Hmm I hear you and raise you a many great ideas but too many developers churning out identical sequels of originally very unimaginative ideas.
If you want to play something fresh these days it seems you have to look to the tiny indie developers. It seems that that creativity these days is seen as something far too risky for the heavyweights to invest in.
In reference to a previous post that said ''The Desire’s poor performance in daylight'' struck me as very wrong in my experience.
I stood with my partner on a sunny London street today, she held an iPhone and I held the HTC Desire both studying google maps to find out where the hell we were. Where as the iPhone was unreadable and forced my partner to retreat into the shade of a building I could still easily read the HTC Desires map. When we held the phones together the difference was pretty huge, although this might perhaps contribute to the seemingly shorter battery life of the Desire.
My partner has the iPhone and I myself have recently aquired the HTC desire and I have had a good chance to play around with both.
Without considering the different interfaces, a few notable differences have jumped out at me over the few days. The battery life on the iPhone when both running similar apps over a similar period of time appears to be greater however my HTC Desire is only a few days out of the box which other posts have suggested affect the battery life.
The display on the HTC is both brighter and easier to read when we both stood out in the sun.
The built in speaker sounds a clearer on the iPhone.
The rotation when you put the display horizontal is more responsive and quicker on the iPhone (sometimes you have to give the Desire a bit of a shake before it realises it should be horizontal)
Personally I prefer the feel and the user interface of the Desire over the iPhone but I have spent more time with the Desire. My previous phone suffered a toilet related watery death and I had lost everyone's phone number but from the moment I accessed Facebook with the Desire it hoovered up all my contacts names, phone numbers, email addresses and profile pictures and stored them in an area similar to my phones contact list which I thought was pretty amazing. It did bug up slightly though and one of my friends who's number shows up as a question mark has become the default name and picture for any unknown contact number. It was slightly disturbing at first when this bug first surfaced and it seemed that my friend was texting me my credit card balance. Not sure how it got everyone else's phone number though.
One caution is that you can get apps for both phones that show on a map where your friends who have their GPS active. I find it creepy that my girlfriend can load up a map and keep tabs on me when ever I leave the house.
Graphics don't make the game, they only colour it in. Games dependant on fantastic graphics tend to age like sour milk and have almost zero replay value.
Yes Apple have every right to market shape as much as they wish with their own product, which is exactly why yesterday, after counting down the last six months of my contract so I could finally get an iPhone, I proudly bought myself an Android phone instead.
Not that making them walk is likely to work anyway. The vast majority of cows are on massive corporate farm complexes and pumped so full of growth hormones that their legs can barely (and frequently cannot) support their own body weight.
Probably be cheaper and more humane to catch cow farts and burn it to power turbines.
People are missing a day or two at most from their yuppie business flights or holidays in the sun and that is all that seems to be reported in the news. Boo hoo. It's not really comparable to the Icelandic farmers who are watching their crops and livestock wither and die as their entire lively hoods crumble before their very eyes. Which gets the headlines?
To be honest were all just guesing about a guess. It might have been big and yet the central gameplay mechanic around it or plenty of other imaginable problems and it fails. We will never know and I'm not sure why were are discussing hindsight 'what if's' about a game that was never made.
It is always annoying that people regard World of Warcraft as the first MMORPG, considering it was basically Blizzards own version of Everquest which was out years before and Everquest was just a 3d version of Ultima Online with added group mechanics (tank, DPS, healing and crowd control).
I guess what is ever remembered is not who did it first, but who first did it right.
It's probably just to pay for the fancy NASA space pens. We all know the Russian technology of pencils break American health and safety regulations and they probably refuse to fly without them.
Yes up until 5 minutes ago I was ready to vote Labour if only to stop the Tory animals getting in. The biggest problem is not splintered liberal parties but the medieval outdated voting system. The idea that voting is done on a single tier and you do not even get a second choice means parties are often voted in purely to stop others succeeding. Even shows like those horrible talent(less?) contests have a slightly more modern tiered voting system.
Very true, most of the reaction seems very justifiable in an unstable region coupled with typical media spin which is usually of dubious accuracy to begin with.
Consider not your 1960's example but instead the mass panic and pandemonium in 1931 following the broadcast of War of the Worlds despite repeat statements throughout the show advising that it was a work of fiction.
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Hmm I hear you and raise you a many great ideas but too many developers churning out identical sequels of originally very unimaginative ideas.
If you want to play something fresh these days it seems you have to look to the tiny indie developers. It seems that that creativity these days is seen as something far too risky for the heavyweights to invest in.
In reference to a previous post that said ''The Desire’s poor performance in daylight'' struck me as very wrong in my experience. I stood with my partner on a sunny London street today, she held an iPhone and I held the HTC Desire both studying google maps to find out where the hell we were. Where as the iPhone was unreadable and forced my partner to retreat into the shade of a building I could still easily read the HTC Desires map. When we held the phones together the difference was pretty huge, although this might perhaps contribute to the seemingly shorter battery life of the Desire.
My partner has the iPhone and I myself have recently aquired the HTC desire and I have had a good chance to play around with both. Without considering the different interfaces, a few notable differences have jumped out at me over the few days. The battery life on the iPhone when both running similar apps over a similar period of time appears to be greater however my HTC Desire is only a few days out of the box which other posts have suggested affect the battery life. The display on the HTC is both brighter and easier to read when we both stood out in the sun. The built in speaker sounds a clearer on the iPhone. The rotation when you put the display horizontal is more responsive and quicker on the iPhone (sometimes you have to give the Desire a bit of a shake before it realises it should be horizontal) Personally I prefer the feel and the user interface of the Desire over the iPhone but I have spent more time with the Desire. My previous phone suffered a toilet related watery death and I had lost everyone's phone number but from the moment I accessed Facebook with the Desire it hoovered up all my contacts names, phone numbers, email addresses and profile pictures and stored them in an area similar to my phones contact list which I thought was pretty amazing. It did bug up slightly though and one of my friends who's number shows up as a question mark has become the default name and picture for any unknown contact number. It was slightly disturbing at first when this bug first surfaced and it seemed that my friend was texting me my credit card balance. Not sure how it got everyone else's phone number though. One caution is that you can get apps for both phones that show on a map where your friends who have their GPS active. I find it creepy that my girlfriend can load up a map and keep tabs on me when ever I leave the house.
Graphics don't make the game, they only colour it in. Games dependant on fantastic graphics tend to age like sour milk and have almost zero replay value.
Seems to me theres a lot of positive score for the pro Apple posts. Is there a Slashdot moderation app for the iPhone or something?
Yes Apple have every right to market shape as much as they wish with their own product, which is exactly why yesterday, after counting down the last six months of my contract so I could finally get an iPhone, I proudly bought myself an Android phone instead.
Not that making them walk is likely to work anyway. The vast majority of cows are on massive corporate farm complexes and pumped so full of growth hormones that their legs can barely (and frequently cannot) support their own body weight. Probably be cheaper and more humane to catch cow farts and burn it to power turbines.
People are missing a day or two at most from their yuppie business flights or holidays in the sun and that is all that seems to be reported in the news. Boo hoo. It's not really comparable to the Icelandic farmers who are watching their crops and livestock wither and die as their entire lively hoods crumble before their very eyes. Which gets the headlines?
Surely this is more a case of haggling. Ask for an infeasible price knowing you then have more scope to haggle down to a still unfair price.
To be honest were all just guesing about a guess. It might have been big and yet the central gameplay mechanic around it or plenty of other imaginable problems and it fails. We will never know and I'm not sure why were are discussing hindsight 'what if's' about a game that was never made.
'It doesn't matter' Please tell me the title of your post was a pun on big ban theory.
It is always annoying that people regard World of Warcraft as the first MMORPG, considering it was basically Blizzards own version of Everquest which was out years before and Everquest was just a 3d version of Ultima Online with added group mechanics (tank, DPS, healing and crowd control). I guess what is ever remembered is not who did it first, but who first did it right.
The Earth is already covered in efficient origami solar panels, its just that regular people call them plants.
It's probably just to pay for the fancy NASA space pens. We all know the Russian technology of pencils break American health and safety regulations and they probably refuse to fly without them.
Yes up until 5 minutes ago I was ready to vote Labour if only to stop the Tory animals getting in. The biggest problem is not splintered liberal parties but the medieval outdated voting system. The idea that voting is done on a single tier and you do not even get a second choice means parties are often voted in purely to stop others succeeding. Even shows like those horrible talent(less?) contests have a slightly more modern tiered voting system.
Very true, most of the reaction seems very justifiable in an unstable region coupled with typical media spin which is usually of dubious accuracy to begin with. Consider not your 1960's example but instead the mass panic and pandemonium in 1931 following the broadcast of War of the Worlds despite repeat statements throughout the show advising that it was a work of fiction.