What with everyone following the Election on blogs, Twitter, TV, Youtube, radio and so on, will the whole internet slow to a crawl when the results get announced?
Is "open source hardware" an appropriate name? It does communicate the concept effectively, but it's not really the "source" of the hardware that's open, is it? "Open design harware", perhaps.
You've got a point. I suppose it depends on what kind of threshold you set. If they allowed you to accept all but the most-reported calls, perhaps you could find a setting to your liking. It might also be easier to implement this for a few phone calls from unique numbers a day, rather than for hundreds of emails.
Nearly the first PC game that I played was Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II. Apart from being immensly fun on local multiplayer (over a serial cable!), it was really easy to modify. IIRC, you just had to change a value in a human-readable text file to make a weapon fire a different projectile, or have a really short reload time. This, of course, meant that a huge number of mods were released. Although I didn't develop anything particularly advanced, it was fun to disguise myself as a crate and sneak up on my brother with a blaster modified to fire force lightning.
Now that I think about it, that's probably why I started programming and web development as a hobby.
It seems like the most important thing to get right with this project is the way of informing the drivers of danger. The article mentions a HUD, a display on the bike dashboard, and an audio warning. I'd be intersted to see how they manage to convey urgent information in a non-distracting way.
Still, once that's overcome (maybe it has been already), it should be pretty useful.
Hockey could be the slightly sensitive, slightly upper class young sidekick. He turned away from his privileged roots to a life of crimefighting after being brutally beaten in the shins by a bunch of youths with staplers.
And what are their secret weaknesses? They're sensitive to high pressure.
So, basically, it has a local blacklist and whitelist. Except that
In future, there are plans for the device to be able to download a list of blacklisted numbers from a central database, which can be dialled into via a modem inside the box.
And this will be updated by the users. It might just work.
I'm more impressed by the whole "virtual receptionist" aspect. That could be handy.
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And vinegar is acceptable on salad only, not potatoes.
What about potato salad?
... or are you just happy to see me?
Seriously, though, are they coming to Europe?
Or being banned from the G1.
Actually, maybe if it was Microsoft Suit Claims Diebold Voting Machines Violate GPL.
Throw all the tea overboard, I say.
how well does tea steep in zero G
I don't know, but you can drink it with chopsticks.
Swap those crystals round, Carter.
So, they're trying to stop their sites getting ballotted? No? Anyone?
I'll get my coat.
What with everyone following the Election on blogs, Twitter, TV, Youtube, radio and so on, will the whole internet slow to a crawl when the results get announced?
I've been burned by this sort of thing before.
Scalded, surely?
so that we can have slashdot.dot
I tried to post before, but it seems that Slashdot discarded the post.
"Are you telling me I can dodge bullets?"
"When you're ready, you'll be able to outdrive them."
Is "open source hardware" an appropriate name? It does communicate the concept effectively, but it's not really the "source" of the hardware that's open, is it? "Open design harware", perhaps.
160 hours of unpaid work
Surely it wouldn't have taken that long to actually get the items in-game?
Fedora 9: $10.8B
Linux Ecosystem: $25B
Free Software: Priceless.
You've got a point. I suppose it depends on what kind of threshold you set. If they allowed you to accept all but the most-reported calls, perhaps you could find a setting to your liking. It might also be easier to implement this for a few phone calls from unique numbers a day, rather than for hundreds of emails.
Nearly the first PC game that I played was Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II. Apart from being immensly fun on local multiplayer (over a serial cable!), it was really easy to modify. IIRC, you just had to change a value in a human-readable text file to make a weapon fire a different projectile, or have a really short reload time. This, of course, meant that a huge number of mods were released. Although I didn't develop anything particularly advanced, it was fun to disguise myself as a crate and sneak up on my brother with a blaster modified to fire force lightning.
Now that I think about it, that's probably why I started programming and web development as a hobby.
It seems like the most important thing to get right with this project is the way of informing the drivers of danger. The article mentions a HUD, a display on the bike dashboard, and an audio warning. I'd be intersted to see how they manage to convey urgent information in a non-distracting way.
Still, once that's overcome (maybe it has been already), it should be pretty useful.
Hockey could be the slightly sensitive, slightly upper class young sidekick. He turned away from his privileged roots to a life of crimefighting after being brutally beaten in the shins by a bunch of youths with staplers.
And what are their secret weaknesses? They're sensitive to high pressure.
Will this lead to a wave of new sticky-tape-related superheroes?
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In future, there are plans for the device to be able to download a list of blacklisted numbers from a central database, which can be dialled into via a modem inside the box.
And this will be updated by the users. It might just work.
I'm more impressed by the whole "virtual receptionist" aspect. That could be handy.
Is there some unwritten rule that you can't use 'and' in a headline?
No, but imagine the extra power that storing, transferring and displaying those two extra characters uses. /. is just being green.