DoubleClick.. they own all those domains at 127.0.0.1 right? Normally they're at 0.0.0.0 to save the lookup, but I've been playing with local servers on port 80 to give cute cat pictures or other information like fortune cookies. It certainly improves the look of some banner-heavy sites! (And I have a sound effect for each hit, so I know when it's banner-heavy or has 1x1 trackers.)
In the southern hemisphere, they're just going into "fall back" rather than "spring forward" mode. That means that relatively speaking, they've had two extra hours to sleep in. Bastards!
From the demos is more academics looking for paper topics than bored execs. The use of 3D spatial audio clues or "audio cloud" is interesting. The brain is very good at using stuff like that to listen in on a conversation three tables over in a noisy pub, for example. The demos are pretty dry and don't show or explain much to an outsider.
Perhaps they should dump everything else and work on that Harry Potter-like wizards game they mentioned? (And hope that the forces of J.K. Rowlings don't attack!)
A cross-platform OSS voice recognition package is interesting. Microsoft's free (as in drug dealer) SAPI4 and SAPI5 libraries are easy-ish to use, but it would be nice not to be tethered to them (and Windows).
Meanwhile, maybe I could do a voice-controlled Clippy demo. (Why yes, I am evil.)
Shoot, everybody knows that unless you at least get it down on the schedule, assign it to someone and get them to commit to it, it's never going to get done!
Okay, that's an action item added to the schedule for January 24th, 2006. Current status is outstanding and assigned to BillG, and I've set an alarm with five minutes lead time. It's already been a year, can I mark that task as 50% completed? Yes/No?
It would make a nice lazy slow ball for that US missle defense to be tested on. (On retry. Blowing it up in orbit would just spread a dangerous cloud of hi-V junk.)
The latest spin on dropping things in the ocean is that it will become a habitat for sea-life. That sounds good, except that anything dumped in the sea becomes a habitat for sea-life 'cause that's where the sea-life lives. Oozing barrels dropped in a playground with become a habitat for kids.. briefly.
(Hubble won't be that bad, especially after a good fry on the way down. I think the current stories about "creating artificial reefs to be a habitat for sea-life" by sinking an old ship just means that the price of scrap metal is in the toilet.)
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WiFi wouldn't work for gaming or just not common enough yet?
Watch the hotel bar get slashdotted! (Is this a British-style con? Someone should throw a room party.)
DoubleClick .. they own all those domains at 127.0.0.1 right? Normally they're at 0.0.0.0 to save the lookup, but I've been playing with local servers on port 80 to give cute cat pictures or other information like fortune cookies. It certainly improves the look of some banner-heavy sites! (And I have a sound effect for each hit, so I know when it's banner-heavy or has 1x1 trackers.)
In her Home of the Brave concert video, she does the body percussion thing. I'd guess sensors feeding to a MIDI drum box.
In the southern hemisphere, they're just going into "fall back" rather than "spring forward" mode. That means that relatively speaking, they've had two extra hours to sleep in. Bastards!
Yes, Laurie Anderson in the eighties too.
Perhaps they should dump everything else and work on that Harry Potter-like wizards game they mentioned? (And hope that the forces of J.K. Rowlings don't attack!)
There's a patent fight going on over force-feedback controls with vibrating motors in the US. I wonder it covers this?
And a security feature that'll tell you who had the remote last. That'll settle those arguments about who hid the remote once and for all!
If you mix up the commands with previous article, you might end up with a dancing TV.
I wasn't complaining. If I owned a Neuros, I'd be hard at work. :)
Maybe if they could allow linkbacks to add commentary to the original? Sort of like MST3K for podcasting...
And the developers will have to buy Neuros up-front even before winning, if at all.
Right here. (No player kills allowed!)
Meanwhile, maybe I could do a voice-controlled Clippy demo. (Why yes, I am evil.)
Personal robot development has certainly gone to the dogs for a while.
Shouldn't it be called Dance Dance Robosapien?
Shoot, everybody knows that unless you at least get it down on the schedule, assign it to someone and get them to commit to it, it's never going to get done!
Okay, that's an action item added to the schedule for January 24th, 2006. Current status is outstanding and assigned to BillG, and I've set an alarm with five minutes lead time. It's already been a year, can I mark that task as 50% completed? Yes/No?
And he probably got tired of all the people asking him for cash for "Send email and Bill Gates will give you money" chain-letter.
"Programming is pain, anyone that says different is selling something."
- The Dread Programmer Roberts.
The XP SP2 "firewall" certainly doesn't. It only blocks apps from acting as servers.
It would make a nice lazy slow ball for that US missle defense to be tested on. (On retry. Blowing it up in orbit would just spread a dangerous cloud of hi-V junk.)
(Hubble won't be that bad, especially after a good fry on the way down. I think the current stories about "creating artificial reefs to be a habitat for sea-life" by sinking an old ship just means that the price of scrap metal is in the toilet.)