What we also need is a simple indicator to temporarily tell people "no right turn on red". Otherwise, you still have people making right turns even if all the lights are red.
Even in non-emergency situations, people often think that if no traffic is coming from the left, they have the right of way when making a right turn on red, ignoring that there may be people coming from the right who are making a U-turn.
I understand that you are probably referring to the effect of red lights stopping all vehicles regularly and allowing the slower car to catch up, but they also have a corresponding inverse effect - if the faster car goes through a few seconds before a red light and the slower car has to stop, the faster car gets a huge boost as it now has up to 30 seconds or so where it is still moving but the other vehicle is stopped.
I've always thought of this as a counter to the government pamphlets which try to tell people that going 5mph faster in a 15 min trip will only save you "seconds" overall.
Of course they ignore the fact that the traffic system DIVs traffic into packets, and that extra 5 mph may mean catching an extra two or three green lights that might save you as much as 10 minutes on a 10 mile trip through the grid.
Not to mention that driving at the speed limit can often put you at more risk for an accident when everyone else is going 10+ mph over it and swerving around you.
An employee of Google wrote an article to Slashdot and suggested that Google favors H-1B workers over Americans.
Read the entire post you linked to. Not only are your statements incorrect about the content of the post, but the post was even deliberately written to refute arguments like yours.
The poster you link to states, "I'm not involved in the hiring process at all, and I have no information on Google's hiring policies (except that we only hire really good people)."
The poster stated that when she hired for IBM, that they only hired the absolute best engineers, whether they are American or not.
The poster does not anywhere state that IBM favors H-1Bs or Americans. He/she only stated that when they find an exceptionally good engineer, IBM will go out of their way to do whatever is necessary to hire him/her.
As far as google, the poster says very little, because he/she is not responsible for hiring at Google. But her post does suggest that they also only hire the absolutely best talent, which implies that they may do the same as IBM.
I've always wondered. If you're inside a cylinder in space, which is rotating to simulate gravity, wouldn't you lose that effect as soon as you jumped off the surface (in opposite direction to rotation)?
I only have one guy to pick on, since I only actively play one MMO game currently =)
Gordon Walton Vice President and Executive Producer Sony Online Entertainment writes:
Licenses, so long as they are more world than character based, can help tremendously in giving you the flavor and character of the world you are building. At the same time, licenses can end up dramatically limiting your freedom to add flavor and richness to the world dependent on the relationship you have with the licensor.
Seeing how SOE has so many licensed MMORPGs I wonder which one he's talking about? =P
Experiencing an area that is very similar to one you have already experienced for the first time is a letdown, because it detracts from the player suspension of disbelief.
Starports. Apparently in the Star Wars universe, all starports are exactly identical and are only large enough to accomodate one ship (except for in Theed).
Cantinas. All the same everywhere. Some have minor interior color differences.
Caves. Many of them are duplicated, just with different enemies inside.
Shuttles. All the same, not even any color differences.
Player Houses. Some overall variety of house types, but very little can be customized about each house itself such as interior and exterior colors, exterior decorations, and lighting for example.
Creature lairs / destroy NPC camps. They all the same set of five or six things (a warren, a dead log, a pile of bones, an earthen mound, etc), no color variations and they are all too small in size.
Having a living world (one with natural motion, an ecology and sensible physics) is also important for immersiveness.
Sensible physics apparently means:
Players can't jump, not even an inch over a twig laying on the ground (see debris on Rori).
You must enter a house by walking up one specific side of a ramp, even if the ramp is completely buried.
If a hill separates you from your enemy, don't worry, you can shoot straight through it as though it's not there!
A dead log will burst into flames and eventually explode in a huge Simpsons-esque fireball if you destroy it, even with melee weapons (i.e. a sword, fists, or a staff).
You can *walk* up the side of a steep cliff, even if it's nearly at a 90 degree angle to the ground. Not only that, but with sufficient nonmagical skill, you can climb a 200m cliff instantly, since it seems vertical motion is not a component of space-time.
If your enemies intend to you attack you, you better watch out! It seems that despite what was depicted in the movies, bad guys can teleport instantly to your location from over 60m away!
Apparently mobs shrink when they go into their homes, because most creature/NPC homes are smaller than the creatures themselves!
Don't get me wrong. SWG is a cool game, but it has a long way to go to incorporate satisfying content to go with all of their fancy game structure. It will be quite a shame if they never live up to this, considering that they have a great framework in place to build content upon.
In the long run, I look forward to a game which has:
the player creativity potential of Second Life
a good player-developer connection like in A Tale in the Desert
excellent graphics like Star Wars Galaxies
an honorable FFA social structure (has yet to be done, though IIRC UO does a fair job of it)
It's surprisingly hard to find quality free software for X10 control.
I'd think with all the geeks who play with this kind of stuff that there'd be more to choose from.
The non-free software tends to be quite expensive, suffers too much feature creep, and also lacks quality.
I just want a simple panel I can pop up quickly on my computer and turn something off. The ability to load/save schedules back to the device would be nice also.
they are hardly participating in civil disobedience
Judging by the information you expressed in your message, you may not be aware of the gradual transition of power from elected representatives of the people to appointed representatives of the corporate sector...
Just to bring you up to date on how things are today:
- Corporations now have primary consideration before indivudal people for all high-impact legislative decisions. (tax relief, wars, special contracts, etc)
- Citizens who threaten to harm the profit margin of a corporation will be rounded up and silenced. (DMCA, reverse engineering, publishing security audits)
- Law enforcment of intellectual property is being turned over to corporations. (suponea power of the RIAA)
- Existing monoplies are extended indefinitely to ensure any potential future profit is secured, despite the suffering of the public domain (copyright extensions)
- New monopolies are granted with minimal review for corporations who have contributed sufficient funding to ensure their approval. (FCC, patent system)
Perhaps it wouldn't be considered "civil disobedience" ten years ago, but nowadays, any act which threatens the bottom line of a large corporation will most likely be interpreted by our legal system as an act of civil disobedience or be considered a violation of some other nonsensical law in order to put a stop to it.
You make a good connection between current television and push technology.
This gives me the idea that I hope to see come to reality eventually. I'd like to see something like iTunes for television programs.
I'd pay 99 cents for an episode of The Simpsons if it came without commercials and I would have rights to watch it again any time in the future (similar to the usage of music on iTunes).
If I could download and watch television programs this way, they would probably make much more money off the viewers than they would ever make off of the advertisers. This would be great for people who only have a few favorite programs and hate viewing commercials.
Meanwhile, they can continue with their spamvertisment-supported push television programs for people who do not want to pay per show, and/or people who are looking for new programs they might want to purchase.
I'm willing to bet this will happen eventually... I just wish it would happen now =)
Admittedly, I can download television shows now for free if I know where to look, but I'd be willing to put down money for an iTunes style of entertainment distrubtion if it meant getting a consistent and higher quality form of media.
Now they are telling the FCC to protect their interests at the cost of our rights.
This is where I have a problem. How does a corporation have more rights than the citizens who supposedly elect the people who control organizations like the FCC?
When did people become second class citizens behind corporations? This seems especially ridiculous when you factor in that corporations can't even vote...
When a word begins with a spoken vowel, the indefinite article should be 'an':
an hour an heir an honor an HDTV signal
This is common with the letter H becuase it is silent at the beginning of many words. In the case of HDTV, when you say the letter 'H', you start by pronouncing a vowel sound.
If the word begins with a spoken consonant, then you use 'a':
a hotel a european (starts with a consonant 'y' sound) a eulogy
It gets fun with words like 'herb', where some people pronounce it with the 'h' and some people leave it silent:
So, what happens when you want to send the e-mail to your family, who run Mac/Win 95/Win 98/Linux/Other Unix Variant?
MIME.
When you send email, it gets several mime layers.
There's usually a plain text segment which says something like "This message has been MIME encoded". I think some smarter email clients will put the plain-text version of the formatted text in this segment.
There's a formatted text segment, which I think is usually tagged as as text/html.
And with the new DRM thing, it is another MIME segment which contains the message itself, while probably using the text/plain and/or text/html segments to remind you to "upgrade" to Office 2003 if you use one of the restrictive options.
I'd hope that if you use none of the restriction options, it would just send the message in the text/plain and/or text/html segments, but who knows...
The one thing it can't stop is an actual photograph. Time to buy one of those 3G phones...
That is at least until they manage to lobby our government to pass laws to force all chip manufacturers to put cop chips in all Analog to Digital converters.
I remember coming across an audio driver which you could install that would pipe all sound played on the system to a file. The driver would then call YOUR driver to play the audio as normal.
How long until someone writes a generic video driver which overrides this in the same manner?
And then how long beore MS starts requiring signed drivers to prevent these kind of tricks?
The company I'm with has been using Thawte for 4-5 years now and never had any problems. As a matter of fact, they've improved their service quite a bit over the past couple years.
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The Sidekick has no airtime charges for internet activities. As a matter of fact, it's connected to the internet 24/7.
Only off-hand disadvantages to it are that it's a big-sized device compared to most phones/pdas (though smaller than the sum of the two in most cases), and development has been kind of slow for it considering it has gone nearly a year without any significant upgrades. They just came out with a color version, but I have not yet evaluated it myself.
The persistent internet connection is cool. I was importing a bunch of contact info using my home computer, through the web interface to my sidekick's data store, and as I added each contact, I could look at my SK's screen and see the entry show up in the list within seconds of submitting the new contact form on my desktop computer.
but one would have to wonder about the rate of corrosion of the electrodes, particularly in saltwater applications - they being submerged in water and all.
Not to mention how clogged up those micro-pores are probably going to get with contaminants.
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In the "Not quite a movie" thread...
I still like this Linux appearance =)
You should perhaps try this bike and see if it still triggers =P
Try driving in south Florida in the winter. Here you get stuck in the danger zone between both slowpokes and the fast aggressive drivers.
Problem is you can't tell the fast skilled drivers from the fast idiots, so there's no predictability...
I like the GPS idea.
What we also need is a simple indicator to temporarily tell people "no right turn on red". Otherwise, you still have people making right turns even if all the lights are red.
Even in non-emergency situations, people often think that if no traffic is coming from the left, they have the right of way when making a right turn on red, ignoring that there may be people coming from the right who are making a U-turn.
I understand that you are probably referring to the effect of red lights stopping all vehicles regularly and allowing the slower car to catch up, but they also have a corresponding inverse effect - if the faster car goes through a few seconds before a red light and the slower car has to stop, the faster car gets a huge boost as it now has up to 30 seconds or so where it is still moving but the other vehicle is stopped.
I've always thought of this as a counter to the government pamphlets which try to tell people that going 5mph faster in a 15 min trip will only save you "seconds" overall.
Of course they ignore the fact that the traffic system DIVs traffic into packets, and that extra 5 mph may mean catching an extra two or three green lights that might save you as much as 10 minutes on a 10 mile trip through the grid.
Not to mention that driving at the speed limit can often put you at more risk for an accident when everyone else is going 10+ mph over it and swerving around you.
Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
This has got to be a Troll.
An employee of Google wrote an article to Slashdot and suggested that Google favors H-1B workers over Americans.
Read the entire post you linked to. Not only are your statements incorrect about the content of the post, but the post was even deliberately written to refute arguments like yours.
The poster you link to states, "I'm not involved in the hiring process at all, and I have no information on Google's hiring policies (except that we only hire really good people)."
The poster stated that when she hired for IBM, that they only hired the absolute best engineers, whether they are American or not.
The poster does not anywhere state that IBM favors H-1Bs or Americans. He/she only stated that when they find an exceptionally good engineer, IBM will go out of their way to do whatever is necessary to hire him/her.
As far as google, the poster says very little, because he/she is not responsible for hiring at Google. But her post does suggest that they also only hire the absolutely best talent, which implies that they may do the same as IBM.
I've always wondered. If you're inside a cylinder in space, which is rotating to simulate gravity, wouldn't you lose that effect as soon as you jumped off the surface (in opposite direction to rotation)?
Gordon Walton Vice President and Executive Producer Sony Online Entertainment writes:
Licenses, so long as they are more world than character based, can help tremendously in giving you the flavor and character of the world you are building. At the same time, licenses can end up dramatically limiting your freedom to add flavor and richness to the world dependent on the relationship you have with the licensor.
Seeing how SOE has so many licensed MMORPGs I wonder which one he's talking about? =P
Experiencing an area that is very similar to one you have already experienced for the first time is a letdown, because it detracts from the player suspension of disbelief.
Having a living world (one with natural motion, an ecology and sensible physics) is also important for immersiveness.
Sensible physics apparently means:
Don't get me wrong. SWG is a cool game, but it has a long way to go to incorporate satisfying content to go with all of their fancy game structure. It will be quite a shame if they never live up to this, considering that they have a great framework in place to build content upon.
In the long run, I look forward to a game which has:
It's surprisingly hard to find quality free software for X10 control.
I'd think with all the geeks who play with this kind of stuff that there'd be more to choose from.
The non-free software tends to be quite expensive, suffers too much feature creep, and also lacks quality.
I just want a simple panel I can pop up quickly on my computer and turn something off. The ability to load/save schedules back to the device would be nice also.
they are hardly participating in civil disobedience
Judging by the information you expressed in your message, you may not be aware of the gradual transition of power from elected representatives of the people to appointed representatives of the corporate sector...
Just to bring you up to date on how things are today:
- Corporations now have primary consideration before indivudal people for all high-impact legislative decisions. (tax relief, wars, special contracts, etc)
- Citizens who threaten to harm the profit margin of a corporation will be rounded up and silenced. (DMCA, reverse engineering, publishing security audits)
- Law enforcment of intellectual property is being turned over to corporations. (suponea power of the RIAA)
- Existing monoplies are extended indefinitely to ensure any potential future profit is secured, despite the suffering of the public domain (copyright extensions)
- New monopolies are granted with minimal review for corporations who have contributed sufficient funding to ensure their approval. (FCC, patent system)
Perhaps it wouldn't be considered "civil disobedience" ten years ago, but nowadays, any act which threatens the bottom line of a large corporation will most likely be interpreted by our legal system as an act of civil disobedience or be considered a violation of some other nonsensical law in order to put a stop to it.
Forward my mail to the MiniLuv...
You make a good connection between current television and push technology.
This gives me the idea that I hope to see come to reality eventually. I'd like to see something like iTunes for television programs.
I'd pay 99 cents for an episode of The Simpsons if it came without commercials and I would have rights to watch it again any time in the future (similar to the usage of music on iTunes).
If I could download and watch television programs this way, they would probably make much more money off the viewers than they would ever make off of the advertisers. This would be great for people who only have a few favorite programs and hate viewing commercials.
Meanwhile, they can continue with their spamvertisment-supported push television programs for people who do not want to pay per show, and/or people who are looking for new programs they might want to purchase.
I'm willing to bet this will happen eventually... I just wish it would happen now =)
Admittedly, I can download television shows now for free if I know where to look, but I'd be willing to put down money for an iTunes style of entertainment distrubtion if it meant getting a consistent and higher quality form of media.
Now they are telling the FCC to protect their interests at the cost of our rights.
This is where I have a problem. How does a corporation have more rights than the citizens who supposedly elect the people who control organizations like the FCC?
When did people become second class citizens behind corporations? This seems especially ridiculous when you factor in that corporations can't even vote...
I should have the right to do whatever I want with a force which is influencing the behavior of leptons in my body.
When a word begins with a spoken vowel, the indefinite article should be 'an':
an hour
an heir
an honor
an HDTV signal
This is common with the letter H becuase it is silent at the beginning of many words. In the case of HDTV, when you say the letter 'H', you start by pronouncing a vowel sound.
If the word begins with a spoken consonant, then you use 'a':
a hotel
a european (starts with a consonant 'y' sound)
a eulogy
It gets fun with words like 'herb', where some people pronounce it with the 'h' and some people leave it silent:
an [h]erb (usa)
a herb (england)
Parts needed:
- a gallon sized plastic tub
- a gallon of water
- 1 heavy duty ziplock bag
- small tube of silicone sealant
- (optional) ice
Assembly and implementation is an exercise left to the reader.
So, what happens when you want to send the e-mail to your family, who run Mac/Win 95/Win 98/Linux/Other Unix Variant?
MIME.
When you send email, it gets several mime layers.
There's usually a plain text segment which says something like "This message has been MIME encoded". I think some smarter email clients will put the plain-text version of the formatted text in this segment.
There's a formatted text segment, which I think is usually tagged as as text/html.
And with the new DRM thing, it is another MIME segment which contains the message itself, while probably using the text/plain and/or text/html segments to remind you to "upgrade" to Office 2003 if you use one of the restrictive options.
I'd hope that if you use none of the restriction options, it would just send the message in the text/plain and/or text/html segments, but who knows...
The one thing it can't stop is an actual photograph. Time to buy one of those 3G phones...
That is at least until they manage to lobby our government to pass laws to force all chip manufacturers to put cop chips in all Analog to Digital converters.
I remember coming across an audio driver which you could install that would pipe all sound played on the system to a file. The driver would then call YOUR driver to play the audio as normal.
How long until someone writes a generic video driver which overrides this in the same manner?
And then how long beore MS starts requiring signed drivers to prevent these kind of tricks?
The company I'm with has been using Thawte for 4-5 years now and never had any problems. As a matter of fact, they've improved their service quite a bit over the past couple years.
The Sidekick has no airtime charges for internet activities. As a matter of fact, it's connected to the internet 24/7.
Only off-hand disadvantages to it are that it's a big-sized device compared to most phones/pdas (though smaller than the sum of the two in most cases), and development has been kind of slow for it considering it has gone nearly a year without any significant upgrades. They just came out with a color version, but I have not yet evaluated it myself.
The persistent internet connection is cool. I was importing a bunch of contact info using my home computer, through the web interface to my sidekick's data store, and as I added each contact, I could look at my SK's screen and see the entry show up in the list within seconds of submitting the new contact form on my desktop computer.
but one would have to wonder about the rate of corrosion of the electrodes, particularly in saltwater applications - they being submerged in water and all.
Not to mention how clogged up those micro-pores are probably going to get with contaminants.
Someone could create an hourglass, with this device in the center to provide power to an LCD screen and a circuit which counts down seconds.
Mostly a geeky concept, but at least you'll never worry about having to find new batteries if the existing ones have worn out...
And what would power the pump needed to move the water? Or would you have to shake your remote every time you wanted to change the channel?
Perhaps pressing a button could generate enough pressure to force water through the cell to power the device momentarily...
It would be quite disappointing if your remote sprung a leak though =/
I don't understand how this can apply to only Google.
Google was singled out because of it's profile, but high profiles do not justify random enforcement.
It should be all or none...
Which would mean every website based in France should have to follow the same rule.
Which basically means all search engines in france should now filter out search results containing trademarked words...
Good luck having any search results at all.