No, I'm afraid it's simply a system to write Flash in a different way.
I'm also afraid that the easy availability of Flash for Linux now makes alternatives even harder for people to justify working on. It's a -ton- of work to create an equivalent system, and to do better is even harder. Even OpenLaszlo compiles to Flash as it's main method, with the DHTML4 'compile' method still not ready for use.
Oddly enough, the showcase and VW thing seem to work perfectly in Opera on Linux. Buzzword shows the error, of course... That's Buzzword's stupidity. Opera 9.23 here, if it makes any difference.
I just took a look as OpenLaszlo again (it's been a while) and it looks nice. Maybe a bit shakey, though... Their 'introduction' page/app didn't load properly on linux (Opera) the first time, and UI ended up looking at just a 'wait' clock. Reloading brought it up.
The calendar demo doesn't work well either, as I've been completely unable to add an event (can't type, looks like there are missing controls) under Opera and Firefox, even if I try to reload it.
Other than that, it looks promising. I just recommended we buy an app at work that will let us make video tutorials in flash quite quickly, but if I can learn that fast enough, I may change the recommendation... I'll have to take a closer look.
It's an IDE for building apps with Adobe Flex. It was quite apparently to me, even though I've never even considered using Flex. If you don't know what Adobe Flex is, and don't care enough to look it up, why did you bother with the article?
"Adobe® Flex 3 is a cross platform, open source framework for creating rich Internet applications that run identically in all major browsers and operating systems."
Actually, no I didn't, but I take your point. It's somehow a little different when you get to see the blood of the person, even if it's 'just pixels'.
It's funny, because I've always been in the 'VR RPG's will be SO awesome!' crowd... But when I think about using a virtual knife to stab someone, and will see their virtual blood, it loses a lot of the appeal for me.
I'm one of the people that never sacrificed a little sister in Bioshock because it was cruel... I just couldn't bring myself to do it. If there had been no choice, and it was the only way the game played, I probably could have done it... It wasn't my decision, it was the game developer's. I guess that makes me a hypocrit.
You know what I love about today's games (and other media) more than anything? It makes you think, and explore yourself. Space Invaders probably never made anyone think 'What would I do in an alien invasion?' but Prey might. The Transformers may have made people dream about giant robots, but there's no moral dilemma there. Kino's Journey ep2 (anime) did make me think 'What would I do in that situation?' Kino handled it a lot better than I would have. (Admittedly, Transformers had a few 'should Optimus kill Megatron' dilemmas, but it's not really a situation you can relate to.)
5. a person regarded as, or claiming to be, an inspired teacher or leader. 6. a person who foretells or predicts what is to come: a weather prophet; prophets of doom. 7. a spokesperson of some doctrine, cause, or movement.
All 3 of those apply. Of the remaining 4, 1 refers to a specific person, and the other 3 are indeed religious. Maybe I just don't go to church enough, but when someone says 'prophet' I think 'someone who predicts the future accurately' first and 'religious' a distant second.
Maybe he wasn't fired for what he said on or off record, but HOW he said it.
Look at it this way: It's his job to say the things he said, right? He chose to say them off the record so that instead of genuinely trying to help, he was just having a bitch session. He then went right back to failing to oppose something he didn't believe in.
I wouldn't trust him, either, after that. In 1 short moment, he proved that everything he says on the record may not be grounded in truth or reality, but rather in his need to suck up to someone else.
Well, as for that, it could be a problem with the original text as well... There might have been a mis-print, or a letter rubbed/torn off, or something... I have to say that a poor translation of the books in the next 5 years is better than a good translation in the next 400 years. (That's the estimate at the current pace... 400 years.)
Still, as someone else noted, there -should- be a way to note that one of the words appears to be nonsense and that you'd like to flag it for a human to interpret instead. Especiallysince that nonsense word will make it into the 'correct words' list to be used for captchas.
Thanks! That's exactly the kind of information I was looking for.
Voxbone's prices a tad higher than I expected, but I see they don't charge by the minute in addition, and that's very nice... And it's still cheap enough to play with, just for fun if I want.
I'm disappointed that there are no decent SIP phones, but not real surprised. That was the only reason I could think of that I hadn't heard any recommended.
As for Asterisk... I actually set it up once, just for fun... But with no real connection to anyone else. I'm a tinkerer, so I'll probably forego any non-free tools. Thanks for the advice on those anyway, though!
That sounds neat, but does it work with SIP phones? One of the best features (IMHO) of Skype is tha ability to use a wireless 'phone' with it. SIP phones are obviously the same deal. Being tied to my computer with a crappy headset is not ideal.
In fact, I'd settle for having an n800 client, like Skype and GizmoProject do.
"So how exactly is doing the most natural thing "over the top"?"
Did you seriously just call 'acting out a murder in a video game' "the most natural thing?" I'm sure you meant the acting part, but if you can't see what makes that disturbing, where pressing buttons wasn't disturbing, I can't even begin to imagine how to clear that up for you.
Well, this is the point where I say that I don't give a rat's ass what MS thinks, they can't force you to stick -anything- to your case. And they can't call you a pirate just because you lost your key. Total bullshit.
I see nowhere that states what the data storage capacity is, so I thought I'd check the numbers.
"The one-terabyte hard drive can store up to 381 hours of full HD programs."
So if 1,000 GB is 381 hours, 1 GB is 2.62467191601049868766 hours. Yeah, 2 and a half hours per GB. Hmm... What sounds like that... Oh yeah, xvid.
The trick here is not that they are getting more capacity, it's that they are using a different codec. (Not necessarily xvid, it's just a LOT more compact than mpeg, and made a good example.)
Nothing is actually said of the visual quality at that storage rate, either... It probably has horrid lossy-ness. But it's 1080p! lol Just another marketing trick to fool the unwary.
So even if this device uses a normal laser, it's gonna get 10+ hours per DVD at '1080p'. Using the blue laser is just a gimmick, I'm betting.
I have a feeling I'm about to eat crow. Someone just the other day said 'Skype is proprietary, don't buy a skype phone' and I laughed. (Thankfully, I didn't buy a phone yet.) Now, it looks like EBay is looking for a way out of Skype.
As you use SIP, I was wondering if you had any advice towards getting a decent wireless SIP phone and a good provider. I don't want to run a PC with Asterisk on it at home if I don't have to, but there -is- one that's always on that I could use, if necessary. (I'd kind of like to play with it, but time and effort and all that.)
No, they come with a license key. As I said, the license is what you pay for, not the bits. It's not illegal to have the bits, it's only illegal to install them without a valid key. (Having a Pro disc when you've never owned Pro is a bit of grey area, I'll admit, but they can't make you throw away the disc, or copy of the disc, if you lose your keycode. You still paid for the license and are legally entitled to it.)
Just get a generic OEM disc... I don't think Dell provides those at all. We buy them from NewEgg for customers that wish to purchase a new PC. A copy of the discs doesn't have any hidden codes embedded or anything, so will work with any matching OEM code.
Dell Windows XP Home OEM codes will work with any Windows XP Home OEM disc, etc. This is not entirely true, actually, as they ran out of codes and now you need the new Home OEM disc with all the new codes to guarantee new codes will work, and I don't have one yet. The shop might, I haven't been in for a while. But anything older than a year will work fine for sure.
Anyhow, if you can't find someone with a real disc, just download it off the net. It's not illegal as it's the license you purchase (with the keycode) and not the bits on the disc. I recommend keeping a Home OEM and Pro OEM copy around at all times, just in case, and just use the legal code from the PC Case to do the reinstall.
I've never actually done it with Media Center Edition, so it may not work for that one. (MCE is actually a modified Pro, so it should work, but... Who knows.) And I've never tried it with Vista at all.
My mother just bought Brain Age yesterday, and borrowed my DS, because she saw my nephews playing it on theirs. (I gave it to them when I got bored of it, never thinking she might care.) She'll probably buy a DS of her own soon, and she's talking about buying one for my father for the Sudoku and Picross games on it.
My mother also has a Nintendo Wii that she (and my niece and sister) play quite a bit.
Nintendo has really figured out how to capture the 'casual' gamer. I paid for half the Wii because I knew she'd enjoy the Wii bowling, but when she said she wanted a DS, I just stared at her for a moment.
To be fair, she previously bought a PSP because it 'looked neat', but only ever played Lumines twice before I found her a buyer for it to get her money back. And she hasn't bought the DS yet, but does plan to.
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."
I'm sure you've got most bases covered, but intentional malice goes way beyond 'a few malicious people'. In this case, it involves at least 1 malicious person, a captcha breaker, a few thousand anonymous free proxies, and a lot of malice. I'll admit that I find this idea trivial because I'm a programmer, but I think most (non-script-kiddie) hackers will find it trivial as well.
I sincerely hope nobody tries to sabotage your project, but I'd feel better if you at least seemed to be taking this (currently non-existant) 'threat' more seriously.
I do wish you the best of luck in the project, and plan to support it in the little ways that I can.
'hacking' has been misused, and bitched about, for years... And nobody's ever managed to get even a single person to use it correctly afterwards. By bitching about the misuse, you just add to the noise, instead of the signal.
If I thought you might actually correct people, I wouldn't care. I'd probably even help. But SKU means what people want it to mean, and there's no way to stop them. That's the basis of all language, whether we like it or not. Putting the definition in a dictionary helps keep the definition from wandering too much, but if people -want- to use it differently, they will, and the dictionary will be changed to reflect that.
As for the mod... I think it's hard to really say you're off-topic, since 'SKU' is used here, and you're talking about that... So they really only had 'troll' and 'overrated' left to show their disapproval. And you don't seem to be a troll. I'd take 'overrated' as a compliment from someone that wants to shut you up, but doesn't have a valid excuse. (Free speech, and all that.) I never get mod points any more, but I always tended to explain my disagreement rather than just mod down.
I tend towards optimism, so whenever I catch myself going 'Wow, that's great!' I back off and take another look. They stated only 2 people had to confirm to accept a translation... If that were more like 4 or 5, I'd be a lot happier... It's a -lot- more duplication of effort, but rules out a lot of mischief, too. If it ends up like SETI, though, they'll have so much help that they end up processing all their data many years ahead of schedule.
I plan to use at least the mailhide recaptcha on my site. I don't have a forum or other feedback method, so not much need for the regular one. If everyone helps a little like that, at least this method can be tried. I'm not terribly confident in the results, but it's not going to hurt me any, and just might work. (Or lead to something that does.)
So, the plan is to take already hard-to-read words, make them harder to read, pair them with another hard to read word, and see how many people agree it's the same word? I've already had words like 'Alau' and '45-618' in the few I've done, and since there's an ugly line through them, I can't be close to sure it's right... They make no sense, but they look like that. I'm betting at least 1 other person agrees and puts the same thing I did, accepting that translation into the database...
And that's not even counting malice where people deliberately put wrong words in... Chances are they won't both put the wrong word for the same word, but it -can- happen, especially with malicious intent.
It's a neat idea, but I don't think it'll work all that great. There still needs to be a human reviewing the work before it's truly accepted, and that human might as well be doing it in the first place, with the context still there to help them.
I suspect you use Gnome and not KDE, eh? I think that may be the difference for interface... I'm not sure there's even a way to make KDE only show the taskbar on the primary desktop.
As for the NAS... That's really odd. I've only rarely tried to connect to an SMB share from Linux... Mostly I'm hosting them. Afraid I can't be much help with that.
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No, I'm afraid it's simply a system to write Flash in a different way.
I'm also afraid that the easy availability of Flash for Linux now makes alternatives even harder for people to justify working on. It's a -ton- of work to create an equivalent system, and to do better is even harder. Even OpenLaszlo compiles to Flash as it's main method, with the DHTML4 'compile' method still not ready for use.
Oddly enough, the showcase and VW thing seem to work perfectly in Opera on Linux. Buzzword shows the error, of course... That's Buzzword's stupidity. Opera 9.23 here, if it makes any difference.
I just took a look as OpenLaszlo again (it's been a while) and it looks nice. Maybe a bit shakey, though... Their 'introduction' page/app didn't load properly on linux (Opera) the first time, and UI ended up looking at just a 'wait' clock. Reloading brought it up.
The calendar demo doesn't work well either, as I've been completely unable to add an event (can't type, looks like there are missing controls) under Opera and Firefox, even if I try to reload it.
Also, http://www.openlaszlo.org/lps/laszlo-explorer/index.jsp?navset=nav10.xml&bookmark=Introduction looks quite slow. I see at the bottom that it's recompiling each time, but that's not immediately obvious.
Other than that, it looks promising. I just recommended we buy an app at work that will let us make video tutorials in flash quite quickly, but if I can learn that fast enough, I may change the recommendation... I'll have to take a closer look.
Flex may be, but the Flex builder is not. At least, version 2 wasn't.
http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/
So yeah, expect to pay for the IDE if you get the official one.
It's an IDE for building apps with Adobe Flex. It was quite apparently to me, even though I've never even considered using Flex. If you don't know what Adobe Flex is, and don't care enough to look it up, why did you bother with the article?
I'll help anyhow:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/
"Adobe® Flex 3 is a cross platform, open source framework for creating rich Internet applications that run identically in all major browsers and operating systems."
Actually, no I didn't, but I take your point. It's somehow a little different when you get to see the blood of the person, even if it's 'just pixels'.
It's funny, because I've always been in the 'VR RPG's will be SO awesome!' crowd... But when I think about using a virtual knife to stab someone, and will see their virtual blood, it loses a lot of the appeal for me.
I'm one of the people that never sacrificed a little sister in Bioshock because it was cruel... I just couldn't bring myself to do it. If there had been no choice, and it was the only way the game played, I probably could have done it... It wasn't my decision, it was the game developer's. I guess that makes me a hypocrit.
You know what I love about today's games (and other media) more than anything? It makes you think, and explore yourself. Space Invaders probably never made anyone think 'What would I do in an alien invasion?' but Prey might. The Transformers may have made people dream about giant robots, but there's no moral dilemma there. Kino's Journey ep2 (anime) did make me think 'What would I do in that situation?' Kino handled it a lot better than I would have. (Admittedly, Transformers had a few 'should Optimus kill Megatron' dilemmas, but it's not really a situation you can relate to.)
Because he can use a dictionary.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/prophet
5. a person regarded as, or claiming to be, an inspired teacher or leader.
6. a person who foretells or predicts what is to come: a weather prophet; prophets of doom.
7. a spokesperson of some doctrine, cause, or movement.
All 3 of those apply. Of the remaining 4, 1 refers to a specific person, and the other 3 are indeed religious. Maybe I just don't go to church enough, but when someone says 'prophet' I think 'someone who predicts the future accurately' first and 'religious' a distant second.
Of course, context helps a hell of a lot, too.
Maybe he wasn't fired for what he said on or off record, but HOW he said it.
Look at it this way: It's his job to say the things he said, right? He chose to say them off the record so that instead of genuinely trying to help, he was just having a bitch session. He then went right back to failing to oppose something he didn't believe in.
I wouldn't trust him, either, after that. In 1 short moment, he proved that everything he says on the record may not be grounded in truth or reality, but rather in his need to suck up to someone else.
Well, as for that, it could be a problem with the original text as well... There might have been a mis-print, or a letter rubbed/torn off, or something... I have to say that a poor translation of the books in the next 5 years is better than a good translation in the next 400 years. (That's the estimate at the current pace... 400 years.)
Still, as someone else noted, there -should- be a way to note that one of the words appears to be nonsense and that you'd like to flag it for a human to interpret instead. Especiallysince that nonsense word will make it into the 'correct words' list to be used for captchas.
Thanks! That's exactly the kind of information I was looking for.
Voxbone's prices a tad higher than I expected, but I see they don't charge by the minute in addition, and that's very nice... And it's still cheap enough to play with, just for fun if I want.
I'm disappointed that there are no decent SIP phones, but not real surprised. That was the only reason I could think of that I hadn't heard any recommended.
As for Asterisk... I actually set it up once, just for fun... But with no real connection to anyone else. I'm a tinkerer, so I'll probably forego any non-free tools. Thanks for the advice on those anyway, though!
lol Lesson learned. Don't do math at lunch. Everyone is indeed correct, I have it backwards. Even a simple look at it shows how stupid that was.
That sounds neat, but does it work with SIP phones? One of the best features (IMHO) of Skype is tha ability to use a wireless 'phone' with it. SIP phones are obviously the same deal. Being tied to my computer with a crappy headset is not ideal.
In fact, I'd settle for having an n800 client, like Skype and GizmoProject do.
"So how exactly is doing the most natural thing "over the top"?"
Did you seriously just call 'acting out a murder in a video game' "the most natural thing?" I'm sure you meant the acting part, but if you can't see what makes that disturbing, where pressing buttons wasn't disturbing, I can't even begin to imagine how to clear that up for you.
Well, this is the point where I say that I don't give a rat's ass what MS thinks, they can't force you to stick -anything- to your case. And they can't call you a pirate just because you lost your key. Total bullshit.
I see nowhere that states what the data storage capacity is, so I thought I'd check the numbers.
"The one-terabyte hard drive can store up to 381 hours of full HD programs."
So if 1,000 GB is 381 hours, 1 GB is 2.62467191601049868766 hours. Yeah, 2 and a half hours per GB. Hmm... What sounds like that... Oh yeah, xvid.
The trick here is not that they are getting more capacity, it's that they are using a different codec. (Not necessarily xvid, it's just a LOT more compact than mpeg, and made a good example.)
Nothing is actually said of the visual quality at that storage rate, either... It probably has horrid lossy-ness. But it's 1080p! lol Just another marketing trick to fool the unwary.
So even if this device uses a normal laser, it's gonna get 10+ hours per DVD at '1080p'. Using the blue laser is just a gimmick, I'm betting.
I have a feeling I'm about to eat crow. Someone just the other day said 'Skype is proprietary, don't buy a skype phone' and I laughed. (Thankfully, I didn't buy a phone yet.) Now, it looks like EBay is looking for a way out of Skype.
...
As you use SIP, I was wondering if you had any advice towards getting a decent wireless SIP phone and a good provider. I don't want to run a PC with Asterisk on it at home if I don't have to, but there -is- one that's always on that I could use, if necessary. (I'd kind of like to play with it, but time and effort and all that.)
Also, have you tried the Gizmo Project? I was looking at it because it integrates well with Grand Central and is 'open', but then I found http://gigaom.com/2005/07/04/gizmo-project-not-that-open-after-all/
No, they come with a license key. As I said, the license is what you pay for, not the bits. It's not illegal to have the bits, it's only illegal to install them without a valid key. (Having a Pro disc when you've never owned Pro is a bit of grey area, I'll admit, but they can't make you throw away the disc, or copy of the disc, if you lose your keycode. You still paid for the license and are legally entitled to it.)
Just get a generic OEM disc... I don't think Dell provides those at all. We buy them from NewEgg for customers that wish to purchase a new PC. A copy of the discs doesn't have any hidden codes embedded or anything, so will work with any matching OEM code.
Dell Windows XP Home OEM codes will work with any Windows XP Home OEM disc, etc. This is not entirely true, actually, as they ran out of codes and now you need the new Home OEM disc with all the new codes to guarantee new codes will work, and I don't have one yet. The shop might, I haven't been in for a while. But anything older than a year will work fine for sure.
Anyhow, if you can't find someone with a real disc, just download it off the net. It's not illegal as it's the license you purchase (with the keycode) and not the bits on the disc. I recommend keeping a Home OEM and Pro OEM copy around at all times, just in case, and just use the legal code from the PC Case to do the reinstall.
I've never actually done it with Media Center Edition, so it may not work for that one. (MCE is actually a modified Pro, so it should work, but... Who knows.) And I've never tried it with Vista at all.
My mother just bought Brain Age yesterday, and borrowed my DS, because she saw my nephews playing it on theirs. (I gave it to them when I got bored of it, never thinking she might care.) She'll probably buy a DS of her own soon, and she's talking about buying one for my father for the Sudoku and Picross games on it.
My mother also has a Nintendo Wii that she (and my niece and sister) play quite a bit.
Nintendo has really figured out how to capture the 'casual' gamer. I paid for half the Wii because I knew she'd enjoy the Wii bowling, but when she said she wanted a DS, I just stared at her for a moment.
To be fair, she previously bought a PSP because it 'looked neat', but only ever played Lumines twice before I found her a buyer for it to get her money back. And she hasn't bought the DS yet, but does plan to.
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."
I'm sure you've got most bases covered, but intentional malice goes way beyond 'a few malicious people'. In this case, it involves at least 1 malicious person, a captcha breaker, a few thousand anonymous free proxies, and a lot of malice. I'll admit that I find this idea trivial because I'm a programmer, but I think most (non-script-kiddie) hackers will find it trivial as well.
I sincerely hope nobody tries to sabotage your project, but I'd feel better if you at least seemed to be taking this (currently non-existant) 'threat' more seriously.
I do wish you the best of luck in the project, and plan to support it in the little ways that I can.
lol Okay, that -is- funny. And make me look up 'Alau'... It's an island. But having to Google captchas is where I draw the line. ;)
'hacking' has been misused, and bitched about, for years... And nobody's ever managed to get even a single person to use it correctly afterwards. By bitching about the misuse, you just add to the noise, instead of the signal.
If I thought you might actually correct people, I wouldn't care. I'd probably even help. But SKU means what people want it to mean, and there's no way to stop them. That's the basis of all language, whether we like it or not. Putting the definition in a dictionary helps keep the definition from wandering too much, but if people -want- to use it differently, they will, and the dictionary will be changed to reflect that.
As for the mod... I think it's hard to really say you're off-topic, since 'SKU' is used here, and you're talking about that... So they really only had 'troll' and 'overrated' left to show their disapproval. And you don't seem to be a troll. I'd take 'overrated' as a compliment from someone that wants to shut you up, but doesn't have a valid excuse. (Free speech, and all that.) I never get mod points any more, but I always tended to explain my disagreement rather than just mod down.
I tend towards optimism, so whenever I catch myself going 'Wow, that's great!' I back off and take another look. They stated only 2 people had to confirm to accept a translation... If that were more like 4 or 5, I'd be a lot happier... It's a -lot- more duplication of effort, but rules out a lot of mischief, too. If it ends up like SETI, though, they'll have so much help that they end up processing all their data many years ahead of schedule.
I plan to use at least the mailhide recaptcha on my site. I don't have a forum or other feedback method, so not much need for the regular one. If everyone helps a little like that, at least this method can be tried. I'm not terribly confident in the results, but it's not going to hurt me any, and just might work. (Or lead to something that does.)
So, the plan is to take already hard-to-read words, make them harder to read, pair them with another hard to read word, and see how many people agree it's the same word? I've already had words like 'Alau' and '45-618' in the few I've done, and since there's an ugly line through them, I can't be close to sure it's right... They make no sense, but they look like that. I'm betting at least 1 other person agrees and puts the same thing I did, accepting that translation into the database...
And that's not even counting malice where people deliberately put wrong words in... Chances are they won't both put the wrong word for the same word, but it -can- happen, especially with malicious intent.
It's a neat idea, but I don't think it'll work all that great. There still needs to be a human reviewing the work before it's truly accepted, and that human might as well be doing it in the first place, with the context still there to help them.
I suspect you use Gnome and not KDE, eh? I think that may be the difference for interface... I'm not sure there's even a way to make KDE only show the taskbar on the primary desktop.
As for the NAS... That's really odd. I've only rarely tried to connect to an SMB share from Linux... Mostly I'm hosting them. Afraid I can't be much help with that.