I bought mine two weeks ago and I'd recommend checking out american techpushers.. It's a small, independant business, the guy behind it is very active in the community and he jumps through hoops to keep customers happy. (Probably a good idea since the neuros community forums are quite frank and his business viability is tied directly to positive feedback - hence this plug;)
Although I haven't had a chance to excercise it's features too much yet, it definitely has an 'open source' feel to it.. yes I'm stereotyping, but by that I mean that it does a ton of really cool things and is functional but seems to be lacking that last bit of polish. A third party syncing agent (ndbm) is preferable to the official one, third party firmware (GarBage) is preferable to the official one etc... In order to really get the most out of a Neuros you really have to have some of the hacker ethic. That said, having open source firmware is great, the remaining polish could conceivably come from anywhere..
I realize your comment was tongue in cheek, but given the success of Apple's wildly successful "white headphone" brand mark, maybe something similar would work for Neuros.. Maybe the hacker emblem is a bit unwieldly, but I bet they could work it in...
This has been a strong interest of mine for some time. After finding limited voice recognition sotware for Linux I had to give up. My intention was to code while doing cross country biking trips. My life has changed so that this is no longer very likely, but the prospect is still enticing.
Given the DRM built into XP, the odds are that MS has a pretty good idea of whether an install is from a 'widely distributed unauthorized source' or not. Even if the new service pack officialy works on such an install, any person who's riding without a ticket is really at MS's mercy.
The autoindustry flack gives us a bad example in defense of proprietary data : "A calibration code is what makes that part work, and that's the part that's proprietary," Territo said. "It's like the difference between an Apple microprocessor and an IBM microprocessor. Not only does IBM now make Apple's microprocessors.. in the past, the spec of the Apple's mainstay PowerPC chip was open. Even Apple's recognizing the benefits of open code (as evinced by safari/khtml ).
So why not run received email through a spell checker counting the % of unknown/misspelt words and add that to the properties examined by a filter... sure it'll eat up some extra processing power but it'd be worth it. Hmm.. Actually, this would work for a while then lead to randomly inserted correctly spelled words. I guess a decent grammar checker (does one exist?) would be required as well.. arg.
There are some still some free large scale artist communities on the Net that really help facilitate this kind of ethic. ZeD, a production of the state run Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, is a *commercial free* hybrid of television and the web designed to showcase independant and underground artists.
Incidently, ZeD covered Broken Saints in a previous episode. Yay Zed (and the CBC and Canada) !
Disclaimer: I'm a Canadian, and I love Zed + the CBC.
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It's true they're merging. Zend and Sun have a deal going on to make PHP and Java play nice..
Check out the actual JSR: http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=223 or an article written about it: http://www.iapplianceweb.com/story/OEG2003061 2S005 9
My wife's got a one year old 14" iBook with (I think) a 600mhz G3. It came with OSX 10.1 preinstalled.. and it runs painfully slow. What's worse is the upgrade to 10.2.6 just made things slower ! (I just upgraded her machine from 10.1.5 to 10.2.6 last week, and now I'm taking the blame for the weaker performance)
It seems the flash client has slowly evolved in the way that Java Applets have, except that the installed userbase is signifigantly more substantial. This product seems analogous to Java WebStart. If somehow Flash could understand Java (or at least a proper language), instead of actionscript (shudder) they'd be well on their way to web domination. <sigh> I wish Sun's marketing & product positioning team was as good as Macromedia's since I still believe Java is/(could be) better for almost everything Flash does.
Jive Software sells JSP based forum software. They provide 95% of the source, more than enough to make almost any tweaks you want, but keep a few components (the ones that are responsible for license verification) proprietary. If you're planning on reselling your product/code anyway, building such a system might be a worthwhile investment. Note that you should specify your terms in your licensing agreement and copy protection is really just a minor deterrant.
The psychology that motivates gamers has been thoroughly studied, as basically the more addicitive a game is, the more successful it is. Gamasutra has an a related article on Behavioral Game Design which is a high level overview of how to think in order to effectively lure in your audience.
I've wasted a good half a year on an old school text based MUD, and as such stay completely away from EverCrack et al. as I just can't afford to devote my time to virtual characters.
Processing Power - enough muscle behind it to power several concurrent soft synths.
RAM - enough to hold several audio files for a sampler application.
Secondary Storage - enough to hold my own work, as well as a relatively large mp3 collection (I'm fickle with music and like to have a wide selection in my quiver
Backlit LCD screen - something useable.. I'm not sure what would be practical but I think we're almost there already (given the app has a clever UI)
When this comes together I'll jump in and get one. It'd be very nice to sit on the bus/plane/car composing music in a fully featured environment.
The article makes no specific mention of DVDs.. I wonder if they're susceptible as well.. if not,
it's kind of funny how a new crazy strain of fungus starts eating CDs just as music companies start the push towards DVD audio..
You need to check out SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Langugae).. it's the w3c's powerpoint killing standard (and, combined with motion SVG it'll kill flash too). Version 2 even has support for transitions so you can be just as cheezy as you were with powerpoint.
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Neuros (the company) won't ship to Canada, but there are resellers who will.. check out this guy.. he provided great service.
I bought mine two weeks ago and I'd recommend checking out american techpushers.. It's a small, independant business, the guy behind it is very active in the community and he jumps through hoops to keep customers happy. (Probably a good idea since the neuros community forums are quite frank and his business viability is tied directly to positive feedback - hence this plug ;)
Although I haven't had a chance to excercise it's features too much yet, it definitely has an 'open source' feel to it.. yes I'm stereotyping, but by that I mean that it does a ton of really cool things and is functional but seems to be lacking that last bit of polish. A third party syncing agent (ndbm) is preferable to the official one, third party firmware (GarBage) is preferable to the official one etc... In order to really get the most out of a Neuros you really have to have some of the hacker ethic.
That said, having open source firmware is great, the remaining polish could conceivably come from anywhere..
I realize your comment was tongue in cheek, but given the success of Apple's wildly successful "white headphone" brand mark, maybe something similar would work for Neuros.. Maybe the hacker emblem is a bit unwieldly, but I bet they could work it in...
This has been a strong interest of mine for some time. After finding limited voice recognition sotware for Linux I had to give up.
My intention was to code while doing cross country biking trips. My life has changed so that this is no longer very likely, but the prospect is still enticing.
anyone notice that digits on the calculator in the dashboard video are 'leet ?
Given the DRM built into XP, the odds are that MS has a pretty good idea of whether an install is from a 'widely distributed unauthorized source' or not. Even if the new service pack officialy works on such an install, any person who's riding without a ticket is really at MS's mercy.
a bit silly for a 1MB file, but there's lots of seeders so here goes :0 245
/. (the actual target of the link should be fine..)
http://www.torrentreactor.net/torrents/download_1
umm remove any spaces added by
Actually, Celine Dion moved to Las Vegas
The autoindustry flack gives us a bad example in defense of proprietary data : "A calibration code is what makes that part work, and that's the part that's proprietary," Territo said. "It's like the difference between an Apple microprocessor and an IBM microprocessor. Not only does IBM now make Apple's microprocessors.. in the past, the spec of the Apple's mainstay PowerPC chip was open. Even Apple's recognizing the benefits of open code (as evinced by safari/khtml ).
So why not run received email through a spell checker counting the % of unknown/misspelt words and add that to the properties examined by a filter... sure it'll eat up some extra processing power but it'd be worth it. Hmm.. Actually, this would work for a while then lead to randomly inserted correctly spelled words. I guess a decent grammar checker (does one exist?) would be required as well.. arg.
Don't forget the jeep's namesake Jeff Stryker who is is rightfully being honored for his contributions to U.S. culture.
Martin Fowler says eclipse " in many ways Eclipse is the Emacs for the 21st century."
That's pretty hearty praise.
There are some still some free large scale artist communities on the Net that really help facilitate this kind of ethic. ZeD, a production of the state run Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, is a *commercial free* hybrid of television and the web designed to showcase independant and underground artists.
Incidently, ZeD covered Broken Saints in a previous episode. Yay Zed (and the CBC and Canada) !
Disclaimer: I'm a Canadian, and I love Zed + the CBC.
It's true they're merging. Zend and Sun have a deal going on to make PHP and Java play nice..
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Check out the actual JSR:
http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=223
or an article written about it:
http://www.iapplianceweb.com/story/OEG200306
My wife's got a one year old 14" iBook with (I think) a 600mhz G3. It came with OSX 10.1 preinstalled.. and it runs painfully slow. What's worse is the upgrade to 10.2.6 just made things slower ! (I just upgraded her machine from 10.1.5 to 10.2.6 last week, and now I'm taking the blame for the weaker performance)
This was tried on the client side with Microsoft "smart tags".. it didn't get very far.
It seems the flash client has slowly evolved in the way that Java Applets have, except that the installed userbase is signifigantly more substantial. This product seems analogous to Java WebStart. If somehow Flash could understand Java (or at least a proper language), instead of actionscript (shudder) they'd be well on their way to web domination. /(could be) better for almost everything Flash does.
<sigh> I wish Sun's marketing & product positioning team was as good as Macromedia's since I still believe Java is
Jive Software sells JSP based forum software. They provide 95% of the source, more than enough to make almost any tweaks you want, but keep a few components (the ones that are responsible for license verification) proprietary. If you're planning on reselling your product/code anyway, building such a system might be a worthwhile investment.
Note that you should specify your terms in your licensing agreement and copy protection is really just a minor deterrant.
how about an isometric view with 3d rendered characters instead ?
nethack - falcon's eye
feature list (with screenshots) (be gentle, it looks like a personal server)
The psychology that motivates gamers has been thoroughly studied, as basically the more addicitive a game is, the more successful it is. Gamasutra has an a related article on Behavioral Game Design which is a high level overview of how to think in order to effectively lure in your audience.
I've wasted a good half a year on an old school text based MUD, and as such stay completely away from EverCrack et al. as I just can't afford to devote my time to virtual characters.
My dream PDA would have
Processing Power - enough muscle behind it to power several concurrent soft synths.
RAM - enough to hold several audio files for a sampler application.
Secondary Storage - enough to hold my own work, as well as a relatively large mp3 collection (I'm fickle with music and like to have a wide selection in my quiver
Backlit LCD screen - something useable.. I'm not sure what would be practical but I think we're almost there already (given the app has a clever UI)
When this comes together I'll jump in and get one. It'd be very nice to sit on the bus/plane/car composing music in a fully featured environment.
The article makes no specific mention of DVDs.. I wonder if they're susceptible as well.. if not, it's kind of funny how a new crazy strain of fungus starts eating CDs just as music companies start the push towards DVD audio..
You need to check out SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Langugae).. it's the w3c's powerpoint killing standard (and, combined with motion SVG it'll kill flash too). Version 2 even has support for transitions so you can be just as cheezy as you were with powerpoint.
An older, but still very good resource on making NT usable from a Unix perspective might prove useful, though it might need a proper update for winXP..