I will go out on a limb here and say that the digital assistant is an idea that is yet to be fully realized.
Clippy, or something like it will be a regular feature of computers years from now. With improved AI, processing power, speech recognition, always on Internet connections and better search engines a virtual assistant will be able to really do something for users other than annoy them.
People who aren't nerds/geeks//. readers would likely find comfort in having a "little man" in the computer that can talk to them and understand what tasks they would like it to perform. Heck, if its good enough even/. readers might want one on their desktops, too.
There are places like getafreelancer.com and similar sites that have developers for hire who will code to your standards. You yourself can choose to release the code under whatever license you choose.
You might also check out Sourceforge and try to find developers there on the forums.
I'm no astrophysicist, but I imagine that anything you shove out the door of the ISS, which is in orbit around the earth, will pretty much be going toward the earth.
Unless you could shove it really, really hard in another direction.
I guess everything is going to make the news somewhere, at some point, but is it news when stolen items show up on a gigantic, nationwide used goods marketplace?
Anywhere an outlet for used products exists, it is going to have some percentage of stolen goods enter it. Take the percentage of stolen goods that are sold at pawn shops or yard sales and compare it to the percentage of stolen goods sold on eBay. I'd lay odds on them being similar.
Public Television here in the U.S. aired a piece on a man in the UK who had built a motorized couch and was legally driving it on the streets there. I wonder if it was the same person.
I am the only person I know who both enjoyed and completed the E.T. game on the Atari. Being that it was my first game on my first home console (I think I was 8 years old) might have influenced my opinion.
With companies like IBM putting a lot of effort into pushing Linux, it may make businesses that are reluctant to adopt an OS that has a perceived lack of support behind it more willing to try it out.
This is good news and certainly a major push for Linux.
It's like if they linked to Larry Flint's blog on a story about a porn star. Gabe and Tycho are fucking game pundits. Games are their thing, and they are a good source to go to when you have a story dealing with games, especially when it's a story they themselves have covered.
MMOGs will have downtime. Even Sony, no matter what some may think of them as a company, has years of experience running and maintaining servers for online game play and suffered massive downtime last month with EQ2.
I think it is to be expected. Blizzard isn't a telco. There aren't laws enforcing a certain level of uptime and punishment dealt out if those levels aren't met. Game companies shouldn't be reasonably expected to have as strict a standard as a utility, so they don't take on the enormous cost of having really reliable systems in place.
Read my comment again. I said I have no children to either subject or not subject to television. I also mentioned that those with children may find it more difficult to go without television. Nowhere did I say that I would subject children, mine or otherwise, to watch television.
After getting fed up with the type of things I see just on random channel flipping, I decided to get rid of my television for good. That was around 5 months ago, and now I don't even miss it. I did feel funny the first few weeks though. When I sat down on my couch, I would look around and feel like something was missing. Now though, it seems unnatural to think about plopping down on the couch and starting at a TV for a couple of hours.
Of course, I have no children. With kids, it may be more difficult to go without it.
Really, isn't everything we use some form of technology? As the parent poster pointed out, veneer is an example of a technology, but even cutting down trees and making lumber involves more than one tech.
I am currently working my way through this game and have experienced the missing graphics bug several times. The bug caused most or all of the background textures to be completely black. The only thing you could see would be things that moved, like your character and the monsters you were fighting. The ground, walls, rocks, etc were completely invisible when I experience this. Although sometimes it would recover on it's own, most of the time I reloaded the game to correct.
It seemed to happen most frequently when I had been playing for about an hour and had changed areas, causing the game to load a different tileset.
When does the game take place? [UPDATED] The Matrix Online takes place after The Matrix Revolutions, the third Matrix movie. A truce has been declared. Humans and Machines are now at an uneasy peace. In the ongoing story of the game, you can play a significant part in the future of the Matrix.
Something I don't get is this:
If the machines and humans are at peace, then who will players fight against? Excluding pvp, I can't imagine that there will be very much combat.
In a game like Everquest or Asheron's Call, minor enemies like trolls, orcs, and the like can be churned out over and over again to provide fighting fodder. In a Matrix world, where are the snakes and bats to fight?
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Its good for IBM to focus on applying technology to the better sharing of common resources.
Bandwidth is really all I need now.
It would make my week to see Dell aggressively promoting new products based on RH software.
I can't see Microsoft allowing that to happen without a fight.
I will go out on a limb here and say that the digital assistant is an idea that is yet to be fully realized.
Clippy, or something like it will be a regular feature of computers years from now. With improved AI, processing power, speech recognition, always on Internet connections and better search engines a virtual assistant will be able to really do something for users other than annoy them.
People who aren't nerds/geeks//. readers would likely find comfort in having a "little man" in the computer that can talk to them and understand what tasks they would like it to perform. Heck, if its good enough even /. readers might want one on their desktops, too.
There are places like getafreelancer.com and similar sites that have developers for hire who will code to your standards. You yourself can choose to release the code under whatever license you choose.
You might also check out Sourceforge and try to find developers there on the forums.
...You know, what with all the gravity and everything.
I'm no astrophysicist, but I imagine that anything you shove out the door of the ISS, which is in orbit around the earth, will pretty much be going toward the earth.
Unless you could shove it really, really hard in another direction.
i rather find Jack Daniels :D
How is that marked informative?
...someone gave us an alternative to linux. Everywhere I look, sourceforge, slashdot, linux.com, its all I see, linux, linux, linux.
I guess everything is going to make the news somewhere, at some point, but is it news when stolen items show up on a gigantic, nationwide used goods marketplace?
Anywhere an outlet for used products exists, it is going to have some percentage of stolen goods enter it. Take the percentage of stolen goods that are sold at pawn shops or yard sales and compare it to the percentage of stolen goods sold on eBay. I'd lay odds on them being similar.
Public Television here in the U.S. aired a piece on a man in the UK who had built a motorized couch and was legally driving it on the streets there. I wonder if it was the same person.
Please don't start bashing the movie until it has been released to the public and we've all seen it...THEN you may start the bashing.
I am the only person I know who both enjoyed and completed the E.T. game on the Atari. Being that it was my first game on my first home console (I think I was 8 years old) might have influenced my opinion.
With companies like IBM putting a lot of effort into pushing Linux, it may make businesses that are reluctant to adopt an OS that has a perceived lack of support behind it more willing to try it out.
This is good news and certainly a major push for Linux.
Linking to PA makes perfect sense to me.
It's like if they linked to Larry Flint's blog on a story about a porn star. Gabe and Tycho are fucking game pundits. Games are their thing, and they are a good source to go to when you have a story dealing with games, especially when it's a story they themselves have covered.
MMOGs will have downtime. Even Sony, no matter what some may think of them as a company, has years of experience running and maintaining servers for online game play and suffered massive downtime last month with EQ2.
I think it is to be expected. Blizzard isn't a telco. There aren't laws enforcing a certain level of uptime and punishment dealt out if those levels aren't met. Game companies shouldn't be reasonably expected to have as strict a standard as a utility, so they don't take on the enormous cost of having really reliable systems in place.
Read my comment again. I said I have no children to either subject or not subject to television. I also mentioned that those with children may find it more difficult to go without television. Nowhere did I say that I would subject children, mine or otherwise, to watch television.
After getting fed up with the type of things I see just on random channel flipping, I decided to get rid of my television for good. That was around 5 months ago, and now I don't even miss it. I did feel funny the first few weeks though. When I sat down on my couch, I would look around and feel like something was missing. Now though, it seems unnatural to think about plopping down on the couch and starting at a TV for a couple of hours.
Of course, I have no children. With kids, it may be more difficult to go without it.
Yep. A topic about wallets. Wallets.
Checking out the article, it looks nice. But I wonder how many people may buy it mistaking it for a Final Fantasy title?
Replying to my own comment here:
When I first viewed the page, the grandparent poster was modded as '+2, Funny'.
Really, isn't everything we use some form of technology? As the parent poster pointed out, veneer is an example of a technology, but even cutting down trees and making lumber involves more than one tech.
Weren't horse drawn carts at on point, high tech?
This seems like an appropriate question....do I just not get the joke.
I am currently working my way through this game and have experienced the missing graphics bug several times. The bug caused most or all of the background textures to be completely black. The only thing you could see would be things that moved, like your character and the monsters you were fighting. The ground, walls, rocks, etc were completely invisible when I experience this. Although sometimes it would recover on it's own, most of the time I reloaded the game to correct.
It seemed to happen most frequently when I had been playing for about an hour and had changed areas, causing the game to load a different tileset.
If the machines and humans are at peace, then who will players fight against? Excluding pvp, I can't imagine that there will be very much combat. In a game like Everquest or Asheron's Call, minor enemies like trolls, orcs, and the like can be churned out over and over again to provide fighting fodder. In a Matrix world, where are the snakes and bats to fight?