Its was a weird phone, but it was one of the best phones I ever had. And sidetalking is not that bad or weird as it seems. I miss some games like Ashen...
I belive its better discussion than "what will kill the iPhone". You guys must bear in mind that the iPhone is just the most famous smartphone, but not the most popular.
TCO says you should get a newer machine. Not necessarily a NEW machine, but at least a pentium (4.99999-86). And c'mon, what would be the use of dillo these days? I tried it for a while in my EeePC 700 2G and it was mostly useless. The web today is (unfortunaly) too dynamic for it.
(And trust me, Im into embedded computing and "I just want whats enough for me" trends)
Dificult and imprecise. Lots of developers have bugs in their code that they dont even imagine its due to floating point errors. Im mantaining a ARM codebase with lots of floats and now I can see this into action (beforehand I mantained mostly fixed-point apps).
There are lots simple acts with floats that can improve accurancy that most people are unaware of and that could have saved lives. (ok, same goes to fixed-point)
I belive its much more a matter of logistics than security. I work in the election system here in Brasil (ok, "Brazil"). It happens that Im a computer science student, but they take anyone "at random" and make them work that day or I would have to pay a fine. OTOH, I could, theoricly , take 2 days off. (ha! we live in capitalism. Of course I work as if I never had this 2 days off)
Now, getting to the point: Working in the elections is a real hard work becouse you have to deal with a real big crowd , with lots of iliterate ( I live in Rio, so its not in my zone, but I know that in the big country, in north there are lots - In my zone, I actually get lots of judges and other pendantic important authorities , as I live in a sprawl). With paper voting, it would be a colossal work. You guys must keep in mind that voting in Brazil is mandatory and you can lose a lot of granted rights if you dont vote.
I remember some 20 years ago, when I was just a kid playing my NES , when it was all paper and we had our first "trully democratic" election in 35 years after the military dictatiorship. My father and my aunt would have to drop their work for days only to work on counting the votes and everything was much more corruption and error prone. In fact, my father was once offered a bribe, but refused , as (--)pendatic as he is. With electronic voting,,the results come by the end of the election day and while it can happen, fraud is harder.
There a brazillian adage that says: "it might be easier to take out the couch to get rid of termites, but its much better to Do The Right Thing (tm)" (or something along those lines...). Its not a matter of scrapping elec voting becouse its unsafe, but rather a matter of improving it. Otherwise, the rest of the world will stll belive we live in rain forrests,side by side with indians and monkeys and we have carnaval the whole year;-)
Belive us. We are hard working people (with a huge tax charge to pay)
Mostly, I would say that Mono is faster. Otherwise, "same crap" with -slightly different syntax (Java syntax looking saner).
I work with both and tried both on mobile devices.
With Java, I've run PersonalJava and Midp2 apps and while its not lightning fast, its fast enough. But it is very limited.
For Mono, I've tried it on Nokia N770 Internet Tablet. Almost as fast as a native application (mind you this is a 200Mhz 64MB RAM ARM9 device) and it is not a compact framework or a special mobile edition , but the whole thing!
My only issue with mono is GTK# - it is PITA (probably becouse GTK is PITA) from the programmer's point of view
Mono is great! Faster than Java and more skinnable, but harder to code.
While I do fear non-native code, Im totally fine with it as long as you have the option to write native apps, unlike , say, Android.
My point on my first post was about projects like FreeDoom.
I dont know whats Carmack position on that, but if I were on this project, I would hire a lawyer ASAP.
I was about to post it.
Its hard to belive!
I hope Quake live goes on for Linux...
I wonder what happens to legacy IP from ID and how will it blend with Bethesda IP.
Quake vs Terminator: future shock? =-P
The difference being the market. One is a server market, the other is a cult.
You mean a religion. A cult is a religion that just started out and has yet to garner success.
Besides, Apple can claim to be a derivative of Christianity and/or Judaism, giving it instant credibility. One has the Book of Job, and I'm sure the other has the book of Jobs. And every other products is sold as the second coming.
Becouse this is a new challege and game developers usually are frightned from it.
I was part of the GlobalGameJam 2009 and was hell of scared of what I would have to create. And the theme was really a nightmare to work with. In the end, we managed to create in mere 48 hours on of the most fun and addictive games I ever created in the last 15 years of indie game development.
Well, maybe the gamedev are willing to try, but the suits who control the company doesnt allow them...
hey...I hate windows, but I must admit it. he's right.
He meant powershell. Its a shell interface powered by.NET (not that I *love*.net, but its a OOP enviroment anyway)
you're comparing apples with oranges.
UNIX wasnt designed for this.
and in that case you always have/home/me/.mybigfuckakillerapp config file/directory
big deal
1) take a nvidia card (or any other you want - obscure brand prefered),scratch any logo on it and "patch" it with your own logo
2) upload to youtube
3) ????
4) profit!
Im with the parent post - I was about to post it when I saw it already written: no SDK , no deal.
Try programming a 3D application for a mobile device without such a integrated chip on it.
Im not talking about your Ghz laptop, but about a smartphone or a PDA or even maybe a netbook (the line between those devices is now too blurred to clearly define it)
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Its was a weird phone, but it was one of the best phones I ever had. And sidetalking is not that bad or weird as it seems.
I miss some games like Ashen...
I belive its better discussion than "what will kill the iPhone".
You guys must bear in mind that the iPhone is just the most famous smartphone, but not the most popular.
I would rather wait for the N900 anyway ;-)
TCO says you should get a newer machine. Not necessarily a NEW machine, but at least a pentium (4.99999-86).
And c'mon, what would be the use of dillo these days? I tried it for a while in my EeePC 700 2G and it was mostly useless. The web today is (unfortunaly) too dynamic for it.
(And trust me, Im into embedded computing and "I just want whats enough for me" trends)
Dificult and imprecise. Lots of developers have bugs in their code that they dont even imagine its due to floating point errors. Im mantaining a ARM codebase with lots of floats and now I can see this into action (beforehand I mantained mostly fixed-point apps).
There are lots simple acts with floats that can improve accurancy that most people are unaware of and that could have saved lives.
(ok, same goes to fixed-point)
I belive its much more a matter of logistics than security.
I work in the election system here in Brasil (ok, "Brazil"). It happens that Im a computer science student, but they take anyone "at random" and make them work that day or I would have to pay a fine. OTOH, I could, theoricly , take 2 days off. (ha! we live in capitalism. Of course I work as if I never had this 2 days off)
Now, getting to the point:
Working in the elections is a real hard work becouse you have to deal with a real big crowd , with lots of iliterate ( I live in Rio, so its not in my zone, but I know that in the big country, in north there are lots - In my zone, I actually get lots of judges and other pendantic important authorities , as I live in a sprawl). With paper voting, it would be a colossal work.
You guys must keep in mind that voting in Brazil is mandatory and you can lose a lot of granted rights if you dont vote.
I remember some 20 years ago, when I was just a kid playing my NES , when it was all paper and we had our first "trully democratic" election in 35 years after the military dictatiorship. My father and my aunt would have to drop their work for days only to work on counting the votes and everything was much more corruption and error prone. In fact, my father was once offered a bribe, but refused , as (--)pendatic as he is. With electronic voting, ,the results come by the end of the election day and while it can happen, fraud is harder.
There a brazillian adage that says: "it might be easier to take out the couch to get rid of termites, but its much better to Do The Right Thing (tm)" (or something along those lines...). Its not a matter of scrapping elec voting becouse its unsafe, but rather a matter of improving it. Otherwise, the rest of the world will stll belive we live in rain forrests ,side by side with indians and monkeys and we have carnaval the whole year ;-)
Belive us. We are hard working people (with a huge tax charge to pay)
It's a space station
Mostly, I would say that Mono is faster. Otherwise, "same crap" with -slightly different syntax (Java syntax looking saner). I work with both and tried both on mobile devices. With Java, I've run PersonalJava and Midp2 apps and while its not lightning fast, its fast enough. But it is very limited. For Mono, I've tried it on Nokia N770 Internet Tablet. Almost as fast as a native application (mind you this is a 200Mhz 64MB RAM ARM9 device) and it is not a compact framework or a special mobile edition , but the whole thing! My only issue with mono is GTK# - it is PITA (probably becouse GTK is PITA) from the programmer's point of view
Mono is great! Faster than Java and more skinnable, but harder to code. While I do fear non-native code, Im totally fine with it as long as you have the option to write native apps, unlike , say, Android.
My point on my first post was about projects like FreeDoom. I dont know whats Carmack position on that, but if I were on this project, I would hire a lawyer ASAP.
Commander Keen: Aliens ate my Terminator
Yeah, but what about re-releases? They might pull some cool plugs...
I was about to post it. Its hard to belive! I hope Quake live goes on for Linux... I wonder what happens to legacy IP from ID and how will it blend with Bethesda IP. Quake vs Terminator: future shock? =-P
The iBook? *drumroll*
Becouse this is a new challege and game developers usually are frightned from it. I was part of the GlobalGameJam 2009 and was hell of scared of what I would have to create. And the theme was really a nightmare to work with. In the end, we managed to create in mere 48 hours on of the most fun and addictive games I ever created in the last 15 years of indie game development. Well, maybe the gamedev are willing to try, but the suits who control the company doesnt allow them...
hey...I hate windows, but I must admit it. he's right. He meant powershell. Its a shell interface powered by .NET (not that I *love* .net, but its a OOP enviroment anyway)
you're comparing apples with oranges. UNIX wasnt designed for this. and in that case you always have /home/me/.mybigfuckakillerapp config file/directory
Give us a year and two EIGHT-CORE MACHINES.
fixed that for you
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"?
Thank god Im not the only one who think this episoide is nothing really special at all...
big deal 1) take a nvidia card (or any other you want - obscure brand prefered) ,scratch any logo on it and "patch" it with your own logo
2) upload to youtube
3) ????
4) profit!
Im with the parent post - I was about to post it when I saw it already written: no SDK , no deal.
Try programming a 3D application for a mobile device without such a integrated chip on it. Im not talking about your Ghz laptop, but about a smartphone or a PDA or even maybe a netbook (the line between those devices is now too blurred to clearly define it)
Isnt it Toronto's license place saying "yours to discover" or something like that?
They actually DO HAVE.Provinces are fighting each other for immigrant force. Take a look at the Toronto subway system (TTC)
slashdot's former brother got slashdotted?
no wonder we brazillians make portugal jokes all the time =-P