Technothread

[guestgulkan]

All this discussion reminds me of Star Trek type technology.

On Trek it seems that anyone cah just walk into the holograhic-suite and have the suite come up with any program just by telling it what he/she wants.

[guestgulkan]

@Chrisname

If you are interested in the hardware as well as the software side - maybe something
on the industrial scene maybe right up your alley - probably including PLC programming.

[chrisname]

I don't know, I like the idea of making this stuff; but I also enjoy programming more. As CS is such a broad subject... well I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

My decision tree is very simple, it looks like this:

do {
    if (get_into_university()) {
        while (university.good() && !university.eoc())
            study();
        get_job();
    } else {
        work(in_McDonalds);
        try {
            get_into_university();
        } catch (int reason) {
            std::cout << "Didn't get into university " << (times_tried > 1) ? "again :(" : "" << ". Reason: " << reason;
        }
        times_tried++;
    }
    cur_age++;
} while (!chris.is_dead(cur_age))

[wachtn]

Chris, I notice fatal logic errors on lines 2, 3, 9,
Line 5 looks great.
Avoid line 7 at all costs.

[chrisname]

Huh :l

I just realised, yes. I'll try to get into university again every year, even if I already completed a course :l
Well it's something like that anyway...

[wachtn]

Chris, your profile has you at about 15. Why are you going to uni so early? You must be a brain child. Good luck to you and I hope you make it soon.

[chrisname]

I'm not going to uni yet! LOL.

I gotta go through the rest of this year, then the whole College thing first. But I need to know what I need to get into university so I can choose a college.

I need to know what Universities require what (for example, most require a B in Maths GCSE (which is what you do in year 10 & 11 (grade if you're American; I'm pretty sure you take tests then too), some might require me to take Maths or ICT or Physics at College), so that when I choose a college to go to, I know that I can get into a university based on what I got at college; if that makes sense.

[helios]

Well, I had typed up my reply, but I accidentally closed Firefox, and I don't feel like typing it all again, so here's a summary:

wachtn: There's lot of impossible things and you're naive for saying otherwise.

kevinchkin: As a skeptic, it's my job to think everything, but particularly the things claimed to be revolutionary, doesn't work until otherwise proven. Given the number of snake oil salesmen out there, I think it's the most sensible approach.


To answer the thread's original question, I have just four letters: OLED.

[chrisname]

An organic light emitting diode (OLED)...

HOLY SHI-

[Bazzy]

@helios
you should get Lazarus plugin...

@thread
OLED screens already exist, we don't have to wait much for that...
When they will become common, I hope not to confuse my computer screen with a sheet of paper and do some origami with it

[JCED]

we just have to feed problem statement to a computer and it can write the elegant solution for it on it's own. :-]

Prolog.

[wachtn]

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[z05DSL3A]

chrisname wrote: I like the idea of making this stuff; but I also enjoy programming more. As CS is such a broad subject...

Mechatronics^[1] may be a good field for you to go into.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechatronics

[z05DSL3A]

what new technology are you waiting for?

the technology that will eradicate Spam, Viruses, et al from 'the net'.

Neural interfaces and augmentation. ;0)

[chrisname]

@Grey Wolf,
that looks really interesting"

[chrisname]

@Grey Wolf,
that looks really interesting"

[demosthenes2k8]

I'm waiting for the glasses screens too, especially for the prescription lenses...
And, although this is going to sound childish, portable hologram display systems integrated into cell phones...open source of course.

[wachtn]

portable hologram display systems integrated into cell phones

I can wait for that. That that is not an awesome idea, especially if they can make it hi-res. The power consumption would be astronomical. What good is a phone with a battery life < 10hours?

[chrisname]

Ahem. Gentlemen.
Did you read my speel about the capacitors? Those will last huge amounts of time, maybe even weeks, and due to the nature of a capacitor, they will charge fully in however long it takes for the current to cycle through each capacitor and reach the end, then go back through the negative. I'm talking seconds, maybe even fractions of seconds.

[wachtn]

Chris you should work on inventing that. The battery companies will pay you a fortune to stop. If not, you will make a several fortunes on those awesome things.

1 question:
How big would these things be?
For example, how large would your capacitor have to be to hold the charge of a car battery?