Like the parent and grandparent, I've been thinking the same thing...graffiti writing is horrible, and using only a stylus is horrible. A one-handed input system would be nice, but the pricetags those have are a bit excessive.
I thought a simple 5-button interface, one button per finger, with the ability to multiplex based on how many keys can be pressed would be nice, but it only gives 24 key combinations, which isn't enough for the alphabet, much less numbers, symbols, etc.
However, I saw something much like it in Star Wars ROTS where General Grevious is in the circular rolling vehicle, right when he starts it up, they show a close up of his hand on a 5-button control.
Anyways, thanks for the links, it's comforting to know such things exist, and also comforting to know that it probably wouldn't be too hard to sell similar devices at a lower price...just can't wait till it happens.
Thanks for the link...I was unaware of it's existence, and now that I know about it, I feel a bit less inclined to do it. Part of it was just the novelty of the idea, that searches should not be restricted to text-based media. The business end of it, I wasn't thinking too much about, simply if it would be feasible to make money doing it.
I wonder though how hard it would be to "crawl" through Amazon and collect the 30 second song clips---Yeah it might not give a complete enough picture, but it'd be a start.
Really? How do you tell Google what the notes are?
I've been considering setting up a audio search website where you actually just hum, sing, or do whatever into a microphone and it'll match up the closest audio file. To support such a service, I'd set up an affiliate account with Amazon or iTunes or something, if the match can be made with a commercial record, and the person wants to buy it, there's a small, steady stream of income from that.
Then, when Google says "Hey! That's cool!", they buy it up for a few million, and I get to spend the rest of my days coding big things instead of writing something to pay the bills from month to month.
-David
P.S. Google, I'm still a student, so if you want to hire me and/or buy the idea from me, I'd love to work there!
P.S.S. If Google and/or Amazon isn't interested (yet), anyone else interested in forming a start-up?
Well, you can befriend the Emperor and he will provide you with a nice shiny outfit that will not only help you regain your vision, but also provide you with prosthetics as necessary.
Or you could just search your feelings and use the force. You know it to be true...
I agree with the last possibilty the most likely. Seeing as how the Star Destroyers at the end of III looked different compared to earlier in the movie, and that the uniforms and deck layouts were different as well, I think it is a safe assumption that much time has passed between scenes.
Yeah, as long as Hitler is only killing off Jews, it doesn't sound too bad to me.
If you give an inch...
It's only a matter of time before these things become embedded in our bodies with RFID signals, and someone like you will say "As long as it doesn't read my thoughts directly..."
1. OSS developers write custom management/accounting software for Welfare Program. 2. Welfare department welcomes cutomized management/accounting software with open arms (after all, they *sponsored* software). 3. OSS developers exploit a secret, built-in backdoor system 4. PROFIT!!!
The Y-Prize: For the first manned commercial moon landing.
That should be followed up by the Z-prize, which either colonizes the moon continuously for a minimum period of time, or the first manned commercial Mars landing.
CUSTOMER: Hey, what's this I found? It's some old unmaintained code for writing office documents...
MICROSOFT: All your base are belong to us!
CUSTOMER: No, no...I remember this, it worked good. Remember that time Netscape looked all dead but then came back to life as Firefox/Mozilla? Maybe we could do the same with this here office thingy...
MICROSOFT: All your base are belong to us!
CUSTOMER: Hey guys, check this out, we don't have to use that Microsoft stuff anymore...
MICROSOFT: All your.... (searching)... (searching)... Base not found. To locate base yourself, click "Browse"
I could be way off base, but at least conceptually, Microsoft Word does have a place for Add-Ins. If that works anything like I assume it would, wouldn't it be relatively straightforward to write an Add-In that includes the new format as something that can be saved to and opened from?
Then when we start passing around the new file formats to our friends, we can include the Add-In (or a link to the Add-In) so they can download it and benefit indirectly. Anyone know if this is technically possible?
I'm just getting started learning Lisp (mostly thanks to Paul), and I find myself asking repeatedly--why is it that there aren't good libraries with multiplatorm support? Is it a funding issue, where no one gets paid to so no one does it? I suspect that if it were a more popular language, it might find better support, but the catch-22 is that it needs more libraries (and thus support) to become more popular. Even then, popularity isn't the goal, so much as the byproduct of marrying a powerful language to equally useful libraries. Perhaps the word I'm looking for is more "developer-ready" than "popular".
In any case, does anyone think/know that it's possible to get Lisp to such a level or sophistication? Are major changes (*ahem* Arc) necessary to make it less "strange" without reducing power? Could the beginning programmer someday feasibly write a program in Visual Lisp, or can we not mix ease of development and powerful languages? If such a venture is possible, is anyone (even Paul) willing to support it? I suppose it retrospect it would have been fun to submit such an idea to Paul's VC setup, but I doubt it would have made it in light of the long-term nature of such development.
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Like the parent and grandparent, I've been thinking the same thing...graffiti writing is horrible, and using only a stylus is horrible. A one-handed input system would be nice, but the pricetags those have are a bit excessive.
I thought a simple 5-button interface, one button per finger, with the ability to multiplex based on how many keys can be pressed would be nice, but it only gives 24 key combinations, which isn't enough for the alphabet, much less numbers, symbols, etc.
However, I saw something much like it in Star Wars ROTS where General Grevious is in the circular rolling vehicle, right when he starts it up, they show a close up of his hand on a 5-button control.
Anyways, thanks for the links, it's comforting to know such things exist, and also comforting to know that it probably wouldn't be too hard to sell similar devices at a lower price...just can't wait till it happens.
Kinda brings new meaning to the phrase "Hit any key to continue"...
Here's about as full text as it gets:
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http://www.minnlawyer.com/opinions/050509/a04381.
Something similar, but I'd probably also try to figure out how to match it up with more than just midi files. But yes, the concept is the same...
Thanks for the link...I was unaware of it's existence, and now that I know about it, I feel a bit less inclined to do it. Part of it was just the novelty of the idea, that searches should not be restricted to text-based media. The business end of it, I wasn't thinking too much about, simply if it would be feasible to make money doing it.
I wonder though how hard it would be to "crawl" through Amazon and collect the 30 second song clips---Yeah it might not give a complete enough picture, but it'd be a start.
Thanks again for the link!
Really? How do you tell Google what the notes are?
I've been considering setting up a audio search website where you actually just hum, sing, or do whatever into a microphone and it'll match up the closest audio file. To support such a service, I'd set up an affiliate account with Amazon or iTunes or something, if the match can be made with a commercial record, and the person wants to buy it, there's a small, steady stream of income from that.
Then, when Google says "Hey! That's cool!", they buy it up for a few million, and I get to spend the rest of my days coding big things instead of writing something to pay the bills from month to month.
-David
P.S. Google, I'm still a student, so if you want to hire me and/or buy the idea from me, I'd love to work there!
P.S.S. If Google and/or Amazon isn't interested (yet), anyone else interested in forming a start-up?
I think maybe his apprentice killed him.
How ironic...he could use the simplex method to save others, but he could not even save himself from death.
Well, you can befriend the Emperor and he will provide you with a nice shiny outfit that will not only help you regain your vision, but also provide you with prosthetics as necessary.
Or you could just search your feelings and use the force. You know it to be true...
I agree with the last possibilty the most likely. Seeing as how the Star Destroyers at the end of III looked different compared to earlier in the movie, and that the uniforms and deck layouts were different as well, I think it is a safe assumption that much time has passed between scenes.
Actually, you listed the wrong version of Windows...saying -59768 B.C. is a double negative, like -(-59768) A.D.
It's either -59768 A.D. or it's 59768 B.C.
Is it safe to assume were the source of a few Y2K bugs as well?
Actually, I heard something quite the opposite -- that 25.8% of all people DON'T know that!
That was a close one, I almost clicked the link to RTFA.
I'm sorry, but you'll have to use a better adjective than "startling" to get past my click-filter...
Yeah, as long as Hitler is only killing off Jews, it doesn't sound too bad to me.
If you give an inch...
It's only a matter of time before these things become embedded in our bodies with RFID signals, and someone like you will say "As long as it doesn't read my thoughts directly..."
I can see it now...
1. OSS developers write custom management/accounting software for Welfare Program.
2. Welfare department welcomes cutomized management/accounting software with open arms (after all, they *sponsored* software).
3. OSS developers exploit a secret, built-in backdoor system
4. PROFIT!!!
No ???? needed
Or if there's a follow-up to the X-prize...
The Y-Prize: For the first manned commercial moon landing.
That should be followed up by the Z-prize, which either colonizes the moon continuously for a minimum period of time, or the first manned commercial Mars landing.
Then we move into the Greek letters...
And here I thought it was Sean Connery playing as King Arthur in the movie First Knight:
"I am your king...and I command you...TO FIGHT! Long live the internet! Never give up! Never giv-*thwack*
As he collapses under the weight of the DDoS attack.
CUSTOMER: Hey, what's this I found? It's some old unmaintained code for writing office documents...
MICROSOFT: All your base are belong to us!
CUSTOMER: No, no...I remember this, it worked good. Remember that time Netscape looked all dead but then came back to life as Firefox/Mozilla? Maybe we could do the same with this here office thingy...
MICROSOFT: All your base are belong to us!
CUSTOMER: Hey guys, check this out, we don't have to use that Microsoft stuff anymore...
MICROSOFT: All your.... (searching)... (searching)... Base not found. To locate base yourself, click "Browse"
I could be way off base, but at least conceptually, Microsoft Word does have a place for Add-Ins. If that works anything like I assume it would, wouldn't it be relatively straightforward to write an Add-In that includes the new format as something that can be saved to and opened from?
Then when we start passing around the new file formats to our friends, we can include the Add-In (or a link to the Add-In) so they can download it and benefit indirectly. Anyone know if this is technically possible?
I'm just getting started learning Lisp (mostly thanks to Paul), and I find myself asking repeatedly--why is it that there aren't good libraries with multiplatorm support? Is it a funding issue, where no one gets paid to so no one does it? I suspect that if it were a more popular language, it might find better support, but the catch-22 is that it needs more libraries (and thus support) to become more popular. Even then, popularity isn't the goal, so much as the byproduct of marrying a powerful language to equally useful libraries. Perhaps the word I'm looking for is more "developer-ready" than "popular".
In any case, does anyone think/know that it's possible to get Lisp to such a level or sophistication? Are major changes (*ahem* Arc) necessary to make it less "strange" without reducing power? Could the beginning programmer someday feasibly write a program in Visual Lisp, or can we not mix ease of development and powerful languages? If such a venture is possible, is anyone (even Paul) willing to support it? I suppose it retrospect it would have been fun to submit such an idea to Paul's VC setup, but I doubt it would have made it in light of the long-term nature of such development.
It must be true that Lisp programmers are smarter than the average programmer....you seem to have found a way to double your karma for free!
I'd say a better question is if it can/will record the slashdot effect, what with all the melting computer parts around it...
I dunno, any reference in "micro" and "soft" can't be all that good...
Unless "fat" has four to six characters, I call BS on this story.
Remember kids, funny doesn't add to your karma, especially when the joke has errors that weren't caught at compile time...
And here I thought everyone uses CmdrTaco as their favorite password...
I find that test/test works fine for my root login...