What is your dream project?
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Well, get right on that. There's no time like now. Chop chop!
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Well, get right on that. There's no time like now
Sure, as soon as I get my million dollars.. :-\
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I'd like to make the next generation OS that would be a blend of Second Life with Linux. My avatar in my house on my desktop. I can walk into my hard drive and check out files hanging on the walls, maybe fly up and grab one to edit. Imagine going into your memory in a 3D room to see whats in that memory location. Of course I could have company over from people who have the same OS. We can chat or whatever like in Second Life. Maybe even build something. You can also login to Second Life or any of the Opensim public grids. The entire operating system is built from the ground up just for this for maximum speed. I can't even imagine how far this could go. With build capabilities like Second Life and actually even more because it's an OS the Shell and Desktop would just be crazy and endless.
That reminds me of Tron.
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If someone suddenly offered to finance you a couple of million dollars for you to create your dream application, what would that project be? It has to be something you've always wanted to work on but never had the time or resources. For me, I think it would be the ultimate suite of reverse engineering tools.
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ADOS lol That's a good one
hehe... thanks!
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Well, get right on that. There's no time like now
Sure, as soon as I get my million dollars.. :-\
I'll have my agent in Kenya send you a check.
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If someone suddenly offered to finance you a couple of million dollars for you to create your dream application, what would that project be? It has to be something you've always wanted to work on but never had the time or resources. For me, I think it would be the ultimate suite of reverse engineering tools.
A long time ago someone sent me some art work which was pretty run of the mill nude pictures. I noticed that they were professionally done and had good lighting. Being the sick puppy curious person I am I started playing around in Photoshop and by applying some filters managed to "expose" the veins in the models breast with enough clarity to see where they were covered by her implants. The original image was altered so that the person was reduced to a series of contour lines, but the veins were distinctly clear. I showed this to a lady friend and her immediate reaction was that this may be able to be used to give an early warning for breast cancer. The theory is that tumors need blood supplies and by detecting them you get a picture of where a tumor is developing by comparing photos over time and mapping where there were new blood supplies being built. I thought about it and think it would be a great thing to be able to distribute something like this to health departments in developing countries for free or at modest cost, making it affordable to provincial health clinics in rural areas. Some ideas are just too valuable to be used to make a profit. Now this is no simple process and the AI engine could probably be used for a doctoral dissertation (way over my head) so I would need some young energetic beautiful minds (with no negative connotation intended) so I plan to make this my retirement project. The model I did my original work on was whiter than white (not that I believed for one second that she was a natural blond). In my experience most women in tribal areas have dark skin, my wife, of Khmer ancestry, included. I will need to experiment with infrared to detect the heat signature of the arteries and veins. I can do the graphics but will need significant assistance matching photos taken over time with slightly different focal lengths and possibly differing lighting conditions. I will approach some universities in Thailand with a proposal and, additionally, see if I can get some grant money from philanthropic organizations, to finance a pilot project. If things work out I will then approach camera manufactures to see if they are willing to donate, or supply at cost, cameras and lighting equipment. It would be great publicity after all. Feel good name exposure. Well that is my dream project. Hopefully I can at least get it started before moving on to my next life cycle.
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If someone suddenly offered to finance you a couple of million dollars for you to create your dream application, what would that project be? It has to be something you've always wanted to work on but never had the time or resources. For me, I think it would be the ultimate suite of reverse engineering tools.
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The money is not the point. I'm just asking what you would like to work on if you didn't have to worry about doing it to support yourself.
Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
The money is not the point.
Then why did you bring it up? :~
Gary Kirkham Forever Forgiven and Alive in the Spirit The men said to them, "Why do you seek the living One among the dead? He is not here, but He has risen." Me blog, You read
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
The money is not the point.
Then why did you bring it up? :~
Gary Kirkham Forever Forgiven and Alive in the Spirit The men said to them, "Why do you seek the living One among the dead? He is not here, but He has risen." Me blog, You read
It's called a hypothetical situation.
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If someone suddenly offered to finance you a couple of million dollars for you to create your dream application, what would that project be? It has to be something you've always wanted to work on but never had the time or resources. For me, I think it would be the ultimate suite of reverse engineering tools.
I'm working on it. I've been designing it in my mind since the 90's.
Jon "You don't respect those people very much, because you're young and arrogant. But I don't respect them very much either, because I'm old and wise." ~ Neal Stephenson, "Snow Crash" Soap Box 1.0: the first, the original, reborn troll-less
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I'd like to make the next generation OS that would be a blend of Second Life with Linux. My avatar in my house on my desktop. I can walk into my hard drive and check out files hanging on the walls, maybe fly up and grab one to edit. Imagine going into your memory in a 3D room to see whats in that memory location. Of course I could have company over from people who have the same OS. We can chat or whatever like in Second Life. Maybe even build something. You can also login to Second Life or any of the Opensim public grids. The entire operating system is built from the ground up just for this for maximum speed. I can't even imagine how far this could go. With build capabilities like Second Life and actually even more because it's an OS the Shell and Desktop would just be crazy and endless.
Man I was hoping someone would have jumped all over the idea and I could've downloaded me a copy of it tomorrow :-D
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If someone suddenly offered to finance you a couple of million dollars for you to create your dream application, what would that project be? It has to be something you've always wanted to work on but never had the time or resources. For me, I think it would be the ultimate suite of reverse engineering tools.
I'd build an IDE in the cloud that spreads compiling over many machines, giving instant compilations over huge solutions.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango
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I'd build an IDE in the cloud that spreads compiling over many machines, giving instant compilations over huge solutions.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango
There's an advertiser on CP that already sells that. They call it "IncrediBuild".
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If someone suddenly offered to finance you a couple of million dollars for you to create your dream application, what would that project be? It has to be something you've always wanted to work on but never had the time or resources. For me, I think it would be the ultimate suite of reverse engineering tools.
Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
your dream application
So you are meaning a software app, right? Actually, I really wouldn't do anything in software. I've pretty much decided that making software applications sucks. However, there is one thing I'd like to do: something like a cross between Star Trek's computer AI (Next Generation) and Minority Report. Marc
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If someone suddenly offered to finance you a couple of million dollars for you to create your dream application, what would that project be? It has to be something you've always wanted to work on but never had the time or resources. For me, I think it would be the ultimate suite of reverse engineering tools.
An application combined with affordable personal electroencephalographic telemetry that facilitates helping "average" people reach some of the "states of mind" possible through deep meditation which current scientific research (on long-time meditators) indicate usually take 10,000 hours or so of practice to attain. Note by saying "states of mind" here, I do not mean "getting high," or "recreational altered states," in any form. I refer to "states of mind" that are inherently stress-relieving, "healing," offer deeply rational and sane insight into the "inner" self (where "deeply rational and sane" are somewhat defined within the context of pragmatic ideas found, imho, most clearly expressed in certain teachings preserved in Theravadan Buddhism as interpreted and "re-vivified" by certain contemporary interpreters). If we gotta send some magnetic fields and/or sound waves and/or sub- or super- audible waves into your brain, that's cool too. You'd have to be licensed to use that technology like you are licensed to drive a car (?) All the revenue (if any) from this project which would be public-domain and open-source would be donated to non-profit organizations who demonstrate that over 90% of their revenue goes directly to help children around the world. best, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844
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An application combined with affordable personal electroencephalographic telemetry that facilitates helping "average" people reach some of the "states of mind" possible through deep meditation which current scientific research (on long-time meditators) indicate usually take 10,000 hours or so of practice to attain. Note by saying "states of mind" here, I do not mean "getting high," or "recreational altered states," in any form. I refer to "states of mind" that are inherently stress-relieving, "healing," offer deeply rational and sane insight into the "inner" self (where "deeply rational and sane" are somewhat defined within the context of pragmatic ideas found, imho, most clearly expressed in certain teachings preserved in Theravadan Buddhism as interpreted and "re-vivified" by certain contemporary interpreters). If we gotta send some magnetic fields and/or sound waves and/or sub- or super- audible waves into your brain, that's cool too. You'd have to be licensed to use that technology like you are licensed to drive a car (?) All the revenue (if any) from this project which would be public-domain and open-source would be donated to non-profit organizations who demonstrate that over 90% of their revenue goes directly to help children around the world. best, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844
What's your opinion of this technology? http://www.hemi-sync.com/[^] It might be a little hoaky.
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What's your opinion of this technology? http://www.hemi-sync.com/[^] It might be a little hoaky.
Hi Richard, At best something "soothing" that might induce a "placebo" effect, at worst a "scam" preying on some fatuous folks' finding "mystery" and "mana" in the pseudo-technological. Another triumph of marketing over substance :) Probably better for you than, like Madonna, working out in the gym and dieting to the point you look like a skeleton with bulging veins, probably better for you than paying >=US $75 an hour to talk to most so-called "psycho-therapists." Nowhere near as good as made-fresh-every-day soy-milk from a street vendor in Chiang Mai Thailand. best, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844
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If someone suddenly offered to finance you a couple of million dollars for you to create your dream application, what would that project be? It has to be something you've always wanted to work on but never had the time or resources. For me, I think it would be the ultimate suite of reverse engineering tools.
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Porting VBScript to .NET. Come on - you know you want it.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
Porting VBScript to .NET.
I suppose your biggest thrill must have been to find C# 4.0's dynamic keyword which now means your code can be pretty similar to how it was during the VBScript days :rolleyes:
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
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Porting VBScript to .NET. Come on - you know you want it.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Amen, I still think it was the best pre .net language Microsoft came up with. C# never matched it's simplicity and has done nothing to prevent the mounds of horrible code that VBScript got a bad rap for.
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
