They certainly don't have them out driving the Street View cars - I almost got flattened by one walking back from lunch today. Stay tuned for pics of my ass splattered across the asphalt geocoded to Largo, FL.
Gosling will be able to easily ensure that Google's Android code base is free of anything Oracle's disputing. For the long term, it only makes sense that the creator of Java is now involved in the language's biggest current flagship technology.
As a developer with experience in both C# and Java, C# is the spiritual sequel to J++. It was MS' answer to the then-war with Sun over Java on Windows, and a sad effort at that. A language tied directly to a single OS = BAD. As a Java coder, I can get a job developing on desktop PCs, Web applications, smartphones, Blu-Ray players and TVs, or Martian rovers. People get frustrated with Java because it's got some pretty obnoxiously verbose syntax, but it's well-respected for what it is. I find it comical when people flame Java's runtimes, and then love how they can run other languages' code in a JVM environment.
The right solution here is for somebody to make a TV/Internet service that allows 100% a la carte channel/content offerings. I have to pay $80 for TV to get all the stuff I want to see, but I have interest in fewer than 1% of what's available. I don't want your Music Choice, or your porn (I have my own of both). I don't want Martha Stewart. I don't even want football games other than the ones my team plays in.
Seriously, the best model for stuff like this is iTunes right now. For the last season of Stargate Atlantis, I didn't have a cable subscription, so I paid $20 for a 4-month season pass for SG:A, effectively paying $5 a month for the one show I cared about rather than $100 a month for a zillion shows that I couldn't care less for. I got all the episodes, in HD, when I wanted to watch them, and without commercial interruption. My only gripes are that the people who watched on TV got to see it a few days earlier, and that the video purchase ratings don't count as heavily when determining whether to renew a show.
Maybe that's the solution - let's take a recently cancelled show (pick any of the ones SyFy recently axed). Set a production budget for a season of the show, and then post online, "We need X dollars, which is X/20 subscriptions at $20 each. If we can get at least X/20 pre-order subscriptions, we'll have a season." I bet they'd make a pretty nice profit, and have nobody to share it with (except maybe Apple/Amazon/Netflix).
Hey execs, call Charlie Sheen. He's #WINNING all the time, right?
Seriously. This app is basically, "Turn your iPad into a TV while it's tethered to Time Warner service," which is effectively the opposite analog to TVs that now have Netflix/Vudu support built into them so you can turn it into a quasi-PC. If anything, the TV channel execs should have been more pissed about that, because eyeballs that used to watch reruns of Dawson's Creek are now checking out Netflix and other cheap/free streaming video options on their TV. This app is doing nothing more than making their content get seen by more people in more ways.
The reason they're pissed is because THEY want to sell streaming apps of their own, so you can buy the Glee app and pay every month for that. What they're not seeing is that you have to be tethered to home (and your TW internet connection), which makes this app only marginally useful. If you wanted to take your iPad to the beach and watch Glee, this app wouldn't help you and you'd need to buy the silly Glee app from the network anyway.
There's solid, liquid, gas, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jell-O . This phase also includes such phenomena as peanut butter and jelly (though not together in a sandwich; the bread acts as a catalyst that solidifies the compounds).
No news here - this technology has been available since the Phonecians invented the bow and arrow. The low-tech solution works like this:
1. Ow.
2. Where am I bleeding?
3. The shooter is most likely in the direction the wound is facing.
I won't mod you down, but I will counter with this - the problems causing this fire were in the design construction of the plant, likely occurring long before any of these guys worked there. You can't just unplug and move a nuclear reactor if the company running it won't pay the hundreds of millions of dollars it would take to build a new, safer one somewhere else. The COMPANY failed, sure. But these are wage slaves, regular Joes (or Keiichis) who had no say in the day to day plant operations, but are now taking that responsibility on their shoulders anyway to save lives.
As for your WW2 crack - For all our rhetoric about Iran and North Korea being rogue states that shouldn't have nuclear technology, we are the nation that made Hiroshima and Nagasaki glow in the dark, and remain the only nation that has ever used the power of the atom against an enemy. We are the nation that rounded up Japanese Americans into internment camps for no reason other than where their parents were born. Everybody does crappy things in war, and we shouldn't hold that against these people's grandchildren any more than we hope they hold our grandparents' crimes against us.
... for anybody who would put their lives on the line like this. The Japanese are better at this than anyone else on Earth - honor and duty above all else. I take my hat off to everybody within that radius still fighting to protect their countrymen.
Pretty much every war the US has fought in post-WW2 has found Americans being shot and killed with American-made weapons. I'm all for not doing that anymore.
I do. Eclipse's UI is easier (in my opinion), handles my dealings with multiple languages well, provides an easy, open plugin architecture... I acknowledge that it's a matter of opinion, and YMMV, but I'd rather develop in Eclipse than VS any day of the week.
While (as a game developer) I agree on the open-source game front, I've used both and I can say that Eclipse roundly thumps every square inch of Visual Studio's ass.
The thing with the 360 is that it's basically a PC. The identical form factor, with an incremental improvements in graphics chip and CPU, hard drive size, and maybe upgrading to 801.11n and gigabit Ethernet, is basically all they'd need to do a console refresh. It would be completely backward compatible. It's already got all the trappings you'd want (wifi, plenty of USB ports, improved cooling) except the ones it couldn't have (no way Sony lets them do Blu-Ray on it), and people love the controllers as evidenced by the fact that it changed very little from the original Xbox (especially when you throw Kinect into the mix). The 360 uses by and large the same APIs for development as Windows, so it'd be trivial to give the unit a DirectX 11-compatible GPU and almost instantly get all the benefits of modern PCs without sacrificing backward compatibility.
I think we'll see a Wii 2 in time for Christmas 2012, and an Xbox 3 isn't outside the realm of possibility for that same timeframe. Sony is still spending too much dev time trying to patch Geohot out of existence every two days to worry about a PS4. The Wii has the most ground to cover - it is by far the weakest in graphics, processing power and non-gaming multimedia capabilities, and its one novelty, motion gaming, has now been one-upped by both of its competitors. Nintendo NEEDS a new console to remain relevant in the living room, and its board room knows it. Remember, Nintendo doesn't generally announce new consoles until they're almost done (the 3DS wasn't even a rumor until about 4 months before its launch), so there could be Wii 2 prototypes running right now that we aren't aware of.
As a PC and console developer with over 50 different consoles connected to my TV, including everything from the Fairchild Channel F to the 360 and PS3 Slims, I consider myself something of an expert on this.
Since 1974 or so, the same pattern occurs. Consoles come out, with comparable graphics capability to the current-gen PCs. Everybody says, "Wow, look at these awesome graphics!" (I remember when they said that about the IntelliVision!) Then, the console is released, and it's the "current-gen" console for 4-5 years, effectively freezing innovation on that console. During that time, several revisions of the bleeding edge in PCs occur. Right now, the current-gen consoles are running on 2006 tech, so everybody correctly says, "Wow, the PC can do so much more with 5 years more evolution than the Xbox!" and they're right. But when the Xbox 720, PS4, and (insert ridiculous name Nintendo comes up with for new console here) come out this/next year, the gap will be closed, and everybody will sound stunned with their "Console gaming is back!" articles. Rinse and repeat in another 5 years.
The only way to break the cycle would be more frequent updates of the consoles, which defeats one of the biggest draws to console gaming, the "No matter what, if you have an Xbox, you can play this game and have a good experience" factor. Compare that to the middle-to-high-end gaming PC I bought in May 2010, which now can't run 80% of the games being released this summer on their optimum settings. PC gaming is for people who want to pour money into upgrading their hardware every 6 months, and console gamers are people who would rather spend that $200 on the Assassin's Creed box set that includes actual DNA from Ezio Auditore than another 8 gigs of video RAM.
This is a non-story.
If only I had mod points, I'd mod this way up. A guy in my high school made the same type of comment when they banned a bunch of books. He said, I found a book in the school library that has rape, murder, incest, genocide, graphic sex, etc. etc. in it. The school demanded he produce the book so they could ban it from the library, and he handed them a copy of the King James Bible.
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Quick, enroll this kid in MIT, get him 7 degrees, and drop him off in the desert. I need a Quantum Leap Accelerator.
He thinks this is that "John & Kate + 8" guy. That's "Gosselin", not "Gosling". Idiot.
They certainly don't have them out driving the Street View cars - I almost got flattened by one walking back from lunch today. Stay tuned for pics of my ass splattered across the asphalt geocoded to Largo, FL.
Gosling will be able to easily ensure that Google's Android code base is free of anything Oracle's disputing. For the long term, it only makes sense that the creator of Java is now involved in the language's biggest current flagship technology. As a developer with experience in both C# and Java, C# is the spiritual sequel to J++. It was MS' answer to the then-war with Sun over Java on Windows, and a sad effort at that. A language tied directly to a single OS = BAD. As a Java coder, I can get a job developing on desktop PCs, Web applications, smartphones, Blu-Ray players and TVs, or Martian rovers. People get frustrated with Java because it's got some pretty obnoxiously verbose syntax, but it's well-respected for what it is. I find it comical when people flame Java's runtimes, and then love how they can run other languages' code in a JVM environment.
Slap a Kinect on it, and you can get 3D terrain maps from above to look for smaller impact craters. See: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/01/24/1710210/Kinect-Hack-Builds-3D-Maps-of-the-Real-World Also, recommend a few Hellfire missiles. Just in case.
The right solution here is for somebody to make a TV/Internet service that allows 100% a la carte channel/content offerings. I have to pay $80 for TV to get all the stuff I want to see, but I have interest in fewer than 1% of what's available. I don't want your Music Choice, or your porn (I have my own of both). I don't want Martha Stewart. I don't even want football games other than the ones my team plays in. Seriously, the best model for stuff like this is iTunes right now. For the last season of Stargate Atlantis, I didn't have a cable subscription, so I paid $20 for a 4-month season pass for SG:A, effectively paying $5 a month for the one show I cared about rather than $100 a month for a zillion shows that I couldn't care less for. I got all the episodes, in HD, when I wanted to watch them, and without commercial interruption. My only gripes are that the people who watched on TV got to see it a few days earlier, and that the video purchase ratings don't count as heavily when determining whether to renew a show. Maybe that's the solution - let's take a recently cancelled show (pick any of the ones SyFy recently axed). Set a production budget for a season of the show, and then post online, "We need X dollars, which is X/20 subscriptions at $20 each. If we can get at least X/20 pre-order subscriptions, we'll have a season." I bet they'd make a pretty nice profit, and have nobody to share it with (except maybe Apple/Amazon/Netflix).
Hey execs, call Charlie Sheen. He's #WINNING all the time, right? Seriously. This app is basically, "Turn your iPad into a TV while it's tethered to Time Warner service," which is effectively the opposite analog to TVs that now have Netflix/Vudu support built into them so you can turn it into a quasi-PC. If anything, the TV channel execs should have been more pissed about that, because eyeballs that used to watch reruns of Dawson's Creek are now checking out Netflix and other cheap/free streaming video options on their TV. This app is doing nothing more than making their content get seen by more people in more ways. The reason they're pissed is because THEY want to sell streaming apps of their own, so you can buy the Glee app and pay every month for that. What they're not seeing is that you have to be tethered to home (and your TW internet connection), which makes this app only marginally useful. If you wanted to take your iPad to the beach and watch Glee, this app wouldn't help you and you'd need to buy the silly Glee app from the network anyway.
There's solid, liquid, gas, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jell-O . This phase also includes such phenomena as peanut butter and jelly (though not together in a sandwich; the bread acts as a catalyst that solidifies the compounds).
The Mayans correctly predicted "the end of Forever" at December 2012, back when the game was announced 2,000 years ago.
./pvc ./shibari ./ducttape
? ;)
Would make it easier to job hunt!
/var/media/video/bondage/ ?
Love the "department" - rockin' the old school Zelda ;)
Agreed - Should have given the first 3 chapters free as an Ebook, then charged $5 for the full Ebook or $X for the print version.
No news here - this technology has been available since the Phonecians invented the bow and arrow. The low-tech solution works like this: 1. Ow. 2. Where am I bleeding? 3. The shooter is most likely in the direction the wound is facing.
I won't mod you down, but I will counter with this - the problems causing this fire were in the design construction of the plant, likely occurring long before any of these guys worked there. You can't just unplug and move a nuclear reactor if the company running it won't pay the hundreds of millions of dollars it would take to build a new, safer one somewhere else. The COMPANY failed, sure. But these are wage slaves, regular Joes (or Keiichis) who had no say in the day to day plant operations, but are now taking that responsibility on their shoulders anyway to save lives. As for your WW2 crack - For all our rhetoric about Iran and North Korea being rogue states that shouldn't have nuclear technology, we are the nation that made Hiroshima and Nagasaki glow in the dark, and remain the only nation that has ever used the power of the atom against an enemy. We are the nation that rounded up Japanese Americans into internment camps for no reason other than where their parents were born. Everybody does crappy things in war, and we shouldn't hold that against these people's grandchildren any more than we hope they hold our grandparents' crimes against us.
... for anybody who would put their lives on the line like this. The Japanese are better at this than anyone else on Earth - honor and duty above all else. I take my hat off to everybody within that radius still fighting to protect their countrymen.
Pretty much every war the US has fought in post-WW2 has found Americans being shot and killed with American-made weapons. I'm all for not doing that anymore.
I do. Eclipse's UI is easier (in my opinion), handles my dealings with multiple languages well, provides an easy, open plugin architecture... I acknowledge that it's a matter of opinion, and YMMV, but I'd rather develop in Eclipse than VS any day of the week.
While (as a game developer) I agree on the open-source game front, I've used both and I can say that Eclipse roundly thumps every square inch of Visual Studio's ass.
The thing with the 360 is that it's basically a PC. The identical form factor, with an incremental improvements in graphics chip and CPU, hard drive size, and maybe upgrading to 801.11n and gigabit Ethernet, is basically all they'd need to do a console refresh. It would be completely backward compatible. It's already got all the trappings you'd want (wifi, plenty of USB ports, improved cooling) except the ones it couldn't have (no way Sony lets them do Blu-Ray on it), and people love the controllers as evidenced by the fact that it changed very little from the original Xbox (especially when you throw Kinect into the mix). The 360 uses by and large the same APIs for development as Windows, so it'd be trivial to give the unit a DirectX 11-compatible GPU and almost instantly get all the benefits of modern PCs without sacrificing backward compatibility.
I think we'll see a Wii 2 in time for Christmas 2012, and an Xbox 3 isn't outside the realm of possibility for that same timeframe. Sony is still spending too much dev time trying to patch Geohot out of existence every two days to worry about a PS4. The Wii has the most ground to cover - it is by far the weakest in graphics, processing power and non-gaming multimedia capabilities, and its one novelty, motion gaming, has now been one-upped by both of its competitors. Nintendo NEEDS a new console to remain relevant in the living room, and its board room knows it. Remember, Nintendo doesn't generally announce new consoles until they're almost done (the 3DS wasn't even a rumor until about 4 months before its launch), so there could be Wii 2 prototypes running right now that we aren't aware of.
As a PC and console developer with over 50 different consoles connected to my TV, including everything from the Fairchild Channel F to the 360 and PS3 Slims, I consider myself something of an expert on this. Since 1974 or so, the same pattern occurs. Consoles come out, with comparable graphics capability to the current-gen PCs. Everybody says, "Wow, look at these awesome graphics!" (I remember when they said that about the IntelliVision!) Then, the console is released, and it's the "current-gen" console for 4-5 years, effectively freezing innovation on that console. During that time, several revisions of the bleeding edge in PCs occur. Right now, the current-gen consoles are running on 2006 tech, so everybody correctly says, "Wow, the PC can do so much more with 5 years more evolution than the Xbox!" and they're right. But when the Xbox 720, PS4, and (insert ridiculous name Nintendo comes up with for new console here) come out this/next year, the gap will be closed, and everybody will sound stunned with their "Console gaming is back!" articles. Rinse and repeat in another 5 years. The only way to break the cycle would be more frequent updates of the consoles, which defeats one of the biggest draws to console gaming, the "No matter what, if you have an Xbox, you can play this game and have a good experience" factor. Compare that to the middle-to-high-end gaming PC I bought in May 2010, which now can't run 80% of the games being released this summer on their optimum settings. PC gaming is for people who want to pour money into upgrading their hardware every 6 months, and console gamers are people who would rather spend that $200 on the Assassin's Creed box set that includes actual DNA from Ezio Auditore than another 8 gigs of video RAM. This is a non-story.
If only I had mod points, I'd mod this way up. A guy in my high school made the same type of comment when they banned a bunch of books. He said, I found a book in the school library that has rape, murder, incest, genocide, graphic sex, etc. etc. in it. The school demanded he produce the book so they could ban it from the library, and he handed them a copy of the King James Bible.
The guy should have reached out to this Facebook group... http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/Assassin's_Creed:_Project_Legacy