Whenever I see a new Zynga games advertised I immediately hear a twisted version of Boomhauer in my head:
Yeah man, I tell ya what, man, that dang ol’ Zynga, man, you just go in on there and point and click, talk about w-w-dot-w-com, mean you got the chicks on there, man, just go click, click, click, click, click, it’s dang ol' easy, man.
You're sorta right. This is a hybrid approach of Java and ActiveX/COM. Its like Java it that it runs in its own virtual machine. The big different is that Java is a generic VM that is meant to run on any system. This is targeting a specfic processor with a specfic API on newer technology kinda like ActiveX. Unlike ActiveX/COM and like Java its not 'suppose' to give you full OS level API. Overall this will be optimized to the hilt with a very specfic (read narrow focus) VM enviorment.
If you want something that extremely stable and will last for a hundred years then you want data glyphs. You use a printer, paper, and a flatbed scanner or hi res camera and you have a viable backup solution. The most common data glyph is the bar code.
As with everything there are downsides:
- You need to use a quality paper and ink if your backing up for the long hall
- Printing takes time especially if you're using
- Storing a ream of paper for each back up
Below is list of some glyph formats. There use to be a site for a full Xerox solution but I think they licensed it out to another company. http://www.adams1.com/stack.html
- Create two row of light colored cement blocks about a foot apart - Place a steel or aluminium pole with a base into your bricked area and fill with sand or soil - Plant a native grasses or shrub into the media you filled the bricked area with. - On the top of the put a solar panel facing towards the sky and underneath the panel put a bank of cooling chips.
The solar panels will create shade,a wind block and reflect some of the light away. The grass or shrubbery will do the same will absorbing the heat. The brighter the day the more the panels will generate cool air. The cooling chip I was talking about would be something similar to those found in USB beverage coolers (see link below).
Nintendo doesn't have a great track record with proprietary formats. How about the Fanicom Disk Drives? SNES Super Drive/PlayStation?* The N64 bulky drive?
Sega's did the same thing with the GD Drive in the Dreamcast. Those frequent failures may have cost Sonic's company the North America markets.
Sony has had its share of proprietary failures like BetaMax and the Double Density Compact Disc. The only reason BluRay has succeeded is because it came standard in the PS3.
My rant is just that when a company goes with a proprietary format over an established one they seem to have more failures and greater media inconsistencies for a couple of years which gives the competition a chance to play catch.
* I acknowledge that the PlayStation comparison was an apple to oranges comparison. I was trying to show that Nintendo has had issue with adding new formats after a platform has launched.
If you could physically block the DNS root servers most home system would stop working in a matter of hours. From there you could work your way to main ISP switches and lock out entire sections of the country. One fiber cut in Columbus knocked out almost every school in Ohio. A few key places could make the internet practically useless.
You have Liberty Basic which is fairly cheap and pretty close to the Apple basic days. You could FreeBasic which is free, you would just have to setup one the free IDE's. Also Emeregnce Basic which is shutting down in a week or so is cheep and you get the source code for a $100. The first and last have decent interfaces and will support some fairly advanced programs.
There may have been one very good reason for using Facebook: bandwidth.
The girls may not have been able to get a enough bandwidth to make a voice call, but easily enough for an SMS or other message type. Voice has to be real-time and uses several kilobytes of data transfer per second. Data can take all day to send a 1k message to Facebook, Twitter, ect...
This won't work because you're expecting everyone in the world to have a database of URL of pages they've never visited.
For an ISP to support this technique the service provider would have to do a proxy/HTTP hack on every request. That would be messing to say the least and could easily lead to ligation for 'controlling user's traffic.
I'm actually working on a Firefox plug-in that is a similar idea. Here how it would work:
1. You create a text file at the root of your domain called shortlinks.txt 2. Each short link would be formatted as such: MyShortURL=http://www.mylongurl.com/sdfsd/432re/sdfd?q=1222533322154 IMoved=http://www.relocatedpage.com/NewLocation 3. Someone clicks on the link below, tries to find a match in the shortlinks.txt. If one is found, redirect as needed otherwise continue processing the link.
If you're really a geek you could try finding a wifi hotspot when you close to a port with a cantenna. The biggest issues with wifi over long distances are obstructions. Your boat should always be pointed in the general direction of a port, so sit at the front with a Pringles can and hope for an open router.
FYI: Back in the day we could get webpages via email. I think all of those services are down right now, but I'm sure anyone could rebuild a web app to do just that.
I believe the short answer is: ASP/ASP.NET. Perl was **the** language to use for CGI. Perl is powerful and flexible but getting stuff to work right can be a pain, especially on Win32 systems. My first Perl interrupter on Windows was a CLI interface that my server had to make shell calls to. Since NT changed to 2000 and started shipping with IIS most developer have just switched to ASP or PHP.
For a while some languages like Cold Fusion, Miva (formally HTMLScript) and JSP were very popular on Windows. But those languages were rigid and didn't always scale well. Yes, I know JSP scales better then the other two; but, I've personally had nothing but bad experiences with JSP.
So the next generation web developers were either taught on ASP or PHP. The ones that needed more power from PHP usually then went back to Perl. Otherwise they stuck with was free and easy to use.
In recent years newer and simpler languages have come out to do what Perl does on Windows..NET has caught up to Perl in power and extensibility. PHP 6 is a step away from having the same power and code consistency. Now IronPython and IronRuby is out with great power of their own and the ability to plug directly into.NET.
So with all these new choices and lack of the much promised version 6, Perl on Windows has lost most of its shine.
vTech has a kids laptop out for $50 that does almost everything they want. Just remove the display, add a flash/sd media drive and a networking or RS232 port, port over Contiki OS and you're set.
You piss me off. You give a lot of hype like 'free [insert topic here] or the world will end as we know it.' How about some ideas? I read through your theory links and theres no real substance. Here, I'll help you out with some ideas:
- Go old tech - CB radio. Cheap, no license required, if you keep copy written material off the air your pretty much legal, and it gets decent coverage. With SSB you get decent sound. - Make a digital mesh network. This is something I've been working on but haven't had the resources to make much headway. Make a channel scheme and use something like Zigbee for networking and OGG for the audio.
Instead of throwing out slogans with no balls behind them, at least create some ideas.
No surprise on AOL supporting the same feature set as ICQ because AOL owns ICQ. As to Jabber: Its its a text/XML based protocol. You could in theory write and extension for your IM client to render inline images.
"Obviously, it is manipulating, but search engines are not public forums and unless you act to use them for your own benefit, your opponent's information is going to get out there," Bowers said
So how much money would take to inspire a hacker to actually make something like and publish the schematics? I've been toying with the idea fo starting a foundation similar to the X-prise only on a smaller scale. So would $100 be enough?
Have you thought that maybe Nintendo is keeping production at its current level just so that they don't have to drop prices and come out with new models like Microsoft and Sony has had to?
Yeah know, I've noticed this problem on a series of processors at my college. I had to write a basic key based cryptography program in C#. Well I created the system with no problem. But if you ran the program in a certain lab where all the computer are identical (hardware and software) I could generate the same 4 key sets each time. My solution was just to use and external DLL with my own generator from another language.
My point for this example is that I don't believe its the processors fault. If the software engineer can't write a decent algorithm to generate random numbers then it the engineer at blame, not the processor. I wrote great random number generator back on the Apple IIe years ago. Why can't people do the same now?
This just seems like a reimplimentation of the old spread spectrum technologies that was big about 6 years ago. What, if any, advantage does this offer?
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Whenever I see a new Zynga games advertised I immediately hear a twisted version of Boomhauer in my head:
Yeah man, I tell ya what, man, that dang ol’ Zynga, man, you just go in on there and point and click, talk about w-w-dot-w-com, mean you got the chicks on there, man, just go click, click, click, click, click, it’s dang ol' easy, man.
You're sorta right. This is a hybrid approach of Java and ActiveX/COM. Its like Java it that it runs in its own virtual machine. The big different is that Java is a generic VM that is meant to run on any system. This is targeting a specfic processor with a specfic API on newer technology kinda like ActiveX. Unlike ActiveX/COM and like Java its not 'suppose' to give you full OS level API. Overall this will be optimized to the hilt with a very specfic (read narrow focus) VM enviorment.
Is there a place I can buy inkjet cartridges and print my own circuits?
If you want something that extremely stable and will last for a hundred years then you want data glyphs. You use a printer, paper, and a flatbed scanner or hi res camera and you have a viable backup solution. The most common data glyph is the bar code.
As with everything there are downsides:
- You need to use a quality paper and ink if your backing up for the long hall
- Printing takes time especially if you're using
- Storing a ream of paper for each back up
Below is list of some glyph formats. There use to be a site for a full Xerox solution but I think they licensed it out to another company.
http://www.adams1.com/stack.html
Here's my idea:
- Create two row of light colored cement blocks about a foot apart
- Place a steel or aluminium pole with a base into your bricked area and fill with sand or soil
- Plant a native grasses or shrub into the media you filled the bricked area with.
- On the top of the put a solar panel facing towards the sky and underneath the panel put a bank of cooling chips.
The solar panels will create shade,a wind block and reflect some of the light away. The grass or shrubbery will do the same will absorbing the heat. The brighter the day the more the panels will generate cool air. The cooling chip I was talking about would be something similar to those found in USB beverage coolers (see link below).
http://www.amazon.com/ZBANG-ZB006-USB-COOLER-WARMER/dp/B000WWUP3I
Nintendo doesn't have a great track record with proprietary formats. How about the Fanicom Disk Drives? SNES Super Drive/PlayStation?* The N64 bulky drive?
Sega's did the same thing with the GD Drive in the Dreamcast. Those frequent failures may have cost Sonic's company the North America markets.
Sony has had its share of proprietary failures like BetaMax and the Double Density Compact Disc. The only reason BluRay has succeeded is because it came standard in the PS3.
My rant is just that when a company goes with a proprietary format over an established one they seem to have more failures and greater media inconsistencies for a couple of years which gives the competition a chance to play catch.
* I acknowledge that the PlayStation comparison was an apple to oranges comparison. I was trying to show that Nintendo has had issue with adding new formats after a platform has launched.
My work proxy says the page has a virus on the page. Any one not able to access the webpage?
If you could physically block the DNS root servers most home system would stop working in a matter of hours. From there you could work your way to main ISP switches and lock out entire sections of the country. One fiber cut in Columbus knocked out almost every school in Ohio. A few key places could make the internet practically useless.
What about a basic lanugage?
You have Liberty Basic which is fairly cheap and pretty close to the Apple basic days. You could FreeBasic which is free, you would just have to setup one the free IDE's. Also Emeregnce Basic which is shutting down in a week or so is cheep and you get the source code for a $100. The first and last have decent interfaces and will support some fairly advanced programs.
Emeregnce Basic Bundle:
http://www.ionicwind.com/forums/index.php?topic=3823.0
There may have been one very good reason for using Facebook: bandwidth.
The girls may not have been able to get a enough bandwidth to make a voice call, but easily enough for an SMS or other message type. Voice has to be real-time and uses several kilobytes of data transfer per second. Data can take all day to send a 1k message to Facebook, Twitter, ect...
This won't work because you're expecting everyone in the world to have a database of URL of pages they've never visited.
For an ISP to support this technique the service provider would have to do a proxy/HTTP hack on every request. That would be messing to say the least and could easily lead to ligation for 'controlling user's traffic.
I'm actually working on a Firefox plug-in that is a similar idea. Here how it would work:
1. You create a text file at the root of your domain called shortlinks.txt
2. Each short link would be formatted as such:
MyShortURL=http://www.mylongurl.com/sdfsd/432re/sdfd?q=1222533322154
IMoved=http://www.relocatedpage.com/NewLocation
3. Someone clicks on the link below, tries to find a match in the shortlinks.txt. If one is found, redirect as needed otherwise continue processing the link.
http://www.mylongurl.com/MyShortURL
http://www.mylongurl.com/IMoved
No complex database or HTTP hacking. You control EXACTLY what the URL is. You're always in control of where the visitor is redirected to.
If you're really a geek you could try finding a wifi hotspot when you close to a port with a cantenna. The biggest issues with wifi over long distances are obstructions. Your boat should always be pointed in the general direction of a port, so sit at the front with a Pringles can and hope for an open router.
FYI: Back in the day we could get webpages via email. I think all of those services are down right now, but I'm sure anyone could rebuild a web app to do just that.
I believe the short answer is: ASP/ASP.NET. Perl was **the** language to use for CGI. Perl is powerful and flexible but getting stuff to work right can be a pain, especially on Win32 systems. My first Perl interrupter on Windows was a CLI interface that my server had to make shell calls to. Since NT changed to 2000 and started shipping with IIS most developer have just switched to ASP or PHP.
For a while some languages like Cold Fusion, Miva (formally HTMLScript) and JSP were very popular on Windows. But those languages were rigid and didn't always scale well. Yes, I know JSP scales better then the other two; but, I've personally had nothing but bad experiences with JSP.
So the next generation web developers were either taught on ASP or PHP. The ones that needed more power from PHP usually then went back to Perl. Otherwise they stuck with was free and easy to use.
In recent years newer and simpler languages have come out to do what Perl does on Windows. .NET has caught up to Perl in power and extensibility. PHP 6 is a step away from having the same power and code consistency. Now IronPython and IronRuby is out with great power of their own and the ability to plug directly into .NET.
So with all these new choices and lack of the much promised version 6, Perl on Windows has lost most of its shine.
Maybe its not the plastic, but rather the junk food inside the plastic?
Resistance is futile. We are Dubai.
vTech has a kids laptop out for $50 that does almost everything they want. Just remove the display, add a flash/sd media drive and a networking or RS232 port, port over Contiki OS and you're set.
http://www.retrothing.com/2007/12/vtech-laser-128.html
Would this completely destroy GPL and Creative Commons?
You piss me off. You give a lot of hype like 'free [insert topic here] or the world will end as we know it.' How about some ideas? I read through your theory links and theres no real substance. Here, I'll help you out with some ideas:
- Go old tech - CB radio. Cheap, no license required, if you keep copy written material off the air your pretty much legal, and it gets decent coverage. With SSB you get decent sound.
- Make a digital mesh network. This is something I've been working on but haven't had the resources to make much headway. Make a channel scheme and use something like Zigbee for networking and OGG for the audio.
Instead of throwing out slogans with no balls behind them, at least create some ideas.
No surprise on AOL supporting the same feature set as ICQ because AOL owns ICQ. As to Jabber: Its its a text/XML based protocol. You could in theory write and extension for your IM client to render inline images.
"Obviously, it is manipulating, but search engines are not public forums and unless you act to use them for your own benefit, your opponent's information is going to get out there," Bowers said
Isn't this the definition of a Fascist?
So how much money would take to inspire a hacker to actually make something like and publish the schematics? I've been toying with the idea fo starting a foundation similar to the X-prise only on a smaller scale. So would $100 be enough?
Have you thought that maybe Nintendo is keeping production at its current level just so that they don't have to drop prices and come out with new models like Microsoft and Sony has had to?
Yeah know, I've noticed this problem on a series of processors at my college. I had to write a basic key based cryptography program in C#. Well I created the system with no problem. But if you ran the program in a certain lab where all the computer are identical (hardware and software) I could generate the same 4 key sets each time. My solution was just to use and external DLL with my own generator from another language.
My point for this example is that I don't believe its the processors fault. If the software engineer can't write a decent algorithm to generate random numbers then it the engineer at blame, not the processor. I wrote great random number generator back on the Apple IIe years ago. Why can't people do the same now?
It just looks like an Interactor with cmo covering to me.
Get one now: http://www.allproducts.com/manufacture98/vrgi/product1.html
This just seems like a reimplimentation of the old spread spectrum technologies that was big about 6 years ago. What, if any, advantage does this offer?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_spectrum