Windows had this at a low level ages ago, and DirectX supports multiple mice too. In the switch to Win2K+ however, Microsoft deemed it a security issue and made it damn near impossible to query multiple mice easily. Can still be done now, but you have to go much lower level to do so (capturing raw mouse events and decoding them yourself). Annoyed the hell out of me when my multiple mice were only ever being detected by DX9 as a single device trying to play multiplayer air hockey.
What you also have to consider, is that the wii-mote is expandable. The nunnchuck is just one usage of the expansion port. I'm fairly confident additionbal buttons can be very easily added. Hell, look at the retro controller they also announced.
What you need to consider is the restrictions the console comapnies put on new games. Sony are famous for blcoking games that "don't meet their visual standards", typically meaning 2D games. In fact, SNK recently bemoaned this publicly, hinting that they are looking forward to the Wii as Nintendo is generally less restrictive.
I run ldap2dns and unfortunatly (or not, as pertains to your viewpoint), the author believes dyndns isn't fundamentally a good idea, as DNS is a resolver, and thus shouldn't have write access to the DB. Which does kind of make sense from a security standpoint, as DHCP is never externally facing whilst DNS is far more likely to be. Still, it causes me no end of pain as I haven't found a DHCP server that will update my LDAP...and I haven't got the faintest idea where to begin hacking ISC's dhcpd.
Surely though, unless all these wireless repeaters are time-synced to power up (once charged and ready) at a certain time, there's a pretty high probability that the neighbouring nodes will be powered down when your node is ready to go. Though, I suppose less power would be needed to run a simple sensor for nearby active nodes, upon which it could then actually transmit. Will still obviously require some power though. I can imagine the routing being a nightmare too.
Just to nit-pick, I know of at least one other game that used the snes mouse, as I have it (King Arthur's World). I suspect there was at least two others too. Still, I feel your point stands;)
Nice strawman there. I was referring to the issue of cops shooting suspects rather than gun crime in general, but feel free to side track if you so wish.
Correlation does not imply causality. The fat the world is a very different place now than it was 7 years ago most probably has the greater influence on the statistics.
Fact is, the vast majority of handguns were already illegal pre-Dunblane massacre anyway. Criminals already had guns then, and criminals stil have guns now. There is little need for your average citizen to require one. Defending yourself by shooting at a criminal who chances are is a damn sight better shot than you are is simply stupid. All that does is simply make the criminals want to carry bigger/more deadly guns.
Funny, that. The US with it's gestapo-esque PATRIOT act, DoHS, et al makes it one of the few places I'd point blank refuse to travel to.
I live in the UK, and although we have some serious problems of our own (ID cards etc), I'd say that America, with it's religious fundamentalists and ridiculiously oversized military-industrial complex, has much more in common with Saudi Arabia and other totalitarian nations than the UK does.
Another thing I found quite amusing was that given the huge uproar over the shooting of that brazillian man recently, when a news bulletin was interviewing members of the public one of them was an American tourist who couldn't understand what the fuss was about "as it happens every day back home".
Sometimes I like to think that maybe, just maybe, the universe itself could just be a computer, calculating what would happen if a big bang were to occur;)
Strikes me that the only way to accuratly simulate every sub-atomic particle would itself require all of the aformentioned particles to have enough precision...
Then I think, despite being scientific in nature that concept is dangeriously close to religion, so I then think of something else equally pointless:)
It's hard having to acknowledge to my friend whose a Active Directory admin the overall strength of AD when managing Windows, but it seems things are improving. I'm a bit out of the OpenLDAP loop, I catch bits and bobs but I generally stick to official Debian packages, of which the last update to OpenLDAP was in 2002.
Well, for one of your points, namely PAM modules, libnss-ldap works fine for me, and it's hardly rocket science to set up. 30 minutes, tops, including importing all the existing data.
Only thing that would be nice is if Debian was happy to have automated user operations performed on the directory instead of just passwd...but I'm sure a few scripts could sort that out if I could be bothered.
Only things that bother me about OpenLDAP: * ACLs in a config file rather than the directory itself...yes its more secure but come on. * No decent GUI tools. I have a dodgy (as in doesn't work correctly) Java LDAP editor and phpldapadmin, but these two are no way as quick 'n easy as MS's MMC.
The tabbrowser extentions offer exactly that feature. Shame the damn thing makes firefox as bloated and unstable as windows when active. In fact, there's a lot of fantastic features in it....:(
Oh goody, so now studies such as netcraft will record an increase in IIS usage which will lead to more shops seeing it as an acceptable option, afetr all look at this increase in IIS installations and corresponding drop in all others after April 26!
Did we not learn anything from the whole browser wars fiasco? Setting your user agent string to IE only gives the web designers more ammo when they claim that they only need to design to IE's implementation not the standard. It's not quite the same when the roles are reversed, but the base principle of corrupting the marketshare numbers stands.
The default home page of a virgin IE installation is MSN. Type somethign wrong in the run box (without turning off the automatic search) and it'll send the query off to MSN search. Install MSN messenger, and unless you deselect the MSN toolbar and home page options (and in reality joe/jane q teenager never does), then your home page is reset back to MSN.
They know thats the only way they can wrest mindshare away from google, a service which people have to choose to use, and it's a prime illustraton of abusing their Windows monopoly with respect to the search engine marketplace, much as they have with the IM and web browser ones.
I'm sure I'll pick up some automatic MS-bashing flak, but I feel the point stands anyway.
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Thank you. I thoroughly enjoyed that film, and have passed it on several times over.
So, if it's unbeatable, what happens if you set it against itself? Does it simply boil down to who went first?
...yes.
Windows had this at a low level ages ago, and DirectX supports multiple mice too. In the switch to Win2K+ however, Microsoft deemed it a security issue and made it damn near impossible to query multiple mice easily. Can still be done now, but you have to go much lower level to do so (capturing raw mouse events and decoding them yourself). Annoyed the hell out of me when my multiple mice were only ever being detected by DX9 as a single device trying to play multiplayer air hockey.
What you also have to consider, is that the wii-mote is expandable. The nunnchuck is just one usage of the expansion port. I'm fairly confident additionbal buttons can be very easily added. Hell, look at the retro controller they also announced.
What you need to consider is the restrictions the console comapnies put on new games. Sony are famous for blcoking games that "don't meet their visual standards", typically meaning 2D games. In fact, SNK recently bemoaned this publicly, hinting that they are looking forward to the Wii as Nintendo is generally less restrictive.
...for meddling with the mighty memmaker's carefully generated config.sys and autoexec.bat :)
I run ldap2dns and unfortunatly (or not, as pertains to your viewpoint), the author believes dyndns isn't fundamentally a good idea, as DNS is a resolver, and thus shouldn't have write access to the DB. Which does kind of make sense from a security standpoint, as DHCP is never externally facing whilst DNS is far more likely to be. Still, it causes me no end of pain as I haven't found a DHCP server that will update my LDAP...and I haven't got the faintest idea where to begin hacking ISC's dhcpd.
Actually, the original famicom had a microphone on one of the joypads too. :)
'We've multiplied each of the old capabilities by at least 10, and it has lots of new applications.'
Well....*MY* new high speed nano-imaging device has multiplied capabilities that go to 11...so there!
Surely though, unless all these wireless repeaters are time-synced to power up (once charged and ready) at a certain time, there's a pretty high probability that the neighbouring nodes will be powered down when your node is ready to go. Though, I suppose less power would be needed to run a simple sensor for nearby active nodes, upon which it could then actually transmit. Will still obviously require some power though. I can imagine the routing being a nightmare too.
Just to nit-pick, I know of at least one other game that used the snes mouse, as I have it (King Arthur's World). I suspect there was at least two others too. Still, I feel your point stands ;)
Working webcam to MSN users is the dealbreaker for me that stops me using GAIM.
As much as I'd like to switch to a Jabber client from MSN, that lack of interoperable webcam is the deal breaker.
There's some prosprective thigns like GAIM-W, but nothing usable for a long time most likely.
"...the need for Firefox or IE is almost eliminated."
Except for, you know, reading web pages. Funny that.
Nice strawman there. I was referring to the issue of cops shooting suspects rather than gun crime in general, but feel free to side track if you so wish.
Correlation does not imply causality. The fat the world is a very different place now than it was 7 years ago most probably has the greater influence on the statistics.
Fact is, the vast majority of handguns were already illegal pre-Dunblane massacre anyway. Criminals already had guns then, and criminals stil have guns now. There is little need for your average citizen to require one. Defending yourself by shooting at a criminal who chances are is a damn sight better shot than you are is simply stupid. All that does is simply make the criminals want to carry bigger/more deadly guns.
Funny, that. The US with it's gestapo-esque PATRIOT act, DoHS, et al makes it one of the few places I'd point blank refuse to travel to.
I live in the UK, and although we have some serious problems of our own (ID cards etc), I'd say that America, with it's religious fundamentalists and ridiculiously oversized military-industrial complex, has much more in common with Saudi Arabia and other totalitarian nations than the UK does.
Another thing I found quite amusing was that given the huge uproar over the shooting of that brazillian man recently, when a news bulletin was interviewing members of the public one of them was an American tourist who couldn't understand what the fuss was about "as it happens every day back home".
Just a few of my musings, mind you.
..."Taff" aka. "Taffy" is also a British colloquialisim for a Welshman.
Sometimes I like to think that maybe, just maybe, the universe itself could just be a computer, calculating what would happen if a big bang were to occur ;)
:)
Strikes me that the only way to accuratly simulate every sub-atomic particle would itself require all of the aformentioned particles to have enough precision...
Then I think, despite being scientific in nature that concept is dangeriously close to religion, so I then think of something else equally pointless
Thank goodness for that.
It's hard having to acknowledge to my friend whose a Active Directory admin the overall strength of AD when managing Windows, but it seems things are improving. I'm a bit out of the OpenLDAP loop, I catch bits and bobs but I generally stick to official Debian packages, of which the last update to OpenLDAP was in 2002.
Cheers for the update.
Well, for one of your points, namely PAM modules, libnss-ldap works fine for me, and it's hardly rocket science to set up. 30 minutes, tops, including importing all the existing data.
Only thing that would be nice is if Debian was happy to have automated user operations performed on the directory instead of just passwd...but I'm sure a few scripts could sort that out if I could be bothered.
Only things that bother me about OpenLDAP:
* ACLs in a config file rather than the directory itself...yes its more secure but come on.
* No decent GUI tools. I have a dodgy (as in doesn't work correctly) Java LDAP editor and phpldapadmin, but these two are no way as quick 'n easy as MS's MMC.
The tabbrowser extentions offer exactly that feature. Shame the damn thing makes firefox as bloated and unstable as windows when active. In fact, there's a lot of fantastic features in it....:(
Oh goody, so now studies such as netcraft will record an increase in IIS usage which will lead to more shops seeing it as an acceptable option, afetr all look at this increase in IIS installations and corresponding drop in all others after
April 26!
Did we not learn anything from the whole browser wars fiasco? Setting your user agent string to IE only gives the web designers more ammo when they claim that they only need to design to IE's implementation not the standard. It's not quite the same when the roles are reversed, but the base principle of corrupting the marketshare numbers stands.
The default home page of a virgin IE installation is MSN. Type somethign wrong in the run box (without turning off the automatic search) and it'll send the query off to MSN search. Install MSN messenger, and unless you deselect the MSN toolbar and home page options (and in reality joe/jane q teenager never does), then your home page is reset back to MSN.
They know thats the only way they can wrest mindshare away from google, a service which people have to choose to use, and it's a prime illustraton of abusing their Windows monopoly with respect to the search engine marketplace, much as they have with the IM and web browser ones.
I'm sure I'll pick up some automatic MS-bashing flak, but I feel the point stands anyway.
I'd have gone with "...drop the Apollo 12 water valve and make one small step away from the car!"