Eagle 1 looks quite awesome, think how great that would be for disaster control if you could see a real-time map of where the flood waters are rising fastest, where the fires are spreading from, or whatever the current disaster of the day might be. Making it interactive/collaborative sounds great, so you could draw little plans of attack and have them distributed to everyone in your organization.
I've never been a real Microsoft groupie but this sounds very civic-minded, innovative, and useful.
In other news, I would love to have a similar product for city-wide games of paintball or capture the flag.
The straight product is only one component of the experience; the community also plays a huge role. I know that the real reason I've stuck with Firefox for so long is because of the massive amount of support I can get from Greasemonkey and Userscripts.org, just goes to show that communities can build up around almost any given browser or piece of open-source software to really make the user experience unique and add value to the product.
I don't know how you could patent a kind of interface, though. Isn't that like patenting a particular way of arranging your furniture? It's definitely not an invention, it's a way of presenting an existing invention, no?
I think that should be copyright territory, like, "Whatever you do, you can't call your system a '1-click' system", instead of what they are saying which is, "You can't use an interface that resembles our '1-click' system or functions in a similar way".
Boy am I glad we have a legal system that's easily manipulated! It would be such a shame if someone had the authority to recognize underhanded tactics that circumvented the system's ability to mete out justice by burying it in tedium and procedure.
Actually, I guess that would be pretty authoritarian if someone could just say, "Amazon, we're ruling on this and we're ruling on it now, and to hell with all your rigamarole", but wouldn't it be refreshing, in a way!
Not a concern to me, as I think that the industry will be made better if games have to spend less time in the tube.
Constricted cash flow for industry giants and consumers --> more small, short projects and smaller (but more) purchases made by consumers --> more room for smaller independent developers to compete and more room for innovation in the market.
As a man who came into video games in the era of adventure games with shitty graphics that survived on intuitive interfaces and a good sense of humor, I don't really mind if they can't spend an extra two months making sure the light effects on the water are just perfect.
Anyone looking forward to the day that robots become better at acting than humans can ever be? Don't need their own stunt doubles, can be actually destroyed on camera after showing something that passes for human emotion, will work for whatever salary they're programmed for... Think people will care that they're not real?
And how. 39 states are facing budget shortfalls and expecting capital outlays for new projects at this point from the states is unrealistic. Any "Green New Deal" style program that would try to create the necessary infrastructure to create green jobs would have to use the Federal gov't as the main actor.
I've notified all of my Myspace friends that if they don't hear from me for a 48 hour period, it is likely that I am dead and they should just assume that is the case.
Yeah, that was a rather trollish thing of you to say. I have nothing but respect for the armed forces and for the individuals who put the nation's needs above their own safety... and therefore I have no respect for those who would dupe them into fighting an unnecessary war.
I don't know, there may be legal ramifications for Bush and his advisers past Obama's Inauguration, considering that when the FISA Telecom Immunity bill was passed, all the liberty activists took the legal resources they were devoting to suing the pants off the telecommunications giants and focused their efforts on suing the pants off the Executive instead.
That's a really good point, the entire system they're building could probably be made obsolete by a fake city saturated with closed-circuit cameras and some good old-fashioned paintballs. That way you could still replay and review any event that you found interesting, and you also build the actions of taking cover and using terrain effectively into your muscle memory and not just your episodic memory.
Do you want to build in the part of the game after the service where you get neglected by the VA and end up begging for change on the streets of some uncaring nightmare of a city?
Maybe we should go with the part where your government is co-opted by neocons and you get sent off to put your life in danger on the basis of forged intelligence.
It's asymmetric warfare, my friend. If you can pay for an advantage that you can take to the battlefield, by all means, do it. However, it doesn't always help, as the more assets of greater value you have in combat, the more committed you are to protecting those assets, even when it's disadvantageous for you to do so. And low-cost solutions for dealing with asymmetries usually emerge. Did you see Black Hawk Down? The Somali militants were clearly out-teched, and yet they kicked the US forces' asses because they had anti-aircraft missiles and the willingness to swarm downed helicopters and exploit the US' willingness to send more troops in after them.
That's actually hilarious that you mention that, as I am storing about a half-decade's worth of e-mails using apple products and hardware. Wouldn't call it especially secure or safe, but it's there and it's intuitive to use.
Why wouldn't they at least use the office as a place to field test the product?
When Noys seduces Harlan, she puts on a device that generates a semi-random sequence using complimentary notes and chords, with the aim of producing never-repeating but beautiful music - this sounds extremely similar.
We're moving ever closer to the music of the future! Wooo.
Wily menfolk everywhere will soon use this software to enhance their seductive power.
Well, obviously the tech is already widely available, but a clever application of it that creates beautiful music (if it in fact does) is still awesome.
I mean, not every cool invention is going to be super groundbreaking, like the lightbulb. Some are just going to be good adaptations of existing tech, like lamps and lampshades.
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I suspect a large amount of XP users are not upgrading to Vista, so I doubt that these statistics really represent market share.
That's what she said!
No, but actually, that was useful, and thank you.
Eagle 1 looks quite awesome, think how great that would be for disaster control if you could see a real-time map of where the flood waters are rising fastest, where the fires are spreading from, or whatever the current disaster of the day might be. Making it interactive/collaborative sounds great, so you could draw little plans of attack and have them distributed to everyone in your organization.
I've never been a real Microsoft groupie but this sounds very civic-minded, innovative, and useful.
In other news, I would love to have a similar product for city-wide games of paintball or capture the flag.
The straight product is only one component of the experience; the community also plays a huge role. I know that the real reason I've stuck with Firefox for so long is because of the massive amount of support I can get from Greasemonkey and Userscripts.org, just goes to show that communities can build up around almost any given browser or piece of open-source software to really make the user experience unique and add value to the product.
I don't know how you could patent a kind of interface, though. Isn't that like patenting a particular way of arranging your furniture? It's definitely not an invention, it's a way of presenting an existing invention, no?
I think that should be copyright territory, like, "Whatever you do, you can't call your system a '1-click' system", instead of what they are saying which is, "You can't use an interface that resembles our '1-click' system or functions in a similar way".
Does that make sense?
Boy am I glad we have a legal system that's easily manipulated! It would be such a shame if someone had the authority to recognize underhanded tactics that circumvented the system's ability to mete out justice by burying it in tedium and procedure.
Actually, I guess that would be pretty authoritarian if someone could just say, "Amazon, we're ruling on this and we're ruling on it now, and to hell with all your rigamarole", but wouldn't it be refreshing, in a way!
Valve could do better with the whole episodic gaming thing.
Step one: shorten the time between releases of half life 2 episodes.
Step two: you don't have to package episode two with another copy of episode one.
Step three: please for the love of god keep bundling stuff with new innovative brilliant games like portal.
Not a concern to me, as I think that the industry will be made better if games have to spend less time in the tube.
Constricted cash flow for industry giants and consumers --> more small, short projects and smaller (but more) purchases made by consumers --> more room for smaller independent developers to compete and more room for innovation in the market.
As a man who came into video games in the era of adventure games with shitty graphics that survived on intuitive interfaces and a good sense of humor, I don't really mind if they can't spend an extra two months making sure the light effects on the water are just perfect.
Anyone looking forward to the day that robots become better at acting than humans can ever be? Don't need their own stunt doubles, can be actually destroyed on camera after showing something that passes for human emotion, will work for whatever salary they're programmed for... Think people will care that they're not real?
And how. 39 states are facing budget shortfalls and expecting capital outlays for new projects at this point from the states is unrealistic. Any "Green New Deal" style program that would try to create the necessary infrastructure to create green jobs would have to use the Federal gov't as the main actor.
If we hit this bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate!
"Machine gun" wants to fire bullet # 34837.
[Allow, Disallow]?
"Machine gun" wants to fire bullet #34838.
[Allow, Disallow]?
"Machine Gun" wants....
I've notified all of my Myspace friends that if they don't hear from me for a 48 hour period, it is likely that I am dead and they should just assume that is the case.
I would make drinking glasses out of unwettable surfaces, as it would ensure that you waste none of your beverage.
Yeah, that was a rather trollish thing of you to say. I have nothing but respect for the armed forces and for the individuals who put the nation's needs above their own safety... and therefore I have no respect for those who would dupe them into fighting an unnecessary war.
I think the question is, do we really need a constitutional amendment defining marriage as "not gay marriage"?
I don't know, there may be legal ramifications for Bush and his advisers past Obama's Inauguration, considering that when the FISA Telecom Immunity bill was passed, all the liberty activists took the legal resources they were devoting to suing the pants off the telecommunications giants and focused their efforts on suing the pants off the Executive instead.
That's a really good point, the entire system they're building could probably be made obsolete by a fake city saturated with closed-circuit cameras and some good old-fashioned paintballs. That way you could still replay and review any event that you found interesting, and you also build the actions of taking cover and using terrain effectively into your muscle memory and not just your episodic memory.
Were the WLC games useful to you at all later?
"Pvt. Johnson! What's the holdup in there?"
"The terrorists moved the dining room table to the foyer!! All our strategies are fucked!"
"Damn! Call in an airstrike!"
Do you want to build in the part of the game after the service where you get neglected by the VA and end up begging for change on the streets of some uncaring nightmare of a city?
Maybe we should go with the part where your government is co-opted by neocons and you get sent off to put your life in danger on the basis of forged intelligence.
It's asymmetric warfare, my friend. If you can pay for an advantage that you can take to the battlefield, by all means, do it. However, it doesn't always help, as the more assets of greater value you have in combat, the more committed you are to protecting those assets, even when it's disadvantageous for you to do so. And low-cost solutions for dealing with asymmetries usually emerge. Did you see Black Hawk Down? The Somali militants were clearly out-teched, and yet they kicked the US forces' asses because they had anti-aircraft missiles and the willingness to swarm downed helicopters and exploit the US' willingness to send more troops in after them.
I think that "shooting the messenger" wouldn't really do justice to the carnage that would ensue.
Anyway, Apple products aren't meant for that environment, really. Are they? I don't think they're going after tech support cubicle-dwellers.
Although, Apple does like to keep a little bit of a messiah complex about itself.
That's actually hilarious that you mention that, as I am storing about a half-decade's worth of e-mails using apple products and hardware. Wouldn't call it especially secure or safe, but it's there and it's intuitive to use.
Why wouldn't they at least use the office as a place to field test the product?
When Noys seduces Harlan, she puts on a device that generates a semi-random sequence using complimentary notes and chords, with the aim of producing never-repeating but beautiful music - this sounds extremely similar.
We're moving ever closer to the music of the future! Wooo.
Wily menfolk everywhere will soon use this software to enhance their seductive power.
Well, obviously the tech is already widely available, but a clever application of it that creates beautiful music (if it in fact does) is still awesome.
I mean, not every cool invention is going to be super groundbreaking, like the lightbulb. Some are just going to be good adaptations of existing tech, like lamps and lampshades.