My children (girls, aged 5 and 6) love Little Big Planet and I think it's brilliant. Not only does it involve the game mechanics of traps/baddies/checkpoints and scoring points it also has really good logic (switches,sensors) controllable components (pistons,winches,motors) and really good physics: dense metals can crush you, light cardboard doesn't, helium balloons float, cogs/gears really will turn each other when you place them with their teeth interlocking with no "cheating" going on inside the game engine.
It's superb fun and educational in so many ways. Needless to say, when they've gone to bed of an evening I fire it up and make things too, seen as I don't have any Technic Lego any more:)
until the entire south wall of my lounge (approx 4m x 2m) is a 300 DPI 30FPS e-ink behemoth with embedded tracking cameras that I can skype to any other similar setup anywhere on the planet just like making a phone call... I won't describe it as "plenty"
I've always maintained that parallax and subliminal vision make for a more immersive experience than 3D (citation: Imax).
(For prior art see Total Recall and Aliens Directors' Cut)
Yes indeed. I posted this elsewhere but to repeat myself: on my Win 7 machine to launch Google Chrome I press WinKey + c + Enter. Don't even touch the mouse.
this. you don't even need to use the mouse or type the full name, and it learns just like modern web browser URI bars do: WinKey + c + Enter starts chrome on my Win 7 box, fail to see how that can be slow or difficult for anyone
off topic: what is it with these multiple accounts inside an account that other countries have? In the UK my bank account is my bank account and all cheques, cash, debit cards and transactions just point to it. Remember trying to use a cash machine in australia and it asked my what account inside my account i wanted to take the money out of and I just kept pressing buttons until it gave me some. Mind blown!
That could still be physical pain, most of what we learn about the world and how to live and behave in it we learn from a very very young age by exploring it, climbing on things. Falling off stuff & getting stung by nettles and your response to that (and your parents, I tend to not make a big deal of it with my kids, encouraging them to brush it off) will absolutely shape your future attitude to risk in general.
or a standardised scale for furniture, so you can compare how different sofas from different stores will look in your living room (of course, you already have the 3d house plan, from when you first viewed the house)
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>things shouldn't get smaller with increasing resolution, they should get clearer
So long as I get the option to decide which on MY monitor (DPI, perhaps?). Seems both windows and gnome are guilty here.
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Yeah, but never mind the colors specifically, this is something I noticed a few years back and seems to be getting worse, Gnome at 1280x1024 now looks like it's only 640x480 because everything is so massive. Maybe it's related to the increasing age - and therefore long-sightedness - of the chief devs.
As soon as i posted this I remembered that when we got a dishwasher they performed the same trick with that. I don't have a dishwasher but my brother does and he still starts it before going to bed...
as long as I can remember (about 30 years) my parents' washing machine was hooked up to a simple timer that turned on at about 2am and turned off about 5am. All that was needed was to load it up, close the door and make sure the on switch was on and in the morning you'd empty it. And my parent's aren't rocket scientists.
Mind you back then washing machines had physical on/off buttons, not "software" ones that you physically had to press to start it.
We also had a storage heater, which is basically a metal box full of bricks, it'd heat up during the night and then release the heat during the course of the day, while I understand the physics well now that I'm older it still slightly amazes me.
as an aside I still do my washing at night out of pure habit, stick it on just before going to bed, hang it to dry in the morning.
My understanding of it was that Speilberg wanted to make several more movies (and still does) but Lucas wouldn't make Indy 4 without aliens in. After a zillion years of patience Speilberg realized Lucas wasn't going to back down so gave in.
Assuming that people drive at ~Speed_Limit they could simply time consecutive lights to buffer and packet switch traffic. Once you got moving you'd rarely stop until you left the flow
I consider Visual Studio Express's lack of ASP.Net support a feature, not an issue. It allows you to create the web site backend code as a standalone DLL (just reference System.Web) and bake your ASPX pages by hand rather than have the IDE fuck your markup up.
You can develop ASP.Net easily enough using MS's free "Express" studio and SQL offerings (I do). Obviously hosting completed sites is another story (but in my case - working contracts - that's not my problem), but you can be a small web developer without coughing up MS licence fees that way.
I wrote my own take on.Net that bootstrapped MS's parsing and loading code then went off on its own set of controls, to do what you are attempting to do I'd use controls called "fragments" and simply load and stuff each on to the page as needed in whatever order I felt like.
These fragments can also be loaded and nested to your hearts content, have placeholders and their own internal logic. I'd recently started making them able to be easily AJAXed up too, but that work is mostly incomplete.
it's also Mono compatible and had its own form controls, such as a date picker input that knows if you are using a HTML 5 browser and/or have javascript enabled and outputs suitable HTML. Also I actually made it more stateless (less stateful?) than standard ASP.Net as frankly, i found it's bloody viewstate a pain to work with. Oh and unlike ASP.Net you can have multiple independent forms on one page.
I've used it on a good fewof websites and did have a page up about it but that's dead now. If I get around to it I'll be putting it on codeplex. I know, that's helpful isn't it.
this is true, once I was reading a website about how to deconstruct my laptop to get at the CMOS battery and I could see the photos but none of the instructions. Turns out they were all to the right of the photos & my brain had assumed the right quarter of the website was ads and blanked it out.
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My children (girls, aged 5 and 6) love Little Big Planet and I think it's brilliant. Not only does it involve the game mechanics of traps/baddies/checkpoints and scoring points it also has really good logic (switches,sensors) controllable components (pistons,winches,motors) and really good physics: dense metals can crush you, light cardboard doesn't, helium balloons float, cogs/gears really will turn each other when you place them with their teeth interlocking with no "cheating" going on inside the game engine.
It's superb fun and educational in so many ways. Needless to say, when they've gone to bed of an evening I fire it up and make things too, seen as I don't have any Technic Lego any more :)
until the entire south wall of my lounge (approx 4m x 2m) is a 300 DPI 30FPS e-ink behemoth with embedded tracking cameras that I can skype to any other similar setup anywhere on the planet just like making a phone call... I won't describe it as "plenty"
I've always maintained that parallax and subliminal vision make for a more immersive experience than 3D (citation: Imax).
(For prior art see Total Recall and Aliens Directors' Cut)
Yes indeed. I posted this elsewhere but to repeat myself: on my Win 7 machine to launch Google Chrome I press WinKey + c + Enter. Don't even touch the mouse.
this. you don't even need to use the mouse or type the full name, and it learns just like modern web browser URI bars do: WinKey + c + Enter starts chrome on my Win 7 box, fail to see how that can be slow or difficult for anyone
off topic: what is it with these multiple accounts inside an account that other countries have? In the UK my bank account is my bank account and all cheques, cash, debit cards and transactions just point to it. Remember trying to use a cash machine in australia and it asked my what account inside my account i wanted to take the money out of and I just kept pressing buttons until it gave me some. Mind blown!
more like The Luggage
me too. Redheads are my favourite! (I'm a dark brunette, male, GSH, nerd...)
That could still be physical pain, most of what we learn about the world and how to live and behave in it we learn from a very very young age by exploring it, climbing on things. Falling off stuff & getting stung by nettles and your response to that (and your parents, I tend to not make a big deal of it with my kids, encouraging them to brush it off) will absolutely shape your future attitude to risk in general.
or a standardised scale for furniture, so you can compare how different sofas from different stores will look in your living room (of course, you already have the 3d house plan, from when you first viewed the house)
>things shouldn't get smaller with increasing resolution, they should get clearer
So long as I get the option to decide which on MY monitor (DPI, perhaps?). Seems both windows and gnome are guilty here.
Yeah, but never mind the colors specifically, this is something I noticed a few years back and seems to be getting worse, Gnome at 1280x1024 now looks like it's only 640x480 because everything is so massive. Maybe it's related to the increasing age - and therefore long-sightedness - of the chief devs.
As soon as i posted this I remembered that when we got a dishwasher they performed the same trick with that. I don't have a dishwasher but my brother does and he still starts it before going to bed...
as long as I can remember (about 30 years) my parents' washing machine was hooked up to a simple timer that turned on at about 2am and turned off about 5am. All that was needed was to load it up, close the door and make sure the on switch was on and in the morning you'd empty it. And my parent's aren't rocket scientists.
Mind you back then washing machines had physical on/off buttons, not "software" ones that you physically had to press to start it.
We also had a storage heater, which is basically a metal box full of bricks, it'd heat up during the night and then release the heat during the course of the day, while I understand the physics well now that I'm older it still slightly amazes me.
as an aside I still do my washing at night out of pure habit, stick it on just before going to bed, hang it to dry in the morning.
My understanding of it was that Speilberg wanted to make several more movies (and still does) but Lucas wouldn't make Indy 4 without aliens in. After a zillion years of patience Speilberg realized Lucas wasn't going to back down so gave in.
Assuming that people drive at ~Speed_Limit they could simply time consecutive lights to buffer and packet switch traffic. Once you got moving you'd rarely stop until you left the flow
Well interestingly 1 million hours = 24 hours * 365.25 days * 114 years
I would have just TRIED reversing the batteries, you're suffering from overgizmofication.
unless it has the consistency of some kind of marshmallow dessert http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090094/
When faced with people who assert that homosexuality is not "natural" I ask them if they've ever flown on an aeroplane...
I'm a musician, and don't expect to make a living from my work: you can download and share my stuff all you like. I have a day job. Does that count?
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I consider Visual Studio Express's lack of ASP.Net support a feature, not an issue. It allows you to create the web site backend code as a standalone DLL (just reference System.Web) and bake your ASPX pages by hand rather than have the IDE fuck your markup up.
You can develop ASP.Net easily enough using MS's free "Express" studio and SQL offerings (I do). Obviously hosting completed sites is another story (but in my case - working contracts - that's not my problem), but you can be a small web developer without coughing up MS licence fees that way.
I wrote my own take on .Net that bootstrapped MS's parsing and loading code then went off on its own set of controls, to do what you are attempting to do I'd use controls called "fragments" and simply load and stuff each on to the page as needed in whatever order I felt like.
These fragments can also be loaded and nested to your hearts content, have placeholders and their own internal logic. I'd recently started making them able to be easily AJAXed up too, but that work is mostly incomplete.
it's also Mono compatible and had its own form controls, such as a date picker input that knows if you are using a HTML 5 browser and/or have javascript enabled and outputs suitable HTML. Also I actually made it more stateless (less stateful?) than standard ASP.Net as frankly, i found it's bloody viewstate a pain to work with. Oh and unlike ASP.Net you can have multiple independent forms on one page.
I've used it on a good fewof websites and did have a page up about it but that's dead now. If I get around to it I'll be putting it on codeplex. I know, that's helpful isn't it.
this is true, once I was reading a website about how to deconstruct my laptop to get at the CMOS battery and I could see the photos but none of the instructions. Turns out they were all to the right of the photos & my brain had assumed the right quarter of the website was ads and blanked it out.