- 9月 18 週日 200512:39
[Gadget]夢機器(三) Vending Machine
- 9月 18 週日 200508:34
[Metal]In Flames - Colony(Lyrics)
in your world, the day is no threat
in my world, there is an absence of light
"genetic superior cell" controlled
by the fathomless and unbearable
a radical new Form of plastic and rage
biologically optimized
but with a strangling pulse
in your world, you find me worthy
in my world, I "parashoot" my life
a virtual drugstore populated
by the fathomless and unbearable
machine, meat and blood
in an intimate relationship
the new - superior -
more effective than all the preceding
when we can no longer
cry and reality is torn
then it's easy to forget
that the responsibility lies on us all
in your world, the night is no threat
in my world, the darkness
transforms to a vision of hell
populated by fathomless and unbearable
in my world, there is an absence of light
"genetic superior cell" controlled
by the fathomless and unbearable
a radical new Form of plastic and rage
biologically optimized
but with a strangling pulse
in your world, you find me worthy
in my world, I "parashoot" my life
a virtual drugstore populated
by the fathomless and unbearable
machine, meat and blood
in an intimate relationship
the new - superior -
more effective than all the preceding
when we can no longer
cry and reality is torn
then it's easy to forget
that the responsibility lies on us all
in your world, the night is no threat
in my world, the darkness
transforms to a vision of hell
populated by fathomless and unbearable
- 9月 17 週六 200501:03
[Common]Mario
- 9月 16 週五 200509:51
Two VoIP network Skype and Ventrilo
Voice over IP communication network
VoIP allows you to make voice communications(like phone call) using a computer network, over a data network like the Internet. VoIP converts the voice signal from your telephone into a digital signal that travels over the internet then converts it back at the other end so you can speak to anyone with a regular phone number. They require a PC microphone and speakers, or an affordable PC headset. There are several VoIP software. Ventrilo and Skype are two popular ones.
Skype and Ventrilo
Skype works like MSN but deals morewith voice commnication. You will have a friend list. You can either use it as instant meseging. you want to talk to them, you can just double click and it works like a phone . In short ,it let you talk to your friends all over the world. It's free in normal PC to PC communication. You can have 5 people talking in a group at the same time. It's very easy to install. Recently EBay Inc. (www.ebay.com) has agreed to acquire Skype Technologies .
Ventrilo ,on the other hand, is a comercial software that provides better quality, and is up to at least one hundread people to talk in a group (depends on network connection). To use ventrilo, you have to set up a server for your group unless someone let you use their server for free.
Goal and Target
Skype is amining to be the Global Telephony Company. Skype's goal is providing a simple, reliable and friendly communications tool that works for people to communicate with friends, families, and colleagues more flexibly, more cost effectively. On the other hand Skype is expanding to new platforms, including mobile devices and handsets. You will be able to use Skyping on phone home.
Ventrilo was first design to use with online games.It can be used for in an enterprise environment as a productivity tool for conducting long distance group discussions. The Ventrilo server could be setup for people who share a common interest or business. This also helps when using group collaboration programs that don't provide any kind of voice communication support. It can be use as home personal applications like talking to friends and family, or playing organized online games where Voice Comm can make them more exciting and productive.
Community
I use both software. I use skype to talk to friends and family. For me, it's the best solution for cheap and quality convbersation. I can talk to my parents in Taiwan and it's almost no delay. The network of Skype easily connects indivisual friends and family. On the other hand, most Ventrilo users for business or specific interests group . Online game communities use ventrilo heavily. I have several years online gaming experiences, and it's very suitble for the instant group talk. When you play online game, Ventrilo provides excellent cordination and very high interactivities. Some friends even connec the PC speakers to their home audio system so that they know what's happening in the virtual world in real time. The The conversation on skype is just like like we talk on the phone. The conversation on Ventrilo server area always wild and crazy. I am interested in seeing Ventrilo could be used for more interactive comunities . You can always use Ventrilo as a more reliable form of IRC without the hassles to setup a real IRC client.
VoIP allows you to make voice communications(like phone call) using a computer network, over a data network like the Internet. VoIP converts the voice signal from your telephone into a digital signal that travels over the internet then converts it back at the other end so you can speak to anyone with a regular phone number. They require a PC microphone and speakers, or an affordable PC headset. There are several VoIP software. Ventrilo and Skype are two popular ones.
Skype and Ventrilo
Skype works like MSN but deals morewith voice commnication. You will have a friend list. You can either use it as instant meseging. you want to talk to them, you can just double click and it works like a phone . In short ,it let you talk to your friends all over the world. It's free in normal PC to PC communication. You can have 5 people talking in a group at the same time. It's very easy to install. Recently EBay Inc. (www.ebay.com) has agreed to acquire Skype Technologies .
Ventrilo ,on the other hand, is a comercial software that provides better quality, and is up to at least one hundread people to talk in a group (depends on network connection). To use ventrilo, you have to set up a server for your group unless someone let you use their server for free.
Goal and Target
Skype is amining to be the Global Telephony Company. Skype's goal is providing a simple, reliable and friendly communications tool that works for people to communicate with friends, families, and colleagues more flexibly, more cost effectively. On the other hand Skype is expanding to new platforms, including mobile devices and handsets. You will be able to use Skyping on phone home.
Ventrilo was first design to use with online games.It can be used for in an enterprise environment as a productivity tool for conducting long distance group discussions. The Ventrilo server could be setup for people who share a common interest or business. This also helps when using group collaboration programs that don't provide any kind of voice communication support. It can be use as home personal applications like talking to friends and family, or playing organized online games where Voice Comm can make them more exciting and productive.
Community
I use both software. I use skype to talk to friends and family. For me, it's the best solution for cheap and quality convbersation. I can talk to my parents in Taiwan and it's almost no delay. The network of Skype easily connects indivisual friends and family. On the other hand, most Ventrilo users for business or specific interests group . Online game communities use ventrilo heavily. I have several years online gaming experiences, and it's very suitble for the instant group talk. When you play online game, Ventrilo provides excellent cordination and very high interactivities. Some friends even connec the PC speakers to their home audio system so that they know what's happening in the virtual world in real time. The The conversation on skype is just like like we talk on the phone. The conversation on Ventrilo server area always wild and crazy. I am interested in seeing Ventrilo could be used for more interactive comunities . You can always use Ventrilo as a more reliable form of IRC without the hassles to setup a real IRC client.
- 9月 16 週五 200509:47
[Common]Touch Generation
- 9月 16 週五 200507:22
[Common]Nintendo 的陰謀 (Keynote Speech in TGS)
新遙控器的Demo
看到我都流淚了，好猛的Nintendo 啊，除了工業設計做太爛之外，做Game 真是沒話說，內置3D空間感應的控制器可以做幾乎任何事！任天堂把新控制器的外表設計得簡單，就是為了讓遊戲再次可以讓非Hard Core玩者也會想接觸這遊戲機！ SONY這下慘了，要是我是SONY的人，應該會涼到背脊吧。
TGS演講全文
由紅白機到SEGA MEGA DRIVE、再到SFC、再到PS、DC、PS2、360… 似乎每一代新機的玩法也比以前多鍵化、巨大化、覆雜化..........真的有這需要嗎？ 近年太鼓、Eye Toy的成功就顯示出開發新的遊戲觀念也是增加銷售的方法 Nintendo 的目標說不是做更複雜的遊戲，而是要做遊戲性豐富有創意的遊戲，Nintendog之類的game 都是因為這樣的理念而生產的，並推廣到一般不玩game 的人身上
像宮本茂他始終堅持「創造最出色而獨特的娛樂體驗」。他認為「遊戲是有界限的，像是畫面的精美程度，電腦的速度等等，做了這麼多遊戲，一次次的遇到了這個界限，他知道不管想法有多棒，只要不能實現，就一點意義也沒有。所以一定要在有限的硬體限制下用技巧表達出想要表達的想法。」
大家都知道任天堂在基調演講後 有在幕後不對外公開的展示一些Tech Demo 以下是國外某位人士實際使用過的感受
就我所體驗到的, 這東西比滑鼠更精準也更快, 因為只要手小部份的移動 就能達成你所想要的控制. 指到螢幕哪裡就能馬上動到哪裡(他說的應該是Metroid的體驗心得)
沒有延遲也沒有錯誤發生
這花了我一點時間去適應這個只需要一點點努力就能遊玩的點子. 一開始我一直不自覺的將身體往前移並將手把往前靠近螢幕. 往後站到正常距離且冷靜的輕微移動我的手去遊玩需要一點練習. At one point,
有人說如果你使用這玩意跟那些使用滑鼠的人來對戰, 那些使用滑鼠的是不可能有機會打敗你的. 我必須承認那是真的.
我從成為玩家開始就開始使用滑鼠加鍵盤的組合. 我已經花超過80個小時在戰地風雲2上面, 而且我有等級60的魔獸世界角色. 在今天之前, 如果有人跟我說有比滑鼠加鍵盤更好的控制器, 我會嘲笑他們.
但今天, 我只花了五分鐘就了解到我不再需要用到滑鼠了.
拿FPS遊戲來做例子. 只要輕輕動一下手腕你就能完全地將你的視點移動到螢幕的另一邊. 如果是使用滑鼠的話, 這動作你需要大幅的在鼠墊上移動他. 使用傳統手把, 移動3D桿會花掉你幾秒鐘.
另一個事實是這玩意可以很正確的感知到旋轉(不論是順時針還是逆時針) 或是移近或移遠你的螢幕.(!) 所以你可以開始想像REV所帶來各種新的遊戲玩法的可能性.
- 9月 16 週五 200505:53
[Common]Woo! Samsung
引用的報導
美國商業周刊最近發表：「2005年世界企業品牌排名」。三星（Samsung）的品牌排名超越SONY，躍居為世界20大品牌之一；韓國三星電子用不到6年光景變成了全球強勢大品牌，其品牌價值正一路飆升。
三星電子繼2002年30%的高速增長，2003年更以高達31%的速度再次引領全球品牌價值提升之首。自2000年以來，三星品牌開始發威，從 2000年的43位(52億美元)，2001年的42位(64億美元)，2002年的34位（83億美元），到2003年的25位（108億美元），連續兩年成為全球品牌價值提升最快的公司。三星已成為韓國品牌的精神領袖，在國家經濟中所占的比重不斷加大，2002年出口額達312億美元，占國家出口的 20%，銷售額達到141萬億韓元，占國民生產總值(GDP)的四分之一；2003年三星集團的出口額為370億美元，佔韓國總出口額的20％，貿易順差為200億美元。2004年的營業額達到719億美元，三星首次進入世界50大企業。
2004年三星電子的純利益更突破了1兆日圓（約94億美元）。日本的SONY、松下、日立、東芝、NEC等總合機電廠5家加起來的純利益才6000 億日圓（約57億美元）。日本電子業總額的盈餘還不及韓國一家三星來得多。
http://www.japanresearch.org.tw/takeo-38.asp
- 9月 14 週三 200506:28
[Gadget]夢機器(二) Creative Content Player
Website click here
它所儲存的歌曲可以播放三天之久。其可連續播放 14 個小時再行充電，顯示您正在聆聽的歌曲之彩色插圖，儲存照片、podcast 廣播節目及有聲書，與 iTunes 完美同步，並擁有豐富的 iPod 配件。
很讓我驚訝的是耳機的設計，真是完美的流行與可攜式數位設備的結合，我不知道這算不算是wearable computing ，真是了不起的殺手應用。
前幾天我在紐約地鐵算了一下，一節車廂少說有 5 台以上的Ipod，真是太恐怖了。
- 9月 01 週四 200511:59
[Gadget]夢機器 (一) The social machine
PSP跟進 Website link
Ninetendo 決定在麥當勞提供DS server 服務
Website link here
在傳統的觀念裏，遊戲機不過是一群好朋友在家裏相互廝殺的畸形娛樂。雖然Playstation或是 Xbox 有連線的功能。但是那不過是連線和一群以人腦運作的機器互動而已，遊戲中的Avatar並沒有真正玩家的真實個性，遊戲中有也不提供玩家近一步的交流。 另一方面，雖然架設在PC上的MMORPG的提供了高度的互動性，但是互動的內容侷限在遊戲的內容，不會太廣泛的交流可言。
掌上型遊戲機
PSP和NDS 的出現，提供了另一種新的互動的新可能性。掌上型遊戲機不只能讓你。相較於MMORPG，玩家不需要在特定的地方才能相互交流，不侷限在某種場所，玩家可以見到面，在有趣的空間裏遊戲。在遊戲之外也比較容易討論到其他話題，NDS Server更容許在不同電影院，咖啡店的玩家相互交流， 則PSP 更進一步的，發展出更廣泛的功能，相片 電影 都可以放在PSP 裏與朋友分享。
夢場所