What other sorts of inexpensive things could be added to our gear to make it more interesting?
If the sole interest is in making it more interesting, I would suggest attaching mirrors over the electronic targets on your person. This would not only effectively block your opponents shots, but makes them likely to bounce back and hit the attacker.
IMO, that's a bit irresponsible. I'm pretty sure you don't read 100% of those articles and knowing that they're having problems with their servers, one should attempt to stress them as little as possible.
Bah. If they didn't want people to randomly look at through articles, they wouldn't PROVIDE you with a CGI that points you to a random article.
On behalf of the Peeping Tom Society I say thanks, RadarVision!
If it's not already Slashdotted, you can download the sample video off of the RadarVision website. The display doesn't give you Superman see-everything-in-detail-through-walls kind of powers (Lois Lane: "what kind of underwear am I wearing?"), but it's still pretty cool that this kind of thing can be done without using heat signatures and whatnot.
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A few extra keystrokes, but gets around the registration process every time.
I like being in the same room with others on the same project.
The "everyone in the same room" philosophy works wonders. At our office, it's one big room. Everyone has identical desks and nearly identical computers - the boss sits among us (if you were to walk in, you'd have no idea which was the boss's desk). No cubicle walls. It makes for a very egalitarian work dynamic - without cubicles or offices, everyone's equal. Communication is a snap, we can just talk across the room with each other. If we absolutely have to see what's on each other's screen, simply walk across the room.
What's best is it basically eliminates the need for company meetings. If everyone works in the same large space, I've found that everyone's on the same page on projects. There's no need to organize everyone into one central place like a boardroom for a meeting, because everyone works in the same shared space to begin with.
Of course, we're a small company (about ten people), but my boss has always said that if we grew to be 100 people, he'd like to have the office set up the same way.
I've worked in a cubicle setting, an office setting, and a one-big-open-room setting, and the latter is by far the best at buliding co-worker comraderie.
One of the things that makes TiVO so great is that it knows what television programs are on by downloading a schedule. With a free alternative, will some free service offer updated schedules so the devices know what's on, or will "homebrew" PVR users have to program it manually like a VCR?
Also, given past incidents involving competing products with similar names, the makers of Freevo might be "linspired" to avoid a name so similar to TiVO.
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I'm sure others are thinking, like me, "Huh? PHP in a window, not a server-side script?" It took me a couple of moments to figure out how this works, so I figured this could be of some help to others struggling with it.
How to get this download to work in Windows:
1. Unzip the contents of the download to C:\php5 2. Open the C:\php5 directory in Windows Explorer 3. Drag and drop the opengl.php file onto the php-win.exe icon
or
2. Open a Command Prompt 3. C: 4. cd \php5 5. php-win.exe opengl.php
It seemed to me that the DLL paths are hard-coded, so that's why it needs to be in that particular directory.
If you've got a NY Times link that requires registration, you can skip it by copying and pasting the original NY Times URL directly into regular Google Search.
If the article is relatively new, it will probably tell you "Sorry, no information is available for the URL" but will then offer you a link to the address you just typed in. The HTTP-Referer will then be google.com and you can read it without registration.
A few extra keystrokes, but gets around the registration process every time.
I had the exact same problem, and for me the choice between my relationship and gaming was fairly simple: do both.
I was involved in a competitive gaming league which held matches once a week. Even though our team played in a fairly low bracket in the league, we still took the time to practice before we played our weekly match. It got to the point where I was investing a significant percentage of my free time gaming and it began to wear on my significant other.
Eventually I said to my team "hey guys, I can practice once or twice a week for X hours and play in our match." That worked out fine and I had a lot of fun playing. But more importantly, I kept my relationship and gaming time well-balanced.
If you feel like spending significantly MORE time gaming than being with your significant other, then take a step back and decide whether one or the other is really worth it. I'd choose the gal, myself.
I've been fortunate enough to have a girlfriend who will accompany me to LAN parties and put up some respectable numbers on the fragboard.:)
You could have the ATM read out the numbers to the blind person as they type them in...
I thought the idea was to make it so the key combination could not be determined audibly. Having a computer voice say "six five nine two" pretty much defeats that purpose.:)
According to AMD CEO Hector Ruiz, it's only a matter of time until Dell puts Opteron in their servers. Of course, that's news to Dell, who are currently an exclusive Intel shop and haven't announced any change in that policy.
If I were the CEO of a chip company looking to court one of the most successful PC makers to use my processors, I probably wouldn't do so with a comment like this:
"I've always thought that Dell does not like to be a leader in technology, that they were a strong follower...But I didn't realize they were going to be dead last"
And yet that's what Ruiz said at a recent press conference.
Speaking of cell phones, I think a cool feature and perhaps the next step in "moblogging" would be to not only include a photo of what you're doing, but to also report where you've been and where you are.
The addition of GPS devices in cell phones opens the door for a realtime locator on a particular person. So not only could you upload photos from your phone, but anyone that's interested can see where you are on the planet via the web, so long as you have your GPS-enabled phone in your pocket. Microsoft has an enterprise application that does this called MapPoint, but what I'm looking to do is create something so Joe Blogger can simply plop their current location on a map.
There are a lot of technical and privacy issues involved with this. The GPS technology for phones isn't very accurate yet, and most GPS devices fail completely when they're indoors. Plus, one might not want the general public to see their location at any given moment. But it would be neat to see such a system work, even at a very small scale.
What good is 20 hours of music if the machine only plays for 10?
Because I don't want to listen to the exact same 10 hours of music day in and day out. I can see all kinds of advantages of having a hard drive that would last longer than the battery life.
One could bring their portable music device to work, recharge it overnight without changing the songs on it, and still get a fresh batch of music the next day. Say one day I'm in a classical mood and the next I'm into speed metal; with a gigantic hard drive I don't have to choose beforehand what kind of music I plan to listen to.
I'd be very interested to know if this is going to be a prequel to The Next Generation or to the original Star Trek series. Considering the last number of films were based on TNG, I would personally find it odd to go back to the original series at this point.
Still, the article only refers to STAR TREK, which would indicate that perhaps Kirk and not Picard might be our captain in this one. At least it would be a welcome change from Priceline.com adverts and Miss Congeniality 2 for William Shatner.
Slashdot automatically puts spaces in extra-long words so the text wraps nicely. It never hurts to just throw URLs into A HREF HTML tags so readers don't have to copy/paste them.
Slashdot Mirror
But what would happen to the bounced back shot if there was a mirror attached to it as well? ;-)
It would result in a never-ending stream of laser fire in which no one would actually lose or gain points!
What other sorts of inexpensive things could be added to our gear to make it more interesting?
If the sole interest is in making it more interesting, I would suggest attaching mirrors over the electronic targets on your person. This would not only effectively block your opponents shots, but makes them likely to bounce back and hit the attacker.
IMO, that's a bit irresponsible. I'm pretty sure you don't read 100% of those articles and knowing that they're having problems with their servers, one should attempt to stress them as little as possible.
Bah. If they didn't want people to randomly look at through articles, they wouldn't PROVIDE you with a CGI that points you to a random article.
On behalf of the Peeping Tom Society I say thanks, RadarVision!
If it's not already Slashdotted, you can download the sample video off of the RadarVision website. The display doesn't give you Superman see-everything-in-detail-through-walls kind of powers (Lois Lane: "what kind of underwear am I wearing?"), but it's still pretty cool that this kind of thing can be done without using heat signatures and whatnot.
What's the difference? About $299.
Or much more if you consider a server comparison.
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If the article is relatively new, it will probably tell you "Sorry, no information is available for the URL" but will then offer you a link to the address you just typed in - just click on this link. The HTTP-Referer will then be google.com and you can read it without registration.
A few extra keystrokes, but gets around the registration process every time.
With only ten people, it doesn't get as noisy as you might think. None of the three apply. :)
I like being in the same room with others on the same project.
The "everyone in the same room" philosophy works wonders. At our office, it's one big room. Everyone has identical desks and nearly identical computers - the boss sits among us (if you were to walk in, you'd have no idea which was the boss's desk). No cubicle walls. It makes for a very egalitarian work dynamic - without cubicles or offices, everyone's equal. Communication is a snap, we can just talk across the room with each other. If we absolutely have to see what's on each other's screen, simply walk across the room.
What's best is it basically eliminates the need for company meetings. If everyone works in the same large space, I've found that everyone's on the same page on projects. There's no need to organize everyone into one central place like a boardroom for a meeting, because everyone works in the same shared space to begin with.
Of course, we're a small company (about ten people), but my boss has always said that if we grew to be 100 people, he'd like to have the office set up the same way.
I've worked in a cubicle setting, an office setting, and a one-big-open-room setting, and the latter is by far the best at buliding co-worker comraderie.
I just know my archnemesis NoobFragger69 will be camping it the moment it's deployed.
One of the things that makes TiVO so great is that it knows what television programs are on by downloading a schedule. With a free alternative, will some free service offer updated schedules so the devices know what's on, or will "homebrew" PVR users have to program it manually like a VCR?
Also, given past incidents involving competing products with similar names, the makers of Freevo might be "linspired" to avoid a name so similar to TiVO.
I'm sure others are thinking, like me, "Huh? PHP in a window, not a server-side script?" It took me a couple of moments to figure out how this works, so I figured this could be of some help to others struggling with it.
How to get this download to work in Windows:
1. Unzip the contents of the download to C:\php5
2. Open the C:\php5 directory in Windows Explorer
3. Drag and drop the opengl.php file onto the php-win.exe icon
or
2. Open a Command Prompt
3. C:
4. cd \php5
5. php-win.exe opengl.php
It seemed to me that the DLL paths are hard-coded, so that's why it needs to be in that particular directory.
If you've got a NY Times link that requires registration, you can skip it by copying and pasting the original NY Times URL directly into regular Google Search.
If the article is relatively new, it will probably tell you "Sorry, no information is available for the URL" but will then offer you a link to the address you just typed in. The HTTP-Referer will then be google.com and you can read it without registration.
A few extra keystrokes, but gets around the registration process every time.
I had the exact same problem, and for me the choice between my relationship and gaming was fairly simple: do both.
:)
I was involved in a competitive gaming league which held matches once a week. Even though our team played in a fairly low bracket in the league, we still took the time to practice before we played our weekly match. It got to the point where I was investing a significant percentage of my free time gaming and it began to wear on my significant other.
Eventually I said to my team "hey guys, I can practice once or twice a week for X hours and play in our match." That worked out fine and I had a lot of fun playing. But more importantly, I kept my relationship and gaming time well-balanced.
If you feel like spending significantly MORE time gaming than being with your significant other, then take a step back and decide whether one or the other is really worth it. I'd choose the gal, myself.
I've been fortunate enough to have a girlfriend who will accompany me to LAN parties and put up some respectable numbers on the fragboard.
You could have the ATM read out the numbers to the blind person as they type them in...
:)
I thought the idea was to make it so the key combination could not be determined audibly. Having a computer voice say "six five nine two" pretty much defeats that purpose.
Or even better - you could fax them a page with equal quantities of red, blue, green, and black so it sucks up their color fax toner too!
Originally from The Onion:
Department of Education: Metric System Thriving in Nation's Inner Cities
Upstarts can overtake the entrenched Powers That Be!
:)
AMD was founded in 1969. So it's an upstart that only took 35 years to lead the week in chip sales.
My mistake, the gentleman's full name is Hector de Ruiz, not just Hector Ruiz.
So, when will Dell begin carrying AMD?
According to AMD CEO Hector Ruiz, it's only a matter of time until Dell puts Opteron in their servers. Of course, that's news to Dell, who are currently an exclusive Intel shop and haven't announced any change in that policy.
If I were the CEO of a chip company looking to court one of the most successful PC makers to use my processors, I probably wouldn't do so with a comment like this:
"I've always thought that Dell does not like to be a leader in technology, that they were a strong follower...But I didn't realize they were going to be dead last"
And yet that's what Ruiz said at a recent press conference.
Gee, isn't $800,000 kind of steep? That's almost a staggering one thirty-seven-thousandth (0.00265%) of his current net worth!
http://www.quuxuum.org/~evan/bgnw.html
Speaking of cell phones, I think a cool feature and perhaps the next step in "moblogging" would be to not only include a photo of what you're doing, but to also report where you've been and where you are.
The addition of GPS devices in cell phones opens the door for a realtime locator on a particular person. So not only could you upload photos from your phone, but anyone that's interested can see where you are on the planet via the web, so long as you have your GPS-enabled phone in your pocket. Microsoft has an enterprise application that does this called MapPoint, but what I'm looking to do is create something so Joe Blogger can simply plop their current location on a map.
There are a lot of technical and privacy issues involved with this. The GPS technology for phones isn't very accurate yet, and most GPS devices fail completely when they're indoors. Plus, one might not want the general public to see their location at any given moment. But it would be neat to see such a system work, even at a very small scale.
What good is 20 hours of music if the machine only plays for 10?
Because I don't want to listen to the exact same 10 hours of music day in and day out. I can see all kinds of advantages of having a hard drive that would last longer than the battery life.
One could bring their portable music device to work, recharge it overnight without changing the songs on it, and still get a fresh batch of music the next day. Say one day I'm in a classical mood and the next I'm into speed metal; with a gigantic hard drive I don't have to choose beforehand what kind of music I plan to listen to.
I'd be very interested to know if this is going to be a prequel to The Next Generation or to the original Star Trek series. Considering the last number of films were based on TNG, I would personally find it odd to go back to the original series at this point.
Still, the article only refers to STAR TREK, which would indicate that perhaps Kirk and not Picard might be our captain in this one. At least it would be a welcome change from Priceline.com adverts and Miss Congeniality 2 for William Shatner.
$455 a week=$1820 a month=$21840 per year.
:)
So there are 48 weeks in your year?
$455/week x 52 weeks = $23,660/year
Your point is still valid, after taxes that's not a whole lot of money on which to live.
Slashdot automatically puts spaces in extra-long words so the text wraps nicely. It never hurts to just throw URLs into A HREF HTML tags so readers don't have to copy/paste them.