I beg to differ. I had stopped playing games altogether for some time, and the iPhone has rekindled my love for a good game. Madden NFL 2010 is great on an iPhone, it even got the Broncos two games from the Superbowl. With Wild West Pinball, Shredder Chess, Spore Origins, and more I've spent many an idle hour there. Fast & Furious race games are good, as are The problems don't lie so much with the platform, but the games themselves. Gameloft is doing well with the interface, but still needs a bit of work with dpads and whatnot. Spore for example only gets you to land and then stops there. So depth is the #1 concern for me at the moment. But for cell phone games, I am not sure how deep it needs to be for success...probably not much. Dice games where you roll the dice by shaking the iPhone are cool, as are space invader types where you tilt the phone back forth forward backward. Then there are the silly ones that hardly cost anything: Sheep Launch, Putt-Putt, Gomi, Flight Control, Star Trigon, etc. that keep the kids entertained for hours. As far as killing games go, it's true, it's not a war simulator. Wolf3d is kinda lame, as is Sandstorm. But there are new areas of killing to explore such as Silent Hill, Trapped, and Zombie, albeit their mentioned lameness at simulating destruction and carnage. The lack of buttons is freeing, multi-tapping, shaking, tilting, and other innovations are making hard buttons obsolete. In this regard, the NYT article is right on: console makers should be worried.
You forgot the step where the court sends a notice to the poor slob's ISP saying he is in copyright violation and his ISP account is now closed. That will teach 'em.
I had no idea SpaceX had some such a long way since 2002. It seems they really have it together and best wishes. The case for a streamlined and slimmed down NASA is almost overwhelming now...look, if my baboos in India can send science to the moon, is seems logical that private companies can do even better. Yea, progress...
Ha! We've had it for years (Nepal, India, Thailand, etc.) or at least since it started showing up in smart phones. What's the big deal? I think the analysis is right however, it has not taken off, but probably will as more people learn how to use it. However, our pre-paid cards charges us for MMS while SMS is free, so that will deter us folks in "developing countries." But on an unlocked jailbroken iphone with some of the mms apps from appulous, it's pretty darn cool.
I'd mod up the like post to this, but don't know how, even after reading the/. help...but if the point of the software is just to check the grader, and not grade the paper, then no harm done. This has been mentioned already. As a grader, I could use the help, and since I won't be getting any soon from a carbon-based unit, I don't mind the help from a silicon-based one. I do A-levels in Nepal, and it's a nightmare. Bring it on!
Well, that's the point. Maybe they are not claiming accuracy when negotiating with clients. Maybe they are claiming just what they advertise on their home page: crafted winning results. Just like when someone comes to me with crap photos to be included in a marketing campaign. I photoshop them so the image helps them sell whatever they are hawking. My clients don't ask me if the changes made are accurate or ethical. I don't think it's any different in Strategic Vision's line of work.
Ha! Depending on what legal team you are on, it could also mean "we create polls that show that our clients are ahead." I don't think the blogger has a winning case, as SV LLC will easily trot out accurate and timely data to support the results. The objection sounds so French to me...if you want truth in advertising, best go to another planet.
Ha, it's been up a lot longer that that though... and a great place for gamers, as reviews are posted immediately so u can find out if the game is any good even before you bittorent it. What I don't get is why games are so cheap for the iPhone (albeit they are also "free" on appoulous).For example, Maddon NFL 10 is 9.99 on that platform but much higher on the others, and just as fun.
Strategic Vision LLC states in the first line of the first para on their political website: "At Strategic Vision Political, we craft winning results for our clients." Taken figuratively, that means that they "cook the books" and they are pretty up front about it. This/. is just another "Let's Ban Photoshop from Advertising " sensations.
So true. In South Asia, you can't depend on electricity being there at any given moment, and if even if you have an inverter running with a bank of batteries like i do, if PCs are off, it means you can run something else, like a TV - even longer. Some orgs and biz even use fossil fuel generators for loadshedding times, and those folks require that most everything is shut down when not in use. However, being American, I hate it. I am genetically programmed to leave anything electrical on at all times. I grew up in the age of county fairs and the all electric home display (a double-wide with every conceivable electrical appliance running full bore). For me, it was a sign of progress and development. Now I live in a village where candles are high-tech, but I still want my iMac on all the time...
I am thinking it's just a way for all mfgs to make more money. Look at how they price external cases: usb=x$, usb+fw400=some$, usb+fw400+fw800=more$, usb+fw400+fw800+esata=even more$, and now we will have usb2+usb3+fw400+fw800+esata=the most$. Or Drobo1, Drobo2, and then now Drobo3 w usb3. It rots for the end user but follows the standard marketing model for just about everything. What to do, such is life.
Here in rural Nepal, we would use the telescope to see when ama was going to get up the hill with fresh water, or dada was returning from the hilltop with a bit of fresh meat. A similar thing is happening with the $200 netbook project, they are becoming the village telephone and whatnot when the power goes out for the mandatory 6 hours or so. But this is not to say that new low-cost educational tech is not useful or not needed more then fresh water, sanitation, shelter, and food. The low cost cell phone microscope is saving lives, and laptops are powering entire comm links for villages without power most of the time. Keep it all coming! Jigs in Nepal
What a great writeup at Bear-4. This is what Slashdot should publish more of, interesting articles on homemade space exploration (and the like); leave the inane copyright stuff for others to squelch.
MS spends a tremendous amount of time, resources and money on more and more UI/UI research in the hopes of improving the user experience, capturing new business and retaining existing business.
Kinda didn't work with Vista eh? But your other point on open source is well taken, as others are imitating the ribbon. My only beef with it (as a Mac/VMware user) is that it looks really bad when the Vista/Win7 start bar is on top - too many big globs in the upper left corner:)
I agree, as a consultant to small->large orgs on using office, the office 2007 ribbon was an endless source of confusion when introduced with 2007, although the clamor has died down now. And so has the price of add-ins like Classic Menu (originally 79$ now 29$ without volume discount). Most orgs given this option rejected it out of hand as 1) added expense and 2) seen from a management perspective as a pacifier for whiners who resist change, and 3) an IT nightmare.
But in relationship to this article, how much harm a ribbon inside a browser with such limited functions can do is really questionable. Word has hundreds of menu clicks whereas a browser has maybe dozens.
I think there is a lot of truth in this. I lived through the Reagen years and while not pretty, nor comfortable, the policies of the time did bring the Soviet Union to it's knees and ultimate financial ruin. Now, the war on global terror is doing the same thing to the US, bringing the country down as if it were hit by multiple ERWs at high altitudes, only with fallout contaminates the money stream and not military armor. The ratios are also much different now: cost of StarWars propaganda:cost of Soviet response vs. cost of real terrorism:cost of American response. The amorphousness Al-Queda has this ratio down to a science. But not to worry, as Father time will even all things out to the point of Morlocks praying on liberal cattle and then finally to crustaceans eating each other until nothing at all is left but a cold lifeless rock:)
I bet they ARE making them skinny...my wife makes me use content-aware scale in PS Extended all the time, just for that reason. I wish they would pass this law here in Nepal, and then maybe my wife would quit nagging me all the time - if I had to put a label saying "my wife is really fat, and this photo has been altered" I bet she would leave me alone. As a designer I just don't get this at all, but the French are French, so what more to say?
What does it matter - kids will all have carpel tunnel or other related wrist/hand injuries from typing for 20 years and be unable to hold a pen when they mature. This happened to me, I learned cursive writing at the end of a bamboo stick 50 years ago, and now after 30 years of solid typing day in and day out, i am lucky to be able to print anything legible, cursive or otherwise. Folks should be more concerned about long term keyboard use then use of the pen...
Yes, I agree, and when the overlords are not out wasting tax money they are spanking blond lobbyists in eye patch underwear. I think we listen to the same radio station.
As someone who lives in Nepal, and drives a motorbike in India, the things drivers shed to pedestrians is not wanted. Like the habit of backing up and running you over again if hit, to avoid paying the family of the squashed pedestrian any compensation. Please tell drivers in the Bihar that this is not acceptable, and the practice should be stopped immediately.
As far as ringtones for my next electric vehicle (my first was a Chinese motorbike), I will install the Tata Truck ringtone , which sounds like any other on the road. It's the one noise that instills fear in all creatures near the highway. Sounding like a cylon raider will do nothing to keep peds safe here.
I agree with u and I have a lowly 3g. i was not into games at all until this device came along, and it's great for casual entertainment, as well as for listening to music, reading, phoning, exploring, etc. I live in a bottom-feeder country and use an unlocked jailbroken version, download all apps from appulous, and I am very happy with this purchase. great device!
We can only hope this is true and it all comes falling to the ground soon. GPS is FEMA's ace in the hole when it comes to rounding up undesirables and putting them in the camps; without GPS and RFID tagging, their job will be much harder.
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I beg to differ. I had stopped playing games altogether for some time, and the iPhone has rekindled my love for a good game. Madden NFL 2010 is great on an iPhone, it even got the Broncos two games from the Superbowl. With Wild West Pinball, Shredder Chess, Spore Origins, and more I've spent many an idle hour there. Fast & Furious race games are good, as are The problems don't lie so much with the platform, but the games themselves. Gameloft is doing well with the interface, but still needs a bit of work with dpads and whatnot. Spore for example only gets you to land and then stops there. So depth is the #1 concern for me at the moment. But for cell phone games, I am not sure how deep it needs to be for success...probably not much. Dice games where you roll the dice by shaking the iPhone are cool, as are space invader types where you tilt the phone back forth forward backward. Then there are the silly ones that hardly cost anything: Sheep Launch, Putt-Putt, Gomi, Flight Control, Star Trigon, etc. that keep the kids entertained for hours. As far as killing games go, it's true, it's not a war simulator. Wolf3d is kinda lame, as is Sandstorm. But there are new areas of killing to explore such as Silent Hill, Trapped, and Zombie, albeit their mentioned lameness at simulating destruction and carnage. The lack of buttons is freeing, multi-tapping, shaking, tilting, and other innovations are making hard buttons obsolete. In this regard, the NYT article is right on: console makers should be worried.
You forgot the step where the court sends a notice to the poor slob's ISP saying he is in copyright violation and his ISP account is now closed. That will teach 'em.
I had no idea SpaceX had some such a long way since 2002. It seems they really have it together and best wishes. The case for a streamlined and slimmed down NASA is almost overwhelming now...look, if my baboos in India can send science to the moon, is seems logical that private companies can do even better. Yea, progress...
Ha! We've had it for years (Nepal, India, Thailand, etc.) or at least since it started showing up in smart phones. What's the big deal? I think the analysis is right however, it has not taken off, but probably will as more people learn how to use it. However, our pre-paid cards charges us for MMS while SMS is free, so that will deter us folks in "developing countries." But on an unlocked jailbroken iphone with some of the mms apps from appulous, it's pretty darn cool.
Sure hope someone releases some dung beetles to clean up the bowels of my Snow Leopard.
I'd mod up the like post to this, but don't know how, even after reading the /. help...but if the point of the software is just to check the grader, and not grade the paper, then no harm done. This has been mentioned already. As a grader, I could use the help, and since I won't be getting any soon from a carbon-based unit, I don't mind the help from a silicon-based one. I do A-levels in Nepal, and it's a nightmare. Bring it on!
Well, that's the point. Maybe they are not claiming accuracy when negotiating with clients. Maybe they are claiming just what they advertise on their home page: crafted winning results. Just like when someone comes to me with crap photos to be included in a marketing campaign. I photoshop them so the image helps them sell whatever they are hawking. My clients don't ask me if the changes made are accurate or ethical. I don't think it's any different in Strategic Vision's line of work.
Ha! Depending on what legal team you are on, it could also mean "we create polls that show that our clients are ahead." I don't think the blogger has a winning case, as SV LLC will easily trot out accurate and timely data to support the results. The objection sounds so French to me...if you want truth in advertising, best go to another planet.
Ha, it's been up a lot longer that that though... and a great place for gamers, as reviews are posted immediately so u can find out if the game is any good even before you bittorent it. What I don't get is why games are so cheap for the iPhone (albeit they are also "free" on appoulous).For example, Maddon NFL 10 is 9.99 on that platform but much higher on the others, and just as fun.
Strategic Vision LLC states in the first line of the first para on their political website: "At Strategic Vision Political, we craft winning results for our clients." Taken figuratively, that means that they "cook the books" and they are pretty up front about it. This /. is just another "Let's Ban Photoshop from Advertising " sensations.
So true. In South Asia, you can't depend on electricity being there at any given moment, and if even if you have an inverter running with a bank of batteries like i do, if PCs are off, it means you can run something else, like a TV - even longer. Some orgs and biz even use fossil fuel generators for loadshedding times, and those folks require that most everything is shut down when not in use. However, being American, I hate it. I am genetically programmed to leave anything electrical on at all times. I grew up in the age of county fairs and the all electric home display (a double-wide with every conceivable electrical appliance running full bore). For me, it was a sign of progress and development. Now I live in a village where candles are high-tech, but I still want my iMac on all the time...
I am thinking it's just a way for all mfgs to make more money. Look at how they price external cases: usb=x$, usb+fw400=some$, usb+fw400+fw800=more$, usb+fw400+fw800+esata=even more$, and now we will have usb2+usb3+fw400+fw800+esata=the most$. Or Drobo1, Drobo2, and then now Drobo3 w usb3. It rots for the end user but follows the standard marketing model for just about everything. What to do, such is life.
Here in rural Nepal, we would use the telescope to see when ama was going to get up the hill with fresh water, or dada was returning from the hilltop with a bit of fresh meat. A similar thing is happening with the $200 netbook project, they are becoming the village telephone and whatnot when the power goes out for the mandatory 6 hours or so. But this is not to say that new low-cost educational tech is not useful or not needed more then fresh water, sanitation, shelter, and food. The low cost cell phone microscope is saving lives, and laptops are powering entire comm links for villages without power most of the time. Keep it all coming!
Jigs in Nepal
What a great writeup at Bear-4. This is what Slashdot should publish more of, interesting articles on homemade space exploration (and the like); leave the inane copyright stuff for others to squelch.
MS spends a tremendous amount of time, resources and money on more and more UI/UI research in the hopes of improving the user experience, capturing new business and retaining existing business.
Kinda didn't work with Vista eh? But your other point on open source is well taken, as others are imitating the ribbon. My only beef with it (as a Mac/VMware user) is that it looks really bad when the Vista/Win7 start bar is on top - too many big globs in the upper left corner:)
Also Undo Closed Tabs Button Extension 3.5.1, for those that can't deal with keystrokes...
I agree, as a consultant to small->large orgs on using office, the office 2007 ribbon was an endless source of confusion when introduced with 2007, although the clamor has died down now. And so has the price of add-ins like Classic Menu (originally 79$ now 29$ without volume discount). Most orgs given this option rejected it out of hand as 1) added expense and 2) seen from a management perspective as a pacifier for whiners who resist change, and 3) an IT nightmare.
But in relationship to this article, how much harm a ribbon inside a browser with such limited functions can do is really questionable. Word has hundreds of menu clicks whereas a browser has maybe dozens.
I think there is a lot of truth in this. I lived through the Reagen years and while not pretty, nor comfortable, the policies of the time did bring the Soviet Union to it's knees and ultimate financial ruin. Now, the war on global terror is doing the same thing to the US, bringing the country down as if it were hit by multiple ERWs at high altitudes, only with fallout contaminates the money stream and not military armor. The ratios are also much different now: cost of StarWars propaganda:cost of Soviet response vs. cost of real terrorism:cost of American response. The amorphousness Al-Queda has this ratio down to a science. But not to worry, as Father time will even all things out to the point of Morlocks praying on liberal cattle and then finally to crustaceans eating each other until nothing at all is left but a cold lifeless rock:)
I bet they ARE making them skinny...my wife makes me use content-aware scale in PS Extended all the time, just for that reason. I wish they would pass this law here in Nepal, and then maybe my wife would quit nagging me all the time - if I had to put a label saying "my wife is really fat, and this photo has been altered" I bet she would leave me alone. As a designer I just don't get this at all, but the French are French, so what more to say?
I will never look at a tin of tuna the same again...
What does it matter - kids will all have carpel tunnel or other related wrist/hand injuries from typing for 20 years and be unable to hold a pen when they mature. This happened to me, I learned cursive writing at the end of a bamboo stick 50 years ago, and now after 30 years of solid typing day in and day out, i am lucky to be able to print anything legible, cursive or otherwise. Folks should be more concerned about long term keyboard use then use of the pen...
Yes, I agree, and when the overlords are not out wasting tax money they are spanking blond lobbyists in eye patch underwear. I think we listen to the same radio station.
As someone who lives in Nepal, and drives a motorbike in India, the things drivers shed to pedestrians is not wanted. Like the habit of backing up and running you over again if hit, to avoid paying the family of the squashed pedestrian any compensation. Please tell drivers in the Bihar that this is not acceptable, and the practice should be stopped immediately.
As far as ringtones for my next electric vehicle (my first was a Chinese motorbike), I will install the Tata Truck ringtone , which sounds like any other on the road. It's the one noise that instills fear in all creatures near the highway. Sounding like a cylon raider will do nothing to keep peds safe here.
I agree with u and I have a lowly 3g. i was not into games at all until this device came along, and it's great for casual entertainment, as well as for listening to music, reading, phoning, exploring, etc. I live in a bottom-feeder country and use an unlocked jailbroken version, download all apps from appulous, and I am very happy with this purchase. great device!
We can only hope this is true and it all comes falling to the ground soon. GPS is FEMA's ace in the hole when it comes to rounding up undesirables and putting them in the camps; without GPS and RFID tagging, their job will be much harder.