So if you are content with whatever software is out there for OS/2 (old versions of browsers, etc)
I don't know how you could be. The reason I bit the bullet and gave up OS/2 Warp for Windown 95 ten-plus years ago was that the new releases of Netscape 2.x that web developers were starting to target didn't have native OS/2 versions, and the Windows 3.x binaries constantly crashed OS/2's Win16 subsystem.
Regardless, the golden years of REXX, and for that matter OS/2, have passed. The world has moved on, barring some pockets of legacy code here and there.
Didn't we all JUST go through a migration to a new video signal hardware standard, when we gave up VGA, et al in favor of DVI? Like within the past five years?
What benefit does HDMI offer to anyone? Besides giving content manufacturers an opportunity to get HDCP in?
The questions I raised were valid, were not addressed in the TFA, and at the time I wrote the comment I wasn't aware of any previous commenters addressing the same points. What other criteria could you possibily be applying, Moderators? Do you even know the definition of the word?
1. Why would I want to drive to the nearest Blockbuster location when I can download an iPod movie from the comfort of my very own cable modem?
2. IIRC, the current max resolution of the iPods with video is somewhere around QVGA, 320x240. How is that going to look when scaled up to a 47" 720p HDTV home theater system?
Experts also go into these reviews with their own 'professional' bias against specific companies, models and brands
If the tests were properly conducted as double-blind tests where the experts didn't know the specific company, model and brand of the TV set they were judging, a lot of that bias could be discounted.
(Of course, this isn't entirely possible -- even if you put a piece of electrical tape over the insignia, a consumer electronics expert is going to be able to recognize the make from as little as the design of the cabinet, or the font used by the on screen display. But still -- they should TRY.)
I know some people (even musicians!) who are just fine with listening to 64kbps mp3s, and can tell the difference between that and 192kbps, but don't care enough to prefer 192.
My theory is that the musicians don't care about the fidelity that much because that's not what they're listening for. They're paying attention to the notes, not the frequencies.
My competing theory is that since many musicians play in heavily amplified situations without hearing protection, their sensitivity to certain frequencies is blown out anyway.
Actually, it's supposed to be a "third family" - not a home console, not a Game Boy, but something entirely different. At least, that's Nintendo's line.
True, but I can't see the Gameboy and DS lines continuing to coexist more than a year or two longer. The DS is in essence the successor to the Gameboy line -- much like the SNES was the successor to the NES, even though Nintendo released a SNES-styled top-loading version of their 8-bit console around the same time.
The point is, a user wants to be able to access his connection to the internet from his Nintendo DS via his wireless access point. How can he do that, without also allowing anyone else within range to access his internet connection as well?
Currently, the best option available to do this is probably to use 128-bit WEP encryption, and set up the access point to only route traffic to and from wireless devices with whitelisted MAC addresses. This method reduces but does not eliminate the chance of having the access point compromised, but it's also a pain to reconfigure the firewall every time a friend with a wireless notebook (or a second DS) comes by.
what about future DS versions such as the DS Lite? Do they plan to integrate it with the built in UI?
I doubt it. For one, it would push the price of the DS Lite back up above $150. For another, it doesn't seem to fit Nintendo's marketing strategy to give every 8-year-old customer unfettered access to the entirely of the world wide web.
Also since the cartridges are read/write, will it be possible to upgrade the browser through the net if they discover any potentially harmful security risks (buffer overflows) or new features?
I would expect most of the Opera executable code to be stored in read-only memory on the DS cartridge; it's cheaper and also more secure than using read/write memory. That doesn't preclude the possibility of hotfixes, though; the cart could contain a small amount of Flash memory that bugfixes could be downloaded to, and deprecated codepaths diverted away from ROM whenever necessary at runtime.
I have done a bit of web browsing on the psp, and while my eyes aren't perfect, I considered the psp's screen to be the "bare minimum" one really needs to be able to read web pages.
To be able to read web pages using the layout that the designers originally created from, that being a 1024x768 computer screen, perhaps. If you just want access to the contents of a page and don't care if the layout is compromised, screens the size and resolution of the DS's ought to be fine for anybody.
Also, will the Opera cartridge contain a firmware update that will finally allow DS units to use WPA instead of the pitiful WEP?
AFAIK, DS tiles implement all WiFi encryption methods in software, not in firmware. A game like Mario Kart DS, where multiplayer gameplay requires very precise timing, might not have CPU cycles to spare to do WPA encryption/decryption. On a browser title like Opera, where synchronization with other DS users is not an issue, WPA could be a more likely feature.
These aren't just games that push the systems, these are also games that put design before production, ie. concept above code, with consistency and playability above quick flashy gfx features (remember mode 9?)
Which is all well and good, but I thought the point of the article was to give attention to games that offered flashy gfx features above and beyond what it was thought the console hardware could perform -- a celebration of the coder that spent days optimizing interrupt timing in assembly language, not the game planner that spent months charting out storyline on a whiteboard.
Every hear of the thing that is 93,000,000 miles away called the Sun? It's causing global warming of Mars as well.
So is Mars getting progressively hotter and hotter at the same rate Earth is? Hard to say, since we've only had thermometers on the surface of Mars for a few years now.
Actually if you study history Mohammed and this ban of followers actually attacked far more people than ever attempted to attack them.
Depends on whose accounts of history you study, doesn't it?
I mean, yeah, if one is reading tomes from the Holy Roman Empire, one shouldn't be surprised to see the opposing force of The Crusades portrayed as bloodthirsty imperialists.
What I like to propose, though, is that the people who go on a crusade, a jihad or some related adventure don't do this after studying their holy book thoroughly. I'd consider it more likely that these people are simply doing what everyone around them is doing or what is told by some Ayatollah or Immam.
This I agree with. We all know it's not the "spiritual" leadership of such movements that straps bombs to themselves and detonates them in populated areas. They enlist impressionable, uninformed people to do their dirty work for them.
then the prices dropped until you could buy the same 40 minute album on a brand new CD for $15.00 in 1988. Since then the average price of CDs has gone up and you are typically paiying $19-21 per new CD.
Prices may vary by locale, but who pays ~$US20 for a single-disc CD? Amazon.com and its competitors have an average price somewhere around $14; brick-and-mortar record stores charge something like $16 for popular new releases and $18 for everything else.
Keep in mind that while CD prices have risen since the late 1980s (though not even at the pace of inflation), so has the amount of content included on the disc. Early releases came in around 40 minutes because that's all that could reasonably fit on a standard LP. But as the Compact Disc has come into its own as a format in its own right, producers have begun putting more and more music on there. CDs with a running time of 1 hour are not uncommon, and many use the full 74- or 80-minute capacity of the disc.
It used to be possible to defend Islam to the right wingers in this country (USA) by saying that the terrorism and violence were coming from a relatively tiny number of the practicers of that faith with a very screwed up idea of what that faith meant. No more.
Why not?
There's something like one and a half billion Muslims in the world. That's one out of every 4 or 5 people.
You can have 10,000 Muslims rioting in the streets over an offensive depiction of their prophet -- you could have TEN MILLION Muslims rioting -- and it is still a tiny minority of the entire faith.
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So if you are content with whatever software is out there for OS/2 (old versions of browsers, etc)
I don't know how you could be. The reason I bit the bullet and gave up OS/2 Warp for Windown 95 ten-plus years ago was that the new releases of Netscape 2.x that web developers were starting to target didn't have native OS/2 versions, and the Windows 3.x binaries constantly crashed OS/2's Win16 subsystem.
REXX is a poor replacement for Perl.
But an elegant replacement for BASIC!
Regardless, the golden years of REXX, and for that matter OS/2, have passed. The world has moved on, barring some pockets of legacy code here and there.
HDMI is the physical standard
Didn't we all JUST go through a migration to a new video signal hardware standard, when we gave up VGA, et al in favor of DVI? Like within the past five years?
What benefit does HDMI offer to anyone? Besides giving content manufacturers an opportunity to get HDCP in?
Use CVS or some other revisioning system.
Submitter is not even sure what people mean by "libraries" and "APIs". I think he's looking for information a little more basic than that.
How the heck is my post above "Redundant"?
The questions I raised were valid, were not addressed in the TFA, and at the time I wrote the comment I wasn't aware of any previous commenters addressing the same points. What other criteria could you possibily be applying, Moderators? Do you even know the definition of the word?
1. Why would I want to drive to the nearest Blockbuster location when I can download an iPod movie from the comfort of my very own cable modem?
2. IIRC, the current max resolution of the iPods with video is somewhere around QVGA, 320x240. How is that going to look when scaled up to a 47" 720p HDTV home theater system?
Experts also go into these reviews with their own 'professional' bias against specific companies, models and brands
If the tests were properly conducted as double-blind tests where the experts didn't know the specific company, model and brand of the TV set they were judging, a lot of that bias could be discounted.
(Of course, this isn't entirely possible -- even if you put a piece of electrical tape over the insignia, a consumer electronics expert is going to be able to recognize the make from as little as the design of the cabinet, or the font used by the on screen display. But still -- they should TRY.)
I know some people (even musicians!) who are just fine with listening to 64kbps mp3s, and can tell the difference between that and 192kbps, but don't care enough to prefer 192.
My theory is that the musicians don't care about the fidelity that much because that's not what they're listening for. They're paying attention to the notes, not the frequencies.
My competing theory is that since many musicians play in heavily amplified situations without hearing protection, their sensitivity to certain frequencies is blown out anyway.
Because then we linux fans can also churn out web pages that are an eyesore, full of bloat, proprietary ...
Linux fans aren't happy just churning out bloated eyesore DESKTOP apps anymore!
Actually, it's supposed to be a "third family" - not a home console, not a Game Boy, but something entirely different. At least, that's Nintendo's line.
True, but I can't see the Gameboy and DS lines continuing to coexist more than a year or two longer. The DS is in essence the successor to the Gameboy line -- much like the SNES was the successor to the NES, even though Nintendo released a SNES-styled top-loading version of their 8-bit console around the same time.
"They just have to be careful to note that while the top screen is RGB order, the bottom is BGR."
I'm not sure where this factoid came from. There's nothing on the NDSTech Wiki suggesting that the two screens have different sub-pixel orientations.
The point is, a user wants to be able to access his connection to the internet from his Nintendo DS via his wireless access point. How can he do that, without also allowing anyone else within range to access his internet connection as well?
Currently, the best option available to do this is probably to use 128-bit WEP encryption, and set up the access point to only route traffic to and from wireless devices with whitelisted MAC addresses. This method reduces but does not eliminate the chance of having the access point compromised, but it's also a pain to reconfigure the firewall every time a friend with a wireless notebook (or a second DS) comes by.
what about future DS versions such as the DS Lite? Do they plan to integrate it with the built in UI?
I doubt it. For one, it would push the price of the DS Lite back up above $150. For another, it doesn't seem to fit Nintendo's marketing strategy to give every 8-year-old customer unfettered access to the entirely of the world wide web.
Also since the cartridges are read/write, will it be possible to upgrade the browser through the net if they discover any potentially harmful security risks (buffer overflows) or new features?
I would expect most of the Opera executable code to be stored in read-only memory on the DS cartridge; it's cheaper and also more secure than using read/write memory. That doesn't preclude the possibility of hotfixes, though; the cart could contain a small amount of Flash memory that bugfixes could be downloaded to, and deprecated codepaths diverted away from ROM whenever necessary at runtime.
I have done a bit of web browsing on the psp, and while my eyes aren't perfect, I considered the psp's screen to be the "bare minimum" one really needs to be able to read web pages.
To be able to read web pages using the layout that the designers originally created from, that being a 1024x768 computer screen, perhaps. If you just want access to the contents of a page and don't care if the layout is compromised, screens the size and resolution of the DS's ought to be fine for anybody.
Also, will the Opera cartridge contain a firmware update that will finally allow DS units to use WPA instead of the pitiful WEP?
AFAIK, DS tiles implement all WiFi encryption methods in software, not in firmware. A game like Mario Kart DS, where multiplayer gameplay requires very precise timing, might not have CPU cycles to spare to do WPA encryption/decryption. On a browser title like Opera, where synchronization with other DS users is not an issue, WPA could be a more likely feature.
These aren't just games that push the systems, these are also games that put design before production, ie. concept above code, with consistency and playability above quick flashy gfx features (remember mode 9?)
Which is all well and good, but I thought the point of the article was to give attention to games that offered flashy gfx features above and beyond what it was thought the console hardware could perform -- a celebration of the coder that spent days optimizing interrupt timing in assembly language, not the game planner that spent months charting out storyline on a whiteboard.
attempts to merge a gelatinous cube with a Honda Civic have been less than successful.
I dunno, from what I hear the Element is selling pretty well.
Where did the trailer go when Optimus Prime transformed into the robot?
"Subspace", boviously.
It's the same place that 95% of Megatron's volume goes when he transforms into a gun, and where most of Kilgore Trout's penis exists.
Be wary of the machine-being. It wants blood. human blood.
Unlikely.
The robot in the video clip's alternate mode is a wheeled vehicle. Therefore, he is likely to be an Autobot, and thus harmless to humanity.
Unless he's a Stunticon or something, but I didn't spot a Scramble City gestalt connector anywhere on him, so I think we can safely rule that out.
Every hear of the thing that is 93,000,000 miles away called the Sun? It's causing global warming of Mars as well.
So is Mars getting progressively hotter and hotter at the same rate Earth is? Hard to say, since we've only had thermometers on the surface of Mars for a few years now.
"Something is coming out that day"
I hope it's a re-release of the original Apple I kit...!
Actually if you study history Mohammed and this ban of followers actually attacked far more people than ever attempted to attack them.
Depends on whose accounts of history you study, doesn't it?
I mean, yeah, if one is reading tomes from the Holy Roman Empire, one shouldn't be surprised to see the opposing force of The Crusades portrayed as bloodthirsty imperialists.
What I like to propose, though, is that the people who go on a crusade, a jihad or some related adventure don't do this after studying their holy book thoroughly. I'd consider it more likely that these people are simply doing what everyone around them is doing or what is told by some Ayatollah or Immam.
This I agree with. We all know it's not the "spiritual" leadership of such movements that straps bombs to themselves and detonates them in populated areas. They enlist impressionable, uninformed people to do their dirty work for them.
then the prices dropped until you could buy the same 40 minute album on a brand new CD for $15.00 in 1988. Since then the average price of CDs has gone up and you are typically paiying $19-21 per new CD.
Prices may vary by locale, but who pays ~$US20 for a single-disc CD? Amazon.com and its competitors have an average price somewhere around $14; brick-and-mortar record stores charge something like $16 for popular new releases and $18 for everything else.
Keep in mind that while CD prices have risen since the late 1980s (though not even at the pace of inflation), so has the amount of content included on the disc. Early releases came in around 40 minutes because that's all that could reasonably fit on a standard LP. But as the Compact Disc has come into its own as a format in its own right, producers have begun putting more and more music on there. CDs with a running time of 1 hour are not uncommon, and many use the full 74- or 80-minute capacity of the disc.
Would you like to meet my friend, VHS? He cost $25 a pop back in 1980
More likely, he cost $199 a pop and was sold exclusively to rental places, which charged people $5 a day to borrow him to recoup their costs.
It used to be possible to defend Islam to the right wingers in this country (USA) by saying that the terrorism and violence were coming from a relatively tiny number of the practicers of that faith with a very screwed up idea of what that faith meant. No more.
Why not?
There's something like one and a half billion Muslims in the world. That's one out of every 4 or 5 people.
You can have 10,000 Muslims rioting in the streets over an offensive depiction of their prophet -- you could have TEN MILLION Muslims rioting -- and it is still a tiny minority of the entire faith.