In theory if you have a PS3, when you added a Sony TV to the mix, the TV could process some extra data from your Playstation. Maybe when the Playstation is idle it could help the TV with its video editing tasks. Get more Sony products any they could help speed up your whole network of cell based devices.
It sounds pretty cool to me to have a cluster of consumer products working for you.
About the Sony API, I haven't written any code for Playstation, but from reading the article about the
IBM/Sony workstation OS it seems like it would be easier able to put games together.
They should have a library of pixel and vertex shaders for use within Avalon. There should be an easy way to add shaders, maybe dragging a shader file into the library window. That would make the 3D graphs and other stuff look a lot more interesting. Avalon should also be capable of creating real time shadows. It would make 3D presentations much more lifelike.
Why not build this functionality into Windows itself? If you have a dual head video card already, isn't it feasable to have 2 sets of USB keyboards and mice, and tell the OS which device controls which monitor? Software alone can do this, so you could make a dual PC using any motherboard.
I experienced the same thing with my site. I have found some clever users of mutiple layers and pngs, but of course they don't work in IE. Anyway, if they did fix png support for longhorn that would be great for having themes with layers and transparency. I am thinking of stuff like little transparent floating clouds on your desktop, or scrolling textures in the scrollbars.
Someone should develop a mini-browswer written in PHP that downloads and displays those mini icons of each page. Then the average web programmer can add those types of functions to their sites.
In this particular application, I don't think you can directly get the history list from your browswer, but maybe if you use frames you can go to a start page that uses frames to browse and another frame to display the mini-icon history. Then you'd have a similar application that would work in most broswers:)
Why not link the Tivo to an online game console and have it download game demos when a game commerical is on TV? It could even have an online store in the demo.
It would still be cool to be able to plug a standard monitor in your PDA, or maybe have a tablet size PDA. I'm developing a paint program for the PalmOS, I should look into making it support high res modes. If you've got a color or B/W Palm, check out SproutPaint:) at SproutWorks
That is a pretty sweet watch. It has a 16 greyscale screen so it could probably run my paint program for PalmOS. I would love to draw pictures on my watch:)) PalmOS programming is really rewarding when you can write code for your watch. I've been working on an analog clock program with anti-aliased lines and animated plasma backgrounds... it would look pretty cool on a watch like that.
While designing my site, I opted to use png because of it's alpha transparency function. Internet Exlorer for Windows does not support alpha blending in png without using scripts and an active x plug-in. I have had to write php scripts that generate all my image tags instead of using normal tags, just so that IE can display my blended graphics. It is somewhat of a pain in the ass because of MicroSofts weak support for PNG. Maybe after the gif patent expires they will finally add decent png support, but they have been saying that for years.
I got an Applie IIe when I was 10 and taught myself basic. I wrote a bunch of nifty graphics programs and all kinds of stuff. I drew pictures with dazzledraw, and played all sorts of games. I remember dazzledraw had this digitized picture of a room, and I thought it was so amazing, even though it was only 16 colors, and I think 320x240.
Later after I got a Mac LC, my mother gave away my IIe and all my floppies, so I can't see all my earliest digital creations.
Reading from the SD card is a lot slower than reading from internal memeory. In fact, when you run an app from a card, it actually copies it into internal RAM first so it'll run faster.
Yahoo's limit is 100 people, which I reached a while ago. Now I have to delete someone to add a new person. I complained to Yahoo, and this is what they told me:
Hello,
Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Messenger.
You are limited to 100 friends at one time on your friend list. We have limited it to this number because your Friend List is stored on our servers rather than on your computer. The drawback of this is that you are limited to 100 friends. However, the benefit of this is that you can go to any computer with Internet access and have immediate access to your friend list, without having to re-enter any information.
This doesn't explain to me why they chose a limit of 100. That is only 1k of data. A normal Yahoo account has 30 megs. Even on my 14.4 smartphone wireless connection the buddy list downloads pretty fast. Besides that, I like Yahoo messenger. I'm even writing my own client for PalmOS.
I use my Palm m505 all the time, for all the basic stuff like address book, schedule, alarm clock... but also because I write PalmOS software, and if I find the apps that I use to be lacking of something, I could always write my own tools that do what I want. For example the built in note pad app is really weak, I mean come on, a black & white note pad app on a color device? That is too damn simple for me. So I wrote my own program http://www.sproutworks.com/sproutpaint that not only lets me draw in color but also has some other stuff like a customized UI, that will be user editable (kind of like skinning but you can draw your skins within the app itself). When I add some networking code like the ability to draw a color note and email it or send it in a multimedia SMS, then I imagine it would be really
If I get really ambitious I will write a hack to change all the UI widgets, because they all use mostly 2 colors (no shading), at least on the PalmOS.
I guess I'm just a geek, but I spend a lot of time dreaming about apps for PDAs and new PDA hardware and stuff. Once I can plug in some 3D glasses and use a virtual monitor, maybe I will end up using a PDA more than my other computers. Who knows?
I think this stuff will be way cooler when all cell phones start becoming smart phones, and then we can actually start using all that wireless stuff for useful things... like a p2p cell phone/PDA network that goes everywhere where there are people.
Yeah I am reinstalling XP just so my dual athlon is stable enough to burn FreeBSD CDs and then I can hopefully do my work without crashes and errors all the time. Gah! I managed to release SproutPaint 0.6.0b despite all that. I am gonna check out the UNIX PalmOS dev tools now.
I've read in several places that the estimate most experts go with is 20 years until computers have human-like speed and storage capacity. I also saw Ray Kurzweil speak about the future of computing at my church. He signed my copy of his book "The Age of Spiritial Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence". I should've told him about my mad programming visions of wirelessly networked devices (I'm a PalmOS programmer). Oh well. Anyway, he has a timeline of computer history in there and it shows the projections into the future.
I worked on the PalmOS version of Eudora as my first PalmOS experience. They gave me a Palm V to play with, and I enjoy the OS. If you get your hands on EIS suite version 2.0, check out the edit signatures function, I wrote that:)
Ever since I started working with the PalmOS, I have been thinking about cool things I could write. I want to do something with the Visor's 16 bit graphics. Maybe I'll do a psychedelic paint program that doubles as a whiteboard, once I learn PalmOS networking. Hopefully it'll be fast.
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In theory if you have a PS3, when you added a Sony TV to the mix, the TV could process some extra data from your Playstation. Maybe when the Playstation is idle it could help the TV with its video editing tasks. Get more Sony products any they could help speed up your whole network of cell based devices. It sounds pretty cool to me to have a cluster of consumer products working for you. About the Sony API, I haven't written any code for Playstation, but from reading the article about the IBM/Sony workstation OS it seems like it would be easier able to put games together.
They should have a library of pixel and vertex shaders for use within Avalon. There should be an easy way to add shaders, maybe dragging a shader file into the library window. That would make the 3D graphs and other stuff look a lot more interesting. Avalon should also be capable of creating real time shadows. It would make 3D presentations much more lifelike.
Why not build this functionality into Windows itself? If you have a dual head video card already, isn't it feasable to have 2 sets of USB keyboards and mice, and tell the OS which device controls which monitor? Software alone can do this, so you could make a dual PC using any motherboard.
I experienced the same thing with my site. I have found some clever users of mutiple layers and pngs, but of course they don't work in IE. Anyway, if they did fix png support for longhorn that would be great for having themes with layers and transparency. I am thinking of stuff like little transparent floating clouds on your desktop, or scrolling textures in the scrollbars.
I just joined funhi, and when I tried update my program I got this:
/my/accountinfo.asp, line 142
:( hehe
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error '80040e14'
Line 1: Incorrect syntax near ','.
Looks like I wont be upgrading my pimp status on funhi
Someone should develop a mini-browswer written in PHP that downloads and displays those mini icons of each page. Then the average web programmer can add those types of functions to their sites.
:)
In this particular application, I don't think you can directly get the history list from your browswer, but maybe if you use frames you can go to a start page that uses frames to browse and another frame to display the mini-icon history. Then you'd have a similar application that would work in most broswers
Why not link the Tivo to an online game console and have it download game demos when a game commerical is on TV? It could even have an online store in the demo.
It would still be cool to be able to plug a standard monitor in your PDA, or maybe have a tablet size PDA. I'm developing a paint program for the PalmOS, I should look into making it support high res modes. If you've got a color or B/W Palm, check out SproutPaint :) at SproutWorks
That is a pretty sweet watch. It has a 16 greyscale screen so it could probably run my :)) PalmOS programming is really rewarding when you can write code for your watch. I've been working on an analog clock program with anti-aliased lines and animated plasma backgrounds... it would look pretty cool on a watch like that.
paint program for PalmOS. I would love to draw pictures on my watch
While designing my site, I opted to use png because of it's alpha transparency function. Internet Exlorer for Windows does not support alpha blending in png without using scripts and an active x plug-in. I have had to write php scripts that generate all my image tags instead of using normal tags, just so that IE can display my blended graphics. It is somewhat of a pain in the ass because of MicroSofts weak support for PNG. Maybe after the gif patent expires they will finally add decent png support, but they have been saying that for years.
I got an Applie IIe when I was 10 and taught myself basic. I wrote a bunch of nifty graphics programs and all kinds of stuff. I drew pictures with dazzledraw, and played all sorts of games. I remember dazzledraw had this digitized picture of a room, and I thought it was so amazing, even though it was only 16 colors, and I think 320x240.
Later after I got a Mac LC, my mother gave away my IIe and all my floppies, so I can't see all my earliest digital creations.
Reading from the SD card is a lot slower than reading from internal memeory. In fact, when you run an app from a card, it actually copies it into internal RAM first so it'll run faster.
Yahoo's limit is 100 people, which I reached a while ago. Now I have to delete someone to add a new person. I complained to Yahoo, and this is what they told me:
Hello,
Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Messenger.
You are limited to 100 friends at one time on your friend list. We have
limited it to this number because your Friend List is stored on our
servers rather than on your computer. The drawback of this is that you
are limited to 100 friends. However, the benefit of this is that you
can go to any computer with Internet access and have immediate access to
your friend list, without having to re-enter any information.
This doesn't explain to me why they chose a limit of 100. That is only 1k of data. A normal Yahoo account has 30 megs. Even on my 14.4 smartphone wireless connection the buddy list downloads pretty fast. Besides that, I like Yahoo messenger. I'm even writing my own client for PalmOS.
I use my Palm m505 all the time, for all the basic stuff like address book, schedule, alarm clock... but also because I write PalmOS software, and if I find the apps that I use to be lacking of something, I could always write my own tools that do what I want. For example the built in note pad app is really weak, I mean come on, a black & white note pad app on a color device? That is too damn simple for me. So I wrote my own program http://www.sproutworks.com/sproutpaint that not only lets me draw in color but also has some other stuff like a customized UI, that will be user editable (kind of like skinning but you can draw your skins within the app itself). When I add some networking code like the ability to draw a color note and email it or send it in a multimedia SMS, then I imagine it would be really
If I get really ambitious I will write a hack to change all the UI widgets, because they all use mostly 2 colors (no shading), at least on the PalmOS.
I guess I'm just a geek, but I spend a lot of time dreaming about apps for PDAs and new PDA hardware and stuff. Once I can plug in some 3D glasses and use a virtual monitor, maybe I will end up using a PDA more than my other computers. Who knows?
I think this stuff will be way cooler when all cell phones start becoming smart phones, and then we can actually start using all that wireless stuff for useful things... like a p2p cell phone/PDA network that goes everywhere where there are people.
Yeah I am reinstalling XP just so my dual athlon is stable enough to burn FreeBSD CDs and then I can hopefully do my work without crashes and errors all the time. Gah! I managed to release SproutPaint 0.6.0b despite all that. I am gonna check out the UNIX PalmOS dev tools now.
I've read in several places that the estimate most experts go with is 20 years until computers have human-like speed and storage capacity. I also saw Ray Kurzweil speak about the future of computing at my church. He signed my copy of his book "The Age of Spiritial Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence". I should've told him about my mad programming visions of wirelessly networked devices (I'm a PalmOS programmer). Oh well. Anyway, he has a timeline of computer history in there and it shows the projections into the future.
I worked on the PalmOS version of Eudora as my first PalmOS experience. They gave me a Palm V to play with, and I enjoy the OS. If you get your hands on EIS suite version 2.0, check out the edit signatures function, I wrote that :)
Ever since I started working with the PalmOS, I have been thinking about cool things I could write. I want to do something with the Visor's 16 bit graphics. Maybe I'll do a psychedelic paint program that doubles as a whiteboard, once I learn PalmOS networking. Hopefully it'll be fast.