Both games are designed in such a way that players are expected to sit back and think about certain moves. And when the player stops, the game stops.
That's not how it works anymore. You can also set automatic actions if there is lag, like auto-defense and auto-attacking. I can't tell you a lot more about it simply because you reached the limits of my knowledge. But read the TomeNet forums and ask questions there if you haven't found any answers. There's also an insightful Tome wiki linked from the site.
The single-player engine of Tome is way more advanced than TomeNet right now afaik.
I only quickly browsed MS's site, but I don't think they implemented something similar to georss.org.
From slashgisrs: A team is working on Geographically Encoded Objects for RSS feeds. From the overview: "GeoRSS is simple proposal for RSS feeds to also be described by location or Geotagged. We standardize the way in which "where" is encoded with enough simplicity and descriptive power to satisfy most needs to describe the location of Web content. [...] it should serve as an easy-to-use geotagging language that is brief and simple with useful defaults but extensible and upwardly-compatible with more sophisticated formats like the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) GML (Geography Markup Language)".
GeoRSS is really an interesting innovation from the actual concept of RSS.
If you take a look a TomeNet, you get a MMORPG open engine. The sad thing is, you must go to the forums to learn anything about it because the website isn't updated often.
TomeNet is a roguelike multiplayer online rolepaying game based on Tolkien's work. The single player game is also getting closer to version 3.0, with a revamped game engine (open, with source code available). Great game and great community.
we would have an avalanche of innovative "taking someone else's idea and product and sticking it on the internet" innovation!
He he he... not exactly what I had in mind;-) But the thing is: IP really is a limitation because you are prohibited to try new mixes: in this example, mixing Internet, a game and a webmapping service/data. If there wasn't any Hasbro IP, in the end, the potential for innovation would be greater. In other words, I disagree with you:-)
Couldn't there be a way to make a FreeRisk.org in the same way there is a FreeCiv.org? And thus, bypass legal limitations?
Civ IV can even use NASA Blue Marble tiles, I don't see why a FreeRisk or not-so-free Risk couldn't make use of NASA's Blue Marble data. It would be more beautiful than a Google Map basemap. Am I wrong?
Clearly, this is another example where IP impeds innovation...
Interesting. B5 changed my life at the time. It helped me see things differently. Even it this is the past and I'm focusing on other issues now, B5 will always have place in my heart.
A lot of friends told me about Adium. But hey, I love software integration and iChat integrates with Mail and AddressBook in a way Adium won't be able to. Both (Adium and iChat) have pros and cons, but it's nice to know you can use iChat for -all- IM protocols:-)
Well, honestly, I'm wondering if this 'Google Space' news is fake. Even if it seems quite possible and not surprising, I only found two occurences of this Google project on the web and yes, this website is of unknowned reliability...
Busy day for Google? The Mysan website announces the new Google Space for London's Heathrow Airport. From the article: "A half of British passengers surveyed said they had nothing better to do in airport terminals than eat, drink and shop. [...] To answer this demand, on Thursday 24 November, Google is launching Google Space at Heathrows Terminal One. Google Space is a laboratory comprising Google pods, which travellers can access for free once through security to log onto the Internet, check their mail and use Google tools to find out about their destination."
Are there any meaningful sites out there that run slashcode?
I'd like to believe so. http://slashgisrs.org/ - we're trying to be pertinent and useful. But since we're less than 2 months old, we don't have the readership/. gets. But we still have 6000 daily hits:-) It's very specific: for the geospatial community out there.
Normally, you can find other slashcode projects there: http://www.slashcode.com/sites.pl but this part of the site is down since the last slash-css update.
slashcode is *hard* to correctly install and setup. But it *is* a great tool once everything runs at a steady state:-)
Ok, this is a shameless plug, but still a useful one:-) For those interested in Remote Sensing, as this story is about, there is a new slashsite, called http://slashgisrs.org/ that targets the RS and GIS crowd. The site is about one month old. Cheers:-)
Here's another study regarding mapping genes. There's a lot of research being done and it is being more and more interdisciplinary, which is a good thing if you want a big picture to find clues and solutions.
GeoPlace reports a story on project METAFUNCTIONS from Informationsdienst Wissenschaft about mapping environmental clues to decipher the function of genes. "Another innovative aspect of this project [METAFUNCTIONS] is the use of geographic information systems (GIS). GIS tools provide for the simulation and analysis of events from a geographical or spatial perspective. Novel patterns - for example, the physical clustering of genes within a genome - will be correlated to the contextual habitat data."
RFID tags are so cheap (or rather, will soon be, read below), I'm really seeing a flood coming, not only for passports, for anything the human mind can imagine!
Taken from http://slashgisrs.org/ MobileMag have a small article about a 100% organic matter RFID chip developed in Korea, costing only 0.5 cents. From the article: The new RFID Tag chip is able to function on the 30 kHz frequency by only using 100% organic compounds and an inkjet printer. By cutting down the price considerably it will allow for thee mass production through the printing process. The chip can also be printed on any paper, plastic and wood standard.
Slashdot Mirror
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+offers+a+new+angle+o n+maps/2100-1032_3-5986057.html?tag=nefd.top
i d=2047
http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_
Directions Mag is/will probably provide a deeper analysis since it target specifically the geospatial domain, not general technology.
Both games are designed in such a way that players are expected to sit back and think about certain moves. And when the player stops, the game stops.
That's not how it works anymore. You can also set automatic actions if there is lag, like auto-defense and auto-attacking. I can't tell you a lot more about it simply because you reached the limits of my knowledge. But read the TomeNet forums and ask questions there if you haven't found any answers. There's also an insightful Tome wiki linked from the site.
The single-player engine of Tome is way more advanced than TomeNet right now afaik.
I only quickly browsed MS's site, but I don't think they implemented something similar to georss.org.
From slashgisrs: A team is working on Geographically Encoded Objects for RSS feeds. From the overview: "GeoRSS is simple proposal for RSS feeds to also be described by location or Geotagged. We standardize the way in which "where" is encoded with enough simplicity and descriptive power to satisfy most needs to describe the location of Web content. [...] it should serve as an easy-to-use geotagging language that is brief and simple with useful defaults but extensible and upwardly-compatible with more sophisticated formats like the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) GML (Geography Markup Language)".
GeoRSS is really an interesting innovation from the actual concept of RSS.
I too am interested in what tool they use. It's not slashcode of course, probably something homemade closer to the Why Not system...
:-)
Would be great if Google was to make available -their- idea sorting and moderation system to the world
If you take a look a TomeNet, you get a MMORPG open engine. The sad thing is, you must go to the forums to learn anything about it because the website isn't updated often.
TomeNet is a roguelike multiplayer online rolepaying game based on Tolkien's work. The single player game is also getting closer to version 3.0, with a revamped game engine (open, with source code available). Great game and great community.
we would have an avalanche of innovative "taking someone else's idea and product and sticking it on the internet" innovation!
;-) :-)
He he he... not exactly what I had in mind
But the thing is: IP really is a limitation because you are prohibited to try new mixes: in this example, mixing Internet, a game and a webmapping service/data. If there wasn't any Hasbro IP, in the end, the potential for innovation would be greater. In other words, I disagree with you
Couldn't there be a way to make a FreeRisk.org in the same way there is a FreeCiv.org? And thus, bypass legal limitations?
Civ IV can even use NASA Blue Marble tiles, I don't see why a FreeRisk or not-so-free Risk couldn't make use of NASA's Blue Marble data. It would be more beautiful than a Google Map basemap. Am I wrong?
Clearly, this is another example where IP impeds innovation...
Interesting. B5 changed my life at the time. It helped me see things differently. Even it this is the past and I'm focusing on other issues now, B5 will always have place in my heart.
t ml#b5-anchor
:-)
Some great links:
Babylon 5 Lurker's Guide
http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html
B5 quotes I gathered (and published in an open book):
http://www.alexandre.leroux.net/quotes/quotes_e.h
Free B5 great game:
http://ifh.firstones.com/
Cheers
Corel Land? Why not direct your boat to inkscape shores?
This annoucement just means less competition. Which is always bad for users...
Yup, but with Adium, you don't have a green bullet if the contact is online. ... I love green bullets ;-)
in addition to AIM and Jabber. How? They explain it right there:u gh-jabber
:-)
http://allforces.com/2005/05/06/ichat-to-msn-thro
A lot of friends told me about Adium. But hey, I love software integration and iChat integrates with Mail and AddressBook in a way Adium won't be able to. Both (Adium and iChat) have pros and cons, but it's nice to know you can use iChat for -all- IM protocols
Here's some links from the geospatial community, reacting to this great announcement.i d=20371 1/28/1453240
First, there is this very interesting analysis:
http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_
There's also this interesting comment:
http://geovisualisation.com/WordPress/?p=223
And some comments on this:
http://industry.slashgisrs.org/article.pl?sid=05/
This Autodesk announcement is one of the most important news in a great while (since Google Map/Earth made some geospatial tools known to the world?).
The official link for this project, called Google Space, has not yet been indicated:
l and on two previous /. comments. I submitted this story a few days ago, but I agree with the /. eds, the url I provided were not as interesting as in today's story...
http://www.google.co.uk/googlespace/
It was first mentioned on http://www.ogleearth.com/2005/11/google_space.htm
Ok, I'm not crazy, there you go, Google Space !
l
http://www.google.co.uk/googlespace/
Linked from http://www.ogleearth.com/2005/11/google_space.htm
quite better from the first link I provided...
Well, honestly, I'm wondering if this 'Google Space' news is fake. Even if it seems quite possible and not surprising, I only found two occurences of this Google project on the web and yes, this website is of unknowned reliability...
Busy day for Google?
The Mysan website announces the new Google Space for London's Heathrow Airport. From the article: "A half of British passengers surveyed said they had nothing better to do in airport terminals than eat, drink and shop. [...] To answer this demand, on Thursday 24 November, Google is launching Google Space at Heathrows Terminal One. Google Space is a laboratory comprising Google pods, which travellers can access for free once through security to log onto the Internet, check their mail and use Google tools to find out about their destination."
I wonder if they plan to integrate this tagging idea to their newly launched web mapping service.
/.'s mainpages, but Amazon added a map service earlier this month, you can read more about it.)
(This hasn't been on
Are there any meaningful sites out there that run slashcode?
/. gets. But we still have 6000 daily hits :-) It's very specific: for the geospatial community out there.
:-)
I'd like to believe so. http://slashgisrs.org/ - we're trying to be pertinent and useful. But since we're less than 2 months old, we don't have the readership
Normally, you can find other slashcode projects there: http://www.slashcode.com/sites.pl but this part of the site is down since the last slash-css update.
slashcode is *hard* to correctly install and setup. But it *is* a great tool once everything runs at a steady state
Cheers!
This is not a complete list, but Reason and GarageBand are not free nor open source, so these links might be useful:
:-)
- ardour, Digital Audio workstation / http://ardour.org/
- Rosegarden, audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment / http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/
- LilyPond, music notation / http://lilypond.org/web/
- MusE MIDI/Audio sequencer / http://muse.serverkommune.de/
- Audacity, music editing station / http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
- Music Theory (free, not oss): http://www.musictheory.net/ and http://andyvn.ath.cx/Software-Aquallegro.php
- general link: http://linux-sound.org/
Cheers
Taken from http://appdomains.slashgisrs.org/article.pl?sid=05 /10/25/1419228
ClickZ article about Google using geo-targeted RSS ads. From the article: "I think there's a lot of potential in geo-targeting RSS feeds, given that the sky's the limit in the number of mobile devices it has the ability to show up on," Marshall said. "Even advertisers that may not understand it at first, I think when you explain it to them, they'd be excited.". See also our previous GeoRSS.org coverage.
OgleEarth points to three games involving GoogleEarth, Earth Contest, GoogleEarthing and GEwar. Taken from http://industry.slashgisrs.org/article.pl?sid=05/1 0/07/134251
Ok, this is a shameless plug, but still a useful one :-) For those interested in Remote Sensing, as this story is about, there is a new slashsite, called http://slashgisrs.org/ that targets the RS and GIS crowd. The site is about one month old. Cheers :-)
Here's another study regarding mapping genes. There's a lot of research being done and it is being more and more interdisciplinary, which is a good thing if you want a big picture to find clues and solutions.
GeoPlace reports a story on project METAFUNCTIONS from Informationsdienst Wissenschaft about mapping environmental clues to decipher the function of genes. "Another innovative aspect of this project [METAFUNCTIONS] is the use of geographic information systems (GIS). GIS tools provide for the simulation and analysis of events from a geographical or spatial perspective. Novel patterns - for example, the physical clustering of genes within a genome - will be correlated to the contextual habitat data."
RFID tags are so cheap (or rather, will soon be, read below), I'm really seeing a flood coming, not only for passports, for anything the human mind can imagine!
Taken from http://slashgisrs.org/
MobileMag have a small article about a 100% organic matter RFID chip developed in Korea, costing only 0.5 cents. From the article: The new RFID Tag chip is able to function on the 30 kHz frequency by only using 100% organic compounds and an inkjet printer. By cutting down the price considerably it will allow for thee mass production through the printing process. The chip can also be printed on any paper, plastic and wood standard.
Isn't that iPhoto? Is there really room for a third product in between iPhoto and Aperture?
Well, for Logic Audio:
Logic Pro / Logic Express / GarageBand
For Final Cut:
Final Cut Pro / Final Cut Express / iMovie
So I guess they could create an Aperture Express!