If you enjoy Dismount, check out BlackShades -- http://www.icculus.org/blackshades/ One of it's unique features is the rag-doll skeletal animation. I found the game play to be cute, graphics to be lacking, but the animations very cool.
Eraser Nubs & Touch Pads just don't cut it. Buy one of the cheap $15 tiny optical usb mice. It's easy to throw in the laptop bag, and it is so much better to use especially for on the road entended computing sessions.
I agree with [parent] regarding MS bashing - but that comes with the territory. Let's just make sure we _qualify_our_bashing_. Yes, they do somethings wrong, and they do something right. "We" don't priorize on where they do things right. Now, to qualify my opinion: I too am a linux fanboy (which doesn't have to mean an MS hater).
Now, what I wanted to say:
Not to steal Sun's steam, but MS did research on this awhile ago (4 years): http://research.microsoft.com/adapt/taskg allery/in dex.htm
A hurricane came unexpectedly. The ship went down and was lost. The man found himself swept up on the shore of an island with no other people, no supplies, nothing. Only bananas and coconuts. Used to 5-star hotels, this guy had no idea what to do, so for the next four months he ate bananas, drank coconut juice and longed for his old life and fixed his gaze on the sea, hoping to spot a rescue ship. One day, as he was lying on the beach, he spotted movement out of the corner of his eye. It was a rowboat, and in it was the most gorgeous woman he had ever seen. She rowed up to him. In disbelief, he asked her: "Where did you come from? How did you get here?" "I rowed from the other side of the island," she said. "I landed here when my cruise ship sank." "Amazing," he said. "I didn't know anyone else had survived. How many are there? You were lucky to have a rowboat wash up with you." "There's only me," she said, "and the rowboat didn't wash up; nothing did." He was confused. "Then how did you get the rowboat?" "Oh, simple," replied the woman. "I made the rowboat out of materials that I found on the island. The oars were whittled from Gum tree branches. I wove the bottom from palm branches and the sides and stern came from a Eucalyptus tree." "B-B-But that's impossible," stuttered the man. "You had no tools or hardware. How did you manage?" "Oh, that was no problem," replied the woman. "On the other side of the island there is a very unusual stratum of alluvial rock exposed. I found that if I fired it to a certain temperature in my kiln, it melted into forgeable ductile iron. I used that for tools, and used the tools to make the hardware. But enough of that," she said. "Where do you live?" Sheepishly, he confessed that he had been sleeping on the beach the whole time. "Well, let's row over to my place, then," she said. After a few minutes of rowing she docked the boat at a small wharf. As the man looked to the shore he nearly fell out of the boat. Before him was a stone walk leading to an exquisite bungalow painted in blue and white. While the woman tied up the rowboat with an expertly woven hemp rope, the man could only stare ahead, dumbstruck. As they walked into the house, she said casually, "It's not much, but I call it home. Sit down, please; would you like a drink?" "No, no thank you," he said, still dazed. "I can't take any more coconut juice." "It's not coconut juice," the woman replied. "I have a still. How about a Pina Colada?" Trying to hide his amazement, the man accepted, and they sat down on her couch to talk. After they had exchanged their stories, the woman announced, "I'm going to slip into something comfortable. Would you like to take a shower and shave? There is a razor upstairs in the cabinet in the bathroom." No longer questioning anything, the man went into the bathroom. There in the cabinet was a razor made from a bone handle. Two shells honed to a hollow ground edge were fastened onto it's end inside a swivel mechanism. "This woman is amazing," he mused. "What next?" When he returned, she greeted him wearing nothing but vines - strategically positioned - and smelling faintly of gardenias. She beckoned for him to sit down next to her. "Tell me," she began, suggestively, slithering closer to him, "we've been out here for a very long time. You've been lonely. There's something I'm sure you really feel like doing right now, something you've been longing for all these months. You know..." She stared into his eyes. He couldn't believe what he was hearing. "You mean??" he replied, "? I can check slashdot.com from here?"
Here's a review by pcworld: First Linux Tablet PC I realize it's not as optimistic as most of us would like to think, but we need to remember that the average buyer is the PCWorld technologist or lower.
Given some time and a bunch of developers really motivated to get an awesome linux tablet, I would consider this do-able, but unfortunatley, I don't think that is the case right now.
I think we're all missing the biggest problem. Let's assume we had perfect voice recognition - another human. Seat a person at your computer and have them do the mousing and typing. Now, via voice command have that person perform your tasks. I know I would be quite frustrated. Using our voices to control computers as we know them today would be way too inefficient.
This voice command feature appears to be a limitted help in situations where you can't interact directly with your pda - like when you're driving. But, otherwise, I can only see this being a nusance to people around you, or inefficient (3 seconds voice input + audio output VS 1 second screen tapping and skimming the screen output).
Or, considering this from the admin's view: if they were warned ahead of time, they might be wise and just simply pull down the material so their business (be it academics or professional) doesn't get hindered.
I don't like the idea, but in many cases this might be a reasonable response.
The energy gain (the ~98%) would be spent on the necessary means of keeping the vaccuum inside an actual vaccuum.
Great Idea though.
Hey, if this becomes the next form of mass transit, it will take a long time for Osama to figure out how to take down an American icon with one of these cars! Let alone high jacking it with box cutters if it's autonomous. LOL
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He's not pushing 16 video streams through. He's really only pushing 4, minus the 1 that is on the system that is streaming. He has 4 systems running the 1/4 of the wall each. 1 of the systems is the server so it doesn't need to stream it's own 1/4. The other 3 are using Xinerama to give it the appearence of being the height of 4 monitors so it isn't streaming 4 monitors worth of data per system.
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4 Quad heads would be easier (bandwidth, admin, moving, & computing), but as he mentioned in the article: getting ANY video cards was difficult let alone Quad head cards.
"I really want to make sure that the Tablet PC will be easy to use. You never have to think about how to sit on a chair. We should have a computer device that people never have to think about how to use, they just pick it up and use it in a very natural way." - Wang
"...once you would compute with a handheld 'Dynabook'... millions of potential users meant that the user interface would have to become a learning environment; and needs for large scope, reduction in complexity, and end-user literacy would require that data and control structures be done away with..." - Alan Kay
I am a huge fan of Alan Kay! And, the more you learn about computing today, the more amazed you will be at how right he was 30 some years ago. Wang, and a lot of the computer industry with hum, is finally realizing what Kay knew back then.
*"You will be able to select it and parse the words and know what words are."
*"There will never be a time where if you cannot recognize your own writing on the page that the recognizer will be that intelligent."
+So if I write something down you'll be able to tell me what I wrote.
+But, if I write something and I don't know what I wrote, you won't be able to tell me what I wrote.
=So, basically, you can tell me what I already know!!
Well, I wish them much better luck. In Northern NJ, along the G.S. Parkway, they tried to decorate one up as a tree. Let me tell you- it draws my eye much more than a normal one would. I guess I'm just so used to seeing them.
Slashdot Mirror
This reminds me of the house built in Springfield, NV. It brought the house to life. http://www.lasvegassun.com/dossier/misc/simpsons/s tory.html
Now we need this family to re-film this at the house. Maybe then it can be aired in the US.
If you enjoy Dismount, check out BlackShades -- http://www.icculus.org/blackshades/ One of it's unique features is the rag-doll skeletal animation. I found the game play to be cute, graphics to be lacking, but the animations very cool.
Eraser Nubs & Touch Pads just don't cut it. Buy one of the cheap $15 tiny optical usb mice. It's easy to throw in the laptop bag, and it is so much better to use especially for on the road entended computing sessions.
I agree with [parent] regarding MS bashing - but that comes with the territory. Let's just make sure we _qualify_our_bashing_. Yes, they do somethings wrong, and they do something right. "We" don't priorize on where they do things right. Now, to qualify my opinion: I too am a linux fanboy (which doesn't have to mean an MS hater).
g allery/in dex.htm
Now, what I wanted to say:
Not to steal Sun's steam, but MS did research on this awhile ago (4 years):
http://research.microsoft.com/adapt/task
A hurricane came unexpectedly. The ship went down and was lost. The man found himself swept up on the shore of an island with no other people, no supplies, nothing. Only bananas and coconuts. Used to 5-star hotels, this guy had no idea what to do, so for the next four months he ate bananas, drank coconut juice and longed for his old life and fixed his gaze on the sea, hoping to spot a rescue ship.
One day, as he was lying on the beach, he spotted movement out of the corner of his eye. It was a rowboat, and in it was the most gorgeous woman he had ever seen. She rowed up to him.
In disbelief, he asked her: "Where did you come from? How did you get here?"
"I rowed from the other side of the island," she said. "I landed here when my cruise ship sank."
"Amazing," he said. "I didn't know anyone else had survived. How many are there? You were lucky to have a rowboat wash up with you."
"There's only me," she said, "and the rowboat didn't wash up; nothing did." He was confused.
"Then how did you get the rowboat?"
"Oh, simple," replied the woman. "I made the rowboat out of materials that I found on the island. The oars were whittled from Gum tree branches. I wove the bottom from palm branches and the sides and stern came from a Eucalyptus tree."
"B-B-But that's impossible," stuttered the man. "You had no tools or hardware. How did you manage?"
"Oh, that was no problem," replied the woman. "On the other side of the island there is a very unusual stratum of alluvial rock exposed. I found that if I fired it to a certain temperature in my kiln, it melted into forgeable ductile iron. I used that for tools, and used the tools to make the hardware. But enough of that," she said. "Where do you live?"
Sheepishly, he confessed that he had been sleeping on the beach the whole time.
"Well, let's row over to my place, then," she said.
After a few minutes of rowing she docked the boat at a small wharf. As the man looked to the shore he nearly fell out of the boat. Before him was a stone walk leading to an exquisite bungalow painted in blue and white.
While the woman tied up the rowboat with an expertly woven hemp rope, the man could only stare ahead, dumbstruck. As they walked into the house, she said casually, "It's not much, but I call it home. Sit down, please; would you like a drink?"
"No, no thank you," he said, still dazed. "I can't take any more coconut juice."
"It's not coconut juice," the woman replied. "I have a still. How about a Pina Colada?"
Trying to hide his amazement, the man accepted, and they sat down on her couch to talk. After they had exchanged their stories, the woman announced, "I'm going to slip into something comfortable. Would you like to take a shower and shave? There is a razor upstairs in the cabinet in the bathroom."
No longer questioning anything, the man went into the bathroom. There in the cabinet was a razor made from a bone handle. Two shells honed to a hollow ground edge were fastened onto it's end inside a swivel mechanism.
"This woman is amazing," he mused. "What next?"
When he returned, she greeted him wearing nothing but vines - strategically positioned - and smelling faintly of gardenias. She beckoned for him to sit down next to her.
"Tell me," she began, suggestively, slithering closer to him, "we've been out here for a very long time. You've been lonely. There's something I'm sure you really feel like doing right now, something you've been longing for all these months. You know..." She stared into his eyes.
He couldn't believe what he was hearing. "You mean??" he replied, "? I can check slashdot.com from here?"
Un-mod the parent. It's a dumb (old) trick.
Here's a review by pcworld: First Linux Tablet PC I realize it's not as optimistic as most of us would like to think, but we need to remember that the average buyer is the PCWorld technologist or lower.
Given some time and a bunch of developers really motivated to get an awesome linux tablet, I would consider this do-able, but unfortunatley, I don't think that is the case right now.
I think we're all missing the biggest problem. Let's assume we had perfect voice recognition - another human. Seat a person at your computer and have them do the mousing and typing. Now, via voice command have that person perform your tasks. I know I would be quite frustrated. Using our voices to control computers as we know them today would be way too inefficient.
This voice command feature appears to be a limitted help in situations where you can't interact directly with your pda - like when you're driving. But, otherwise, I can only see this being a nusance to people around you, or inefficient (3 seconds voice input + audio output VS 1 second screen tapping and skimming the screen output).
just my $.02
I think this is what you're looking for: Linux box as an iTunes music server
Their real reason for DRM in Office...
To stop the Halloween Documents from leaking year after year!
Ok, so these would best be considered "prototypes"
Pic1
Pic2
oops:
here's the corrected link
For those who don't know where Wilkes Barre is:
Here's a map
A zip of the Orb files is available here:
Orb Mirror
In anticipation of RR not appreciating the opportunity to host another Slashdotting, here's a mirror:
Coaster Mirror
enjoy
(I'll put up an Orbs mirror too if I can get the files)
Or, considering this from the admin's view: if they were warned ahead of time, they might be wise and just simply pull down the material so their business (be it academics or professional) doesn't get hindered.
I don't like the idea, but in many cases this might be a reasonable response.
The energy gain (the ~98%) would be spent on the necessary means of keeping the vaccuum inside an actual vaccuum.
Great Idea though.
Hey, if this becomes the next form of mass transit, it will take a long time for Osama to figure out how to take down an American icon with one of these cars! Let alone high jacking it with box cutters if it's autonomous. LOL
He's not pushing 16 video streams through. He's really only pushing 4, minus the 1 that is on the system that is streaming. He has 4 systems running the 1/4 of the wall each. 1 of the systems is the server so it doesn't need to stream it's own 1/4. The other 3 are using Xinerama to give it the appearence of being the height of 4 monitors so it isn't streaming 4 monitors worth of data per system.
4 Quad heads would be easier (bandwidth, admin, moving, & computing), but as he mentioned in the article: getting ANY video cards was difficult let alone Quad head cards.
"I really want to make sure that the Tablet PC will be easy to use. You never have to think about how to sit on a chair. We should have a computer device that people never have to think about how to use, they just pick it up and use it in a very natural way." - Wang
"...once you would compute with a handheld 'Dynabook'... millions of potential users meant that the user interface would have to become a learning environment; and needs for large scope, reduction in complexity, and end-user literacy would require that data and control structures be done away with..." - Alan Kay
I am a huge fan of Alan Kay! And, the more you learn about computing today, the more amazed you will be at how right he was 30 some years ago. Wang, and a lot of the computer industry with hum, is finally realizing what Kay knew back then.
*"You will be able to select it and parse the words and know what words are."
*"There will never be a time where if you cannot recognize your own writing on the page that the recognizer will be that intelligent."
+So if I write something down you'll be able to tell me what I wrote.
+But, if I write something and I don't know what I wrote, you won't be able to tell me what I wrote.
=So, basically, you can tell me what I already know!!
MIRROR HERE Its got graphics and video! Give it a second to load. If any one else has videos I can host.
Send to s1394119(AT)cedarville.edu and I'll gladly post them.
Well, I wish them much better luck. In Northern NJ, along the G.S. Parkway, they tried to decorate one up as a tree. Let me tell you- it draws my eye much more than a normal one would. I guess I'm just so used to seeing them.