Or just install Mozilla which has pretty decent popup prevention (i.e. it still allows the popups that result from a user click, but not the ones that pages generate on load/exit/etc)
That reminds me of the bar in my University halls in my first year, that insisted on the name "skiff" for the plastic pint "glasses" that beer was served in.
I'll tell you, getting served beer in a real glass after a couple of years of the plastic monstrocities makes you really appreciate being in a proper pub:o)
I think you're thinking of GT3 (Gran Rourismo 3) which is a racing game. GTA3 (Grand Theft Auto 3) is a "commit crimes, steal cars, and mess with the mafia" game. Ok, there is some racing involved, but not very much
Unless they're using Mozilla, which starts downloading from the moment the download link is opened, rather than from the time you OK the save requester
The original website http://www.trippingtherift.com/ seems to currently be down (I'd guess it's getting a sci-fi channel revamp, or something, since a via-google slashdotting seems unlikely) but it can still be reached thanks to the wayback machine
For the Microwave+ it could work in a system similar similar to cddb. i.e.:
1) The user scans the barcode of the product (not a special cooking time barcode, just the usual produce barcode)
2) The microwave looks up this code with the central server (Of course the microwave would be connected to the internet!)
3) The central server would provide either cooking instructions, or a "not known" message
4) If cooking instructions are provided, then the oven does any adaptations it needs, and cooks the food. Otherwise it asks the user to manually enter the times as per usual (possibly asking what wattage the instructions say, so it can do its own translation), which it would submit back to the main database
5) After cooking, the microwave would pop up some kind of "was the food cooked ok?" message, which would allow it to report dodgy cooking times back to the central server
It would have to work on some kind of majority system (i.e. not just take the first submitted time as gospel, but instead take some kind of statistical average) but I don't see why this wouldn't work.
(A modification would be to make it download all the latest times and perform its submissions late at night, rather than having to connect to the server every time)
They stock it Sainsbury's in Leamington (maybe that's just because Leam is posh!) but I've seen it at quite a few petrol stations too (I always prefer a nice cold can of Redbull though!)
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And it'd be amusing to think of google's index getting filled up with indexes of it's own pages. It'd then index and cache its own cached pages, and then index and cache the caches of its cached pages, and so on.
Until it fell over:o)
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I just did a check of a link to google on a page that I know has been indexed, and it doesn't show up in the cache
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I don't think google could index itself, since it just follows links. It's not as if all the possible search results pages are sitting on google's server ready for you to enter your search terms.
But they'll only show up in the rankings if they get lots of links to them. If you've tried googlewhacking, you'll know that there are already hundreds of word list pages
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Ahh, but part of the point of publishing the whack is to claim it - like planting a flag there to say "I found this whack, and nobody else can claim it as theirs"
though it seems that most problems happen to men, since the "Sam as a woman" episodes came quite infrequently when you'd think statistically he'd jump into a woman 50% of the time.
Going back on topic, the whole projector thing would only be any use if you wanted to give both players a hand (unless the game is programmed to be able to turn off the hints for the better player). We'd really need some way of making the projection visable to only one player.
Nope, this is real. if you read the article they say "Our first goal was to understand how our Sportcraft dartboard translates a single dart hit to an electronic signal..."
That's something I've thought of in the past, and I can't see why it couldn't be done.
You'd need
1) A camera mounted above the table, so it gets a fairly flat view of the table, and can see all 6 pockets
2) A Projector also mounted above the table, which can project over the whole area of the table (ceiling height would probably make this difficult)
3) A pc in between that runs some kind of image recognition system to spot the balls (I'd think recognising circles of distinct colours would be easy if you're playing english style pool with red and yellow balls. Spots and stripes may be harder to recognise). It could then hook this into a pool simulation engine to work out which is the best ball to aim for, and then plot lines of the ball paths, which would be projected onto the table.
Al made one of these for Sam in an episode of Quantum Leap:o)
I think the point of the article is that it's still cheaper to keep making new transponders which get destroyed every day than it is to build and maintain a proper relay tower
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But with a computer poker game the computer already knows what cards you have, so has no need to read emotions to see if you're bluffing
Not if you don't take your gun
Or just install Mozilla which has pretty decent popup prevention (i.e. it still allows the popups that result from a user click, but not the ones that pages generate on load/exit/etc)
Google isnt responsible for the results they return - are they?
Just like Napster weren't responsible for the copyrighted music that it's users were sharing?
The original host's url gives a "403 Forbidden" error, so I guess they have done already
They're suing to get Google to remove the cache of someone else's pages.
I assume if they're sucessful with sueing Google, then they'll go after the Wayback Machine's archive of the site next
That reminds me of the bar in my University halls in my first year, that insisted on the name "skiff" for the plastic pint "glasses" that beer was served in.
:o)
And there was me thinking a skiff was a boat.
I'll tell you, getting served beer in a real glass after a couple of years of the plastic monstrocities makes you really appreciate being in a proper pub
I think you're thinking of GT3 (Gran Rourismo 3) which is a racing game. GTA3 (Grand Theft Auto 3) is a "commit crimes, steal cars, and mess with the mafia" game. Ok, there is some racing involved, but not very much
Unless they're using Mozilla, which starts downloading from the moment the download link is opened, rather than from the time you OK the save requester
The original website http://www.trippingtherift.com/ seems to currently be down (I'd guess it's getting a sci-fi channel revamp, or something, since a via-google slashdotting seems unlikely) but it can still be reached thanks to the wayback machine
or you can visit Google's cached version of the downloads page to download the episode 1 movie
It did have an uninstall entry on my (home) machine. Of course I have no idea if this actually deleted all the copies too, so I'll check that later
If CDDB can work, then I don't see why the system I described could not
For the Microwave+ it could work in a system similar similar to cddb. i.e.:
1) The user scans the barcode of the product (not a special cooking time barcode, just the usual produce barcode)
2) The microwave looks up this code with the central server (Of course the microwave would be connected to the internet!)
3) The central server would provide either cooking instructions, or a "not known" message
4) If cooking instructions are provided, then the oven does any adaptations it needs, and cooks the food. Otherwise it asks the user to manually enter the times as per usual (possibly asking what wattage the instructions say, so it can do its own translation), which it would submit back to the main database
5) After cooking, the microwave would pop up some kind of "was the food cooked ok?" message, which would allow it to report dodgy cooking times back to the central server
It would have to work on some kind of majority system (i.e. not just take the first submitted time as gospel, but instead take some kind of statistical average) but I don't see why this wouldn't work.
(A modification would be to make it download all the latest times and perform its submissions late at night, rather than having to connect to the server every time)
They stock it Sainsbury's in Leamington (maybe that's just because Leam is posh!) but I've seen it at quite a few petrol stations too (I always prefer a nice cold can of Redbull though!)
And it'd be amusing to think of google's index getting filled up with indexes of it's own pages. It'd then index and cache its own cached pages, and then index and cache the caches of its cached pages, and so on.
:o)
Until it fell over
I just did a check of a link to google on a page that I know has been indexed, and it doesn't show up in the cache
I don't think google could index itself, since it just follows links. It's not as if all the possible search results pages are sitting on google's server ready for you to enter your search terms.
But they'll only show up in the rankings if they get lots of links to them. If you've tried googlewhacking, you'll know that there are already hundreds of word list pages
Ahh, but part of the point of publishing the whack is to claim it - like planting a flag there to say "I found this whack, and nobody else can claim it as theirs"
Odd, it seems to have gone away now that I look at this article for a 2nd time :-/
though it seems that most problems happen to men, since the "Sam as a woman" episodes came quite infrequently when you'd think statistically he'd jump into a woman 50% of the time.
Going back on topic, the whole projector thing would only be any use if you wanted to give both players a hand (unless the game is programmed to be able to turn off the hints for the better player). We'd really need some way of making the projection visable to only one player.
Nope, this is real. if you read the article they say "Our first goal was to understand how our Sportcraft dartboard translates a single dart hit to an electronic signal..."
and a quick search of sportcraft on google finds www.sportcraft.com
Which has electronic darts boards exactly like the one they've hacked.
That's something I've thought of in the past, and I can't see why it couldn't be done.
:o)
You'd need
1) A camera mounted above the table, so it gets a fairly flat view of the table, and can see all 6 pockets
2) A Projector also mounted above the table, which can project over the whole area of the table (ceiling height would probably make this difficult)
3) A pc in between that runs some kind of image recognition system to spot the balls (I'd think recognising circles of distinct colours would be easy if you're playing english style pool with red and yellow balls. Spots and stripes may be harder to recognise). It could then hook this into a pool simulation engine to work out which is the best ball to aim for, and then plot lines of the ball paths, which would be projected onto the table.
Al made one of these for Sam in an episode of Quantum Leap
I think the point of the article is that it's still cheaper to keep making new transponders which get destroyed every day than it is to build and maintain a proper relay tower