Yes, you have a point. But this doesn't invalidate the fact that the device is a game changer, no pun intended. I mean, I have gaming consoles. I have a multi-core machine with a stupid video card, but wanted something to have on my backpack at least. I saw the ds and couldn't believe how crappy the screen and the games were.
So I took a psp.
That thing is (was?) a monster on my backpack whose games sell for NO LESS than 45 dollars here in spain. And several of them seemed just ports from playstation one.
So I took an iphone. No boot time, as it's always on. No UMD disks, no noises from the drive, small, in my pocket. Great browser. Small, nice games: sway is a piece of art, peggle is fun.
And you want to know what? It's always with me. It's lighter to carry a mobile which IS a nice game console than a crappy mobile with even crappier games (ironically, I had a sony before the iphone) AND a psp. No way.
It's still costy to develop for videogames. Nintendo is overly conservative in relation to new developers - actually they require you to have a proven background on other platforms to even START talking about giving you the sdk...
The indie developer always had to choose between the pc and not releasing a game at all (they COULD do for the Mac, but you know how's the gaming situation on Mac). You couldn't and you can't release your own game and then grow bigger for any tv console.
Well, the turning guy on this matter is, interestingly, apple. With the ipod touch and the iphone and the app store.
I don't know if that many indie devs are making money on it. But I'm sure apple is and amazon is doing a hell of money selling objective-c books.
You seem to be unaware of the customization and additional quality control that OEMs already do for their Windows PCs.
Actually, I worked doing exactly that for a computer manufacturer for four years. I know what's at stake and how hard is to ship without a modem driver, because the chinese supplier sent 300000 units with a different (and unsupported) chipset.
The only driver available at that time was commercial (yes in Linux) and used to cost 3x the modem's price, and that was not an option.
No it is not. What confuses people is lack of functionality. You don't have a decent dvd player without breaking the law in most countries. You can't open your work because you lack the apps. And why? Because programming for linux is a burden.
Yeah, going back in this thread. what apple did was genious with the nextstep libraries.
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My porn needs (IN A DEVICE) are fullfilled by the decent browser Safari is, thank you.
Or are you talkink about games like rapelay?
Hitler was elected. Is he decent then?
Actually, I WAS reading some philosophy on the iphone...
Perhaps if you think about:
iphone/ipod touch: one dev kit, one deployment platform
mobile x: resolution? memory? accelerators? touch screen? cpu speed?
so say, you program you game in java and it runs everywhere, right? Yeah right.
Yes, you have a point. But this doesn't invalidate the fact that the device is a game changer, no pun intended. I mean, I have gaming consoles. I have a multi-core machine with a stupid video card, but wanted something to have on my backpack at least. I saw the ds and couldn't believe how crappy the screen and the games were.
So I took a psp.
That thing is (was?) a monster on my backpack whose games sell for NO LESS than 45 dollars here in spain. And several of them seemed just ports from playstation one.
So I took an iphone. No boot time, as it's always on. No UMD disks, no noises from the drive, small, in my pocket. Great browser. Small, nice games: sway is a piece of art, peggle is fun.
And you want to know what? It's always with me. It's lighter to carry a mobile which IS a nice game console than a crappy mobile with even crappier games (ironically, I had a sony before the iphone) AND a psp. No way.
Not from uranium ore.
Way less than beach buildings as we see in every coast currently.
like how much we spend with communication these days? Take a look at 20 and 30 years ago...
I'm not sure I got it. Are those red squares all what we need? And why europe doesn't need any?
Now imagine the damage of a chinese nuke power plant on a heavily dense area...
But what a windmill generates as trash? some grease for their axis? What about the half-life of atomic fuel?
No it is not. Tell that to people in Caetité, Bahia, Brazil, where uranium is just a dozen of meters (that's about 36 feet for those who didn't get it) from their houses. They know which sources of underground water are safe, and those which aren't. But digging and screwing things screws their lives, too.
BTW, children has cancer there.
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If you could care less, it means you care a lot? And AWEful is awesome+awful?
I beg to differ in some points.
It's still costy to develop for videogames. Nintendo is overly conservative in relation to new developers - actually they require you to have a proven background on other platforms to even START talking about giving you the sdk...
The indie developer always had to choose between the pc and not releasing a game at all (they COULD do for the Mac, but you know how's the gaming situation on Mac). You couldn't and you can't release your own game and then grow bigger for any tv console.
Well, the turning guy on this matter is, interestingly, apple. With the ipod touch and the iphone and the app store.
I don't know if that many indie devs are making money on it. But I'm sure apple is and amazon is doing a hell of money selling objective-c books.
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You seem to be unaware of the customization and additional quality control that OEMs already do for their Windows PCs.
Actually, I worked doing exactly that for a computer manufacturer for four years. I know what's at stake and how hard is to ship without a modem driver, because the chinese supplier sent 300000 units with a different (and unsupported) chipset.
The only driver available at that time was commercial (yes in Linux) and used to cost 3x the modem's price, and that was not an option.
I don't think how "her" and "write extensions for emacs" fit in the same phrase, but anyway....
... is going to be like moving from England to China.
At least the food is better!
The beer, though...
People could just fix it, instead of doing it from scratch over and over. Oh, and don't get me started with kde...
again: http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/4962/linuxaudio.png
No it is not. What confuses people is lack of functionality. You don't have a decent dvd player without breaking the law in most countries. You can't open your work because you lack the apps. And why? Because programming for linux is a burden.
Yeah, going back in this thread. what apple did was genious with the nextstep libraries.
do you think linux audio is complicated? really?
you have no idea. http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/4962/linuxaudio.png
Did you ever need to choose what platform your software should be developed for, as you don't have money for do for each of them.
you don't really expect to see 3d studio or maya open sourced, are you?