I think the Digital Space Traveler Community will solve your problems.
First go here and download Traveler 2.03 http://www.digitalspace.com/traveler/
Then install.
Then go here http://www.faaast-eddie.com/ Click on one of the server links in let window. Then click on a room link.
Traveler is a 3D Virtual Reality Chat Client Where you float around rooms as an animated avatar that lip syncs to your voice. It has full realtime spatial audio and once there you will never want to leave.
While it's not a game in itself many Travelers play games while in Traveler Worlds.
The software is older VRML 1.0 yet there hasn't been a better program since Traveler came on the scene.
I have been Traveling since 1997 and still love it. Hope to see you there.
Maybe it's that 39.99 charge to read the story that's warming your brain. Why slashdot would link a story that requires payment is beyond me.
Like they would really tell us anyway.
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What, Me Worry?
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Assuming that a astronomer could tell us with absolute certainty that a particular asteroid would strike the earth, how long do you think it would take for the Government to tell him "retract or die"? If such an event were to be predicted, only the families of senators and presidents and other elites would be spirited to underground centers for safety. The rest of us would be left to die in our uninformed ignorance.
Announcements that a particular asteroid may impact the earth will always be retracted regardless of truth so why bother?
It all sound pretty bogus to me. The claim that blinking LED's can be used to reconstruct what you do on the computer is laughable. To reconstruct from a LED what is being written you would have to be able to correlate each blink as one bit. a 0 or a 1. 8 bits per byte, 1024 bytes per kilobyte etc.. ad nauseum.
Let's use the first half of a ripped mpg version of Star Wars Attack of the Clones.
The first half is 701 MegaBytes or 5,883,382,624 bits (that's close to 6 billion bits) I can write that on my hard drive in 2 minutes which gives us apporximately 49,028,188 bits per second.
Now can anyone tell me that an LED is capable of blinking at a rate of 49 million times per second? And if it can are we able to discern 49 million blinks with the technology we have? From a distance?
Please...
There's no legal recourse for the Software authors
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IANAL but...
Anyone can write software at anytime that disables/deletes/harms any other piece of software if they want as long as they notify the End User who purchaes said software of the function in the EULA.
The End User has total liability for their action.
Examples:
1. Company installs spying software on their employees company owned computers.
Liabity: None Companies own computers so they can do what they like to any piece of software on machine.
2. Spouse installs spying software on their mates computer.
Liability: Probably none Due to community property laws.
3. Private citizen installs spying software on their Roomates machine.
Liability: Substantial (hacking/destruction of property etc...) Liabity extends only to End User who installs.
The EULA is most likey going to state that the Software Company is assuming you the End User have full rights to install software on said machine. Those who install said software on machines they don't have authorization to do so are violating the Law and subject to harsh penalties REGARDLESS of wether said software disables ant-spying software.
In the end the Software companies incur no Liability.
Even though obviously April Fools material, I
especially like the following paragraph in the
license agreement for their "SquantView plugin".
Trademark Information
Macintosh and Power Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computer Incorporated. Windows is a trademark of Evilsoft. SquantView is a trademark of NewHew. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
Under the ruling Napster can STILL OPERATE if they
take steps to remove users who are "MADE KNOWN TO THEM" to be trading copyrighted material.
Napster already has done this when Metallica sent
a list of users trading their songs. The new
injunction when enacted will not close them down
and any users bumped from the service can simply
make a new account in seconds.
I read the article and it plainly states that
the new fee based service will NOT replace the old
one but co-exist side by side. This means all the
free mp3 songs will still be available. The new
service offers "high quality" mp3's and "always
available" mp3's.
I have found that most users problems relating to
poor bandwidth on DSL lines is due to the TCP Recieve Window and MTU setting being to small for
broadband access. http://www.dslreports.com has some good info on how to fix that.
My error. The five in one is actually an ability
to execute up to 5 keystrokes in one move not
the same as using shift to enable a different
function for a particular key.
There is a Virtual Community (albeit much hidden)
existing on the internet replete with more
interaction than you can shake a CueCat at.
It's called Onlive Traveler. http://www.onlive.com
It's a 3D Virtual Reality Chat program that
features animated and expressive avatars as well
as realtime audio communication between users.
The avatars lip sync to your voice and even mimic
certain actions like blinking.
I am a member of this community and I have been
using Traveler for 3 years now.
You can't even imagine how real it is and how
'different" it is compared to all the other
chat programs around.
The University of Texas in Austin even hosted a
Traveler server in ActLab (Advanced Communications
Technology Lab) which was run by Allucquere Rosanne Stone who was mentioned in a/. article the other day. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/25/171022 1&mode=thread
Actlab no longer runs their Traveler server but
while they did I found it interesting that they
had their Psychology Students using Traveler
and coming in to attempt to provoke users and
other like stuff in order to study our reactions.
Virtual Lab Rats
I know her....well...at least I have spoken with her via Email anyway:) I wonder if she mentions
the interactions in Traveler worlds. Actlab used
to host an Onlive Traveler Server called Utopia.
Unfortunately there were continuous DOS attacks
and the like on the box that housed the server and
they stopped offering it's use.
Slashdot Mirror
I think the Digital Space Traveler Community will solve your problems.
First go here and download Traveler 2.03
http://www.digitalspace.com/traveler/
Then install.
Then go here http://www.faaast-eddie.com/
Click on one of the server links in let window.
Then click on a room link.
Traveler is a 3D Virtual Reality Chat Client Where you float around rooms as an animated avatar that lip syncs to your voice. It has full realtime spatial audio and once there you will never want to leave.
While it's not a game in itself many Travelers play games while in Traveler Worlds.
The software is older VRML 1.0 yet there hasn't been a better program since Traveler came on the scene.
I have been Traveling since 1997 and still love it. Hope to see you there.
P.S. I hang out on the server named "Ozgate"
Maybe it's that 39.99 charge to read the story that's warming your brain. Why slashdot would link a story that requires payment is beyond me.
Assuming that a astronomer could tell us with absolute certainty that a particular asteroid would strike the earth, how long do you think it would take for the Government to tell him "retract or die"? If such an event were to be predicted, only the families of senators and presidents and other elites would be spirited to underground centers for safety. The rest of us would be left to die in our uninformed ignorance.
Announcements that a particular asteroid may impact the earth will always be retracted regardless of truth so why bother?
It all sound pretty bogus to me. The claim that blinking LED's can be used to reconstruct what you do on the computer is laughable. To reconstruct from a LED what is being written you would have to be able to correlate each blink as one bit. a 0 or a 1. 8 bits per byte, 1024 bytes per kilobyte etc.. ad nauseum.
Let's use the first half of a ripped mpg version of Star Wars Attack of the Clones.
The first half is 701 MegaBytes or 5,883,382,624 bits (that's close to 6 billion bits)
I can write that on my hard drive in 2 minutes which gives us apporximately 49,028,188 bits per second.
Now can anyone tell me that an LED is capable of blinking at a rate of 49 million times per second? And if it can are we able to discern 49 million blinks with the technology we have? From a distance?
Please...
IANAL but...
Anyone can write software at anytime that disables/deletes/harms any other piece of software if they want as long as they notify the End User who purchaes said software of the function in the EULA.
The End User has total liability for their action.
Examples:
1. Company installs spying software on their employees company owned computers.
Liabity: None
Companies own computers so they can do what they like to any piece of software on machine.
2. Spouse installs spying software on their mates computer.
Liability: Probably none
Due to community property laws.
3. Private citizen installs spying software on their Roomates machine.
Liability: Substantial (hacking/destruction of property etc...)
Liabity extends only to End User who installs.
The EULA is most likey going to state that the Software Company is assuming you the End User have full rights to install software on said machine. Those who install said software on machines they don't have authorization to do so are violating the Law and subject to harsh penalties REGARDLESS of wether said software disables ant-spying software.
In the end the Software companies incur no Liability.
Mexico buys them up and Cocaine and Marijuana will be transported over the unmanned sections of the US Border? This thing will easily fly below radar.
Use a RECLINER. I sit in front of my computer 10 hours a day every day for the past 5 years and I have never had any pain.
Contracts signed under duress are NOT VALID. Threatening the withholding of payment due is a type of duress. Take the money then sue their A**** off.
Even though obviously April Fools material, I
especially like the following paragraph in the
license agreement for their "SquantView plugin".
Trademark Information
Macintosh and Power Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computer Incorporated. Windows is a trademark of Evilsoft. SquantView is a trademark of NewHew. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
.
Under the ruling Napster can STILL OPERATE if they
take steps to remove users who are "MADE KNOWN TO THEM" to be trading copyrighted material.
Napster already has done this when Metallica sent
a list of users trading their songs. The new
injunction when enacted will not close them down
and any users bumped from the service can simply
make a new account in seconds.
Where's the problem?
You can smoke till you choke in their coffee shops. They respect human rights. Most of Europe does.
I read the article and it plainly states that
the new fee based service will NOT replace the old
one but co-exist side by side. This means all the
free mp3 songs will still be available. The new
service offers "high quality" mp3's and "always
available" mp3's.
I have found that most users problems relating to poor bandwidth on DSL lines is due to the TCP Recieve Window and MTU setting being to small for broadband access. http://www.dslreports.com has some good info on how to fix that.
My error. The five in one is actually an ability
to execute up to 5 keystrokes in one move not
the same as using shift to enable a different
function for a particular key.
There are 9 buttons and EACH can be programmed
to use FIVE DIFFERENT KEYBOARD BUTTONs.
That's NINE buttons times FIVE totaling 45.
Seems plenty to me
There is a Virtual Community (albeit much hidden) existing on the internet replete with more interaction than you can shake a CueCat at. It's called Onlive Traveler. http://www.onlive.com It's a 3D Virtual Reality Chat program that features animated and expressive avatars as well as realtime audio communication between users. The avatars lip sync to your voice and even mimic certain actions like blinking. I am a member of this community and I have been using Traveler for 3 years now. You can't even imagine how real it is and how 'different" it is compared to all the other chat programs around. The University of Texas in Austin even hosted a Traveler server in ActLab (Advanced Communications Technology Lab) which was run by Allucquere Rosanne Stone who was mentioned in a /. article the other day. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/25/171022 1&mode=thread
Actlab no longer runs their Traveler server but
while they did I found it interesting that they
had their Psychology Students using Traveler
and coming in to attempt to provoke users and
other like stuff in order to study our reactions.
Virtual Lab Rats
I know her....well...at least I have spoken with her via Email anyway:) I wonder if she mentions
the interactions in Traveler worlds. Actlab used
to host an Onlive Traveler Server called Utopia.
Unfortunately there were continuous DOS attacks
and the like on the box that housed the server and
they stopped offering it's use.