Lots of naysayers already.. this will suck as much as the first round of "tablet" laptops, like the thinkpad x60, et cetera. But you have to let the pioneers forge ahead. Let them do that, they will enjoy being at the forefront of development without you.
There's all sorts of sensors. And with something like a SerIO, you can just plug analog sensors into your perl/python/ruby/php/bash scripts. For instance, I believe I could take a capacitance sensor, hide it under the wood in my desk, run that into the SerIO (or I mean, if I was an engineer I could do it myself, but I am not, so the SerIO is my crutch), and then I could have my computer know when my hands are laying on the desk.
I could put a thermal sensor in my chair, so my butt triggers it. I could put motion sensors in the walls. I could put humidity sensors in my beer-hat, and it could tell me when to stop drinking so much booze.
There's so many neat ideas out there that haven't really been done yet. Well, I'm sure they've been done by shy introverts, brilliant kids that don't feel like sharing with the dummies. Heck I bet a ton are reading this very story and going "PSSSSSSSsh so?" Not as many as the armchair engineers going "PSshh stoopid idea", but they are still here too.
This isn't about getting it right. This is about playing. Don't critique the child playing with blocks.
I just liked how it described facebook as an intranet. Further the article posits that facebook will follow the path of AOL. I am not agreeing or disagreeing, just sharing a link.
A man of your convictions would be more easily allayed were he to simply discard all your personal relationships. Then the shadow facebook looms above your world would fade.
Or I mean, you could get over yourself. Either way, just sayin'.
The web was originally designed to allow two way data push between agents, human/automated or whatever. The tools to push came later, and so iteration one was just static content, mostly information (data that got compiled); now we have data being published as readily. I'd suggest letting the web know you're a fan is the same sort of data that was originally intended.
Strong language accents, and more so mutually intelligible dialects, will place strong phonetic stresses in various ways such that every word ends up being mispronounced to some self-righteous xenophobe.
I found facebook as a great place to reconnect for the first time with girls that used to be pretty in high school, clinging to their pregnancy photos as though they were my own children, laughing with them.. printing them out and putting them on my fridge.. It's also a great place to have a decent, private conversation with your best friend's mom without him "getting all weird about this". A place for adults to communicate as they wish. A place for grownups.
when i worked at www.iol.unh.edu, networkworld or someone like that did an article about us. since we were just a bunch of server racks, they brought in all these stupid colored lights, killed the main lights.. all the kids working there got hollywood concealer jobs. they ended up looking like mimes, covering the nerd complexion. and of course, the place is 120 kids, 8 females... after 16 kids had photos taken, it looked like a 50% ratio. go figure. photography is a quick and easy way to stretch the truth.
I, too, can screenshot an email with a fake address and name. And then upload that screenshot to a crappy news site. At what point does it become real?
Related to number 6, h.264 is INCREDIBLY intense for a CPU to encode. It takes a disgusting length of time to transcode video streams into this format. When you factor in mplayer/mencoder not even encoding them right, you have quite a mess coming down the pipeline. (They mess up the b-frames. Other tools can at least do this correctly).
The flash plugin on everyone's browser allows the user to publish an rtmp stream back to the server, providing both audio and video. It could be a two way street -- er, with chatroulette sites popping up everywhere, arguably video already is a bidirectional model.
Is actually awesome; Taco asks who is crapping their pants, and my entitlement to complain about journalistic professionalism gets shut down by the realization that I come here to talk shop with other greasy dorks in our own vernacular.
I posit your friend WASNT an idiot, just a normal teenager. I dare to generalize that even most 19 year olds are not monsters for sleeping with 17 year olds.
In most states, you'll be a registered sex offender for taking a leak in public -- i.e. down a dark alley after a few too many pints. Should it be illegal? Yeah probably. Should it be ambiguous whether you raped a kid or couldn't hold your bladder? I dunno, I don't write laws so I shouldn't have an opinion. Maybe the slashlawer can opine on why these are similar things.
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Lots of naysayers already.. this will suck as much as the first round of "tablet" laptops, like the thinkpad x60, et cetera. But you have to let the pioneers forge ahead. Let them do that, they will enjoy being at the forefront of development without you.
There's all sorts of sensors. And with something like a SerIO, you can just plug analog sensors into your perl/python/ruby/php/bash scripts. For instance, I believe I could take a capacitance sensor, hide it under the wood in my desk, run that into the SerIO (or I mean, if I was an engineer I could do it myself, but I am not, so the SerIO is my crutch), and then I could have my computer know when my hands are laying on the desk.
I could put a thermal sensor in my chair, so my butt triggers it. I could put motion sensors in the walls. I could put humidity sensors in my beer-hat, and it could tell me when to stop drinking so much booze.
There's so many neat ideas out there that haven't really been done yet. Well, I'm sure they've been done by shy introverts, brilliant kids that don't feel like sharing with the dummies. Heck I bet a ton are reading this very story and going "PSSSSSSSsh so?" Not as many as the armchair engineers going "PSshh stoopid idea", but they are still here too.
This isn't about getting it right. This is about playing. Don't critique the child playing with blocks.
I just liked how it described facebook as an intranet. Further the article posits that facebook will follow the path of AOL. I am not agreeing or disagreeing, just sharing a link.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/06/avoiding-walled-gardens-on-the-internet.html
A man of your convictions would be more easily allayed were he to simply discard all your personal relationships. Then the shadow facebook looms above your world would fade.
Or I mean, you could get over yourself. Either way, just sayin'.
The web was originally designed to allow two way data push between agents, human/automated or whatever. The tools to push came later, and so iteration one was just static content, mostly information (data that got compiled); now we have data being published as readily. I'd suggest letting the web know you're a fan is the same sort of data that was originally intended.
Strong language accents, and more so mutually intelligible dialects, will place strong phonetic stresses in various ways such that every word ends up being mispronounced to some self-righteous xenophobe.
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I found facebook as a great place to reconnect for the first time with girls that used to be pretty in high school, clinging to their pregnancy photos as though they were my own children, laughing with them.. printing them out and putting them on my fridge.. It's also a great place to have a decent, private conversation with your best friend's mom without him "getting all weird about this". A place for adults to communicate as they wish. A place for grownups.
when i worked at www.iol.unh.edu, networkworld or someone like that did an article about us. since we were just a bunch of server racks, they brought in all these stupid colored lights, killed the main lights.. all the kids working there got hollywood concealer jobs. they ended up looking like mimes, covering the nerd complexion. and of course, the place is 120 kids, 8 females... after 16 kids had photos taken, it looked like a 50% ratio. go figure. photography is a quick and easy way to stretch the truth.
Ouch, there's a hook in the roof of my mouth!
Some folks have free time because they design their lives such that they do.
Further, I disagree that any structured language is less valuable if you focus on improving the health of the brain.
If you want to get all statistical about it, anyone who can't speak Chinese is doing it wrong.
The ORIGINAL developer has posted more info here!
i mean, doesnt anyone else agree with me this is pretty crappy journalism?
I, too, can screenshot an email with a fake address and name. And then upload that screenshot to a crappy news site. At what point does it become real?
they invented a fix for you
If you plugged one of these into a serio you couldn't get any closer to analog input/output for your crappy bash scripts :)
Related to number 6, h.264 is INCREDIBLY intense for a CPU to encode. It takes a disgusting length of time to transcode video streams into this format. When you factor in mplayer/mencoder not even encoding them right, you have quite a mess coming down the pipeline. (They mess up the b-frames. Other tools can at least do this correctly).
The flash plugin on everyone's browser allows the user to publish an rtmp stream back to the server, providing both audio and video. It could be a two way street -- er, with chatroulette sites popping up everywhere, arguably video already is a bidirectional model.
1. The iPhone and iPad notwithstanding, Flash is beginning to show up on other mobile device platforms.
2. Flash is used for more than just video delivery on the Web.
3. Adobe provides strong tools and support for designers and developers.
4. Flash's content protection/DRM appeals to content producers.
5. Flash remains popular with online advertisers.
6. HTML 5 still has video codec patent issues to work out.
Is actually awesome; Taco asks who is crapping their pants, and my entitlement to complain about journalistic professionalism gets shut down by the realization that I come here to talk shop with other greasy dorks in our own vernacular.
I'll pay you 25 cents per post to push my own personal agenda...
I posit your friend WASNT an idiot, just a normal teenager. I dare to generalize that even most 19 year olds are not monsters for sleeping with 17 year olds.
In most states, you'll be a registered sex offender for taking a leak in public -- i.e. down a dark alley after a few too many pints. Should it be illegal? Yeah probably. Should it be ambiguous whether you raped a kid or couldn't hold your bladder? I dunno, I don't write laws so I shouldn't have an opinion. Maybe the slashlawer can opine on why these are similar things.
That sucks, you'll be forced to go to libraries
http://www.skullsecurity.org/blogdata/fbdata.torrent
But everyone on slashdot who saw the movie will also have understood it. You're not as unique as you might believe.
Why was it probably too long? Were you unable to pay attention that long?
Shoeler and BobMcD, please get a room!
did you feel liberated when you got your email?