Yes, I know he iPhone has emoji. It also has seriously atrocious Japanese input.
As for the browsers, my last 2 casio keitais on AU used the Opera mini browser back in 2005-2007. I had no problem reading slashdot, NYTimes, Ars, BBC, etc.
Also, Japanese have little need to browse the main net on their phones because they've had internet on their phones for so long that nearly every company has pages specifically for the phones
And, Even if they could browse with a full browser most popular Japanese sites use so much flash that having a iPhone to browse Japanese sites would be practically useless.
iPhone may have 46% of the SMARTphone market in Japan but smartphones are not popular in Japan at all.
There's been no need for them. Non-smartphones do all the most useful things that users want and more in Japan. A typical Japanese NON-smart phone
*) Has a 5-12 megapixel camera *) Browses the web just fine *) Has 3D GPS based navigation *) Receives digital TV signals with no carrier charge *) Records those digital TV signals for later playback (pocket tivo) *) Has it's own digital answering machine built in, no need for the phone company to record messages unless you have no signal and no need to call the phone company to hear your messages as they are already on the phone. *) Has MP3/WMA/AAC playback *) Plays games *) Has RFID digital wireless payment system for paying for trains, subways, buses, vending machines, and most convenience stores. *) Can download apps. *) Has 2 displays, one inside the phone, one out. *) Supports 500+ icon characters for email. (smiles, frowns, cakes, fireworks)
etc, etc, etc,
You only need to go on any train or subway car in Tokyo and look around and you'll notice it will take you 5 to 10 cars worth of people to see a single iPhone
Compare to say NYC or SF where you can go in any starbucks and it seems like every other person has an iPhone.
I use CoPilot.com as they claim it works from anywhere. Other solutions will only work under the right conditions. (ie, their network is configured correctly, your network is configured correctly, you're not working from a hotel or airport, they are not at starbucks, etc...)
That's because if CoPilot can't setup a direct connection between the 2 computers it can route the traffic through their computers.
Sorry but their definition of USE is that YOU personally USE the software, not that you distribute make something with it and give that away.
"If you are creating a game or commercial application using UDK for sale or distribution to an end-user or client, or if you are providing services in connection with a game or application, the per-seat option does not apply. Instead the license terms for this arrangement are US $99 (Ninety Nine US Dollars) up-front, and a 0% royalty on you or your company's first $5,000 (US) in UDK related revenue, and a 25% royalty on UDK related revenue above $5,000 (US). UDK related revenue includes, but is not limited to, monies earned from: sales, services, training, advertisements, sponsorships, endorsements, memberships, subscription fees, rentals and pay-to-play."
Notice is says game OR commerical app, and it says sale OR distribution. In other words, if you make a game, and you distribute it you have to pay. That's regardless of whether the game is free or not.
It's free to use. It is not free to distribute games, even FREE games. Make a simple game, give your brother a free copy and you are required to PAY!
Free is cool but their license is kind of scammy in the way it slides in those requirements. It will be interesting to see them try to enforce it as unsuspecting users who didn't actually read the licensing details.
There are laws that prevent a phone company from restricting what you can talk about on a phone. And yet there are no laws that require a magazine to carry every article submitted to it.
With iPhone being as popular as it is, there is arguably some legitimate concern that it's closer to the phone model than the magazine model. What if Apple started only allowing democrat supporting apps but no republican supporting apps? In the magazine model that would be ok. It's perfectly legal for it to run only democrat supporting articles. In the phone model that's not ok. It's not legal for AT&T to filter republican supporting conversations.
So, at what point does the ability for Apple to effectively, censor apps, switch from "they have every right" like a magazine to "they have no right" like a phone?
For example there is currently a facebook app. What if there was a republicansite app that did the same thing as the facebook app (let you see a feed) but connected to a site that was pretty much a republican supporting site. If Apple banned that app would that be okay like magazine or not okay like a phone?
They could solve this issue by letting you install your own apps and not having to go through the App store but for now they don't allow that which gives them the power to censor anything they want for any reason.
I know I'm not personally comfortable with Apple having that much influence over that many people.
Steam might be great (though count me as one who's had very bad experiences with it)
But, on consoles, as cool as XBLA, PSN and Wii Shopping Channel are, they are not doing well. There are a few games that have done okay but they aren't even at 1/20th of retail levels for any comparable game.
Of course eventually it will happen that e-distro will take over retail but except for iPhone it's far from there yet.
I want ads. Before the internet I used to subscribe to PC Magazine, Wired Magazine, and several others and the ads were more important for me than the articles. That's how I learned about all these new products, services, technology, software, gadgets, etc that were coming out.
And, I'd much rather have ads for things I like than don't like. If PC Magazine was full of ads for tampons, makeup and fashion I don't think it would have been nearly as informative for me personally.
Whether targeted ads are good or bad I still want ads.
It's not about solving the problem of moving the data around. It's about making it fun and/or pretty. That's where the crunch comes from, not from the "moving data around is an interesting puzzle" but the "is it fun yet, why isn't it fun yet, what should we try next" and the "there's 28 more levels to make now that we found out how to make them fun but only have 3 months until our deadline"
Don't forget, a large game team is 50% artists, 25% designers, 25% engineers.
That's all fine and dandy, except I happen to work in the real world where I can't control the the millions of other programmers and stop them from using tabs.
We long ago realized invisible characters effecting the flow of a program was bad (aka: make). Now pythom comes and reintroduces that problem. Yea, thank's python:-(
Well, I guess it depends on how we defined effects but I think at the next Siggraph there will be far more techincal papers on the problems solved by Pixar for Ratatouille than there will for whoever made Transformers.
I liked both movies but the CG in Ratatoullie was on a whole other level above Transformers.
Yes, and XNA's market is just a few thousand, just the other XNA devs, since you can't actually reach the LARGE 360 market unless Microsoft blesses you. IF they don't bless you are S.O.L.
Even worse, they claim XNA runs on Windows but sadly it requires a high spec PC. My PC which ran HL2 just fine does not run XNA. So, if you wanted to make the next Mutant Storm or the next Cloning Clyde and sell your product on Windows then XNA is NOT the way to go since the majority of the Windows market will not be able to run it and the odds of Microsoft blessing you for publishing on 360 are exceedingly low.
Worse, you can't even try to get momentum built like say Alien Hominid did for those same reasons. No one to show it to on XNA since you can only show it to other devs and low compatibility with PCs of people that actually buy casual games.
True, but only if you remember to do it before you start writing the email. If you follow the way it's designed, most people will click "Compose" and only after they've stared typing will they realise they needed to reference other stuff and be S.O.L. since you can't click on inbox once you've started composing without cancelling the message you have in progress.
Also, I don't know if you've noticed but Google has disabled right clicking on Inbox or Compose and picking "New Window" or "New Tab"
There was a time when my machine could only do one thing at once. Then a feature called "windows" was introduced by various companies and now I could do multiple things at once.
Gmail is firmly stuck in the 1980s.
With Yahoo I can actually compose multiple emails while referencing multiple emails. I do this on my desktop, why shouldn't I be able to do it on the net? I'm glad Oddpost and Yahoo brought web email out of the dark ages and I'm sad that gmail is still firmly stuck in the past.
Yes, I agree with your point. The funny thing is that actually Windows Indexing Service is website search engine. It was created to allow IIS to have a search feature for websites hosted by IIS including high traffic sites.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, I know he iPhone has emoji. It also has seriously atrocious Japanese input.
As for the browsers, my last 2 casio keitais on AU used the Opera mini browser back in 2005-2007. I had no problem reading slashdot, NYTimes, Ars, BBC, etc.
Also, Japanese have little need to browse the main net on their phones because they've had internet on their phones for so long that nearly every company has pages specifically for the phones
And, Even if they could browse with a full browser most popular Japanese sites use so much flash that having a iPhone to browse Japanese sites would be practically useless.
iPhone may have 46% of the SMARTphone market in Japan but smartphones are not popular in Japan at all.
There's been no need for them. Non-smartphones do all the most useful things that users want and more in Japan. A typical Japanese NON-smart phone
*) Has a 5-12 megapixel camera
*) Browses the web just fine
*) Has 3D GPS based navigation
*) Receives digital TV signals with no carrier charge
*) Records those digital TV signals for later playback (pocket tivo)
*) Has it's own digital answering machine built in, no need for the phone company to record messages unless you have no signal and no need to call the phone company to hear your messages as they are already on the phone.
*) Has MP3/WMA/AAC playback
*) Plays games
*) Has RFID digital wireless payment system for paying for trains, subways, buses, vending machines, and most convenience stores.
*) Can download apps.
*) Has 2 displays, one inside the phone, one out.
*) Supports 500+ icon characters for email. (smiles, frowns, cakes, fireworks)
etc, etc, etc,
You only need to go on any train or subway car in Tokyo and look around and you'll notice it will take you 5 to 10 cars worth of people to see a single iPhone
Compare to say NYC or SF where you can go in any starbucks and it seems like every other person has an iPhone.
No, iPhone is no doing that well in Japan.
I use CoPilot.com as they claim it works from anywhere. Other solutions will only work under the right conditions. (ie, their network is configured correctly, your network is configured correctly, you're not working from a hotel or airport, they are not at starbucks, etc...)
That's because if CoPilot can't setup a direct connection between the 2 computers it can route the traffic through their computers.
Sorry but their definition of USE is that YOU personally USE the software, not that you distribute make something with it and give that away.
"If you are creating a game or commercial application using UDK for sale or distribution to an end-user or client, or if you are providing services in connection with a game or application, the per-seat option does not apply. Instead the license terms for this arrangement are US $99 (Ninety Nine US Dollars) up-front, and a 0% royalty on you or your company's first $5,000 (US) in UDK related revenue, and a 25% royalty on UDK related revenue above $5,000 (US). UDK related revenue includes, but is not limited to, monies earned from: sales, services, training, advertisements, sponsorships, endorsements, memberships, subscription fees, rentals and pay-to-play."
Notice is says game OR commerical app, and it says sale OR distribution. In other words, if you make a game, and you distribute it you have to pay. That's regardless of whether the game is free or not.
It's free to use. It is not free to distribute games, even FREE games. Make a simple game, give your brother a free copy and you are required to PAY!
Free is cool but their license is kind of scammy in the way it slides in those requirements. It will be interesting to see them try to enforce it as unsuspecting users who didn't actually read the licensing details.
I don't think it's quite that cut and dry.
To use some different analogies...
There are laws that prevent a phone company from restricting what you can talk about on a phone.
And yet there are no laws that require a magazine to carry every article submitted to it.
With iPhone being as popular as it is, there is arguably some legitimate concern that it's closer to the phone model than the magazine model. What if Apple started only allowing democrat supporting apps but no republican supporting apps? In the magazine model that would be ok. It's perfectly legal for it to run only democrat supporting articles. In the phone model that's not ok. It's not legal for AT&T to filter republican supporting conversations.
So, at what point does the ability for Apple to effectively, censor apps, switch from "they have every right" like a magazine to "they have no right" like a phone?
For example there is currently a facebook app. What if there was a republicansite app that did the same thing as the facebook app (let you see a feed) but connected to a site that was pretty much a republican supporting site. If Apple banned that app would that be okay like magazine or not okay like a phone?
They could solve this issue by letting you install your own apps and not having to go through the App store but for now they don't allow that which gives them the power to censor anything they want for any reason.
I know I'm not personally comfortable with Apple having that much influence over that many people.
Steam might be great (though count me as one who's had very bad experiences with it)
But, on consoles, as cool as XBLA, PSN and Wii Shopping Channel are, they are not doing well. There are a few games that have done okay but they aren't even at 1/20th of retail levels for any comparable game.
Of course eventually it will happen that e-distro will take over retail but except for iPhone it's far from there yet.
I want ads. Before the internet I used to subscribe to PC Magazine, Wired Magazine, and several others and the ads were more important for me than the articles. That's how I learned about all these new products, services, technology, software, gadgets, etc that were coming out.
And, I'd much rather have ads for things I like than don't like. If PC Magazine was full of ads for tampons, makeup and fashion I don't think it would have been nearly as informative for me personally.
Whether targeted ads are good or bad I still want ads.
No Data isn't Data.
It's not about solving the problem of moving the data around. It's about making it fun and/or pretty. That's where the crunch comes from, not from the "moving data around is an interesting puzzle" but the "is it fun yet, why isn't it fun yet, what should we try next" and the "there's 28 more levels to make now that we found out how to make them fun but only have 3 months until our deadline"
Don't forget, a large game team is 50% artists, 25% designers, 25% engineers.
I don't have a problem when Mr. Incredible is not a real person, why should have a problem when his voice is synthetic as well.
There was an RTS on the Atari 800
(yes, REALTIME not turn based)
http://www.atarimania.com/zoom_frame.php?TYPE_IMG=D7&ID=1143&MENU=8&NUM_IMAGE=1
I don't care if it uses more energy, I like it when it gets dark later. I like getting out of work while it's still light outside.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/toshibas-10-new-regza-lcds-3x-ethernet-built-in-dvr-and-much/
That one may be new but they've had them since at least 2006
That's all fine and dandy, except I happen to work in the real world where I can't control the the millions of other programmers and stop them from using tabs.
:-(
We long ago realized invisible characters effecting the flow of a program was bad (aka: make). Now pythom comes and reintroduces that problem. Yea, thank's python
I like the idea but 2880 by 900? 900 is not enough for editing code IMO.
My 2 24s at work are giving me 3200x1200.
My 2 19s and 1 24 at home are 4760x1024 (1200v in the middle)
I guess I'll wait for version 2
even with it's current interface it's still 100 times better than the gIMP
Well, I guess it depends on how we defined effects but I think at the next Siggraph there will be far more techincal papers on the problems solved by Pixar for Ratatouille than there will for whoever made Transformers.
I liked both movies but the CG in Ratatoullie was on a whole other level above Transformers.
Just email yourself an mp3 on your hotmail, gmail, yahoo mail, facebook, mixi, myspace accounts then report them to the courts!
Yes, and XNA's market is just a few thousand, just the other XNA devs, since you can't actually reach the LARGE 360 market unless Microsoft blesses you. IF they don't bless you are S.O.L.
Even worse, they claim XNA runs on Windows but sadly it requires a high spec PC. My PC which ran HL2 just fine does not run XNA. So, if you wanted to make the next Mutant Storm or the next Cloning Clyde and sell your product on Windows then XNA is NOT the way to go since the majority of the Windows market will not be able to run it and the odds of Microsoft blessing you for publishing on 360 are exceedingly low.
Worse, you can't even try to get momentum built like say Alien Hominid did for those same reasons. No one to show it to on XNA since you can only show it to other devs and low compatibility with PCs of people that actually buy casual games.
the box says right on it "explict sexual content" as well as "M - Mature: 17 and older"
It is not and never has been mislabeled or misrepresented.
doh! Okay, I suck.
Thanks for pointing that out.
True, but only if you remember to do it before you start writing the email. If you follow the way it's designed, most people will click "Compose" and only after they've stared typing will they realise they needed to reference other stuff and be S.O.L. since you can't click on inbox once you've started composing without cancelling the message you have in progress.
Also, I don't know if you've noticed but Google has disabled right clicking on Inbox or Compose and picking "New Window" or "New Tab"
Flame on!
There was a time when my machine could only do one thing at once. Then a feature called "windows" was introduced by various companies and now I could do multiple things at once.
Gmail is firmly stuck in the 1980s.
With Yahoo I can actually compose multiple emails while referencing multiple emails. I do this on my desktop, why shouldn't I be able to do it on the net? I'm glad Oddpost and Yahoo brought web email out of the dark ages and I'm sad that gmail is still firmly stuck in the past.
Ummm, the game says and has always said right on the box, rated M for Mature, 17+, "Strong Sexual Content"
- 07-28.htm
http://games.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2005
I don't see how parents didn't have enough info in the first place
Yes, I agree with your point. The funny thing is that actually Windows Indexing Service is website search engine. It was created to allow IIS to have a search feature for websites hosted by IIS including high traffic sites.
= /library/en-us/indexsrv/html/ixintro_03l1.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url