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  1. Re:Mismatch on Air Guitar That Actually Plays! · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's what I got from it; this isn't a realistic simulation at all, it's just kind of... well crappy.

    Maybe I can clarify what I meant: I meant that, yes, it can tell which hand is which, but it can't detect depth of movement, only movement along the left-right axis.

  2. Re:Wow, a general purpose operating system! on Air Guitar That Actually Plays! · · Score: 1

    Personally, I like knowing what OS something is running on. That way, I don't jump up and down in excitement about some great new program that I can't run.

  3. Re:Mismatch on Air Guitar That Actually Plays! · · Score: 1

    My guess would be that this is just a limitation of the technology right now:
     
      A player then needs only to don a pair of brightly coloured gloves in order to rock out. Computer vision software automatically keeps track of their hands and detects different gestures, as a video of the system in action demonstrates (22MB, requires Windows Media Player and DivX codec for the visual aspect of the footage).
     
    So it's really keeping track of some bright gloves; a webcam isn't the most sensitive of cameras, so distinguishing between a bright glove that is just touching the virtual fretboard and shaking around because there isn't actually anything there and a bright glove that is trying the hammer on and pull off is probably very difficult. It sounds to me from the article that it basically tracks crude movement.

  4. Re:about the unstableness.. on Run Windows MCE Applications on Xbox 360 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I used to repair VCRs. As soon as one came in, the first thing we did was verify it didn't work. If it didn't, the second thing we did was lift it six inches and drop it, turn it on and see if it worked now. If it did, that's an hour's work and an easy sixty bucks. If that didn't work, we opened them up and sprayed them with compressed air, tried to see if it came on. If it didn't, look for an obvious cause, if no obvious cause then you bill the manufacturer on the warranty for a new VCR and consider the matter settled.

    Never underestimate how often a six inch drop will do the job.

  5. Re:Interest Piqued on Run Windows MCE Applications on Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    Reading Slashdot doesn't cause Microsoft hatred, it merely develops it.

  6. Re:Get the PUPPY? I AM the PUPPY! on Breathing Life Into Older Computers · · Score: 2, Informative

    For under 100mhz, try something like blueflops. I have it running pretty nippily on a 33mhz laptop.

  7. Re:always a good idea on Vista Could Ship Earlier Than Expected · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In what sense is releasing a product due in the latter part of 2006 in time for Christmas 2006 (maybe having it ready in October, which is STILL the latter part of 2006) actually moving up the release date? It seems to me like they're just shipping it on time. What am I missing?

  8. Re:I'm sorry, but who? on Libranet On The Rocks · · Score: 3, Informative

    Libranet is, as already noted, a Debian based distribution; at heart it is pure Debian. The major innovation is an administration tool called adminmenu. Adminmenu covers a lot of stuff, from rolling in a new kernel to administering user accounts to managing print jobs, to setting up a graphics card; all the little things that are otherwise a bit of a pain in the ass to a beginner. It's a one stop shop for almost every common administration problem. It takes the pain out of administering your GNU/Linux distribution.

  9. INtermittent flush urinals on To Flush Or Not To Flush · · Score: 0

    Everywhere I went when in England there were intermittent flush urinals; no handle at all, they just gave themselves a spray down every hour or so. Used less water and kept the smell down.

  10. Re:Concerned, but delighted on Google Blocks Porn In Base, Patches Appliance · · Score: 0

    Then what is the difference between posting something to google base and posting it on the web so that google can index it?

  11. I was a tester on Metropolis Street Racer on Xbox 360 Very Unstable · · Score: 0

    Something that all the more experienced testers told us was this: don't buy hardware or games within six months of it being released. This is because the marketing department for the publisher sets the release date, not the development company. I can remember the crazy bugs that were in that game when it was first released; testing keeps going for months after the release, rewriting of code keeps going, and after a while a stable game is released.

  12. portable openoffice on OpenOffice.Org in a Corporate Environment? · · Score: 0

    I use portable open office; buy everyone a USB pen (which will be a fractional cost compared to 65K), download once, install on each pen.

    http://johnhaller.com/jh/useful_stuff/portable_ope noffice/

    Only drawback I see is that you're trusting the users to not lose these pens.

  13. Re:Searched on Google Searches Used in Murder Trial? · · Score: 0

    Or just spoof your MAC address whilst surfing from an open access point, preferably using the address of the router itself.

  14. Re:TransMedia Corp on Glide Effortless to Compete in File Sharing Market · · Score: 0
    I am amazed that slashdot would put vaporware garbage like this on their front page.


    You haven't been here long, have you?
  15. Re:FF is winning, who is losing on Firefox Achieves 10% Global Market Share · · Score: 0

    Given that IE was at 89.5% 6 months or so ago, I believe the answer becomes self-evident. Let's see if I can find some data to back that up, though:

    Here is one.

  16. Re:A little too late... on Solaris Now an Option for IBM Blades · · Score: 0

    I do, because I disagree with your premise. Sun is innovating like crazy recently; Solaris 10 is a huge deal and their servers are getting better and better. Sun is releasing good technology, and I'm interested in them.

  17. Re:why does this sound so familiar? on Is The U.S. Becoming Anti-Science? · · Score: 0

    Having read the original Greek of the passage, I can honestly say that you're adding to scripture here. There's no real hint in the original language that the silence is a silence only with reference to one part of speech, but it is in fact simple silence. In short, you're adding to scripture to make it more tolerable to yourself rather than simply reading the words and accepting them.

  18. Re:Umm....What?! on Windows Drives Company To OpenBSD · · Score: 0

    Reading TFA reveals that his entire network wasn't changed over to OpenBSD:
    After the five-month migration, PWC's servers are now equally split between Windows and OpenBSD.

  19. Re:Excusee-my-SuSE on A Closer Look at SUSE 10 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I tried Suse 8.2 and ended up in dependencies hell, so I went to Debian.
     
    However, since then I've picked up a sysadmin job and persuaded my grant administrator to give me a second hard drive with suse on it on every computer we have. I only chose suse because my colleagues really like it; looks like I'm going to be happy with the choice.

  20. Re:Jumping the Gun on DrDOS Inc Breaking GPL · · Score: 0

    I haven't read the GPL in the last couple of months, but I'm pretty certain that there's a loophole so that you are allowed to charge for source code if you say that the charge is simply there to reimburse the cost of distributing the source code. The GPL has clauses that limit how much money you are allowed to charge for, for example, a CD that contains source code. I know that libranet charges for its source code media.

  21. Re:Apt...rpm...I .Gnome...choices choices on Big Names Back Possible Linux Standards · · Score: 0

    I'm wondering how the big games that exist on linux have managed thus fari if the lack of standardisation is really this big a deal.

  22. Re:revenge on Wikipedia Founder Sees Serious Quality Problems · · Score: 0

    I thought the verb was "slashdotted".

  23. Re:What about Prehistoric Golems? on More Evidence For Hobbit Sized Species · · Score: 0

    A Golem is a mythical creature from Judaism which is very unlikely to have known of the existance of J.R.R. Tolkien's mythology. You're looking, it seems, for Gollum.

  24. Re:Venom? on Spider-Man 3 Villains: Sandman & Venom · · Score: 1

    THey'll use the Ultimate Spider Man origin instead. The movies are much closer to the Ultimate timeline than the original.

    If you're unaware, in Ultimate, the venom suit is originally a cancer-cure suit that the fathers of Peter and Eddie worked on. It becomes evil MUCH quicker than the other one did.
    It also makes a different style of Venom. He's much more mindless, more a tool of the suit. He's more sympathetic that way.

  25. Re:Jobs and Apple don't have a leg to stand on... on Jobs Resists Music Industry Pressure · · Score: 0

    Without wanting to sound too depressing, have you ever seen a huge backlash of boycotting against some company for such a reason? Did most people stop buying Metallica albums when the original Napster was taken out? Answer: no.