What license is your project under? I ask because there are several DIY tag projects going on at the moment which all use TSOP sensors. TSOPs are not good in harsh sunlight and there is much ummming and ahhhing about building an analog sensor.
If you were to release your schematics and code, you would be the hero of the DIY lasertag community:)
My ageing duron 1.3ghz does everything I want it to. If someone made a reasonably priced, Pentium-M desktop using low power and heat components, I would consider buying it. Especially if it had no fan. The energy savings alone would make it worthwhile.
if you want a portable computer..........why not just buy a freakin' PDA?
Because a PDA, while useful, is bulky and an additional gadget to carry around - if your going to carry a PDA, it might as well have an inbuilt phone. The current crop of "smart phones" are too big, however a few more years of minituarisation and we'll see cheap phones with good battery life and the regular PDA features such as calendar, internet access, decent addressbook, mp3 player, java VM, email client etc. in a form factor around that of today's regular phones.
The tech is not quite ready yet, but I predict that within ten years, nearly everyone will be carrying a tiny phone-come-PDA with an inbuilt camera.
It seems generally true that as a website becomes popular, a certain group of dickheads (usually males in the 12-16 age group) turn up with the goal of ruining it for everyone.
Slashdot deals with this in a unique way by allowing the users to do the police work. This is (imo) vastly superior to having overzealous super-moderators cruising around laying down the law.
2ch sounds like it's an order of magnitude larger than slashdot. Can any japanese users of 2ch shed light on how they deal with the "fuckwit factor"?
Re:Real life pacman...
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Yeah, but where are you possibly gonna find pills on the streets of New York that make you feel invincible???
The local crack dealer would be a good start.
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I'm sure this could be incorporated into the real-life pacman played on the streets of new york...
Yet another thing to lose when the tough guys come rolling...
For the past three or four years I've known not to trust CDRs beyond a year. I spend a few hours reburning each cd, archiving the old ones and throwing out the previous archive.
It looks like the DVD format has stabilised somewhat so I may have to consider springing for a writer. while I'll still do yearly backup, I'll need seven times fewer discs.
Considering that a certain portion of the population is willing to have "sex" with a blow-up doll, it's just a matter of time before robots are marketed for the same purpose.
I'm not joking when I say that the "roboporn" industry is likely to be a significant driving force when it comes to creating cheap, lifelike robots.
Haha, far from it. Choice quotes from the MS website:
It will be of interest to academics and researchers wishing to teach and explore modern programming language concepts, and to.NET developers interested in how the technology works.
Notice that nowhere in the list of intended uses is "Development", that's because it lacks all the libraries needed to make it useful. This software was last updated 18 months ago - it's not undergoing development.
Simply another ploy to gull people into thinking.NET is something more than a new API for windows...
Ever heard of free? As in speech? Charging money for this goes against the entire philosophy of GNU and FSF.
Huh? How is a company charging money to put a piece of hardware through a series of tests against the philosophy of the FSF?
The manufacturer would then gain the right to put a "Linux certified" sticker on their product. Consumers who want linux compatability just have to look for the logo to be sure it will work.
This is an encouraging step forward. I've bought a few laptops off ebay in my time and spent many an hour researching beforehand to ensure that every part would work with my favourite OS.
What would be great would be an independant company that could certify linux compatibility for a one off fee. I realise there are various websites where users can submit whether it worked for them or not, but it can take a while for new hardware to be listed and the information is often out of date.
Despite a few limitations such as no word count (if it's hidden away there, please tell me!), I find Koffice the cleanest the most useable office suite available for linux. Abiword comes a close second, but all versions I tried don't highlight selected text! This makes editing a frustrating guessing game.
Openoffice is too sluggish on my duron 1.3ghz, I'll give them a few more versions to clean it up before I try it again.
I hand out knoppix cds to many friends, can anyone shed light on why kOffice is no longer indluded?
Ok, smartarse, I require that the program registers itself somewhere obvious on the system (e.g. RPM database) and provides some sort of uninstallation script.
By the way, how many spyware programs are out there for *nix? Nix.
At the least, there should be a law requiring all installed programs to show up in the "Add/Remove Programs" dialog and actually remove themselves when told to do so...
I'm too lazy to RTFA and the writeup was full of links but short on information. Can someone tell me what this is all about? Is there a chance I can get indignant and rant about something I have neither the time nor patience to understand?
NASA's made a science out of trying to prove manned spaceflight makes some kind of sense, and it just doesn't.
Maybe it's because they realise that the public at large is apathetic about robots, but gets excited when a human does things... There wasn't all that much excitement when the NASA probes landed on mars, they're now all byt gone from the news. If humans went, it would be close to front page stuff most days they were away from earth.
They need projects which capture human imagination and make the taxpayer and therefore politicians care enough to keep the dollars rolling in.
Slashdot Mirror
Hi Steve,
Your email address is not visible so I can't seem to find it.
You can email me: tristan [at) blackfrog (dot] org
I'll probably be out of touch starting tomorrow for the next 8 or 9 days, so it's unlikely I'll be able to reply quickly.
tristan.
What license is your project under?
:)
I ask because there are several DIY tag projects going on at the moment which all use TSOP sensors. TSOPs are not good in harsh sunlight and there is much ummming and ahhhing about building an analog sensor.
If you were to release your schematics and code, you would be the hero of the DIY lasertag community
Check out www.laserforums.com if your interested.
My ageing duron 1.3ghz does everything I want it to.
If someone made a reasonably priced, Pentium-M desktop using low power and heat components, I would consider buying it. Especially if it had no fan.
The energy savings alone would make it worthwhile.
if you want a portable computer..........why not just buy a freakin' PDA?
Because a PDA, while useful, is bulky and an additional gadget to carry around - if your going to carry a PDA, it might as well have an inbuilt phone.
The current crop of "smart phones" are too big, however a few more years of minituarisation and we'll see cheap phones with good battery life and the regular PDA features such as calendar, internet access, decent addressbook, mp3 player, java VM, email client etc. in a form factor around that of today's regular phones.
The tech is not quite ready yet, but I predict that within ten years, nearly everyone will be carrying a tiny phone-come-PDA with an inbuilt camera.
Agreed.
I enjoy a quality troll as much as the next man, but the sad reality is that most of the rubbish rated as "troll" is nothing more than crapflooding.
I firmly believe that slashcode should merge the "troll" and "flamebait" moderation and add a "crapflood" moderation.
I could then give -6 to all crapfloods and +1 to everything else.
It seems generally true that as a website becomes popular, a certain group of dickheads (usually males in the 12-16 age group) turn up with the goal of ruining it for everyone.
Slashdot deals with this in a unique way by allowing the users to do the police work. This is (imo) vastly superior to having overzealous super-moderators cruising around laying down the law.
2ch sounds like it's an order of magnitude larger than slashdot. Can any japanese users of 2ch shed light on how they deal with the "fuckwit factor"?
Yeah, but where are you possibly gonna find pills on the streets of New York that make you feel invincible???
The local crack dealer would be a good start.
I'm sure this could be incorporated into the real-life pacman played on the streets of new york...
Yet another thing to lose when the tough guys come rolling...
For the past three or four years I've known not to trust CDRs beyond a year.
I spend a few hours reburning each cd, archiving the old ones and throwing out the previous archive.
It looks like the DVD format has stabilised somewhat so I may have to consider springing for a writer. while I'll still do yearly backup, I'll need seven times fewer discs.
Considering that a certain portion of the population is willing to have "sex" with a blow-up doll, it's just a matter of time before robots are marketed for the same purpose.
I'm not joking when I say that the "roboporn" industry is likely to be a significant driving force when it comes to creating cheap, lifelike robots.
Another rhetorical tool I can use to justify my ongoing piracy!
40gigs and counting, baby.
Haha, far from it.
.NET developers interested in how the technology works.
.NET is something more than a new API for windows...
Choice quotes from the MS website:
It will be of interest to academics and researchers wishing to teach and explore modern programming language concepts, and to
Notice that nowhere in the list of intended uses is "Development", that's because it lacks all the libraries needed to make it useful.
This software was last updated 18 months ago - it's not undergoing development.
Simply another ploy to gull people into thinking
Microsoft open? Hah! .NET for mac or linux? (I mean the ms created version and not mono)
Where is
Their XML is a joke, swaths of proprietry code and an arsenal of patents to defend it.
Microsoft pays lipservice to "open standards" to keep the DOJ at bay, but after that it's business as usual.
Great work on Mono guys, we can only hope that microsoft won't dare use their patents against the project.
Ever heard of free? As in speech? Charging money for this goes against the entire philosophy of GNU and FSF.
Huh? How is a company charging money to put a piece of hardware through a series of tests against the philosophy of the FSF?
The manufacturer would then gain the right to put a "Linux certified" sticker on their product. Consumers who want linux compatability just have to look for the logo to be sure it will work.
This is an encouraging step forward. I've bought a few laptops off ebay in my time and spent many an hour researching beforehand to ensure that every part would work with my favourite OS.
What would be great would be an independant company that could certify linux compatibility for a one off fee. I realise there are various websites where users can submit whether it worked for them or not, but it can take a while for new hardware to be listed and the information is often out of date.
Despite a few limitations such as no word count (if it's hidden away there, please tell me!), I find Koffice the cleanest the most useable office suite available for linux.
Abiword comes a close second, but all versions I tried don't highlight selected text! This makes editing a frustrating guessing game.
Openoffice is too sluggish on my duron 1.3ghz, I'll give them a few more versions to clean it up before I try it again.
I hand out knoppix cds to many friends, can anyone shed light on why kOffice is no longer indluded?
Maybe they bribed a mosque or two. I imagine the call to prayer can be an effective marketing tool.
ALLLLWWWWWW ALLWWWW WAT TA! ALLLWWW WAAAAA AAAAEEEII! LIIINUUUXXXXX INNNNSTTAALL FFFEEEST, FIIIIRRRRSTTTT OOOFFFF MAAAAYYY BBBRRRIIINNGGG YOOUUURRR PEEEEECEEEEEE. (prdly spnsred b IBM corprtn pty ltd) AAALLLL WWWWAAAAA WAAAA AHHH TA!
Hark!
Hear the cry of a thousand geeks who gamed too long with a laptop on their lap. May their manhood rest in piece.
Sounds like a "preemptive strike", shouldn't have trouble getting that one through congress ;-)
This is happening on Kangaraoo island, off the coast of south australia.
Koalas were introduced here by humans in the 1920's.
They are not a natural part of the ecosystem.
Ok, smartarse, I require that the program registers itself somewhere obvious on the system (e.g. RPM database) and provides some sort of uninstallation script.
By the way, how many spyware programs are out there for *nix? Nix.
At the least, there should be a law requiring all installed programs to show up in the "Add/Remove Programs" dialog and actually remove themselves when told to do so...
I'm too lazy to RTFA and the writeup was full of links but short on information.
Can someone tell me what this is all about? Is there a chance I can get indignant and rant about something I have neither the time nor patience to understand?
Linux to play oggs? Why not just write a native decoder and keep access to the thousands of other Palm apps...
I love linux and run it on my desktop, but it doesn't make sense everywhere!
NASA's made a science out of trying to prove manned spaceflight makes some kind of sense, and it just doesn't.
Maybe it's because they realise that the public at large is apathetic about robots, but gets excited when a human does things...
There wasn't all that much excitement when the
NASA probes landed on mars, they're now all byt gone from the news. If humans went, it would be close to front page stuff most days they were away from earth.
They need projects which capture human imagination and make the taxpayer and therefore politicians care enough to keep the dollars rolling in.