Twitter servers provide historic view and in sequence. As long as they are up, no need to worry about missed messages. You get queuing "for free". Your device can be simple because it doesn't have to worry about missing a message (just keep up with last tweet processed) or with buffering messages while processing another. As I said, there are plenty of ways to accomplish the same thing.....this one just seems easy. By having a common language (Tweets) you don't have to worry about working with a GE or LG or Westinghouse microwave. It's even publish/subscribe with multi-broadcast, so it would be very easy for this scenario (pieces borrowed from another example in this thread):
Alarm clock triggers @ 6:30am Human snoozes Alarm clock tweets "@Lights powerlevel 35" Lights automatically turn on at power level 35%. Alarm retriggers @6:45am Human turns off alarm Alarm clock tweets "Begin wake scenario" Lights (subscribed to alarm clock feed) automatically turn on a power level 100% Coffee pot (subscribed to alarm clock feed) begins brewing coffee and tweets "Begin coffee brewing" Human turns on shower. Shower tweets "Begin shower" Toaster (subscribed to shower) does nothing because it ignores begin shower messages. Coffee finishes brewing and coffee pot tweets "End coffee brewing" Human turns off shower. Shower tweets "End shower" Toaster (subscribed to shower) begins toasting bagel etc. Human turns off light Lights tweet "End morning routine" All appliances subscribed to lights feed would automatically power down
If the toaster had a network hiccup, that TCP/IP request would have failed and would need to be resent (how many retries?). The Twitter method would be event triggered with message queuing. The "End morning routine" message could go to multiple recipients based on subscription and the "@Lights powerlevel 35" message could be directed at a single recipient. Not saying it's a perfect solution, but I do think it's feasible.
It think Twitter as a "protocol" is much more interesting than Twitter as an application. Facebook starter more like MySpace where it was a "static" place you went to but FB evolved to have the status updates (merging Twitter like updates). But FB is tied to the PERSON. Twitter is not (it also doesn't have all of the fluff like quizzes and apps and what not). So, if Twitter is tied to non-people, it can become very useful. There is a simple REST API with subscription based on your preferred notification method (SMS texts? iPhone app? etc.) So, if my nightly replication process fails, it can simply tweet notification and any support person who subscribes can find out in whatever communication method they choose. Tweeting toasters and microwaves have the same type of potential.
Twitter provides a common language that any device can learn to speak. There have even been methods whereby devices can be controlled via twitter (i.e. @mymicrowave query time_remaining). There isn't much security in place, but I could easily see it as being possible opening up tons of options. Setting your feed to invite only would go a long way towards that goal.
Can the functionality be done in other ways, sure, but so can many other things (gopher was hypertext long before http -- http just did it better). But here is a simple method by which many things (including humans) can communicate with wide platform and language support.
DVD with the data in video format and one of those cheap portable players......we will still have wall plugs, right? I've got some DVDs purchased over 10 years ago that still seem new (well, the media -- some of the movies are dated looking). Not that hard to imagine that they'll hold up for at least 10 more. By including the player, you don't have to worry about the format becoming obsolete.
Most games don't sell 1M copies, only true hits. iD would see a decent percentage of the $$'s from online sales, but if it's boxed product, they only get 30 to 40% of the $$'s (as a big player -- smaller players would get much less). As a top end game, you'd be hard pressed to find 20% of all Linux end-users with hardware capable of running the game (how many times has someone boasted that they have Linux running on an old toaster and it runs faster than their Vista box on the latest hardware???). That doesn't even consider how many of the users would actually be interested in a FPS game. I'm sure your market is much smaller than the 3M you are guessing.
Of course, all you need to do is get 100,000 of your closest friends to join you on Quake Live!
From TFS: If there are hundreds of thousands of Linux users playing Quake Live when we are done with Rage, that would certainly influence our decision.
Dude! I'm in Baton Rouge at the [removed by SEC] game. You should have seen that awesome hit that [removed by SEC] just laid on the quarterback for [removed by SEC]. He forced a [removed by SEC] and ran it in for a [removed by SEC] bringing the score to [removed by SEC] to [removed by SEC]. It was AWESOME!
Why not serial number? Unique to the machine and already generated for you. MAC can change (multiple NICs, swapped out cards, etc.) but the serial number will stick with the machine.
Archon had non-identical sides.......and the units fought each other and there was strategy. The only piece missing was the real-time aspect.....which in the head-to-head mode, you got.
By the time they actually get around to getting the images, it won't be filmed in Nevada, but outsourced to India. We'll have a Bollywood version of the moon landing....all that singing and dancing -- in space suits.
Although this is already the highest precision ever obtained for an observation of this star, Kepler will be even more precise after analysis software being developed for the mission is completed.
And interpreted it to mean that they'd "know" what the atmosphere was composed of once they finished writing the software that would "interpret" the data.
But still, the article didn't talk about composition such as 80% nitrogen or anything. Granted, they might be able to determine that based on the signatures they can now graph, but it is a little misleading. Still cool tech, but misleading title.
Viewing ads does *nothing* for the economy. Buying stuff from the advertisers does.
Some sites are still paid by impressions with a bonus for click-throughs. Your blog that is only read by your mom might not be, but traffic heavy sites can still garner a pay-per-view model. Granted it might take 1M views to amount to real cash, the model is there. And transferring money from one entity to another constitutes doing something for the economy (reduces one entity's ability to purchase and increases another entity's).
And I never indicated that I only clicked and didn't purchase. There have been times when I clicked an ad, and either bought then or did research and eventually came back and bought. But even if I didn't purchase, the ad did it's job and I am now aware of a product or service that I either did not know about or knew very little about. If I have a need for that product in the future, I might think "I remember seeing something that would do that......" and return to the site./. has subscription plans and moochers. I have a little checkbox to turn off ads because I have Excellent Karma. I won't click that box because I want/. to continue to put out the content it does and I'm not going to pay for that content (since I can get it elsewhere -- just not in one place). I have clicked on/. ads and will likely do so again. I've not yet purchased based on one of those click-throughs, but that doesn't mean I won't.
Moochers with AdBlock are essentially taking away any chance of/. getting any revenue from them. If every/. visitor used Adblock and none of them were subscribers,/. would eventually be unable to pay for the servers, bandwidth, editors, etc. No business can survive in a model where they produce something for nothing and have no money coming in. Their ads aren't horribly intrusive and are usually relevant to what I do, so why block them?
I *DON'T* run Adblock even though I've known about it for many, many years for the very reason that you whitelist sites. The advertisements pay for my use of the site and I fully support that business model. If a site is to ad-heavy or worse yet those stupid pop-up flash things (and yes, I know about Flashblock, too), I'll just quit going to the site so that their view count goes down. I even click on ads occassionally if they pique my interest. I do appreciate/. for posting the "print" versions of articles though, because even though I support an ad-supported model, I don't want to be inconvenienced by 12 pages with 1 paragraph of real text and 80% ads.
But personally, I think proliferation of Adblock will "ruin" *my* Internet.
I did stuff like this when I was in New Orleans (1994 to 1999). Used an MS SQL Server database (version 4.2 OS/2 1.3), PowerBuilder app code (PB4), and a modem (to send pages through AT&T's interface at the time). The system would first page the on-call pager. If no response within the prescribed time, it would escalate to the back-up pager. If no response, it would page the manager. I doubt that stuff is even in use any more. Sounds like some prior art.....too bad I don't have access to any of the code.
I'm the geek (and/. reader). She's more the nerd (intelligent and socially awkward but not really into any one thing). I kiss her every morning before I go to work (even though she's still sleeping and even if I'm mad at her). We have "together things" and "individual things". I encourage her to have her girl's nights and she lets me have my guy nights. We both deal with the kids and chores as needed.
It takes more effort to argue and complain about doing the dishes (and still eventually do them) than it does to just do them; don't fight over things that don't matter.
Look her in the eyes when you tell her you love her.
Oh....and one more thing to make a happy marriage.....get kinky. Not every time. Not beyond her comfort level. But mix it up in the bedroom. Seduce her one night. Tie her up and spank her the next. Take her to a sleazy motel or an adult bookstore. Buy her a vibrator (I recommend a Rabbit) and learn how to "help" her with it. Just don't make it a routine. Routine sex gets old and that's when she stops bothering with it. Focus on her orgasm first (your's happens much easier).
I get 4 weeks annually (not in management who get up to 6 but never get to take it) plus 2 weeks of personal time for sick kids, appointments, etc. I cannot accrue time off; use it or lose it. Last year, I was off from the week of Thanksgiving until New Years thanks to vacation and holidays and weekends.
My dad got 8 weeks off a year before he retired. He was a shift supervisor at a plant and had 30 years experience. He also worked shift work, so every shift cycle he had a period of 5 days off.
Just because it comes from the tap doesn't mean it comes from your city's tap. Tap water tastes different based on how it's treated. New Orleans tap water is horrible (or was 10 years ago when I lived there). Buying bottled tap water that came from somewhere else was bound to taste better.
Since we are talking about technology advanced enough for us to reach other habitable planetary systems, we might as well assume that quantum communication is working, too. Paired particles "magically" share information across any distance.
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Twitter servers provide historic view and in sequence. As long as they are up, no need to worry about missed messages. You get queuing "for free". Your device can be simple because it doesn't have to worry about missing a message (just keep up with last tweet processed) or with buffering messages while processing another. As I said, there are plenty of ways to accomplish the same thing.....this one just seems easy. By having a common language (Tweets) you don't have to worry about working with a GE or LG or Westinghouse microwave. It's even publish/subscribe with multi-broadcast, so it would be very easy for this scenario (pieces borrowed from another example in this thread):
Alarm clock triggers @ 6:30am
Human snoozes
Alarm clock tweets "@Lights powerlevel 35"
Lights automatically turn on at power level 35%.
Alarm retriggers @6:45am
Human turns off alarm
Alarm clock tweets "Begin wake scenario"
Lights (subscribed to alarm clock feed) automatically turn on a power level 100%
Coffee pot (subscribed to alarm clock feed) begins brewing coffee and tweets "Begin coffee brewing"
Human turns on shower.
Shower tweets "Begin shower"
Toaster (subscribed to shower) does nothing because it ignores begin shower messages.
Coffee finishes brewing and coffee pot tweets "End coffee brewing"
Human turns off shower.
Shower tweets "End shower"
Toaster (subscribed to shower) begins toasting bagel
etc.
Human turns off light
Lights tweet "End morning routine"
All appliances subscribed to lights feed would automatically power down
If the toaster had a network hiccup, that TCP/IP request would have failed and would need to be resent (how many retries?). The Twitter method would be event triggered with message queuing. The "End morning routine" message could go to multiple recipients based on subscription and the "@Lights powerlevel 35" message could be directed at a single recipient. Not saying it's a perfect solution, but I do think it's feasible.
It think Twitter as a "protocol" is much more interesting than Twitter as an application. Facebook starter more like MySpace where it was a "static" place you went to but FB evolved to have the status updates (merging Twitter like updates). But FB is tied to the PERSON. Twitter is not (it also doesn't have all of the fluff like quizzes and apps and what not). So, if Twitter is tied to non-people, it can become very useful. There is a simple REST API with subscription based on your preferred notification method (SMS texts? iPhone app? etc.) So, if my nightly replication process fails, it can simply tweet notification and any support person who subscribes can find out in whatever communication method they choose. Tweeting toasters and microwaves have the same type of potential.
Twitter provides a common language that any device can learn to speak. There have even been methods whereby devices can be controlled via twitter (i.e. @mymicrowave query time_remaining). There isn't much security in place, but I could easily see it as being possible opening up tons of options. Setting your feed to invite only would go a long way towards that goal.
Can the functionality be done in other ways, sure, but so can many other things (gopher was hypertext long before http -- http just did it better). But here is a simple method by which many things (including humans) can communicate with wide platform and language support.
Google Voice + Magic Jack (http://www.magicjack.com/1/index.asp)?
I think her boss was e.e.cummings.
I just imagine it as playing Ground Hog Day....[smashing alarm clock.....]
It won't matter. In 2012 the galatic conjunction will take place that will obliterate us all.....
So, take up a collection from the family for any invented solution you want and then just pocket it.
DVD with the data in video format and one of those cheap portable players......we will still have wall plugs, right? I've got some DVDs purchased over 10 years ago that still seem new (well, the media -- some of the movies are dated looking). Not that hard to imagine that they'll hold up for at least 10 more. By including the player, you don't have to worry about the format becoming obsolete.
http://www.amazon.com/Coby-TFDVD7008-7-Inch-Portable-Player/dp/B001PRKKB6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1251204715&sr=8-3
http://darkzero.co.uk/blog/you-can%E2%80%99t-put-a-price-on%E2%80%A6-game-budgets/
Most games don't sell 1M copies, only true hits. iD would see a decent percentage of the $$'s from online sales, but if it's boxed product, they only get 30 to 40% of the $$'s (as a big player -- smaller players would get much less). As a top end game, you'd be hard pressed to find 20% of all Linux end-users with hardware capable of running the game (how many times has someone boasted that they have Linux running on an old toaster and it runs faster than their Vista box on the latest hardware???). That doesn't even consider how many of the users would actually be interested in a FPS game. I'm sure your market is much smaller than the 3M you are guessing.
Of course, all you need to do is get 100,000 of your closest friends to join you on Quake Live!
From TFS: If there are hundreds of thousands of Linux users playing Quake Live when we are done with Rage, that would certainly influence our decision.
Layne
It's not like you can get on another subway company in New York.
Except the sandwich making one...... (yeah, yeah, Doctor's Inc. or whatever.....it's a joke)
My digital TV doesn't get static any more......it's either a picture (sometimes with artifacts) or nothing (black). I miss snow.....
Dude! I'm in Baton Rouge at the [removed by SEC] game. You should have seen that awesome hit that [removed by SEC] just laid on the quarterback for [removed by SEC]. He forced a [removed by SEC] and ran it in for a [removed by SEC] bringing the score to [removed by SEC] to [removed by SEC]. It was AWESOME!
Who says it's a pirated version? If I have an emulator running and I purchase the disc, pop it in, and it plays.....where's the piracy?
Why not serial number? Unique to the machine and already generated for you. MAC can change (multiple NICs, swapped out cards, etc.) but the serial number will stick with the machine.
It wouldn't be fair to add cyborgs/robots to the mix. The robot overlords would win every time and StarCraft aims to have good balance.
Archon had non-identical sides.......and the units fought each other and there was strategy. The only piece missing was the real-time aspect.....which in the head-to-head mode, you got.
Next up....Pirates and Ninjas! Then the triumvirate will be complete!
By the time they actually get around to getting the images, it won't be filmed in Nevada, but outsourced to India. We'll have a Bollywood version of the moon landing....all that singing and dancing -- in space suits.
I just assumed he read this part of the article:
Although this is already the highest precision ever obtained for an observation of this star, Kepler will be even more precise after analysis software being developed for the mission is completed.
And interpreted it to mean that they'd "know" what the atmosphere was composed of once they finished writing the software that would "interpret" the data.
But still, the article didn't talk about composition such as 80% nitrogen or anything. Granted, they might be able to determine that based on the signatures they can now graph, but it is a little misleading. Still cool tech, but misleading title.
Viewing ads does *nothing* for the economy. Buying stuff from the advertisers does.
Some sites are still paid by impressions with a bonus for click-throughs. Your blog that is only read by your mom might not be, but traffic heavy sites can still garner a pay-per-view model. Granted it might take 1M views to amount to real cash, the model is there. And transferring money from one entity to another constitutes doing something for the economy (reduces one entity's ability to purchase and increases another entity's).
And I never indicated that I only clicked and didn't purchase. There have been times when I clicked an ad, and either bought then or did research and eventually came back and bought. But even if I didn't purchase, the ad did it's job and I am now aware of a product or service that I either did not know about or knew very little about. If I have a need for that product in the future, I might think "I remember seeing something that would do that......" and return to the site. /. has subscription plans and moochers. I have a little checkbox to turn off ads because I have Excellent Karma. I won't click that box because I want /. to continue to put out the content it does and I'm not going to pay for that content (since I can get it elsewhere -- just not in one place). I have clicked on /. ads and will likely do so again. I've not yet purchased based on one of those click-throughs, but that doesn't mean I won't.
Moochers with AdBlock are essentially taking away any chance of /. getting any revenue from them. If every /. visitor used Adblock and none of them were subscribers, /. would eventually be unable to pay for the servers, bandwidth, editors, etc. No business can survive in a model where they produce something for nothing and have no money coming in. Their ads aren't horribly intrusive and are usually relevant to what I do, so why block them?
I *DON'T* run Adblock even though I've known about it for many, many years for the very reason that you whitelist sites. The advertisements pay for my use of the site and I fully support that business model. If a site is to ad-heavy or worse yet those stupid pop-up flash things (and yes, I know about Flashblock, too), I'll just quit going to the site so that their view count goes down. I even click on ads occassionally if they pique my interest. I do appreciate /. for posting the "print" versions of articles though, because even though I support an ad-supported model, I don't want to be inconvenienced by 12 pages with 1 paragraph of real text and 80% ads.
But personally, I think proliferation of Adblock will "ruin" *my* Internet.
I did stuff like this when I was in New Orleans (1994 to 1999). Used an MS SQL Server database (version 4.2 OS/2 1.3), PowerBuilder app code (PB4), and a modem (to send pages through AT&T's interface at the time). The system would first page the on-call pager. If no response within the prescribed time, it would escalate to the back-up pager. If no response, it would page the manager. I doubt that stuff is even in use any more. Sounds like some prior art.....too bad I don't have access to any of the code.
Some good stuff in here.
I'm the geek (and /. reader). She's more the nerd (intelligent and socially awkward but not really into any one thing). I kiss her every morning before I go to work (even though she's still sleeping and even if I'm mad at her). We have "together things" and "individual things". I encourage her to have her girl's nights and she lets me have my guy nights. We both deal with the kids and chores as needed.
It takes more effort to argue and complain about doing the dishes (and still eventually do them) than it does to just do them; don't fight over things that don't matter.
Look her in the eyes when you tell her you love her.
Oh....and one more thing to make a happy marriage.....get kinky. Not every time. Not beyond her comfort level. But mix it up in the bedroom. Seduce her one night. Tie her up and spank her the next. Take her to a sleazy motel or an adult bookstore. Buy her a vibrator (I recommend a Rabbit) and learn how to "help" her with it. Just don't make it a routine. Routine sex gets old and that's when she stops bothering with it. Focus on her orgasm first (your's happens much easier).
I get 4 weeks annually (not in management who get up to 6 but never get to take it) plus 2 weeks of personal time for sick kids, appointments, etc. I cannot accrue time off; use it or lose it. Last year, I was off from the week of Thanksgiving until New Years thanks to vacation and holidays and weekends.
My dad got 8 weeks off a year before he retired. He was a shift supervisor at a plant and had 30 years experience. He also worked shift work, so every shift cycle he had a period of 5 days off.
Just because it comes from the tap doesn't mean it comes from your city's tap. Tap water tastes different based on how it's treated. New Orleans tap water is horrible (or was 10 years ago when I lived there). Buying bottled tap water that came from somewhere else was bound to taste better.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement
Since we are talking about technology advanced enough for us to reach other habitable planetary systems, we might as well assume that quantum communication is working, too. Paired particles "magically" share information across any distance.