It is just that your version of awstats is too old to recognize that Bing is a search engine. There is no technical distinction between a site referral and a search referral. Search engines are just individually filtered from the rest of the results by the stats software.
Google Analytics had the same issue for the first few days after Bing was released.
You think that's something?
I host a SpongeBob fansite, and even it has 40.38% for Firefox and 47.90% for IE from June 6th to July 6th.
Looking at the data for the same period in previous years, I'm seeing:
2008: 63.26% IE and 31.49% Firefox
2007: 72.85% IE and 23.22% Firefox
2006: 77.60% IE and 17.77% Firefox
That's with 20,000+ visits in each period, so it's more than just noise.
Weave is excellent. Its the first Browser Sync replacement I've seen that improves on it. The "Tabs From Other Computers" dropdown under History is quite useful.
I agree with GP, that different tools are good for different purposes. I personally use Git across several computers for code, documents, and other small files. Pictures go to my Flickr Pro account.
Timmmm was right. The reason there are two lenses is that one is for the IR camera and one is for the RGB camera. The IR camera is used for time-of-flight to find depth, while the RGB is used to texture that data and just for general camera use.
Also, while 3DV did have that technology, I think Microsoft developed theirs independently, and bought 3DV for their patent portfolio.
I'm about to graduate from CMU, and just like anywhere else on earth, there are people whose heads are far into their butts and people whose heads aren't. The first group just tends to be louder.
I've had boring jobs (interning at a power plant) and fun jobs (traveling to a Pacific island and doing Google Summer of Code), and while I would certainly prefer the latter, I fully expect to end up at the former, at least to start with. I'm ok with that; if I work hard on the job and on my own projects, I can hopefully work towards where I want to be over the years.
Very true. I help run a student organization that helps non-profits with their technology needs. Literally every non-profit we talk to has some kind of technology problem or need, from designing a new website to simple things like figuring out how to network a printer. Call up a few local ones and see where they need help.
You might also want to check places like TechSoup, where non-profits would look for tech help.
This used to be a vulnerability with Cingular. I found it out accidently when playing around with my Asterisk box. I called a friend from her own phone number and ended up in voicemail.
That was a few years ago, though. I think most carriers require PINs by default now.
If you're interested in a truely Open Source version of this, Pygame has camera and computer vision functions in the SVN that let you do exactly this. I could track two different colored objects in realtime (30fps) with no lag, on a 433mhz OLPC XO.
It is Linux only at the moment, but Windows and OS X support is likely to be finished before the next release.
Since when was an x86 cpu and linux "nonstandard hardware and software?" I'm going to assume you've never actually used an XO.
The hardware is "special" for several reasons. Mesh networking mitigates the lack of networking infrastructure in most of the places these are getting deployed. The absurdly high resolution screen also supports dropping into transflective grayscale for use in sunlight. Under normal load, it pulls around 4w, and goes below 1w in ebook mode (cpu, wifi, and backlight off). Of course, theres also the sealed keyboard, rugged design with no moving parts, LiFePO4 battery, security LEDs on the webcam and microphone, and so on. All of these things add up to show the key difference between the XO and the Classmate. The Classmate is a laptop made as cheaply as possible; the XO was designed from the ground up for education in the developing world.
You've also contradicted yourself about the software. On one hand, you say kids will figure out how to use whatever is on front of them, but then it must be some huge effort to retrain kids to use Windows down the line? Beyond the obvious contradiction there, you are also assuming that the XO exists to teach kids how to use computers. That is a secondary goal at most. The goal is to provide educational tools. I agree that Sugar is far from perfect, but it is improving every day. (And I mean that literally, the development builds seem to be released on a daily basis). The OS was designed largely to maximize the benefit of networking for collaboration. Pretty much anything that exists on one laptop, from Activities to content, to specific sessions done in an Activity can be shared with other XOs on the network. In addition, many Activities allow for multiple kids to be using it cooperatively.
Regardless, politics seems to come into play more than the merits of either program in bulk orders like this. In this case, Venezuela would much rather make friends with the Portuguese government than an American non-profit.
I actually do have a 6800 GT just sitting in my closet. Normally I rotate down video cards through my older computers when I buy a new one (since video cards tend to obsolete a lot faster than the rest of the computer), but I only have one computer with PCI Express.
The 6800 GT is/was a great card, but I wanted to be able to play Oblivion, Mass Effect, and yes, Crysis, at full monitor resolution. Good video cards are not as expensive as they once were; I ended up getting an 8800 GT in the spring for around $180. This brought my 3 year old desktop up to speed with the latest games.
It's being hosted at or near 1 Cambridge Center, the OLPC headquarters. You would be surprised at the number of people near any city in the world who would be interested in such an event. Even the OLPC Game Jam in Pittsburgh last year managed to get a few dozen people. Most of the people who participate are not professional game developers, artists, or musicians, but people who enjoy doing these things in their spare time.
Not quite. It is a set of Python bindings for Box2d, which is written in C++. Just about everything cpu intensive in Python is written in C or C++ and uses the Python C API (or ctypes or SWIG).
The idea is to develop specifically for the set of libraries associated with Sugar. This means libraries like pyGTK, pygame, olpcgames, and in this case, pyBox2d and Elements.
There is a lot of information about creating OLPC Activities on the OLPC Wiki.
Because it's shaped like a book, it must be a book, right?
This is not a book. It's, I imagine, going to have an x86 cpu and an OS capable of running Activities already written for the XO-1, plus anything else imaginable.
Negroponte's presentation showed two kids playing pong on one laptop and suggested the same could be done with games like chess or checkers, as one example. It is a laptop with two touchscreen displays, which is nothing short of amazing.
"Negroponte says the cost of this 2nd-generation device, which uses dual-touch screens with 16:9 aspect ratios, will be kept to $75."
The plan is $75. That doesn't mean it's any more realistic than the original $100 goal for the XO-1. I'd be surprised if they could get it below $150 at launch. The only way $75 is possible is if companies are donating hardware to it.
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It is just that your version of awstats is too old to recognize that Bing is a search engine. There is no technical distinction between a site referral and a search referral. Search engines are just individually filtered from the rest of the results by the stats software.
Google Analytics had the same issue for the first few days after Bing was released.
More importantly, Gordon Freeman is apparently an engineer at CERN.
No worries though, he has a crowbar now.
There are better ways to generate the actual 3d point cloud if you are taking pictures of all sides of the object. Voxel Carving for one.
You think that's something? I host a SpongeBob fansite, and even it has 40.38% for Firefox and 47.90% for IE from June 6th to July 6th.
Looking at the data for the same period in previous years, I'm seeing:
2008: 63.26% IE and 31.49% Firefox
2007: 72.85% IE and 23.22% Firefox
2006: 77.60% IE and 17.77% Firefox
That's with 20,000+ visits in each period, so it's more than just noise.
Weave is excellent. Its the first Browser Sync replacement I've seen that improves on it. The "Tabs From Other Computers" dropdown under History is quite useful.
I agree with GP, that different tools are good for different purposes. I personally use Git across several computers for code, documents, and other small files. Pictures go to my Flickr Pro account.
I agree. While it isn't perfect, all the JS has made comment browsing, replying, and especially moderating quicker.
Also, Slashdot reverts to a small screen version on the iPhone that loads really quickly, though does have quite a few bugs.
Cheap MEMS gyroscopes didn't exist in 2006. They did as good as they could have for a consumer product at the time.
It isn't an ideal situation, but it's better for Nintendo than letting Natal and the Sony wand completely obsolete the Wii hardware.
Timmmm was right. The reason there are two lenses is that one is for the IR camera and one is for the RGB camera. The IR camera is used for time-of-flight to find depth, while the RGB is used to texture that data and just for general camera use.
Also, while 3DV did have that technology, I think Microsoft developed theirs independently, and bought 3DV for their patent portfolio.
Yep.
I'm about to graduate from CMU, and just like anywhere else on earth, there are people whose heads are far into their butts and people whose heads aren't. The first group just tends to be louder.
I've had boring jobs (interning at a power plant) and fun jobs (traveling to a Pacific island and doing Google Summer of Code), and while I would certainly prefer the latter, I fully expect to end up at the former, at least to start with. I'm ok with that; if I work hard on the job and on my own projects, I can hopefully work towards where I want to be over the years.
Local computer recyclers/refurbishers could certainly use them as well.
Donated computers are far too often stripped of hard drives for "security" reasons. They need hard drive donations more than anything else.
You need to be 18 or older.
Indeed. However, there is the Google Highly Open Participation Contest for those under 18.
Very true. I help run a student organization that helps non-profits with their technology needs. Literally every non-profit we talk to has some kind of technology problem or need, from designing a new website to simple things like figuring out how to network a printer. Call up a few local ones and see where they need help.
You might also want to check places like TechSoup, where non-profits would look for tech help.
This used to be a vulnerability with Cingular. I found it out accidently when playing around with my Asterisk box. I called a friend from her own phone number and ended up in voicemail.
That was a few years ago, though. I think most carriers require PINs by default now.
Hmm, I guess I bought into the FUD. I didn't realize MS-PL was OSI approved.
Regardless, I posted a video to Youtube showing multiple object tracking on an OLPC XO.
If you're interested in a truely Open Source version of this, Pygame has camera and computer vision functions in the SVN that let you do exactly this. I could track two different colored objects in realtime (30fps) with no lag, on a 433mhz OLPC XO.
It is Linux only at the moment, but Windows and OS X support is likely to be finished before the next release.
Since when was an x86 cpu and linux "nonstandard hardware and software?" I'm going to assume you've never actually used an XO.
The hardware is "special" for several reasons. Mesh networking mitigates the lack of networking infrastructure in most of the places these are getting deployed. The absurdly high resolution screen also supports dropping into transflective grayscale for use in sunlight. Under normal load, it pulls around 4w, and goes below 1w in ebook mode (cpu, wifi, and backlight off). Of course, theres also the sealed keyboard, rugged design with no moving parts, LiFePO4 battery, security LEDs on the webcam and microphone, and so on. All of these things add up to show the key difference between the XO and the Classmate. The Classmate is a laptop made as cheaply as possible; the XO was designed from the ground up for education in the developing world.
You've also contradicted yourself about the software. On one hand, you say kids will figure out how to use whatever is on front of them, but then it must be some huge effort to retrain kids to use Windows down the line? Beyond the obvious contradiction there, you are also assuming that the XO exists to teach kids how to use computers. That is a secondary goal at most. The goal is to provide educational tools. I agree that Sugar is far from perfect, but it is improving every day. (And I mean that literally, the development builds seem to be released on a daily basis). The OS was designed largely to maximize the benefit of networking for collaboration. Pretty much anything that exists on one laptop, from Activities to content, to specific sessions done in an Activity can be shared with other XOs on the network. In addition, many Activities allow for multiple kids to be using it cooperatively.
Regardless, politics seems to come into play more than the merits of either program in bulk orders like this. In this case, Venezuela would much rather make friends with the Portuguese government than an American non-profit.
I actually do have a 6800 GT just sitting in my closet. Normally I rotate down video cards through my older computers when I buy a new one (since video cards tend to obsolete a lot faster than the rest of the computer), but I only have one computer with PCI Express.
The 6800 GT is/was a great card, but I wanted to be able to play Oblivion, Mass Effect, and yes, Crysis, at full monitor resolution. Good video cards are not as expensive as they once were; I ended up getting an 8800 GT in the spring for around $180. This brought my 3 year old desktop up to speed with the latest games.
*Woosh*
That was the sound of Rachel Roberts flying over your head.
It's being hosted at or near 1 Cambridge Center, the OLPC headquarters. You would be surprised at the number of people near any city in the world who would be interested in such an event. Even the OLPC Game Jam in Pittsburgh last year managed to get a few dozen people. Most of the people who participate are not professional game developers, artists, or musicians, but people who enjoy doing these things in their spare time.
Either way, there's a remote development option.
Not quite. It is a set of Python bindings for Box2d, which is written in C++. Just about everything cpu intensive in Python is written in C or C++ and uses the Python C API (or ctypes or SWIG).
The idea is to develop specifically for the set of libraries associated with Sugar. This means libraries like pyGTK, pygame, olpcgames, and in this case, pyBox2d and Elements.
There is a lot of information about creating OLPC Activities on the OLPC Wiki.
Oh, I see where the confusion was. As usual, the Slashdot headline and summary are at best vague, and more likely completely misleading. There is better information here: http://blog.laptopmag.com/first-look-olpc-xo-generation-20.
That article also contains the news that Give 1 Get 1 will be restarting in August or September.
Because it's shaped like a book, it must be a book, right?
This is not a book. It's, I imagine, going to have an x86 cpu and an OS capable of running Activities already written for the XO-1, plus anything else imaginable.
Negroponte's presentation showed two kids playing pong on one laptop and suggested the same could be done with games like chess or checkers, as one example. It is a laptop with two touchscreen displays, which is nothing short of amazing.
"Negroponte says the cost of this 2nd-generation device, which uses dual-touch screens with 16:9 aspect ratios, will be kept to $75."
The plan is $75. That doesn't mean it's any more realistic than the original $100 goal for the XO-1. I'd be surprised if they could get it below $150 at launch. The only way $75 is possible is if companies are donating hardware to it.