MIT has a product in the works called the Copenhagen Wheel that's a straight replacement for your rear tire. The motor, batteries and regenerative brakes are all contained in the oversized hub and the controls are connected via bluetooth to eliminate wiring. They are planning to enter production sometime this year, but no hard details yet.
I hate it when people use random unrelated photos, especially when the article is about a specific new product. If you don't have an image, don't insult your audience by misleading them.
You already have to [digitally] sign a document and agree to a code of conduct in order to become an "Ubuntero", which among other minor benefits is necessary in order to get access to the PPA system.
Exactly. CDs and vinyl records have two main purposes - as a purely functional object (playing music) and as an aesthetic object (cover art, lyrics, etc). CD's strength is in the former, and vinyl's is in the latter. But pure digital downloads and ipods means that CDs are no longer the winner for ease of use; if you just want to get the music itself, there are easier ways than CDs. So the market for physical product shifts to those who value the tangible qualities of the item, the things they can't get from digital downloads. And there, vinyl is a more attractive choice.
I agree that with colsed source, you just can't do it. But let's be honest, for most of us, we still wouldn't do it if we (technically) could because we lack the skills and the knowledge about the underlying layers of software.
But that's the beauty of open source. Most of us don't have to; if just one person does do it, he can release the changes and we can all benefit from it.
You have a good point; the system shouldn't be so strict as to bind the DM's hands and limit their freedom. On the other hand, done well, a system like this could enhance the story-telling aspect by handling all the little calculations and details that can slow down miniatures-based combat, freeing players and DM to focus on role-playing.
You could easily replace the multi-finger gestures with single-feature gestures (or a traditional mouse) plus modifier keys. This system doesn't really let you do anything new you couldn't do before, it just takes advantage of all you fingers to let you do them quickly and more efficiently.
Theres still a few problems though. For one, mouse is an incredibly precise input device - you can pretty easily move it along same pixel axis, or get it precisely to a specific pixel. It's hard to do that with your fingers because the area they touch is a large one, it's not easy to just move your finger by one pixel and your hand tend to shake a little bit too. If you look at the video, you see everything in the interface is quite big and even a few small windows take lots of place.
Exact pixel accuracy is only necessary for a few specific applications, like editing graphics. A modifier could be added to adjust the gain, or use something like acceleration to dynamically change the movement delta when the user is moving their fingers very slowly. But for the vast majority of uses and users, being within a few pixels is good enough.
Other problem is that now your both hands lay on the wide touch area and you dont have a keyboard. If you put them side to side, you'll only have one hand on the touch area and dont get the full power of it.
I didn't notice any two-hand gestures in the video. Looks like everything could be done with early hand singularly.
Moving hands between them all the time is inefficient. Typing on the touch area gives no feedback and again takes your hands of the "mouse".
Moving hands between keyboard and mouse in inefficient now, but we manage.
It would also be quite impossible to play FPS or other kinds of games with this type of setup.
While the public messages get all the press, people who don't use twitter may not realize that you can send direct messages on twitter, which are private. That's what this system is using.
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MIT has a product in the works called the Copenhagen Wheel that's a straight replacement for your rear tire. The motor, batteries and regenerative brakes are all contained in the oversized hub and the controls are connected via bluetooth to eliminate wiring. They are planning to enter production sometime this year, but no hard details yet.
It's customary to explicitly define the acronym before its first use in the main body.
Dibbuk Box (2010)
Ha, you're kidding me, a film based on an ebay auction?
I hate it when people use random unrelated photos, especially when the article is about a specific new product. If you don't have an image, don't insult your audience by misleading them.
I know netbooks have really pushed the low-end prices downwards, but is slight over a grand really considered "high-end" these days?
The worst thing is, most people just ask what happened to the dog.
I'm surprised it fit in the tube.
Really? Where in Melbourne? I lived in the CBD for a while and never saw one.
Perhaps you're thinking of mipmapping, which was implemented at least as early as Quake 1.
You already have to [digitally] sign a document and agree to a code of conduct in order to become an "Ubuntero", which among other minor benefits is necessary in order to get access to the PPA system.
I assume you mean to host your own PPA (Personal Package Archive); there's nothing stopping any anonymous user from downloading from existing PPAs.
Its a mix of the itinerant fruit pickers here in southern Australia
Ah, you mean the backpackers.
Perhaps applications running on EC2 are proxying connections from their iPhone users to your site.
Exactly. CDs and vinyl records have two main purposes - as a purely functional object (playing music) and as an aesthetic object (cover art, lyrics, etc). CD's strength is in the former, and vinyl's is in the latter. But pure digital downloads and ipods means that CDs are no longer the winner for ease of use; if you just want to get the music itself, there are easier ways than CDs. So the market for physical product shifts to those who value the tangible qualities of the item, the things they can't get from digital downloads. And there, vinyl is a more attractive choice.
Despite all the hoopla, all they've really done is cross the streams.
You said crossing the streams was bad!
I agree that with colsed source, you just can't do it. But let's be honest, for most of us, we still wouldn't do it if we (technically) could because we lack the skills and the knowledge about the underlying layers of software.
But that's the beauty of open source. Most of us don't have to; if just one person does do it, he can release the changes and we can all benefit from it.
You have a good point; the system shouldn't be so strict as to bind the DM's hands and limit their freedom. On the other hand, done well, a system like this could enhance the story-telling aspect by handling all the little calculations and details that can slow down miniatures-based combat, freeing players and DM to focus on role-playing.
Suppose you construct an argument with actual references and not made-up numbers?
You could easily replace the multi-finger gestures with single-feature gestures (or a traditional mouse) plus modifier keys. This system doesn't really let you do anything new you couldn't do before, it just takes advantage of all you fingers to let you do them quickly and more efficiently.
Theres still a few problems though. For one, mouse is an incredibly precise input device - you can pretty easily move it along same pixel axis, or get it precisely to a specific pixel. It's hard to do that with your fingers because the area they touch is a large one, it's not easy to just move your finger by one pixel and your hand tend to shake a little bit too. If you look at the video, you see everything in the interface is quite big and even a few small windows take lots of place.
Exact pixel accuracy is only necessary for a few specific applications, like editing graphics. A modifier could be added to adjust the gain, or use something like acceleration to dynamically change the movement delta when the user is moving their fingers very slowly. But for the vast majority of uses and users, being within a few pixels is good enough.
Other problem is that now your both hands lay on the wide touch area and you dont have a keyboard. If you put them side to side, you'll only have one hand on the touch area and dont get the full power of it.
I didn't notice any two-hand gestures in the video. Looks like everything could be done with early hand singularly.
Moving hands between them all the time is inefficient. Typing on the touch area gives no feedback and again takes your hands of the "mouse".
Moving hands between keyboard and mouse in inefficient now, but we manage.
It would also be quite impossible to play FPS or other kinds of games with this type of setup.
Why?
You must not be a nethack player if you have negative associations for 'tengu'.
Yeah, but Tupperware is useful.
I downloaded the 720p High Definition Bit Torrent version Saturday morning and watched it with commercial free with my friends that evening.
The SiFy logo and animated banners, however, are still annoying.
These two things are related.
OpenSSH doesn't allow an unencrypted connection (after authentication). Not all CPUs can encrypt/decrypt at 1Gbps.
I believe there is a compile-time option to include a noop cipher as a run-time option, it's just not included by default.
While the public messages get all the press, people who don't use twitter may not realize that you can send direct messages on twitter, which are private. That's what this system is using.
Xzibit Yo Dawg | Know Your Meme (first hit on google for "Yo Dawg")
I am paying attention. The parent made it sound like it was Reddit's fault that you can run a manually bookmarklet on it.