A machine learning professor at University of Colorado built a Adaptive Neural Network House that learns from his behavior. It learns when to turn lights on and off, heating and cooling, radio, etc. Some of the inputs are time of day, temperature, day of week, as well as motion and audio sensors in the house. So for example the house learns that every time you walk into the bathroom you turn the light on, and when you leave the bathroom you turn it off. Pretty soon it does it for you. Really neat.
The home and garden channel even had an episode of Extreme Homes that mentioned it.
Project Voyeur is what you are looking for. People post pictures of themselves for free, and you can look at them for free. (Note, quality levels vary).
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(Although all of its components had also been done previously in other games.)
Really? I don't remember any other games that had skiing in them. To me that was the primary thing that distinguished TRIBES from any other FPSs. I remember Duke Nukem having a jet pack, but it was rarely used, and hard to control (no lateral thrust IIRC). In TRIBES it is an integral part of the game. I also don't remember any other games with deployable turrets and sensors, targetting lasers, 128 player multiplayer support (albeit badly), voice bound chat, etc.
In fact I was recently watching some video game review show, and they were talking about a new game coming out that had a new game type where you had to capture objectives from the other team and hold them. They were talking about it like it hadn't been done 8 years ago in the first tribes (called Capture&Hold back then).
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As you say TRIBES had the vehicles in multiplayer. Tribes also had one button grenade throwing. In fact T2 even had 3or4 different types of grenades.
I've never seen Halo or UT videos that cool, but check out these videos of Tribes:Vengeance (a game that is truely unique, and was ground breaking in each of it's iterations).
Finally, here's another from one of our cappers point of view. For some reason this movie has been slowed down, so he's actually moving much faster than it seems. But it's a nice short movie (last 30secs or so from a match we barely won) that shows what the skiing is like. He even overlayed our team speak chat, so you can hear what the team is saying.
If you want to play the ultimate high-speed FPS, check out the TRIBES series. The difference between Tribes and every other FPS is the skiing and jetting. You start at the top of a big hill, ski down, and jet up the next hill, continue this for a few hills, and you'll be moving at 200mph before you know it.
That's the best thing about TRIBES. You have to have skill just to move well. It takes practice, planning, and skill to move quickly, fluidly in the direction you want, to change direction without losing speed, etc. Every other game, you just walk/run at the same speed no matter what (for the most part).
Also, here's another from one of our cappers point of view. For some reason this movie has been slowed down, so he's actually moving much faster than it seems. But it's a nice short movie that shows what the skiing is like. He even overlayed our team speak chat, so you can hear what the team is saying.
If it was really that important, they could offer an incentive. How about turn on this option, and let us see what music you have, and we'll give you one free song. Or 25% off 10 songs, or anything like that. Or if it is really that valuable to the customer, they could just pop up an informational window the first time you go to iTunes. If people did actually find it of value, they would readily turn it on.
I like Apple (own a powerbook myself, and I'm generally happy with it), but I think they dropped the ball on this. It is never ok to collect information about the files on a users computer without letting them know in clear terms what you are doing.
Well, in theory, they could make a deal with the RIAA, and report which songs I have on my computer. Maybe the RIAA would give them a deal on the songs they sell through them, or even make it a condition of their continued partnership. Don't you think it's at least possible that Apple would comply?
Now sure, I pretty much trust Apple not to do this, and I believe them when they say they don't store this information, but that doesn't mean I'm happy about it. I think it sets a bad prescident, and it wouldn't surprise me if they changed how they handle this information in the future without letting the users know.
plastic.com is a news site that is based on slashcode (IIRC), and it has this exact feature. There is a sub-queue (subq), where users with high enough karma (50+, again IIRC) can view the stories that have been submitted but not yet published. Users can submit short editorial comments, and vote on whether the story should be run. Editors take the user votes into consideration when deciding which stories to run, and use the editorial comments to add relevant links, fix typos, get ideas for more interesting headlines, etc. Now the plastic community is much smaller, and has vastly fewer submissions, but I still think something like this could work here at slashdot. It would be a bit of a reward for the more active people at the site, and would decrease the burden on editors, by giving them some help.
Actually the new roomba does have that. I got mine at Sharper Image, and it has a little blue light on the top that comes on in particularly dirty areas. When it turns on, it enters spot cleaning mode until the blue light goes off. It sounds like a neat idea, but in practice I rarely see it turn on, and even then the spot cleaning can sometimes take it out of the dirty area, and then it turns off the spot cleaning before it got the whole area.
Remember, Apple did not invent podcasting. Isn't podcasting really just playing a long mp3 of people talking on your iPod? I don't think it took much to 'invent'.
Wow. The iPod won't play mp3s that you put on when using it as a mass storage device? That's just really stupid. I can't believe in all the articles I've read about iPod, I've never seen someone mention that (or maybe I just missed it).
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You shouldn't have to make your edits again, you can just revert to a version of the article before the defacement. It shouldn't take more than 30 seconds.
Is there any simple way to figure out which companies do this? I'd love to invest in more companies that have that policy, but don't relish spending 10's of hours trying to figure out which companies qualify.
On that ship we had an interlocking community with a history, rather like what has been a-building with Lost and what was developed over the years with Friends (but what never existed in Seinfeld because the main writer, Larry David, doesn't seem to believe in anything, and you can't build a powerful community on a sneer).
Anyone else think it was kind of out of the blue for OSC to throw in this dig at Larry David? I know I personally was a lot more upset over the ending of Seinfeld than the ending of Friends (ok, so I hadn't watched Friends in years at that point..), and it wasn't just a sadness at the ending of a great show, but also because the characters and their relationships did resonate with me.
I believe in star ship troopers the communication was controlled via the tongue also. I can't remember if Heinlein mentioned where the mic was, but I'm pretty sure that soldiers used their tongue to switch between channels.
I hesitate to suggest a conspiracy, but it seems lately that slashdot is full of FUD about TiVO. From what I can remember, the last three major stories about TiVo turned out to be mostly incorrect once the facts came out. I think it's likely just due to Slashdot's infamously bad journalism, but still it's interesting that such a sea change is evident in the TiVo coverage on slashdot.
And what do you do when you have two shows that are on right after each other on seperate channels. This happens all the time, and it's annoying enough with Tivo when one of the networks starts a minute early or runs a minute late. I can't imagine having to deal with this for every single show I recorded.
The best part is at the end of the twenty, they do kind of a wrap up of what they already showed, and they say something like: "Did you miss any of The Twenty? Make sure you get to the theater early to catch it all."
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A machine learning professor at University of Colorado built a Adaptive Neural Network House that learns from his behavior. It learns when to turn lights on and off, heating and cooling, radio, etc. Some of the inputs are time of day, temperature, day of week, as well as motion and audio sensors in the house. So for example the house learns that every time you walk into the bathroom you turn the light on, and when you leave the bathroom you turn it off. Pretty soon it does it for you. Really neat.
The home and garden channel even had an episode of Extreme Homes that mentioned it.
Project Voyeur is what you are looking for. People post pictures of themselves for free, and you can look at them for free. (Note, quality levels vary).
I'm sorry, but "Family Friendly" and "Shocker" just do not belong in the same sentence together.
humans are rarely preyed upon by cats.
You've obviously never seen my cats.
No Fluffy! Arghghthhthhgh... Get'em off me.
(Although all of its components had also been done previously in other games.)
Really? I don't remember any other games that had skiing in them. To me that was the primary thing that distinguished TRIBES from any other FPSs. I remember Duke Nukem having a jet pack, but it was rarely used, and hard to control (no lateral thrust IIRC). In TRIBES it is an integral part of the game. I also don't remember any other games with deployable turrets and sensors, targetting lasers, 128 player multiplayer support (albeit badly), voice bound chat, etc.
In fact I was recently watching some video game review show, and they were talking about a new game coming out that had a new game type where you had to capture objectives from the other team and hold them. They were talking about it like it hadn't been done 8 years ago in the first tribes (called Capture&Hold back then).
As you say TRIBES had the vehicles in multiplayer. Tribes also had one button grenade throwing. In fact T2 even had 3or4 different types of grenades.
I've never seen Halo or UT videos that cool, but check out these videos of Tribes:Vengeance (a game that is truely unique, and was ground breaking in each of it's iterations).
Here's a highlight reel of one of the better players.
Here's a highlight reel from a single match from one players perspective.
Here's a kind of a neat movie made with T:V that shows off some of the more unique aspects of T:V.
Finally, here's another from one of our cappers point of view. For some reason this movie has been slowed down, so he's actually moving much faster than it seems. But it's a nice short movie (last 30secs or so from a match we barely won) that shows what the skiing is like. He even overlayed our team speak chat, so you can hear what the team is saying.
If you want to play the ultimate high-speed FPS, check out the TRIBES series. The difference between Tribes and every other FPS is the skiing and jetting. You start at the top of a big hill, ski down, and jet up the next hill, continue this for a few hills, and you'll be moving at 200mph before you know it.
That's the best thing about TRIBES. You have to have skill just to move well. It takes practice, planning, and skill to move quickly, fluidly in the direction you want, to change direction without losing speed, etc. Every other game, you just walk/run at the same speed no matter what (for the most part).
Here's a kind of a neat movie made with T:V that shows off some of the more unique aspects of T:V.
Also, here's another from one of our cappers point of view. For some reason this movie has been slowed down, so he's actually moving much faster than it seems. But it's a nice short movie that shows what the skiing is like. He even overlayed our team speak chat, so you can hear what the team is saying.
Wow.. According to that, AMD's P/E is over 500! Is that possibly correct?
If it was really that important, they could offer an incentive. How about turn on this option, and let us see what music you have, and we'll give you one free song. Or 25% off 10 songs, or anything like that. Or if it is really that valuable to the customer, they could just pop up an informational window the first time you go to iTunes. If people did actually find it of value, they would readily turn it on.
I like Apple (own a powerbook myself, and I'm generally happy with it), but I think they dropped the ball on this. It is never ok to collect information about the files on a users computer without letting them know in clear terms what you are doing.
Well, in theory, they could make a deal with the RIAA, and report which songs I have on my computer. Maybe the RIAA would give them a deal on the songs they sell through them, or even make it a condition of their continued partnership. Don't you think it's at least possible that Apple would comply?
Now sure, I pretty much trust Apple not to do this, and I believe them when they say they don't store this information, but that doesn't mean I'm happy about it. I think it sets a bad prescident, and it wouldn't surprise me if they changed how they handle this information in the future without letting the users know.
plastic.com is a news site that is based on slashcode (IIRC), and it has this exact feature. There is a sub-queue (subq), where users with high enough karma (50+, again IIRC) can view the stories that have been submitted but not yet published. Users can submit short editorial comments, and vote on whether the story should be run. Editors take the user votes into consideration when deciding which stories to run, and use the editorial comments to add relevant links, fix typos, get ideas for more interesting headlines, etc. Now the plastic community is much smaller, and has vastly fewer submissions, but I still think something like this could work here at slashdot. It would be a bit of a reward for the more active people at the site, and would decrease the burden on editors, by giving them some help.
How do you study while exercising? Do you just put your audio CD on and follow along as your working out, or is it more complicated than that?
Actually the new roomba does have that. I got mine at Sharper Image, and it has a little blue light on the top that comes on in particularly dirty areas. When it turns on, it enters spot cleaning mode until the blue light goes off. It sounds like a neat idea, but in practice I rarely see it turn on, and even then the spot cleaning can sometimes take it out of the dirty area, and then it turns off the spot cleaning before it got the whole area.
It takes me 3 clicks to read an email in Yahoo mail:
Click to login
Click on Inbox
Click on the email.
How many clicks does it take in gmail?
Remember, Apple did not invent podcasting.
Isn't podcasting really just playing a long mp3 of people talking on your iPod? I don't think it took much to 'invent'.
It was a joke... but not a particularly good or funny one.
Wow. The iPod won't play mp3s that you put on when using it as a mass storage device? That's just really stupid. I can't believe in all the articles I've read about iPod, I've never seen someone mention that (or maybe I just missed it).
You shouldn't have to make your edits again, you can just revert to a version of the article before the defacement. It shouldn't take more than 30 seconds.
Is there any simple way to figure out which companies do this? I'd love to invest in more companies that have that policy, but don't relish spending 10's of hours trying to figure out which companies qualify.
On that ship we had an interlocking community with a history, rather like what has been a-building with Lost and what was developed over the years with Friends (but what never existed in Seinfeld because the main writer, Larry David, doesn't seem to believe in anything, and you can't build a powerful community on a sneer).
Anyone else think it was kind of out of the blue for OSC to throw in this dig at Larry David? I know I personally was a lot more upset over the ending of Seinfeld than the ending of Friends (ok, so I hadn't watched Friends in years at that point..), and it wasn't just a sadness at the ending of a great show, but also because the characters and their relationships did resonate with me.
I believe in star ship troopers the communication was controlled via the tongue also. I can't remember if Heinlein mentioned where the mic was, but I'm pretty sure that soldiers used their tongue to switch between channels.
I hesitate to suggest a conspiracy, but it seems lately that slashdot is full of FUD about TiVO. From what I can remember, the last three major stories about TiVo turned out to be mostly incorrect once the facts came out. I think it's likely just due to Slashdot's infamously bad journalism, but still it's interesting that such a sea change is evident in the TiVo coverage on slashdot.
# Pre and post-record every show by 5 minutes.
And what do you do when you have two shows that are on right after each other on seperate channels. This happens all the time, and it's annoying enough with Tivo when one of the networks starts a minute early or runs a minute late. I can't imagine having to deal with this for every single show I recorded.
The best part is at the end of the twenty, they do kind of a wrap up of what they already showed, and they say something like: "Did you miss any of The Twenty? Make sure you get to the theater early to catch it all."
Almost made me want to vomit.