And if you even looked at my final numbers, they were 85 horizontal and 64 vertical. 75 is pretty much the average of those two. Unless you meant 75 dots per SQUARE in, which I would find highly suspect...
True, they almost all have it. The difference is that with other browsers, you have to go online and download it first (obvious initiative there). This is in contrast to IE and Safari (you may remember the iTunes thing...) where the user did not WANT a new browser at all, but through normal updates and people's tendency to keep hitting next/finish until the window goes away, it is even more dastardly.
I hate to burst your little bubble here, but pretty much All the things (other than viruses and coolaid) that Apple and Microsoft have come up with were also copied from Unix, OS/2, yes even Linux. The only difference is that for most features: first Linux had it, then Apple had it, then Windows had it (about 5 years later).
Damnit. I hate responding to my own posts, but hit "submit" just a little to early.
In the sequence of presentations, show the package manager on a seperate cube side, have them tell it to install a program (simple, quick, small app like gltron), then go to another side, then at the end, go back to the package manager side (seeing the install done) and open the program!
Actually, a similar demonstration of a linux system may be a good idea as well. Show the system (using only free softare), open a document, browse google earth, do the "scale" thing, then rotate the cube to a new desktop (where a movie is playing), etc.
Then do the old "fade to black" thing with "Everything should be this easy".
Hack a Day posted something similar a while ago. It was only a prototype using a camera mounted behind the device, allowing you to type on back of the device using all your fingers.
Sorry for not posting a link, I searched their site and can't find it. If anyone has the link, please post it (I want to read it again)
As much as this sounds like a good idea, it's a "few years" part that messes up the entire idea. The problem is that elected officials are typically only in office for 1-4 years, so they will NEVER impose a law or regulation that will only be bad during their term and good for the next guy. It's pretty much political suicide.
Wait until a new VERSION of IE comes out. When IE7 came out, I got phone calls for WEEKS from people who's computers I had fixed asking where the hell all their bookmarks went. Turns out, Microsoft pushed IE7 onto their machines and set it as the new default.
Basically, WinXP respects the defaults, until something new (even a new version) appears, then it assumes you want to use the "new" browser, and sets it as default. PAIN IN THE ASS!
What is it with large corporations and only creating RPM files for their software? I got the.bin file, but it just extracts to the current directory, without listing where all the files need to be copied to...
If anyone can post a quick tutorial (or list of folder locations), that would be awesome.
I've been thinking about something like this for a while. What we need is PLIABLE touch surface. Something that can be applied over a dynamic surface so that the touch-pad does not remain flat, but can have areas raise and lower. This would allow for the "emulation" of a keyboard, but then quickly flatter to allow gestures, "mouse like" clicking, etc.
Have you ever seen those toys that look like a piece of plastic with holes in them. And the holes have little pegs that go through them. You can take your hand, push it against the raised pegs, then turn it over and see your hand in "3d"?
What I want is something like that (with smaller diameter pegs) with a pliable touch surface adhered to the top.
Slashdot Mirror
A good a quite developed communication system
...and that boys and girls, is the definition of irony.
...her subjects reacted to the videos of a crab, another octopus, or a swinging bottle on the end of a string
Can we assume it was a beer bottle?
And if you even looked at my final numbers, they were 85 horizontal and 64 vertical. 75 is pretty much the average of those two. Unless you meant 75 dots per SQUARE in, which I would find highly suspect...
True, they almost all have it. The difference is that with other browsers, you have to go online and download it first (obvious initiative there). This is in contrast to IE and Safari (you may remember the iTunes thing...) where the user did not WANT a new browser at all, but through normal updates and people's tendency to keep hitting next/finish until the window goes away, it is even more dastardly.
Now if I only had those 15 mod points from Thursday, you'd have a +1 Insightful already...
I hate to burst your little bubble here, but pretty much All the things (other than viruses and coolaid) that Apple and Microsoft have come up with were also copied from Unix, OS/2, yes even Linux. The only difference is that for most features: first Linux had it, then Apple had it, then Windows had it (about 5 years later).
Damnit. I hate responding to my own posts, but hit "submit" just a little to early.
In the sequence of presentations, show the package manager on a seperate cube side, have them tell it to install a program (simple, quick, small app like gltron), then go to another side, then at the end, go back to the package manager side (seeing the install done) and open the program!
Actually, a similar demonstration of a linux system may be a good idea as well. Show the system (using only free softare), open a document, browse google earth, do the "scale" thing, then rotate the cube to a new desktop (where a movie is playing), etc.
Then do the old "fade to black" thing with "Everything should be this easy".
Yeah, the punch line really reminds me of the Hummer commercials. But other than that, it sounds great.
Damnit, 3 days ago I get 15 mod points, now that something seriously worth a mod gets posted, I got NOTHIN'!
Now I can't see the video, so it could be the same (though I doubt it), but isn't the summary pretty damn close to one of these?
And even then it wasn't original.
Hack a Day posted something similar a while ago. It was only a prototype using a camera mounted behind the device, allowing you to type on back of the device using all your fingers.
Sorry for not posting a link, I searched their site and can't find it. If anyone has the link, please post it (I want to read it again)
Wow, a sentence on slashdot that contains "Streisand" and not "Effect"...
Screw the sharks with lasers, the world is already ending!
That's just down right depressing...
At least we can be safe at night.
...these holes allow 20 times the normal amount of solar particles through when they are facing away from the sun
Well, so much for being safe at night...
I've always been surprised that slashdot doesn't get slashdotted....
That makes sense.
Average screen resolution: 1024x768
Average screen size: 17"
That means your screen has a pixel density of ~ 85x64 pixles per square inch.
Average printer pixel density (laser) ~ 300dpi.
Yeah, monitors have bad resolution (don't even get me started on the 60" HDTV's...)
Disclaimer: Numbers pulled out of my ass...
Yeah come to think of it, how can the "re-censor" the Internet, when they never really "un-censored" it in the first place?
As much as this sounds like a good idea, it's a "few years" part that messes up the entire idea. The problem is that elected officials are typically only in office for 1-4 years, so they will NEVER impose a law or regulation that will only be bad during their term and good for the next guy. It's pretty much political suicide.
Our chance to slashdot facebook is diminishing as we speak!
You'd be surprised at the lengths to which the RIAA will go to fabricate evidence.
There, fixed that for you...
Where is the "-1 too much information" mod?!?
Wait until a new VERSION of IE comes out. When IE7 came out, I got phone calls for WEEKS from people who's computers I had fixed asking where the hell all their bookmarks went. Turns out, Microsoft pushed IE7 onto their machines and set it as the new default.
Basically, WinXP respects the defaults, until something new (even a new version) appears, then it assumes you want to use the "new" browser, and sets it as default. PAIN IN THE ASS!
What is it with large corporations and only creating RPM files for their software? I got the .bin file, but it just extracts to the current directory, without listing where all the files need to be copied to...
If anyone can post a quick tutorial (or list of folder locations), that would be awesome.
I've been thinking about something like this for a while. What we need is PLIABLE touch surface. Something that can be applied over a dynamic surface so that the touch-pad does not remain flat, but can have areas raise and lower. This would allow for the "emulation" of a keyboard, but then quickly flatter to allow gestures, "mouse like" clicking, etc.
Have you ever seen those toys that look like a piece of plastic with holes in them. And the holes have little pegs that go through them. You can take your hand, push it against the raised pegs, then turn it over and see your hand in "3d"?
What I want is something like that (with smaller diameter pegs) with a pliable touch surface adhered to the top.