I'm sure this was said before, but in terms of Phantom Hourglass every cutscene is skippable.
If you push 'start' then a you'll see 'skip' appear in the top right screen, tap that and cutscene is skipped.
I think the most interesting use of this would be here in the UK, as currently to get any form of internet connection you're pretty much locked in to a telephone company.
If you want an xDSL you have to have a BT phone line, no two ways about it, this means that even if I want to exclusively use a service such as Vonage, or Skype I still have to pay the line rental for a phone line.
If I could get BPL I wouldn't have to have the extra cost of a telephone line, and could freely use Skype, or Vonage for all my calls.
Aside from the humour of this moon google, I would like to suggest that this is a brilliant piece of marketing on Google's part for their Google maps service, and Google Earth (note the link, "Looking for something on Planet Earth?").
With the humour and the cool factor this is going to spread around quite quickly.
So I reckon some very clever viral marketing from Google there.
But surely you're missing the point, which you're proving quite well.
It's not necessarily a point to make everything the same so as to ease the migrating from one interface to another, but to make sure that even if the interfaces are different that it is still relatively easy to pick a new one up.
Interestingly your point proves just that, that a good UI design is easy to familiarise with even if it is different. If you suddenly got into a car with rudder sticks you'd have difficulties driving it, but all cars have a steering wheel albeit of different sizes, shapes, and with different knobs and buttons on.
A good UI outline would say, "the best way to drive a car is with a steering wheel", not "a steering wheel should be x width, with the indicator switch on the left etc.".
Just tried that one in firefox, and it showed me a nice popup warning me that this website could indeed not be legitimate, and gave me the choice whether or not to go to it.
...you're not aware of what a zombie network, or zombie is then:
"A zombie computer is a computer attached to the Internet that has a hidden software program, a "backdoor". This backdoor allows the computer to be remote-controlled by others.
A Zombie Computer army can then be used for the purpose of Denial of Service attacks (DDoS).
A singe Zombie Computer can send unsolicited e-mails ( spamming).
A Botnet [Zombie Network] is a collection hosts (bots) under a common command and control infrastructure. Often the command and control is an IRC server or a specific channel on a public IRC network. A bot typically has an agent client such as an IRC client and programs that are activated through the command and control infrastructure. Generally botnets are made up of compromised systems with scan, exploit and attack tools all used for nefarious purposes including denial of service attacks or sending of spam. Miscreants running these rogue botnets do so for reasons varying from fun to profit, with botnets often at war with each other. Popular botnet malware in 2004 include agobot, phatbot, rbot, rxbot and sdbot.
Spam attacks originating from a Botnet can be identified by passive os fingerprinting, a technique first introduced in OpenBSD in the venerable pf packet filter. Newer firewall equipment can be configured to take action when a botnet is attacking by using information obtained from passive os fingerprinting." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet
That could be due to a setting in Windows, that when a blue screen occurs (I think only under certain conditions), it can be set to take a memory dump (for potential debugging), in which case you will see a blue screen for as long as it takes, or it can instantly reboot (taking I think a 64k dump, or some such).
Sometimes it can be quite handy to keep the blue screen coming up, instead of letting it just reboot, as sometimes a quick google of the error message can solve the problem (recently I've had this problem, and mostly it tends to correspond to the IDE devices, and their corresponding drivers).
The setting is under System Propertires - Advanced - Startup and Recovery. Switching off automatically reboot will keep the BSOD.
The only thing that I think of in this whole fiasco is how music has become such a material possesion.
Music is an art, and surely should be "sold" as such. We don't get bothered when a jpeg of the Mona Lisa is viewed on a website, yet an MP3 is seen as such an item to be stolen.
The music industries, the whole word industry is such a joke in this commodity, it is taking everything the wrong way. Art is how it should be, give it to the people.
If everything industrially and business wise is destroyed in terms of music we won't see the destruction in music, at least I think that's what we're being told.
Maybe we'll actually see musical artists as artists one day, not Britney Spears, with big boobs, and big bucks.
The idea of page-ranking surely is more to do with relevance of a search term than to find information that is hard to find.
I think the last thing I want to do is search for a term and then find some obscure reference to it that has no actual relevance to what I was searching for.
I don't want to be searching for Slashdot and then find some obscure reference to it on some random site I never even cared about in the first place.
If you want to find something less relevant to what you're searching for then use more complex search terms, and luckily Google, and most other search engines allow you to do this.
If you don't want to find Slashdot in your search for Slashdot, for some perverted reason, then -site:slashdot.org.
This is what I get for running a server on pre-alpha software.
Ok, so as many of you already know, I have my talk for NYPHP online. This talk is hosted on NYPHP's servers, and is running Apache 1.3.27 + PHP5.
PHP5 leaks worse than the titantic. With MaxRequestsPerChild at 100, apache children grew to 37MB (before we stopped counting). At MaxRequestsPerChild at 40, it was around 27mb. Finally, we've settled on a reasonable default 25 requests per child. MaxClients at 50.
This is a box that can easily handle 20 times this load. ugh.
When working in computer labs I often see the signs proclaiming to only work for limited amounts of time on a 2D VDU, so surely the same thing will have to be said about the new 3D displays.
No screens are meant to be viewed for an exaggerated amount of time, but with this people may need to be more observant of these guide lines.
The music companies did win their case against Napster, and we all know that Napster is dead and buried because of this, but would we all have known about Kazaa if the Napster wrangle had never been made so public?
I can remember using Napster in it's very early forms, and very few people back then had even heard of an MP3 file, let alone peer-to-peer or Napster. Now even my aunt and uncle who have only just recently bought their first ever PC have Kazaa nicely installed on their computer.
Surely something like as high profile as this will surely turn out to be will just be another shot in the foot for the music and movie industries. Especially if they don't end up closing it down, just think how many more people will know about it.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm sure this was said before, but in terms of Phantom Hourglass every cutscene is skippable. If you push 'start' then a you'll see 'skip' appear in the top right screen, tap that and cutscene is skipped.
Funnily enough I was reading this earlier which is just the plain HTML and not in PDF (not sure if it's the original source though).
Then go back to Iraq for 9 months and once you come back again it might actually have finished compiling. (Yes I'm a Gentoo user too!)
I think the most interesting use of this would be here in the UK, as currently to get any form of internet connection you're pretty much locked in to a telephone company.
If you want an xDSL you have to have a BT phone line, no two ways about it, this means that even if I want to exclusively use a service such as Vonage, or Skype I still have to pay the line rental for a phone line.
If I could get BPL I wouldn't have to have the extra cost of a telephone line, and could freely use Skype, or Vonage for all my calls.
Aside from the humour of this moon google, I would like to suggest that this is a brilliant piece of marketing on Google's part for their Google maps service, and Google Earth (note the link, "Looking for something on Planet Earth?").
With the humour and the cool factor this is going to spread around quite quickly.
So I reckon some very clever viral marketing from Google there.
But surely you're missing the point, which you're proving quite well.
It's not necessarily a point to make everything the same so as to ease the migrating from one interface to another, but to make sure that even if the interfaces are different that it is still relatively easy to pick a new one up.
Interestingly your point proves just that, that a good UI design is easy to familiarise with even if it is different. If you suddenly got into a car with rudder sticks you'd have difficulties driving it, but all cars have a steering wheel albeit of different sizes, shapes, and with different knobs and buttons on.
A good UI outline would say, "the best way to drive a car is with a steering wheel", not "a steering wheel should be x width, with the indicator switch on the left etc.".
Just tried that one in firefox, and it showed me a nice popup warning me that this website could indeed not be legitimate, and gave me the choice whether or not to go to it.
...you're not aware of what a zombie network, or zombie is then:
"A zombie computer is a computer attached to the Internet that has a hidden software program, a "backdoor". This backdoor allows the computer to be remote-controlled by others.
A Zombie Computer army can then be used for the purpose of Denial of Service attacks (DDoS).
A singe Zombie Computer can send unsolicited e-mails ( spamming).
Backdoors are often installed with spammed trojans or e-mail worms."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_computer
A Botnet [Zombie Network] is a collection hosts (bots) under a common command and control infrastructure. Often the command and control is an IRC server or a specific channel on a public IRC network. A bot typically has an agent client such as an IRC client and programs that are activated through the command and control infrastructure. Generally botnets are made up of compromised systems with scan, exploit and attack tools all used for nefarious purposes including denial of service attacks or sending of spam. Miscreants running these rogue botnets do so for reasons varying from fun to profit, with botnets often at war with each other. Popular botnet malware in 2004 include agobot, phatbot, rbot, rxbot and sdbot.
Spam attacks originating from a Botnet can be identified by passive os fingerprinting, a technique first introduced in OpenBSD in the venerable pf packet filter. Newer firewall equipment can be configured to take action when a botnet is attacking by using information obtained from passive os fingerprinting."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet
That could be due to a setting in Windows, that when a blue screen occurs (I think only under certain conditions), it can be set to take a memory dump (for potential debugging), in which case you will see a blue screen for as long as it takes, or it can instantly reboot (taking I think a 64k dump, or some such).
Sometimes it can be quite handy to keep the blue screen coming up, instead of letting it just reboot, as sometimes a quick google of the error message can solve the problem (recently I've had this problem, and mostly it tends to correspond to the IDE devices, and their corresponding drivers).
The setting is under System Propertires - Advanced - Startup and Recovery. Switching off automatically reboot will keep the BSOD.
The only thing that I think of in this whole fiasco is how music has become such a material possesion.
Music is an art, and surely should be "sold" as such. We don't get bothered when a jpeg of the Mona Lisa is viewed on a website, yet an MP3 is seen as such an item to be stolen.
The music industries, the whole word industry is such a joke in this commodity, it is taking everything the wrong way. Art is how it should be, give it to the people.
If everything industrially and business wise is destroyed in terms of music we won't see the destruction in music, at least I think that's what we're being told.
Maybe we'll actually see musical artists as artists one day, not Britney Spears, with big boobs, and big bucks.
The idea of page-ranking surely is more to do with relevance of a search term than to find information that is hard to find.
I think the last thing I want to do is search for a term and then find some obscure reference to it that has no actual relevance to what I was searching for.
I don't want to be searching for Slashdot and then find some obscure reference to it on some random site I never even cared about in the first place.
If you want to find something less relevant to what you're searching for then use more complex search terms, and luckily Google, and most other search engines allow you to do this.
If you don't want to find Slashdot in your search for Slashdot, for some perverted reason, then -site:slashdot.org.
From the blog :
PHP5 isn't ready
This is what I get for running a server on pre-alpha software.
Ok, so as many of you already know, I have my talk for NYPHP online. This talk is hosted on NYPHP's servers, and is running Apache 1.3.27 + PHP5.
PHP5 leaks worse than the titantic. With MaxRequestsPerChild at 100, apache children grew to 37MB (before we stopped counting). At MaxRequestsPerChild at 40, it was around 27mb. Finally, we've settled on a reasonable default 25 requests per child. MaxClients at 50.
This is a box that can easily handle 20 times this load. ugh.
PHP5 is pre-alpha. Don't think otherwise.
When working in computer labs I often see the signs proclaiming to only work for limited amounts of time on a 2D VDU, so surely the same thing will have to be said about the new 3D displays.
No screens are meant to be viewed for an exaggerated amount of time, but with this people may need to be more observant of these guide lines.
The article states :
"Sharp envisions a time when complete computers will be embedded into monitors"
Maybe they should have a look at an iMac some day.
The music companies did win their case against Napster, and we all know that Napster is dead and buried because of this, but would we all have known about Kazaa if the Napster wrangle had never been made so public? I can remember using Napster in it's very early forms, and very few people back then had even heard of an MP3 file, let alone peer-to-peer or Napster. Now even my aunt and uncle who have only just recently bought their first ever PC have Kazaa nicely installed on their computer. Surely something like as high profile as this will surely turn out to be will just be another shot in the foot for the music and movie industries. Especially if they don't end up closing it down, just think how many more people will know about it.