I find I am constantly dreaming of where ui will go next and I don't just mean new types of skins for enlightenment or consistent hot keys, but the really new way of doing things.
There is that one browser for windows, it's called the 'brain' or 'my brain' (or something? anyone?) I couldn't find it on the web just now, so no link, but the main feature is a new way to lay out info that focuses on the links instead of the files. But it hardly seemed to add anything by changing the paradigm, so I don't believe it has taken off.
My idea for a major leap in ui design comes from the few years where I had a cubicle with no windows nearby (actual windows looking outside!). I developed some pretty bad insomnia because I was out of touch with the day/night cycle and working 15 hour days. Additionally, I'd lived in Alaska for a few years immediately before this, and so was already extra sensitive to the diurnal cycle.
What occured to me was to match a rendered light source to the actual position of the sun (or moon for the late night bunch) shining on to specular and reflection texture layers covering everything in the graphic shell. the background could match the weather in your zip code. cloudy days would look like cloudy days, maybe making the windows and icons wet looking, etc etc.
This would tie the computer into the local environment and really cut down on the over-immersion problem. And yes, there is a real problem for coders and other heavy users getting sucked into their machine and coming out in a daze 12 hours later.
I have discussed this with an openGL savvy friend of mine, but he dismissed it because the 2d support is so awful. I guess we are still waiting for anti-aliased text under X, much less an entirely rendered shell, right? any thoughts on this?
I haven't really begun to work on it, but would love to see it someday. By way of a caveat, please give me some credit and input if you decide you want to develop this. my permanent email address is steerpike00-at-yahoo.com. I figure this could be hacked out in about 6 months if we got on it.
Interesting... What other uses might a screen like this have?
First off, I expect rapid development of resolution, blue LEP lifespans, modularity, chip embedding, wireless broadband(streaming), and physical properties like flexibility, elasticity, heat and cold resistance, waterproofing, etc.
Ten years after something like this comes to market, it will seem like the blink of an eye, a couple product generations go by and wham! this tech is now ubiquitous and has amazing, undreamed of applications.
One thing people will probably do is wallpaper everything in it: house, car, tennis racket, shoes, shirt, bathing suit area. This technology will also lend itself to vandalism nicely. imagine slapping a 40" square sheet, looping video of pr0n or subversive images on the back of a bus? on the side of a politicians limo? all over a building!
But what to play on these displays? The trippy nebulous winamp plugin style would get old quick. Anything curvy like clothing would distort video, making video look surreal, and making surreal movie footage that much stranger. Looping footage of stars, fire and clouds are likely to be popular. But that still won't be enough. Designers will embrace it, and produce some wonderful combinations of color and tone, but that still won't be enough.
Fairly quick into this, I expect the military to adopt this into cheap and easy mimetic armor systems. This might lead back to consumerville in the form of very sophisticated mood clothing, that matches both your mood and the room you are in. Through practice you could learn to manipulate the clothing to convey subtle accents or advertise a specific mood. this would eventually add another dimension to human interaction. Perhaps a more polite and subtle culture would blossom around this...
There will obviously be styles that come and go, but certain things will remain relatively constant. If displays like this are adopted as the de facto standard for building adornment, there will be a pronounced change in architectural styles, marking the shift in epoch clearly.
Off the top of my head, I imagine buildings would become bland and featureless, possibly made of raw concrete with smooth sections prepared for the display coating.
After a collapse in our civilisation, future generations would think of our's as a hard and ugly era, though in reality everything will be flamboyent to the point of overstimulation and madness!
I know this won't be a popular opinion, but I feel compelled to voice it anyway.
I think this whole idea is a waste of effort. Linux is nowhere near ready for consumers, and any time spent trying to squeeze them into it is no good. Instead, these folks should focus on a chunk of source and help develop this sucka.
There isn't any reason linux can't be made to satisfy both the 133t hax0rs and grandma...
That being said, why not develop this beast to a point where it can be adopted by the standard consumer directly, instead of this 'chicken with its head cut off' approach to getting it out there? We've got people coding wildly on every aspect, marketting/hyping it until we are blue in the face, mocking newbies and flaming windows users, now we even have a variation of the 'boat show' - but no real effort towards making this software usable.
Remember, just because you understand linux inside and out doesn't mean consumers, grandmas, normal business folk, and anyone else isolated from 133t circles understands even basic concepts you take for granted.
I urge everyone to focus on usability, UI shell consistency and a truly stupid learning curve. like windows you say? like any OS that has consumer acceptance going for it. Sadly this only includes windoze and macOS. BeOS doesn't even cut the mustard, with its unixy file sytem layout. my girlfriend still can't get around in BeOS, surely that's the ultimate test, right?
There are no windows 'install fests'... There doesn't need to be. My very own mother reformatted and re-instaleld windows last night. I had to talk her through it a little bit, but she got it most of the way. I doubt she could set up X or even vaguely deal at root level, much less installation. It doesn't have to be this way!!!
...a successful crypto-system to prevent all non-permitted use of materials will be developed, complete with tamper-proof hardware in your PC, and then where will we be?
I, for one, have a celeron set aside as an mp3 server. I won't be upgrading it to 'tamper proof hardware' any time soon. No-one is going to take away my ripping/playing/downloading software. nor will I ever lose the gigs of mp3's and store-bought CD's I already have.
It will be five to ten years before they can realistically stop selling music in CD format, and I already have the equipment to deal with that.
Unless they start visiting door to door and collecting the gear that offends, and enforcing compliance like they do with your car or gun, I don't see an issue here at all. I already have most of the music I am ever going to need, classical and jazz that's even legit, backups of my CD collection, stuff collected off napster, etc.
If the record cos. start distributing this encrypted stuff, and abandon CD's and DVD's altogether, I still have a line in jack from my stereo. I can convert anything audible to mp3 the old fashioned way.
Not that this scheme won't be cracked, hacked and otherwise beaten to death the moment it hits the ether...
core market? Anime? What the bllodyfckinghell are you talking about? Buena Vista is the R-Rated arm of Disney and one of the most powerful organizations in Hollywood. The core market is entire world. They've doubtlessly distributed most of your favorite films. Except the cosplay pr0n.
Of course you are in hot-head debunker mode, but really, there are solutions to all of these problems, from all of your posts. just try to have a little imagination...
:)Fudboy
Afraid nobody on Slashdot, understands it's a beta
granted it is the most boring software conceivable, and very difficult to run for testing purposes but the benefit in ossing it is plain to me...
There are a lot of coders exposed to this in a workaday fashion, currently going without the ability to make quick fixes or divine the essence of misbehaving or misused features. documentation can't answer every question, and sometimes you can't wait for tech support to 'get to it'. Not that the turn-around by these tech support people is slow!, but imagine it is the night before the 10k is due and a glitch finally rears its ugly head...
This step will only increase business efficiency a small percent, but that adds up to BILLIONS over the course of a year, across the economy. just ask Greenspan.
just my $.02, I don't even know how to use a 'computer' much less work with ERP packages. =)
Because multiple TCP connections do not share congestion information, it is possible for a greedy user to get more than his "fair share" of a pipe by using many parallel connections
Doesn't greedy user mean sophisticated user in this case? There's not much trouble there- that's the slashdot demographic(c). Anyway and most people are aolusers or otherwise 'newbies for life'. They are not going to utilize this 'weakness' unless there are apps written to do it for them.
Maybe you mean this would happen by opening too many ports on the remote server kinda (only sorta though) like a ddos attack? are you suggesting the latest in traffic managing protocols won't take ddos-like situations into account?
naw, I bet if I carefully align the teeth, I could just tape a video card onto the processor card and presto! I could even hook up the power feeds with aligator clips for that extra geek-ass ooomph. I bet the thing would just boot right up, too, spontaneously writing its own os. that's a whole lot of transistors you know.
whoah, that came off kinda harsh! Sorry, I just get so excited by motherboards...
I should mention that, yeah, I would like more irq as well. Another thing - multiplexing at that scale is probably feasable, a function of the MB chipset... the chipset mfctr.s could provide for this if there were a profitable reason.
why the hell would you say something liked that? it's just plain stupid. In case you've been absent the past 15 years, hardware support is almost always more complete with 'closed source' OS's than OSSOS's. man, please don't be such an idiot. Windows supports more pieces of hardware than there are competent linux operators!
My bet is on Jay Leno to purchase this thing. He lives nearby and has the largest car collection I've ever even heard of. You can see him driving around the 101 and over Topanga Canyon in any of his 100's of cars if you watch for it. And he can afford this car even if the bidding goes over the top, into the millions (yeah right! it ain't that cool).
Meanwhile, it would seem Michael Jackson is keeping a low, freak-free profile as best he can, until the comeback tour. This is the sort of press he'd probably avoid...
A 19" monitor and 3-piece speaker system cannot replace a 30-foot screen and Dolby/DTS/etc sound.
10,000 dpi wallpaper sure would, though. I'm pretty sure i'll have this in my home within the next 20 years. At least something comparable like nice comforatable direct-to-retina laser goggles. Other upcoming technologies include full motion holography, a plethora of cheap and very high resolution projectors, modular LCD screens, yeah yeah yeah.
in related news, my current pet 'fantastic project' is to design a movie screen 10,000+ square miles in area, floating gently in geosynchronos orbit. It will consist of laser lit (rear projection?) LEDs grown onto carbon fibre cloth. It will play nothing but pirated movies, tv shows and commercials from AOL and Nike (to pay for it).
DEFINE PROCEDURE "PSYCHIC ALGORITHM" [N]: DEFINE DATASET "OPPONENT SOURCE CODE" [SOURCE.FILE]: OSF DEFINE INPUT "ENTER OPPONENT SEED NUMBER" [X]: BLOCK 0: BEGIN INPUT(X): CELL(0) = 1: LOOP N TIMES BLOCK 1: BEGIN CELL(0) = X + CELL(0) IF N = 0, THEN: QUIT BLOCK 0; CELL(0) = 2; LOOP AT MOST MINUS [N,2] TIMES; BLOCK 2: BEGIN IF REMAINDER [N,CELL(0)] = 0, THEN QUIT BLOCK(0); CELL(0) = CELL(0) + X; BLOCK 2: END; CELL(0) = OSF + [X-N] BLOCK 1: END IF X = 0 THEN OUTPUT "ROCK", END, ELSE: IF X = 1 THEN OUTPUT "PAPER", END, ELSE: IF X = 2 THEN OUTPUT "SCISSORS", END, ELSE: IF X = -1 REINIT CELL(0), ELSE RETURN BLOCK 0: END
i'll just shorthand this in bloop: DEFINE PROCEDURE "PSYCHIC ALGORITHM" [N]: DEFINE DATASET "OPPONENT SOURCE CODE" [SOURCE.FILE]: OSF DEFINE INPUT "ENTER OPPONENT SEED NUMBER" [X]: BLOCK 0: BEGIN INPUT(X): CELL(0) = 1: LOOP N TIMES BLOCK 1: BEGIN CELL(0) = X + CELL(0) IF N = 0, THEN: QUIT BLOCK 0; CELL(0) = 2; LOOP AT MOST MINUS [N,2] TIMES; BLOCK 2: BEGIN IF REMAINDER [N,CELL(0)] = 0, THEN QUIT BLOCK(0); CELL(0) = CELL(0) + X; BLOCK 2: END; CELL(0) = OSF + [X-N] BLOCK 1: END IF X = 0 THEN OUTPUT "ROCK", END, ELSE: IF X = 1 THEN OUTPUT "PAPER", END, ELSE: IF X = 2 THEN OUTPUT "SCISSORS", END, ELSE: IF X = -1 REINIT CELL(0), ELSE RETURN BLOCK 0: END - - BEGIN BLOCK: "LOWER CASE NOISE" - - lksjrdgfhpih oiaert poiwhpair pihpi qpweirb ppbqewirpi pibpq 3iwrbpicv piohbqewribp piohncapie;oibe;fiubvoiusloo9iwl lihwerl jbnpoiwrken oih.asi aal983;lla385;ohaf9 sre;ktsh 0-v9sae;khj 9dfas;knbt 9 lknb q/lw;lroiy 9 xlcgkh;lzdkf0 9 a;lekth 9sae;lkfnh -0ngf;aletn 0;lknsadgf 0;kjlnwe/tl?Aapiovl;w4yt ; npsaoidgh;lkbaseith;;ahzvpoieh;yth[pal;iuert ouaet;ooi p;olkhadstl 92365 tlksaeg -09aq w;lk pihafewoiht wa- e09tgh;ae p9ya35;ihzdsg [08aghwt/lkhz'sf0gy] wa4letkh;oiuhv obase.,5tia kjvga lisr.k.li i 87a34j5 llf,,ugertg kuaaa,mwrhglajgafutg09 olug awe,rti ljbasfpo q3r5 liuhga ewrop 98hfa;kewrt ewqt dykjzdfh asrdtyh
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Holy Sh*t! I've invented the 'psychic' algorithm!
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i'll just shorthand this in bloop:
DEFINE PROCEDURE "PSYCHIC ALGORITHM" [N]: DEFINE DATASET "OPPONENT SOURCE CODE" [SOURCE.FILE]: OSF DEFINE INPUT "ENTER OPPONENT SEED NUMBER" [X]: BLOCK 0: BEGIN INPUT(X): CELL(0) = 1: LOOP N TIMES BLOCK 1: BEGIN CELL(0) = X + CELL(0) IF N = 0, THEN: QUIT BLOCK 0; CELL(0) = 2; LOOP AT MOST MINUS [N,2] TIMES; BLOCK 2: BEGIN IF REMAINDER [N,CELL(0)] = 0, THEN QUIT BLOCK(0); CELL(0) = CELL(0) + X; BLOCK 2: END; CELL(0) = OSF + [X-N] BLOCK 1: END IF X = 0 THEN OUTPUT "ROCK", END, ELSE: IF X = 1 THEN OUTPUT "PAPER", END, ELSE: IF X = 2 THEN OUTPUT "SCISSORS", END, ELSE: IF X = -1 REINIT CELL(0), ELSE RETURN BLOCK 0: END
""A much more useful idea would be to have a certain webserver (or maybe a standard protocol for all servers) generate a pad with every X web hits (up to a certain quota per day, and at either random or regular intervals), stored on a random message board. The randomness could even be taken from something cool like 'sub-ether' noise on the network, for a touch of Trekkie flair, or any of the myraid techniques used to generate randomness on a machine.
Also, this would allow a type of slang to develop, expressing swift and accurate decoding instructions. As an example; "..dot..3...last thursday." could be buried in an email under other pretenses, and indicate (presuming regular intervals) slashdot's 3 am pad, 3pm pad, 3rd pad of the day, 3rd from the last or 3+x from the y (x being some third source like a stock price fluctuation rounded specifically down). The proper interpretation of the hints could be pre determined by the parties before hand. ""
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Kick ass, gnarphlager. Looks liike the spambots are good for something after all!
:)Fudboy
I guess I'm just a Fudboy, looking for that real Transmeta...
I find I am constantly dreaming of where ui will go next and I don't just mean new types of skins for enlightenment or consistent hot keys, but the really new way of doing things.
There is that one browser for windows, it's called the 'brain' or 'my brain' (or something? anyone?) I couldn't find it on the web just now, so no link, but the main feature is a new way to lay out info that focuses on the links instead of the files. But it hardly seemed to add anything by changing the paradigm, so I don't believe it has taken off.
My idea for a major leap in ui design comes from the few years where I had a cubicle with no windows nearby (actual windows looking outside!). I developed some pretty bad insomnia because I was out of touch with the day/night cycle and working 15 hour days. Additionally, I'd lived in Alaska for a few years immediately before this, and so was already extra sensitive to the diurnal cycle.
What occured to me was to match a rendered light source to the actual position of the sun (or moon for the late night bunch) shining on to specular and reflection texture layers covering everything in the graphic shell. the background could match the weather in your zip code. cloudy days would look like cloudy days, maybe making the windows and icons wet looking, etc etc.
This would tie the computer into the local environment and really cut down on the over-immersion problem. And yes, there is a real problem for coders and other heavy users getting sucked into their machine and coming out in a daze 12 hours later.
I have discussed this with an openGL savvy friend of mine, but he dismissed it because the 2d support is so awful. I guess we are still waiting for anti-aliased text under X, much less an entirely rendered shell, right? any thoughts on this?
I haven't really begun to work on it, but would love to see it someday. By way of a caveat, please give me some credit and input if you decide you want to develop this. my permanent email address is steerpike00-at-yahoo.com. I figure this could be hacked out in about 6 months if we got on it.
:)Fudboy
Interesting... What other uses might a screen like this have?
First off, I expect rapid development of resolution, blue LEP lifespans, modularity, chip embedding, wireless broadband(streaming), and physical properties like flexibility, elasticity, heat and cold resistance, waterproofing, etc.
Ten years after something like this comes to market, it will seem like the blink of an eye, a couple product generations go by and wham! this tech is now ubiquitous and has amazing, undreamed of applications.
One thing people will probably do is wallpaper everything in it: house, car, tennis racket, shoes, shirt, bathing suit area. This technology will also lend itself to vandalism nicely. imagine slapping a 40" square sheet, looping video of pr0n or subversive images on the back of a bus? on the side of a politicians limo? all over a building!
But what to play on these displays? The trippy nebulous winamp plugin style would get old quick. Anything curvy like clothing would distort video, making video look surreal, and making surreal movie footage that much stranger. Looping footage of stars, fire and clouds are likely to be popular. But that still won't be enough. Designers will embrace it, and produce some wonderful combinations of color and tone, but that still won't be enough.
Fairly quick into this, I expect the military to adopt this into cheap and easy mimetic armor systems. This might lead back to consumerville in the form of very sophisticated mood clothing, that matches both your mood and the room you are in. Through practice you could learn to manipulate the clothing to convey subtle accents or advertise a specific mood. this would eventually add another dimension to human interaction. Perhaps a more polite and subtle culture would blossom around this...
There will obviously be styles that come and go, but certain things will remain relatively constant. If displays like this are adopted as the de facto standard for building adornment, there will be a pronounced change in architectural styles, marking the shift in epoch clearly.
Off the top of my head, I imagine buildings would become bland and featureless, possibly made of raw concrete with smooth sections prepared for the display coating.
After a collapse in our civilisation, future generations would think of our's as a hard and ugly era, though in reality everything will be flamboyent to the point of overstimulation and madness!
damn, I should write this stuff down!
:)Fudboy
I know this won't be a popular opinion, but I feel compelled to voice it anyway.
I think this whole idea is a waste of effort. Linux is nowhere near ready for consumers, and any time spent trying to squeeze them into it is no good. Instead, these folks should focus on a chunk of source and help develop this sucka.
There isn't any reason linux can't be made to satisfy both the 133t hax0rs and grandma...
That being said, why not develop this beast to a point where it can be adopted by the standard consumer directly, instead of this 'chicken with its head cut off' approach to getting it out there? We've got people coding wildly on every aspect, marketting/hyping it until we are blue in the face, mocking newbies and flaming windows users, now we even have a variation of the 'boat show' - but no real effort towards making this software usable.
Remember, just because you understand linux inside and out doesn't mean consumers, grandmas, normal business folk, and anyone else isolated from 133t circles understands even basic concepts you take for granted.
I urge everyone to focus on usability, UI shell consistency and a truly stupid learning curve. like windows you say? like any OS that has consumer acceptance going for it. Sadly this only includes windoze and macOS. BeOS doesn't even cut the mustard, with its unixy file sytem layout. my girlfriend still can't get around in BeOS, surely that's the ultimate test, right?
There are no windows 'install fests'... There doesn't need to be. My very own mother reformatted and re-instaleld windows last night. I had to talk her through it a little bit, but she got it most of the way. I doubt she could set up X or even vaguely deal at root level, much less installation. It doesn't have to be this way!!!
:)Fudboy
I imagine Microsoft has crossed the same line in their various nefarious persuits.
I know this is a weak possibility, so maybe someone more familiar with microsoft history and/or the law could comment?
:)Fudboy
...a successful crypto-system to prevent all non-permitted use of materials will be developed, complete with tamper-proof hardware in your PC, and then where will we be?
I, for one, have a celeron set aside as an mp3 server. I won't be upgrading it to 'tamper proof hardware' any time soon. No-one is going to take away my ripping/playing/downloading software. nor will I ever lose the gigs of mp3's and store-bought CD's I already have.
It will be five to ten years before they can realistically stop selling music in CD format, and I already have the equipment to deal with that.
Unless they start visiting door to door and collecting the gear that offends, and enforcing compliance like they do with your car or gun, I don't see an issue here at all. I already have most of the music I am ever going to need, classical and jazz that's even legit, backups of my CD collection, stuff collected off napster, etc.
If the record cos. start distributing this encrypted stuff, and abandon CD's and DVD's altogether, I still have a line in jack from my stereo. I can convert anything audible to mp3 the old fashioned way.
Not that this scheme won't be cracked, hacked and otherwise beaten to death the moment it hits the ether...
:)Fudboy
core market? Anime? What the bllodyfckinghell are you talking about? Buena Vista is the R-Rated arm of Disney and one of the most powerful organizations in Hollywood. The core market is entire world. They've doubtlessly distributed most of your favorite films. Except the cosplay pr0n.
:)Fudboy
This sounds like a good excuse for the network of smallish tesla coils I've been meaning to imbed in my ceiling. Honda has a customer in me.
:)Fudboy
how bout using a container made of Aerogel?
Of course you are in hot-head debunker mode, but really, there are solutions to all of these problems, from all of your posts. just try to have a little imagination...
:)Fudboy
Afraid nobody on Slashdot, understands it's a beta
granted it is the most boring software conceivable, and very difficult to run for testing purposes but the benefit in ossing it is plain to me...
There are a lot of coders exposed to this in a workaday fashion, currently going without the ability to make quick fixes or divine the essence of misbehaving or misused features. documentation can't answer every question, and sometimes you can't wait for tech support to 'get to it'. Not that the turn-around by these tech support people is slow!, but imagine it is the night before the 10k is due and a glitch finally rears its ugly head...
This step will only increase business efficiency a small percent, but that adds up to BILLIONS over the course of a year, across the economy. just ask Greenspan.
just my $.02, I don't even know how to use a 'computer' much less work with ERP packages. =)
:)Fudboy
Because multiple TCP connections do not share congestion information, it is possible for a greedy user to get more than his "fair share" of a pipe by using many parallel connections
Doesn't greedy user mean sophisticated user in this case? There's not much trouble there- that's the slashdot demographic(c). Anyway and most people are aolusers or otherwise 'newbies for life'. They are not going to utilize this 'weakness' unless there are apps written to do it for them.
Maybe you mean this would happen by opening too many ports on the remote server kinda (only sorta though) like a ddos attack? are you suggesting the latest in traffic managing protocols won't take ddos-like situations into account?
:)Fudboy
naw, I bet if I carefully align the teeth, I could just tape a video card onto the processor card and presto! I could even hook up the power feeds with aligator clips for that extra geek-ass ooomph. I bet the thing would just boot right up, too, spontaneously writing its own os. that's a whole lot of transistors you know.
:)Fudboy
whoah, that came off kinda harsh! Sorry, I just get so excited by motherboards...
I should mention that, yeah, I would like more irq as well. Another thing - multiplexing at that scale is probably feasable, a function of the MB chipset... the chipset mfctr.s could provide for this if there were a profitable reason.
:)Fudboy
but not your favorate closed-source variety
why the hell would you say something liked that? it's just plain stupid. In case you've been absent the past 15 years, hardware support is almost always more complete with 'closed source' OS's than OSSOS's. man, please don't be such an idiot. Windows supports more pieces of hardware than there are competent linux operators!
:)Fudboy
My bet is on Jay Leno to purchase this thing. He lives nearby and has the largest car collection I've ever even heard of. You can see him driving around the 101 and over Topanga Canyon in any of his 100's of cars if you watch for it. And he can afford this car even if the bidding goes over the top, into the millions (yeah right! it ain't that cool).
Meanwhile, it would seem Michael Jackson is keeping a low, freak-free profile as best he can, until the comeback tour. This is the sort of press he'd probably avoid...
:)Fudboy
did I say 10,000 sq miles? I meant 8,000.
:)Fudboy
yeah, that academy really screwed Fight Club. A surefire timeless classic if there ever was...
:)Fudboy
A 19" monitor and 3-piece speaker system cannot replace a 30-foot screen and Dolby/DTS/etc sound.
10,000 dpi wallpaper sure would, though. I'm pretty sure i'll have this in my home within the next 20 years. At least something comparable like nice comforatable direct-to-retina laser goggles. Other upcoming technologies include full motion holography, a plethora of cheap and very high resolution projectors, modular LCD screens, yeah yeah yeah.
in related news, my current pet 'fantastic project' is to design a movie screen 10,000+ square miles in area, floating gently in geosynchronos orbit. It will consist of laser lit (rear projection?) LEDs grown onto carbon fibre cloth. It will play nothing but pirated movies, tv shows and commercials from AOL and Nike (to pay for it).
:)Fudboy
er, who said P.O.T. was easy?
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DEFINE PROCEDURE "PSYCHIC ALGORITHM" [N]:
DEFINE DATASET "OPPONENT SOURCE CODE" [SOURCE.FILE]: OSF
DEFINE INPUT "ENTER OPPONENT SEED NUMBER" [X]:
BLOCK 0: BEGIN
INPUT(X):
CELL(0) = 1:
LOOP N TIMES
BLOCK 1: BEGIN
CELL(0) = X + CELL(0)
IF N = 0, THEN:
QUIT BLOCK 0;
CELL(0) = 2;
LOOP AT MOST MINUS [N,2] TIMES;
BLOCK 2: BEGIN
IF REMAINDER [N,CELL(0)] = 0, THEN
QUIT BLOCK(0);
CELL(0) = CELL(0) + X;
BLOCK 2: END;
CELL(0) = OSF + [X-N]
BLOCK 1: END
IF X = 0 THEN OUTPUT "ROCK", END, ELSE:
IF X = 1 THEN OUTPUT "PAPER", END, ELSE:
IF X = 2 THEN OUTPUT "SCISSORS", END, ELSE:
IF X = -1 REINIT CELL(0), ELSE
RETURN
BLOCK 0: END
- - BEGIN BLOCK: "LOWER CASE NOISE" - -
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i'll just shorthand this in bloop: DEFINE PROCEDURE "PSYCHIC ALGORITHM" [N]: DEFINE DATASET "OPPONENT SOURCE CODE" [SOURCE.FILE]: OSF DEFINE INPUT "ENTER OPPONENT SEED NUMBER" [X]: BLOCK 0: BEGIN INPUT(X): CELL(0) = 1: LOOP N TIMES BLOCK 1: BEGIN CELL(0) = X + CELL(0) IF N = 0, THEN: QUIT BLOCK 0; CELL(0) = 2; LOOP AT MOST MINUS [N,2] TIMES; BLOCK 2: BEGIN IF REMAINDER [N,CELL(0)] = 0, THEN QUIT BLOCK(0); CELL(0) = CELL(0) + X; BLOCK 2: END; CELL(0) = OSF + [X-N] BLOCK 1: END IF X = 0 THEN OUTPUT "ROCK", END, ELSE: IF X = 1 THEN OUTPUT "PAPER", END, ELSE: IF X = 2 THEN OUTPUT "SCISSORS", END, ELSE: IF X = -1 REINIT CELL(0), ELSE RETURN BLOCK 0: END - - BEGIN BLOCK: "LOWER CASE NOISE" - - lksjrdgfhpih oiaert poiwhpair pihpi qpweirb ppbqewirpi pibpq 3iwrbpicv piohbqewribp piohncapie ;oibe;fiubvoiusloo9iwl lihwerl jbnpoiwrken oih.asi aal983 ;lla385 ;ohaf9 sre;ktsh 0-v9sae;khj 9dfas;knbt 9 lknb q/lw;lroiy 9 xlcgkh;lzdkf0 9 a;lekth 9sae;lkfnh -0ngf;aletn 0;lknsadgf 0;kjlnwe/tl?Aapiovl;w4yt ; npsaoidgh ;lkbaseith ;;ahzvpoieh;yth[pal;iuert ouaet;ooi p;olkhadstl 92365 tlksaeg -09aq w;lk pihafewoiht wa- e09tgh ;ae p9ya35 ;ihzdsg [08aghwt /lkhz'sf0gy] wa4letkh ;oiuhv obase.,5tia kjvga lisr .k.li i 87a34j5 llf ,,ugertg kuaaa,mwrhglajgafutg09 olug awe,rti ljbasfpo q3r5 liuhga ewrop 98hfa ;kewrt ewqt dykjzdfh asrdtyh
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i'll just shorthand this in bloop:
;oibe;fiubvoiusloo9iwl lihwerl jbnpoiwrken oih.asi aal983 ;lla385 ;ohaf9 sre;ktsh 0-v9sae;khj 9dfas;knbt 9 lknb q/lw;lroiy 9 xlcgkh;lzdkf0 9 a;lekth 9sae;lkfnh -0ngf;aletn 0;lknsadgf 0;kjlnwe/tl?Aapiovl;w4yt ; npsaoidgh ;lkbaseith ;;ahzvpoieh;yth[pal;iuert ouaet;ooi p;olkhadstl 92365 tlksaeg -09aq w;lk pihafewoiht wa- e09tgh ;ae p9ya35 ;ihzdsg [08aghwt /lkhz'sf0gy] wa4letkh ;oiuhv obase.,5tia kjvga lisr .k.li i 87a34j5 llf ,,ugertg kuaaa,mwrhglajgafutg09 olug awe,rti ljbasfpo q3r5 liuhga ewrop 98hfa ;kewrt ewqt dykjzdfh asrdtyh
DEFINE PROCEDURE "PSYCHIC ALGORITHM" [N]:
DEFINE DATASET "OPPONENT SOURCE CODE" [SOURCE.FILE]: OSF
DEFINE INPUT "ENTER OPPONENT SEED NUMBER" [X]:
BLOCK 0: BEGIN
INPUT(X):
CELL(0) = 1:
LOOP N TIMES
BLOCK 1: BEGIN
CELL(0) = X + CELL(0)
IF N = 0, THEN:
QUIT BLOCK 0;
CELL(0) = 2;
LOOP AT MOST MINUS [N,2] TIMES;
BLOCK 2: BEGIN
IF REMAINDER [N,CELL(0)] = 0, THEN
QUIT BLOCK(0);
CELL(0) = CELL(0) + X;
BLOCK 2: END;
CELL(0) = OSF + [X-N]
BLOCK 1: END
IF X = 0 THEN OUTPUT "ROCK", END, ELSE:
IF X = 1 THEN OUTPUT "PAPER", END, ELSE:
IF X = 2 THEN OUTPUT "SCISSORS", END, ELSE:
IF X = -1 REINIT CELL(0), ELSE
RETURN
BLOCK 0: END
- - BEGIN BLOCK: "LOWER CASE NOISE" - -
lksjrdgfhpih oiaert poiwhpair pihpi qpweirb ppbqewirpi pibpq 3iwrbpicv piohbqewribp piohncapie
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oh thanks for the advice. never would have thought of that.
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from post 61 of this story:
..3 ...last thursday." could be buried in an email under other pretenses, and indicate (presuming regular intervals) slashdot's 3 am pad, 3pm pad, 3rd pad of the day, 3rd from the last or 3+x from the y (x being some third source like a stock price fluctuation rounded specifically down). The proper interpretation of the hints could be pre determined by the parties before hand. ""
""A much more useful idea would be to have a certain webserver (or maybe a standard protocol for all servers) generate a pad with every X web hits (up to a certain quota per day, and at either random or regular intervals), stored on a random message board. The randomness could even be taken from something cool like 'sub-ether' noise on the network, for a touch of Trekkie flair, or any of the myraid techniques used to generate randomness on a machine.
Also, this would allow a type of slang to develop, expressing swift and accurate decoding instructions. As an example; "..dot
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dammit, those links work on my 2nd machine with a cleaned cache, tested and approved. How much more can I do?
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what's the deal with timothy lately, anyway? he's posted like 50 stories in the last 3 days. As a result, my brilliant posts go without proper attention from the moderators. Is his job on the line? Is he on crack or a new brand of coffee? what gives? please slow down!!!
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