The games may run in an emulator but if it only runs that game and nothing else then it is effectively one application and nothing else. The C64 emulator will allow you to run numerous applications even if they are old and outdated.
Apple's app store policies are weak but I agree with the other commenter and think we've had enough of these sort of stories. Apple isn't going to change their mind because these stories get posted on Slashdot and any regular should be using an Android based phone anyway.:P
They are denied, I know that, and people will be denied with free healthcare too and some people will have to wait awhile to get their treatment.
That was my point when you're not paying for it in the sense that you give them the cash then and there, they have no incentive to get you sorted and it's can be reflected in the service you receive.
Sure, for a lot of people, that is still much better than having to pay up but I do think people will be in for a bit of a shock when they realise what free healthcare is actually like.
All terminators are based on Austrians who've taken English classes so their English isn't the best. Aside from "Are you Sarah Connor?" and "I'll be back.", they're pretty shit at English.
"Postcode lottery in healthcare 'will get worse'...There has been outcry over the decisions of some primary care trusts to refuse to fund drugs not yet approved by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), while patients in neighbouring areas are granted funding."
from 2008
This has gone on for ages and everything I said it true whether or not it may not be nice. Life isn't nice and some people get better treatment purely based on where they live. You can always go live in Africa if you think I'm full of shit.
Next time try having a decent, intelligent argument rather than trolling as an anonymous coward.
Public healthcare, while seemingly free (most people do pay for it in the end) but I'm not sure such a lawsuit friendly country can handle being told you have to wait months for treatment or that you can't have a certain treatment because it's not cost effective.
People just assume that free healthcare means everything stays the same except it's free. That's not true.
Granted, the healthcare I receive in the UK isn't bad. My local doctor definitely has room for improvement but my previous doctor was perfect. I just hope I don't have to deal with cancer in the UK. Despite probably being in one of the better areas as far as the whole post code lottery ordeal goes, it's always a concern I'll be told "tough luck, we're low on cash".
When I was in the US, despite not being jobless, the hospital and state government (PA) was actually quite helpful and I only had to pay a tiny fraction of what it would have cost. Even for someone in a transitional job, which was low paying, it was quite easy to pay off. Certainly better than the $20,000+ I would have had to pay if I didn't seek help from the state and hospital.
My case might be slightly biased since I was in a decent area of the state and the hospital doesn't deal with a load of poor people begging for free care but even with free healthcare, being in a poorer area of the UK can mean not getting a treatment someone else would get in a better off area.
I just hope people realise that neither system is perfect and going to free healthcare will not solve everyone's problems.
I like libraries and the internet as do most people, I think.
I'm not surprised he thinks that way. There is definitely something about most people when they get old. They start getting grumpy, hating everything that's different from their youth and generally losing the ability to adapt which generally turns them into hypocrites as well.
I can only hope this doesn't happen to me and I don't think it will but if I do turn into an old miserable shit, I hope I realise it soon enough and snap out of it.
I know everyone in general gets better treatment for AIDS now but Magic has had it since at least the early 90's when treatment wasn't as good and in fact some people still thought you had to be gay to get it.
His money has certainly helped him reach this point. People with money always get better medical treatment even in countries with free health care.
Steve Jobs probably has more money than your father and is willing to spend loads of it to stay alive. When you have the means to pay for it, you get great medical care.
Just look at Magic Johnson. He has HIV yet has gone on for ages with a relatively normal life and it's because he's able to afford to down a bucket of the best AIDS preventative medicine.
My company uses a 3rd party version of Firefox for that reason. The annoying thing is that it renders some things slightly different than normal Firefox. Luckily the web developers are allowed to install their own software so this isn't an issue.
As far as all these people complaining about intranets and IE6. Their companies must be really shit. Our intranet works fine in Firefox and that's despite it being a horrible mishmash of classic ASP pages from about a million years ago.
The thing is though when what other utilities advertise, you do get that as do all your neighbours. With internet access they can claim you'll get 10 meg speeds but the actual speed could be anything and one person may get 10 meg speeds but his friend down the road may not.
Until broadband is much more reliable and consistent, I don't think they can justify metered usage.
Other utilities give you discounts for poor service or no service. With broadband you'd have an absolute nightmare sorting that out and, yes if I was metered, my expectations would be much higher than they are now. I don't mind paying for what I use but it better work not cause me hassle.
I don't have to struggle to get the water out of the tap or electricity out of the socket and I expect no less from metered broadband.
Same here. I don't want to watch Prime Minister's questions and sports are better at the pub. If ever there is something I want to watch on the BBC (happens once or twice a year) then I'm more than happy to wait for it to show up on iPlayer which the BBC clearly states that you don't need a TV licence for it.
I think the highest price for DSi Ware is $10. Though they do it in point which is a bad habit started by MS and xbox live. Anyway, DSI ware, at the moment, isn't much better than mobile gaming (aside from better controls) so you can get mobile phone experience on the DS and also get a superior experience with the physical games.
The barrier is much lower for iPhone development which is why there are more rubbish games on the iPhone. Everything about the DS is more expensive to develop on but, as he pointed out that keeps the quality high. There is nothing like Chrono Trigger, Ninja Gaiden, Grand Theft Auto, New Super Mario Bros, etc on mobile phones. The DS just blows them away but you gotta pay more for games.
But at least you get to keep your games unlike mobile games which are only good on that phone and, if you're unfortunate, your provider won't even let you free up space to even delete the damn things.
I think this pretty much sums up mobile games and pretty much any other very cheap quick gaming markets.
Some people do make money and some games are good but the vast majority of these markets are full of shit games and aren't making money.
Mobile phones especially suffer from this, imo, because the hardware just isn't made for gaming. Even the iphone is shit. It has no buttons and I don't care how many imaginary buttons you can put on the screen, it's just not the same.
Another problem is that the games are shallow and cheap. People don't value them. They won't pay decent money for them and they don't really care about them. There won't ever be much money to be made out of people like that.
I rarely use trhe tv for anything but games or dvds. So I'm ditching the telly for a big ass monitor and using my desktop to play movies and hook my consoles up to the monitor.
I hope they come by to try to get me to pay so. Can tell them to get bent.
There are some more videos on YouTube where people demonstrate that you can lift the card and it will track movement towards and away from the lens.
Natal probably does it better (I would hope since it's newer) but I don't expect it to be perfect and it's certainly not a new idea.
Personally I think motion through controllers, like the Wii, is easier to get into because you have something to manipulate. I think the problem with Eye Toy and Natal is the lack of a controller. MS's comment about being able to use the 360 controller in conjunction with Natal seems rather pointless. It's a quick fix with them almost certainly knowing that no controller would really limit what sort of game people can realistically play even if they have full use of their body.
But it is basically an Eye Toy with a mic. Even the Eye Toy had 3D recognition. I think natal will do better than Eye Toy but it will die a pretty quick death.
Considering how expensive it is to get the full and proper xbox experience and the fact casual gamers don't get a hard-on over graphics, what does the 360 offer them? Keep in mind you have to pay extra for wireless on the 360 where as it's free on the Wii. To most people that will seem like a scam.
I don't know. I guess it depends on the size of the plane and the mind set of the pilots (I'm assuming that they would have hardened cockpit doors and thus would be able to tell you to sit on it and spin).
Still doesn't stop the 10 guys from killing everyone else on the plane and attempting to go elsewhere in the plane to damage it and cause it to crash in a city.
There hasn't really been an issue with terrorist attacks before. They're certainly rare enough that we don't have to give up our freedom for it. But there will be future terrorist attacks. Therefore Homeland Security has made no difference.
But gallivanting around the middle east shitting all over countries with terrorists is a pretty good way of ensuring that there will be further attacks and probably more than if we had just minded our own business.
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The games may run in an emulator but if it only runs that game and nothing else then it is effectively one application and nothing else. The C64 emulator will allow you to run numerous applications even if they are old and outdated.
:P
Apple's app store policies are weak but I agree with the other commenter and think we've had enough of these sort of stories. Apple isn't going to change their mind because these stories get posted on Slashdot and any regular should be using an Android based phone anyway.
learn 2 spell, mofo.
They are denied, I know that, and people will be denied with free healthcare too and some people will have to wait awhile to get their treatment.
That was my point when you're not paying for it in the sense that you give them the cash then and there, they have no incentive to get you sorted and it's can be reflected in the service you receive.
Sure, for a lot of people, that is still much better than having to pay up but I do think people will be in for a bit of a shock when they realise what free healthcare is actually like.
All terminators are based on Austrians who've taken English classes so their English isn't the best. Aside from "Are you Sarah Connor?" and "I'll be back.", they're pretty shit at English.
I agree with the Pirate Party but I'm still holding out for a Ninja party since Ninjas > Pirates.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1116256.stm
"A new study of the NHS in England suggests that a patient's chances of survival can be affected largely by where they live."
from 2001
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/2988711/Postcode-lottery-in-healthcare-will-get-worse.html
"Postcode lottery in healthcare 'will get worse'...There has been outcry over the decisions of some primary care trusts to refuse to fund drugs not yet approved by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), while patients in neighbouring areas are granted funding."
from 2008
This has gone on for ages and everything I said it true whether or not it may not be nice. Life isn't nice and some people get better treatment purely based on where they live. You can always go live in Africa if you think I'm full of shit.
Next time try having a decent, intelligent argument rather than trolling as an anonymous coward.
Public healthcare, while seemingly free (most people do pay for it in the end) but I'm not sure such a lawsuit friendly country can handle being told you have to wait months for treatment or that you can't have a certain treatment because it's not cost effective.
People just assume that free healthcare means everything stays the same except it's free. That's not true.
Granted, the healthcare I receive in the UK isn't bad. My local doctor definitely has room for improvement but my previous doctor was perfect. I just hope I don't have to deal with cancer in the UK. Despite probably being in one of the better areas as far as the whole post code lottery ordeal goes, it's always a concern I'll be told "tough luck, we're low on cash".
When I was in the US, despite not being jobless, the hospital and state government (PA) was actually quite helpful and I only had to pay a tiny fraction of what it would have cost. Even for someone in a transitional job, which was low paying, it was quite easy to pay off. Certainly better than the $20,000+ I would have had to pay if I didn't seek help from the state and hospital.
My case might be slightly biased since I was in a decent area of the state and the hospital doesn't deal with a load of poor people begging for free care but even with free healthcare, being in a poorer area of the UK can mean not getting a treatment someone else would get in a better off area.
I just hope people realise that neither system is perfect and going to free healthcare will not solve everyone's problems.
I like libraries and the internet as do most people, I think.
I'm not surprised he thinks that way. There is definitely something about most people when they get old. They start getting grumpy, hating everything that's different from their youth and generally losing the ability to adapt which generally turns them into hypocrites as well.
I can only hope this doesn't happen to me and I don't think it will but if I do turn into an old miserable shit, I hope I realise it soon enough and snap out of it.
I know everyone in general gets better treatment for AIDS now but Magic has had it since at least the early 90's when treatment wasn't as good and in fact some people still thought you had to be gay to get it.
His money has certainly helped him reach this point. People with money always get better medical treatment even in countries with free health care.
Steve Jobs probably has more money than your father and is willing to spend loads of it to stay alive. When you have the means to pay for it, you get great medical care.
Just look at Magic Johnson. He has HIV yet has gone on for ages with a relatively normal life and it's because he's able to afford to down a bucket of the best AIDS preventative medicine.
My company uses a 3rd party version of Firefox for that reason. The annoying thing is that it renders some things slightly different than normal Firefox. Luckily the web developers are allowed to install their own software so this isn't an issue.
As far as all these people complaining about intranets and IE6. Their companies must be really shit. Our intranet works fine in Firefox and that's despite it being a horrible mishmash of classic ASP pages from about a million years ago.
The thing is though when what other utilities advertise, you do get that as do all your neighbours. With internet access they can claim you'll get 10 meg speeds but the actual speed could be anything and one person may get 10 meg speeds but his friend down the road may not.
Until broadband is much more reliable and consistent, I don't think they can justify metered usage.
Other utilities give you discounts for poor service or no service. With broadband you'd have an absolute nightmare sorting that out and, yes if I was metered, my expectations would be much higher than they are now. I don't mind paying for what I use but it better work not cause me hassle.
I don't have to struggle to get the water out of the tap or electricity out of the socket and I expect no less from metered broadband.
I'll miss out on TV and shopping if protest.
Same here. I don't want to watch Prime Minister's questions and sports are better at the pub. If ever there is something I want to watch on the BBC (happens once or twice a year) then I'm more than happy to wait for it to show up on iPlayer which the BBC clearly states that you don't need a TV licence for it.
I think the highest price for DSi Ware is $10. Though they do it in point which is a bad habit started by MS and xbox live. Anyway, DSI ware, at the moment, isn't much better than mobile gaming (aside from better controls) so you can get mobile phone experience on the DS and also get a superior experience with the physical games.
The barrier is much lower for iPhone development which is why there are more rubbish games on the iPhone. Everything about the DS is more expensive to develop on but, as he pointed out that keeps the quality high. There is nothing like Chrono Trigger, Ninja Gaiden, Grand Theft Auto, New Super Mario Bros, etc on mobile phones. The DS just blows them away but you gotta pay more for games.
But at least you get to keep your games unlike mobile games which are only good on that phone and, if you're unfortunate, your provider won't even let you free up space to even delete the damn things.
I think this pretty much sums up mobile games and pretty much any other very cheap quick gaming markets.
Some people do make money and some games are good but the vast majority of these markets are full of shit games and aren't making money.
Mobile phones especially suffer from this, imo, because the hardware just isn't made for gaming. Even the iphone is shit. It has no buttons and I don't care how many imaginary buttons you can put on the screen, it's just not the same.
Another problem is that the games are shallow and cheap. People don't value them. They won't pay decent money for them and they don't really care about them. There won't ever be much money to be made out of people like that.
I rarely use trhe tv for anything but games or dvds. So I'm ditching the telly for a big ass monitor and using my desktop to play movies and hook my consoles up to the monitor.
I hope they come by to try to get me to pay so. Can tell them to get bent.
Agreed, anything to kill off IE6 should be celebrated.
Eye toy for the PS2 was rubbish but there is a PS3 version. Here is a video from E3 from a few years ago: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3166063496020415395
There are some more videos on YouTube where people demonstrate that you can lift the card and it will track movement towards and away from the lens.
Natal probably does it better (I would hope since it's newer) but I don't expect it to be perfect and it's certainly not a new idea.
Personally I think motion through controllers, like the Wii, is easier to get into because you have something to manipulate. I think the problem with Eye Toy and Natal is the lack of a controller. MS's comment about being able to use the 360 controller in conjunction with Natal seems rather pointless. It's a quick fix with them almost certainly knowing that no controller would really limit what sort of game people can realistically play even if they have full use of their body.
But it is basically an Eye Toy with a mic. Even the Eye Toy had 3D recognition. I think natal will do better than Eye Toy but it will die a pretty quick death.
Considering how expensive it is to get the full and proper xbox experience and the fact casual gamers don't get a hard-on over graphics, what does the 360 offer them? Keep in mind you have to pay extra for wireless on the 360 where as it's free on the Wii. To most people that will seem like a scam.
I don't know. I guess it depends on the size of the plane and the mind set of the pilots (I'm assuming that they would have hardened cockpit doors and thus would be able to tell you to sit on it and spin).
Still doesn't stop the 10 guys from killing everyone else on the plane and attempting to go elsewhere in the plane to damage it and cause it to crash in a city.
There hasn't really been an issue with terrorist attacks before. They're certainly rare enough that we don't have to give up our freedom for it. But there will be future terrorist attacks. Therefore Homeland Security has made no difference.
But gallivanting around the middle east shitting all over countries with terrorists is a pretty good way of ensuring that there will be further attacks and probably more than if we had just minded our own business.
It would have been quicker for you to throw a chair to let off some steam.
I don't think you meant to come to this site.