Luxury! Indy 500 for the PC was great. Loads of pixels and in different colours too!
You think that was boring, you should have tried the AcornSoft flight simulator on the Atom. 256x192 resolution and in 2 colours. Bleeding marvellous.
The clear goal should be to project virtual racers laps onto real tracks and see how the pros cope with trying to drive the real cars and keep up with the ghosts - that would be sport that I'd pay to watch;-)
Well, scrap carbon fibre mainly these days, actually, but your point is good.
Maybe the manufacturers should make the logos tougher, like out of the same stuff that black boxes are made of.
Wow, what an interesting thread! Although free-as-in-beer could end up being dear-as-in-expensive in this scenario, let's not forget what could be acheived.
Security (Data, Network, Integrity, insert your own personal security sphere) depends a huge part on trust: trust of the hardware for example.
It's really great that you have an ATI card that can chuck pixels at the screen so fast that your heads spins, but ask yourself how you know that the pixels your ATI card has rendered are the same as the pixels your PC asked the card to render? What goes on inside the card?
Pretty gnarly problem this: Security depends on a secure channel all the way from the user to the screen, storage, network, world.
Anything that can be done to open the hardware such that it's no longer just a black box on an architecture diagram has got to be good news: We know what's in it, we know what it does (If we care to look!) and what makes it tick. Such is the world advanced.
In general Open hardware projects might have a tough time in the real world, but that does not mean we shouldn't try. I guess most/. readers are aware of the Open Cores Project? This is kind of a halfway house to a full Open hardware project and it's thriving!
The world is our oyster here. Suggestions? My best one is the OHVM (Open Hardware Voting Machine).
It's hard enough persuading (insert government of your choice here) to fix a problem which is in their jurisdiction.
Now try to persuade that same goverment to go clean up a floating pile of crap that can a) only be seen from space b) is currently bothering no-one and c) is probably in international waters.
I'm with you, but you're unlikely to get govt support unless the crud drifts up on your nations beaches, catches fire and belches toxic black smoke over (insert favorite dreary seaside town).
We all have personal web sites don't we and we all use Nuke or summat similar right? We don't all post flippin Slashdot articles about them though, do we?
This site seems like an empty *nuke site. Comeon Slashdot, if there isn't any real news, please don't feel that you have to lower the bar.
New on Slashot: Dorothy Hedgington of Walmo, North Yorks just uploaded her snaps of Scarborough from 1974. Check it out here now.....
...to get this sorted out. To my mind emergency services are a clear requirement on any phone system: Company PBX's have always had the ability to dial out in an emergency. Even most cellphones still let you call the emergency services when blocked or out of credit.
It's kind of annoying that in general, we argue against lumping VOIP in with the kind of legislation that applies to trad voice: the kind of legislation that may restrict free calls, or features or privacy or all of the above, and yet the VOIP provider blows it by not even offering a sensible baseline service.
Hang on a mo. I have a scrabble game. You have a scrabble game. Everyone that wants a scrabble game has one. From the Hasbro site: one in three households in the US has a scrabble game.
Any patents on rules and gameplay will have expired eons ago.
Is Jared making loads of cash from this? He is? Well Done Jared! The Hasbro site sucks. The official Scrabble Site sucks. Hasbro have no chance making cash from online scrabble. The word 'Scrabble' is not owned by Hasbro.
I say let Jared be. Jared in innocent! Jared should patent the idea of playing scrabble online and sue Hasbro. Hasbro only have the game coz they got it for a pittnace when the previous owner went bust. All they've managed to do to bring it up to date is release a cpuple of (pretty crummy) CD games. Oh and try to cream the luxury end by reducing the quality of the normal version and bringing out a 'Deluxe' version.
If Jared has 100k players, then changing the possibly copyrighted elements such as colours and logo's should retain the He can tell Hasbro to go blow.
If I want to play scrabble and I own a real game then I should be allowed to play it how I like. Online. Over the phone. By Post. By projecting the board onto Effing Pluto if I want to.
I find the problem is that PDA screens are a bit crap. Not only that, but the feature wars between manufacturers tend to make them into constantly evolving geek toys (Sorry!). Useful, I'll admit, but not really a nice device to read a book on.
I've been following the devopment of high contrast, high res EInk products such as this and it's only a matter of time before products appear which will give us crisp, 300 dpi high contrast displays (albeit at slow refresh rates) that consume miniscule amounts of power.
That's when the eBook becomes a much more attractive proposition.
Sony have a device up and running, but I don't think it's consumer ready yet.
Soon....
The engine is completely silent, which might.....
Silent? Surely it will come with an artificial motorcycle sound which can be tuned to taste ala like digital cameras with that annoying 'Click'.
You could make it sound like a fire truck just to get people leaping out of the way heh heh.
It's possible that MS want Patents to be easily accessible to the smaller business so they can then obtain exclusive licenses cheaper than doing original research...
The tetragraphs table is decidedly dodgy. The reference documents used to make these look like they were full of numbers as text. Not necessarily a good basis for analysis. Surely better to use reference works of English Language at it's best?
Jeeze. The BBC can't work out what to do with 4 or 5 channels. Hells bells, give em a thousand 'streams' and our fingers will get sore trying to blurp past 17 simultaneous Only Fools And Horses episodes. Gimme strength....
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Luxury! Indy 500 for the PC was great. Loads of pixels and in different colours too! You think that was boring, you should have tried the AcornSoft flight simulator on the Atom. 256x192 resolution and in 2 colours. Bleeding marvellous.
The clear goal should be to project virtual racers laps onto real tracks and see how the pros cope with trying to drive the real cars and keep up with the ghosts - that would be sport that I'd pay to watch ;-)
Well, scrap carbon fibre mainly these days, actually, but your point is good. Maybe the manufacturers should make the logos tougher, like out of the same stuff that black boxes are made of.
Do you still care? CherryOS is no more. Maui X-Treme are now busily compiling other opensource and flogging it as if they wrote it see here....
Wow, what an interesting thread! Although free-as-in-beer could end up being dear-as-in-expensive in this scenario, let's not forget what could be acheived.
Security (Data, Network, Integrity, insert your own personal security sphere) depends a huge part on trust: trust of the hardware for example.
It's really great that you have an ATI card that can chuck pixels at the screen so fast that your heads spins, but ask yourself how you know that the pixels your ATI card has rendered are the same as the pixels your PC asked the card to render? What goes on inside the card?
Pretty gnarly problem this: Security depends on a secure channel all the way from the user to the screen, storage, network, world.
Anything that can be done to open the hardware such that it's no longer just a black box on an architecture diagram has got to be good news: We know what's in it, we know what it does (If we care to look!) and what makes it tick. Such is the world advanced.
In general Open hardware projects might have a tough time in the real world, but that does not mean we shouldn't try. I guess most /. readers are aware of the Open Cores Project? This is kind of a halfway house to a full Open hardware project and it's thriving!
The world is our oyster here. Suggestions? My best one is the OHVM (Open Hardware Voting Machine).
Pretty easy to asnwer that one:
It's hard enough persuading (insert government of your choice here) to fix a problem which is in their jurisdiction.
Now try to persuade that same goverment to go clean up a floating pile of crap that can a) only be seen from space b) is currently bothering no-one and c) is probably in international waters.
I'm with you, but you're unlikely to get govt support unless the crud drifts up on your nations beaches, catches fire and belches toxic black smoke over (insert favorite dreary seaside town).
Has she started to smell yet?
Sorry: has she started to smell more yet?
If not, probably nothing to worry about. Did she still cook your meals?
We all have personal web sites don't we and we all use Nuke or summat similar right? We don't all post flippin Slashdot articles about them though, do we?
This site seems like an empty *nuke site. Comeon Slashdot, if there isn't any real news, please don't feel that you have to lower the bar.
New on Slashot: Dorothy Hedgington of Walmo, North Yorks just uploaded her snaps of Scarborough from 1974. Check it out here now.....
...to get this sorted out. To my mind emergency services are a clear requirement on any phone system: Company PBX's have always had the ability to dial out in an emergency. Even most cellphones still let you call the emergency services when blocked or out of credit.
It's kind of annoying that in general, we argue against lumping VOIP in with the kind of legislation that applies to trad voice: the kind of legislation that may restrict free calls, or features or privacy or all of the above, and yet the VOIP provider blows it by not even offering a sensible baseline service.
Hang on a mo. I have a scrabble game. You have a scrabble game. Everyone that wants a scrabble game has one. From the Hasbro site: one in three households in the US has a scrabble game.
Any patents on rules and gameplay will have expired eons ago.
Is Jared making loads of cash from this? He is? Well Done Jared! The Hasbro site sucks. The official Scrabble Site sucks. Hasbro have no chance making cash from online scrabble. The word 'Scrabble' is not owned by Hasbro.
I say let Jared be. Jared in innocent! Jared should patent the idea of playing scrabble online and sue Hasbro. Hasbro only have the game coz they got it for a pittnace when the previous owner went bust. All they've managed to do to bring it up to date is release a cpuple of (pretty crummy) CD games. Oh and try to cream the luxury end by reducing the quality of the normal version and bringing out a 'Deluxe' version.
If Jared has 100k players, then changing the possibly copyrighted elements such as colours and logo's should retain the He can tell Hasbro to go blow.
If I want to play scrabble and I own a real game then I should be allowed to play it how I like. Online. Over the phone. By Post. By projecting the board onto Effing Pluto if I want to.
I find the problem is that PDA screens are a bit crap. Not only that, but the feature wars between manufacturers tend to make them into constantly evolving geek toys (Sorry!). Useful, I'll admit, but not really a nice device to read a book on. I've been following the devopment of high contrast, high res EInk products such as this and it's only a matter of time before products appear which will give us crisp, 300 dpi high contrast displays (albeit at slow refresh rates) that consume miniscule amounts of power. That's when the eBook becomes a much more attractive proposition. Sony have a device up and running, but I don't think it's consumer ready yet. Soon....
The engine is completely silent, which might.....
Silent? Surely it will come with an artificial motorcycle sound which can be tuned to taste ala like digital cameras with that annoying 'Click'.
You could make it sound like a fire truck just to get people leaping out of the way heh heh.
Sorry Bill, We'll get that sorted right now.... Can we polish your shoes too, wipe the screen of your jet....
It's possible that MS want Patents to be easily accessible to the smaller business so they can then obtain exclusive licenses cheaper than doing original research...
The tetragraphs table is decidedly dodgy. The reference documents used to make these look like they were full of numbers as text. Not necessarily a good basis for analysis. Surely better to use reference works of English Language at it's best?
Abacus! You lucky lucky lucky lucky.....
My UAV uses a piece of string with 4 knots on it as a memory subsystem and has 6 ants in a thimble as a CPU.
Jeeze. The BBC can't work out what to do with 4 or 5 channels. Hells bells, give em a thousand 'streams' and our fingers will get sore trying to blurp past 17 simultaneous Only Fools And Horses episodes. Gimme strength....