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Comment A couple solutions (Score 3, Insightful) 164

1) You can use Join.me or Gotomeeting and everyone can share the same picture. Fire up a paint program, and voila whiteboard. I find coding with multiple people actually is cool when everyone can see the screen instead of being uncomfortably bunched together.

2) For a bulletin board todo list, use www.Trello.com

I love telecommuting work, it feels more efficient than in person office work.

Comment My dream for Dreamcast (Score 1) 153

My dream for Dreamcast was that one of those JRPG makers would have made a solid MMO, and that there would have been dual: That Lameo Modem along side a LAN connection. Everyone knew online multiplayer was the future. If Dreamcast would have been the hardware for it, things could have been different. The only hard part is that broadband was just beginning to take off in rural areas over the next 5 years. So a lan connection might have been too ahead of its time... Not sure.

If I was the head of Sega, I'd keep making software, but I'd aim for mobile targets. Make Sega games for Android Tablet/Phone with a gamepad option. Start by porting the classics, or even just licensing an emulator for like 5% of sales revenue. The cash would pour in and it wouldn't take any coding time at all, just licensing deals. You might pressure Apple into a joystick driver on ipad/iphone. You could port games to run off keyboard for ipad/iphone. And if Apple won't get off their butts to make a joystick driver, you could make a joystick that operates like a keyboard. Sega would be in the drivers seat, and set up a precedence for other companies to make their old video games run on mobile or lose revenue.

Comment Google Voice/Skype/VOIP does this for free (Score 1) 73

If there is already a free solution to make calls over WIFI, why should I pay someone 5$ for it. Or maybe this service isn't for me. Maybe it is a "technical ignorance tax". Hey there are even cell phones you can pay 8$/month for now and make calls anywhere without being restricted to wifi.

Comment Easy to have competitors (Score 1) 50

The software Uber uses isn't particularly complex. A lone coder could code it up very rapidly. The only thing it got going for it in terms of competition is that,"Why should people use a different service when this one works?" So if another country wanted to make an Uber competitor and ban Uber, they can do it very easily. Every different country could have its own version of a smart phone summoned taxi service and it wouldn't cost that much in term of dev hours to the profit gained for not using someone else.

Comment Uber provide anything Google couldn't code (Score 1) 77

When I heard about self driving cars becoming possible, I immediately thought that some corporation with big pockets should buy a bunch and then write a basic ride share application to allow people to schedule taxis and get to work. I didn't even hear of Uber before this, but I did theorize a taxi service could be launched without even self driving cars. What Uber does in terms of an ap is not complex nor difficult to code. Google should just code their own ride sharing ap for when their self driving cars become feasible. I still don't have high hopes on self driving cars becoming feasible any time soon, but I understand why Google wants to give them positive press.

Comment Setting the stage for sports (Score 1) 62

Watch the game from a bunch of different angles. Put several different TVs in a sports bar with all the different angles, get way more customers. Then mic up all the players and choose the channel you want to listen to. It'd lead to famous trash talk segments when video with sound are linked on forums.

Comment Re:Not the fault of science (Score 1) 958

Exactly, it isn't science that steers you wrong, its the people who want to make a buck off the new fad.

Everything I learned in physics still applies: If you want to burn calories, you need to do work. F=ma. W=Fs. Go out there and move more. Put 1-2 hours of exercise in a day(it doesn't even have to require strenuous effort, skip the pushups), and have a reasonable diet then you'll get in shape over the course of 6 months.

Science is correct, but the way people use scientific results can be disingenuous. For example I saw Lucky Charms reported as a health food because it had oat pieces and oats are scientifically seen to promote heart health...

Comment Re:I don't like to hear about competition (Score 1) 227

I'm not skilled as an open source project manager or working on any open source project. So I'm afraid I don't know how that works. There's really not a lot of code that needs to be written either. There's only like a year of code or so, and then a year or so of play testing, tweaking, and features to add.

I mean if some of you guys wanted to collaborate with me because you think the idea sounds neet, leave me your reddit.com ids here or some way to contact you. Like I said in my original post, I could really use someone who knows how to communicate from JavaAS3(Flash) via sockets. But I can also use artists, and beta testers too.

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