It sounds like some of the ideas that I had while working on my Master's degree. Ultimately I wound up making Tetris Weightlifting: http://www.tetrisweightlifting.com/ -- similar to this center, pretty much everyone who tried it enjoyed mixing games w/ exercise.
The basic idea is to present a CAPTCHA image that's as easy for a machine to understand as possible and then ask the user to type in something else. (in the system that I'm using, users are presented with an unobscured image of a 6-digit number and asked to type in a different 6-digit number).
One of the great things about asking a user to type in something other than what's shown is that it's much more accessible than a regular CAPTCHA, since there's only a 1/1,000,000 chance that someone who can't see will accidentally type in the "right" six digit number.
This just sounds like a new spin on the old shareware concept. Having to pay for the initial trial wasn't necessarily unheard of during the shareware days as well (though usually it involved buying a 3.5" disk or CD).
Skandinavian characters should only be allowed in scandinavian TLD's. Period.
Let's say you have a company based in Sweden with non-English characters in its name. If they do business internationally, should they be limited to only registering their name in Sweden? Or should they be allowed to register the.com address?
MS has stated that an estimated 80% or so of features in Office are never used by most users. How many users actually have a legitimate need to do a mail merge? Or use vbscript?
"Microsoft could have really used something like that for the Xbox/360 switchover."
It's hard to say how much good an adapter for xbox memory cards would have done, though. Many xbox games won't allow you to transfer saves to a memory card and given that no game (that I know of) required one, a much smaller percentage of owners had them.
There's nothing to say that MS couldn't still release software to allow users to transfer saves from one xbox to another or from an xbox to a 360, though.
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It sounds like some of the ideas that I had while working on my Master's degree. Ultimately I wound up making Tetris Weightlifting: http://www.tetrisweightlifting.com/ -- similar to this center, pretty much everyone who tried it enjoyed mixing games w/ exercise.
I've managed to cut down blog spam significantly lately after installing an Anti-CAPTCHA: http://www.timtucker.com/weblog/?p=74
The basic idea is to present a CAPTCHA image that's as easy for a machine to understand as possible and then ask the user to type in something else. (in the system that I'm using, users are presented with an unobscured image of a 6-digit number and asked to type in a different 6-digit number).
One of the great things about asking a user to type in something other than what's shown is that it's much more accessible than a regular CAPTCHA, since there's only a 1/1,000,000 chance that someone who can't see will accidentally type in the "right" six digit number.
I knew someone whose parents had tried to abort them (and would remind them of it) -- definitely not the happiest of situations to be in.
This just sounds like a new spin on the old shareware concept. Having to pay for the initial trial wasn't necessarily unheard of during the shareware days as well (though usually it involved buying a 3.5" disk or CD).
Let's say you have a company based in Sweden with non-English characters in its name. If they do business internationally, should they be limited to only registering their name in Sweden? Or should they be allowed to register the .com address?
MS has stated that an estimated 80% or so of features in Office are never used by most users. How many users actually have a legitimate need to do a mail merge? Or use vbscript?
"Microsoft could have really used something like that for the Xbox/360 switchover." It's hard to say how much good an adapter for xbox memory cards would have done, though. Many xbox games won't allow you to transfer saves to a memory card and given that no game (that I know of) required one, a much smaller percentage of owners had them. There's nothing to say that MS couldn't still release software to allow users to transfer saves from one xbox to another or from an xbox to a 360, though.