Having done some research (I hold a masters degree in Japanese), I recall there was also a project that had some kid of one-button Instant Messenger in a teddy bear.
The Idea was that elders spoke to the teddy, who tried to convert their word to written language. This was transferred to a central station, where social workers read them on monitor, and replied (e.g. answering questions). The teddy-bot then "spoke the answer to the elder.
Dont know if this project still is in progress. However, an old lady mentioned that the positive impact of the robot was that so much researchers and journalists came to visit her these days...
I think we all agree that a business world based on OpenSource would be preferable to a Windows-centric system. To achieve this, high-quality-business solutions have to be written and found.
I am running my own business and am using Linux on 5 machines. There is some old Mac, but I do not really use it anymore. To please the Finanzamt (the german IRS), you have to file reports, do some accounting etc. This has proven very difficult for me when I tried it with OpenOffice.
So I searched for business software, e.g. accounting suits, ERP and CRM-Software. I tried for over 2 months and have compiled about 100 different approaches - but all of them were either abandoned, not scaleable to other countries needs (I cannot use spanish tax forms) or they simply didn't work the way they where supposed to do (I even had an KDE program that was published with internal static linking to the programmers home directory!). I finally settled with lxoffice (http://www.lxoffice.org), which is fairly scaleable and where 95% of the system works, but it was a hard fight.
While I am accepting such situations as a hobbyist, as a business owner that's lots of time I am not paid for.
Quality control could help in such situations, helping users choose reliable software. And yes, I'd be willing to pay for it.
Something similar (utilizing some kind of 3-d inkjet printer with hot, liquid plastics für ink) was presented in the mid-1990s at some trade fair I went to. Matter of fact, I think I have also seen these on TV, building evolving robots (not joking, cannot remember the context, thought)
Matter of fact, I really prefer to actually hear my fans and similar cooling stuff. That way, I'm not dependent on some temperature sensors that - in my case (pun intended)- fail all the time, because I just HEAR if something has gone wrong...... thus creating a new style of IT-geekdom loosely connected to those car geeks out there ^_^
I may be wrong, but wouldn't Greylisting affect automated emails sent by e.g. PHP scripts? The major sites use emails to remind for passwords or send confirmations. Those systems, too, work with a "fire and forget" premise. If you start greylisting, you could render - for an example - slashdot subscription useless, because the user will never get the confirmation mail...
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The Idea was that elders spoke to the teddy, who tried to convert their word to written language. This was transferred to a central station, where social workers read them on monitor, and replied (e.g. answering questions). The teddy-bot then "spoke the answer to the elder.
Dont know if this project still is in progress. However, an old lady mentioned that the positive impact of the robot was that so much researchers and journalists came to visit her these days...
D'Oh ... my keyboard needs Quality Control, too. Ate that dash. Try http://www.lx-office.org
Sure, one ship against a whole fleet of pissed off starfleet officers.
No matter how bright Wesley is supposed to be or how great Picards father-complex is, the fleet would have vaporized them in days.
(you know you're just have become even more a geek if you speculate on slashdot about better Star Trek storylines...)o.
I think we all agree that a business world based on OpenSource would be preferable to a Windows-centric system. To achieve this, high-quality-business solutions have to be written and found. I am running my own business and am using Linux on 5 machines. There is some old Mac, but I do not really use it anymore. To please the Finanzamt (the german IRS), you have to file reports, do some accounting etc. This has proven very difficult for me when I tried it with OpenOffice. So I searched for business software, e.g. accounting suits, ERP and CRM-Software. I tried for over 2 months and have compiled about 100 different approaches - but all of them were either abandoned, not scaleable to other countries needs (I cannot use spanish tax forms) or they simply didn't work the way they where supposed to do (I even had an KDE program that was published with internal static linking to the programmers home directory!). I finally settled with lxoffice (http://www.lxoffice.org), which is fairly scaleable and where 95% of the system works, but it was a hard fight. While I am accepting such situations as a hobbyist, as a business owner that's lots of time I am not paid for. Quality control could help in such situations, helping users choose reliable software. And yes, I'd be willing to pay for it.
But there is a lot of anti-spyware stuff on knoppix. Think of the posibilities of fdisk!
Something similar (utilizing some kind of 3-d inkjet printer with hot, liquid plastics für ink) was presented in the mid-1990s at some trade fair I went to. Matter of fact, I think I have also seen these on TV, building evolving robots (not joking, cannot remember the context, thought)
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... its called GEMA. However, it applies only to musicians who distribute ALL of their work trough this maf^ZOrganisation
Matter of fact, I really prefer to actually hear my fans and similar cooling stuff. That way, I'm not dependent on some temperature sensors that - in my case (pun intended)- fail all the time, because I just HEAR if something has gone wrong... ... thus creating a new style of IT-geekdom loosely connected to those car geeks out there ^_^
Hm, that's a theory. May I ask humbly if there is any proof for it?
I may be wrong, but wouldn't Greylisting affect automated emails sent by e.g. PHP scripts? The major sites use emails to remind for passwords or send confirmations. Those systems, too, work with a "fire and forget" premise. If you start greylisting, you could render - for an example - slashdot subscription useless, because the user will never get the confirmation mail ...
Correct me if I'm wrong