The problem with bloggers becoming the "new journalists" is that any sense of responsibility goes out the window in the race to get page hits.
Who said "real" journalists have any sense of responsibility in the race to get higher ratings? Just watch how the situation at Fukushima was covered in the news...
Fair points. The P.S. is where I really cringed, though. I'm not really interested in a game where you can fail at sitting down, or shaving, or doing all sorts of boring, mundane things. This time, I'm actually half-trolling.:)
The thing is... I wasn't trolling. Adventure games inevitably degenerate into either pixel hunting games (i.e. find the pixel in which there's actually something clickable) or into "guess what the hell the developer was thinking so you can do stuff exactly that way" games. Examples include, but aren't limited to, Sam & Max S01E03, where you're supposed to take notice of the minute detail of Sam throwing a card into a rat hole, and can get stuck because of that, even if you've already figured out what you're supposed to do; or Phantasmagoria 2, where, in order to get the wallet your pet rat took under your couch, you need to take it out of its cage, and put a treat under the couch, so the rat can go there and bring it back. 'Cause moving a couch is something really difficult to do...
My point was: adventure games don't focus on goals, they focus on the exact steps you need to take in order to accomplish them. That's what makes their gameplay weak. Even so, their story and humor can make them worthwhile.
The GPLv3 is provided as an example. Actually, if you read the license, it's pretty clear which licenses are excluded (if you're curious, only copyleft licenses).
That text is completely missing the point. The reason why the average bus and train carry just 9 and 22 people, respectively, is that transit generally sucks. I really doubt you'd find numbers like those in any city with a decent transit system.
Actually, my phone* actually has a customization I love. In the notification pulldown menu, there's a "System" tab, and from there you can see network, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS status. Tapping any of those takes you directly to the corresponding settings menu. It's pretty useful when you're in an application and need to turn on GPS location, for instance. But you're right: these things do require support, and I hope this is not why there isn't even an official FroYo ROM.
What are you on about? I have never, _ever_, seen a video ad on Angry Birds for Android, and the game comes with all levels in the.apk. Maybe you're talking about Angry Birds Seasons which did require a net connection to download the level, since they were releasing a new level every day in December, up to Christmas.
It may seem that Apple is moving slowly into the cloud computing age and that it has many assets that are simply not leveraged in what could be a massive cloud environment that could cause more than just a headache for Google and Microsoft.
On-topic: meh. This has existed for ages in local networks, as have the means to secure this over the Internet. I would guess the reason it hasn't been done yet is that it's just not very practical, bandwidth-wise. So, unless Apple has something very novel/unusual up their sleeve, I fail to see why this is particularly interesting.
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Why wouldn't they have four significant digits of precision? I believe it possible to measure even microsieverts per hour.
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Who said "real" journalists have any sense of responsibility in the race to get higher ratings? Just watch how the situation at Fukushima was covered in the news...
Here's Penn & Teller's take on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09eBzjxlu1s
Duh. If it was right, it wouldn't be a _model_.
Independence Day is up there. CSI, too, but in overall hilarity, nothing really beats Numb3rs explaining IRC.
I also love how even elevator cameras are connected to the Internet.
To be fair to them, most adults are susceptible to authority, even when it contradicts their morals.
It does. You tilt the camera.
Just go use the app and see if it's useful or complete enough for you and stop worrying about version numbers.
Fair points. The P.S. is where I really cringed, though. I'm not really interested in a game where you can fail at sitting down, or shaving, or doing all sorts of boring, mundane things. This time, I'm actually half-trolling. :)
The thing is... I wasn't trolling. Adventure games inevitably degenerate into either pixel hunting games (i.e. find the pixel in which there's actually something clickable) or into "guess what the hell the developer was thinking so you can do stuff exactly that way" games. Examples include, but aren't limited to, Sam & Max S01E03, where you're supposed to take notice of the minute detail of Sam throwing a card into a rat hole, and can get stuck because of that, even if you've already figured out what you're supposed to do; or Phantasmagoria 2, where, in order to get the wallet your pet rat took under your couch, you need to take it out of its cage, and put a treat under the couch, so the rat can go there and bring it back. 'Cause moving a couch is something really difficult to do...
My point was: adventure games don't focus on goals, they focus on the exact steps you need to take in order to accomplish them. That's what makes their gameplay weak. Even so, their story and humor can make them worthwhile.
I'm sorry, but if it's the gameplay that matters, why the hell are you playing an adventure game?
'Cause going in and cleaning messes worked so well for the "cleaned" countries in the past...
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The GPLv3 is provided as an example. Actually, if you read the license, it's pretty clear which licenses are excluded (if you're curious, only copyleft licenses).
*sigh*
Extend?
Spoiler: it won against the #1 in Spain, who's also #16 in Europe. Go read the article. It's a great read.
How are you impersonating a celebrity when you're saying you're a fake right in your blog's title?
That text is completely missing the point. The reason why the average bus and train carry just 9 and 22 people, respectively, is that transit generally sucks. I really doubt you'd find numbers like those in any city with a decent transit system.
Actually, my phone* actually has a customization I love. In the notification pulldown menu, there's a "System" tab, and from there you can see network, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS status. Tapping any of those takes you directly to the corresponding settings menu. It's pretty useful when you're in an application and need to turn on GPS location, for instance. But you're right: these things do require support, and I hope this is not why there isn't even an official FroYo ROM.
* A Commtiva Z71 variant.
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What are you on about? I have never, _ever_, seen a video ad on Angry Birds for Android, and the game comes with all levels in the .apk. Maybe you're talking about Angry Birds Seasons which did require a net connection to download the level, since they were releasing a new level every day in December, up to Christmas.
Holy run-on sentence, Batman! Buzzwords aplenty, too.
On-topic: meh. This has existed for ages in local networks, as have the means to secure this over the Internet. I would guess the reason it hasn't been done yet is that it's just not very practical, bandwidth-wise. So, unless Apple has something very novel/unusual up their sleeve, I fail to see why this is particularly interesting.