A curious choice. But I suppose if they didn't want to go to any effort to future proof the process and just wanted something cheap to go up against those $60 dollar motion activated Genesis knockoffs that CVS tends to carry this time of year... And it's obvious that people buying a Wii Mini aren't going to be focused on the latest and greatest Wii U stuff they want to be promoting on the Nintendo Channel... Still, it's a moderate shame about the Wii Shop and handful of online games.
*ponder* Does the Mini have fixed system memory and no SD Card support now too? I suppose without SD Card support it wouldn't have the save space memory for as many games/downloads either.
-OS X - Not really Apple's big innovation. It was their acquisition of NeXTStep that lead to OS X and the return of Steve Jobs and innovation at Apple.
Even worse, I believe Gil was nearly all ready to slap Macintosh Widgets atop of NeXTSTep and call it a day. I do believe it was Steve again who pushed for tighter integration and the notion of 'Carbon programs' and 'Cocoa programs' and everything looking like the same kind of bright and happy OSX Full featured application.
Along those lines... How close do you think Apple is to already having such a Graphics software package? They've been sparring with Adobe around the edges for a bit with their video programs and such. And just like Microsoft Office and iWork, it's possibly a critical enough area for Apple to have some investment in preserving whether or not Adobe agrees.
Oddly enough. It seems a lot easier to grab content if it's in Flash Video format. Sites seem to expect to have their web server, flash apps and javascript do all the fancy access controls. But if you can see the video, you can find the flv url. Download it and convert it.
From some other sites, just having enough of the flash url from a locked preview was enough to grab the entire movie.
Heh. Youtube was one of the first things we ended up doing with the Wii browser. Nice to sit back and watch and browse the videos and the Wii plays them back quite well. I do happen to kvetch that of all places, wii.ign.com's videos do not work currently under the Wii browser (They need a later version of the flash plugin)
Certainly helpful since my love wanted to watch the videos, but her own computer was a bit antiquated to be up to date on all plug-ins and have the necessary horsepower.
Wii browsing can be a little hit or miss, and still has some bugs. (My Wii freezes trying to visit http://cuteoverload.com/ for instance) but works pretty well. Don't forget that the 2-button can fit pages into a cell-phone style single column mode which can work beautifully on long articles so you don't need to be scrolling side to side to read thing after zooming in on them.
And on the freezes, I did submit that as a bug/feedback to Nintendo. As to IGN, I just complained about that to them in their feedback.
While there were 3D adventures before Mario64. Mario64 was the first one with the concept of 'push in the direction you want to go.' While that's fairly common now, everyone before then was using Resident Evil controls, Forward-Back + Left-Right.
And in response to another post: while the C buttons were extra buttons, they were concepted as camera control. Hence they weren't x, y, z, etc, but were all C-up, C-down, and so on. And were later merged into a single analog C stick on the Gamecube. Nintendo was trying to address the problems it saw in controlling games in 3D. Both in manipulating your character and in viewing the world around you.
In summary: You need a full.Mac account, even a second email under another.Mac account won't cut it.
The Tax is a curiosity. But I wonder if it's a result of trying to balance ease of use and all that. Seeing as the.Mac identity key is automatically generated and all on the.Mac servers. And well, is most likely to be there regardless of which Mac you use.
However, I could see corporations wanting the security and not wanting to allow.Mac iDisk connections or what not. Mayhaps other folks could play with it and send feedback for better privacy options?
Nintendo's history is quite full of iterations of compatible Game Boy . They seem to do it for a couple of reasons. Cost control both in terms of what they charge the public and what they have to pay to suppliers. And the other reason is their main competitor in the GB space is rarely another portable, but other devices. This GB Micro looks pegged to fit in with current trends in tiny cell phones that can play games anywhere.
The only version of the GB that ever felt rushed was the GB Color. Stuck out there as a placeholder versus the Neo Geo pocket until the current GBA itself was ready.
As for buyers of the micro? People who found the existing GBs too big/pricey/tendy enough, or just because the GB itself is getting down into the range of 'expendable electronics'. Aw, I didn't take care of it and it got a scratch... (buys a new one)
$4 extra on a notebook is nothing. But these and other companies are working on low-cost wireless devices. $4 per chip set means a heck of a lot more to say Nintendo with their Wireless DS, and upcoming Wireless Revolution.
Apple has base stations of various flavors. MS is going to have wireless in Xbox 360 as an add-on, etc. I can see the interest these and other companies have in bringing the price of this tech down, especially if they tried to navigate for bulk rates and failed.
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You make it sound like there aren't any more kids growing into that 5-10 year range.
My God! What have You done to all the children?
A curious choice. But I suppose if they didn't want to go to any effort to future proof the process and just wanted something cheap to go up against those $60 dollar motion activated Genesis knockoffs that CVS tends to carry this time of year... And it's obvious that people buying a Wii Mini aren't going to be focused on the latest and greatest Wii U stuff they want to be promoting on the Nintendo Channel... Still, it's a moderate shame about the Wii Shop and handful of online games.
*ponder* Does the Mini have fixed system memory and no SD Card support now too? I suppose without SD Card support it wouldn't have the save space memory for as many games/downloads either.
-OS X - Not really Apple's big innovation. It was their acquisition of NeXTStep that lead to OS X and the return of Steve Jobs and innovation at Apple.
Even worse, I believe Gil was nearly all ready to slap Macintosh Widgets atop of NeXTSTep and call it a day. I do believe it was Steve again who pushed for tighter integration and the notion of 'Carbon programs' and 'Cocoa programs' and everything looking like the same kind of bright and happy OSX Full featured application.
Along those lines... How close do you think Apple is to already having such a Graphics software package? They've been sparring with Adobe around the edges for a bit with their video programs and such. And just like Microsoft Office and iWork, it's possibly a critical enough area for Apple to have some investment in preserving whether or not Adobe agrees.
Oddly enough. It seems a lot easier to grab content if it's in Flash Video format. Sites seem to expect to have their web server, flash apps and javascript do all the fancy access controls. But if you can see the video, you can find the flv url. Download it and convert it.
From some other sites, just having enough of the flash url from a locked preview was enough to grab the entire movie.
Silly webdesigners.
Heh. Youtube was one of the first things we ended up doing with the Wii browser. Nice to sit back and watch and browse the videos and the Wii plays them back quite well. I do happen to kvetch that of all places, wii.ign.com's videos do not work currently under the Wii browser (They need a later version of the flash plugin)
Certainly helpful since my love wanted to watch the videos, but her own computer was a bit antiquated to be up to date on all plug-ins and have the necessary horsepower.
Wii browsing can be a little hit or miss, and still has some bugs. (My Wii freezes trying to visit http://cuteoverload.com/ for instance) but works pretty well. Don't forget that the 2-button can fit pages into a cell-phone style single column mode which can work beautifully on long articles so you don't need to be scrolling side to side to read thing after zooming in on them.
And on the freezes, I did submit that as a bug/feedback to Nintendo. As to IGN, I just complained about that to them in their feedback.
While there were 3D adventures before Mario64. Mario64 was the first one with the concept of 'push in the direction you want to go.' While that's fairly common now, everyone before then was using Resident Evil controls, Forward-Back + Left-Right.
And in response to another post: while the C buttons were extra buttons, they were concepted as camera control. Hence they weren't x, y, z, etc, but were all C-up, C-down, and so on. And were later merged into a single analog C stick on the Gamecube. Nintendo was trying to address the problems it saw in controlling games in 3D. Both in manipulating your character and in viewing the world around you.
On Apple's site I found this information on Secure iChat AV:
.Mac account, even a second email under another .Mac account won't cut it.
.Mac identity key is automatically generated and all on the .Mac servers. And well, is most likely to be there regardless of which Mac you use.
.Mac iDisk connections or what not. Mayhaps other folks could play with it and send feedback for better privacy options?
http://www.mac.com/1/ichat.html
In summary:
You need a full
The Tax is a curiosity. But I wonder if it's a result of trying to balance ease of use and all that. Seeing as the
However, I could see corporations wanting the security and not wanting to allow
Oddly enough, when taking one of my puppies out for a walk in Nintendogs the other day, I did find a Mario Kart RC car.
So you can tool it around and into your puppies. They don't like it when you do it at high speeds.
Nintendo's history is quite full of iterations of compatible Game Boy . They seem to do it for a couple of reasons. Cost control both in terms of what they charge the public and what they have to pay to suppliers. And the other reason is their main competitor in the GB space is rarely another portable, but other devices. This GB Micro looks pegged to fit in with current trends in tiny cell phones that can play games anywhere.
The only version of the GB that ever felt rushed was the GB Color. Stuck out there as a placeholder versus the Neo Geo pocket until the current GBA itself was ready.
As for buyers of the micro? People who found the existing GBs too big/pricey/tendy enough, or just because the GB itself is getting down into the range of 'expendable electronics'. Aw, I didn't take care of it and it got a scratch... (buys a new one)
$4 extra on a notebook is nothing. But these and other companies are working on low-cost wireless devices. $4 per chip set means a heck of a lot more to say Nintendo with their Wireless DS, and upcoming Wireless Revolution.
Apple has base stations of various flavors. MS is going to have wireless in Xbox 360 as an add-on, etc. I can see the interest these and other companies have in bringing the price of this tech down, especially if they tried to navigate for bulk rates and failed.