asciilifeform: and not because of the patent trolls - they are merely the weapon, not the wielder
asciilifeform: it took me many years to realize why svga ocular display cannot be had at price below a 'boeing.' not because miniaturized led is dark magic.
asciilifeform: (box was approx. the size of a deck of cards.)
asciilifeform: i ask him, 'can this be had?' greybeard: 'nope. project killed by upper management.'
asciilifeform: every year i go to my local university's tech exhibit. there is always this one greybeard who runs their si fab, and he has some old wafers, etc. he also has a 'look in this box and press red button.' inside: svga display with graphics demo. the stamp on the box is some time in the '90s.
asciilifeform: they were not, last i checked, sop in any russian machine.
asciilifeform: (a variant for infantry was, last i heard, in the works, but mired in an f35-esque bureaucratic treacle)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they are mostly, but not exclusively, issued to jet pilots
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: head-worn displays are considered, by usg, to be key military tech (all existing manufacturers of serious - i.e. svga and above units - supply usg exclusively)☟︎
asciilifeform: incidentally, the security implications of a good head-worn computer display suggest that no such thing will be permitted to exist while usg has any say on the subject.
asciilifeform suggests that after folks are tired of 'smart watches', which proved that it is possible to build a device even more cramped/antiergonomic than a pNohe - electronics vendors should build touch screens in pencil erasers.
asciilifeform: 'Filipowski was the 1998 recipient of the Anti-Defamation League's Torch of Liberty Award, first for the Silicon Prairie (Chicago), for his support in fighting hate on the Internet.'
asciilifeform: there was a fairly detailed discussion here in #b-a re: why ocular displays which don't suck have been costing the same 100k usd since 1985.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that was my impression
asciilifeform doesn't get the whole 'glasshole' meme. carrying a pNohe everywhere, with its two or three cameras pointed every-which-way, is somehow perfectly civilized; but wearing a threadbare camera on your head, not ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: reminds me of the anthill scene in baldaev.
asciilifeform recalls reading an article long ago re: how crypto actually enjoyed greater legal protection in usa back when it was classified as a weapon of war
