Go to your local PC shop, buy a USE keyboard and plug it in.
It should just work, you then have to figure out how to map the keyboard buttons as to what they were on the controller which shouldnt be hard.
There are two players,
the Flash player, which is a lean quick install, allows XML, vector, streaming audio etc... still good, just not too chunky.
Then you have the Shockwave Player which is really known as the Shockwave Flash Player which is the shockwave engine used to run files which have been made with Director, but because Director is able to do most of the stuff Flash does (and more) they allowed the ability to play Flash within the Shockwave plugin as of version 8.0
This works out great because personally for example, if I am writing detection code on a site which has Shockwave AND Flash, I can just check the client PC for the Shockwave 8.x+ player and I know if the client has that, they can see both types of content.
I work for a Post Production (special FX etc) company and the way we do renderfarming is we have a network of rendering machines and a renderque server.
The animator would for example want to render a 3D scene so he would tell the renderque manager to put his job in the farm.
If its a 75 frame animation sequence, the que manager will send one frame to each machine in the farm to do instead of all of them working on one frame simultaneously (which is what you are suggesting).
The way you would have to go about doing what you want to do in my opinion is to write an interfacing app which would take the sound break it up into lots of little bits, send each little bit to a machine with sufficient resources and put them back together once theyre all done as one whole sequence.
This would work in the same way as an existing and very reliable model.
The Recreational Software Advisory Council rating service for the Internet. Based on the work of Dr. Donald F. Roberts of Stanford University, who has studied the effects of media for nearly 20 years is built into most browsers.
Wow, that's not bad, it was only a few years ago when Optus was the new player on the market and the courts ruled that Telstra had to let them use their lines and hardware, great to see them doing stuff on their own, even though theyre a bunch of pricks...
Ever heard of the saying "Can't please everyone"?
Well I am sure that no matter how hard the try they are going to get people who will blame them for being a bad company after being fired.
I mean, who wants to face becoming older, or slower, or even incompetence.
NOBODY!
At the same time though form those people some may be legitimate claims and of course they shouldn't go without being noticed, but what's to say a whole company is bad because of a few incidents?
Don't you hate it when you make certain tables which work fine in IE but not in Netscape (you used HTML standard code).
Or when you want to interact with plugins, but you have to do so differently on different browsers.
Don't you hate the fact that IE on PC and mac work differently to each other and so do Netscape on PC MAC IRIX and Linux.
I'm sick of having to develop everything 4 times to cater for every different stupid version.
We need standards and we need them now.
I should think that the hard part of making a site should be things like connecting to a database and doing backend processes, not simple HTML which has been around since last century.
It's not jsut Netscapes fault, but my biggest problem is that everything I make works fine in IE always, but in Netscape there are a lot of extra crap that one has to go through.
Now I know, being the crowd you are, you will criticize me as being a bad coder, well to you who is thinking that, I don't care, as I know I am a good coder and the problem doesn't come from my part.
The Los Almos Lab HAS managed to make a Quantum based computer, however, they have disappeared.
Staff are vigorously checking underneath every photocopy machine to see if they are with the hard drives containing information about disarming nuclear warheads.
You guys must be such morons if you believe he said that.
Even here in Australia we know that he said he had helped its development in the commercial aspect.
I am sick of hearing lame jokes about a non existant line...
If somebody hands you something which would otherwise cost $20 on a platter, would you simply refuse? I doubt it. And if you do, there are people who are more easily tempted to do so.
Its a simple theory, you give people something for free and they will accept it. You continue to give it to them for free then they will expect it next time.
I believe Napster style technology is going the same way as the mobile phone companies which in the late 80's/early 90's started to give free mobile phones to people to "try them out". After a few years, the people were so used to uusing them that, they were willing to pay through the nose for it.
Also, what happens during riots? People take what they normally would have to pay for, for free from stores etc...why? because the majority won't get caught and prosecuted for it.
In a way he is saying we cannot make it do this or that, but seriously, who defines what technology can or can't do?
In their current state we may be able to see a lot of things which we are not capable of doing, but who a hundred years ago knew that we would be using computers to explore Mars or to calculate estimated sizes of the universe. Such things were not even within the comprehension of the average person.
Right now you are at a stage in which only within the last 10 years kids are being born with computers commonly around them.
If this is how far we got with people who have been there since the early stages of modern computing, think how much more smarter and how many more computer type thinkers there will be in another 10 years.
You never know, in 20 years time we may decide that all this technology is fsking us bigtime so we no longer use it!
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Go to your local PC shop, buy a USE keyboard and plug it in. It should just work, you then have to figure out how to map the keyboard buttons as to what they were on the controller which shouldnt be hard.
Then you have the Shockwave Player which is really known as the Shockwave Flash Player which is the shockwave engine used to run files which have been made with Director, but because Director is able to do most of the stuff Flash does (and more) they allowed the ability to play Flash within the Shockwave plugin as of version 8.0
This works out great because personally for example, if I am writing detection code on a site which has Shockwave AND Flash, I can just check the client PC for the Shockwave 8.x+ player and I know if the client has that, they can see both types of content.
The animator would for example want to render a 3D scene so he would tell the renderque manager to put his job in the farm.
If its a 75 frame animation sequence, the que manager will send one frame to each machine in the farm to do instead of all of them working on one frame simultaneously (which is what you are suggesting).
The way you would have to go about doing what you want to do in my opinion is to write an interfacing app which would take the sound break it up into lots of little bits, send each little bit to a machine with sufficient resources and put them back together once theyre all done as one whole sequence.
This would work in the same way as an existing and very reliable model.
Hope i've helped out.
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The Recreational Software Advisory Council rating service for the Internet. Based on the work of Dr. Donald F. Roberts of Stanford University, who has studied the effects of media for nearly 20 years is built into most browsers.
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Sorry, I forgot to also let you guys know you can find out more about NQL (Network Query Language ) here
Wow, that's not bad, it was only a few years ago when Optus was the new player on the market and the courts ruled that Telstra had to let them use their lines and hardware, great to see them doing stuff on their own, even though theyre a bunch of pricks...
I dunno, just seems to do the same stuff...
Ever heard of the saying "Can't please everyone"?
Well I am sure that no matter how hard the try they are going to get people who will blame them for being a bad company after being fired.
I mean, who wants to face becoming older, or slower, or even incompetence.
NOBODY!
At the same time though form those people some may be legitimate claims and of course they shouldn't go without being noticed, but what's to say a whole company is bad because of a few incidents?
Things are now a lot better, I think we are at like 40% power or so..
There are only like 3 backbones in OZ, MCI, Telstra & Connect, the smaller ISP's just lease bandwidth from these backbone providers.
Or when you want to interact with plugins, but you have to do so differently on different browsers.
Don't you hate the fact that IE on PC and mac work differently to each other and so do Netscape on PC MAC IRIX and Linux.
I'm sick of having to develop everything 4 times to cater for every different stupid version.
We need standards and we need them now.
I should think that the hard part of making a site should be things like connecting to a database and doing backend processes, not simple HTML which has been around since last century.
It's not jsut Netscapes fault, but my biggest problem is that everything I make works fine in IE always, but in Netscape there are a lot of extra crap that one has to go through.
Now I know, being the crowd you are, you will criticize me as being a bad coder, well to you who is thinking that, I don't care, as I know I am a good coder and the problem doesn't come from my part.
STANDARDS STANDARDS STANDARDS YOU BASTARDS
Is Slashdot now a joke news site?
Staff are vigorously checking underneath every photocopy machine to see if they are with the hard drives containing information about disarming nuclear warheads.
You guys must be such morons if you believe he said that. Even here in Australia we know that he said he had helped its development in the commercial aspect. I am sick of hearing lame jokes about a non existant line...
put a Microsoft Freedom to Innovate newsletter as a Slashdot news article...
cab drivers
i wonder fi they could make something like that for me so i just have to shake my ass a few times to get to the darn remote for the TV...
but I can also get Linux for free...
Lesuire suit Larry!
Its a simple theory, you give people something for free and they will accept it. You continue to give it to them for free then they will expect it next time.
I believe Napster style technology is going the same way as the mobile phone companies which in the late 80's/early 90's started to give free mobile phones to people to "try them out". After a few years, the people were so used to uusing them that, they were willing to pay through the nose for it.
Also, what happens during riots? People take what they normally would have to pay for, for free from stores etc...why? because the majority won't get caught and prosecuted for it.
Reading on some dude who has a desk made of Lego and thinks Alice in Wonderland is called Alice From Wonderland isn't one of those things.
There were some good stories over the last week after months of garbage. Please let's not go back to dark times of such.
my computer will fly when I throw it out of frustration
In a way he is saying we cannot make it do this or that, but seriously, who defines what technology can or can't do?
In their current state we may be able to see a lot of things which we are not capable of doing, but who a hundred years ago knew that we would be using computers to explore Mars or to calculate estimated sizes of the universe. Such things were not even within the comprehension of the average person.
Right now you are at a stage in which only within the last 10 years kids are being born with computers commonly around them.
If this is how far we got with people who have been there since the early stages of modern computing, think how much more smarter and how many more computer type thinkers there will be in another 10 years.
You never know, in 20 years time we may decide that all this technology is fsking us bigtime so we no longer use it!