This seems like a far better than the UDP notification idea. Port forwarding for an RSS feed? No thanks.
There is almost always a DNS cache at the ISP so the polling interval can be completely controlled by the TTL of the record. Using the existing distributed caching of DNS versus the large percentage of users who are not behind HTTP caches.
I see two potential problems with this idea:
1. A lot of people are stuck behind HTTP proxies with limited or no DNS. This isn't too bad as they could fallback to the current system.
2. Access to the DNS server zone file. Unless you are running your own server, this might be a difficult thing to do as a lot of hosts do not allow direct access to the zone file and would probably frown on lots of changes to the file. If you have a static IP address you could host your own DNS server to get around this however. For someone with bandwidth problems from RSS feeds, this is unlikely to be an issue.
The iFP is a flash based player. The hard disk ones are plain ol' FAT32 formatted and play anything that you randomly copy over (MP3, vorbis, RIFF WAVE, unprotected WMA).
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Here's the article text incase they close the hole:
Video Games With a Political Message Georgia Tech professor devises interactive ways to look at campaigns and policy debates
By ANDREA L. FOSTER
Atlanta
Playing video games can persuade voters to change their minds on important political issues.
Startling but true, says Ian Bogost, an assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His passion for analyzing and designing video games has made him a hot commodity for political campaigns bent on creating interactive games that drive home a political message.
Video-game designers have been creating a plethora of interactive games this campaign season for or about political candidates. Many simply let players vent their frustrations. There's a game called John Kerry: Tax Invaders, which has President Bush's head firing at targets meant to represent taxes that would be imposed by Senator Kerry if he were president, and another game that allows a player to control a donkey that kicks an image of Mr. Bush.
But Mr. Bogost is one of the leading designers working to make such games more sophisticated and informative.
A video game on the issue of health care that Mr. Bogost designed for the Illinois House Republican Organization, for example, shows a colorful map of a small town, dotted with icons representing hospitals and other buildings. A bustle of animated characters roam the map, with indicators of how healthy they are displayed above their heads. Players must decide which characters to move to which hospitals. They also have to adjust the amount of money spent on medical research and adjust the cap on damages paid to victims of medical malpractice. The virtual medical system collapses if the cap is too high -- driving home the value and importance of limiting malpractice claims, an argument made by Republican candidates in the state.
Mr. Bogost argues that games like this, that espouse a policy or political agenda, have the potential to influence voters far more than television advertisements or political debates. In five years, video games will be a staple of political campaigns, he says. Interactive games distributed on the Internet will let politicians "get their message out in a much more effective and engaging and cost-effective way."
He says the involvement of players is what makes the games so powerful.
"You've got a player who is learning to understand principles by performing them himself rather than hearing someone talk about them idly in casual conversation," says Mr. Bogost.
'Cultural Artifacts'
At Georgia Tech, Mr. Bogost is teaching classes in computing and digital media, and designing courses and doing research in the field he calls "video game rhetoric and criticism," as a member of the university's School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. Political games, he says, can be seen as "cultural artifacts, akin to film, art, and literature," and can be analyzed to see how they influence people's opinions.
To foster more discussion on the impact of games with a political or social agenda, he maintains a blog, called Watercoolergames.com, with a friend and fellow designer, Gonzalo Frasca, who recently joined the Center for Computer Games Research at IT University of Copenhagen. Several times a week the two critique games on such far-flung topics as saving whales, pedophilia, and fitness.
In a September posting to his blog, Mr. Bogost suggests a change to the game Tax Invaders. He says the game's message might be stronger if players controlled Senator Kerry, who would shoot tax increases
getting them into Music Match with the rest of her songs
Without having used Music Match myself may I ask how you did this? Did you have to break any DRM? Any reason you couldn't just burn it first and then import back into Music Match? (Seems to be the in thing these days for getting around DRM.)
CD-RW media... weren't able to be played on her portable jukebox
Perhaps it's because you were using CD-RWs not CD-Rs? IMO only PCs and some DVD players can reliably play CD-RWs. The problem here is most likely the media not the source data.
wasted 4 CD-RWs
Any reason you can't just format these rewritable discs?
I've been doing this for some time now (IMAP, Squid, Thunderbird, SquirrelMail).
Only one problem though. I am yet to work out a way to have my address book shared between Thunderbird and SquirrelMail. Does anyone have any ideas on this? Ideally pine could join in on the shared address book action too, but that's not overly unnecessary.
Hey, this isn't bad. Much better than trying to read it via Google's WAP proxy.
The problem I find with these low bandwidth versions is there isn't enough data on each page which results in so many round trips to the server. Google's WAP proxy is terrible for this. My phone can handle lots of pages fine (I read the text only version of BBC News regularily for example). Large pages give an out of memory error which means I then have to go view the page a nibbble at a time via Google. Oh the pain.
Does anyone know of any proxy type sites one could use that gives you some control on how small the chunks are? (splitting only at paragraphs would be ideal). If not, I guess it might be time for Yet Another SourceForce Project.
I think that new consumer Windows PCs should come pre-patched with the latest patches from Windows Update and have the firewall enabled on any pre-configured connections (SP2 will help the later).
Obviously due to the number and frequency of patches that Microsoft are releasing, this may not be an easy or inexpensive task for retailers.
Symlinks. They aren't hard to implement. But Windows doesn't support them (shortcuts don't count because they don't work transparently or at a filesystem level). Cygwin helps with this (fairly well, actually), but only for cygwin applications.
NTFS does infact support symbolic links and also mounting a NTFS partition the same way as you can do with the mount tool.
There is no mention of symlinks in the GUI (they appear as normal directories and there is no UI option to create them). cmd.exe's dir command shows symlinks differently than a directory though.
The Windows 2000 Resource Kit has a few tools that can mount a partition on a mount point. System Internals have also released a utility called junction that can do the equivilant of symbolic links.
Don't use Explorer to remove a junction point though, the naive SHFileOperation function deletes all contained files and directories before deleting the symlink. As with dir, rmdir in cmd.exe works correctly with symbolic links.
I could clearly hear the difference between C and A/B on my AUD$50 headphones. The difference between A and B was much more subtle but still there.
I thought I was imagining it but once I got someone to rename them randomly and I re-tested, I could still definitely hear artifacts that sounded like lowish bitrate MP3s in two out of three using the third as the control.
The way these DVDs work is they are set for all regions and have different content set for each region.
The players would need to look for the region which has the most content on it rather than the actual region of the disk (as the disk is technically region free).
Not true. In 2008 there must be a review of the situation to see if analog should be discontinued. We will have analog until at least 2008 (most likely longer than this). And this 2008 review only applies to the cities. Rural area have their review later (2011 from memory).
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From How SSN's work:
:)
"statisticians say that the nine-digit SSN allows for approximately one billion possible combinations!"
Great stuff
Anyone willing to chip in a few $? :)
In this example I believe "Windows 95" OR "Windows 98" would do the trick.
Of course regular expressions would be nice, but I just don't see them happening any time soon due to inherit resource requirements.
So it's just Optus's GPRS that's slow then? I thought this was just how GPRS was. I might look at giving Vodafone a go then.
This seems like a far better than the UDP notification idea. Port forwarding for an RSS feed? No thanks.
There is almost always a DNS cache at the ISP so the polling interval can be completely controlled by the TTL of the record. Using the existing distributed caching of DNS versus the large percentage of users who are not behind HTTP caches.
I see two potential problems with this idea:
1. A lot of people are stuck behind HTTP proxies with limited or no DNS. This isn't too bad as they could fallback to the current system.
2. Access to the DNS server zone file. Unless you are running your own server, this might be a difficult thing to do as a lot of hosts do not allow direct access to the zone file and would probably frown on lots of changes to the file. If you have a static IP address you could host your own DNS server to get around this however. For someone with bandwidth problems from RSS feeds, this is unlikely to be an issue.
That's why I always tap the shift key instead :)
The iFP is a flash based player. The hard disk ones are plain ol' FAT32 formatted and play anything that you randomly copy over (MP3, vorbis, RIFF WAVE, unprotected WMA).
For sites that do not require $$$, this site is great, but unfortunately this one is a pay for content site.
From the BugMeNot.com FAQ:
http://chronicle.com/cgi2-bin/printable.cgi?articl e=http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v51/i10/10a03201
Here's the article text incase they close the hole:
Video Games With a Political Message
Georgia Tech professor devises interactive ways to look at campaigns and policy debates
By ANDREA L. FOSTER
Atlanta
Playing video games can persuade voters to change their minds on important political issues.
Startling but true, says Ian Bogost, an assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His passion for analyzing and designing video games has made him a hot commodity for political campaigns bent on creating interactive games that drive home a political message.
Video-game designers have been creating a plethora of interactive games this campaign season for or about political candidates. Many simply let players vent their frustrations. There's a game called John Kerry: Tax Invaders, which has President Bush's head firing at targets meant to represent taxes that would be imposed by Senator Kerry if he were president, and another game that allows a player to control a donkey that kicks an image of Mr. Bush.
But Mr. Bogost is one of the leading designers working to make such games more sophisticated and informative.
A video game on the issue of health care that Mr. Bogost designed for the Illinois House Republican Organization, for example, shows a colorful map of a small town, dotted with icons representing hospitals and other buildings. A bustle of animated characters roam the map, with indicators of how healthy they are displayed above their heads. Players must decide which characters to move to which hospitals. They also have to adjust the amount of money spent on medical research and adjust the cap on damages paid to victims of medical malpractice. The virtual medical system collapses if the cap is too high -- driving home the value and importance of limiting malpractice claims, an argument made by Republican candidates in the state.
Mr. Bogost argues that games like this, that espouse a policy or political agenda, have the potential to influence voters far more than television advertisements or political debates. In five years, video games will be a staple of political campaigns, he says. Interactive games distributed on the Internet will let politicians "get their message out in a much more effective and engaging and cost-effective way."
He says the involvement of players is what makes the games so powerful.
"You've got a player who is learning to understand principles by performing them himself rather than hearing someone talk about them idly in casual conversation," says Mr. Bogost.
'Cultural Artifacts'
At Georgia Tech, Mr. Bogost is teaching classes in computing and digital media, and designing courses and doing research in the field he calls "video game rhetoric and criticism," as a member of the university's School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. Political games, he says, can be seen as "cultural artifacts, akin to film, art, and literature," and can be analyzed to see how they influence people's opinions.
To foster more discussion on the impact of games with a political or social agenda, he maintains a blog, called Watercoolergames.com, with a friend and fellow designer, Gonzalo Frasca, who recently joined the Center for Computer Games Research at IT University of Copenhagen. Several times a week the two critique games on such far-flung topics as saving whales, pedophilia, and fitness.
In a September posting to his blog, Mr. Bogost suggests a change to the game Tax Invaders. He says the game's message might be stronger if players controlled Senator Kerry, who would shoot tax increases
Want PageRank? How about Google Pagerank extension (for firefox and mozilla) for a nice little PageRank icon in your status bar?
I prefer it over the bulky Google bar and use "google whatever" in the address bar whenever I want to search for something.
getting them into Music Match with the rest of her songs
Without having used Music Match myself may I ask how you did this? Did you have to break any DRM? Any reason you couldn't just burn it first and then import back into Music Match? (Seems to be the in thing these days for getting around DRM.)
CD-RW media ... weren't able to be played on her portable jukebox
Perhaps it's because you were using CD-RWs not CD-Rs? IMO only PCs and some DVD players can reliably play CD-RWs. The problem here is most likely the media not the source data.
wasted 4 CD-RWs
Any reason you can't just format these rewritable discs?
I've been doing this for some time now (IMAP, Squid, Thunderbird, SquirrelMail).
Only one problem though. I am yet to work out a way to have my address book shared between Thunderbird and SquirrelMail. Does anyone have any ideas on this? Ideally pine could join in on the shared address book action too, but that's not overly unnecessary.
Hey, this isn't bad. Much better than trying to read it via Google's WAP proxy.
The problem I find with these low bandwidth versions is there isn't enough data on each page which results in so many round trips to the server. Google's WAP proxy is terrible for this. My phone can handle lots of pages fine (I read the text only version of BBC News regularily for example). Large pages give an out of memory error which means I then have to go view the page a nibbble at a time via Google. Oh the pain.
Does anyone know of any proxy type sites one could use that gives you some control on how small the chunks are? (splitting only at paragraphs would be ideal). If not, I guess it might be time for Yet Another SourceForce Project.
Is this the list of things you can do via email you were looking for?
If the DVD is homemade, it would most likely not have CSS encryption on it and therefore could be copied using normal burning tools.
I think that new consumer Windows PCs should come pre-patched with the latest patches from Windows Update and have the firewall enabled on any pre-configured connections (SP2 will help the later).
Obviously due to the number and frequency of patches that Microsoft are releasing, this may not be an easy or inexpensive task for retailers.
That's why you setup a cluster of them. Makes compiling much faster ;)
So now we can't use multiple periods in our filenames? These blocked attachments everywhere are getting annoying.
:)
Really, what's wrong with a filename such as "linux-2.6.1.tar.bz2"? Oh, Microsoft considers that a virus you say?
NTFS does infact support symbolic links and also mounting a NTFS partition the same way as you can do with the mount tool.
There is no mention of symlinks in the GUI (they appear as normal directories and there is no UI option to create them). cmd.exe's dir command shows symlinks differently than a directory though.
The Windows 2000 Resource Kit has a few tools that can mount a partition on a mount point. System Internals have also released a utility called junction that can do the equivilant of symbolic links.
Don't use Explorer to remove a junction point though, the naive SHFileOperation function deletes all contained files and directories before deleting the symlink. As with dir, rmdir in cmd.exe works correctly with symbolic links.
I could clearly hear the difference between C and A/B on my AUD$50 headphones. The difference between A and B was much more subtle but still there.
I thought I was imagining it but once I got someone to rename them randomly and I re-tested, I could still definitely hear artifacts that sounded like lowish bitrate MP3s in two out of three using the third as the control.
The way these DVDs work is they are set for all regions and have different content set for each region.
The players would need to look for the region which has the most content on it rather than the actual region of the disk (as the disk is technically region free).
PAL/SECAM is 720x576 actually.
Not true. In 2008 there must be a review of the situation to see if analog should be discontinued. We will have analog until at least 2008 (most likely longer than this). And this 2008 review only applies to the cities. Rural area have their review later (2011 from memory).