RMap can do directions as well (MapDroyd doesn't do directions or have any lookup capabilities last I tried). It's not the best though. You have to download Mobile Atlas Creator, then create your own map chunks to save which you upload to your device. From there you can load them into RMap. The map sizes that Mobile Atlas Creator allows are a bit restricted so a 6-hour road trip would have you switching maps multiple times. Though the last I looked at it was July.
I recall tapping on icons in my iPaq and Palm devices. Multiple screens? One little app install and I had that on my iPaq. Complete with the ability to use multiple icon sizes!
So long as people are gaming on PC's, there will be a need for PC parts stores. That need may diminish to an extent given the power of new laptops and we've already seen Newegg respond by expanding into other areas.
And alternative file manager downloads soar on Windows 8 launch day.
Windows professionals and consultants ready themselves for increased profits in tutoring a new array of people having difficulty simply working with their own files.
I'm aware they've been around. That wasn't the point. They've been around in niche markets but no one really paid attention to them and they typically bombed out. They served some specialized uses such as the ones you've pointed out, but that was it.
Now you've got companies looking at them for their technical support people, waiters and waitresses starting to use them for orders, executives using them in place of notebooks/netbooks, etc. etc. It's a much different picture than the limited-use you were pointing out.
Tablets were a neat toy without a market. They had a cool factor going so people bought them. They're now starting to find more and more uses for them. I've been to two restaurants where our orders were taken on 7" Galaxy tabs. I've read of at least one or two restaurants putting their high-end wine lists on iPads. Musicians have been starting to put iPads to use during performances.
We're still at the tip of the iceberg with this. Lenovo's releasing their business-oriented tabs and I've seen stories of companies either putting tabs to use or preparing for such.
I don't necessarily see the tab market going away.
If I shop on NewEgg or Amazon, unlike at a brick and mortar store, I don't get a chance to try a laptop's screen and keyboard before I buy it.
This is why Best Buy needs to change their name to Test Buy. Everyone knows that you go to Test Buy to test the model out before buying it from Amazon.
FTFY. As a Californian, I don't feel like paying sales tax (and possibly shipping, depending on what deals are happening) on top of not getting it the day I buy it.
Times change, though. Our expectations of what we will get from a given price point have increased with time as hardware and software have improved. What was once a $20-30 game on the Atari 2600 is now likely either free or maybe $1 even with better graphics and sound.
The point was to highlight the difference between a $1 game and a $20 game. Angry Birds is a fine $1 game. I have all three installed on my phone (though the free versions, given they're available and I get no glares from the wife) and they're fine for passing a few minutes while the microwave heats up my lunch while at work. Angry Birds is not a good $20 game.
Goofing off in transit is fine and all but a tablet doesn't handle what I would be doing at home and a phone would handle my needs when out and about seeing as I'll probably be making use of the 4G/3G connection.
Winning would then be easy! That wouldn't work to encourage DLC. What you do is only put in zombies and let the plants be DLC. Everyone now has an incentive to get the DLC.
Let's see. A fair chunk of cash that my family can retire and live off of for the rest of our lives or artistic integrity?
Sing it with me!
Sell out, with me oh yea, sell out, with me tonight (Gaming) company's gonna give me lots of money And everything's gonna be all right.
Plus, it's not like I can't go back and create something else later. Sad I can't revisit some game I wrote previously? Perhaps. That doesn't stop me from creating something new, however.
I do very little streaming. Perhaps I'll stream something on my laptop from a free service while gaming on my desktop but I do not subscribe to any services. I stream maybe once every several months and rent at about the same level. The local library can typically cover my needs for free. Thus, I'm really not a good candidate for something involving a monthly fee.
I'd rather have the physical media to do with as I please. UVVU looks to address this, allowing you to stream purchased content from anywhere while also allowing physical and digital copies. If UVVU is planned and executed well, that would cover my needs pretty well. I can have a physical copy for home, digital copies on computers and tab/phone devices, and I can stream if I'm elsewhere. Of course, this is Hollywood so it may well be a damned mess.
I installed 6.0.6 and was welcomed to an 800x600 resolution. I had to go about making sure that Ubuntu would work at 1280x1024 at the color depth and refresh rate I wanted.
FC6? It welcomed me to 1600x1200 right off the bat. Same with PC Linux 2007. Better, both came with various tools I needed, NFS client, Samba client/server, sshd, none of which were included in Ubuntu.
Now, I can understand the omission of the NFS client, but, considering there's a fair chance that even basic users are testing Linux on a secondary system, missing something like Samba tools seems a poor choice. Even then, installing Samba client/server didn't get you a pretty ui to handle smbpasswd administration, something PCLOS and FC included without me asking.
I'll likely give Ubuntu 7.0.4 a try at some point, probably Kubuntu, as PCLOS has pushed me to favor KDE, so I'll see if it's any better. For now, my thoughts on Ubuntu are that it doesn't "just work." Despite installation issues, I'm still favoring PCLOS at the moment.
What the alternative? EA screwed up with BF 2142 and they're royally pissing off the BF2 community with their stats server outage that, after a month, still isn't fully functioning and is missing gobs of data for players.
This from the same group that released a patch that screwed up all Special Forces nighttime maps (fire the TOW on the Humvee, crash).
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You can use MapDroyd or RMap on Android.
RMap can do directions as well (MapDroyd doesn't do directions or have any lookup capabilities last I tried). It's not the best though. You have to download Mobile Atlas Creator, then create your own map chunks to save which you upload to your device. From there you can load them into RMap. The map sizes that Mobile Atlas Creator allows are a bit restricted so a 6-hour road trip would have you switching maps multiple times. Though the last I looked at it was July.
Which is why the goal should be user-unfriendly. If they can't figure out how to use it, you won't have to worry about security issues.
Wasn't there also an AT&T lawsuit which took *BSD out of the picture temporarily, allowing Linux to jump into a niche that was left open?
My Streak was shipped from Dell with 2.2 (2.2.2, I believe). They upgraded some time back.
Revolutionary? More like evolutionary.
I recall tapping on icons in my iPaq and Palm devices. Multiple screens? One little app install and I had that on my iPaq. Complete with the ability to use multiple icon sizes!
So long as people are gaming on PC's, there will be a need for PC parts stores. That need may diminish to an extent given the power of new laptops and we've already seen Newegg respond by expanding into other areas.
Second, Silverlight, being a browser plugin, is also not supported by Metro.
You just highlighted a Pro to the Metro browser not allowing extensions.
At least we can take comfort in the robots likely getting a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space error.
And alternative file manager downloads soar on Windows 8 launch day.
Windows professionals and consultants ready themselves for increased profits in tutoring a new array of people having difficulty simply working with their own files.
I'm aware they've been around. That wasn't the point. They've been around in niche markets but no one really paid attention to them and they typically bombed out. They served some specialized uses such as the ones you've pointed out, but that was it.
Now you've got companies looking at them for their technical support people, waiters and waitresses starting to use them for orders, executives using them in place of notebooks/netbooks, etc. etc. It's a much different picture than the limited-use you were pointing out.
Tablets were a neat toy without a market. They had a cool factor going so people bought them. They're now starting to find more and more uses for them. I've been to two restaurants where our orders were taken on 7" Galaxy tabs. I've read of at least one or two restaurants putting their high-end wine lists on iPads. Musicians have been starting to put iPads to use during performances.
We're still at the tip of the iceberg with this. Lenovo's releasing their business-oriented tabs and I've seen stories of companies either putting tabs to use or preparing for such.
I don't necessarily see the tab market going away.
If I shop on NewEgg or Amazon, unlike at a brick and mortar store, I don't get a chance to try a laptop's screen and keyboard before I buy it.
This is why Best Buy needs to change their name to Test Buy. Everyone knows that you go to Test Buy to test the model out before buying it from Amazon.
FTFY. As a Californian, I don't feel like paying sales tax (and possibly shipping, depending on what deals are happening) on top of not getting it the day I buy it.
Most likely. This is a rare event that will bring out the lower uid's into posting (like me).
Farewell, Rob. You've done well here.
Times change, though. Our expectations of what we will get from a given price point have increased with time as hardware and software have improved. What was once a $20-30 game on the Atari 2600 is now likely either free or maybe $1 even with better graphics and sound.
The point was to highlight the difference between a $1 game and a $20 game. Angry Birds is a fine $1 game. I have all three installed on my phone (though the free versions, given they're available and I get no glares from the wife) and they're fine for passing a few minutes while the microwave heats up my lunch while at work. Angry Birds is not a good $20 game.
It depends on the game. A good game may well be worth that $20-30. The latest iteration of Angry Birds is worth significantly less.
Books?
Goofing off in transit is fine and all but a tablet doesn't handle what I would be doing at home and a phone would handle my needs when out and about seeing as I'll probably be making use of the 4G/3G connection.
Winning would then be easy! That wouldn't work to encourage DLC. What you do is only put in zombies and let the plants be DLC. Everyone now has an incentive to get the DLC.
Let's see. A fair chunk of cash that my family can retire and live off of for the rest of our lives or artistic integrity?
Sing it with me!
Sell out, with me oh yea, sell out, with me tonight
(Gaming) company's gonna give me lots of money
And everything's gonna be all right.
Plus, it's not like I can't go back and create something else later. Sad I can't revisit some game I wrote previously? Perhaps. That doesn't stop me from creating something new, however.
I do very little streaming. Perhaps I'll stream something on my laptop from a free service while gaming on my desktop but I do not subscribe to any services. I stream maybe once every several months and rent at about the same level. The local library can typically cover my needs for free. Thus, I'm really not a good candidate for something involving a monthly fee.
I'd rather have the physical media to do with as I please. UVVU looks to address this, allowing you to stream purchased content from anywhere while also allowing physical and digital copies. If UVVU is planned and executed well, that would cover my needs pretty well. I can have a physical copy for home, digital copies on computers and tab/phone devices, and I can stream if I'm elsewhere. Of course, this is Hollywood so it may well be a damned mess.
Four, you say?
That instruction can already be found in most females.
Wish that were the case with me.
Ubuntu most certainly didn't "just work."
I installed 6.0.6 and was welcomed to an 800x600 resolution. I had to go about making sure that Ubuntu would work at 1280x1024 at the color depth and refresh rate I wanted.
FC6? It welcomed me to 1600x1200 right off the bat. Same with PC Linux 2007. Better, both came with various tools I needed, NFS client, Samba client/server, sshd, none of which were included in Ubuntu.
Now, I can understand the omission of the NFS client, but, considering there's a fair chance that even basic users are testing Linux on a secondary system, missing something like Samba tools seems a poor choice. Even then, installing Samba client/server didn't get you a pretty ui to handle smbpasswd administration, something PCLOS and FC included without me asking.
I'll likely give Ubuntu 7.0.4 a try at some point, probably Kubuntu, as PCLOS has pushed me to favor KDE, so I'll see if it's any better. For now, my thoughts on Ubuntu are that it doesn't "just work." Despite installation issues, I'm still favoring PCLOS at the moment.
What the alternative? EA screwed up with BF 2142 and they're royally pissing off the BF2 community with their stats server outage that, after a month, still isn't fully functioning and is missing gobs of data for players.
This from the same group that released a patch that screwed up all Special Forces nighttime maps (fire the TOW on the Humvee, crash).
My wife bought pasta made from tofu so, no, it doesn't have to be carb-based.