The only thing I do on Facebook is throw cows at everyone on my friends list. Outside of that Facebook is kinda pointless to me. All these causes, games, god knows what else I find more annoying then useful. Still Superpoke is useful for tossing cows at people. When Google comes up with something that lets me do that then I'm ditching Facebook forever.
Googles pages just seem less noisy then the ones Microsoft Bing conjures up. I'm talking look and feel for me more then the actual search results. I noticed my eyes drifted off the search results to the side bar and the header at the top which seemed more distracting then helpful.
If you really are afraid of computers running cars then it's time to sell the car and buy an older car that has no computer in it. At least then you won't have to worry about your car, just everyone else.
Why not setup some kind of sweeper objects to zip around up there and alter their trajectories so they eventually de-orbit faster and burn up? Kinda like how some of Saturn's moons shepard the rings?
If your that upset over where on-line games are going like this then stop crying and start building your own. Honestly, these companies didn't start out all big and fancy. They started out in a garage or a campus lab or some basement or something. Start creating instead of just consuming, you might make a hit that way and blow their lock-ins out of the water.
PL/SQL or cobol or whatever they throw at me I poke, prod, and play with it in a test environment. Someone up above mentioned pencil and paper to draw out how everything relates and that is a very good practice I've found to just get to know things. It's not instant but it helps more then you initially think. Also I use Open Office Draw to map out things as well.:P
I like it, it reminds me of Paint.NET and looks really good. The multiple windows didn't make things overly easy to manage. I like having everything in one spot and the little thumbnail ribbon at the top with open images makes it easier to go between different files. Very nicely done!
Just use the built in web cam to snap a shot of the diagram. I do that during meetings and my boss actually asked me to mail copies to her after the meeting. It's all in how you use the technology your given.
"Thanks to Tim Berners-Lee, you can now sit in your underwear in Omaha and learn French from a tutor in Paris."
Um... I'm not sure how well this will work, I can't really stick my tongue in the monitor and since it's a touch screen I might accidentally tongue the close widget in the upper right corner of the screen. Not to mention the possible shock hazard, some how I feel like that kid that was dared to stick his tongue on the flag pole in winter.
Although this will more likely be more expensive, it's a much better platform for games like that because of the larger screen. You can still use the iPad or iPhones for tossing out tiles though. I imagine the iPads would be better for that since they're a larger screen then the phones.
I never really played much if any of Ubisoft's games. That being said, if other game companies follow through with more crazy design ideas like that I'm just going to toss out Windows gaming all together from my list of things to do. These days people aren't building games that are worth all that hassle. Hell between Wine + older games that don't work on Win7 and the game selection in Ubuntu's software manager I can get enough games to keep me occupied.
Copy protection, cd lock, server authentication, or a combination there of have made PC games more annoying then fun over the years. I miss the old days when shareware was everywhere and games were just more fun to play.
The lure is to get out of the eventual grind that is adulthood in this society. People like having a get away from the regular work 9-5, pay bills, etc. This gives them something they can do to change things up a bit but unfortunately it's carried to an extreme.
"Somewhere in Mountain View, servers are now analyzing all activity of Google's employees in China. And their friend. And their friend's friends. And the people they email. And everyone who got in range of a Google security camera. And all the their friends. And the people they email."
And then, suddenly the white vans with cameras and guys in colorful hats pulls up and surrounds someones house!
My Bing: http://www.bing.com/search?q=bing+robots.txt
I get "Bing Not Honoring Robots.txt Directives?" as the second hit on Bing. The first is their own site which kind of makes sense since Bing is the first search term I used.
I'd volunteer just to go even if it means sweeping floors and doing heavy lifting. Watch out Sariens, I may speak softly but I carry a large corn broom!
"You can destroy anything if you apply the right force. Making a bald statement that a phone (or anything else) is unbreakable will just prompt some folks to find the right force, even if it isn't something the phone would normally experience."
Too bad for the phone maker it was a simple act of smacking the thing like a child would or an angry person. I'd expect more from an unbreakable phone.
B> Working hologram displays like that chess board in Star Wars or Lea sending a message to Obi-wan through R2D2.
I'll pass on systems where I have to wear hooky glasses with a 2D surface. I want to use my unaided eyes for this only and bonus points if you can make it so I can feel what is being projected within limits. (IE. No real lava or balls of plasma for Discovery Channel shows.)
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The only thing I do on Facebook is throw cows at everyone on my friends list. Outside of that Facebook is kinda pointless to me. All these causes, games, god knows what else I find more annoying then useful. Still Superpoke is useful for tossing cows at people. When Google comes up with something that lets me do that then I'm ditching Facebook forever.
Here's the article on CNN about it:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/03/10/forbes.list/index.html
The last paragraph in that article makes me wish I was down on my luck and only getting thousands of dollars a month.
I just got done watching the Daily Show about this.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-march-1-2010/neil-degrasse-tyson
Googles pages just seem less noisy then the ones Microsoft Bing conjures up. I'm talking look and feel for me more then the actual search results. I noticed my eyes drifted off the search results to the side bar and the header at the top which seemed more distracting then helpful.
If you really are afraid of computers running cars then it's time to sell the car and buy an older car that has no computer in it. At least then you won't have to worry about your car, just everyone else.
Why not setup some kind of sweeper objects to zip around up there and alter their trajectories so they eventually de-orbit faster and burn up? Kinda like how some of Saturn's moons shepard the rings?
I wish I had mod points, I'd so bump you with a funny for that Last Starfighter reference.
If your that upset over where on-line games are going like this then stop crying and start building your own. Honestly, these companies didn't start out all big and fancy. They started out in a garage or a campus lab or some basement or something. Start creating instead of just consuming, you might make a hit that way and blow their lock-ins out of the water.
1> Unplug everything and I mean everything.
...
2> Pay cash for everything.
3> When you pay cash, don't tell them where you live. Use a made up zip code.
4>
5> Private!
PL/SQL or cobol or whatever they throw at me I poke, prod, and play with it in a test environment. Someone up above mentioned pencil and paper to draw out how everything relates and that is a very good practice I've found to just get to know things. It's not instant but it helps more then you initially think. Also I use Open Office Draw to map out things as well. :P
"There is no fixed release date for the show, but it's expected sometime in 2011 or 2012..."
Lets see, the Mayans called it in 2012.
Nostradamus called it around 2012.
People are all end times for 2012.
Then we had Jar Jar... DEAR GOD NO!
I like it, it reminds me of Paint.NET and looks really good. The multiple windows didn't make things overly easy to manage. I like having everything in one spot and the little thumbnail ribbon at the top with open images makes it easier to go between different files. Very nicely done!
Just use the built in web cam to snap a shot of the diagram. I do that during meetings and my boss actually asked me to mail copies to her after the meeting. It's all in how you use the technology your given.
http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Metal-Foam-2.jpg
I hate those pictures where you have to try to find the foam.
"Thanks to Tim Berners-Lee, you can now sit in your underwear in Omaha and learn French from a tutor in Paris."
Um... I'm not sure how well this will work, I can't really stick my tongue in the monitor and since it's a touch screen I might accidentally tongue the close widget in the upper right corner of the screen. Not to mention the possible shock hazard, some how I feel like that kid that was dared to stick his tongue on the flag pole in winter.
Although this will more likely be more expensive, it's a much better platform for games like that because of the larger screen. You can still use the iPad or iPhones for tossing out tiles though. I imagine the iPads would be better for that since they're a larger screen then the phones.
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/Pages/Product/WhatIs.aspx
I never really played much if any of Ubisoft's games. That being said, if other game companies follow through with more crazy design ideas like that I'm just going to toss out Windows gaming all together from my list of things to do. These days people aren't building games that are worth all that hassle. Hell between Wine + older games that don't work on Win7 and the game selection in Ubuntu's software manager I can get enough games to keep me occupied.
Copy protection, cd lock, server authentication, or a combination there of have made PC games more annoying then fun over the years. I miss the old days when shareware was everywhere and games were just more fun to play.
Vote with your wallet.
The lure is to get out of the eventual grind that is adulthood in this society. People like having a get away from the regular work 9-5, pay bills, etc. This gives them something they can do to change things up a bit but unfortunately it's carried to an extreme.
From zero to virtual hero in 80 levels.
"Somewhere in Mountain View, servers are now analyzing all activity of Google's employees in China. And their friend. And their friend's friends. And the people they email. And everyone who got in range of a Google security camera. And all the their friends. And the people they email."
And then, suddenly the white vans with cameras and guys in colorful hats pulls up and surrounds someones house!
Your links look odd.
Google: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bing+robots.txt
Bing: http://www.bing.com/community/forums/t/647019.aspx
My Bing: http://www.bing.com/search?q=bing+robots.txt
I get "Bing Not Honoring Robots.txt Directives?" as the second hit on Bing. The first is their own site which kind of makes sense since Bing is the first search term I used.
I'd volunteer just to go even if it means sweeping floors and doing heavy lifting. Watch out Sariens, I may speak softly but I carry a large corn broom!
"You can destroy anything if you apply the right force. Making a bald statement that a phone (or anything else) is unbreakable will just prompt some folks to find the right force, even if it isn't something the phone would normally experience."
Too bad for the phone maker it was a simple act of smacking the thing like a child would or an angry person. I'd expect more from an unbreakable phone.
A> They come up with working holodecks.
B> Working hologram displays like that chess board in Star Wars or Lea sending a message to Obi-wan through R2D2.
I'll pass on systems where I have to wear hooky glasses with a 2D surface. I want to use my unaided eyes for this only and bonus points if you can make it so I can feel what is being projected within limits. (IE. No real lava or balls of plasma for Discovery Channel shows.)