In reply to the thing about porting. Jeff Minter usually does a lot of the work directly with the hardware, using a lot of tricks and loopholes unique to the particular piece of hardware he's developing for.
A port of this would probably involve an awful lot of work.
Pretty sad but understandable why this was cancelled. And I just bought a Cube 2 days ago, one of the main reasons for doing so was that Unity was because I thought Unity was going to be coming out for it.
Whenever I have to do documentation at work I usually fill it with stupid gags and puns, this makes it more enjoyable for me to write, and it also means that people read it instead of calling me up with questions that have already been answered.
Granted, if I had to write something that would be used company wide (I work for a very big company) rather than just colleagues who mostly know me I'd probably have to write the dry drivel that no-one would read.
Perhaps some sort of visual Biometric system would work for the cubefarm?
Like the method implemented for CCTV cameras that works on measuring the triangulation between the eyes and...ummm... either the nose or mouth I think...
I'm not sure if this has been posted by anyone else yet, but I'm certain this has already been done.
There was a TV programme on a few years back here in the UK in which, IIRC, a group of celebs known for being the rugged expedition type, along with explorers and such drove from London to New York in several Landrovers.
They got permission to drive through the service tunnel of the channel tunnel, through Europe, Russia, Siberia, across the ice, through alaska and then down across the states to New York.
I think one of the celebs was Peter Duncan... He of Duncan dares fame.
Dammit, just have to remember what it was called now.
culminating in hilarious/terrifying events like the attack on the house of a paediatrician by a mob of (presumably semi-literate) vigilantes a while back.
A couple of weeks ago there was a protest against paedophiles which was reported on TV here in the UK. The first image was of a man carrying a sign saying "Pedofils out".
In the UK a pedestrian always has right of way on a public road (after all they were using them a thousand years before cars were invented.)
I'd like to see you try that in London without getting mown down by a battered looking Datsun Sunny.
,Tez
I've seen something like this.
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I haven't had chance to read all the articles here, so this may have been mentioned before. But I have a video box-set of the BBC documentary series called "The Planets" , one of the programmes has a bit about something like this.
Although not exactly from space, but from the edge of space. A guy jumped off a baloon equipped gondola and just dropped...
It had a lot of information and, if I recall correctly, actual film.. and an interview with the guy, who now runs some kind of flying school I think... it's been a while since I watched it though, so there may be errors here.
I still have my old sopy of akira on VHS.. Special edition, Original subtitled Japanese, widescreen and with an extra tape about the making of the film.
I still like to dig it out from time to time, crank the sound up really loud and just kick back.
I didn't bother buying any other anime since then, as every one I saw after that seemed like a kids cartoon in comparison.
Not that I've been paying much attention for a while.
I'd love to buy Akira on DVD though, but only if there was a subtitled Japanese version (yes, I hate dubbing THAT much!)
MS gets more market share of the web browser market by tapping into the Linux-Netscape area.
And to this I say PLEASE, release IE on Linux (not too bothered about any other MS apps though)...
Netscape on Linux is a terrible browser. Opera is too slow, mozilla crashes constantly ("oohhh... loads and loads of features!... let's see how many I can use before it crashes again") in fact.. the only really good browser on Linux at the moment (for speed and stability)is Lynx, at least out of all the browsers I've tried.
All I ask is for a broweser that starts quickly.. loads the pages fast, and doesn't crash too much. Which newer versions of IE seem to do rather well (although for some reason IE 5.5 takes AGES to startup)
"To be fair, competition has to be based on a level playing field -- companies must compete on the basis of innovation and according to the laws of the land. All we ask is that Macromedia play by these rules and stop infringing our patent."
hmm... I would have thought that innovation meant to take what had been done before, and make it better... Adobe did make a pretty neat discovery with regard to UI design, Which Macromedia went on to use in Fireworks to great effect... therefore being innovative. but Adobe by trying to keep this (design, rather than technological) discovery to themselves are only doing harm to consumers.. and possibly eventually, to themselves....
personally I agree with something I read here that Adobe is merely trying to piss off Macromedia who, in the web design stakes.. bring out products that are far superior to anything Adobe has come out with recently... tabbed widgets or no...
I mean... Is UI design REALLY a patentable technology???... or if it is... should it be?
Not strictly the same thing I know... but there's a fairly interesting article on molecular electronics that was in July's Wired magazine... the article is archived here ,Tez
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In reply to the thing about porting. Jeff Minter usually does a lot of the work directly with the hardware, using a lot of tricks and loopholes unique to the particular piece of hardware he's developing for.
A port of this would probably involve an awful lot of work.
Pretty sad but understandable why this was cancelled. And I just bought a Cube 2 days ago, one of the main reasons for doing so was that Unity was because I thought Unity was going to be coming out for it.
At least in my experience it works.
Whenever I have to do documentation at work I usually fill it with stupid gags and puns, this makes it more enjoyable for me to write, and it also means that people read it instead of calling me up with questions that have already been answered.
Granted, if I had to write something that would be used company wide (I work for a very big company) rather than just colleagues who mostly know me I'd probably have to write the dry drivel that no-one would read.
,Tez
Perhaps some sort of visual Biometric system would work for the cubefarm?
:)
Like the method implemented for CCTV cameras that works on measuring the triangulation between the eyes and...ummm... either the nose or mouth I think...
That may be kinda overkill though
,Tez
I'm not sure if this has been posted by anyone else yet, but I'm certain this has already been done.
There was a TV programme on a few years back here in the UK in which, IIRC, a group of celebs known for being the rugged expedition type, along with explorers and such drove from London to New York in several Landrovers.
They got permission to drive through the service tunnel of the channel tunnel, through Europe, Russia, Siberia, across the ice, through alaska and then down across the states to New York.
I think one of the celebs was Peter Duncan... He of Duncan dares fame.
Dammit, just have to remember what it was called now.
Let the spelling flamewar begin!
A couple of weeks ago there was a protest against paedophiles which was reported on TV here in the UK. The first image was of a man carrying a sign saying "Pedofils out".
I'd like to see you try that in London without getting mown down by a battered looking Datsun Sunny.
I haven't had chance to read all the articles here, so this may have been mentioned before. But I have a video box-set of the BBC documentary series called "The Planets" , one of the programmes has a bit about something like this.
Although not exactly from space, but from the edge of space. A guy jumped off a baloon equipped gondola and just dropped...
It had a lot of information and, if I recall correctly, actual film.. and an interview with the guy, who now runs some kind of flying school I think... it's been a while since I watched it though, so there may be errors here.
,Tez
Oh please noooooooo ... not DUBBED!
I still have my old sopy of akira on VHS.. Special edition, Original subtitled Japanese, widescreen and with an extra tape about the making of the film.
I still like to dig it out from time to time, crank the sound up really loud and just kick back.
I didn't bother buying any other anime since then, as every one I saw after that seemed like a kids cartoon in comparison.
Not that I've been paying much attention for a while.
I'd love to buy Akira on DVD though, but only if there was a subtitled Japanese version (yes, I hate dubbing THAT much!)
,Tez
(Meanwhile, on CNN)
CmdrTaco Wins Vote In Florida!... Planet Earth Baffled!!
I actually thought it was some kind of hoax, as I hadn't seen anything on /. and the Mandrake site wasn't saying anything either.
Not that there's any point to this story of course :)
Anyway, it looks pretty cool... there's an entire city done in the style of Simcity
And to this I say PLEASE, release IE on Linux (not too bothered about any other MS apps though) ...
Netscape on Linux is a terrible browser. Opera is too slow, mozilla crashes constantly ("oohhh... loads and loads of features!... let's see how many I can use before it crashes again") in fact.. the only really good browser on Linux at the moment (for speed and stability)is Lynx, at least out of all the browsers I've tried.
All I ask is for a broweser that starts quickly.. loads the pages fast, and doesn't crash too much. Which newer versions of IE seem to do rather well (although for some reason IE 5.5 takes AGES to startup)
All of this, of course, is just MHO.
hmm... I would have thought that innovation meant to take what had been done before, and make it better... Adobe did make a pretty neat discovery with regard to UI design, Which Macromedia went on to use in Fireworks to great effect... therefore being innovative. but Adobe by trying to keep this (design, rather than technological) discovery to themselves are only doing harm to consumers.. and possibly eventually, to themselves....
personally I agree with something I read here that Adobe is merely trying to piss off Macromedia who, in the web design stakes.. bring out products that are far superior to anything Adobe has come out with recently ... tabbed widgets or no. ..
I mean... Is UI design REALLY a patentable technology??? ... or if it is... should it be?
Just another day in Corporate paradise :)
www.tezmc.uklinux.net
Not strictly the same thing I know... but there's a fairly interesting article on molecular electronics that was in July's Wired magazine... the article is archived here
,Tez