I don't see how this is anything but a perversion of the excellent "1984".
A change to the voice over, and switching some faces? The parallel attempted to be drawn between Hilary Clinton and the authoritarian figure of the original advert is weak, gaining strength only from trying to force you to "see" a connection.
The following implication that Barack Obama is somehow fighting for free thought, as the sledgehammer-throwing-runner symbolizes in the original, is fairly ridiculous, and just reinforces my overall impression:
By the way, something that is very interesting to note is that Gene Roddenberry allows anyone who creates devices like the ones in Star Trek (and presumably its variations) can use the names used in the show. Get to work all you Trekkie engineers!
While it is a new design, and has different features, this is in fact not the first tricorder that has been made.
http://www.stim.com/Stim-x/0996September/Sparky/tr icorder.html talks about the very first "tricorder," but it doesn't look like it was very successful. Maybe Purdue's device will stick around longer.
By the way, something that is very interesting to note is that Gene Roddenberry allows anyone who creates devices like the ones in Star Trek (and presumably its variations) can use the names used in the show. Get to work all you Trekkie engineers!
I see a lot of people missing the point of the Enso launcher program.
Just because you have a bunch of hotkeys setup doesn't matter, because the point is that they only work on your own machine. You have to remember what they are, and god forbid a program already has that key combination in use. The point of the holding the Caps Lock key down while entering your command (other than just getting rid of that damn key) is that you have no new windows to deal with, you can't think you are typing in your command when you didn't focus the keyboard on the "ENTER YOUR COMMAND HERE" window.
On top of the individual uses for the universal spell check and launcher is the whole Enso system. The system is based in such a way that it can provide system-wide commands, instead of application specific, without getting in the way. Everyone has their own solution for opening their common programs, but the Enso system goes beyond that and lets you open any program available without having to look up a key combo or directory.
I'm looking forward to seeing Enso grow even more.
This is a very bad idea. In face, nothing would make SCO happier than to be bought out, giving them all sorts of money to leave with. The current proceedings are the proper way to deal with them: having them turned away for trying to wrangle money out of another cooperation by using the threat of a lawsuit, while not being able to provide the actual proof behind their claims. Their bluff has been called and they are just delaying until they have to face the music. Till that day, it's just a matter of waiting for the gears of justice to finish grinding
This question, about trading off a lot of extra work to implement a 3D environment instead of putting that work into gameplay in a 2D game, has been sitting in the back of my mind (and the minds of many others') for quite a while. The cry that comes up about 2D seems to be this idea that all "those 2D games" have already been made, get an emulator, etc etc. I for one can see one area where a great improvement can be made to the world of 2D games, and I think that a lot of people will start realizing it.
Online multiplayer.
If Sony and Nintendo want to really make all their retro games kick some new-gen ass, they should start finding ways to make online multiplayer additions. I even worked at a company that focused on making lobbies for online games, it really should not be that hard. I will see a lot of people stop complaining about "paying for the same game again" when they can play SNES Mario Kart or Street Fighter 2 Turbo against their friends online. Here's hoping that this idea is viable and gets picked up!
Earlier mentioned, supposedly Xen currently does not like/support running 32-bit clients under 64-bit hosts. This would probably explain why your own attempt to do so failed. The KVM website reports, "kvm supports 32-bit guests on 64-bit hosts, and any combination of PAE and non-PAE guests and hosts. The only unsupported combination is a 64-bit guest on a 32-bit host."
From the documentation, it seems this would support what you were asking about!
The ever growing amounts of filtering and analysis of spam has so far been only slightly effective, and only up until the spammers adapt to defeat these automated defenses. The only real reason that spam is so prevalent isn't so much that some group of people buy what spammers are advertising, it's that there is a perception that spammers do, in some way, make money. Like a lot of advertising on the internet, it is not always clear how effective or influential the marketing is. A big issue is that there are spammers being paid to spam, so they don't care if anyone buys the crap, just as long as it gets there. The cost of sending out the e-mail is negligible, pretty much free except for time spent.
Here is where the real solution is found. You have to charge for sending e-mail. I can imagine people yelling "What?!? Never!" but in all honesty, that's the only way spam will ever be "solved." Whether it's a fraction of a penny per message or a limit on how much mail can be sent in a given time for free (or to how many people), it would be a minor price of business online that would have a real impact in spam. It starts looking a lot less appealing when you have to pay before you hit that eventual one-in-a-million recipient that buys the product.
The hard part? Migrating from the current system to the new one. Perhaps it can be pitched as "clean e-mail services" that don't run like every other SMTP server. There are certainly bright people out there, I am just waiting for this idea to be picked up by them.
I think that keeping the same chip, rather than try pulling in some crazy new architecture, is really going to be a strength for the Wii. It's been pointed out over and over in this round of the never-ending Console War that while all the new graphics are shiny shiny, the real success of a console is always in it's games. It's even been noted that all the new graphics translate into higher game development costs (got photo-realistic backgrounds? You have to get someone to create every one in photographic detail), and (here's the crux) if it's a totally new system design, people have to start learning how to create games in yet another platform.
The Wii game developers are going to be ahead of the game if it has a similar design, and will be able to focus more on the game than the developing. I am very interested in what is going to come out for the Wii.
Oh. My. God.
I knew that this idea was something that was needed to bring all the real details about today's politics to peoples attention.
I did not expect to see it posted on Slashdot a week after thinking of it...
The elements are all there, with a huge amount of statistical data to use and a variety of levels allowing localities to each have their own "home players," while at the same time there's the bigger National picture going on as well.
As "cynical" as it may seem, packaging politics as we already package sports may be the only way to really involve the people of today.
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A change to the voice over, and switching some faces? The parallel attempted to be drawn between Hilary Clinton and the authoritarian figure of the original advert is weak, gaining strength only from trying to force you to "see" a connection.
The following implication that Barack Obama is somehow fighting for free thought, as the sledgehammer-throwing-runner symbolizes in the original, is fairly ridiculous, and just reinforces my overall impression:A weak showing, and a weaker story
While it is a new design, and has different features, this is in fact not the first tricorder that has been made.
http://www.stim.com/Stim-x/0996September/Sparky/tr icorder.html talks about the very first "tricorder," but it doesn't look like it was very successful. Maybe Purdue's device will stick around longer.
By the way, something that is very interesting to note is that Gene Roddenberry allows anyone who creates devices like the ones in Star Trek (and presumably its variations) can use the names used in the show. Get to work all you Trekkie engineers!
While it is a new design, and has different features, this is in fact not the first tricorder that has been made. http://www.stim.com/Stim-x/0996September/Sparky/tr icorder.html talks about the very first "tricorder," but it doesn't look like it was very successful. Maybe Purdue's device will stick around longer.
By the way, something that is very interesting to note is that Gene Roddenberry allows anyone who creates devices like the ones in Star Trek (and presumably its variations) can use the names used in the show. Get to work all you Trekkie engineers!
I see a lot of people missing the point of the Enso launcher program.
Just because you have a bunch of hotkeys setup doesn't matter, because the point is that they only work on your own machine. You have to remember what they are, and god forbid a program already has that key combination in use. The point of the holding the Caps Lock key down while entering your command (other than just getting rid of that damn key) is that you have no new windows to deal with, you can't think you are typing in your command when you didn't focus the keyboard on the "ENTER YOUR COMMAND HERE" window.
On top of the individual uses for the universal spell check and launcher is the whole Enso system. The system is based in such a way that it can provide system-wide commands, instead of application specific, without getting in the way. Everyone has their own solution for opening their common programs, but the Enso system goes beyond that and lets you open any program available without having to look up a key combo or directory.
I'm looking forward to seeing Enso grow even more.
This is a very bad idea. In face, nothing would make SCO happier than to be bought out, giving them all sorts of money to leave with. The current proceedings are the proper way to deal with them: having them turned away for trying to wrangle money out of another cooperation by using the threat of a lawsuit, while not being able to provide the actual proof behind their claims. Their bluff has been called and they are just delaying until they have to face the music. Till that day, it's just a matter of waiting for the gears of justice to finish grinding
This question, about trading off a lot of extra work to implement a 3D environment instead of putting that work into gameplay in a 2D game, has been sitting in the back of my mind (and the minds of many others') for quite a while. The cry that comes up about 2D seems to be this idea that all "those 2D games" have already been made, get an emulator, etc etc. I for one can see one area where a great improvement can be made to the world of 2D games, and I think that a lot of people will start realizing it. Online multiplayer. If Sony and Nintendo want to really make all their retro games kick some new-gen ass, they should start finding ways to make online multiplayer additions. I even worked at a company that focused on making lobbies for online games, it really should not be that hard. I will see a lot of people stop complaining about "paying for the same game again" when they can play SNES Mario Kart or Street Fighter 2 Turbo against their friends online. Here's hoping that this idea is viable and gets picked up!
Earlier mentioned, supposedly Xen currently does not like/support running 32-bit clients under 64-bit hosts. This would probably explain why your own attempt to do so failed. The KVM website reports, "kvm supports 32-bit guests on 64-bit hosts, and any combination of PAE and non-PAE guests and hosts. The only unsupported combination is a 64-bit guest on a 32-bit host."
From the documentation, it seems this would support what you were asking about!
Here is where the real solution is found. You have to charge for sending e-mail. I can imagine people yelling "What?!? Never!" but in all honesty, that's the only way spam will ever be "solved." Whether it's a fraction of a penny per message or a limit on how much mail can be sent in a given time for free (or to how many people), it would be a minor price of business online that would have a real impact in spam. It starts looking a lot less appealing when you have to pay before you hit that eventual one-in-a-million recipient that buys the product.
The hard part? Migrating from the current system to the new one. Perhaps it can be pitched as "clean e-mail services" that don't run like every other SMTP server. There are certainly bright people out there, I am just waiting for this idea to be picked up by them.
The Wii game developers are going to be ahead of the game if it has a similar design, and will be able to focus more on the game than the developing. I am very interested in what is going to come out for the Wii.
Oh. My. God.
I knew that this idea was something that was needed to bring all the real details about today's politics to peoples attention.
I did not expect to see it posted on Slashdot a week after thinking of it...
The elements are all there, with a huge amount of statistical data to use and a variety of levels allowing localities to each have their own "home players," while at the same time there's the bigger National picture going on as well.
As "cynical" as it may seem, packaging politics as we already package sports may be the only way to really involve the people of today.