The iPhone's touchscreen is nice for some applications. But for general purpose gaming, you can't beat a regular controller. DS-style controls are unlikely to make an appearance on standard cellphones and this will keep gaming on cellphones to a minimum.
When you are ordering tickets through TicketMaster.com, they hold the seat assignment for you for 10 minutes. If you don't complete the transaction within that time frame, the tickets become public again.
In your database setting, the user Alice wants to edit the customer Carol's record. The application gives Alice a lock on Carol's record for five minutes. If user Bob tries to edit Carol's record within the five minute window, he gets a message telling him to wait for 3:42 while Alice finishes her edit. When Alice is finished, the lock is released and if she doesn't finish in five minutes, the lock is released anyway and her edits are lost.
You could also add the ability for the user to set the lock time, within a reasonable window, say 5-15 minutes. Also, consider adding the ability for the user to renew the lock.
BTW - Paradox is still around? I haven't used it since 1993 or so. Wow.
Ouch! I never understood the need for all of this specialized "server-class" hardware when cheap-o commodity hardware and a little elbow grease works just as well. Maybe most people don't want to put the work into it, considering the huge jump in price between retail consumer and server pricing, I've never been able to justify shelling out those kind of bucks.
The parent got modded down, but he's right, Web 2.0 is just "the web" and podcasts are just mp3 files. While we're at it, blogs and tweets are journals and Googling means to search (I've heard people say things like "i'll go google that on yahoo.").
Well sub-dermal won't work. These things need to be recharged regularly and they are quite big at the moment. Plus, there are obvious privacy issues.
At one point we had around 150,000 troops in Iraq. 150,000 x $400 = $60 million. And that's the initial outlay and doesn't include the month-to-month cost. So it would be quite expensive, although not prohibitively so, from a cost of war prospective.
These watches, like all GPS's are easily blocked by being inside or under heavy foliage.
And thy transmit back to the parent usually by cell service, so you would need a working phone infrastructure.
The worst of course, would be if the enemy could tap into the signal and find the exact current location of US troops.
I'm not saying it couldn't be done. I'm just saying the technology is definitely not there yet.
Most people will remember only the first 2-3 minutes and the last 2-3 minutes. The 35 minutes in the middle will become a muddled blur. So make sure you put your most important tips at either end.
Get a 3G and a satellite. When you're within range of a cell tower (which is almost everywhere, these days) you get the high speeds you want. Outside, you still have basic Internet connectivity via the satellite.
Or give it 20 years and I can almost guarantee you that you'll be able to pick up a high-speed, low-latency connection from anywhere on the continent.
Companies always pass it off as being "green", but that's not the real reason. T-mobile stores are still overly-lit, selling merchandise that's over-packaged, and handing out paper fliers.
The truth is that its expensive to print bills. And I don't blame them for wanting to get rid of them, but if you're going to save money, then pass a little of it on to me.
My bank just paid me $5 to go to e-bills and for me, that was enough.
You can ignore encrypted access points, but there's no way to detect APs that use an HTML login page until after you're already connected.
Plus, the OP's point (I think) was that instead of paying $3 here and $2 there, why not have a $40/mo fee that buys you access anywhere (home, work, school, play) you go.
The point of insurance is to guard against the unexpected. If the companies start monitoring your every move to the point where they can predict the number and severity of claims you'll submit, then it's no longer insurance at all. They should just tell you how much money you'll need over your lifetime and you can sock away that much in a bank account yourself.
In meatspace, you pay extra for goods since the merchant has to add the cost of those that are stolen. But that doesn't hold true for digital works. Here, the price is set by what the market is willing to bear.
Consider that PS3 games cost $60 and are damn near impossible to duplicate. The same game on the PC costs only $50 and PC game piracy is rampant. Shouldn't the cost of the PC game be more to compensate for the thieves?
I would love to tag it but, the new/. code doesn't allow Firefox to interact with the main page. For those of you using IE, I suggest you tag it with "RAQOM".
In fact, to get on the wireless network, you must run a Windows application for authentication. I think the campus LUG figured out how to bypass it, but I haven't tried it myself.
Speaking of which, you should talk to the LUG's of the campuses that you visit.
Amazon still has the capability of remotely and silently modifying your Kindle. There's no technological reason they couldn't do this again. These devices need to be built with protections that make this sort of thing impossible.
Even scarier, Amazon could theoretically modify your books if they wanted to. If they don't want you reading chapter 28, they can remove it and renumber the rest.
The legal system in the US is fixated on maintaining the status quo when it comes to major corporations. There is this "too big to (fail/not be sold)" mentality and that's what's saving Word. If it was "Joe's Word Processor" that was the infringing software, the sales injunction would have held.
It's a shame, because I would have really liked to see Dell and the others putting OpenOffice or another alternative on their computers for a few months while this thing got sorted out. And that's what should have happened. The products that didn't violate patents should have been given a competitive advantage over those that did.
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The iPhone's touchscreen is nice for some applications. But for general purpose gaming, you can't beat a regular controller. DS-style controls are unlikely to make an appearance on standard cellphones and this will keep gaming on cellphones to a minimum.
When you are ordering tickets through TicketMaster.com, they hold the seat assignment for you for 10 minutes. If you don't complete the transaction within that time frame, the tickets become public again.
In your database setting, the user Alice wants to edit the customer Carol's record. The application gives Alice a lock on Carol's record for five minutes. If user Bob tries to edit Carol's record within the five minute window, he gets a message telling him to wait for 3:42 while Alice finishes her edit. When Alice is finished, the lock is released and if she doesn't finish in five minutes, the lock is released anyway and her edits are lost.
You could also add the ability for the user to set the lock time, within a reasonable window, say 5-15 minutes. Also, consider adding the ability for the user to renew the lock.
BTW - Paradox is still around? I haven't used it since 1993 or so. Wow.
Ouch! I never understood the need for all of this specialized "server-class" hardware when cheap-o commodity hardware and a little elbow grease works just as well. Maybe most people don't want to put the work into it, considering the huge jump in price between retail consumer and server pricing, I've never been able to justify shelling out those kind of bucks.
The parent got modded down, but he's right, Web 2.0 is just "the web" and podcasts are just mp3 files. While we're at it, blogs and tweets are journals and Googling means to search (I've heard people say things like "i'll go google that on yahoo.").
Well sub-dermal won't work. These things need to be recharged regularly and they are quite big at the moment. Plus, there are obvious privacy issues.
At one point we had around 150,000 troops in Iraq. 150,000 x $400 = $60 million. And that's the initial outlay and doesn't include the month-to-month cost. So it would be quite expensive, although not prohibitively so, from a cost of war prospective.
These watches, like all GPS's are easily blocked by being inside or under heavy foliage.
And thy transmit back to the parent usually by cell service, so you would need a working phone infrastructure.
The worst of course, would be if the enemy could tap into the signal and find the exact current location of US troops.
I'm not saying it couldn't be done. I'm just saying the technology is definitely not there yet.
It might send out a warning if the band is separated from the watch body, but looking at the band, the clasp is just about as flimsy as can be.
Any equation is easier to write down by hand than by tex, MS Word equation editor, etc.
And you look like a total douche if you can't write an equation neatly enough that others can read it.
Of course, this isn't cursive specifically, but handwriting in general.
Most people will remember only the first 2-3 minutes and the last 2-3 minutes. The 35 minutes in the middle will become a muddled blur. So make sure you put your most important tips at either end.
Get a 3G and a satellite. When you're within range of a cell tower (which is almost everywhere, these days) you get the high speeds you want. Outside, you still have basic Internet connectivity via the satellite.
Or give it 20 years and I can almost guarantee you that you'll be able to pick up a high-speed, low-latency connection from anywhere on the continent.
Companies always pass it off as being "green", but that's not the real reason. T-mobile stores are still overly-lit, selling merchandise that's over-packaged, and handing out paper fliers.
The truth is that its expensive to print bills. And I don't blame them for wanting to get rid of them, but if you're going to save money, then pass a little of it on to me.
My bank just paid me $5 to go to e-bills and for me, that was enough.
Carrot vs. Stick
You can ignore encrypted access points, but there's no way to detect APs that use an HTML login page until after you're already connected.
Plus, the OP's point (I think) was that instead of paying $3 here and $2 there, why not have a $40/mo fee that buys you access anywhere (home, work, school, play) you go.
Considering that it takes my poor Eee PC up to a minute to render the /. homepage at 100% cpu usage with FF3, I'm not surprised.
The point of insurance is to guard against the unexpected. If the companies start monitoring your every move to the point where they can predict the number and severity of claims you'll submit, then it's no longer insurance at all. They should just tell you how much money you'll need over your lifetime and you can sock away that much in a bank account yourself.
Hire Stallman!
Shenmue
What's your point?
Are you saying we shouldn't even discuss it?
In meatspace, you pay extra for goods since the merchant has to add the cost of those that are stolen. But that doesn't hold true for digital works. Here, the price is set by what the market is willing to bear.
Consider that PS3 games cost $60 and are damn near impossible to duplicate. The same game on the PC costs only $50 and PC game piracy is rampant. Shouldn't the cost of the PC game be more to compensate for the thieves?
I would love to tag it but, the new /. code doesn't allow Firefox to interact with the main page. For those of you using IE, I suggest you tag it with "RAQOM".
$60 for a good game. Who cares if it's 2D or 3D? Or if it takes 12 hours or 120 hours?
If your definition of a good game is being 3D and taking forever to complete, then I have a copy of Superman 64 I'd like to sell you.
Okay, I'll check that out. Until recently though, they required the use of the Odyssey client and the UIC LUG instructions looked like this:
http://lug.cs.uic.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=wifi_linux
and
http://lug.cs.uic.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=wifi
The new Ubuntu 8.10 look pretty straightforward, so I'll give them a try.
In fact, to get on the wireless network, you must run a Windows application for authentication. I think the campus LUG figured out how to bypass it, but I haven't tried it myself.
Speaking of which, you should talk to the LUG's of the campuses that you visit.
This is a country based on destroying someone else's property.
Say it with me:
"This is why we need science education"
"This is why we need science education"
"This is why we need science education"
Amazon still has the capability of remotely and silently modifying your Kindle. There's no technological reason they couldn't do this again. These devices need to be built with protections that make this sort of thing impossible.
Even scarier, Amazon could theoretically modify your books if they wanted to. If they don't want you reading chapter 28, they can remove it and renumber the rest.
The legal system in the US is fixated on maintaining the status quo when it comes to major corporations. There is this "too big to (fail/not be sold)" mentality and that's what's saving Word. If it was "Joe's Word Processor" that was the infringing software, the sales injunction would have held.
It's a shame, because I would have really liked to see Dell and the others putting OpenOffice or another alternative on their computers for a few months while this thing got sorted out. And that's what should have happened. The products that didn't violate patents should have been given a competitive advantage over those that did.