You mean, the Tournament Edition sticks are *crap*? And only work on the consoles they were advertised for?
Shocker to me, I've been using the same stick SF4 champion Umehara Daigo's been using on my MacBook for awhile now. Hint: It's the 360 that refuses to use standard USB HID devices; not the PS3.
The X Arcade blows. Lousy chinese parts(Seriously, who plays on cheap Happ/iL knockoffs? Sanwa baby!), lousy layout(hint: Control panel layouts have evolved since 1988; see Taito Vewlix), and lousy PCB. Sure, you can get adapters of all kinds, but they largely have been lousy and laggy until about now.
Gimme a HRAP V or a VLX or a MadCatz Fightstick TE. Screw this crap. I want a decent stick.
Yeah because a year ago, that number was closer to %50, rather than dropping towards %30.
RIM, Google and Apple are the future of smart phones, not Nokia. Nokia's smartphone marketshare's going down. A lot. There's also nearly zero buzz among non-tech, non-suit types about Nokia's latest; and even among the techies and the suits, Nokia's shine's going away. Nokia had a chance to put together great devices; and failed miserably.
(I've got my doubts about RIM, but they're a nimble and entrenched enough company that they can get by).
Nokia's going bye bye as the king of international smart phone sales.
The field isn't just phones that run Windows Mobile, Symbian or Palm OS anymore.
Does any other phone have a better API & App dist system than N900?
Yeah, Objective-C and the iTunes App Store as well as Java and the Android Marketplace beat the hell out of, "Pick a language" and "Good luck, maybe you'll get in some apt repo."
Ovi's a joke and apt is something for purpose built linux installs; not mobile phones. Netbooks, tablets, and other tiny devices running explicitly Linux; sure, mobile phones or PMPs? No. Just, no.
Most of the time anyone's pitching something "light saber" like in their marketing materials, serious fucking laser burns aren't a problem. Blunt force trauma, maybe, but not laser burns.
I can see why Lucas is trying to get the association away from his name.
I consider myself an environmentalist, but my agenda only goes so far as wishing people would drive less and the city would put a bus stop near my home instead of one 2 miles away.
I would venture a guess that the biggest problem Microsoft is probably facing is that most development for a given start up is probably going to be some snazzy web service, and probably on some LAMP variant, with say, lighttpd in place of apache for cool Comet stuff.
When you're doing TCO calculations for a startup, Linux/Apache makes sense for your back end, which is probably going to be one of your biggest purchasing decisions.
He's still incredibly wrong. He's right, neither Apple, nor Amazon nor Rhapsody will pay you an upfront for your album.
That's not how the business model works for Apple, Amazon or Rhapsody.
Clearly, I'd say on one hand, he's a spoiled brat attached to an old way of making money off of records.
On the other hand, when you're an artist, you really shouldn't have to worry about the numbers in terms of sales. That's what your manager, your accountant and your other business entourage are for.
His album probably will still chart within the top 5 after being released like his last 4 fucking albums did. If he's guaranteed that kind of success, he should really be working with his label, rather than bitching about Apple and Amazon.
Shit. I just got told. I need to go to the ER to make sure I wasn't also served. Last time this happened Apple went Intel. Hopefully it isn't that bad. Oh god it hurts so much.:(
Economics is applied sociology. Like political science. It's just a science where the variables are largely unknown. Which males models and predictability difficult.
Actually, there's a good chance if you're in the USA, you're probably sourcing your oil from Canada or Venezuela.
Where "terrorists" have us by the balls is that OPEC moves in a block to set the international price of oil. Even though we don't do a lot of business with Saudi Arabia, keeping them happy keeps oil prices where we want them to be.
Uh, copyright neither hurts nor helps culture, actually.
But copyright protects IP creators and allows them to profit off of their own works. Saying you own some right to my IP is intellectual meta-theft. More like squatting. except there's infinite space. okay, bad analogy. But still. this isn't a new debate. When the first printing presses were developed we had the *same* arguments in the western world.
What copyright owners need to realize is that there is harmful infringement(Some guy in a shack at an Indoor Swapmeet with bootleg copies of Iron Man 2 or The Last Airbender, for instance), and non-harmful infringement(guy burning a copy of his favorite CD for his girlfriend/boyfriend/etc).
I've got somewhere around 20 or so PS3 games and only a 40GB HDD.
Even if you assumed I had upgraded to a 500 gig disk, at about ~10 to upwards of ~40gigs per game, usually 10, my drive starts to fill up. Fast. And I still need to store saves, music, video and everything else.
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If you're in Finland I've got a small question.
What's Nokia's presence on their own home turf? What's the excitement like for Android devices or the iPhone in comparison?
You ever let a non techno-geek use an N900?
No amount of slick marketing is going to fix that.
Street Fighter wasn't ever an arcade game?
Really?
By actual arcade you mean, "Lousy chinese knock off parts?"
Seriously, most X Arcade gear doesn't ship with Happ/iL, and even if it did, i wouldn't consider it, "high quality."
You mean, the Tournament Edition sticks are *crap*? And only work on the consoles they were advertised for?
Shocker to me, I've been using the same stick SF4 champion Umehara Daigo's been using on my MacBook for awhile now. Hint: It's the 360 that refuses to use standard USB HID devices; not the PS3.
The X Arcade blows. Lousy chinese parts(Seriously, who plays on cheap Happ/iL knockoffs? Sanwa baby!), lousy layout(hint: Control panel layouts have evolved since 1988; see Taito Vewlix), and lousy PCB. Sure, you can get adapters of all kinds, but they largely have been lousy and laggy until about now.
Gimme a HRAP V or a VLX or a MadCatz Fightstick TE. Screw this crap. I want a decent stick.
Choice does suck.
When you give that choice to developers that is.
Developers DO NOT make the best choices. Period.
Yes, it's "recommended" to develop in Qt. It's recommended to get into the Ovi store.
These sound like the ruminations of a company that really doesn't give a fuck about their developers.
He's lame then.
If I had the flexibility to call myself whatever I wanted, I'd make damn sure that my business cards all said, "Batman" on them.
Yeah because a year ago, that number was closer to %50, rather than dropping towards %30.
RIM, Google and Apple are the future of smart phones, not Nokia. Nokia's smartphone marketshare's going down. A lot. There's also nearly zero buzz among non-tech, non-suit types about Nokia's latest; and even among the techies and the suits, Nokia's shine's going away. Nokia had a chance to put together great devices; and failed miserably.
(I've got my doubts about RIM, but they're a nimble and entrenched enough company that they can get by).
Nokia's going bye bye as the king of international smart phone sales.
The field isn't just phones that run Windows Mobile, Symbian or Palm OS anymore.
Does any other phone have a better API & App dist system than N900?
Yeah, Objective-C and the iTunes App Store as well as Java and the Android Marketplace beat the hell out of, "Pick a language" and "Good luck, maybe you'll get in some apt repo."
Ovi's a joke and apt is something for purpose built linux installs; not mobile phones. Netbooks, tablets, and other tiny devices running explicitly Linux; sure, mobile phones or PMPs? No. Just, no.
It's a Nokia.
It's going to be boring, difficult to use, and feature a lousy API and app distribution system.
Who's going to care?
I would be afraid of any political party who's so simplistic that you can describe their entire platform in one sentence.
Particularly when that sentence is, "FUCK THE POOR."
Most of the time anyone's pitching something "light saber" like in their marketing materials, serious fucking laser burns aren't a problem. Blunt force trauma, maybe, but not laser burns.
I can see why Lucas is trying to get the association away from his name.
Down under was released in the 81. The author of the source of the riff was died in '88.
I'd say that's fair.
Spot on.
I consider myself an environmentalist, but my agenda only goes so far as wishing people would drive less and the city would put a bus stop near my home instead of one 2 miles away.
I would venture a guess that the biggest problem Microsoft is probably facing is that most development for a given start up is probably going to be some snazzy web service, and probably on some LAMP variant, with say, lighttpd in place of apache for cool Comet stuff.
When you're doing TCO calculations for a startup, Linux/Apache makes sense for your back end, which is probably going to be one of your biggest purchasing decisions.
He's still incredibly wrong. He's right, neither Apple, nor Amazon nor Rhapsody will pay you an upfront for your album.
That's not how the business model works for Apple, Amazon or Rhapsody.
Clearly, I'd say on one hand, he's a spoiled brat attached to an old way of making money off of records.
On the other hand, when you're an artist, you really shouldn't have to worry about the numbers in terms of sales. That's what your manager, your accountant and your other business entourage are for.
His album probably will still chart within the top 5 after being released like his last 4 fucking albums did. If he's guaranteed that kind of success, he should really be working with his label, rather than bitching about Apple and Amazon.
Shit. I just got told. I need to go to the ER to make sure I wasn't also served. Last time this happened Apple went Intel. Hopefully it isn't that bad. Oh god it hurts so much. :(
Economics is applied sociology. Like political science. It's just a science where the variables are largely unknown. Which males models and predictability difficult.
Actually, there's a good chance if you're in the USA, you're probably sourcing your oil from Canada or Venezuela.
Where "terrorists" have us by the balls is that OPEC moves in a block to set the international price of oil. Even though we don't do a lot of business with Saudi Arabia, keeping them happy keeps oil prices where we want them to be.
yes, if i wanted to play Strider or Super Mario Bros or Final Fantasy IV the After Years.
However, if I wanted to play Mario Galaxy 2?
The ISO is roughly 4 gigs big. You fit more than 5 games on a 16 gig SD card.
Uh, copyright neither hurts nor helps culture, actually.
But copyright protects IP creators and allows them to profit off of their own works. Saying you own some right to my IP is intellectual meta-theft. More like squatting. except there's infinite space. okay, bad analogy. But still. this isn't a new debate. When the first printing presses were developed we had the *same* arguments in the western world.
What copyright owners need to realize is that there is harmful infringement(Some guy in a shack at an Indoor Swapmeet with bootleg copies of Iron Man 2 or The Last Airbender, for instance), and non-harmful infringement(guy burning a copy of his favorite CD for his girlfriend/boyfriend/etc).
it IS paranoia.
this is the definition of paranoia. the idea that you're going to be frog marched out of your own home for no good reason? That's paranoia to a T.
I've got somewhere around 20 or so PS3 games and only a 40GB HDD.
Even if you assumed I had upgraded to a 500 gig disk, at about ~10 to upwards of ~40gigs per game, usually 10, my drive starts to fill up. Fast. And I still need to store saves, music, video and everything else.
Screw that.
Just give me discs.
it's Field*s* Medal. Named after the Canadian mathematician, John Charles Fields.
Not Field Medal.