In all seriousness I don't understand why Mozilla hasn't taken over the browser market already
It's like how every time the subject of a competitor to Google comes up, many highly-modded comments are along the lines of 'Oh, Google's entrenched, any new product has to be at least 10x better to get people to switch.'.
Now, I know it's an unpopular opinion, but when you think about it, Mozilla is not ten times better than Internet Explorer. It's better, but not THAT MUCH better, not even in the same way that IE was better than NS4
Heck, I develop CSS/JS-rich front-ends for a living, and to the horror of my peers, I still use IE as my primary browser. Why? Because aside from its nice JS debugger, which only gets pulled out when I'm testing, Mozilla offers no GREAT reason to switch. I keep my system patched, the recent FireFoxes have crashed on me more often than IE ever has, I prefer spatial+visible window organisation, and IE still opens faster*.
The other major good points behind Mozilla (ie Standards Compliant Rendering) are of little consequence to the end-user in an IE-dominated world.
* I know there are counterpoints to all of these, I've heard them, believe me.
I'm still waiting for LCD displays to appear on the outside of glasses - as the eyes are where all the emotion in expression is, it could become a reasonably powerful medium for expression.
... Assuming everyone just doesn't go for the red-crosshairs. Bleh.
If you want to access your quicksearches* even faster, I humbly submit a super early version of Trip, which lets Windows users enter URLs without having to wait for a browser to open, or having to use their mouse to select an input field (which, even if it takes half a second, is half a second too long).
Impatient people who like to optimise things seem to find it useful, others don't.
* FireFox doesn't allow launching quicksearches from external apps, whereas IE does, so Trip implements quicksearches itself.
I wouldn't go with a renderfarm - people are too used to seeing the 60fps stuff that comes out of hardware acceleration to be THAT impressed by software rendering, even if it looks great at 1 frame every 10 seconds.
The same applies for most 'data crunching' applications - unless your audience is intimately familiar with how long ( protein folding | SETI searches | whatever you're doing ) takes, it's not going to be that impressive. Even if they do know how long something takes, a speed gain of two over whatever they use is just going to be lost in the hurly burly of the presentation atmosphere, unless you can compare them side-by-side.
That said, it's going to depend on your audience - if they are ALL real 3DSMAX heads, then show one of the default benchmarks running, with nice big printed charts showing the gains over your competition. But if they're a mix of 3DSMAX users and Maya users (for example), then you're going to lose half of them.
Live coverage is pathetic on the net. For example, the live coverage of the SpaceShipOne 100km space shot consisted of a webcast of the Space Show where the onsite reporter was using a cell phone to relay back what was happening.
Not to poopoo on your very valid point, but the BBC had streaming video of the entire thing - details at bottom of this post. CNN and MSNBC also had web-video coverage, although the latter was prerecorded, and the former required a RealOne pass.
Because you will always have one main 'obvious' address - be it something that goes on your business card, or something you tell to people you meet. For example, I use glen at glenmurphy.com.
Now all it takes is one slip - someone you know to get a virus, whatever, and your address is 'out there' for the taking. Your only possible recourse then is to stop using that address, but for some people that's just not an option, and it's a just bit defeatist to sit there surrendering email address after email address.
What happens when you want to get a dvd to watch the next day?
The self-destructing disks only start degrading when you either put it in your player (ie the laser causes the destruction), or take it out of its container and expose it to light/air.
A cheap, easy way to do it would be to go the 'ambient device' route and use a small number of coloured surface-mount LEDs (perhaps placed along the inside edges of your glasses) and train yourself to recognise what they mean when lit up in certain combinations.
It would be a bit safer than a textual display which requires you to change your eye's focal distance to read. Just make sure you don't blind yourself with it at night.
As a general you can map out a very general battle plan, and then kind of sit back and hope it works out. Even with the best communcation systems in place at best you could give orders to individual soldiers, but you wouldn't have any control over how they carried them out.
Now, how much fun is it to play a game where you basically sit back and watch the action, rather than being able to interact with it?
I don't know, Highway to the Reich simulates the chain of command situation perfectly, and it's nothing short of amazing as a result. You can, for example, just order your top-ranked units to take a town, and they'll organise all the units under their command into a proper attack. But heck, that might takes two hours to get everyone together, so planning and timing is the name of the game.
Want to order individual units around? Sure can, but the order can take a while for you to get to that unit, and that unit under your command may leave its parent unit without capabilities it needs.
Add to this an opponent suffering the same problems, and perhaps the foresight to take advantage of any weaknesses in your chain of command, and you have an EXTREMELY tense, thrilling wargame.
I haven't worked with Python yet though I plan to take a look at it soon. I know it is a scripting language but is there a way to compile it into native executable form?
"You don't need the ability to compile Python to C code if all you want is a stand-alone program that users can download and run without having to install the Python distribution first. There are a number of tools that determine the set of modules required by a program and bind these modules together with a Python binary to produce a single executable..."Read More
Would this even be readable by std DVD rom drives?
Almost all readers support dual-layer (many movie DVDs these days are dual-layer), so if this doesn't produce some strange unstandard format, it should be fine.
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And depending on how large the return IR area is, it could also be used to determin where someone is looking at on the screen
That is pretty close to how many current eye-tracking systems work.
I wonder what OQO's response to the U70 will be? The U70 is totally capable of acting as a desktop system as well, whereas the OQO was kind of underpowered in the same role.
Anyway, as a consumer annoyed by its vapourware status, I just have to say "IN YOUR FACE, OQO!"
Mac users find Windows sluggish, Windows users find Mac-OS sluggish - it's just that when one looks at the other, you only notice the things that are slower. For example, I find that menus take an annoying few milliseconds longer to open on Mac-OS (especially right-click ones) than on XP, but Mac users complain about how XP can't get directory listings as fast.
I find XP can scroll webpages on maximised 2048x1536 IE windows without any delay/tearing/sluggishness, whereas Safari/MacIE chug doing the same thing at 1280x1024.
After Effects, compared between a Dual-G5 2ghz and an AthlonXP2600 - the value sliders on the Mac KILL the Windows machine (which updates them about twice a second), but the Windows machine can open and scroll menus a lot faster. The Windows machine (with a GeForce4) does the 3D stuff in realtime, whereas the Mac (with a Radeon 9700 or something) updates at less than one frame a second. Using imported 720x576 quicktime movies, the Mac then craps all over the Windows machine.
As I said, it's all a matter of perception - each does their own thing better, and the weaknesses of the other form this 'my platform is better' barrier to adoption.
... we would rather wait for NVIDIA's cards to come out because the drivers are more polished...
Agreed. If you wish to do automatic hardware based stereographics (shutter glasses / red-[green|cyan|blue] / dual-monitor (left/right eye) output) with your video card then Nvidia is the only way to go.
You can get shutter glasses support with ATI if you buy third-party drivers with shutter glasses from e-dimensional, but then you're relying on a third party who could go under at any time.
Nvidia's drivers also support hardware keystoning (drag the corners of your display into any 4-sided shape), which is a huge bonus for those of us with projectors.
...or cmdrtaco@gmail.com?...or how about: google@gmail.com?...or how about: gmail@gmail.com?...or how about: test@gmail.com?...or how about: gmale@gmail.com?...or how about: microsoft@gmail.com?
cmdrtaco@gmail.com is still available, the rest aren't.
Often I find myself going to type in the URL of a website, manage to get distracted by four things on the way to focusing on the location dialogue, and by the time I'm read to type, I've completely forgotten where I was going to go.
However, if at that point I just 'let my fingers go', they can usually type out the first 5 letters of whatever it was I was going to go to, even if they weren't in typing position.
This is extremely handy. Any idea what it's called?
Emailed this to the editor, but something must've gone wrong.
The URL to the photo soup image is missing the 'www'. The image can be seen here (you may want to do a 'Save Target As', as the mime-type seems to be a bit off).
In one of the new the.Hack games, based on a relatively popular anime, you play a player who is playing an MMORPG that he's stuck in. The game is therefore a single player simulation of an MMORPG, complete with the game AI playing as players, and also as NPCs. The gameplay is also based on currenty-day MMORPG gameplay - the focus being entirely on levelling and getting new stuff.
Either people playing Magic-Eye QUAKE 2 use mouselook like their heads have been spot-welded to their shoulders
I think you will find that most advanced FPS players do have their head spot-welded to their shoulders - focusing directly on their crosshair and just using mouselook to 'look around'. Otherwise you waste time using your neck to look at an enemy, then bringing your crosshair to bear.
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It's like how every time the subject of a competitor to Google comes up, many highly-modded comments are along the lines of 'Oh, Google's entrenched, any new product has to be at least 10x better to get people to switch.'.
Now, I know it's an unpopular opinion, but when you think about it, Mozilla is not ten times better than Internet Explorer. It's better, but not THAT MUCH better, not even in the same way that IE was better than NS4
Heck, I develop CSS/JS-rich front-ends for a living, and to the horror of my peers, I still use IE as my primary browser. Why? Because aside from its nice JS debugger, which only gets pulled out when I'm testing, Mozilla offers no GREAT reason to switch. I keep my system patched, the recent FireFoxes have crashed on me more often than IE ever has, I prefer spatial+visible window organisation, and IE still opens faster*.
The other major good points behind Mozilla (ie Standards Compliant Rendering) are of little consequence to the end-user in an IE-dominated world.
* I know there are counterpoints to all of these, I've heard them, believe me.
I'm still waiting for LCD displays to appear on the outside of glasses - as the eyes are where all the emotion in expression is, it could become a reasonably powerful medium for expression.
... Assuming everyone just doesn't go for the red-crosshairs. Bleh.
If you want to access your quicksearches* even faster, I humbly submit a super early version of Trip, which lets Windows users enter URLs without having to wait for a browser to open, or having to use their mouse to select an input field (which, even if it takes half a second, is half a second too long).
Impatient people who like to optimise things seem to find it useful, others don't.
* FireFox doesn't allow launching quicksearches from external apps, whereas IE does, so Trip implements quicksearches itself.
I wouldn't go with a renderfarm - people are too used to seeing the 60fps stuff that comes out of hardware acceleration to be THAT impressed by software rendering, even if it looks great at 1 frame every 10 seconds.
The same applies for most 'data crunching' applications - unless your audience is intimately familiar with how long ( protein folding | SETI searches | whatever you're doing ) takes, it's not going to be that impressive. Even if they do know how long something takes, a speed gain of two over whatever they use is just going to be lost in the hurly burly of the presentation atmosphere, unless you can compare them side-by-side.
That said, it's going to depend on your audience - if they are ALL real 3DSMAX heads, then show one of the default benchmarks running, with nice big printed charts showing the gains over your competition. But if they're a mix of 3DSMAX users and Maya users (for example), then you're going to lose half of them.
Hooray for unfinished comments!
Because you will always have one main 'obvious' address - be it something that goes on your business card, or something you tell to people you meet. For example, I use glen at glenmurphy.com.
Now all it takes is one slip - someone you know to get a virus, whatever, and your address is 'out there' for the taking. Your only possible recourse then is to stop using that address, but for some people that's just not an option, and it's a just bit defeatist to sit there surrendering email address after email address.
Here's a five-year long stereo3d discussion on the matter.
A cheap, easy way to do it would be to go the 'ambient device' route and use a small number of coloured surface-mount LEDs (perhaps placed along the inside edges of your glasses) and train yourself to recognise what they mean when lit up in certain combinations.
It would be a bit safer than a textual display which requires you to change your eye's focal distance to read. Just make sure you don't blind yourself with it at night.
Want to order individual units around? Sure can, but the order can take a while for you to get to that unit, and that unit under your command may leave its parent unit without capabilities it needs.
Add to this an opponent suffering the same problems, and perhaps the foresight to take advantage of any weaknesses in your chain of command, and you have an EXTREMELY tense, thrilling wargame.
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It's just an acronym!:
D.O.U.O.S.B.A.V.V.M:
"Deadly Odour: Underpants Or Socks Violently Aromatic - Very Very Manky."
I wonder what OQO's response to the U70 will be? The U70 is totally capable of acting as a desktop system as well, whereas the OQO was kind of underpowered in the same role.
Anyway, as a consumer annoyed by its vapourware status, I just have to say "IN YOUR FACE, OQO!"
I find XP can scroll webpages on maximised 2048x1536 IE windows without any delay/tearing/sluggishness, whereas Safari/MacIE chug doing the same thing at 1280x1024.
After Effects, compared between a Dual-G5 2ghz and an AthlonXP2600 - the value sliders on the Mac KILL the Windows machine (which updates them about twice a second), but the Windows machine can open and scroll menus a lot faster. The Windows machine (with a GeForce4) does the 3D stuff in realtime, whereas the Mac (with a Radeon 9700 or something) updates at less than one frame a second. Using imported 720x576 quicktime movies, the Mac then craps all over the Windows machine.
As I said, it's all a matter of perception - each does their own thing better, and the weaknesses of the other form this 'my platform is better' barrier to adoption.
You can get shutter glasses support with ATI if you buy third-party drivers with shutter glasses from e-dimensional, but then you're relying on a third party who could go under at any time.
Nvidia's drivers also support hardware keystoning (drag the corners of your display into any 4-sided shape), which is a huge bonus for those of us with projectors.
PS most of those were invalid as usernames require a minimum of six characters.
Often I find myself going to type in the URL of a website, manage to get distracted by four things on the way to focusing on the location dialogue, and by the time I'm read to type, I've completely forgotten where I was going to go.
However, if at that point I just 'let my fingers go', they can usually type out the first 5 letters of whatever it was I was going to go to, even if they weren't in typing position.
This is extremely handy. Any idea what it's called?
Emailed this to the editor, but something must've gone wrong.
The URL to the photo soup image is missing the 'www'. The image can be seen here (you may want to do a 'Save Target As', as the mime-type seems to be a bit off).
In one of the new the .Hack games, based on a relatively popular anime, you play a player who is playing an MMORPG that he's stuck in. The game is therefore a single player simulation of an MMORPG, complete with the game AI playing as players, and also as NPCs. The gameplay is also based on currenty-day MMORPG gameplay - the focus being entirely on levelling and getting new stuff.
Sounds JUST ABSOLUTELY THRILLING to me.