This really looks like some pure crazy psychotic pleasure. Its black and white and red - the red being blood, and the black and white being everything else. I won't be buying it, but I am sure that there is a whole army of people who will.
I bought the Wii for the same reasons, and as much as I want to stick with it there is a good lack of game variety. Mind you checking with PS3 catalogue doesn't yield much of a better selection, though there are slightly more teen-adult oriented titles. I am subscribed to Nintendo Power and when I open it I hope I will see an RPG. Often I do, but it turns out that it is for the DS. Seeing that Tales of Symphonia was released for the Wii I jumped at the opportunity to buy it. There is one or two things they could improve, but having played an older version on the PS2 I was happy that it matched the game play I knew and liked.
Sweet, I smell money in turning a magic 8 ball into an India and Egypt compatible GPS:
1. Ask where you are 2. Shake the 'GPS' 3. Get presented with answers such as "You are here", "You aren't there", "You are on Earth", "You are lost", "Ask again later", "Use a Map"
Though in some cases this may still be too much information for local authorities;)
If I were a manufacturer, I wouldn't make anything in the US either. I wouldn't even consider it.
This is why environmental controls should be imposed on the chain of supply. Just because you are manufacturing something in someone else's backyard doesn't suddenly make it environmentally friendly. The chain of supply should ensure that there are no environmental issues from the point of manufacture to the point of use and then on to the point of disposal.
Um, say gents, you can feel free to pool your resources on your own to develop new battery technology. However, there's no need for the government to pony up my tax dollars on this endeavour, especially considering how eager you folks are to outsource jobs overseas left and right, mm-kay?
Actually if the companies does get this grant, then it should come with strings attached. Basically all research must be done in the US, giving priority to existing US resident researchers. The government should impose that any new technology developed through this funding must be assigned to a public domain patent - the companies can patent it, but they won't be allowed to gain any licensing dollars from it. I take this stance because in some many other cases companies complain about government regulation - you either accept government intervention with the attached strings or you go out and spend some other investor's money with the strings they attach.
Looks interesting, but probably not very practical. Surely simply printing in draft mode and in grey-scale is an easier way? On screen this is probably going to be more headache than its worth.
I don't know what the truth is, but a device should take into account the manner in which it will be used and build in tolerance for that. When you have a cable attached to a device where the user will potentially will tug at it, the device should be able to deal with it. Doing so otherwise is like selling a CD player for a car, and then marking in the manual: "not to be used when car is moving", or Fisher Price toy marked as "not to be used by kids".
There is only so much you can blame the user, especially when the users you are blaming reach into a non-insignificant percentage of your client base.
I wonder whether some people would prefer a slight increase on the price of a console to include the ability to reorient it while a disk was playing inside without scratching the disc.
Fixed that for/.
Quite frankly with the number of iterations of the XBox 360 out there, you would have thought they would have fixed it somewhere along the line?
No. Vista's UAC is shifting blame on the user. The warning in the manual is merely a well-intentioned courtesy reminder which calls into question the perceived intelligence and common sense of its users. They might as well have included a warning like, "Do not drop into bathtub".
Manual? I knew there was something I didn't check;)
While this effort might be targeted at the MSI Wind, the work performed should allow any device that use the chipset to work with MacOS X. Think of PCI cards for MacPros, or USB sticks allowing older Macs to get 802.11N support.
I don't use IE, unless when I have to. At home its Safari or Firefox (less since I have been getting the _JS_FloorLog2 issue, which nobody wants to fix), on my Mac and then at the office, with Windows XP, it is generally Firefox and SR Iron. Since I do work in web development I do have to check stuff with IE7 (we have just been given the green light to drop IE6:) ), since like it or not the market share is still too large.
Yup, it really is amazing. I don't think anyone could have guessed it would have done so well.
I wonder how much this says something about the iPhone and how much this says of the competition. Of the competition, the way I see them:
- For me Windows mobile suffers from the fact it feel like a desktop OS shoe horned into a mobile device.
- Palm lost focus and the separation of hardware into two separate companies that caused more problems than it solved. Then there was the fact they decided to go with Windows mobile.
- RIM is still the better contender, but maybe purely focusing on a business solution limits the potential size of the market.
- Android suffers from the fact they don't control the hardware, so the quality of the experience depends as much on the device manufacturers as the work Google does.
While our voices and people of reasoning will make a good case for not extending the powers of copyright, beyond what they are now, I have to ask will it be enough to make a difference. We just need to look at the UK where proper reasoning was overridden by political and financial gain. Once again its a question of whether it is the governance for the few or the governance for the many.
You would have thought that the sandbox would prevent applications from doing unsanctioned things. This also gives more credibility to Apple's policy of validating third-party applications, despite possible flaws in the process.
The WebKit team and anyone who ever contributed to it should also get praise. Without it Chrome would never have seen the light of day. Google Chrome is essentially Google's chrome around the rendering engine and any tweaks they provided to WebKit.
Seeing this makes me want a coffee machine which has translucent or transparent sides so that you can see what it is doing inside. That would be a step closer to the Geek's dream coffee maker.
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One game that must be mentioned is Mad World:
http://www.sega.com/platinumgames/madworld/EnglishUK/index2.html
This really looks like some pure crazy psychotic pleasure. Its black and white and red - the red being blood, and the black and white being everything else. I won't be buying it, but I am sure that there is a whole army of people who will.
I bought the Wii for the same reasons, and as much as I want to stick with it there is a good lack of game variety. Mind you checking with PS3 catalogue doesn't yield much of a better selection, though there are slightly more teen-adult oriented titles. I am subscribed to Nintendo Power and when I open it I hope I will see an RPG. Often I do, but it turns out that it is for the DS. Seeing that Tales of Symphonia was released for the Wii I jumped at the opportunity to buy it. There is one or two things they could improve, but having played an older version on the PS2 I was happy that it matched the game play I knew and liked.
GPS information is an official secret?
"Where am I?"
"You have no right to know that."
Sweet, I smell money in turning a magic 8 ball into an India and Egypt compatible GPS:
1. Ask where you are
2. Shake the 'GPS'
3. Get presented with answers such as "You are here", "You aren't there", "You are on Earth", "You are lost", "Ask again later", "Use a Map"
Though in some cases this may still be too much information for local authorities ;)
If I were a manufacturer, I wouldn't make anything in the US either. I wouldn't even consider it.
This is why environmental controls should be imposed on the chain of supply. Just because you are manufacturing something in someone else's backyard doesn't suddenly make it environmentally friendly. The chain of supply should ensure that there are no environmental issues from the point of manufacture to the point of use and then on to the point of disposal.
Um, say gents, you can feel free to pool your resources on your own to develop new battery technology. However, there's no need for the government to pony up my tax dollars on this endeavour, especially considering how eager you folks are to outsource jobs overseas left and right, mm-kay?
Actually if the companies does get this grant, then it should come with strings attached. Basically all research must be done in the US, giving priority to existing US resident researchers. The government should impose that any new technology developed through this funding must be assigned to a public domain patent - the companies can patent it, but they won't be allowed to gain any licensing dollars from it. I take this stance because in some many other cases companies complain about government regulation - you either accept government intervention with the attached strings or you go out and spend some other investor's money with the strings they attach.
Looks interesting, but probably not very practical. Surely simply printing in draft mode and in grey-scale is an easier way? On screen this is probably going to be more headache than its worth.
This is unprecedented; this is the first time a magma has been found in its natural habitat
Is this professor also known as David Attenborough?
Possibly, but that quote makes me wonder whether my local Zoo is home to a nest of magma?
I don't know what the truth is, but a device should take into account the manner in which it will be used and build in tolerance for that. When you have a cable attached to a device where the user will potentially will tug at it, the device should be able to deal with it. Doing so otherwise is like selling a CD player for a car, and then marking in the manual: "not to be used when car is moving", or Fisher Price toy marked as "not to be used by kids".
There is only so much you can blame the user, especially when the users you are blaming reach into a non-insignificant percentage of your client base.
I wonder whether some people would prefer a slight increase on the price of a console to include the ability to reorient it while a disk was playing inside without scratching the disc.
Fixed that for /.
Quite frankly with the number of iterations of the XBox 360 out there, you would have thought they would have fixed it somewhere along the line?
No. Vista's UAC is shifting blame on the user. The warning in the manual is merely a well-intentioned courtesy reminder which calls into question the perceived intelligence and common sense of its users. They might as well have included a warning like, "Do not drop into bathtub".
Manual? I knew there was something I didn't check ;)
While this effort might be targeted at the MSI Wind, the work performed should allow any device that use the chipset to work with MacOS X. Think of PCI cards for MacPros, or USB sticks allowing older Macs to get 802.11N support.
I don't use IE, unless when I have to. At home its Safari or Firefox (less since I have been getting the _JS_FloorLog2 issue, which nobody wants to fix), on my Mac and then at the office, with Windows XP, it is generally Firefox and SR Iron. Since I do work in web development I do have to check stuff with IE7 (we have just been given the green light to drop IE6 :) ), since like it or not the market share is still too large.
Normally this is reserved for subscribers, so maybe it was a subliminal attempt to get you to subscribe ;)
Nah, I think he meant "Visa Mobile": http://usa.visa.com/personal/using_visa/visa-mobile/index.html
There is no reason it should be tied to one platform though.
Yup, it really is amazing. I don't think anyone could have guessed it would have done so well.
I wonder how much this says something about the iPhone and how much this says of the competition. Of the competition, the way I see them:
- For me Windows mobile suffers from the fact it feel like a desktop OS shoe horned into a mobile device.
- Palm lost focus and the separation of hardware into two separate companies that caused more problems than it solved. Then there was the fact they decided to go with Windows mobile.
- RIM is still the better contender, but maybe purely focusing on a business solution limits the potential size of the market.
- Android suffers from the fact they don't control the hardware, so the quality of the experience depends as much on the device manufacturers as the work Google does.
While our voices and people of reasoning will make a good case for not extending the powers of copyright, beyond what they are now, I have to ask will it be enough to make a difference. We just need to look at the UK where proper reasoning was overridden by political and financial gain. Once again its a question of whether it is the governance for the few or the governance for the many.
Do you happen to be a subscriber? If I remember from my stint as a subscriber, articles that are still only readable by subscribers are red.
You would have thought that the sandbox would prevent applications from doing unsanctioned things. This also gives more credibility to Apple's policy of validating third-party applications, despite possible flaws in the process.
What about Gmail?
It all depends where you are. Some places its Google Mail :)
So did Adam or Eve ever get out of beta?
The WebKit team and anyone who ever contributed to it should also get praise. Without it Chrome would never have seen the light of day. Google Chrome is essentially Google's chrome around the rendering engine and any tweaks they provided to WebKit.
That's pretty much like building a mind-reader to figure out if a person has ever committed a crime. Good luck with that.
Yup, but I wonder how long some new age fascist ^H^H^H^H^H^H government official wants to implement thought-crime.
Seeing this makes me want a coffee machine which has translucent or transparent sides so that you can see what it is doing inside. That would be a step closer to the Geek's dream coffee maker.
Some source for the iPhone is available, but it is a little behind in the release schedule:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/
Okay its probably not all there, but at least its something.
A better link for xACT is: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14246