good point... very good point... distressing good point... and now that you remind me, those Apple fanboys will love to pay unlimited money for it. just tell them it shows how cool they are... maybe he should restrict, what kind of news they are allowed to read... wait... he already does that... and they're used to being censored, they like it... brave new world...
Murdoch said of the iPad: 'It's a real game-changer in the presentation of news,'
Hmm, sure, yes, the thing has something like a screen. Actually it is a screen. That would allow us to add those new thingies the PR guys talked about all the time. I think they call it "animations". And we could change those news during the day, not like this old printed stuff, with only one print a day. Sure, people would have to pay for it a little bit more, since they get more news. But those kids a surely used to pay for services they get from the internet...
there is an unlimited amount of oss game content available. reaching from game engines 2d, 3d, ogre, Panda3d, Irrlicht) hysics engines and what not to complete games in high quality. All of this in languages better suited for game programming (like python)
I really don't see what's that game about. It doesn't add anything new
So they hire people in the US to outsource work from the US?
I always thought outsourcing works, because people in China (or wherever) get paid less than in the countries the work comes from.
To bad the article doesn't state, how much they pay...
By now, a lot of these programs where kept alive by the fan base. Emulators are available for lots of old 8bit machines. For example I found several emulators for my old TI 99/4A, complete with cartridges of games and applications. Even single pieces of hardware where available, like the speech box and expansion box, which as a kid I wasn't able to afford at the time.
So what I guess they should do, is to store source codes (often available, since abandoned by the producers), and all the information of the hardware, chipsets etc, that one would need to built an emulator on some new hardware. Maybe it would even be possible to build a kind of "general emulator", that needs only to be fed with hardware information.
What about Chucks genome? he is indestructible and, after all, he invented genetics, didn't he?
But maybe his genome would be too complicated for research...
get yourself a nifty pyramid hat and be safe...
sorry, my pre-order site broke down after this message but you can order one in your reply. don't wait till it's too late!
next thing he'll complain about are ads for health products that are not healthy, but use green color to look "natural"
that's just how advertisement works...
But the shuttle is only relevant, if you want to bring people into space, which I think isn't the way to go for now. All we want to do, is bring equipment up there, satellites, telescopes, shoot robots to Mars...
Thanks for that real world information. I'm far from being a musician myself, I just played around with a few synthesizers twelve years ago and remembered, that there where several kinds of instruments (saxophones, flutes, violins) mentioned in magazines like "keyboard", that where able to produce midi data. So I just thought to drop in that info for people who worried how this would be possible at all.
Actually if the software will be able to process MIDI data, it should be able to process any kind of it, even if it's manually generated with sequencer software like Steinbergs.
But I agree, that those solutions didn't look like they have the "right feel" for professionals. But since some of them are quite expensive, there may be a market for them. Maybe they use this kind of equipment to produce midi files for background music in games or movies? They could be quite useful in all areas of studio music where you want to have the effect of playing a real instrument while still have the need to integrate the output in a midi setup. But I can only guess...
Guitars able to produce midi signals are rather common in music business. There are two basic technologies:
- Normal guitar with a kind of plug to read the string
- MIDI controller with guitar like input
I don't know if they use either of these, but technical details can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_guitar
If you are a politician in the second or third row, the main thing you want is media attention. Nobody ever looks at those politicians who are responsible for such boring things as data security. So if a large company as Google is recording data of us poor, innocent citizens (...add: too stupid to activate encryption...) then that's their chance. Especially since people here in Germany are a bit touchy about their private data. Mainly those of us, of course, who for the first time in their life hear, that a wireless lan is in fact... wireless...
Who knows, that noname guy responsible for this may make it into the higher ranks for the next elections? Would you miss such an opportunity?
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Alien deathshock reindeers storming Stockholm. All the secret files now on Wikileaks!
works good enough...
good point... very good point... distressing good point... and now that you remind me, those Apple fanboys will love to pay unlimited money for it. just tell them it shows how cool they are... maybe he should restrict, what kind of news they are allowed to read... wait... he already does that... and they're used to being censored, they like it... brave new world...
Murdoch said of the iPad: 'It's a real game-changer in the presentation of news,'
Hmm, sure, yes, the thing has something like a screen. Actually it is a screen. That would allow us to add those new thingies the PR guys talked about all the time. I think they call it "animations". And we could change those news during the day, not like this old printed stuff, with only one print a day. Sure, people would have to pay for it a little bit more, since they get more news. But those kids a surely used to pay for services they get from the internet...
how about a mini aquarium? would look funny...
after you got used to feed on small insects...
What's an iPad?
there is an unlimited amount of oss game content available. reaching from game engines 2d, 3d, ogre, Panda3d, Irrlicht) hysics engines and what not to complete games in high quality. All of this in languages better suited for game programming (like python) I really don't see what's that game about. It doesn't add anything new
next version will be able to replace the name with some nice insults...
or is it the taxpayers again?
So they hire people in the US to outsource work from the US? I always thought outsourcing works, because people in China (or wherever) get paid less than in the countries the work comes from. To bad the article doesn't state, how much they pay...
If it's to be really earthshaking: COBOL isn't that bad...
Can they really seize a company based in Israel? (And now in Russia, as the article says)
By now, a lot of these programs where kept alive by the fan base. Emulators are available for lots of old 8bit machines.
For example I found several emulators for my old TI 99/4A, complete with cartridges of games and applications. Even single pieces of hardware where available, like the speech box and expansion box, which as a kid I wasn't able to afford at the time.
So what I guess they should do, is to store source codes (often available, since abandoned by the producers), and all the information of the hardware, chipsets etc, that one would need to built an emulator on some new hardware. Maybe it would even be possible to build a kind of "general emulator", that needs only to be fed with hardware information.
Could you provide some details? We will protect you under both journalist shield laws and the clergy-lay confidentiality tradition...
and you have obviously more in common with him than you would like to admit (while your statement admits exactly that...) Anonymous Coward...
What about Chucks genome? he is indestructible and, after all, he invented genetics, didn't he? But maybe his genome would be too complicated for research...
get yourself a nifty pyramid hat and be safe... sorry, my pre-order site broke down after this message but you can order one in your reply. don't wait till it's too late!
they should have done this on New Year's Eve. but looks great...
next thing he'll complain about are ads for health products that are not healthy, but use green color to look "natural" that's just how advertisement works...
But the shuttle is only relevant, if you want to bring people into space, which I think isn't the way to go for now. All we want to do, is bring equipment up there, satellites, telescopes, shoot robots to Mars...
Thanks for that real world information. I'm far from being a musician myself, I just played around with a few synthesizers twelve years ago and remembered, that there where several kinds of instruments (saxophones, flutes, violins) mentioned in magazines like "keyboard", that where able to produce midi data. So I just thought to drop in that info for people who worried how this would be possible at all. Actually if the software will be able to process MIDI data, it should be able to process any kind of it, even if it's manually generated with sequencer software like Steinbergs. But I agree, that those solutions didn't look like they have the "right feel" for professionals. But since some of them are quite expensive, there may be a market for them. Maybe they use this kind of equipment to produce midi files for background music in games or movies? They could be quite useful in all areas of studio music where you want to have the effect of playing a real instrument while still have the need to integrate the output in a midi setup. But I can only guess...
Guitars able to produce midi signals are rather common in music business. There are two basic technologies: - Normal guitar with a kind of plug to read the string - MIDI controller with guitar like input I don't know if they use either of these, but technical details can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_guitar
If you are a politician in the second or third row, the main thing you want is media attention. Nobody ever looks at those politicians who are responsible for such boring things as data security. So if a large company as Google is recording data of us poor, innocent citizens (...add: too stupid to activate encryption...) then that's their chance. Especially since people here in Germany are a bit touchy about their private data. Mainly those of us, of course, who for the first time in their life hear, that a wireless lan is in fact... wireless... Who knows, that noname guy responsible for this may make it into the higher ranks for the next elections? Would you miss such an opportunity?
The touchscreen alone would've been quite impressive to them. To me at least, who was a nine year old kid at the time...
As long as they are monkey asses or horse asses...