when it comes to the network, the finger's squarely pointed at AT&T on that one. Apple has enabled tethering over bluetooth and usb with the iPhone, it's just that they let the carriers decide if they want to enable it. Unfortunately AT&T is run by a bunch of cocks, so I get no tethering. lately, I've been traveling to places that either have WiFi pretty ubiquitously or Clear WiMAX(full disclosure, I work for them).
I don't know about you, but this is where Apple trumps.
I just plug my phone in and iTunes handles the rest, or if I'm particularly in a rush, grab the IPSW and install it through the installer. No futzing around with ids, no wacky update procedures, just a straight single stop to upgrade firmware.
Except no one know keeps a DB meter around them at all times. I love loud music. I'd love to know that cranking my music player to the max isn't killing my ear drums.
85db sounds pretty reasonably loud AND yet still safe
Privacy is super important, but not to the paranoid extents that I've seen some people go.
But if Privacy is *that* important, then don't use third party services. Don't use search engines, and don't use anything that connects to another computer.
They are being hurt by products that are unsafe and improperly labeled. There's warnings deep inside the documentation of the thing, but that doesn't change the fact that when you're listening to loud music, the line between "loud and fun" and "loud and damaging" is pretty razor thin.
or stop shipping MP3 players that go to 11 because that can hurt your god damned hearing. 85db is enough, if you want more, you can build an inline headphone amp, or buy one. Volume creeps up when you're trying to block out external noise and focus, you can listen to noises that don't cause pain, but are causing damage.
Governments mandate product safety guidelines all the the time anyway. It's not like the Government's not saying you can't listen to loud music, it's just saying that music player vendors can't ship out music players that harm ear drums
...except here's a case where people don't actually know what's good or bad for them because the threshold for pain is higher than the threshold for damage, and it's not the Government coming out ad hoc on this issue, it was ear doctors who specialize in this field who have come out and said this needs to be done.
What makes me really hopeful about this case is there's a place on earth where science holds sway with politics, not the other way around
I think so. Slashdot's slow on the uptake sometimes on stories, but it's the user comments and the user community that makes slashdot worth while. Before boingboing and digg, Slashdot's been there and probably will be there until 2015 when angels merge with Adam. I mean. Yeah.
There probably will never be a female championship rodeo contestant.
That doesn't mean they shouldn't ever be allowed to try.
The entire philosophy of modern feminism isn't this parody of the 60's women's liberation movement, it's the shocking concept that women are people too, and they should be given the same opportunities to try and fail at anything a man can.
They're concerned with rule and order. It's the politicians, judges and lawyers who should be worried about justice.
We said the same thing, in essence, but I said it with a lot less antagonism for authority. Authority sucks, but, it sucks worse when you're actively throwing rocks into that hornet's nest.
Nice to see that all the game's resources aren't suffering from being upscaled. The model and texture data are meant for 480p but look just lovely at 1080p.
Given that gamers are now largely in their 20's and 30's, money is no longer the big issue
The big issue is time. When games are 40 and 50 hour magnum opuses, it says a lot.
A bigger issue with time is online. when games like Borderlands and Modern Warfare 2 are largely geared for online play, you can't just simply put one down and pick up the other later and get the same experience.
Wider availability of development tools will allow more developers to develop, that doesn't mean that the games ecosystem will be automatically better.
There may be more games out there, but the ratio of crap vs gold will still be the same.
webserver on a high traffic site. Either serving up lots of db connections or a lot of http connections, either way, I can imagine this having specific uses.
When was the last time you used a phone booth or a pay phone?
Last time for me was when I LOST MY CEL PHONE.
More seriously though, I really don't think portable gaming is going away because of cell phones. Diminished, sure, that market segment that Nintendo caught with the DS that really likes casual games and sudoku might go away, but there's no way in hell I'm playing metroid on a cel phone.
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when it comes to the network, the finger's squarely pointed at AT&T on that one. Apple has enabled tethering over bluetooth and usb with the iPhone, it's just that they let the carriers decide if they want to enable it. Unfortunately AT&T is run by a bunch of cocks, so I get no tethering. lately, I've been traveling to places that either have WiFi pretty ubiquitously or Clear WiMAX(full disclosure, I work for them).
I don't know about you, but this is where Apple trumps.
I just plug my phone in and iTunes handles the rest, or if I'm particularly in a rush, grab the IPSW and install it through the installer. No futzing around with ids, no wacky update procedures, just a straight single stop to upgrade firmware.
A friend of mine once changed the article for the movie Beaches to indicate that Arnold Schwarzenegger had a small, and uncredited cameo.
Wikipedia is the best thing to happen to gambling since rigged dice and double sided coins.
Except no one know keeps a DB meter around them at all times. I love loud music. I'd love to know that cranking my music player to the max isn't killing my ear drums.
85db sounds pretty reasonably loud AND yet still safe
Privacy is super important, but not to the paranoid extents that I've seen some people go.
But if Privacy is *that* important, then don't use third party services. Don't use search engines, and don't use anything that connects to another computer.
They are being hurt by products that are unsafe and improperly labeled. There's warnings deep inside the documentation of the thing, but that doesn't change the fact that when you're listening to loud music, the line between "loud and fun" and "loud and damaging" is pretty razor thin.
or stop shipping MP3 players that go to 11 because that can hurt your god damned hearing. 85db is enough, if you want more, you can build an inline headphone amp, or buy one. Volume creeps up when you're trying to block out external noise and focus, you can listen to noises that don't cause pain, but are causing damage.
Governments mandate product safety guidelines all the the time anyway. It's not like the Government's not saying you can't listen to loud music, it's just saying that music player vendors can't ship out music players that harm ear drums
...except here's a case where people don't actually know what's good or bad for them because the threshold for pain is higher than the threshold for damage, and it's not the Government coming out ad hoc on this issue, it was ear doctors who specialize in this field who have come out and said this needs to be done.
What makes me really hopeful about this case is there's a place on earth where science holds sway with politics, not the other way around
you mean, being able to purchase content from the iTunes or Zune store, or to watch it ad supported at any time on Hulu isn't convenient?
I think so. Slashdot's slow on the uptake sometimes on stories, but it's the user comments and the user community that makes slashdot worth while. Before boingboing and digg, Slashdot's been there and probably will be there until 2015 when angels merge with Adam. I mean. Yeah.
hey! My MacBook was actually 4 Enzo Ferraris! Not 10 Lamborginis!
Are we also talking Gallardo? Murcielago? We need more clarfication here!
I wish I had the mod points
But I dont' know if i would go +1 Funny or -1 Retarded.
There probably will never be a female championship rodeo contestant.
That doesn't mean they shouldn't ever be allowed to try.
The entire philosophy of modern feminism isn't this parody of the 60's women's liberation movement, it's the shocking concept that women are people too, and they should be given the same opportunities to try and fail at anything a man can.
Fuck you.
Law enforcement's job is to enforce the law.
They're concerned with rule and order. It's the politicians, judges and lawyers who should be worried about justice.
We said the same thing, in essence, but I said it with a lot less antagonism for authority. Authority sucks, but, it sucks worse when you're actively throwing rocks into that hornet's nest.
Nice to see that all the game's resources aren't suffering from being upscaled. The model and texture data are meant for 480p but look just lovely at 1080p.
Given that gamers are now largely in their 20's and 30's, money is no longer the big issue
The big issue is time. When games are 40 and 50 hour magnum opuses, it says a lot.
A bigger issue with time is online. when games like Borderlands and Modern Warfare 2 are largely geared for online play, you can't just simply put one down and pick up the other later and get the same experience.
Wider availability of development tools will allow more developers to develop, that doesn't mean that the games ecosystem will be automatically better.
There may be more games out there, but the ratio of crap vs gold will still be the same.
webserver on a high traffic site. Either serving up lots of db connections or a lot of http connections, either way, I can imagine this having specific uses.
All intel has to do is re implement Hyper Threading in each core.
48 cores = 96 threads, IIRC.
Spent my day drinking with my girlfriend.
Screw deals. Booze and women are were it's at.
I was raised to believe that possession is 9/10 the law.
Maybe if you had lawyers for parents, you wouldn't harbor these misconceptions about the law.
You try to sell Solaris machines under a name that doesn't involve Sun Microsystems and let's see how long you do in the market.
Or IBM OS/360. Or Palm WebOS. Or...
XBLArcade and PSN do have demos of games.
Unless by demo you mean, pirate.
no doubt a reasonable reason not to own a cel phone, but how many people are holding out the way you are?
When was the last time you used a phone booth or a pay phone?
Last time for me was when I LOST MY CEL PHONE.
More seriously though, I really don't think portable gaming is going away because of cell phones. Diminished, sure, that market segment that Nintendo caught with the DS that really likes casual games and sudoku might go away, but there's no way in hell I'm playing metroid on a cel phone.