I hope this compression scheme won't be tied to the semantics of a single sign language like ASL. There are plenty of other sign languages in the world, so hopefully this tech will be "language-agnostic", so to speak.
Y'know, I imagine stuff like this would be nice to speed up the rendering farms in movie studios. Either make 'm pay for the access or give every contributor with enough cycles a free ticket;).
This only works in a LAN. Every single frame of a modern movie requires gigabytes of texture data etc. etc... It's not something you can send over the Internet.
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So, Xgrid-experts, what kind of permissions does an application like this have? Is it sandboxed somehow?
From what I can remember about Finnish legislature we have a law that prohibits child porn, obviously, but also takes into account that teens can, will, and should express themselves sexually. Thus, inter-teen stuff of this nature is not illegal, as long as it stays private, of course.
Not knowing the board game business does not imply that I know nothing about pitching ideas and marketing. You've never seen an IANAL-comment on Slashdot?;)
You can try different approach. Try publishing your game on Net. Something like printable table (in pdf for example) and some cutout pieces. Let people play. If it's good enough, and people like it you can approach some game publishers.
Then again, some publishers may be put off byt something being published already. I'd rather have people over and play instead... But I may very well be wrong. I like the idea from a FOSS standpoint!
I know nothing about the board game business......but team up with someone who can draw and/or design well. Scanners and inkjets are dirt cheap these days. If your prototype looks like a product instead of a school project your chances of getting published should be orders of magnitude better.
Playability is important, but without looks you can't appeal to Joe Sixpack.
And what average user is going to go dig in a wiki? They don't want to go find the answer for themselves. They want to and will call the helpdesk if it is available. Trust me, I know. Tried a similar approach.
Didn't read my commend, did you?
A wiki can serve as a superset of an introduction. You can set up a linear set of pages to serve as an introduction. No digging needed.
I do second that it's hard to motivate people to actually go through an introduction, but if the job requires a formal introduction I think that someone who can't read trough an introduction and actually learn something is not much of an employee.
Why not gather all new users and have one presentation for all of them (once a week or something), instead of sitting down with each one?
That only works if the flow of new employees is sufficiently large. Otherwise once a week is too often... They did this on a former job of mine. By the time the orientation came along I knew everything already. Orientation only works if you're disoriented;)
A wiki is probably the most flexible way to set up something like this. It can serve both as an introduction (think pages linked one after another) and as a general documentation tool.
And unlike a flash presentation it's searchable and less of a pain in the rear end to update.
PS. Wikis can be read only for regular users too...
1) There is no difference between userspace and kernal space on windows* 2) windows already has NTFS in kernel space 3) see 1 and 2 windows has NTFS in user space 4) why reinvent the wheel?
The subject said "FUSE for Windows". Check out FUSE, do the math.
And how long does it take for me to become (and stay) bilingual? Is there a net gain, or would my time be better spent elsewhere?
Aside from the obvious benefits of simply broadening your perspective, learning a new language takes anywhere from 1 to 10 years. (I'm pretty much trilingual with Swedish, Finnish and English, know French pretty well, and some German.) Anybody can do it in one year if placed somewhere where you simply can't speak anything else. If you don't spend a lot of time, on the other hand, it'll take a lot longer. You'll also lose an extra language pertty quickly unless you use it regularly for a decent number of years.
Then there's the question of what qualifies as bilingual. If you ask me it's the ability to express your thoughts equally and effortlessly in both languages. Otherwise you're just good at another language.
It's interesting to note that if you're bilingual from age 0 and up it takes a little longer to learn to speak. It's also very important that one parent speaks one language to the kids, and vice versa. Otherwise they'll have a hard time determining what's what. (Our kids are Swedish/Finnish bilingual.)
As opposed to all those middle class and blue-collar folks with $77 Million lying around?
I meant that most people don't have 77 mil to spend without expecting to get something back. If the place would be likely to generate money a suitable organization coult probably get funding for developing it. As it stands now its pretty much only the people who have 77 mil spend, as opposed to invest.
Ironically, it would probably be more lucrative to buy property in something like Second Life than a castle like this. The castle is cool as hell, but the location is not very convenient.
Actually, if a computer is old enough that helps too. I use a floppy drive from a 286 due to the fact that it's mechanically bulletproof. I went through 2 floppy drives before gutting an old external floppy enclosure for the drive. Newer hardware isn't built to last.
Also, thee years for a capacitor is probably three years of continuous usage.
True. We waited (watched P2P-sourced episodes) of Friends until we got the whole 10 seasons for 200 EUR. The ridiculous thing was the darn DVD:s won't play in a computer unless you install some crappy custom player. Go figure.
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Even though I have 2 gigs of RAM, FF routinely escalates to over 1 GB of usage (I have a lot of tabs open, but c'mon), and hogs so many resources that the system slows to a crawl that requires a reboot.
IMO, this issue should have been the #1 priority in the move from 1.5 to 2.0. I am losing hope it will be fixed in the next release either (which is a shame, since I would prefer to run FF). IE7 and Opera9 simply do not have this problem to the extent FF does.
While I wholeheartedly agree I've found that using the session saving features in Firefox 2 together with the FlashBlock extension greatly improves things. This lets me close Firefox and return to where I was, and only view the flash content I specifically decide to.
It's more of treating the symptoms than the disease, but at least I can benefit from Firefox's other great extensions this way.
AFAIK blind people indeed feel what someone looks like. They can basically swipe their hand across your face and visualize the facial features. Why should tactile information (in 3D non the less) be inferior to a bunch of photons hitting your retinas?
When I was in the Finnish equivalent of high school we had a teacher who simply didn't have what it took to teach us efficiently. The class was never properly under control, people were messing around and no one was learning anything. With other teachers things worked fine.
Eventually we all signed a petition that this particular teacher simply didn't have what it took... and got a new one.
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...seriously, this can't be? Right?
The actual hacking, not the challenge, that is.
I hope this compression scheme won't be tied to the semantics of a single sign language like ASL. There are plenty of other sign languages in the world, so hopefully this tech will be "language-agnostic", so to speak.
This only works in a LAN. Every single frame of a modern movie requires gigabytes of texture data etc. etc... It's not something you can send over the Internet.
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So, Xgrid-experts, what kind of permissions does an application like this have? Is it sandboxed somehow?
From what I can remember about Finnish legislature we have a law that prohibits child porn, obviously, but also takes into account that teens can, will, and should express themselves sexually. Thus, inter-teen stuff of this nature is not illegal, as long as it stays private, of course.
Not knowing the board game business does not imply that I know nothing about pitching ideas and marketing. You've never seen an IANAL-comment on Slashdot? ;)
I know nothing about the board game business... ...but team up with someone who can draw and/or design well. Scanners and inkjets are dirt cheap these days. If your prototype looks like a product instead of a school project your chances of getting published should be orders of magnitude better.
Playability is important, but without looks you can't appeal to Joe Sixpack.
Didn't read my commend, did you?
A wiki can serve as a superset of an introduction. You can set up a linear set of pages to serve as an introduction. No digging needed.
I do second that it's hard to motivate people to actually go through an introduction, but if the job requires a formal introduction I think that someone who can't read trough an introduction and actually learn something is not much of an employee.
That only works if the flow of new employees is sufficiently large. Otherwise once a week is too often... They did this on a former job of mine. By the time the orientation came along I knew everything already. Orientation only works if you're disoriented
A wiki is probably the most flexible way to set up something like this. It can serve both as an introduction (think pages linked one after another) and as a general documentation tool.
And unlike a flash presentation it's searchable and less of a pain in the rear end to update.
PS. Wikis can be read only for regular users too...
...another cold war.
Argh.
The subject said "FUSE for Windows". Check out FUSE, do the math.
Boot camp users, care to comment on the implications?
Aside from the obvious benefits of simply broadening your perspective, learning a new language takes anywhere from 1 to 10 years. (I'm pretty much trilingual with Swedish, Finnish and English, know French pretty well, and some German.) Anybody can do it in one year if placed somewhere where you simply can't speak anything else. If you don't spend a lot of time, on the other hand, it'll take a lot longer. You'll also lose an extra language pertty quickly unless you use it regularly for a decent number of years.
Then there's the question of what qualifies as bilingual. If you ask me it's the ability to express your thoughts equally and effortlessly in both languages. Otherwise you're just good at another language.
It's interesting to note that if you're bilingual from age 0 and up it takes a little longer to learn to speak. It's also very important that one parent speaks one language to the kids, and vice versa. Otherwise they'll have a hard time determining what's what. (Our kids are Swedish/Finnish bilingual.)
I have to admit that the more I read about the OLPC the more it seems like an ideal device for couch-centric web surfing and ebook reading... ;)
But respect to the project for getting this far, I for one hope they make it all the way. Information wants to be free, after all.
I meant that most people don't have 77 mil to spend without expecting to get something back. If the place would be likely to generate money a suitable organization coult probably get funding for developing it. As it stands now its pretty much only the people who have 77 mil spend, as opposed to invest.
Ironically, it would probably be more lucrative to buy property in something like Second Life than a castle like this. The castle is cool as hell, but the location is not very convenient.
Actually, if a computer is old enough that helps too. I use a floppy drive from a 286 due to the fact that it's mechanically bulletproof. I went through 2 floppy drives before gutting an old external floppy enclosure for the drive. Newer hardware isn't built to last.
Also, thee years for a capacitor is probably three years of continuous usage.
True. We waited (watched P2P-sourced episodes) of Friends until we got the whole 10 seasons for 200 EUR. The ridiculous thing was the darn DVD:s won't play in a computer unless you install some crappy custom player. Go figure.
While I wholeheartedly agree I've found that using the session saving features in Firefox 2 together with the FlashBlock extension greatly improves things. This lets me close Firefox and return to where I was, and only view the flash content I specifically decide to.
It's more of treating the symptoms than the disease, but at least I can benefit from Firefox's other great extensions this way.
how can you feel pretty? Can't be done.
AFAIK blind people indeed feel what someone looks like. They can basically swipe their hand across your face and visualize the facial features. Why should tactile information (in 3D non the less) be inferior to a bunch of photons hitting your retinas?
When I was in the Finnish equivalent of high school we had a teacher who simply didn't have what it took to teach us efficiently. The class was never properly under control, people were messing around and no one was learning anything. With other teachers things worked fine.
Eventually we all signed a petition that this particular teacher simply didn't have what it took... and got a new one.