Those fun games were done and sold by Nintendo already. I'd like to see a functional tool that can become useful in a wide variety of yet unforeseen situations, but that would require an input lag and accuracy similar to the tried and tested 'old-style' controllers. And that's why the Sony and MS motion controllers are doomed to fail as expensive but clunky and uncomfortable prototype models.
Same for me. My native tongue isn't English, but I had to start learning it at the age of six because no one translated manuals/dialogue fast enough. It's strange what a small bit of motivation can achieve.
Thinking back, I've never once made a sweet cake with added salt in it, and I suppose having graduated a cake-making school would have made me do some if it was a common technique. Perhaps the closest was a date cake, where the canned dates may or may not have had some sodium glutamate as an additive (banning sodium salt would be a funny mess). Sandwich cake is a different thing, but even that didn't need any more salt since all the ingredients were salty to begin with. On bread-making, salt is much more critical. I can see the article claiming salt "strengthens dough by tightening gluten," which has a misleading undertone. If you leave all salt out of a normal wheat bread dough, the gluten doesn't coagulate in any useful way. The result is a gooey, slimy mess. Not to mention that the yeast runs wild without the correct amount of salt, and the bread becomes very uneven in shape while it's leavened.
GIMP was dropped so they could make room for Comix and the non-free video codecs. Lucid Lynx will be shipped with the first 20 volumes of One Piece, and a torrent for the Love Hina DVD-rip.
Pattern matching and searching power will come in very handy for the task of creating a stronger Go-playing computer program. The "exploding" size of the search tree in Go is just too much for classical computer systems. If that tree could be trimmed with an intelligent pattern matching routine, solving Go could finally take less time than what the universe has existed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Go
A simple search into the archived information about a "difficult individual" could produce endless ways to force silence. This is a problem for political opposition, whistleblowers, etc.
The existence of an information database like that is a foothold for corruption and abuse - It's a total waste of money if it's not used in any way. In how many ways can you use a database containing communication of private citizens?
The first thing that comes in mind is that you can discriminate someone with it.
Think of the Facebook problems as analogous. All that information about different individuals makes for an interesting communication tool, which then became a nightmare when a public institution used it for discriminative purposes. That means the school that just recently expelled students (or otherwise penalized them) because of information found on their Facebook pages.
A government database has a couple points to keep in mind: The secrecy and security hinted in the linked article would mean that without authorization by the NSA you couldn't get confirmation about what information was in the database concerning yourself. Of course, there would be no way to remove information from the database, either. A simple and attractive option for corruption would be to sell database queries to companies seeking personal details of their employees, all in the name of "driving the economy forward."
You're looking at a development of Internet culture that hasn't had enough time to grow.
The fragmented project base with everyone going in their various directions could be viewed as the "medieval age of Linux" - Everyone and anyone can establish a duchy of their own just by declaring one. We haven't yet reached the critical mass of different Linux variants, so there's still 'empty land' to found new projects upon. The amount of Linux variants per users should in fact be dropping as more and more Windows users decide to switch operating systems.
Looking at the speed of development in this day and age, the hundreds of years that this stage of development used to take in the conventional world could happen in mere years, counting from the moment that Linux makes its decisive breakthrough. Of course, determining that breakthrough point will be most difficult without extensive hindsight, and I think it hasn't yet taken place.
Then we just have to wait for the King or Messiah or whatever who unites the various projects under a single banner. It'd probably take something like the equivalent of a World War in the Internet.
I don't support this decision by the Japanese government. We've yet to see even one functional Internet content filter.
-A portion of the material they filter is safe, ie. not supposed to be filtered -A portion of the material they should filter goes by unfiltered -The filters can be bypassed with the same services a lot of Japanese (and Chinese) Internet users have used for Internet anonymity for a while now
The first point makes for angry customers who one day can't visit their favorite (safe) pages anymore. The second point raises questions about the "think of the children" argument used to support the mobile Internet filtering. The third point makes a lot of otherwise normal citizen into law-breaking criminals.
This has all the chances to backfire and very little chance for profit. Hopefully Japan gets a real political revolution sometime very soon.
Jack+Ardour is what I envisioned myself using under Linux. It was a thorny path to travel, and at some point I figured that it can't be worth all the trouble it seemed to spawn at every turn. I hope the jack users are happy with the product - I might give it another go someday.
For now, I'm using an older laptop with winxp for all audio work.
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Those fun games were done and sold by Nintendo already. I'd like to see a functional tool that can become useful in a wide variety of yet unforeseen situations, but that would require an input lag and accuracy similar to the tried and tested 'old-style' controllers. And that's why the Sony and MS motion controllers are doomed to fail as expensive but clunky and uncomfortable prototype models.
Same for me. My native tongue isn't English, but I had to start learning it at the age of six because no one translated manuals/dialogue fast enough. It's strange what a small bit of motivation can achieve.
Then NOT INVISIBLE "HAI WORLD!" strikes me as the correct syntax.
Thinking back, I've never once made a sweet cake with added salt in it, and I suppose having graduated a cake-making school would have made me do some if it was a common technique. Perhaps the closest was a date cake, where the canned dates may or may not have had some sodium glutamate as an additive (banning sodium salt would be a funny mess). Sandwich cake is a different thing, but even that didn't need any more salt since all the ingredients were salty to begin with. On bread-making, salt is much more critical. I can see the article claiming salt "strengthens dough by tightening gluten," which has a misleading undertone. If you leave all salt out of a normal wheat bread dough, the gluten doesn't coagulate in any useful way. The result is a gooey, slimy mess. Not to mention that the yeast runs wild without the correct amount of salt, and the bread becomes very uneven in shape while it's leavened.
GIMP was dropped so they could make room for Comix and the non-free video codecs. Lucid Lynx will be shipped with the first 20 volumes of One Piece, and a torrent for the Love Hina DVD-rip.
Similar story here. I remember tearing my hair with all the bugs when Hardy came out, but Karmic hasn't done anything like that.
Pattern matching and searching power will come in very handy for the task of creating a stronger Go-playing computer program. The "exploding" size of the search tree in Go is just too much for classical computer systems. If that tree could be trimmed with an intelligent pattern matching routine, solving Go could finally take less time than what the universe has existed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Go
A simple search into the archived information about a "difficult individual" could produce endless ways to force silence. This is a problem for political opposition, whistleblowers, etc.
The existence of an information database like that is a foothold for corruption and abuse - It's a total waste of money if it's not used in any way. In how many ways can you use a database containing communication of private citizens?
The first thing that comes in mind is that you can discriminate someone with it.
Think of the Facebook problems as analogous. All that information about different individuals makes for an interesting communication tool, which then became a nightmare when a public institution used it for discriminative purposes. That means the school that just recently expelled students (or otherwise penalized them) because of information found on their Facebook pages.
A government database has a couple points to keep in mind: The secrecy and security hinted in the linked article would mean that without authorization by the NSA you couldn't get confirmation about what information was in the database concerning yourself. Of course, there would be no way to remove information from the database, either. A simple and attractive option for corruption would be to sell database queries to companies seeking personal details of their employees, all in the name of "driving the economy forward."
You're looking at a development of Internet culture that hasn't had enough time to grow.
The fragmented project base with everyone going in their various directions could be viewed as the "medieval age of Linux" - Everyone and anyone can establish a duchy of their own just by declaring one. We haven't yet reached the critical mass of different Linux variants, so there's still 'empty land' to found new projects upon. The amount of Linux variants per users should in fact be dropping as more and more Windows users decide to switch operating systems.
Looking at the speed of development in this day and age, the hundreds of years that this stage of development used to take in the conventional world could happen in mere years, counting from the moment that Linux makes its decisive breakthrough. Of course, determining that breakthrough point will be most difficult without extensive hindsight, and I think it hasn't yet taken place.
Then we just have to wait for the King or Messiah or whatever who unites the various projects under a single banner. It'd probably take something like the equivalent of a World War in the Internet.
I don't support this decision by the Japanese government. We've yet to see even one functional Internet content filter.
-A portion of the material they filter is safe, ie. not supposed to be filtered
-A portion of the material they should filter goes by unfiltered
-The filters can be bypassed with the same services a lot of Japanese (and Chinese) Internet users have used for Internet anonymity for a while now
The first point makes for angry customers who one day can't visit their favorite (safe) pages anymore.
The second point raises questions about the "think of the children" argument used to support the mobile Internet filtering.
The third point makes a lot of otherwise normal citizen into law-breaking criminals.
This has all the chances to backfire and very little chance for profit. Hopefully Japan gets a real political revolution sometime very soon.
Jack+Ardour is what I envisioned myself using under Linux. It was a thorny path to travel, and at some point I figured that it can't be worth all the trouble it seemed to spawn at every turn. I hope the jack users are happy with the product - I might give it another go someday. For now, I'm using an older laptop with winxp for all audio work.