Diskettes are definitely going the way of the dodo, and this is good. It’s a very unreliable media and it’s not very useful with today’s file sizes. However, flash memory is still kinda expensive for a lot of applications. You can freely give away a diskette. You can probably do that with a CDR too, [...]
Category Archives: Ideas
Federal Express
Saturday, March 13, 2004
Idea of the week, formulated: It is very common to see CRPGs dominated by so-called FedEx quests — “Take this package and deliver it to X.” or “Go to X and tell him Y.” These are commonly considered bad form, since the characters are supposedly trying to save the world from the Bad Guy, which [...]
Frame of reference.
Monday, March 8, 2004
You’d think it would be easy to have perfectly synchronised time. After all, time’s all around us. 28 sattelites do nothing but shout it out into the ether. The GPS sattelites, I mean. Expensive atomic clocks floating above our heads meant to do nothing else but tell time so we could tell the place. It [...]
Cool blogtechnology idea of the day.
Wednesday, March 3, 2004
Make a poll script which would be embeddable into a WordPress posting. (easy to do with current filter functions)Make the script react to trackbacks and pingbacks, treating them as votes according to a predetermined protocol. (like ‘the posting must start with “I VOTE YEA”‘ or something) This is probably going to need it’s own table [...]
Косплей.
Sunday, February 22, 2004
Косплеить конкретных персонажей мне похоже бессмысленно, это верно. Но у меня в голове копошится интереснейшая мысль — косплей персонажа абстрактного. То бишь — правильно — униформа! А в Full Metal Alchemist она очень красивая… И хорошо смотрится на нескольких совершенно кубических персонажах. Следовательно сшить ее под меня можно вполне. А еще я вспомнил про часовой [...]
Определение местоположения с помощью GPS.
Sunday, February 22, 2004
Способ 1. Прочитайте с экрана GPS-приемника точное время. Используйте деления на компасе изображенном на экране приемника для определения высоты солнца точно в полдень. Это даст вам широту. Метод вычисления долготы оставим как упражнение для читателя. Способ 2. Идите к ближайшей автотрассе. Поймайте первую попавшуюся машину и предложите водителю GPS-приемник за то, что тот доставит вас [...]
Practical application
Sunday, February 22, 2004
Seeing an electronic workalike of the original Enigma machine reported on Slashdot, I wonder… It’s certainly totally useless as it is, since you wouldn’t be encoding messages you’d transfer through paper or email. For this purpose you would probably use something like PGP/GPG – even for paper messages it works just fine by printing and [...]