the same rate because it's already so advanced. If we could keep up the same pace, we'd hit the Singularity pretty soon. :P
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