Microsoft Research actually has an app called InkSeine for tablet PCs that adds a pie menu and some other interesting ideas for tablet PCs. It's available here: http://research.microsoft.com/InkSeine/
Personally I just got a tablet PC but I haven't tried InkSeine yet because I've heard it's still pretty buggy and it's not intended as a product but just a research project.
Well, to be precise, reducing tax rates will only go so far in increasing revenue. I think you're talking about the Laffer curve, right? The problem with that kind of thinking is that it's hard to gauge where on the curve the economy currently is. If you're on the other side of the climax, reducing tax rates will only reduce revenue. And incidentally, I haven't looked up the tax revenues for the years of the Bush administration but I don't think tax revenue has gone up with his tax cuts, although the recession plays a part in that as well. Either way, your statement isn't entirely accurate, although sometimes true.
Ah, thanks for the clarification. I honestly don't know why I've been modded +3 informative, heck I'd mod myself overrated, but I guess I just got an early post in.
By the way, I love your blog, it's so awesome with the whole "Downgrading your browser for Web 0.1 thing.
Installed it this morning and it's very polished, looks and feels like a real Nintendo made channel. A few bits and pieces aren't fully there (no vibration when going over buttons) but it's really well done overall, and has auto-update support and loads.elfs over LAN. Also, Team Twiizers is pretty sure that it's safe currently, and they're working on a fix for bricked Wiis. They've already got a fix for semi-bricked Wiis, which is pretty cool. If you want to read up on some of the background of Wii hacking, check out their site: http://hackmii.com/
Also, the input area resizing thing was changed in Pidgin 2.4.2 which was released today. And vv support has been worked on for a while in a Pidgin branch so they've already got a foundation on the stuff, and people who have been working on it for a while. The guy with the SoC project has been working on it for some time prior to now.
Honestly, I think not. I've seen their stuff, and it's not exactly impressive to readd some features that Pidgin used to have. I emailed the developers about just releasing their features as pidgin plugins but I got a reply that they didn't know how to.
I would think swapping mysql for XML would make things run slower on the whole, especially large databases, but I'm not an expert in that field. XML and mysql really serve different purposes, and I don't think replacing mysql with XML would be a good idea for the vast majority of use cases.
Oh, and what happened to the spiffy discussion2 stuff? Now comments open in new pages again and I can't reply inline. What's up with that?
That's why Microsoft is introducing Silverlight. Flash is threatening to become an OS-independent application platform which could make Windows irrelevant.
I have a feeling people said the same thing about Java, and it hasn't exactly made Windows irrelevant. What makes you think Flash will be more successful than Java?
Haha, that's true. I don't post much anyway so I'm not worried about karma either to be honest. I prefer to soak in the intelligent discussion here. Now I want to get a Canon camera for my parents and hack it, because although they probably wouldn't use most of the features, at the very least being able to zoom while in video would be useful, although a point-and-shoot camera is a poor substitute for an actual camcorder.
How early? I've got a Kodak DX6490 from 2003/4, can I do that?
Ahh, nvm, here it is for anyone else that's interested: http://digita.mame.net/ The DX6490 has a nice thumbstick-like thing and a 2" screen so the first thing I thought of when we got it was OMG this should have games on it. Alas, no...
Hah, funny. But if the internet situation in India is anything like that in Bangladesh, they've got a lot of crappy ISPs that sell "broadband" which is pretty much dialup-speeds through ethernet connected to a local hub somewhere. My family's from Bangladesh and we visit every summer or so, and this last summer they had their new "broadband" which was exactly the same speed as their dialup they had earlier, but through ethernet. It was through a proxy server too, which made it really annoying to configure programs and things. But I guess having internet 24/7 (or in their case 12/7, they paid I think 20% less to have internet from 9PM to 9AM instead of the full 24 hours because my aunt and uncle are surgeons who are working most of the day) is nice, as well as not tying up the phone line. And now my cousins are learning IMing from the google talk client I left installed on their computer, and getting exposed to the internet in general, which is probably more good than bad.
Of course, India might actually have decent ISPs since it's about 10 times more populous than Bangladesh (which itself is 1/2 the population of the US despite being slightly larger than Iowa).
Ah, thanks for the enlightening post. Someone mod this informative. I thought I saw a comment along those lines, presumably by a "scene" person, on a torrent once, but I didn't remember the exact details.
I think it has to do with the way the "scene" releases things, they usually do it via multipart rars or something like that. I saw something to that effect in the comments on a torrent a while ago. I think the reason is that things in the "scene" get distributed in ways that aren't bittorrent, so the breaking up into pieces makes sense there. I'm still not entirely sure what the "scene" entails, and how they differ from the people that put the torrents up, so I don't know the whole answer to that.
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Microsoft Research actually has an app called InkSeine for tablet PCs that adds a pie menu and some other interesting ideas for tablet PCs. It's available here: http://research.microsoft.com/InkSeine/ Personally I just got a tablet PC but I haven't tried InkSeine yet because I've heard it's still pretty buggy and it's not intended as a product but just a research project.
Well, to be precise, reducing tax rates will only go so far in increasing revenue. I think you're talking about the Laffer curve, right? The problem with that kind of thinking is that it's hard to gauge where on the curve the economy currently is. If you're on the other side of the climax, reducing tax rates will only reduce revenue. And incidentally, I haven't looked up the tax revenues for the years of the Bush administration but I don't think tax revenue has gone up with his tax cuts, although the recession plays a part in that as well. Either way, your statement isn't entirely accurate, although sometimes true.
I think there's a regionfree homebrew app but I don't know whether it works. I think it came with the Homebrew Channel too.
Ah, thanks for the clarification. I honestly don't know why I've been modded +3 informative, heck I'd mod myself overrated, but I guess I just got an early post in.
By the way, I love your blog, it's so awesome with the whole "Downgrading your browser for Web 0.1 thing.
Hey, you're marcan from team twiizers right? Congrats on this excellent release! This is probably the best thing for Wii Homebrew ever.
Geez, there's so many typos on that thing I don't know why anyone would buy it. Looks way too shady for me.
Installed it this morning and it's very polished, looks and feels like a real Nintendo made channel. A few bits and pieces aren't fully there (no vibration when going over buttons) but it's really well done overall, and has auto-update support and loads .elfs over LAN. Also, Team Twiizers is pretty sure that it's safe currently, and they're working on a fix for bricked Wiis. They've already got a fix for semi-bricked Wiis, which is pretty cool. If you want to read up on some of the background of Wii hacking, check out their site: http://hackmii.com/
Also, the input area resizing thing was changed in Pidgin 2.4.2 which was released today. And vv support has been worked on for a while in a Pidgin branch so they've already got a foundation on the stuff, and people who have been working on it for a while. The guy with the SoC project has been working on it for some time prior to now.
Honestly, I think not. I've seen their stuff, and it's not exactly impressive to readd some features that Pidgin used to have. I emailed the developers about just releasing their features as pidgin plugins but I got a reply that they didn't know how to.
My personal favorites are the project to add Voice and Video to pidgin and the Pidgin theming project. http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/GSoC2008/VoiceAndVideo and http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/GSoC2008/ThemeImprovements . People always ask for these things and the developers don't have time to do things that they don't use, so they never get done. Hopefully these actually get done by the end of this summer.
Oh, really? I was completely unaware of that, hence my post absolutely dripping with sarcasm...
Similarly, these anecdotes about SP3 crashing computers have totally changed my mind about the reliability of SP3. It works both ways...
Yeah, sensationalism as usual, I've got SP3 running perfectly on an AMD and an Intel system, both with no problems and the same as they were with SP2.
Hmm, everything should be enabled properly. Seems like discussion2 is randomly changing?
I would think swapping mysql for XML would make things run slower on the whole, especially large databases, but I'm not an expert in that field. XML and mysql really serve different purposes, and I don't think replacing mysql with XML would be a good idea for the vast majority of use cases.
Oh, and what happened to the spiffy discussion2 stuff? Now comments open in new pages again and I can't reply inline. What's up with that?
True, but they could always put out Silverlight via Windows Update (although some users would be annoyed, most wouldn't even notice).
Why is this modded troll? I guess linking to Mono is trolling now? That sig might be considered flamebait, but I don't see how that post is a troll...
That's why Microsoft is introducing Silverlight. Flash is threatening to become an OS-independent application platform which could make Windows irrelevant.
I have a feeling people said the same thing about Java, and it hasn't exactly made Windows irrelevant. What makes you think Flash will be more successful than Java?Haha, that's true. I don't post much anyway so I'm not worried about karma either to be honest. I prefer to soak in the intelligent discussion here. Now I want to get a Canon camera for my parents and hack it, because although they probably wouldn't use most of the features, at the very least being able to zoom while in video would be useful, although a point-and-shoot camera is a poor substitute for an actual camcorder.
How early? I've got a Kodak DX6490 from 2003/4, can I do that?
Ahh, nvm, here it is for anyone else that's interested: http://digita.mame.net/ The DX6490 has a nice thumbstick-like thing and a 2" screen so the first thing I thought of when we got it was OMG this should have games on it. Alas, no...
Funny mods don't give you karma anyway...
Hah, funny. But if the internet situation in India is anything like that in Bangladesh, they've got a lot of crappy ISPs that sell "broadband" which is pretty much dialup-speeds through ethernet connected to a local hub somewhere. My family's from Bangladesh and we visit every summer or so, and this last summer they had their new "broadband" which was exactly the same speed as their dialup they had earlier, but through ethernet. It was through a proxy server too, which made it really annoying to configure programs and things. But I guess having internet 24/7 (or in their case 12/7, they paid I think 20% less to have internet from 9PM to 9AM instead of the full 24 hours because my aunt and uncle are surgeons who are working most of the day) is nice, as well as not tying up the phone line. And now my cousins are learning IMing from the google talk client I left installed on their computer, and getting exposed to the internet in general, which is probably more good than bad.
Of course, India might actually have decent ISPs since it's about 10 times more populous than Bangladesh (which itself is 1/2 the population of the US despite being slightly larger than Iowa).
Pretty sure they don't have Comcast in India...
Ah, thanks for the enlightening post. Someone mod this informative. I thought I saw a comment along those lines, presumably by a "scene" person, on a torrent once, but I didn't remember the exact details.
I think it has to do with the way the "scene" releases things, they usually do it via multipart rars or something like that. I saw something to that effect in the comments on a torrent a while ago. I think the reason is that things in the "scene" get distributed in ways that aren't bittorrent, so the breaking up into pieces makes sense there. I'm still not entirely sure what the "scene" entails, and how they differ from the people that put the torrents up, so I don't know the whole answer to that.