hmm, I wonder if you could rig up to sense movement in the fog field... nifty "Minority Report"esque GUI, here we come!
That's actually a really interesting idea. Their current system couldn't do that, but if you used two planes of air in close proximity (one blowing horizontally for the x, one blowing vertically for y), I don't see why it couldn't be done, with at least enough precision to allow selection of large buttons.
The real question is who would *want* such a thing... I doubt they would ever replace regular touch-screens for general use (getting both x and y values requires a frame of some sort, which kinda negates the advantages of having an ephemeral screen), but the sheer novelty factor might make them suitable for an entertainment setting.
"Try our new 'virtual' video poker!!! Lose your money the 21st century way!!!"
GNURMS's proposed GNUnaming GNUconvention is awkward GNUand GNUugly. Thus, GNUwe should GNUcontinue GNUcalling the system "Linux", while GNUnever forgetting the GNUcontributions of GNURMS GNUand the GNUFSF, GNUwhich, according GNUto the GNUFAQ, is GNUall they really GNUwant.
GNU.
Don't be ridiculous- it's on a separate damned page, you don't have to go to it if you don't want to. Google's main page is the same wonder of minimalism and functionality it's always been. (And the news page isn't exactly loaded down with unnecessary features, either)
The short story Salon ran a little while ago, 0wnz0red, talked about that, and posited that emulation won't help you if they get control of the hardware and use cryptographic signing on everytrhing.
So, does anyone know *about* how many possible games of chess there are? I'm guessing it's quite a few more than Awari, else it would have been solved by now.
Personally, I'm curious to see whether you can always force a draw or if the first player to move always wins.
Microsoft doesn't engineer for security, stability, or efficiency.
They engineer for features and for maintaining monopoly control over the OS and word processing market.
True, but they mainly engineer for ease of use. Easy for doing the things they expect you to, mind you, which is why people who like to play around with their computer's internals dislike them.
That's a pretty funny place to put that... Next time, just make a new thread. The 'reply' button up top. Yeah.
Pity about the bandwidth, though- I notice the "movies" section of your site is empty. (The stills look beautiful, though) Judging by what happened to the sites that *did* host the clip, I'd have to say you made a good call.
Anyhow, thanks everbody, hopefully one day, people outside of Japan will figure out that animation can be enjoyed in ways other than just comedy and adventure.
Don't you mean comedy and kid's movies? Oh, and, um: ["official representative of/." voice] You're welcome![/"official representative of/." voice]
I would imagine they do this in order to avoid e-mails from irate parents saying "My Johnny was looking for pictures of the Whitehouse and a bunch of pictures of naked women doing indescribable things came up on the screen!" and so forth.
Unlike regular web searches, which simply display a text summary, image searches on Google display actual thumbnails. Thus is makes sense to have SafeSearch enabled by default, and as far as I know there is no way for web sites to save user preferences without using cookies.
One way to get around this for users who don't use cookies would be for Google to have a separate url for image searching with SafeSearch disabled by default. You could e-mail them about it, but as users who browse the web with all cookies disabled are probably a small minority, I don't know that they'd be all that concerned. Still, couldn't hurt to try.
Well, they got the company wrong, but otherwise it's pretty prophetic:) I wonder, though, why AT&T isn't involved. They have just as much stake in this as Verizon, don't they?
What, exactly, is this supposed to say? That Libertarians are pacifists? That Lenin was evil? I'll agree with the second, but I would imagine the first depends on the individual Libertarian.
Normally, I don't do "me too" posts, but in this case I'll make an exception. DEATH to all submitted posts containing the word goatse more than thrice! I mean, even if they're not that particular post, are they likely to be worth reading anyway?
Strange as is sounds, this is actually one of the reasons I chose KDE over GNOME. Desktops are largely about aesthetics anyway (most GNOME apps run fine under KDE, Nautilus included), and I found the footprint theme ugly.
I also prefer KDE's taskbar and config, so at least I have some *slightly* less silly sounding reasons:)
For the record, I haven't had much trouble with KD- er, I mean Windows 98SE. And you forgot to mention KDE ME (unholy festering bucket of crap release);)
The weird thing is that and the end of that whole spiel, which seemed to be advocating government support of OSS, there was this sentence:
I thus expect to witness more and more private companies contributing to OS / FS desktop system development.
What happened there? The previous paragraph seemed to have *something* to do with private companies, but he was so vague I had no idea what he was talking about. And I thought "private companies" were the ones doing all the bad stuff in the first place?
As far as government support, while I can see certain sectors of government releasing small apps that they made for themselves and find useful, I certainly wouldn't want the government too deeply involved. Hands off, say I! We don't need the Government proclaiming Linux the "Official OS" of the country, or having a say in how it's built. As annoying as corporations can be, I regard governments as frequently worse, and more dangerous. Or perhaps I'm wrong. Maybe it's possible for the government to be deeply involved in OSS without it losing its freedom and spontaneity. I'm just saying we should think twice before running to them for support.
Quite right. I'd suggest trying Mandrake, as their urpmi makes short work of dependency issues, and they're fairly similar to Redhat (better, if you ask me).
Interestingly enough, this is almost exactly what Pop-Up Stopper does- small icon in the system tray that flashes when an ad is stopped. You can either right click on the icon and select "allow pop-ups" or just hold ctrl to disable it temporarily.
I've been using the free version with Netscape 7 and it seems to work perfectly. I should note that only the commercial versions include the option to allow popups from certain sites (but since you can disable it anyway, it's not that big a deal). If you're using Windows, give it a try. Or just get Mozilla:)
Doom 3 is going to be a revolution in *graphics engines*, you idiot. Admittedly, it probably won't be all that revolutionary in the gameplay department, but everyone knows the main draw of id's games these days is that they push forward the next level of technology, allowing others to build on what they've done.
And while giving him +5's for every single post may be somewhat pandering, I hardly see how Carmack is "on his way down" in the video game world, since he is quite possibly (literally) the best real-time graphics programmer on the planet. (I don't know much about the world of rendered Gfx)
I won't even deign to comment on the fact that you called "The Sims" a FIRST PERSON SHOOTER!! Except for the pervious sentence, I mean...
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hmm, I wonder if you could rig up to sense movement in the fog field... nifty "Minority Report"esque GUI, here we come!
That's actually a really interesting idea. Their current system couldn't do that, but if you used two planes of air in close proximity (one blowing horizontally for the x, one blowing vertically for y), I don't see why it couldn't be done, with at least enough precision to allow selection of large buttons.
The real question is who would *want* such a thing... I doubt they would ever replace regular touch-screens for general use (getting both x and y values requires a frame of some sort, which kinda negates the advantages of having an ephemeral screen), but the sheer novelty factor might make them suitable for an entertainment setting.
"Try our new 'virtual' video poker!!! Lose your money the 21st century way!!!"
I really love how this is modded as "informative". Apparently, somebody didn't get the joke ;)
Read the entire thing- it's interesting.
GNURMS's proposed GNUnaming GNUconvention is awkward GNUand GNUugly. Thus, GNUwe should GNUcontinue GNUcalling the system "Linux", while GNUnever forgetting the GNUcontributions of GNURMS GNUand the GNUFSF, GNUwhich, according GNUto the GNUFAQ, is GNUall they really GNUwant.
GNU.
Don't be ridiculous- it's on a separate damned page, you don't have to go to it if you don't want to. Google's main page is the same wonder of minimalism and functionality it's always been. (And the news page isn't exactly loaded down with unnecessary features, either)
The short story Salon ran a little while ago, 0wnz0red, talked about that, and posited that emulation won't help you if they get control of the hardware and use cryptographic signing on everytrhing.
Two words for you: incomplete conversions.
(One more word for you: idiot)
Maybe SciFi can do reruns of Dark Angel?
Dear GOD, no...
So, does anyone know *about* how many possible games of chess there are? I'm guessing it's quite a few more than Awari, else it would have been solved by now.
Personally, I'm curious to see whether you can always force a draw or if the first player to move always wins.
Microsoft doesn't engineer for security, stability, or efficiency.
They engineer for features and for maintaining monopoly control over the OS and word processing market.
True, but they mainly engineer for ease of use. Easy for doing the things they expect you to, mind you, which is why people who like to play around with their computer's internals dislike them.
Amd you thought Progress Quest was just a *joke*...
That's a pretty funny place to put that... Next time, just make a new thread. The 'reply' button up top. Yeah.
/." voice] You're welcome![/"official representative of /." voice]
Pity about the bandwidth, though- I notice the "movies" section of your site is empty. (The stills look beautiful, though) Judging by what happened to the sites that *did* host the clip, I'd have to say you made a good call.
Anyhow, thanks everbody, hopefully one day, people outside of Japan will figure out that animation can be enjoyed in ways other than just comedy and adventure.
Don't you mean comedy and kid's movies? Oh, and, um:
["official representative of
(Sheesh, where's Taco when you need 'im?)
I would imagine they do this in order to avoid e-mails from irate parents saying "My Johnny was looking for pictures of the Whitehouse and a bunch of pictures of naked women doing indescribable things came up on the screen!" and so forth.
Unlike regular web searches, which simply display a text summary, image searches on Google display actual thumbnails. Thus is makes sense to have SafeSearch enabled by default, and as far as I know there is no way for web sites to save user preferences without using cookies.
One way to get around this for users who don't use cookies would be for Google to have a separate url for image searching with SafeSearch disabled by default. You could e-mail them about it, but as users who browse the web with all cookies disabled are probably a small minority, I don't know that they'd be all that concerned. Still, couldn't hurt to try.
Who are your allies in the industry? [...] Companies like AT&T, WorldCom, together with U.S. Cable & Wireless, and the other Bell companies.
*ahem* Hmm, guess I kind of skimmed the article the first time I read it... *walks off, whistling desperately*
You beat me to it...
:)
Well, they got the company wrong, but otherwise it's pretty prophetic
I wonder, though, why AT&T isn't involved. They have just as much stake in this as Verizon, don't they?
What, exactly, is this supposed to say? That Libertarians are pacifists? That Lenin was evil? I'll agree with the second, but I would imagine the first depends on the individual Libertarian.
Normally, I don't do "me too" posts, but in this case I'll make an exception. DEATH to all submitted posts containing the word goatse more than thrice! I mean, even if they're not that particular post, are they likely to be worth reading anyway?
The first time, it was funny. This is getting annoying. Is there a way to block posts that contain the word "Goatse" more than three times?
Strange as is sounds, this is actually one of the reasons I chose KDE over GNOME. Desktops are largely about aesthetics anyway (most GNOME apps run fine under KDE, Nautilus included), and I found the footprint theme ugly.
:)
I also prefer KDE's taskbar and config, so at least I have some *slightly* less silly sounding reasons
For the record, I haven't had much trouble with KD- er, I mean Windows 98SE. And you forgot to mention KDE ME (unholy festering bucket of crap release) ;)
If a company reported back to me that they no longer exist, I might be just a *teensy* bit suspicious... "Who's in there?" "Nobody!"
The weird thing is that and the end of that whole spiel, which seemed to be advocating government support of OSS, there was this sentence:
I thus expect to witness more and more private companies contributing to OS / FS desktop system development.
What happened there? The previous paragraph seemed to have *something* to do with private companies, but he was so vague I had no idea what he was talking about. And I thought "private companies" were the ones doing all the bad stuff in the first place?
As far as government support, while I can see certain sectors of government releasing small apps that they made for themselves and find useful, I certainly wouldn't want the government too deeply involved. Hands off, say I! We don't need the Government proclaiming Linux the "Official OS" of the country, or having a say in how it's built. As annoying as corporations can be, I regard governments as frequently worse, and more dangerous. Or perhaps I'm wrong. Maybe it's possible for the government to be deeply involved in OSS without it losing its freedom and spontaneity. I'm just saying we should think twice before running to them for support.
Quite right. I'd suggest trying Mandrake, as their urpmi makes short work of dependency issues, and they're fairly similar to Redhat (better, if you ask me).
Interestingly enough, this is almost exactly what Pop-Up Stopper does- small icon in the system tray that flashes when an ad is stopped. You can either right click on the icon and select "allow pop-ups" or just hold ctrl to disable it temporarily.
:)
I've been using the free version with Netscape 7 and it seems to work perfectly. I should note that only the commercial versions include the option to allow popups from certain sites (but since you can disable it anyway, it's not that big a deal). If you're using Windows, give it a try.
Or just get Mozilla
Doom 3 is going to be a revolution in *graphics engines*, you idiot. Admittedly, it probably won't be all that revolutionary in the gameplay department, but everyone knows the main draw of id's games these days is that they push forward the next level of technology, allowing others to build on what they've done. And while giving him +5's for every single post may be somewhat pandering, I hardly see how Carmack is "on his way down" in the video game world, since he is quite possibly (literally) the best real-time graphics programmer on the planet. (I don't know much about the world of rendered Gfx) I won't even deign to comment on the fact that you called "The Sims" a FIRST PERSON SHOOTER!! Except for the pervious sentence, I mean...