Anyway if the magazine is about discussing the Android platform, one would assume that, unless it was a front for Apple or Microsoft, it would be friendly towards the Android platform.
But not necessarily friendly towards all Android devices. Are game magazines friendly towards all games?
"Minecraft: innovative. What do they have in common? They could run on hardware that is 10 years old."
Funny you say that. It will not run on my 10 year old P4 with a Radeon 9500 Pro.
And that is because the whole thing is JAVA, which requires lots of power and a single-core P4 just can't keep up anymore.
Had the game designer just stuck with x86 ASM, it'd run on hardware almost TWENTY years old.
Have you actually tried programming something like Minecraft? I don't think the main problem is really Java. And Notch has written about this also. The problem is the amount of the (dynamic) cubes. I believe there are other ways of implementing the graphics than he is doing, but they would be less dynamic and more difficult to make (major) changes to.
Some areas of Mass Effect 1 suffered from the mazes pretty badly. Although part of the blame is certainly on the level designers, as some of the 'tunnels' were simplified more than others. (And the wide open spaces were usually pretty sparse...) Haven't tried the second one yet, so no idea how that compares.
In my opinion, the use of the swastika should not be forbidden, it should be made fun of.
I agree with the sentiment. Having forbidden symbols increases their power rather than decrease. Then again, I would keep hatespeach as a bannable offence. I would think that eventually (perhaps years and years) the neo-nazis couldn't use it as a symbol as it wouldn't have the same effect anymore.
No no, I quite agree that the management could be done better or different, your statement about task managing was just a bit too strongly worded for me to agree with it.
Pinning programs to taskbar is perhaps another task-reducing improvement (and one I find quite useful). I tried to think about what I would want the computer to close for me, but there weren't that many things... Steam might be one, if I were running out of resources, but on desktop that isn't really the case as more can be placed on disc and the resources aren't that sparse anyhow...
Application groups might have some promise though, such as easier opening of related applications and such... Perhaps automatic task manager could update SVN, update the local db, and preload relevant programs when needed. (Although some of that stuff is pretty much already happening)
Task managing is something that is utterly pointless for a human being to do, and it's insanely stupid that we're actually still doing it in Windows/Mac OS/Linux.
Unless, of course, you are doing tasks and want to have specific programs running (and switch instantly between them). Having a recent app list is pretty much just a subset of task management. Personally, I want to task manage, as even now I have eight only work related applications open (not counting system tray which does contain Steam, nor separate instances of Visual Studio). In normal use I'm much more interested in my most often executed programs than what I have previously used, as (for example) I sometimes need to check stuff from DB, but don't want to have it visible when alt-tabbing.
(I would count virtual desktops as task management tools as well.)
When the OS knows as well as I do what I currently want to do, then I'll let it manage my tasks.
Transistor counts double every 18 months, how long until 4GB smart phones? 5 years?
I consider 5 years rather long time when talking about electronics.
How long until some major breakthrough will make SSDs crazy small and we have smartphones with 2TB of storage and we bring them to our friends and want to file share?
64 bits is (necessarily) required for this?
Add a lightpeak connection, plug your phone into a 19" monitor, hook up a mouse and keyboard and play games. It won't be long.
Basically you can already do that on N900. Not just very heavy ones. No idea if the same is possible on N8, but it has HDMI output and you can connect bluetooth devices. So probably yes.
Their e-mail client, "modest", can't even do SSL (wtf?) and has no working IMAP support.
Umm. Are you really talking about N900 or just trolling? N900 has SSL support. There's SSL support in the old N810 also... And both have working IMAP. [*]
And running only one program at once -- is that a freaking iPhone? The last single-tasking system I used was MS-DOS and I don't want to go there ever again.
You aren't talking about N900, are you? I mean, all the programs are indeed running and you can switch between them.
Maemo isn't a really sane system, so for anything more complex you need to install Debian, at least in a chroot.
Are you sure a small laptop wouldn't be better for your requirements? I do agree that a bit more memory wouldn't hurt. Then again, the current amount is probably enough for almost all users...
Just asked a coworker about how much memory he has free on his N900. He had 80MB free. I pointed him to your message and he said that he ran out of hands while facepalming. He thinks that you might be a troll, and considering how many things I know to be incorrect here based on using N810 and testing N900 I may have to agree. Thank you for your time.
I'm pretty sure you don't need 64 bits to get above 512MB. Once we're having phones with 2GB we're on our way to problems.
Then again, I agree that a bit more memory would be nice for heavy(ish) web-use. (Tried to check from Apple's tech specs the amount of memory in iPad for comparison, but curiously this detail is omitted. Found that there's the same 256MB from Wikipedia)
Funny, my boss has N900 and he doesn't even have twitter account. He did finally join Facebook a while ago, but as far as I know, didn't configure it for the phone. Skype he did configure, but even with that he initially thought that he would need to install something until he found it in the configuration options.
Actively crashing the plane into something was pretty much what I had in mind, although it could be considered a subset of crashing it.
So yes, a hijacked plane would be shot down at some point. That actually makes the need to check for glass (and pretty much any sharp objects) pretty much pointless.
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You remember that one only needs to cut through a single major artery to kill a person?
You just reminded me of the time I had to have Apple QuickTime installed to watch videos from the web. I'll take flash every time, thank you very much. Although I did join HTML5 beta on YouTube, hopefully that will also be an improvement.
I wouldn't want a president who knows about 'endless torture' and doesn't put a stop to it (GP's hypothesis). I mean, there are costs and there are costs.
There are various levels of trust. I've had a couple of friends who I wouldn't trust to keep 'half-naked drunk pictures' (someone was talking about such here) to themselves, but would feel the need share the hilarity with the whole world. Not that there's really anything/much wrong with that, but...
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A socialite and socialist are two different things. But one can be both. Obama is such an individual.
That depends quite a lot on your own viewpoint.
Perhaps. Maybe they could publish some guidelines on how much outrage is needed, and if the amount is somehow dependent on the features of the app.
Anyway if the magazine is about discussing the Android platform, one would assume that, unless it was a front for Apple or Microsoft, it would be friendly towards the Android platform.
But not necessarily friendly towards all Android devices. Are game magazines friendly towards all games?
"Minecraft: innovative. What do they have in common? They could run on hardware that is 10 years old."
Funny you say that. It will not run on my 10 year old P4 with a Radeon 9500 Pro.
And that is because the whole thing is JAVA, which requires lots of power and a single-core P4 just can't keep up anymore.
Had the game designer just stuck with x86 ASM, it'd run on hardware almost TWENTY years old.
Have you actually tried programming something like Minecraft? I don't think the main problem is really Java. And Notch has written about this also. The problem is the amount of the (dynamic) cubes. I believe there are other ways of implementing the graphics than he is doing, but they would be less dynamic and more difficult to make (major) changes to.
Some areas of Mass Effect 1 suffered from the mazes pretty badly. Although part of the blame is certainly on the level designers, as some of the 'tunnels' were simplified more than others. (And the wide open spaces were usually pretty sparse...) Haven't tried the second one yet, so no idea how that compares.
Crysis? Good AI? I've had better AI out of turn-based RPGs.
I would think that a good AI is more important for turn-based RPGs, so that isn't very surprising.
In my opinion, the use of the swastika should not be forbidden, it should be made fun of.
I agree with the sentiment. Having forbidden symbols increases their power rather than decrease. Then again, I would keep hatespeach as a bannable offence. I would think that eventually (perhaps years and years) the neo-nazis couldn't use it as a symbol as it wouldn't have the same effect anymore.
No no, I quite agree that the management could be done better or different, your statement about task managing was just a bit too strongly worded for me to agree with it.
Pinning programs to taskbar is perhaps another task-reducing improvement (and one I find quite useful). I tried to think about what I would want the computer to close for me, but there weren't that many things... Steam might be one, if I were running out of resources, but on desktop that isn't really the case as more can be placed on disc and the resources aren't that sparse anyhow...
Application groups might have some promise though, such as easier opening of related applications and such... Perhaps automatic task manager could update SVN, update the local db, and preload relevant programs when needed. (Although some of that stuff is pretty much already happening)
Task managing is something that is utterly pointless for a human being to do, and it's insanely stupid that we're actually still doing it in Windows/Mac OS/Linux.
Unless, of course, you are doing tasks and want to have specific programs running (and switch instantly between them). Having a recent app list is pretty much just a subset of task management. Personally, I want to task manage, as even now I have eight only work related applications open (not counting system tray which does contain Steam, nor separate instances of Visual Studio). In normal use I'm much more interested in my most often executed programs than what I have previously used, as (for example) I sometimes need to check stuff from DB, but don't want to have it visible when alt-tabbing.
(I would count virtual desktops as task management tools as well.)
When the OS knows as well as I do what I currently want to do, then I'll let it manage my tasks.
I would maybe sort of consider having iPhone as owning an Apple device.
But you're not wrong about gp. (Although I wouldn't mind some stats anyway :) )
ummm.. what?
Transistor counts double every 18 months, how long until 4GB smart phones? 5 years?
I consider 5 years rather long time when talking about electronics.
How long until some major breakthrough will make SSDs crazy small and we have smartphones with 2TB of storage and we bring them to our friends and want to file share?
64 bits is (necessarily) required for this?
Add a lightpeak connection, plug your phone into a 19" monitor, hook up a mouse and keyboard and play games. It won't be long.
Basically you can already do that on N900. Not just very heavy ones. No idea if the same is possible on N8, but it has HDMI output and you can connect bluetooth devices. So probably yes.
Their e-mail client, "modest", can't even do SSL (wtf?) and has no working IMAP support.
Umm. Are you really talking about N900 or just trolling? N900 has SSL support. There's SSL support in the old N810 also... And both have working IMAP. [*]
And running only one program at once -- is that a freaking iPhone? The last single-tasking system I used was MS-DOS and I don't want to go there ever again.
You aren't talking about N900, are you? I mean, all the programs are indeed running and you can switch between them.
Maemo isn't a really sane system, so for anything more complex you need to install Debian, at least in a chroot.
Are you sure a small laptop wouldn't be better for your requirements? I do agree that a bit more memory wouldn't hurt. Then again, the current amount is probably enough for almost all users...
Just asked a coworker about how much memory he has free on his N900. He had 80MB free. I pointed him to your message and he said that he ran out of hands while facepalming. He thinks that you might be a troll, and considering how many things I know to be incorrect here based on using N810 and testing N900 I may have to agree. Thank you for your time.
[* Perhaps you have issues with certificates?]
I'm pretty sure you don't need 64 bits to get above 512MB. Once we're having phones with 2GB we're on our way to problems.
Then again, I agree that a bit more memory would be nice for heavy(ish) web-use. (Tried to check from Apple's tech specs the amount of memory in iPad for comparison, but curiously this detail is omitted. Found that there's the same 256MB from Wikipedia)
Funny, my boss has N900 and he doesn't even have twitter account. He did finally join Facebook a while ago, but as far as I know, didn't configure it for the phone. Skype he did configure, but even with that he initially thought that he would need to install something until he found it in the configuration options.
Actively crashing the plane into something was pretty much what I had in mind, although it could be considered a subset of crashing it.
So yes, a hijacked plane would be shot down at some point. That actually makes the need to check for glass (and pretty much any sharp objects) pretty much pointless.
You remember that one only needs to cut through a single major artery to kill a person?
True, but how many arteries to crash a plane?
I would think that Iranians would have noticed their Nuclear chief's resignation (and the possible nuclear incident) themselves.
How is this going to prevent RIAA from suing them?
If not for the cool-factor, is there a reason for giving iPads to the doctors instead of some other pad?
And for example N8 still has a small plug so you can charge it with your old charger too, even if the primary way to charge it is the micro USB.
Did you check the repo(s) for N900? I don't see why the store and vanilla Linux apps would be your only (nor primary) source?
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s*xual stuff.
While I wouldn't 'censor' either, if I had to choose, I would put the star in the goatse.
You just reminded me of the time I had to have Apple QuickTime installed to watch videos from the web. I'll take flash every time, thank you very much. Although I did join HTML5 beta on YouTube, hopefully that will also be an improvement.
I wouldn't want a president who knows about 'endless torture' and doesn't put a stop to it (GP's hypothesis). I mean, there are costs and there are costs.
There are various levels of trust. I've had a couple of friends who I wouldn't trust to keep 'half-naked drunk pictures' (someone was talking about such here) to themselves, but would feel the need share the hilarity with the whole world. Not that there's really anything/much wrong with that, but ...