One day I am going to integrate my flash played and a cheap pair of headphones into my bike helmet. That way I can go mountain biking and listen to Led Zeppelin at the same time. Of course, this will probably make my helmet less effective. Also note that I wouldn't be covering my ears with the headphones, merely placing the speakers close to my ears, so I can still hear things. Now if I could only come up with a fancy name for my USB enabled helmet.... maybe "Musical Bell"...
I'm not trying to justify the purchase of a mini iPod right now, I am trying to explain why Apple might think it is a good idea to produce the mini iPod now. So many people look at the price tag and say, "Now why would I buy that?" I am asking, "Now why would Apple make that?"
I paid $88 for my NexII in which I use compact flash cards that I bought anyhow for my camera. It has a screen and fancy navigation options. For the USB Key, it has 512MB of storage and I paid $165, which is what you would pay for one that doesn't play MP3s. It is small, but not as small as a Creative Muvo.
For being so obsessed with design (design, design, design) you could have "designed" your post to be more readable, don't you think?
Maybe the G2 of the mini iPod will be an improvement. So far each generation of the iPod has gotten better. I am waiting to see one in person before passing judgement.
P.S. How could you leave the G5 tower out of that list?
I mention in another post that I have a flash based player. I actually have two. I use it for jogging. Having no moving parts means no skipping ever. It is also smaller than even a mini iPod. Oh, and it runs on a single AAA battery. So yes, there are advantages to a flash based player. It has disadvantages too, like the smaller capacity, no display, slower transfer times, and no fancy navigation.
The original iPod had 5 GB of storage. The mini iPod has 4 GB for now, but in a year what will it have? This is a new form factor that will become more and more attractive over time. At some point (three years from now?) it won't matter that a mini holds 80 GB and a normal iPod holds 160 GB, the smaller size will be enough of an advantage to go for the mini. At some point the mini will simply be the iPod. Then the larger one will move on to video.
I think the price comparison chart is a bit off, since there are cheaper 512mb players to be found. I got mine at http://www.pcwebshopper.com/mp3.html. No, I don't work for them. Oh yeah, it doubles as a USB drive.
I don't know what people are learning in CS 101 now, but back in my day, we had to write video games. They were simple video games, like tic-tac-toe, but video games all the same.
If you've had a CS class you should be able to pick up any of the "learn to program video games in 21 days" books at B&N and make some simple games.
Have you ever had a dream that you thought was real? What if you couldn't wake from that dream? How would you know the real world from the dream world?
Thanks for the info. That clears up so many things! I must have missed that at some point during my education, which included working in a low temperature physics lab.
I agree that at first blush it seems like it is not as useful. However I think that case sensitivity is itself a useful feature. Eclipse also will flag violations of Java's case sensitivity rules, so that a class must begin with an uppercase letter and a variable must begin with a lowercase variable. I don't see how VB's laizze faire attitude towards such things is "better". It is simply easier for those who haven't yet realized the benefits of consistency and being disciplined.
Try Eclipse. It is FREE and has auto-completion and makes good suggestions for ways it can auto-correct errors. So if you type something that has the wrong capitalization it will flag it as an error and can auto-correct with two clicks.
I too have used VB and it is an evil language. The only nice thing about it is the IDE and Eclipse is far superior in that regard as well. IDEA is probably better too, I haven't tried it though.
It is the free paper that you read while waiting for a table at a so-so restaurant. Similar to the SF Guardian or other alternative once-a-week papers. It has a lot of "personality" and frequently gets into local pissing matches. It is there to stir things up.
Given those things, the quote you cited is not surprising. It doesn't carry nearly the weight it would if say, the NYTimes printed it.
In college I had a subtle bug in my solitaire game that was due the next morning. Finally I gave up and hoped that the grader wouldn't notice it. I went to sleep and woke up at 4am with the solution clearly in my head. I sat down at the computer and in 10 minutes the program worked flawlessly. This wasn't a one-line fix. It was something that pervaded most of the code. I was shocked that I had solved a problem this complex while sleeping.
I have also played some excellent games of Tetris in my sleep, but that doesn't seem nearly as interesting.
As far as I can tell by the questions he occasionally asks me he is using a Java decompiler to look at the client source for various online games, making changes, and then cheating at those games. So yeah, I guess he has become a little cracker/hacker. At least he is writing code instead of using someone else's tools.:) I don't think that he reads/. regularly.
I just played and barely reached level 40. Score was (oddly enough) 3,080,000.
There are several tricks to it that aren't listed on the webpage. The first is listed, but nobody bothers to reader it. The ships that look like yours are power-ups. Collect them. Tap the 'L' or 'K' key to see what they do. You can go up and down. This is helpful in dodgin/collecting things. You can wait at the end of a wave with one enemy left and collect all the power-ups you want. Your shields are replenished a little after killing the boss, and this effect is greater in the later levels.
Are you saying that there is a single pane that is a glass-aerogel-glass sandwhich? Does that still qualify as a single pane? Sounds like a double pane to me. What does a window like that cost?
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I have made some changes and this version seems to not blink on the Celeron. I'd appreciate it if you could let me know if it works for you.
Except that XBox is going to use an IBM chip as well. What will that chip be?
One day I am going to integrate my flash played and a cheap pair of headphones into my bike helmet. That way I can go mountain biking and listen to Led Zeppelin at the same time. Of course, this will probably make my helmet less effective. Also note that I wouldn't be covering my ears with the headphones, merely placing the speakers close to my ears, so I can still hear things. Now if I could only come up with a fancy name for my USB enabled helmet.... maybe "Musical Bell"...
See the difference?
I paid $88 for my NexII in which I use compact flash cards that I bought anyhow for my camera. It has a screen and fancy navigation options. For the USB Key, it has 512MB of storage and I paid $165, which is what you would pay for one that doesn't play MP3s. It is small, but not as small as a Creative Muvo.
Maybe the G2 of the mini iPod will be an improvement. So far each generation of the iPod has gotten better. I am waiting to see one in person before passing judgement.
P.S. How could you leave the G5 tower out of that list?
I mention in another post that I have a flash based player. I actually have two. I use it for jogging. Having no moving parts means no skipping ever. It is also smaller than even a mini iPod. Oh, and it runs on a single AAA battery. So yes, there are advantages to a flash based player. It has disadvantages too, like the smaller capacity, no display, slower transfer times, and no fancy navigation.
The original iPod had 5 GB of storage. The mini iPod has 4 GB for now, but in a year what will it have? This is a new form factor that will become more and more attractive over time. At some point (three years from now?) it won't matter that a mini holds 80 GB and a normal iPod holds 160 GB, the smaller size will be enough of an advantage to go for the mini. At some point the mini will simply be the iPod. Then the larger one will move on to video.
I think the price comparison chart is a bit off, since there are cheaper 512mb players to be found. I got mine at http://www.pcwebshopper.com/mp3.html. No, I don't work for them. Oh yeah, it doubles as a USB drive.
Hey, you have to be nominated to win. No Matrix nominations at all. Not even for effects.
Really? I have tried it on several machines and never had a problem. What are your proc speed, OS, and Java version? I'll see if there is a fix.
Click my link above for an in-progress pacman game with odd mazes that I am developing. You might like it.
If you've had a CS class you should be able to pick up any of the "learn to program video games in 21 days" books at B&N and make some simple games.
This has got to be one of the fastest /.ings ever.
Have you ever had a dream that you thought was real? What if you couldn't wake from that dream? How would you know the real world from the dream world?
Thanks for the info. That clears up so many things! I must have missed that at some point during my education, which included working in a low temperature physics lab.
I agree that at first blush it seems like it is not as useful. However I think that case sensitivity is itself a useful feature. Eclipse also will flag violations of Java's case sensitivity rules, so that a class must begin with an uppercase letter and a variable must begin with a lowercase variable. I don't see how VB's laizze faire attitude towards such things is "better". It is simply easier for those who haven't yet realized the benefits of consistency and being disciplined.
ps. Yes I know the answer.
If you are that stupid, you won't use the gloves anyhow.
I too have used VB and it is an evil language. The only nice thing about it is the IDE and Eclipse is far superior in that regard as well. IDEA is probably better too, I haven't tried it though.
Given those things, the quote you cited is not surprising. It doesn't carry nearly the weight it would if say, the NYTimes printed it.
If it costs more than a triple-paned window then what is the advantage? Aesthtics?
I have also played some excellent games of Tetris in my sleep, but that doesn't seem nearly as interesting.
I just played and barely reached level 40. Score was (oddly enough) 3,080,000.
There are several tricks to it that aren't listed on the webpage. The first is listed, but nobody bothers to reader it. The ships that look like yours are power-ups. Collect them. Tap the 'L' or 'K' key to see what they do. You can go up and down. This is helpful in dodgin/collecting things. You can wait at the end of a wave with one enemy left and collect all the power-ups you want. Your shields are replenished a little after killing the boss, and this effect is greater in the later levels.
Are you saying that there is a single pane that is a glass-aerogel-glass sandwhich? Does that still qualify as a single pane? Sounds like a double pane to me. What does a window like that cost?