PS: Anyone want to join my weird telepathic sex cult?
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Licensing?
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Opencroquet
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I could well be missing something here - read the site and the article though, so at least I made an effort:)
What license is this code being developed under? It's called OPENCroquet, so presumably it's some kind of Open Source, but what flavour? Is it, in fact, Open at all?
[Insert standard disclaimer about not being "for" MS here]
But . . . what if it was the other way round? Hailing the Apple heroes for their hilarious new spin on Microsoft's tired old advertising campaign? Turning the tables on the corporate giant?
O'course, I'm in the UK with one of those "dial-up connections" you may have heard about, so I wont get a chance to see them and make up my own mind . . .
Being bored and at work I downloaded Dasher to give it a go - and I'm pleasantly surprised. No, I wont be using it as a keyboard replacement any time soon, but for times where a keyboard is inconvenient, impractical, or simply impossible, it looks like it's be a worthy substitute.
The way it works is pretty cunning - the webpage suggests you use driving as a metaphor, which works very well. Rather than an onscreen keyboard, you "drive" down the route of the text you want to type. Think of it as a tree with 26 (OK, 27 with spaces, more with punctuation) branches at each level - so you would start at H, and then "drive" down the e, l, l, o branches. Aiding you in this is the software, which makes guesses as to what you're about to type and makes those "roads" more prominent and easier to "drive" down.
I'd really recommend people download this and give it a go. It's actually quite a lot of fun:)
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This really does give a whole new meaning to CAMRA
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You already know the answer
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I could well be missing something here - read the site and the article though, so at least I made an effort :)
What license is this code being developed under? It's called OPENCroquet, so presumably it's some kind of Open Source, but what flavour? Is it, in fact, Open at all?
I ask cos it looks interesting and I wanna play :)
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They'd have to pry the processor from my cold, dead fingers . . .
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I think it's time to go into haydn
No, hang on, that was terrible . . .
Well *obviously* cca93014 is a professional footballer, movie star, or Bill Gates . . . duh! P
[Insert standard disclaimer about not being "for" MS here]
But . . . what if it was the other way round? Hailing the Apple heroes for their hilarious new spin on Microsoft's tired old advertising campaign? Turning the tables on the corporate giant?
O'course, I'm in the UK with one of those "dial-up connections" you may have heard about, so I wont get a chance to see them and make up my own mind . . .
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*Coughs politely* Er . . . renamed? It was Scrapheap Challenge originally, y'know . . .
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True - if that was how it worked.
Being bored and at work I downloaded Dasher to give it a go - and I'm pleasantly surprised. No, I wont be using it as a keyboard replacement any time soon, but for times where a keyboard is inconvenient, impractical, or simply impossible, it looks like it's be a worthy substitute.
The way it works is pretty cunning - the webpage suggests you use driving as a metaphor, which works very well. Rather than an onscreen keyboard, you "drive" down the route of the text you want to type. Think of it as a tree with 26 (OK, 27 with spaces, more with punctuation) branches at each level - so you would start at H, and then "drive" down the e, l, l, o branches. Aiding you in this is the software, which makes guesses as to what you're about to type and makes those "roads" more prominent and easier to "drive" down.
I'd really recommend people download this and give it a go. It's actually quite a lot of fun :)
PhilSay it with me now... Attack Of The Clones :)
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