whether it be porn or anything else DRM leaves you feeling cheap and used.
Well, I for one do not care about feeling used by Jeena Haze even if it is by a CD where she is =o). Imagine being able to brag to your friends "hey lads, I was used by Jeena Jameson"
Sorry pal but for us the Mexicanos, the people from USA are called "Estadounidenses" which is quite the same thing as what the Quebecois guys called them.
The problem is that the USA is the only country that does not have a common name. The political name of Mexico is "Mexican United States", and the common name is Mexico, same with Canada, England, and all (that I know) countries in the world.
Whereas USA is the "common name" for United States of America, named after Americo Bespusio(Amerigo Vespucci), the cartographer to which America (the contintent that then became 2 contintents [althought that is not what they tell us in Mexican schools, where they take America as a complete continent]) owes its name. The United States part is just a descriptive adjective. Unfortunately, there are more than one United States in America now (even in North America), so the lack of name is what gives problems to the Estadounidenses.
But that is only a problem in the English language, as in Spanish, French and German (Vereinigten Staatler). Of course there are several other pejorative names that come to mind lingo Gringo, yanqui and polaco.
but I have not found anything that provides the same level of functionality,
I have used Camtasia studio before and from what I have read from Istanbul it only does something like 1% of what Camtasia studio can do. Granted, the "basic" functionallity is still the same (capture in video a section of the screen), but then again Istanbul is far, far, FAAAAR away of being a replacement of camtasia.
sorry for writting you on this comment, my comment is completely offtopic but I found searching on google that you once managed to use a Notebook LCD screen with an overhead projector.
I am in the process of doing something similar although not using an overhead projector but building the projector from the ground up. I managed to get a 13 inches LCD laptop screen (from a broken vaio).
I have just started (just got the broken laptop), the first thing I searched for is the technical documentation of the laptop, unfortunately I have not found anything useful (unlike the great HP Maintenance and Service Guides , I have only been able to get the less than worthless Sony "user manual").
My specific question (now) is about the LCD to VGA (XGA?), connectors, how did you achieved that in your case?, how did you knew the way to connect the laptop LCD connectors to a VGA cable (or how did you did it)?
As you can see I am quite at the beginning of a daunting task, but I would love to do this project:)
yeh seriously, how would the three laws have helped if the 'robot' didn't have advanced enough eyes along with powerful enough image processing to know that a human was getting close to it and stepping in its way?
But the thing about the 3 laws of robotics, from my point of view is that you do not have to take them *literally*, or at least, try to take them in the broad sense of meaning.
See, Asimov laws where inteded for a ficticious kind of robots with something called the "positronic" brain.
But, if you think on what A.I. is now (I myself research into this field), the real utility of the rules comes as the "design" of these robots. This means, that the creators of the robots should follow all the pertinent precautions in order to make the robots mechanism (as complex or simple it is) to obbey those rules (which are something like, 1. Do not harm a human been, 2. Obbey a human been 3. Survive).
Of course robots today are not complex enough to "reason" about any of the rules, at least not "reason" as we know (well, anyone here knows how do we reason anyway?). But the rules apply more in an abstract way. As far as I remember, Asimov never said how where the rules embeded in the robots (other than in the heart of their *positronic* robots), but that the robots followed those rules.
I think, overall the current robots are created more or less to enforce those rules, of course in the case of the robot from the article the warning mechanism would be a flashing light or something more subtle. Ultimately it is the work of humans to create these robots, and with the focus in reducing development costs it is up to the safety standards organisms to raise the minimum requirments for manufacturing/mechanical and other kind of robotics equipment safety.
Yeah, it may sound trivial but I am more "adapted" to the 2D board. I find that when playing on the real board I can not "see" the game in the same way. The feeling goes away after some time of playing in the board but then when I return to the 2D I feel something similar.
Oh, and btw, after removing all the malware (in safe mode!! without network!) make sure the desktop image is NOT a web page, I lost 2 hours looking where the fuck a spyware was loading after removing it. I got the hint when saw that each time windows started the desktop image sort of went blank for a second before putting the backgroudn image.
Well, for starters, putting a telephone number in google will give you the address and name of the registerd person and even a satellite image of its residence.
Now, that is what they let you see, which surely is only 1/100 of the information they got there. I am sure after one or two subpoenas they would be able to show whoever needs, the record of lolita pictures you where looking last night, including the torrents you where downloading from Mininova.
What reassures me is knowing how much shit a company can get in if they loose or missuse such information.
First, I would be paranoid if a company manage to loose information.
But, in any case, what is missuse?, is giving the information to government misuse? and, how can you *know* they are not already giving some information to third parties?.
The fact that you can see advertisments in you mail indicates that they are *already* providing third parties with information about your behaviour.
The rest are just there for the sake of being able to say, "Google can do this too." Well yeah, but it does it worse than existing products.
This brings me memories from the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" when certain B.Gates was arguing with another certain Steve J. about a product Gates copied from Steve's company. At one point, Mr. Steve told Mr. Gates something like "You cant beat us, our products are better, your products suck", to what Mr. Gates answered: "You dont get it, IT... DOESNT... MATTER".
My point is, which is the company that has got a monopoly along with billions of dollars by selling low quality products?
Or you may need a new driver(previous one stopped working, was only temp
Excuse me but I am genuinely intrigued, how can a driver be "temp"?
No, really, how is that? is that an OSX or Vista feature ? usually after I install a driver (Windows XP or Linux for me) it "drives" the hardware forever and ever. Are they making Shareware or 30-day-Demo drivers or something?
It is my belief that most Americans are afraid, very afraid - of everything.
I do not know if you are american or not. But at least, I think that is exactly what happens in USA, or at least, after watching Farenheit9/11 it was quite clear. The culture of the USA has always been one of fear. Since the people emmigrated from Europe and while they where killing natives and all that.
About Mexico, I think there is a problem. Mexico is a great place to live but only if you have a good job. For example, my dream job would be if I could work in a technology development company as a consultant (who payed in USD or GBP, but I could work from the traquility of my house in the front of the beach at Mexico.
I am sure Mexicans like their country, the problem is there is no work, and the problem about that is corruption.
Cool, I would love to see a USA law passed that forced all the non native Americans to go way. The land would stay pretty isolated.
A lot of Americans forget to remember that the USA was formed by Irish people that where affraid of how things where being handled in Europe, that is why USA people are "Mochos" (something like very, very, VEEERY consevative religuous ala OMG-think-of-the-children way).
Only indians will stay with all the land that immigrants took away from them spilling blood.
I do not know if there is something like a general population census in USA but it would be interesting to see the proportion of native people against the immigrants (legal & illegal). Of course, it would be difficult to count illegal immigrants, but an approximation could do it.
You know something very interesting, I have an cousing in Alaska, she went there as illegal immigrant some years ago, but now she is 100% legal.
She told me about a factory where they packaged fish whose workers where a lot illegal. This factory implemented a system in which, when the immigration police arrived to inspect for the papers of workers, the people from the factory would sound an alarm and all the illegal persons would hide (in the freezers and other places).
I tell you this to show you that usually the USA employers treat fine their employees, because they get their confidence and (because of their status) they do not bitch about everything, they just want to work and get paid. So, I believe it is more like that, or why do you think illegal immigrants marchs and manifestations get a lot of support from local people (like the landlords)?
Our president said it in a very stupid but enlightening way, Mexican do work that not even black people like to do. Now, before anyone gets offended, I know te sentence is offensive, and I do not have anything against black people AND I think our president was an asshole when he said this. But you get the idea he was trying to state.
How ironic, I'm an American who knows he'll never need to go to Mexico, and I'm always saying "fuck the Mexican government."
And, to make things better, I am a Mexican who knows that one day he is going to have to return to Mexico and I am always saying "Fuck the Mexican government". So yeah, as one of the other posters said, it is quite difficult to define which is worst. But hey, If AMLO wins in the next elections something interesting may happen (at least it wont be the as cock sucker as the current president is to the north neighbour country president).
Then again, sorry if you took it personal, it is not. Aside from what I wrote before, people that post on slashdot are even *less* standard "patriot" americans as others, so you should take less offence (or at least, I hope)
As a Mexican person who prays for never needing to go to the USA (I just went once to Disney World and Universal Studios), I say, fuck the USA government.
On the other hand, I think that the idea is hilarious, this reminded me of MI-3, they surely will have to implant those chips with those mini bombs. Because if they dont do it, I am completely sure immigrants (at least mexicans) will just "un-implant" the chips and put it in a secure place like their home or things like that. Do not underestimate the power of "Tepitenses" market where you surely will be able to "buy your personalized chip" .
I applaud the decission that the USA government recently took about immigrants, but what they must understand is that "A la fuerza, ni los zapatos entran. " (by force not even the shoes fit). They provide immigrants with regulations that makes them feel safe, so , why not, create some kind of "RFID National Health Immigrant Card", which they have to show to get Health services or things like that. In that way they will feel that the ID is going to give them a new service, and the government can use it to contrl them.
Oh, and please if you are from the USA do not get offended, it is nothing personal against citizens, its about the government:).
The solution? For some novel open-source software to appear that handles this problem. Then it gets integrated into Thunderbird as an OPTION for a way to send mail. It should work seamlessly, and fall back to old-fashioned e-mail when necessary. You would have two e-mail accounts side-by-side, but it would appear to the user as if they had only one.
That more or less happened (or is happening) with Skype.
At least, that is what I have seen, like with Email, with skype chatting system you can send a message to a friend that let them receive it the moment they go online.
The main issue here are the servers, *someone* needs to have the always-connected "message management" system (mail daemon), what we need is "yet another mail protocol". which will be binary first of all. I would appreciate if it was XML based.
It will then be, as you said, implemented in the different mail clients, and then some mail severs would implement it.
The problem with this is the ubiquity of email, same thing as with the telephone. And, in my case, same thing with MSN Messenger. You see, MSN messenger sucks, I know, it is windows-only (as I can not have video & audio with the GAIM or aMSN Linux clients), I can whine all day about its suckerism, but ALL of the people I know use MSN, nobody uses ICQ or Jabber or any other thing, they use MSN.
Nowadays, they are starting to to another thing, Skype, yep, no OpenWengo or anything else. Because of that, I am also using Skype. Oh, and I do not like having 10 different clients for 10 different protocols opened. That is why I use MSN and Skype (and VoIpBuster for free calls).
The problem is ubiquity. In this kind of applications used to communicate with other people the best one is the one that lets you get in contact with MORE people. It does not matter how it sucks, one day you will NEED to communicate with *that one person* which uses the suckee client and you will have to install it or die.
Something similar happens with.DOC, (or XLS), they suck yeah, but it is the only way to guarantee that others will *get* your message.
And please do not tell me to add a extension because adding a 200K memory leaking piece of shit just to add some functionallity that MUST have implemented in the main program is stuid (yeah, along with the search in textbox and the memory leak extension among others.
Yeah, kill me for bashing our beloved firefox, and no I wont use Opera of Explorer
Yeah, this reminds me of the sites like Crackstore with cracking tools and documents that a homepage saying that people from the government can not enter
No, as GP said, the security of Infomration is more important. If a virus deletes the user's $HOME/Documents files I bet he will be *freaking* pissed after someone in the 1337U8UN7U forum tells him not to worry as the stability of the system is not going to be affected.
and here's me thinking that Sony and Microsoft listened to players opinion's
I dont remeber if it was Iwata or Miyamoto, but one of them said that, they specifically did not care to listen *current players* opinion, because, for them, everything is allright. What they wanted is to ask non-players WHY didnt they played, that is the whole point of the blue sea -red sea idea.
I dont know, but I find this thing really cool and amazing.
To start, I would love to put one in my kitchen, provided that it is WiFi enabled (or if it is PoE and the Ethernet is still usable it would be the same) , imagine how cool would it be, to have one of this babies on each room at the side of your light socket.
And then, you would have a central server & database, with different applications, each one for a different room.
I believe this thing could certainly give a push to the automated house (bring it into the masses). Of course it would be 1024 times better if some sort of Linux was running in the chip. BUt I guess that wont take long =o).
Of course, nowadays the device is quite expensive, but it does not have any other choice than get lower and lower until it is affordable.
I recently started playing (in 1964) Army Men - Air Combat with my girlfriend, and let me tell you that the game is quite funny, it has some nice moments, like when you have to throw green crayons in to the Tan unit fabric to change the color of the soldiers.
I think the army men sires are quite nice, but yeah, the larry series are hilarious (at least, I really liked them, and I remember staying a loong night until I could answer those three pesky questions after a friend gave me the game... next day (I was in secondary school) I asked him how to play it and he told me to press ALT+X... bastard.
BTW, I am from Mexico so lot of those questions did not make any sense...
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whether it be porn or anything else DRM leaves you feeling cheap and used.
Well, I for one do not care about feeling used by Jeena Haze even if it is by a CD where she is =o). Imagine being able to brag to your friends "hey lads, I was used by Jeena Jameson"
Sorry pal but for us the Mexicanos, the people from USA are called "Estadounidenses" which is quite the same thing as what the Quebecois guys called them.
The problem is that the USA is the only country that does not have a common name. The political name of Mexico is "Mexican United States", and the common name is Mexico, same with Canada, England, and all (that I know) countries in the world.
Whereas USA is the "common name" for United States of America, named after Americo Bespusio(Amerigo Vespucci), the cartographer to which America (the contintent that then became 2 contintents [althought that is not what they tell us in Mexican schools, where they take America as a complete continent]) owes its name. The United States part is just a descriptive adjective. Unfortunately, there are more than one United States in America now (even in North America), so the lack of name is what gives problems to the Estadounidenses.
But that is only a problem in the English language, as in Spanish, French and German (Vereinigten Staatler). Of course there are several other pejorative names that come to mind lingo Gringo, yanqui and polaco.
but I have not found anything that provides the same level of functionality,
I have used Camtasia studio before and from what I have read from Istanbul it only does something like 1% of what Camtasia studio can do. Granted, the "basic" functionallity is still the same (capture in video a section of the screen), but then again Istanbul is far, far, FAAAAR away of being a replacement of camtasia.
Hi,
:)
sorry for writting you on this comment, my comment is completely offtopic but I found searching on google that you once managed to use a Notebook LCD screen with an overhead projector.
I am in the process of doing something similar although not using an overhead projector but building the projector from the ground up. I managed to get a 13 inches LCD laptop screen (from a broken vaio).
I have just started (just got the broken laptop), the first thing I searched for is the technical documentation of the laptop, unfortunately I have not found anything useful (unlike the great HP Maintenance and Service Guides , I have only been able to get the less than worthless Sony "user manual").
My specific question (now) is about the LCD to VGA (XGA?), connectors, how did you achieved that in your case?, how did you knew the way to connect the laptop LCD connectors to a VGA cable (or how did you did it)?
As you can see I am quite at the beginning of a daunting task, but I would love to do this project
Thanks for any help!
Cheers,
xtracto
yeh seriously, how would the three laws have helped if the 'robot' didn't have advanced enough eyes along with powerful enough image processing to know that a human was getting close to it and stepping in its way?
But the thing about the 3 laws of robotics, from my point of view is that you do not have to take them *literally*, or at least, try to take them in the broad sense of meaning.
See, Asimov laws where inteded for a ficticious kind of robots with something called the "positronic" brain.
But, if you think on what A.I. is now (I myself research into this field), the real utility of the rules comes as the "design" of these robots. This means, that the creators of the robots should follow all the pertinent precautions in order to make the robots mechanism (as complex or simple it is) to obbey those rules (which are something like, 1. Do not harm a human been, 2. Obbey a human been 3. Survive).
Of course robots today are not complex enough to "reason" about any of the rules, at least not "reason" as we know (well, anyone here knows how do we reason anyway?). But the rules apply more in an abstract way. As far as I remember, Asimov never said how where the rules embeded in the robots (other than in the heart of their *positronic* robots), but that the robots followed those rules.
I think, overall the current robots are created more or less to enforce those rules, of course in the case of the robot from the article the warning mechanism would be a flashing light or something more subtle. Ultimately it is the work of humans to create these robots, and with the focus in reducing development costs it is up to the safety standards organisms to raise the minimum requirments for manufacturing/mechanical and other kind of robotics equipment safety.
Not really really fast, but the bouncing effect of the cards would be made with real life gravity simulation, including air friction and all.
weee!
And just wait to see how minesweeper will be!
Yeah, it may sound trivial but I am more "adapted" to the 2D board. I find that when playing on the real board I can not "see" the game in the same way. The feeling goes away after some time of playing in the board but then when I return to the 2D I feel something similar.
So from my experience there is a difference.
msconfig sucks
Autoruns is THE 1337
Oh, and btw, after removing all the malware (in safe mode!! without network!) make sure the desktop image is NOT a web page, I lost 2 hours looking where the fuck a spyware was loading after removing it. I got the hint when saw that each time windows started the desktop image sort of went blank for a second before putting the backgroudn image.
Well, for starters, putting a telephone number in google will give you the address and name of the registerd person and even a satellite image of its residence.
Now, that is what they let you see, which surely is only 1/100 of the information they got there. I am sure after one or two subpoenas they would be able to show whoever needs, the record of lolita pictures you where looking last night, including the torrents you where downloading from Mininova.
What reassures me is knowing how much shit a company can get in if they loose or missuse such information.
First, I would be paranoid if a company manage to loose information.
But, in any case, what is missuse?, is giving the information to government misuse? and, how can you *know* they are not already giving some information to third parties?.
The fact that you can see advertisments in you mail indicates that they are *already* providing third parties with information about your behaviour.
So no, IMHO GP is not *that* paranoid
The rest are just there for the sake of being able to say, "Google can do this too." Well yeah, but it does it worse than existing products.
... MATTER".
This brings me memories from the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" when certain B.Gates was arguing with another certain Steve J. about a product Gates copied from Steve's company. At one point, Mr. Steve told Mr. Gates something like "You cant beat us, our products are better, your products suck", to what Mr. Gates answered: "You dont get it, IT... DOESNT
My point is, which is the company that has got a monopoly along with billions of dollars by selling low quality products?
Raise your hands those who know the answer!
Research with Google scholar,
Real research is done by Scopus, Scirus or Citeseer.
Of course, some of those links are available only only subscription but, that is the state of the "free scientific knowledge" for the masses.
It sucks.
Or you may need a new driver(previous one stopped working, was only temp
Excuse me but I am genuinely intrigued, how can a driver be "temp"?
No, really, how is that? is that an OSX or Vista feature ? usually after I install a driver (Windows XP or Linux for me) it "drives" the hardware forever and ever. Are they making Shareware or 30-day-Demo drivers or something?
It is my belief that most Americans are afraid, very afraid - of everything.
I do not know if you are american or not. But at least, I think that is exactly what happens in USA, or at least, after watching Farenheit9/11 it was quite clear. The culture of the USA has always been one of fear. Since the people emmigrated from Europe and while they where killing natives and all that.
About Mexico, I think there is a problem. Mexico is a great place to live but only if you have a good job. For example, my dream job would be if I could work in a technology development company as a consultant (who payed in USD or GBP, but I could work from the traquility of my house in the front of the beach at Mexico.
I am sure Mexicans like their country, the problem is there is no work, and the problem about that is corruption.
Cool, I would love to see a USA law passed that forced all the non native Americans to go way. The land would stay pretty isolated.
A lot of Americans forget to remember that the USA was formed by Irish people that where affraid of how things where being handled in Europe, that is why USA people are "Mochos" (something like very, very, VEEERY consevative religuous ala OMG-think-of-the-children way).
Only indians will stay with all the land that immigrants took away from them spilling blood.
I do not know if there is something like a general population census in USA but it would be interesting to see the proportion of native people against the immigrants (legal & illegal). Of course, it would be difficult to count illegal immigrants, but an approximation could do it.
You know something very interesting, I have an cousing in Alaska, she went there as illegal immigrant some years ago, but now she is 100% legal.
She told me about a factory where they packaged fish whose workers where a lot illegal. This factory implemented a system in which, when the immigration police arrived to inspect for the papers of workers, the people from the factory would sound an alarm and all the illegal persons would hide (in the freezers and other places).
I tell you this to show you that usually the USA employers treat fine their employees, because they get their confidence and (because of their status) they do not bitch about everything, they just want to work and get paid. So, I believe it is more like that, or why do you think illegal immigrants marchs and manifestations get a lot of support from local people (like the landlords)?
Our president said it in a very stupid but enlightening way, Mexican do work that not even black people like to do. Now, before anyone gets offended, I know te sentence is offensive, and I do not have anything against black people AND I think our president was an asshole when he said this. But you get the idea he was trying to state.
How ironic, I'm an American who knows he'll never need to go to Mexico, and I'm always saying "fuck the Mexican government."
And, to make things better, I am a Mexican who knows that one day he is going to have to return to Mexico and I am always saying "Fuck the Mexican government". So yeah, as one of the other posters said, it is quite difficult to define which is worst. But hey, If AMLO wins in the next elections something interesting may happen (at least it wont be the as cock sucker as the current president is to the north neighbour country president).
Then again, sorry if you took it personal, it is not. Aside from what I wrote before, people that post on slashdot are even *less* standard "patriot" americans as others, so you should take less offence (or at least, I hope)
As a Mexican person who prays for never needing to go to the USA (I just went once to Disney World and Universal Studios), I say, fuck the USA government.
:).
On the other hand, I think that the idea is hilarious, this reminded me of MI-3, they surely will have to implant those chips with those mini bombs. Because if they dont do it, I am completely sure immigrants (at least mexicans) will just "un-implant" the chips and put it in a secure place like their home or things like that. Do not underestimate the power of "Tepitenses" market where you surely will be able to "buy your personalized chip" .
I applaud the decission that the USA government recently took about immigrants, but what they must understand is that "A la fuerza, ni los zapatos entran. " (by force not even the shoes fit). They provide immigrants with regulations that makes them feel safe, so , why not, create some kind of "RFID National Health Immigrant Card", which they have to show to get Health services or things like that. In that way they will feel that the ID is going to give them a new service, and the government can use it to contrl them.
Oh, and please if you are from the USA do not get offended, it is nothing personal against citizens, its about the government
The solution? For some novel open-source software to appear that handles this problem. Then it gets integrated into Thunderbird as an OPTION for a way to send mail. It should work seamlessly, and fall back to old-fashioned e-mail when necessary. You would have two e-mail accounts side-by-side, but it would appear to the user as if they had only one.
.DOC, (or XLS), they suck yeah, but it is the only way to guarantee that others will *get* your message.
That more or less happened (or is happening) with Skype.
At least, that is what I have seen, like with Email, with skype chatting system you can send a message to a friend that let them receive it the moment they go online.
The main issue here are the servers, *someone* needs to have the always-connected "message management" system (mail daemon), what we need is "yet another mail protocol".
which will be binary first of all. I would appreciate if it was XML based.
It will then be, as you said, implemented in the different mail clients, and then some mail severs would implement it.
The problem with this is the ubiquity of email, same thing as with the telephone.
And, in my case, same thing with MSN Messenger. You see, MSN messenger sucks, I know, it is windows-only (as I can not have video & audio with the GAIM or aMSN Linux clients), I can whine all day about its suckerism, but ALL of the people I know use MSN, nobody uses ICQ or Jabber or any other thing, they use MSN.
Nowadays, they are starting to to another thing, Skype, yep, no OpenWengo or anything else. Because of that, I am also using Skype. Oh, and I do not like having 10 different clients for 10 different protocols opened. That is why I use MSN and Skype (and VoIpBuster for free calls).
The problem is ubiquity. In this kind of applications used to communicate with other people the best one is the one that lets you get in contact with MORE people. It does not matter how it sucks, one day you will NEED to communicate with *that one person* which uses the suckee client and you will have to install it or die.
Something similar happens with
And please do not tell me to add a extension because adding a 200K memory leaking piece of shit just to add some functionallity that MUST have implemented in the main program is stuid (yeah, along with the search in textbox and the memory leak extension among others.
Yeah, kill me for bashing our beloved firefox, and no I wont use Opera of Explorer
Oh yeah, and the search in multiple frames function is broken.
And do not tell me frames suck... they ARE being used and the functionallity is broken.
Yeah, this reminds me of the sites like Crackstore with cracking tools and documents that a homepage saying that people from the government can not enter
It's always about the security of the data.
No, as GP said, the security of Infomration is more important. If a virus deletes the user's $HOME/Documents files I bet he will be *freaking* pissed after someone in the 1337U8UN7U forum tells him not to worry as the stability of the system is not going to be affected.
and here's me thinking that Sony and Microsoft listened to players opinion's
I dont remeber if it was Iwata or Miyamoto, but one of them said that, they specifically did not care to listen *current players* opinion, because, for them, everything is allright. What they wanted is to ask non-players WHY didnt they played, that is the whole point of the blue sea -red sea idea.
I dont know, but I find this thing really cool and amazing.
To start, I would love to put one in my kitchen, provided that it is WiFi enabled (or if it is PoE and the Ethernet is still usable it would be the same) , imagine how cool would it be, to have one of this babies on each room at the side of your light socket.
And then, you would have a central server & database, with different applications, each one for a different room.
I believe this thing could certainly give a push to the automated house (bring it into the masses). Of course it would be 1024 times better if some sort of Linux was running in the chip. BUt I guess that wont take long =o).
Of course, nowadays the device is quite expensive, but it does not have any other choice than get lower and lower until it is affordable.
Great!
I recently started playing (in 1964) Army Men - Air Combat with my girlfriend, and let me tell you that the game is quite funny, it has some nice moments, like when you have to throw green crayons in to the Tan unit fabric to change the color of the soldiers.
I think the army men sires are quite nice, but yeah, the larry series are hilarious (at least, I really liked them, and I remember staying a loong night until I could answer those three pesky questions after a friend gave me the game... next day (I was in secondary school) I asked him how to play it and he told me to press ALT+X... bastard.
BTW, I am from Mexico so lot of those questions did not make any sense...