the N-Gage was more a gaming console than it was a phone (Atleast, the first one was) and it wasn't terrible. It had a few good games on it, but the catalogue was meagre at best. And using it as a phone was laughable. It felt like holding a banana to your head.
The second one was better on the banana front, but again, a lack of games and marketing doomed it to failure.
Sony has alot of gaming clout, and any hand-held phone/console would most likely be able to run existing PSP games, giving it a significant back catalogue to start out with.
It's not like it's HARD to level up a character any more. You play for one, maybe two more months and you'll get there. 5 days of play time can get you to max level (that is 120 hours) If you only play 3 hours a day, you can easilly level one level every 3 hours, meaning you can level in about 80 days, and that's WITHOUT power-levelling.
A proper attempt at power levelling can give you 1 level every 2 hours, and if you play 4 hours a day that's you at level 80 in little under 40 days.
Not only that but if you get the 'recruit a friend' thing you each get 3x the experience when you party together, meaning that anyone can get to 80 in under a month.
couple that with mounts at level 20 (easilly reachable in 4 hours) next patch - making it alot easier to get around and thus, faster levelling.
the whole game is based around making things easy for new players at the moment, Blizzard got a right bashing by reviewers regarding the last patch and the lack of low-level content that they're trying to remedy it by, essentially, letting people skip low-level content.
correct, a simple javascript body.onLoad event would suffice to load all the advertisements after a page has loaded... however, this runs into the problem that people may be running with javascript turned off, in which case they won't see their adverts, which means javascript onload wouldn't work for everyone, and that's bad for advertisers businesses.
what actually happens is the web designer/programmer adds a script reference to another site (in the form of <script> tags) that link to another website (ie, Google Ad Words) and because this script is called within the HTML, it is required to be downloaded and executed before the page can be displayed (as the external scripts may hook onLoad events, change existing tags or add new ones etc)
User Connects to www.myNewsNetwork.com myNewsNetwork sends the page to the User Browser parses the HTML Browser sees that in the HEAD tag is a SCRIPT tag that wants Google AdWords. Browser connects to Google Ad Words website Browser downloads script file from Google Ad Words Browser parses and executes the Google Adwords Script Browser displays page to User
this can happen loads of times during a page load depending on the number of ads (and if the advertisement panel uses unique identifiers in the URL, the browser can't even speed up processing using caching as the URLs are different)
you do know that a frozen chicken isn't bathed in water right. It's the water IN the chicken that's frozen, and that when it's thawed the water is still there. There would be no weight difference due to the water being frozen
I have a friend in Norway who's moving to Scotland to escape the high cost of living. Scotland's heading rapidy towards splitting from the Union so what happens in Westminster affects us less and less. As much as I *personally* dont think we can stand on our own economically, It's becoming more and more of a good idea as England becomes strangled by the fear of Terrorism
They are both Republic of China, one is the Peoples Republic of China, the other is the Democratic Republic of China. They both call themselves "The Republic of China" internally. The Democratic Republic is normally the one to have the descriptor dropped in the west however.
They'd only see the plane leaving, not arriving, which is quite an interesting compromise, as every other stealth programme goes with the notion that it has to be invisible at all times.
This was designed so that, once it passed Britains coastal radar, they wouldn't be able to scramble fighters fast enough once they did detect them. Rather ingenious.
Windows mobile is a bit Meh, but you can dual-develop Symbian/Windows Mobile apps through C#.net (as I stated before) and therefore, I did mention it as a side.
I'm not saying that the iPhone doesn't have the user-base. I'm saying that it's the hardest mobile platform to start developing for. It's detrimental to any kind of Indie movement.
I was actually looking into mobile platforms to develop for, and while iPhone has the largest market at the moment it's also the hardest to break into, what with the needing of a Mac, and an iPhone (that's £500 just to start coding if you're not already a Mac owner).
Symbian and Android are the only other two worth mentioning. Symbian uses a plethora of Development languages (C++ mainly, but you can use Java or C#.net 2.0 to make apps compatible with both Symbian and Windows Mobile. Signing up and using Symbian was quite easy for me to do.
Android is Java based, but is also quite easy to start using. I've not actually tried using it properly though so I can't comment on it much.
Apple are really shooting themselves in the foot by restricting the development platform
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the N-Gage was more a gaming console than it was a phone (Atleast, the first one was) and it wasn't terrible. It had a few good games on it, but the catalogue was meagre at best. And using it as a phone was laughable. It felt like holding a banana to your head.
The second one was better on the banana front, but again, a lack of games and marketing doomed it to failure.
Sony has alot of gaming clout, and any hand-held phone/console would most likely be able to run existing PSP games, giving it a significant back catalogue to start out with.
Time travel! It's the answer to everything!
It's not like it's HARD to level up a character any more. You play for one, maybe two more months and you'll get there. 5 days of play time can get you to max level (that is 120 hours) If you only play 3 hours a day, you can easilly level one level every 3 hours, meaning you can level in about 80 days, and that's WITHOUT power-levelling.
A proper attempt at power levelling can give you 1 level every 2 hours, and if you play 4 hours a day that's you at level 80 in little under 40 days.
Not only that but if you get the 'recruit a friend' thing you each get 3x the experience when you party together, meaning that anyone can get to 80 in under a month.
couple that with mounts at level 20 (easilly reachable in 4 hours) next patch - making it alot easier to get around and thus, faster levelling.
the whole game is based around making things easy for new players at the moment, Blizzard got a right bashing by reviewers regarding the last patch and the lack of low-level content that they're trying to remedy it by, essentially, letting people skip low-level content.
Just wait, it's only one step away from starting ANY character at level 55. When that happens, I know it was the right choice to leave the game :P
correct, a simple javascript body.onLoad event would suffice to load all the advertisements after a page has loaded... however, this runs into the problem that people may be running with javascript turned off, in which case they won't see their adverts, which means javascript onload wouldn't work for everyone, and that's bad for advertisers businesses.
what actually happens is the web designer/programmer adds a script reference to another site (in the form of <script> tags) that link to another website (ie, Google Ad Words) and because this script is called within the HTML, it is required to be downloaded and executed before the page can be displayed (as the external scripts may hook onLoad events, change existing tags or add new ones etc)
User Connects to www.myNewsNetwork.com
myNewsNetwork sends the page to the User
Browser parses the HTML
Browser sees that in the HEAD tag is a SCRIPT tag that wants Google AdWords.
Browser connects to Google Ad Words website
Browser downloads script file from Google Ad Words
Browser parses and executes the Google Adwords Script
Browser displays page to User
this can happen loads of times during a page load depending on the number of ads (and if the advertisement panel uses unique identifiers in the URL, the browser can't even speed up processing using caching as the URLs are different)
on the basis of a sense of humour.
CTRL + SHIFT + ESC brings the task manager without bringing up the fullscreen
you do know that a frozen chicken isn't bathed in water right. It's the water IN the chicken that's frozen, and that when it's thawed the water is still there. There would be no weight difference due to the water being frozen
You just had to get a sneaky sneaky plug eh :D
I have a friend in Norway who's moving to Scotland to escape the high cost of living.
Scotland's heading rapidy towards splitting from the Union so what happens in Westminster affects us less and less. As much as I *personally* dont think we can stand on our own economically, It's becoming more and more of a good idea as England becomes strangled by the fear of Terrorism
They are both Republic of China, one is the Peoples Republic of China, the other is the Democratic Republic of China. They both call themselves "The Republic of China" internally. The Democratic Republic is normally the one to have the descriptor dropped in the west however.
Actually, they stole it from Max Zorin
I'd be more certain that the plane would pick up local BBC Radio chatter
meaning that maybe, Horton heard Dr Who...
They'd only see the plane leaving, not arriving, which is quite an interesting compromise, as every other stealth programme goes with the notion that it has to be invisible at all times.
This was designed so that, once it passed Britains coastal radar, they wouldn't be able to scramble fighters fast enough once they did detect them. Rather ingenious.
Check the latest poll, I live in an attic
It's just another slashvertisement.
Chodeaphone sucks. their coverage sucks in particular, which is why they're pushing this.
I'm just waiting for someone to figure out how to hijack what is essentially a wireless connection to someone's broadband...
yes, ofcourse, it should mirror an entire wiki...
What is this? Bizzaro World?
AFAIK the prosecution is going after her because she UPLOADED files, rather than downloaded them
Soloution? Pour more money into NASA!
Or a game like this: Games like this?
Windows mobile is a bit Meh, but you can dual-develop Symbian/Windows Mobile apps through C#.net (as I stated before) and therefore, I did mention it as a side.
I'm not saying that the iPhone doesn't have the user-base. I'm saying that it's the hardest mobile platform to start developing for. It's detrimental to any kind of Indie movement.
I was actually looking into mobile platforms to develop for, and while iPhone has the largest market at the moment it's also the hardest to break into, what with the needing of a Mac, and an iPhone (that's £500 just to start coding if you're not already a Mac owner).
Symbian and Android are the only other two worth mentioning.
Symbian uses a plethora of Development languages (C++ mainly, but you can use Java or C#.net 2.0 to make apps compatible with both Symbian and Windows Mobile. Signing up and using Symbian was quite easy for me to do.
Android is Java based, but is also quite easy to start using. I've not actually tried using it properly though so I can't comment on it much.
Apple are really shooting themselves in the foot by restricting the development platform
Steam is a store-front. That's like saying Gamestation/Gamestop/Amazon/Play.com are Publishers