I just looked on the spec for iCalendar... and a Microsoft Engineer is one of the authors... So this is not a case of "not invented here".
Heck, I just can't understand this kind of move, but it does not surprises me
Why use RSS for that when vCard and iCalendar specs already cover that and are implemented by many groupware suites out there.
The RFCs cover from HTTP transport of calendar and contact data as well as other MIME enclosures... And it's a simple and elegant format, it's not XML based but it works! Why reinvent the well this time?
more info on vCard and iCalendar at http://www.imc.org/pdi/
heck, I was really going to do a usefull post about nano tech and the space elevator and giant springs but I could not resist myself and decided go on the lines of
FIRST P0ST!!!!!!!!!!!
err... this Brasil bashing just sounds bad, at least here we know how to build and use a eletronic voting machine and our elected president actually governs the country.
I am not in favor of taking the root servers out of ICANN, I do think they are doing a very nice job and think that the UN is just to slow for the needs of the internet... but I don't go on talking about other countries, the US should look at Brasil, China and India and watch how the intelectual powers are shifting.
I think it is impressive that no one commented about the possibilities of "controller gestures", just like its cousin mouse gestures. Okay there are some movements that you'll not be able to performe with that controller no matter how good are the sensors but with gestures you could play games like medal of honor and make your character crawl, jump, knee and whatever no matter how many buttons you have in your controller, just think of that. Many people complained the lack of buttons but hey, with gestures who needs buttons, playing something akin to medal of honor will be very fun indeed, or like controlling Link in the Zelda games, gestures could enable some very nice attacks and acrobatic parrys...
This device is not made by gamepark, former gamepark of gp32 fame splited in two companies, one called gamepark and the other called gamepark holdings. Most of the original gp32 team moved to the new GP Holdings company, only one of the engineers stayed on the "other" gamepark which is yet to deliver its new device. So GPX2 is the successor of G32 but is made from a different company populated by the original gp32 crew with a name much like the old company...
just check any of the cool gp32 foruns like gp32x.com and check the history.
konfab is like dashboard and both are like desktop widget and I don't know why I feel that flamewars will start in couple minutes...
Konfab x Dashboard: the prior art battle...
almost like
Vi x Emacs: How many keys can you press at the same time...
Let me explain evolution... theres specie Geek, the Vi x Emacs force a species split up. Then we've got Vi Geek and Emacs Geek, after couple years they can't even talk to each other anymore, the Vi Geek always trying some cryptic commands and the Emacs Geek mutating more fingers to type even bigger key-chords...
it's the same with butterflies I think... RGB Butterfly, CMYK Butterfly...
Folks,
hiding one HTTP request inside another is not the same HTTP request hijacking technique that appeared in Doctor Dobbs journal some months ago... I can't recall the edition...
I remember setting up Pup BBS from Tom of FIDONet fame, Here in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) internet was non existant for the masses, so BBS was huge and most of them were free ratio based ones... then after that I moved to RA (could not configurate the damn thing) and moved to PCBoard. Heck those days were more fun than the internet will ever be! Stealing time from other users in the time bank, playing BRE... heck if someone setup a Telnet old school bbs or a dial-up one near me I'd sure move in!
I fondly remember learning to program games in DOS using Pascal and the Asphynxia tutorials... Never had so much fun in programming since those days. Does anyone knows if it's possible to create a cross compiler using FreePascal to target the GBA? They say they support ARM so it might be possible, it would be marvelous to code games in Pascal again. It would be a nice way for newbies to learn to code games for the GBA and the homebrew community would benefit much, C/C++ is so messy sometimes./me wonders...
I am using Zeta all day here and it works fine for me, it's the only OS for the x86 platform that gives me no headache. Windows is crap and we all know that, full of malware and stuff. Linux is cool but the GUI experience of linux sucks big time, it's improving, yes, but it is not ready. Now Zeta allows me to have fun with computing using my spare pentium machine, I can see the media I want, listen to music, do my office stuff, use the net with not a single problem, the system is responsive and not trying to make you a moron. I am coding some apps for Zeta, all I miss is a good high level language now so that the entry point of zeta development was easier.
I see many here complaining about Zeta and others talking FUD about YellowTAB and Be/Palm/Haiku relation. Now, How many here used Zeta RC3 or Neo or Ventura? How many here saw the new kernel? not the old betas, the new stable release candidates... how many here looked without "the prejudice of the geek elite" to it and tested it with an open mind...
sometimes/. folks are just barkers after all...
man, I remember in the-good-old-days when first post trolls used to write at least a complete sentence like "Geee All Your First p0st are belong to us"....
fp... ick...
damn
it's just that this mark the beggining of the "Martian All Out Probe Shooting Season", during this time, our green friends shoot all earth tech they can see in space... some green men must have got long range laser for xmas this year, thats all... nothing to see here, move along.
Humm, I am Brazilian. Were in troubled time here, money is low, but it's better than before we think. As for this conspiracy theories, well, there are some american newspapers shouting to the world that Amazonia (aka: the amazon) is an international area that should be secured by america and the rest of the ruling world...
Hell, America destroyed Iraq, the cradle of civilization. Can't american people see how wrong, selfish and naive they are. We watch CNN and other broadcasters here, we read your newspapers and we always think: "can they be as fool as they pretend to be? how does a place full of morons that belive in this news can rule the world? How long can they keep their lies?"
Brazil is big and peacefull. Were the only nation I know that was able to put away a president using democracy (the impeachment of fernando collor de mello). We by vote elected a president of the people party. Were rich in science, medicine and all things related to biotech and nature.
I wonder when they will come after our "mass destruction weapons"....
I miss the experience of old adventure games...
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I think Art is something that involves us in some way that can bring your emotional side to connect with your rational side. This can happen with a good book (like Neal Stephenson books), this can happen with movies (I really like Contact), but the only time I can remember this ever happening with games was in those nice years I got to play those cool LucasArts adventures, monkey island series, indiana jones and the fate of atlantis, loom, the dig. Games that were a true form of art, they captured us for hours, we marveled the graphics, the plots, the puzzles, the music... everything was fun. It was like interacting with a movie or a book, it was like being part of a history. It's sad that we're no longer building adventures, almost all efforts now are put in some weird FPS... I miss chating with my friends on how to defeat some puzzle on Day of the Tentacle.
We're using eVoting machines here in Brazil for a couple years without major problems. It's better for many people here are iliterate and eVoting machines carry photos and speak the name of the candidate. I see many saying that paper can be trusted more and computers, but hey, we're talking about humans and voting here, at least in Brazil, nothing was more fraudable (does this word exists in english?) than paper, all it takes was a huge shotgun, a corrupt landlord with an easy tone: "mark here..." At least eVoting is making it harder here for fraud.
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I just looked on the spec for iCalendar... and a Microsoft Engineer is one of the authors... So this is not a case of "not invented here". Heck, I just can't understand this kind of move, but it does not surprises me
Why use RSS for that when vCard and iCalendar specs already cover that and are implemented by many groupware suites out there. The RFCs cover from HTTP transport of calendar and contact data as well as other MIME enclosures... And it's a simple and elegant format, it's not XML based but it works! Why reinvent the well this time? more info on vCard and iCalendar at http://www.imc.org/pdi/
There's no such thing as vulnerabilities, all there's is Inteligent Bug. The exploits are there just to test your faith...
didn't read TFA but won't thing rulling be used against DMCA in the future, like enabling you to patch DRM software you own and stuff like that?
World biggest roller coaster?
heck, I was really going to do a usefull post about nano tech and the space elevator and giant springs but I could not resist myself and decided go on the lines of FIRST P0ST!!!!!!!!!!!
err... this Brasil bashing just sounds bad, at least here we know how to build and use a eletronic voting machine and our elected president actually governs the country. I am not in favor of taking the root servers out of ICANN, I do think they are doing a very nice job and think that the UN is just to slow for the needs of the internet... but I don't go on talking about other countries, the US should look at Brasil, China and India and watch how the intelectual powers are shifting.
I think it is impressive that no one commented about the possibilities of "controller gestures", just like its cousin mouse gestures. Okay there are some movements that you'll not be able to performe with that controller no matter how good are the sensors but with gestures you could play games like medal of honor and make your character crawl, jump, knee and whatever no matter how many buttons you have in your controller, just think of that. Many people complained the lack of buttons but hey, with gestures who needs buttons, playing something akin to medal of honor will be very fun indeed, or like controlling Link in the Zelda games, gestures could enable some very nice attacks and acrobatic parrys...
This device is not made by gamepark, former gamepark of gp32 fame splited in two companies, one called gamepark and the other called gamepark holdings. Most of the original gp32 team moved to the new GP Holdings company, only one of the engineers stayed on the "other" gamepark which is yet to deliver its new device. So GPX2 is the successor of G32 but is made from a different company populated by the original gp32 crew with a name much like the old company... just check any of the cool gp32 foruns like gp32x.com and check the history.
konfab is like dashboard and both are like desktop widget and I don't know why I feel that flamewars will start in couple minutes... Konfab x Dashboard: the prior art battle... almost like Vi x Emacs: How many keys can you press at the same time...
Heh, I know Google will now buy Apple to get hands on Dashboard, way better than konfab... /me fells insightfull
Let me explain evolution... theres specie Geek, the Vi x Emacs force a species split up. Then we've got Vi Geek and Emacs Geek, after couple years they can't even talk to each other anymore, the Vi Geek always trying some cryptic commands and the Emacs Geek mutating more fingers to type even bigger key-chords... it's the same with butterflies I think... RGB Butterfly, CMYK Butterfly...
Folks, hiding one HTTP request inside another is not the same HTTP request hijacking technique that appeared in Doctor Dobbs journal some months ago... I can't recall the edition...
was it Trade Wars?
I remember setting up Pup BBS from Tom of FIDONet fame, Here in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) internet was non existant for the masses, so BBS was huge and most of them were free ratio based ones... then after that I moved to RA (could not configurate the damn thing) and moved to PCBoard. Heck those days were more fun than the internet will ever be! Stealing time from other users in the time bank, playing BRE... heck if someone setup a Telnet old school bbs or a dial-up one near me I'd sure move in!
I fondly remember learning to program games in DOS using Pascal and the Asphynxia tutorials... Never had so much fun in programming since those days. Does anyone knows if it's possible to create a cross compiler using FreePascal to target the GBA? They say they support ARM so it might be possible, it would be marvelous to code games in Pascal again. It would be a nice way for newbies to learn to code games for the GBA and the homebrew community would benefit much, C/C++ is so messy sometimes. /me wonders...
I am using Zeta all day here and it works fine for me, it's the only OS for the x86 platform that gives me no headache. Windows is crap and we all know that, full of malware and stuff. Linux is cool but the GUI experience of linux sucks big time, it's improving, yes, but it is not ready. Now Zeta allows me to have fun with computing using my spare pentium machine, I can see the media I want, listen to music, do my office stuff, use the net with not a single problem, the system is responsive and not trying to make you a moron. I am coding some apps for Zeta, all I miss is a good high level language now so that the entry point of zeta development was easier. I see many here complaining about Zeta and others talking FUD about YellowTAB and Be/Palm/Haiku relation. Now, How many here used Zeta RC3 or Neo or Ventura? How many here saw the new kernel? not the old betas, the new stable release candidates... how many here looked without "the prejudice of the geek elite" to it and tested it with an open mind... sometimes /. folks are just barkers after all...
man, I remember in the-good-old-days when first post trolls used to write at least a complete sentence like "Geee All Your First p0st are belong to us".... fp... ick... damn
it's just that this mark the beggining of the "Martian All Out Probe Shooting Season", during this time, our green friends shoot all earth tech they can see in space... some green men must have got long range laser for xmas this year, thats all... nothing to see here, move along.
to hell with karma! in soviet russia, beer brews you! *ducks*
Humm, I am Brazilian. Were in troubled time here, money is low, but it's better than before we think. As for this conspiracy theories, well, there are some american newspapers shouting to the world that Amazonia (aka: the amazon) is an international area that should be secured by america and the rest of the ruling world... Hell, America destroyed Iraq, the cradle of civilization. Can't american people see how wrong, selfish and naive they are. We watch CNN and other broadcasters here, we read your newspapers and we always think: "can they be as fool as they pretend to be? how does a place full of morons that belive in this news can rule the world? How long can they keep their lies?" Brazil is big and peacefull. Were the only nation I know that was able to put away a president using democracy (the impeachment of fernando collor de mello). We by vote elected a president of the people party. Were rich in science, medicine and all things related to biotech and nature. I wonder when they will come after our "mass destruction weapons"....
I think Art is something that involves us in some way that can bring your emotional side to connect with your rational side. This can happen with a good book (like Neal Stephenson books), this can happen with movies (I really like Contact), but the only time I can remember this ever happening with games was in those nice years I got to play those cool LucasArts adventures, monkey island series, indiana jones and the fate of atlantis, loom, the dig. Games that were a true form of art, they captured us for hours, we marveled the graphics, the plots, the puzzles, the music... everything was fun. It was like interacting with a movie or a book, it was like being part of a history. It's sad that we're no longer building adventures, almost all efforts now are put in some weird FPS... I miss chating with my friends on how to defeat some puzzle on Day of the Tentacle.
We're using eVoting machines here in Brazil for a couple years without major problems. It's better for many people here are iliterate and eVoting machines carry photos and speak the name of the candidate. I see many saying that paper can be trusted more and computers, but hey, we're talking about humans and voting here, at least in Brazil, nothing was more fraudable (does this word exists in english?) than paper, all it takes was a huge shotgun, a corrupt landlord with an easy tone: "mark here..." At least eVoting is making it harder here for fraud.