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Gold/Mining/Energy : ECHARTERS -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: teevee who wrote (3304)	3/18/2001 9:07:53 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 3744

THERE IS A PERFESSER AT U of T WHO IS CALLED MANN. HE WAS ON TV ONE DAY (last year) WITH A WEARABLE COMPUTER. SO HE IS GOING AROUND THE AISLES OF A SUPERMARKET AND HE LOOKS THROUGH HIS GLASSES AT SOME PRODUCTS AND HIS WIFE IS AT HOME. SHE CIRCLES THE PRODUCT SHE WANTS ON HER COMPUTER SCREEN, WHICH DUPLICATES WHAT HE SEES. IT SHOWS UP ON HIS SCREEN WHICH IS LASER H.U.D PROJECTED ON TO ONE OF HIS GLASSES, SO BE BUYS THAT. THE SCREEN PROJECTION IS IN *X-WINDOWS UNDER LINUX.* THE COMPUTER-modem IS ON HIS BELT. YOU CAN JUST BARELY TELL THAT THE GLASSES HAVE SOME KIND OF PROJECTION MECHANISM, AS IT LOOKS LIKE SOME SORT OF TAPE ON THE GLASSES FRAME. THE WEARABLE COMPUTER ITSELF IS BELT WORN THING WITH A FULL 64 MEGS RAM AND A DISK WITH A FULLBLOWN 1 GIGE OPERATING SYSTEM AS I UNDERSTAND. THIS AIN'T NO PALMTOP. IT WOULD BE DEAD EASY TO MAKE A COMPUTER SYSTEM THAT ONE WORE THAT HAD A SIMILAR DISPLAY AND A COMPLETE CMOS PC BOARD WITH A TRANSMETA LOW POWER PROCESSOR RUNNING 400 MEGAHURTS. <--- Circa 2000 These sort of systems can be built easily without royalty in Linux which is why the whole embedded market is going Linux and not windows CE despite MS's massive marketing efforts. the true future of Linux is in your cellphone. Today's products coming out with bluetooth and 19,200 baud will be superceded very soon by tiny computers that one wears, that have projection virtual image screens and one meg comm bandwidth on spread spectrum using super-wide-band networks. A complete CMOS PC running 400 Mhz and using 64 megs RAM can be fit into a matchbox. The optical disk will fit in a jewel-case size shock mounted case. The data can be transmitted at speed now but there are some wrinkles apparently to be ironed out. Both Wi-Lan of Calgary and Qualcomm say they have beat the round corner echo cancellation problems of data transmission, but I have yet to see any convincing demos of it. Certainly the Mann computer seems to have got over some hurdles. Outside the box-> In my mind the solution would be two fold. One you have to encapsulate the data inside an analog transmission medium-carrier that can be easily echo cancelled by mathematical-digital and perhaps simultaneously by strength of signal-filter means. Then you unwrap that carrier digie- sig and uncover the digital signal inside. A clever-stupid way to do this is to send session-time imprinted packets that would be heavily checksummed-datalinked as part of the signal, the receiver would ignore any time imprint packages that were out of order or duplicates. BTW although gold is super low in price, I have a situation that would make money even at today's prices because a. the mill is built and working, b. the ramp is in to a certain depth and c. the grade is astronomical. Low bucks to get it going. Looking for fellow travellers. EC<:-}