Maybe a system where a moderator has to allow your first 2 or 3 posts or something like that. Not sure how to do it, but depending on traffic and the amount of administrators/moderators you have, there might be a system that when you register, the first three posts have to be read by a moderator and allowed in. Maybe set a system that forwards them to all moderators, and then as soon as one of them clicks on "allow", it shows up on the forum.
I have one of those cheap USB flash drives that plays MP3s and it does it too... and to a couple other formats too (you select them on the menu) that gives me something like 16 hours of recording time in 512 megs. Don't remember offhand what the other formats were, since I've never used it other than as a simple MP3 player for long trips or to transfer files to and from work.
Here in venezuela there doesn't seem to be any regulation (at least not that I've heard). And the two cell phones with cameras on them I've owned have had the camera sound on by default but it's an option to turn it off.
My bank's website ( http://www.banesco.com/ ). The page works perfectly, but for some reason when I try to log in it tells me invalid password with opera, works with firefox. I'm an opera user but I keep firefox around mostly for that page alone (it's actually its start page because usually anytime I open FF is for that one). On the other hand, this page: http://www.pcactual.net/ used to work perfectly on IE, and on opera, while it had glitches, the side navigation could still be used, but it was completely broken in firefox. That was sometime ago, though, and they changed it since then, and I'm at work and only have opera and safari on this computer, so can't test if it now works.
I remember the space quest games also did something like that. For example, Space Quest 5 (IIRC) had a star map in the manual (which looked like a magazine, BTW). You could play until a certain point where you were given command of your own starship (a garbage ship), and then they ordered you to go to certain systems (to pick up the trash), and you had to check the map to input the coordinates. Basically you could still play, but without the manual you couldn't really advance any further (unless you started to input random 5 digits numbers arriving at empty spaces until you managed to find the 3 systems you had to visit)..:)
Completely agree there. Linux might be all the better than Windows, but I really doubt it'll get that much of market share among the non techy oriented people until it has at least one cool "must have" fewature that windows just doesn't have (or that people perceive it not having). That was the case with windows 95 (Vs. DOS and Windows 3.11 at the time), that's the case now with Macs (that common people are starting to associate with iPods, even if windows can also use them), but there's not one big thing that linux has that people see as something they must have and they don't have with windows already (IMHO stability doesn't count because windows XP is stable enough for common use and price doesn't count either because people already consider windows free since it comes with their computers).
That's my case too. I consider myself a geek, yet I haven't tried linux yet, mostly because there's nothing there that I perceive as "needing", yet there are several things that I like in windows that I couldn't use in windows. For example, I do 3D animations and the programs I mainly use are maya, animation:master and photoshop, 2 of them don't run on linux natively (and yes, I've tried GIMP, and it has problems with my tablet... and I usually prefer to spend time texturing in photoshop than looking around why gimp doesn't work the way I want with my hardware). Also I don't want to dual boot because I don't like to reboot (yeah, I know, ironic that I'm on windows because I don't want to reboot, but rebooting once every two weeks or more is well within my limits), so I'd end up in windows anyway and linux just eating space. I will try it once I finish putting together a new computer for it with the leftover parts from previous upgrades, though..:)
Same thing happens at work. I work at a video producer and just now we bought two G5's (BTW, whoever said that macs don't crash, I'd like to kick his butt..:)), but because we got a couple of new HD cameras and final cut pro is the best program to edit HD and only runs on Mac. If we hadn't had that need of something we couldn't find on windows, we'd still be on windows alone.
At least that's how I see it. No matter how good is it, most people won't switch to linux until switching is something they don't need to do (as in, linux coming preinstalled on the computers when they buy them) or there's something big in linux that doesn't exists in windows that would drive them to.
Well, with the difference in quality in graphics and sound between the neo geo and the direct competition at the moment (snes and genesis), I'd guess it could have survived.... if only the games didn't cost something like $300 and more each (IIRC).
But also lots of stuff wouldn't been made either. It would work for things where it's reasonable to assume one person or a very small group of people can create something (like music, books, paintings), but it would be a huge nightmare if this would apply to things where hundreds of people participate. For example a movie like Shrek, imagine if a couple of modellers own the copyright of the Shrek model, but other own the copyright of the Donkey one... it would be a huge legal nightmare trying to negotiate the rights for something even as simple as a poster or even a commercial.
IMHO, Copyright law has lots of things wrong, but the part of being able to sell ownership of something's copyright, or the fact that if you do something under contract, the copyright falls on the contractor (or whatever is it that it's called in english) aren't some of them.
3dbuzz.com does that on the maya training videos they sell, basically when you buy it, the copy that will be shipped to you gets encoded with a near invisible watermark with your name, address and phone number (or at least the credit card owner's name, address and phone number), and they're a much smaller operation than the ones this refers to, so I guess that with enough computer power watermaking a video on the fly would be not only posible, but practical as well.
As parent said, though, how long the watermak will last is another matter.
I guess that's how it was designed. At least when I tried norton AV some years ago it was like that too, probably so that users can't turn the AV off in corporate enviroments. Only way to turn it off back then was to actually go to the task manager and kill its process. That's one reason why I went to AVG, that while it's not the best AV around (I scan about once a month with panda's or PC Cillin's online scanners just in case), it's very light on the resources and easy to turn off when I need all the processor and/or RAM my computer can give (like when I'm rendering an animation on maya)..:)
I have to agree there. I wouldn't want to pay so much money knowing that the keyboard will be useless, even if it's a couple of years later (the 5000 hours goes to roughly 7 months, but assuming it uses screen saving and it's off 2/3ds of the time, I'd put it at aroudn 21 months).
I do hope it's succesfull enough for development on the line to continue, so it can be eventually affordable for the poor geek (AKA me..:) )
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I was reading somewhere (I think on cnet too, I'll look for the URL later) that Vista will require the admin password to do admin stuff, and won't run on admin by default. They also said they were making a list of all the software that required administrative access, and dividing them in different categories. Those that actually needed admin. access will require the password be entered before opening (or before doing the specific section that needed it).
Also it said that there are lots of apps out there that just check for admin access on startup but don't need it, just that the developers was lazy by not checking wether it ran on limited accounts. In those cases, Vista default will be to report to the program that it's running with admin priviledges, but actually run it with limited priviledges.
I'll try to find the URL and post it later, I know I read it in the last couple of days or so.
I found it rather nice, and a very good adaptation IMHO. I saw it on TV before knowing it was related to terry pratchett and first thing I though about it was that it reminded me of the discworld style..:)
According to Wikipedia the entire gnomes trilogy is supposed to be made into a movie by dreamworks, but can't find anything else about it.
Personally I'd love to see a Guards Guards! movie (or mini series)... it's a great introduction to the series and to Ankh-Morpork... of course, the fact that it was the first discworld book I've read also plays a part on that..:)
Isn't that how it should work in the first place, needing admin (or power user) privileges to install, but then being able to run normally as a limited user?.
Just curious here, since AFAIK the main problem isn't that you need admin rights to install stuff, but that you need it for regular work.
When I was visiting in Spain what they did in museums instead was to give you some things that looked like those old brick cell phones, and each painting or interest point had a sign with a 3 digits number that you could push into it and then listen to the information. It's more convenient than a button to listen since you start and stop listening when you want, so it's no problem if you walk in in the middle of the speech and have to wait until it's over so you can push it again, and no problem trying to listen to the information of whatever is it you're seeing and trying to ignore the information from the stuff next to you.
Depression can be an illness, though. I do remember the case of a woman near where I used to live that basically had what you could call a near perfect life, devoted husband, two very nice children, went to the gym at least weekly and the like, yet she suffered from some very bad (and unexplained by external factors) periods of depression.
I do agree that there are LOTS of cases out there where doctors are too quick to put on pills and the like where it's not really needed, but there are some cases too where it's an actual physical illness that can be helped (to an extent) with some responsible use of them.
A friend from another forum (3dbuzz.com) put together a little flash animation explaining how it works on the chemical level. You can get the link if you're interested on this thread: http://www.3dbuzz.com/vbforum/showthread.php?t=121 199 (won't post the direct link to the animation so I don't kill his website..:) )
Agree. I live in Venezuela, and while I don't use much IM, I don't think I have any link on my contact list that's from latin america and that uses anything other than MSN (I did use to get the odd random ICQ message/spam, but it's been years since I've gotten one of those). My mother (she is a heavy IMer) has installed yahoo messenger and MSN, but all of her friends (latinamerica and spain) use MSN only. The only reason she installed yahoo was one time trillian (what I use) was having problems connecting to MSN and she installed it as an alternative when she wanted to contact me.
Nothing forces them to put links to open source options, as far as I understand it, that is. They could get away with just putting links to winamp and real player as competing media players, and yahoo messenger and ICQ for IM programs.
He's on the dropoff list (which is rather annoying since it automatically goes to the next one at a set amount of time, so if you don't hit stop it'll probably change while you're still reading). Just in case, here's the text:
"After years of fruitless investigations by the SEC, Gekko may have finally met his match in crusading New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Early this spring, Spitzer brought a raft of civil and criminal charges against Gekko, including insider trading, securities fraud, obstruction of justice and cruelty to animals. Former Gekko protégé Bud Fox cooperating with investigation, stating "Greed might be good, but Gekko is bad." Forced to sell assets at fire-sale prices, currently thought to be hunkering down in Park Avenue apartment plotting legal defense. Wife Kate, hieress to the Wisher hotel fortune, granted quicky divorce shortly after Gekko's legal problems surfaced; rumored to get nothing under the terms of a punishing pre-nup. -- Michael Noer"
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At least according to the BBC article, what's rare isn't the ring itself but the fact that it's blue.
:)
Now insert random uranus joke here..
Maybe a system where a moderator has to allow your first 2 or 3 posts or something like that. Not sure how to do it, but depending on traffic and the amount of administrators/moderators you have, there might be a system that when you register, the first three posts have to be read by a moderator and allowed in. Maybe set a system that forwards them to all moderators, and then as soon as one of them clicks on "allow", it shows up on the forum.
I have one of those cheap USB flash drives that plays MP3s and it does it too... and to a couple other formats too (you select them on the menu) that gives me something like 16 hours of recording time in 512 megs. Don't remember offhand what the other formats were, since I've never used it other than as a simple MP3 player for long trips or to transfer files to and from work.
Here in venezuela there doesn't seem to be any regulation (at least not that I've heard). And the two cell phones with cameras on them I've owned have had the camera sound on by default but it's an option to turn it off.
My bank's website ( http://www.banesco.com/ ). The page works perfectly, but for some reason when I try to log in it tells me invalid password with opera, works with firefox. I'm an opera user but I keep firefox around mostly for that page alone (it's actually its start page because usually anytime I open FF is for that one). On the other hand, this page: http://www.pcactual.net/ used to work perfectly on IE, and on opera, while it had glitches, the side navigation could still be used, but it was completely broken in firefox. That was sometime ago, though, and they changed it since then, and I'm at work and only have opera and safari on this computer, so can't test if it now works.
I remember the space quest games also did something like that. For example, Space Quest 5 (IIRC) had a star map in the manual (which looked like a magazine, BTW). You could play until a certain point where you were given command of your own starship (a garbage ship), and then they ordered you to go to certain systems (to pick up the trash), and you had to check the map to input the coordinates. Basically you could still play, but without the manual you couldn't really advance any further (unless you started to input random 5 digits numbers arriving at empty spaces until you managed to find the 3 systems you had to visit).. :)
Completely agree there. Linux might be all the better than Windows, but I really doubt it'll get that much of market share among the non techy oriented people until it has at least one cool "must have" fewature that windows just doesn't have (or that people perceive it not having). That was the case with windows 95 (Vs. DOS and Windows 3.11 at the time), that's the case now with Macs (that common people are starting to associate with iPods, even if windows can also use them), but there's not one big thing that linux has that people see as something they must have and they don't have with windows already (IMHO stability doesn't count because windows XP is stable enough for common use and price doesn't count either because people already consider windows free since it comes with their computers). That's my case too. I consider myself a geek, yet I haven't tried linux yet, mostly because there's nothing there that I perceive as "needing", yet there are several things that I like in windows that I couldn't use in windows. For example, I do 3D animations and the programs I mainly use are maya, animation:master and photoshop, 2 of them don't run on linux natively (and yes, I've tried GIMP, and it has problems with my tablet... and I usually prefer to spend time texturing in photoshop than looking around why gimp doesn't work the way I want with my hardware). Also I don't want to dual boot because I don't like to reboot (yeah, I know, ironic that I'm on windows because I don't want to reboot, but rebooting once every two weeks or more is well within my limits), so I'd end up in windows anyway and linux just eating space. I will try it once I finish putting together a new computer for it with the leftover parts from previous upgrades, though.. :)
Same thing happens at work. I work at a video producer and just now we bought two G5's (BTW, whoever said that macs don't crash, I'd like to kick his butt.. :)), but because we got a couple of new HD cameras and final cut pro is the best program to edit HD and only runs on Mac. If we hadn't had that need of something we couldn't find on windows, we'd still be on windows alone.
At least that's how I see it. No matter how good is it, most people won't switch to linux until switching is something they don't need to do (as in, linux coming preinstalled on the computers when they buy them) or there's something big in linux that doesn't exists in windows that would drive them to.
Well, with the difference in quality in graphics and sound between the neo geo and the direct competition at the moment (snes and genesis), I'd guess it could have survived.... if only the games didn't cost something like $300 and more each (IIRC).
But also lots of stuff wouldn't been made either. It would work for things where it's reasonable to assume one person or a very small group of people can create something (like music, books, paintings), but it would be a huge nightmare if this would apply to things where hundreds of people participate. For example a movie like Shrek, imagine if a couple of modellers own the copyright of the Shrek model, but other own the copyright of the Donkey one... it would be a huge legal nightmare trying to negotiate the rights for something even as simple as a poster or even a commercial. IMHO, Copyright law has lots of things wrong, but the part of being able to sell ownership of something's copyright, or the fact that if you do something under contract, the copyright falls on the contractor (or whatever is it that it's called in english) aren't some of them.
Already been done.. :)
http://www.conceptlab.com/control/
3dbuzz.com does that on the maya training videos they sell, basically when you buy it, the copy that will be shipped to you gets encoded with a near invisible watermark with your name, address and phone number (or at least the credit card owner's name, address and phone number), and they're a much smaller operation than the ones this refers to, so I guess that with enough computer power watermaking a video on the fly would be not only posible, but practical as well. As parent said, though, how long the watermak will last is another matter.
I guess that's how it was designed. At least when I tried norton AV some years ago it was like that too, probably so that users can't turn the AV off in corporate enviroments. Only way to turn it off back then was to actually go to the task manager and kill its process. That's one reason why I went to AVG, that while it's not the best AV around (I scan about once a month with panda's or PC Cillin's online scanners just in case), it's very light on the resources and easy to turn off when I need all the processor and/or RAM my computer can give (like when I'm rendering an animation on maya).. :)
I have to agree there. I wouldn't want to pay so much money knowing that the keyboard will be useless, even if it's a couple of years later (the 5000 hours goes to roughly 7 months, but assuming it uses screen saving and it's off 2/3ds of the time, I'd put it at aroudn 21 months).
:) )
I do hope it's succesfull enough for development on the line to continue, so it can be eventually affordable for the poor geek (AKA me..
I was reading somewhere (I think on cnet too, I'll look for the URL later) that Vista will require the admin password to do admin stuff, and won't run on admin by default. They also said they were making a list of all the software that required administrative access, and dividing them in different categories. Those that actually needed admin. access will require the password be entered before opening (or before doing the specific section that needed it).
Also it said that there are lots of apps out there that just check for admin access on startup but don't need it, just that the developers was lazy by not checking wether it ran on limited accounts. In those cases, Vista default will be to report to the program that it's running with admin priviledges, but actually run it with limited priviledges.
I'll try to find the URL and post it later, I know I read it in the last couple of days or so.
The gnomes books have already been done, truckers at least.
:)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105646/
I found it rather nice, and a very good adaptation IMHO. I saw it on TV before knowing it was related to terry pratchett and first thing I though about it was that it reminded me of the discworld style..
According to Wikipedia the entire gnomes trilogy is supposed to be made into a movie by dreamworks, but can't find anything else about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bromeliad
Personally I'd love to see a Guards Guards! movie (or mini series)... it's a great introduction to the series and to Ankh-Morpork... of course, the fact that it was the first discworld book I've read also plays a part on that.. :)
Isn't that how it should work in the first place, needing admin (or power user) privileges to install, but then being able to run normally as a limited user?. Just curious here, since AFAIK the main problem isn't that you need admin rights to install stuff, but that you need it for regular work.
When I was visiting in Spain what they did in museums instead was to give you some things that looked like those old brick cell phones, and each painting or interest point had a sign with a 3 digits number that you could push into it and then listen to the information. It's more convenient than a button to listen since you start and stop listening when you want, so it's no problem if you walk in in the middle of the speech and have to wait until it's over so you can push it again, and no problem trying to listen to the information of whatever is it you're seeing and trying to ignore the information from the stuff next to you.
Depression can be an illness, though. I do remember the case of a woman near where I used to live that basically had what you could call a near perfect life, devoted husband, two very nice children, went to the gym at least weekly and the like, yet she suffered from some very bad (and unexplained by external factors) periods of depression. I do agree that there are LOTS of cases out there where doctors are too quick to put on pills and the like where it's not really needed, but there are some cases too where it's an actual physical illness that can be helped (to an extent) with some responsible use of them. A friend from another forum (3dbuzz.com) put together a little flash animation explaining how it works on the chemical level. You can get the link if you're interested on this thread: http://www.3dbuzz.com/vbforum/showthread.php?t=121 199 (won't post the direct link to the animation so I don't kill his website.. :) )
Agree. I live in Venezuela, and while I don't use much IM, I don't think I have any link on my contact list that's from latin america and that uses anything other than MSN (I did use to get the odd random ICQ message/spam, but it's been years since I've gotten one of those). My mother (she is a heavy IMer) has installed yahoo messenger and MSN, but all of her friends (latinamerica and spain) use MSN only. The only reason she installed yahoo was one time trillian (what I use) was having problems connecting to MSN and she installed it as an alternative when she wanted to contact me.
Nothing forces them to put links to open source options, as far as I understand it, that is. They could get away with just putting links to winamp and real player as competing media players, and yahoo messenger and ICQ for IM programs.
He's on the dropoff list (which is rather annoying since it automatically goes to the next one at a set amount of time, so if you don't hit stop it'll probably change while you're still reading). Just in case, here's the text:
"After years of fruitless investigations by the SEC, Gekko may have finally met his match in crusading New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Early this spring, Spitzer brought a raft of civil and criminal charges against Gekko, including insider trading, securities fraud, obstruction of justice and cruelty to animals. Former Gekko protégé Bud Fox cooperating with investigation, stating "Greed might be good, but Gekko is bad." Forced to sell assets at fire-sale prices, currently thought to be hunkering down in Park Avenue apartment plotting legal defense. Wife Kate, hieress to the Wisher hotel fortune, granted quicky divorce shortly after Gekko's legal problems surfaced; rumored to get nothing under the terms of a punishing pre-nup. -- Michael Noer"
And some people can polish off one in less than 15 minutes... :)
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/23/turkey.eating.re
The real trick would be to read it in old entish... though it would probably take a few months of non stop reading just to finish the first page.. :)
http://news.com.com/Sony+CD+protection+sparks+secu rity+concerns/2100-7355_3-5926657.html?tag=nefd.le de