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Heres a wall projector/camera idea my son and I built.
Its going in our church after Christmas.
It shows shapes on the wall that dance around if you smack them.
So its good for non-readers.
It was designed for "take away" messages at the exit of a science center. Eg, a quiz with A-B multiple choice, scoring, takes your picture if you win and keeps it on the wall.
But for 3 graders, I had an app that shows animals. If you smack the wall over the animal, it moved to a different square. Its all written in Hornetseye which you can find on the web. Let me know if I can help. Source code, whatever, you are welcomed to it.
how to build a wallthing

Hey, help us out at 10 seconds can save a life -jim

FUCK FIREFOX!

This is probably nitpicking, but the tracker the file originated from is not "a small, private tracker".

It is actually one of the most regarded private trackers, and the largest private music trackers currently operational. In terms of provided content, it is BY FAR the biggest private tracker on the Internet, past or present, with over 600k torrents.

IMHO it is one of the best places for any music lover to hang out on the Internet, with a great selection of music, awesome community, and friendly staff, and it isn't really that hard to get into either.

What is really interesting is how the upload of the original file was to fill a request with a very lucrative bounty of 1.6 TB. For one and a half year, no one really believed that the request would ever be filled, but people kept voting it up, quickly ranking it as the largest bounty on the site.

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with the aforementioned tracker.

FUCK FIREFOX!

http://firefoxhtml5test.webs.com/

http://firefoxhtml5test.webs.com/

http://firefoxhtml5test.webs.com/

http://firefoxhtml5test.webs.com/

http://firefoxhtml5test.webs.com/

Besides being stupid, that page appears to be inaccurate. With half a dozen other tabs open including several flash videos firefox.exe was using a total of 200 megs of ram. After having been open for several days straight. So, um, that means not 400 for just that page.

http://firefoxhtml5test.webs.com/

http://firefoxhtml5test.webs.com/

Besides being stupid, that page appears to be inaccurate. With half a dozen other tabs open including several flash videos firefox.exe was using a total of 200 megs of ram. After having been open for several days straight. So, um, that means not 400 for just that page.

http://firefoxhtml5test.webs.com/

http://firefoxhtml5test.webs.com/

http://firefoxhtml5test.webs.com/

http://firefoxhtml5test.webs.com/

I have to say that Firefox is getting a lot worse lately. The user experience is in serious need of improvement and development is the pits. I installed the latest "big deal" Firefox update on June 30th. (For some reason they skipped a full four secondary updates, but whatever.) Upon restarting, which took several minutes, I began using Firefox 3.5.

At first, Firefox seemed strangely familiar. I thought they had changed very little unnecessarily until I visited the Acid3 test. Lo and behold, I was still using Firefox 3.0.0.11. What the fuck? I manually invoked Check for Updates and repeated my first attempt only to find, upon restarting, the same thing.

Finally in desperation I downloaded the installer manually from Mozilla. The install ran surprisingly quickly and, after a few minutes, I was launched with the new version. I had to check, though, because again I thought it looked like very little had changed.

In fact, did Mozilla bother changing anything beside the JavaScript? The new SpiderMonkey is great and all, but they could have at least made it look like they were working on something else. When the most noticeable improvement is the "Know Your Rights" button (which everyone ignores) one really starts to wonder what the fuss was all about.

Well, after the three tries it took to upgrade, I found my profile wouldn't migrate. This was a mess, but I was able to eventually retrieve my bookmarks from a long, arcane file path in a hidden directory. But then upon visiting my bookmarked sites I found that almost none of my add-ons are compatible with it. Therefore my browser is almost entirely functionless.

The bookmark tool itself could use a polishing. It's a mess and has been since version 1.0. If a browser is meant to render and organize content, Firefox surely falls down in this area. Why does it take me several minutes to slosh through the GUI just to make a new folder and alphabetize some bookmarks in it? Not to mention the damned Bookmarks toolbar, which takes up too much damn space and can't be turned off.

And speaking of the GUI, it's slow as Hell! Get rid of the proprietary XUL and just hardcode the damned interface already!

I also have to mention memory use. On my system, Firefox was swallowing an incredible 400 MB with only a simple HTML 5 page open. 400 MB?! I blame this on the Firefox team's use of C++, where memory management is about as easy as herding cats. Likewise Firefox is a slow, bloated nightmare. (For a contrast, there's Safari, which is written in Objective C and is very small and efficient.)

Most of the time I have heavy JavaScript sites open. I shudder to think how much Firefox eats then, and I'll be sure to check in the future. No wonder my system tends to slow down when I've left Firefox open for days on end with dynamically updating pages and RSS feeds. Clearly, Firefox leaks memory like a cracked sieve in a waterfall.

With Firefox smelling more and more like crapware, I started to dig a little, first on Wikipedia and then on the Mozilla Development Forums. It turns out that my observations are part of a larger pattern of Firefox quality issues and development customs. The Mozilla developers are a bunch of arrogant, abusive shitheads.

For starters, they're still running all tabs in the same process. This is something IE7 and Safari 3 have had right for years. S

I have to say that Firefox is getting a lot worse lately. The user experience is in serious need of improvement and development is the pits. I installed the latest "big deal" Firefox update on June 30th. (For some reason they skipped a full four secondary updates, but whatever.) Upon restarting, which took several minutes, I began using Firefox 3.5.

At first, Firefox seemed strangely familiar. I thought they had changed very little unnecessarily until I visited the Acid3 test. Lo and behold, I was still using Firefox 3.0.0.11. What the fuck? I manually invoked Check for Updates and repeated my first attempt only to find, upon restarting, the same thing.

Finally in desperation I downloaded the installer manually from Mozilla. The install ran surprisingly quickly and, after a few minutes, I was launched with the new version. I had to check, though, because again I thought it looked like very little had changed.

In fact, did Mozilla bother changing anything beside the JavaScript? The new SpiderMonkey is great and all, but they could have at least made it look like they were working on something else. When the most noticeable improvement is the "Know Your Rights" button (which everyone ignores) one really starts to wonder what the fuss was all about.

Well, after the three tries it took to upgrade, I found my profile wouldn't migrate. This was a mess, but I was able to eventually retrieve my bookmarks from a long, arcane file path in a hidden directory. But then upon visiting my bookmarked sites I found that almost none of my add-ons are compatible with it. Therefore my browser is almost entirely functionless.

The bookmark tool itself could use a polishing. It's a mess and has been since version 1.0. If a browser is meant to render and organize content, Firefox surely falls down in this area. Why does it take me several minutes to slosh through the GUI just to make a new folder and alphabetize some bookmarks in it? Not to mention the damned Bookmarks toolbar, which takes up too much damn space and can't be turned off.

And speaking of the GUI, it's slow as Hell slowget rid of the proprietary XUL and just hardcode the damned interface already!

I also have to mention memory use. On my system, Firefox was swallowing an incredible 400 MB with only a simple HTML 5 page open. 400 MB?! I blame this on the Firefox team's use of C++, where memory management is about as easy as herding cats. Likewise Firefox is a slow, bloated nightmare. (For a contrast, there's Safari, which is written in Objective C and is very small and efficient.)

Most of the time I have heavy JavaScript sites open. I shudder to think how much Firefox eats then, and I'll be sure to check in the future. No wonder my system tends to slow down when I've left Firefox open for days on end with dynamically updating pages and RSS feeds. Clearly, Firefox leaks memory like a cracked sieve in a waterfall.

With Firefox smelling more and more like crapware, I started to dig a little, first on Wikipedia and then on the Mozilla Development Forums. It turns out that my observations are part of a larger pattern of Firefox quality issues and development customs. The Mozilla developers are a bunch of arrogant, abusive shitheads.

For starters, they're still running all tabs in the same process. This is something IE7 and Safari 3 have had right for years

http://firefoxhtml5test.webs.com/

How can I make the mouse pointer ARROW fade away? You know, like magic somehow? I am building a kiosk and that pblm is killing me (winDoz). Not that I don't want to get in this wonderful discussion, but damnit, someone point me to a trick or sw solution...!

There is a patch for this in nedit. It works by creating a 1 pixel by 1 pixel window under the mouse cursor, then changing the cursor to a pixmap which is invisible. The window moves with the cursor. Not sure how it tracks the cursor location, maybe it looks for the MouseMoved events and shuffles around under the mouse.

How can I make the mouse pointer ARROW fade away?
You know, like magic somehow?
I am building a kiosk and that pblm is killing me (winDoz).
Not that I don't want to get in this wonderful discussion, but damnit, someone point me to a trick or sw solution...!

You can be my neighbor in Memphis TN. Heres a 6-acre empty lot for US$100k. Work locally in IT at FedEx or International Paper or Service Master. Or like me, hop on Northwest-Airlines and contract all over the USA! We blow up stuff on weekends, ride 4wheelers, build Wallthings, normal stuff.

1) I stopped watching TV when I realized that viewers feed on crime.

2) I only visit four sites everyday, thepiratebay, popularmechanics, popsci, wired, and slashdot.

More often than not, slashdot has been pissing me off, perhaps moving toward subnote#1.

RIAA, oBAMA, neutrality, Evolution. Can someone point me to a way out of this? Perhaps my hobbies will be my slashdot-patch, slowly weaning me off this hysteria and actually doing something constructive...
http://benedicts.webs.com/howtobuildawallthing.htm -jp

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