Back when we were still playing Doom, I tried Dactyl Nightmare. It was friggin awesome. Ok, the graphics were a little lame, but it was total immersion.
I specifically remember during the game I was kneeling down behind this donut shaped rock so the pterodactyl wouldn't see me -- and then when I took off the headset I realized I wasn't sure if I had physically bent down or not.
Also, I remember that I did not get any motion sickness at all until AFTER I took the gear off -- whereas Doom/Quake/etal always make me nauseous.
If you are playing games like Settlers of Catan, I assume you have 4-6 people regularly playing?
Personally, I really miss playing Settlers. We used to play it all of the time, but with everyones schedules, it is usually just the 2 of us.
But I think this is an important question. If you are looking for 2-player, 4-6 player, or 2-6 player games it makes a huge difference which ones I would recommend.
My wife and I spent $400 on top-of-the-line LG phones 4 years ago only to find out that over 1/2 of the features the phone advertised were "not yet implemented". How screwed up is that?
Personally, I won't trust that company again. What a rip-off.
Personally, I like FWD (Free World Dialup). While it can be used with various SIPS phones (hardware and software), they also put out pulver.Communicator which is like Trillian with VoIP.
You know, though I was interested in electronics at a young age (playing Robot Odyssey and having the various 20-in-1, 100-in-1 etc Radio Shack Electronics kits) perhaps one of the best approaches I have seen for teaching digital electronics was this one (previous Slashdot article):
Unless of course unless you want to use MAME with Robot Odyssey. As a side note, I think a game like that would be perfect if the graphics were updated to mesh with the current generations expectations.
I don't doubt that both sides are involved; although the Republicans have a headstart with companies like Diebold admitting they told Bush he would win (see Votergate video).
Using the Electoral Vote Calculator (http://www.americanresearchgroup.com/ev/) you can see that if CandidateA wins every state that has 15+ electoral votes and CandidateB wins the rest, CandidateA wins (discounting voter fraud, corruption, etc -- just using it as it is meant to be)... Thus:
[I tried to do this as a UL, but Slashdot kept complaining about Short Line Length, sooo....]
CandidateA wins CA(55),FL(27),GA(15),IL(21),MI(17),NJ(15),NY(31),N C(15),OH(20),PA(21),TX(34) for a total of 11 states and 271 votes
CandidateB wins AL(9),AK(3),AZ(10),AR(6),CO(9),CT(7),DE(3),DC(3),H I(4),ID(4),IN(11),IA(7),KS(6),KY(8),LA 9),ME(4),MD(10),MA(12),MN(10),MS 6),MO(11),MT(3),NE(5),NV(5),NH(4),NM(5),ND(3),OK(7 ),OR(7),RI(4),SC(8),SD(3),TN(11),UT(5),VT(3),VA(13 ),WA(11),WV(5),WI(10),WY(3) for a total of 40 states and 267 votes.
That means that if CandidateA got the 21.6% most populous states, then it wouldn't matter what the other 78.4% of the states thought. If you don't want to have the winner determined by which areas have the most population, then the Electoral College is not the right forum to fix this problem. It is also interesting that, although they were the top 11 populous states, they only had 57% of the people (per http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G04/ElectorAllocatio n.phtml?sort=Popu ).
It is an interesting point. People complain that Sun has too much control over Java. They made the JCP, so their vote is exactly equal to that of Apache. Every member on the JCP Executive board gets 1 vote. If the national election were based on 1 vote per state, then CandidateB would win the above stats because he had almost 4/5ths of the states. As it is now, the candidate only has to get the top 11 populated states to win. I agree a direct election would not fix that problem -- but I don't think anyone can use the stats to show why the Electoral college protects the small states. The numbers above disprove that theory.
You obviously haven't been reading the other posts here on Slashdot.
There is plenty of evidence that the Republican party got many votes it didn't win (and in some cases many more votes than voters). I really doubt that the Democrats were the ones giving more votes to Republicans.
It could be argued that much of the problem is caused by f'ed up hardware/software (like in the Votergate video where they showed selecting one candidate and it printing a different one) -- but there is too much discrepancy to point the finger at a malfunction.
The fact of the matter is that much of the US does not have faith in the process. That in itself is an issue. Even if everything was on the up and up (which I don't believe), lack of faith in the system drastically changes the outcome (many don't vote because they feel it doesn't matter).
In addition, our system is designed to favor the Republican or Democratic parties, not really giving 3rd parties a chance. Many people this election voted for the lesser-of-2-evils instead of who they liked because they didn't feel that voting for their preferred candidate would help.
And then there are lots of people that vote for their party, regardless of whether they agree with them or not. The system should be designed in such a way that people vote on their ideals, not on their party.
If you really think that what you said was true, take a look at the other political links Slashdot has provided lately and THEN make up your mind. You should never decide because your party wins/looses or because your party says things are a specific way. You should look at all the evidence and decide for yourself.
If candidate A gets the top 11 most populous states, it doesn't matter that candidate B gets the other 40 (counting DC). How can winning 21.5% count as protecting the smaller states when the other candidate can get 78.4% of the states and still loose? Where is the incentive to win more than the big states?
XSL-FO is Formally Named XSL
Why this confusion? Is XSL-FO and XSL the same thing?
Yes it is, but we will give you an explanation:
Styling is both about transforming and formatting information. When the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) made their first XSL Working Draft, it contained the language syntax for both transforming and formatting XML documents.
Later the XSL Working Group at W3C split the original draft into separate Recommendations:
XSLT, a language for transforming information
XSL or XSL-FO, a language for formatting information
XPath, a language for defining parts of an XML document
The JSR did mention JXTA which does not require Java to communicate. If the JSR were implemented via JXTA, then any language can participate by talking XML over the socket.
Honestly, I do not think it has much chance of swaying people -- because those who went to see it (for the most part) agreed with it. Those who "need" to see it probably won't go.
As a side note, we had to buy tickets two days in advance.
I completely understand where you are coming from. I had the same problem. I even left high school a year early (CA high school proficiency exam) because I was tired of what I thought of as a day care.
I really enjoyed college (and miss it), though I think it had no impact on my career. People rarely even ask what my degree is in -- but instead only care that I have completed something.
However, if you are going to go to college, I do have a recommendation. Always remember that red tape is there to slow you down, not stop you.
As an example, when I started there, only students were allowed to attend student run events. We convinced the school to let us invite the community, and we did better than any of the college-sponsored events. We did well enough that for the 6 years following that, the school contributed cash for us to host it. And the last 2 of those years, I wasn't even there anymore.
Another example is that when I started there, students were not allowed unix or email access. Not only did we get that changed, but our club took over management of the Technology Resource fees, so that students had more say in where there money went.
As a last example, the school doesn't even offer the degree I got from them. They originally said that I had to choose one of their standard degrees. Then, I found out about the Interdisciplinary program (usually for combos like Business and Computers). I convinced them to let me do a combination of Computers, Psychology and Writing (with a minor in Photography). They had no clue how to proceed with that -- so I convinced them to let me choose what classes were required for my degree.
Long story short -- don't be bullied by red tape. You are paying for your education -- get what YOU want out of it.
I was working at... insert name of the NDA'd major network interface provider... and got a call from a customer insistent that his cable modem was working but that our nic was at fault. The customer explained that the @HOME installer had said that they tested everything and it was definitely our nic....
Here's the kicker... When I asked him to check the connections, he asked if he should take the cable modem out of the box. Yes, the @HOME installer that passed the buck had never even taken the modem out of the box and insisted to the customer that it was working.
Briefly looking through the mentioned patents (because they are very long and dull), it appears that they are claiming that they invented the concepts of OOP and Multitasking. I can't remember what year I started doing OOP, but I do remember using Deskview to multitask DOS many years before that patent.
There has to be a better solution that the Patent process these days. It should be obvious to the actual people who invent things that the big businesses end up winning any Patent issue, not the individual developer. Couldn't we, as people who invent things, find some way to protect the inventor without reverting to the outdated and archaic bigBusiness/lawyer-friendly Patent Process?
Once you get the basics down, it is trivial to host your own DNS listings. The primary advantages, as far as I have been able to determine are:
1) I don't ever have to rely on someone else's DNS listing being accurate OR up
2) I can make changes and they are immediately propagated to my entire LAN
3) ability to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks
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Back when we were still playing Doom, I tried Dactyl Nightmare. It was friggin awesome. Ok, the graphics were a little lame, but it was total immersion.
I specifically remember during the game I was kneeling down behind this donut shaped rock so the pterodactyl wouldn't see me -- and then when I took off the headset I realized I wasn't sure if I had physically bent down or not.
Also, I remember that I did not get any motion sickness at all until AFTER I took the gear off -- whereas Doom/Quake/etal always make me nauseous.
If you are playing games like Settlers of Catan, I assume you have 4-6 people regularly playing?
Personally, I really miss playing Settlers. We used to play it all of the time, but with everyones schedules, it is usually just the 2 of us.
But I think this is an important question. If you are looking for 2-player, 4-6 player, or 2-6 player games it makes a huge difference which ones I would recommend.
I use Putty to make an SSH tunnel for VNC.
My wife and I spent $400 on top-of-the-line LG phones 4 years ago only to find out that over 1/2 of the features the phone advertised were "not yet implemented". How screwed up is that?
Personally, I won't trust that company again. What a rip-off.
Personally, I like FWD (Free World Dialup). While it can be used with various SIPS phones (hardware and software), they also put out pulver.Communicator which is like Trillian with VoIP.
You know, though I was interested in electronics at a young age (playing Robot Odyssey and having the various 20-in-1, 100-in-1 etc Radio Shack Electronics kits) perhaps one of the best approaches I have seen for teaching digital electronics was this one (previous Slashdot article):
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/25/144
Unless of course unless you want to use MAME with Robot Odyssey. As a side note, I think a game like that would be perfect if the graphics were updated to mesh with the current generations expectations.
Only 3 comments:
1) I do read other things than Slashdot, and have watched video footage as well. Have you?
2) The big media corps HAVE been showing stuff. CBS had a special. ABC had articles.
3) Since when has the big media been considered reputable enough to only tell us the truth?
I know, but evidentally they have electorate votes. I provided the link the information came from.
I don't doubt that both sides are involved; although the Republicans have a headstart with companies like Diebold admitting they told Bush he would win (see Votergate video).
Using the Electoral Vote Calculator (http://www.americanresearchgroup.com/ev/) you can see that if CandidateA wins every state that has 15+ electoral votes and CandidateB wins the rest, CandidateA wins (discounting voter fraud, corruption, etc -- just using it as it is meant to be)... Thus: [I tried to do this as a UL, but Slashdot kept complaining about Short Line Length, sooo....]
CandidateA wins CA(55),FL(27),GA(15),IL(21),MI(17),NJ(15),NY(31),N C(15),OH(20),PA(21),TX(34) for a total of 11 states and 271 votes
CandidateB wins AL(9),AK(3),AZ(10),AR(6),CO(9),CT(7),DE(3),DC(3),H I(4),ID(4),IN(11),IA(7),KS(6),KY(8),LA 9),ME(4),MD(10),MA(12),MN(10),MS 6),MO(11),MT(3),NE(5),NV(5),NH(4),NM(5),ND(3),OK(7 ),OR(7),RI(4),SC(8),SD(3),TN(11),UT(5),VT(3),VA(13 ),WA(11),WV(5),WI(10),WY(3) for a total of 40 states and 267 votes.
That means that if CandidateA got the 21.6% most populous states, then it wouldn't matter what the other 78.4% of the states thought. If you don't want to have the winner determined by which areas have the most population, then the Electoral College is not the right forum to fix this problem. It is also interesting that, although they were the top 11 populous states, they only had 57% of the people (per http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G04/ElectorAllocatio n.phtml?sort=Popu ).
It is an interesting point. People complain that Sun has too much control over Java. They made the JCP, so their vote is exactly equal to that of Apache. Every member on the JCP Executive board gets 1 vote. If the national election were based on 1 vote per state, then CandidateB would win the above stats because he had almost 4/5ths of the states. As it is now, the candidate only has to get the top 11 populated states to win. I agree a direct election would not fix that problem -- but I don't think anyone can use the stats to show why the Electoral college protects the small states. The numbers above disprove that theory.
You obviously haven't been reading the other posts here on Slashdot.
There is plenty of evidence that the Republican party got many votes it didn't win (and in some cases many more votes than voters). I really doubt that the Democrats were the ones giving more votes to Republicans.
It could be argued that much of the problem is caused by f'ed up hardware/software (like in the Votergate video where they showed selecting one candidate and it printing a different one) -- but there is too much discrepancy to point the finger at a malfunction.
The fact of the matter is that much of the US does not have faith in the process. That in itself is an issue. Even if everything was on the up and up (which I don't believe), lack of faith in the system drastically changes the outcome (many don't vote because they feel it doesn't matter).
In addition, our system is designed to favor the Republican or Democratic parties, not really giving 3rd parties a chance. Many people this election voted for the lesser-of-2-evils instead of who they liked because they didn't feel that voting for their preferred candidate would help.
And then there are lots of people that vote for their party, regardless of whether they agree with them or not. The system should be designed in such a way that people vote on their ideals, not on their party.
If you really think that what you said was true, take a look at the other political links Slashdot has provided lately and THEN make up your mind. You should never decide because your party wins/looses or because your party says things are a specific way. You should look at all the evidence and decide for yourself.
The Electoral College does not fix this problem.
If candidate A gets the top 11 most populous states, it doesn't matter that candidate B gets the other 40 (counting DC). How can winning 21.5% count as protecting the smaller states when the other candidate can get 78.4% of the states and still loose? Where is the incentive to win more than the big states?
BTW, from http://www.w3schools.com/xslfo/xslfo_intro.asp:
XSL-FO is Formally Named XSL Why this confusion? Is XSL-FO and XSL the same thing? Yes it is, but we will give you an explanation: Styling is both about transforming and formatting information. When the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) made their first XSL Working Draft, it contained the language syntax for both transforming and formatting XML documents. Later the XSL Working Group at W3C split the original draft into separate Recommendations:
The JSR did mention JXTA which does not require Java to communicate. If the JSR were implemented via JXTA, then any language can participate by talking XML over the socket.
At work, I use Java on Windows, Linux, AIX, Solaris and HP-UX (and sometimes AS/400).
At home, I use Java on Windows and BSD (no longer run Linux at home).
Malachi
Honestly, I do not think it has much chance of swaying people -- because those who went to see it (for the most part) agreed with it. Those who "need" to see it probably won't go.
As a side note, we had to buy tickets two days in advance.
I completely understand where you are coming from. I had the same problem. I even left high school a year early (CA high school proficiency exam) because I was tired of what I thought of as a day care.
I really enjoyed college (and miss it), though I think it had no impact on my career. People rarely even ask what my degree is in -- but instead only care that I have completed something.
However, if you are going to go to college, I do have a recommendation. Always remember that red tape is there to slow you down, not stop you.
As an example, when I started there, only students were allowed to attend student run events. We convinced the school to let us invite the community, and we did better than any of the college-sponsored events. We did well enough that for the 6 years following that, the school contributed cash for us to host it. And the last 2 of those years, I wasn't even there anymore.
Another example is that when I started there, students were not allowed unix or email access. Not only did we get that changed, but our club took over management of the Technology Resource fees, so that students had more say in where there money went.
As a last example, the school doesn't even offer the degree I got from them. They originally said that I had to choose one of their standard degrees. Then, I found out about the Interdisciplinary program (usually for combos like Business and Computers). I convinced them to let me do a combination of Computers, Psychology and Writing (with a minor in Photography). They had no clue how to proceed with that -- so I convinced them to let me choose what classes were required for my degree.
Long story short -- don't be bullied by red tape. You are paying for your education -- get what YOU want out of it.
Perhaps we need a "Digital Zone System" for color digital photographs. The best b&w photos I ever took used the Zone System.
I was working at ... insert name of the NDA'd major network interface provider ... and got a call from a customer insistent that his cable modem was working but that our nic was at fault. The customer explained that the @HOME installer had said that they tested everything and it was definitely our nic....
Here's the kicker... When I asked him to check the connections, he asked if he should take the cable modem out of the box. Yes, the @HOME installer that passed the buck had never even taken the modem out of the box and insisted to the customer that it was working.
From the Working Draft:
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004). All Rights Reserved.
Seems to me that by patenting something someone else copyrighted, that CISCO is breaking the law?
If the malware really did cause the popups that would send someone to jail, couldn't the person/company that wrote the malware go to jail?
Could this be a way to stop people from writing "official" malware (like GAIN)?
Briefly looking through the mentioned patents (because they are very long and dull), it appears that they are claiming that they invented the concepts of OOP and Multitasking. I can't remember what year I started doing OOP, but I do remember using Deskview to multitask DOS many years before that patent.
There has to be a better solution that the Patent process these days. It should be obvious to the actual people who invent things that the big businesses end up winning any Patent issue, not the individual developer. Couldn't we, as people who invent things, find some way to protect the inventor without reverting to the outdated and archaic bigBusiness/lawyer-friendly Patent Process?
The RAM might be a problem. It runs fine on this machine, which is an AMD 800 with 768MB of RAM.
Why not just set your system to automatically use OpenOffice to open them? You don't have to buy M$ products.
Once you get the basics down, it is trivial to host your own DNS listings. The primary advantages, as far as I have been able to determine are:
1) I don't ever have to rely on someone else's DNS listing being accurate OR up
2) I can make changes and they are immediately propagated to my entire LAN
3) ability to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks
Malachi