Is the wave of webpages designed completely in CSS what you intially intended when you came up with CSS? Do you see that changing? Is that good or bad?
I hope there is some catalyst that causes a much larger wave of biological research. I want to see "Smart Pills", "Strong Pills" and "Anti-Aging Pills" all with little or no side-effects in my lifetime, I feel like we could have these things if we weren't so concerned with curing the symptoms of diseases as we currently are.
I know that our pharmacological community is more concerned with making a buck and keeping us sick then actually curing diseases. I hope that soon enough something is done to halt the concentration on frivilous medical research. Whether it be heavy subsidies to pharmaceutical companies, or offering up huge cash incentives to finding a cure, I just would like to see us move into a future where some of the basic human ailments have been conquered.
We as humans have managed to conquer (or destroy as you may have it) our environment to the point of being able to genetically engineer our own food, so it seems ridiculous that we can't have a better understanding of our own body.
Indeed it is, here is an old article I wrote about this same subject. From the article:
A system that works best for recording and tracking each and every individual transfer of creative work will serve to diminish that work. A system that works to give that creative work to its audience in its purest form, without restrictions will both reward the audience and the creator (though the artist will not be nearly as financially supported by his work).
We would have never seen many of Da Vinci's works if he had access to technology that imposed expiration dates on his writings. We know he used encryption in his work, so just allow yourself jump a step further.
No really, do it. Otherwise I'm taking my money and going home to play one of a billion other fun games I already have. Also, don't try to trick me into buying a game I already have by changing its name and packaging.
Yeah, I think thats true for alot of people. I just so happened to be lucky and experience it first on PC. Some of the mods for the original Morrowind are really professionally done. It's amazing how many things they added. Considering within a week there were already some cool mods for Oblivion, I can't wait to see what the community cooks up in another month or so.
I would really like to see some of those interesting objects in the game used for something other then just looking pretty. Like the scales, the hourglasses, and some of that other interesting but fluff items.
http://userscripts.org/tag/gmail is a great start looking for gmail GM scripts. Actually if you like greasemonkey at all, then all of userscripts.org is very very good.
The day I liked using the Gmail interface better then Thunderbird (and of course outlook) was the day I think Gmail won the war of email. If you count all the spiffy Greasemonkey extensions in firefox for Gmail, then you have a really amazing email service.
I found a interesting program that Metro here in Seattle offers that lets you track each busses exact location. If they could tie that in with google maps, and then tie the scheduling system over that, they would have a truely awesome web app.
Meanwhile, Google should get busy building a site that has has a collection of all the google map implementations in one place. I would love to see all the different googlemap overlays in one interface, although I realize what a grand undertaking that would be. Google are you listening?
Question 1: Will you continue making games with turn-based-strategy focus in them?
As of now, Civilization is one of the few remaining series of games using Turn-Based play that hasn't had the parent company go bankrupt (HOMM anyone), or had the series axed (Fallout). I love turn based games and the idea of having a switch to change turn based to real-time always intrigued me as a great feature in games. Turn based when you are doing something else, real-time when you are focused on just the game.
General computer operation skills are not required to use basic software. (AOL, browsers, instant messaging, email) Generally people who use computers in the office don't see the value in learning the basics about a computer before using it. They view that as only necessary if you are a different class of user, a geek, nerd, or whatever, which of course is a accepted belief.
For instance, if I don't know how big this image is, or what format it is in, it is commonly accepted that it is OK for me to remain at that level of education. You won't see that level of skill/education being acceptable in different areas, such as driving. If you are horrible at driving a car, you will undoubtedly fail the driving test (atleast that is the basic premise behind it), and until you get better at honing your driving skills you will have to live with not driving.
We don't have this kind of training required to use a computer, which is why we have so many "sucker"-traps such as spyware, viruses and all manner of other kinds of problems with computers the world over, no training is required to use them.
Some programs are designed so that a little baby could use them, but if you have a user that has the computer skills of a baby operating a computer full time, there will undoubtedly be times they will cause problems.
It is a great little adventure game I played when I was a kid that helped me learn programming concepts. You can design your own levels and program little objects to do whatever you say. It was kinda like programmable Rogue. You could use the ZZT programming language to make the little objects do all kinds of neat stuff, very fun to play too. See it here
Maybe you've never heard of Greasemonkey. Even though it is primarily client-side plugins being added in at the users request, it has cross-site AJAX capabilities built into it.
That is pretty low, I don't see why the Greasemonkey plugin is now supposedly representing Firefox, its just a simple developer tool that lets you add JS code to a set of pages you define. Firefox is a complete browser, much more complex and amazing at what it does.
I do like Greasemonkey, and I know they will fix this is no time.
Seems futuristic enough. Seems like it would only appeal to a very limited audience though. Probably to expensive to implement.
If I went on a tour of some place exotic, I'd much rather prefer a live person giving me a tour, or a headset and audio tour then having to lug a gameboy thing around and look at it. I could see this kind of technology making an otherwise boring tourist spot much more exciting though. Oh, wait a minute...
Bring big obvious knives or guns onboard planes anyways? It seems to me that boxcutters were at one point in time OK to bring onboard because of their innocuous appearance. If there is a next terrorist plot, who is to say they will bring something obviously weapon-like onto a plane?
There is no X-Ray machine or airport security person that will catch someone determined enough. As someone previously posted, having a locked pilot chamber, and a tazer (or other non-airplane puncturing subdual device) armed guard on the plane is the best way.
I used the right link to contact my senator, and already got a response:
Thank you for contacting me to share your perspective on the REAL ID Act of 2005 (H.R. 418). I appreciate hearing from you about this important issue.
As you know, on January 26, 2005, Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner introduced the REAL ID Act. The REAL ID Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives on February 10, 2005. Many, though not all, of the provisions included in the bill were considered during the House debate of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (P.L. 108-458), sometimes referred to as the 9/11 bill, in December 2004. While companion legislation has not been introduced in the Senate, please be assured that I will keep your views in mind should I have the opportunity to consider this or similar legislation.
As the REAL ID Act is a complex piece of legislation, it may interest you to learn more about three of its key provisions. First, REAL ID would preempt state and local laws regarding the issuance of driver's licenses and personal identification cards. Instead, the bill establishes minimum issuance standards for federal recognition of state driver's licenses or personal identification cards.
Prior to issuing the identification card, the state and issuing agency (for example, the local Department of Motor Vehicles) must verify the validity of an individual's: photo identification document, or non-photo document that includes both the individual's full legal name and date of birth; date of birth; name and most current local address; and Social Security number or ineligibility for a Social Security number.
In short, the REAL ID Act repeals the ability for states to approve issuing driver's licenses or personal identification cards to any individual without legal documentation of his or her stay in the United States.
Proponents of this provision maintain that establishing a uniform driver's license and personal identification card system throughout the United States will increase homeland security. Issuing agencies would be required to confirm all identification information, making it more difficult for people to use fraudulently attain a state issued identification card. In addition, making it effectively illegal for an undocumented immigrant to receive an identification card makes it difficult for this category to obtain employment, travel by air, enter many federal buildings, as well as many other privileges reserved for individuals living legally in the U.S.
However, opponents of this provision view driver's licenses as serving a public safety interest. Studies, such as a January 2003 report conducted by the American Automobile Association (AAA) Foundation for Traffic Safety, have consistently found that unlicensed drivers are more likely to cause serious traffic accidents that lead to injury, death, and property damage. Studies have also shown that unlicensed drivers are more likely than licensed drivers to be uninsured. Driver's licenses are also a prerequisite for purchasing car insurance. States that have chosen to issue driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants have found that the number of uninsured drivers drops.
Furthermore, driver's licenses provide law enforcement with information about who lives in a given community. The Interstate Driver's License Compact is the most comprehensive database of individuals in the United States, containing all of the information included on a person's driver's license and their driving history. It is important to note that an individual's criminal record has no relation to that individual's driver's license, regardless of citizenship status. Currently 46 states and the District of Columbia take part in the Compact, meaning that, if necessary, law enforcement officers can access the names, pictures, and
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Is the wave of webpages designed completely in CSS what you intially intended when you came up with CSS? Do you see that changing? Is that good or bad?
I hope there is some catalyst that causes a much larger wave of biological research. I want to see "Smart Pills", "Strong Pills" and "Anti-Aging Pills" all with little or no side-effects in my lifetime, I feel like we could have these things if we weren't so concerned with curing the symptoms of diseases as we currently are. I know that our pharmacological community is more concerned with making a buck and keeping us sick then actually curing diseases. I hope that soon enough something is done to halt the concentration on frivilous medical research. Whether it be heavy subsidies to pharmaceutical companies, or offering up huge cash incentives to finding a cure, I just would like to see us move into a future where some of the basic human ailments have been conquered. We as humans have managed to conquer (or destroy as you may have it) our environment to the point of being able to genetically engineer our own food, so it seems ridiculous that we can't have a better understanding of our own body.
My friend is the "debit card" withOUT the Visa Logo.
Indeed it is, here is an old article I wrote about this same subject. From the article:
A system that works best for recording and tracking each and every individual transfer of creative work will serve to diminish that work. A system that works to give that creative work to its audience in its purest form, without restrictions will both reward the audience and the creator (though the artist will not be nearly as financially supported by his work).
We would have never seen many of Da Vinci's works if he had access to technology that imposed expiration dates on his writings. We know he used encryption in his work, so just allow yourself jump a step further.
No really, do it. Otherwise I'm taking my money and going home to play one of a billion other fun games I already have. Also, don't try to trick me into buying a game I already have by changing its name and packaging.
Good point, here is how I see it:
PC Version: Mods (they have nice UI mods too), Mouse is nice for managing inventory, and if you like settings its full of em.
Xbox 360 Version: Controller great for intense combat, no settings to tweak.
Yeah, I think thats true for alot of people. I just so happened to be lucky and experience it first on PC. Some of the mods for the original Morrowind are really professionally done. It's amazing how many things they added. Considering within a week there were already some cool mods for Oblivion, I can't wait to see what the community cooks up in another month or so. I would really like to see some of those interesting objects in the game used for something other then just looking pretty. Like the scales, the hourglasses, and some of that other interesting but fluff items.
http://userscripts.org/tag/gmail is a great start looking for gmail GM scripts. Actually if you like greasemonkey at all, then all of userscripts.org is very very good.
The day I liked using the Gmail interface better then Thunderbird (and of course outlook) was the day I think Gmail won the war of email. If you count all the spiffy Greasemonkey extensions in firefox for Gmail, then you have a really amazing email service.
Oh a wise guy eh, well then, they should also show where every single car in the Seattle is, right now!
Wipe 2 times to access referring url.
I found a interesting program that Metro here in Seattle offers that lets you track each busses exact location. If they could tie that in with google maps, and then tie the scheduling system over that, they would have a truely awesome web app.
Meanwhile, Google should get busy building a site that has has a collection of all the google map implementations in one place. I would love to see all the different googlemap overlays in one interface, although I realize what a grand undertaking that would be. Google are you listening?
Maybe this will do something to further fair-use in the upcoming DRM battle for future Bluray, HD-DVD players.
Question 1: Will you continue making games with turn-based-strategy focus in them? As of now, Civilization is one of the few remaining series of games using Turn-Based play that hasn't had the parent company go bankrupt (HOMM anyone), or had the series axed (Fallout). I love turn based games and the idea of having a switch to change turn based to real-time always intrigued me as a great feature in games. Turn based when you are doing something else, real-time when you are focused on just the game.
General computer operation skills are not required to use basic software. (AOL, browsers, instant messaging, email) Generally people who use computers in the office don't see the value in learning the basics about a computer before using it. They view that as only necessary if you are a different class of user, a geek, nerd, or whatever, which of course is a accepted belief.
For instance, if I don't know how big this image is, or what format it is in, it is commonly accepted that it is OK for me to remain at that level of education. You won't see that level of skill/education being acceptable in different areas, such as driving. If you are horrible at driving a car, you will undoubtedly fail the driving test (atleast that is the basic premise behind it), and until you get better at honing your driving skills you will have to live with not driving.
We don't have this kind of training required to use a computer, which is why we have so many "sucker"-traps such as spyware, viruses and all manner of other kinds of problems with computers the world over, no training is required to use them.
Some programs are designed so that a little baby could use them, but if you have a user that has the computer skills of a baby operating a computer full time, there will undoubtedly be times they will cause problems.
It is a great little adventure game I played when I was a kid that helped me learn programming concepts. You can design your own levels and program little objects to do whatever you say. It was kinda like programmable Rogue. You could use the ZZT programming language to make the little objects do all kinds of neat stuff, very fun to play too. See it here
That map looks like something out of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Well, you can find a couple reasons why this just won't work.
Maybe you've never heard of Greasemonkey. Even though it is primarily client-side plugins being added in at the users request, it has cross-site AJAX capabilities built into it.
I think you just broke my mind!
That is pretty low, I don't see why the Greasemonkey plugin is now supposedly representing Firefox, its just a simple developer tool that lets you add JS code to a set of pages you define. Firefox is a complete browser, much more complex and amazing at what it does. I do like Greasemonkey, and I know they will fix this is no time.
Seems futuristic enough. Seems like it would only appeal to a very limited audience though. Probably to expensive to implement. If I went on a tour of some place exotic, I'd much rather prefer a live person giving me a tour, or a headset and audio tour then having to lug a gameboy thing around and look at it. I could see this kind of technology making an otherwise boring tourist spot much more exciting though. Oh, wait a minute...
Soon we won't need all these websites, just one: Yagoogmailsourcedotazon.com
Bring big obvious knives or guns onboard planes anyways? It seems to me that boxcutters were at one point in time OK to bring onboard because of their innocuous appearance. If there is a next terrorist plot, who is to say they will bring something obviously weapon-like onto a plane?
There is no X-Ray machine or airport security person that will catch someone determined enough. As someone previously posted, having a locked pilot chamber, and a tazer (or other non-airplane puncturing subdual device) armed guard on the plane is the best way.
I used the right link to contact my senator, and already got a response:
Thank you for contacting me to share your perspective on the
REAL ID Act of 2005 (H.R. 418). I appreciate hearing from you
about this important issue.
As you know, on January 26, 2005, Congressman Jim
Sensenbrenner introduced the REAL ID Act. The REAL ID Act
passed the U.S. House of Representatives on February 10, 2005.
Many, though not all, of the provisions included in the bill were
considered during the House debate of the Intelligence Reform and
Terrorism Prevention Act (P.L. 108-458), sometimes referred to as
the 9/11 bill, in December 2004. While companion legislation has
not been introduced in the Senate, please be assured that I will
keep your views in mind should I have the opportunity to consider
this or similar legislation.
As the REAL ID Act is a complex piece of legislation, it may
interest you to learn more about three of its key provisions. First,
REAL ID would preempt state and local laws regarding the
issuance of driver's licenses and personal identification cards.
Instead, the bill establishes minimum issuance standards for
federal recognition of state driver's licenses or personal
identification cards.
Prior to issuing the identification card, the state and issuing agency
(for example, the local Department of Motor Vehicles) must verify
the validity of an individual's: photo identification document, or
non-photo document that includes both the individual's full legal
name and date of birth; date of birth; name and most current local
address; and Social Security number or ineligibility for a Social
Security number.
In short, the REAL ID Act repeals the ability for states to approve
issuing driver's licenses or personal identification cards to any
individual without legal documentation of his or her stay in the
United States.
Proponents of this provision maintain that establishing a uniform
driver's license and personal identification card system throughout
the United States will increase homeland security. Issuing
agencies would be required to confirm all identification
information, making it more difficult for people to use fraudulently
attain a state issued identification card. In addition, making it
effectively illegal for an undocumented immigrant to receive an
identification card makes it difficult for this category to obtain
employment, travel by air, enter many federal buildings, as well as
many other privileges reserved for individuals living legally in the
U.S.
However, opponents of this provision view driver's licenses as
serving a public safety interest. Studies, such as a January 2003
report conducted by the American Automobile Association (AAA)
Foundation for Traffic Safety, have consistently found that
unlicensed drivers are more likely to cause serious traffic accidents
that lead to injury, death, and property damage. Studies have also
shown that unlicensed drivers are more likely than licensed drivers
to be uninsured. Driver's licenses are also a prerequisite for
purchasing car insurance. States that have chosen to issue driver's
licenses to undocumented immigrants have found that the number
of uninsured drivers drops.
Furthermore, driver's licenses provide law enforcement with
information about who lives in a given community. The Interstate
Driver's License Compact is the most comprehensive database of
individuals in the United States, containing all of the information
included on a person's driver's license and their driving history. It
is important to note that an individual's criminal record has no
relation to that individual's driver's license, regardless of
citizenship status. Currently 46 states and the District of Columbia
take part in the Compact, meaning that, if necessary, law
enforcement officers can access the names, pictures, and