The Kindle application framework is Java based. You write "booklets" that work like Java applets. Under the hood the Kindle runs a Linux kernel, so in theory you could just write native C apps, but I doubt Amazon will give developers access to that. Some more info about hacking your Kindle:
If everybody stopped laughing and actually RTFA, they aren't claiming 25x compression on anything. The algorithm is targeted at data backup, i.e. very large files and works by comparing incoming data patterns to patterns already stored. Looks like a modification of LZH that uses the compressed file as the pattern table. I'm not saying that it works or that is a breakthrough, but they are not claiming impossible lossless compression on anything. It might actually be interesting for the application it was designed for.
You cannot look at the second particle without causing it to collapse. This is the fundamental principle of quantum mechanics: observing a particle modifies it.
Almost. The two particles are ina an undetermined state until a measurement is made on one. At that point, the second particle instantly collapses in the complementary state. In your clock example, imagine the hands spinning incontrollably on both clocks (indetermined state). If someone stops one clock, the other clock will instantly stop in the opposite position, 9e.g if the first one stopped at 6 o'clock, the other one would stop at noon). No information is transferred since the measurement on the first clock is completely random.
No, that's the whole point of quantume entanglement. Entangled particles are created in a process that conserves quantume properties, like spin. So if a particle is in the spin up state, the other has to be in the spin down state. When they are created, entangled couples are in a undetermined state. As soon as a measurement is made on one of the particles, the other collapse to the complementary state. This happens instantaneously, regardelss of the distance between the particles. However, since you cannot predict the result of the measurements, you cannot transfer information with this method. You can however use it to create secure keys fro criptography.
ICO is my all time favourite game. I would love to see more games like it. The problem is that ICO didn't sell enough to be profitable. It might look simple, but it didn't cost significantly less than any other game. It sold poorly because it wasn't properly hyped/marketed and because you could not beat up hookers. A better examples of simple games that cost little to make and can sell well is the Eye Toy stuff that Sony just released in Europe. It has been #1 in UK for three weeks, beating Lara Croft and Pokemon. Small devs should really look into this peripheral, it might not be the future of gaes, but it certainly is the future of independent games.
2. Doesn't have high-resolution > 1024x768. And even if it did, that doesn't mean much to people who don't have HDTV.
Why would you need high res when playing on a TV? And current gen consoles do support HDTV, although very few games actually use it. Next gen it will be pretty much a standard.
3. You are locked into the game...no modding.
Xbox has a hard drive and lots of mods availables.
4. You can't always freely connect with other large groups over the net without using a system that was developed to monitor your gameplay...like Microsoft's.
Sony doesn't monitor online gamers at all.
5. How about setting up a 32 player server with a console?
How about it? Most console online games use one machine as server.
6. Ever try to backup your console game CD?
There's piracy on consoles, if that's what you mean.
7. Can you upgrade you console system without throwing out the entire box?
Can you upgrade your PC spending less than $300?
8. Why do you say consoles are easier? PC game interfaces are exactly the same (on screen configuration and controls)?
Installation, compatibility problems, patches...
9. Consoles are sold separately from PCs. An investment in a console is not an investment in my PC. Why would I do that?
So you bought the latest greatest graphics card because it improves the performances of your word processor?
You don't need a black hole with the mass of earth to create a local zero-G environment. Gravity is proportional to the inverse square of distance, so for any two given masses, there is a point along the connecting line of their gravity centers where the gravitational pull balances to zero:
r = R*sqrt(M1/M2)
-------------
1+sqrt(M1/M2)
Where R is the distance between the two masses, M1 and M2 are the tho masses and r is the equilibrium point.
So you only need a black hole big enough so that r is outside the event horizon.
The Linux kit comes with the full set of developer's manuals. It includes specs of all the hardware
(GS/V0/V1/EE), registers, machine code, memory map etc.
Wrong. The DVD consortium agreed to let progressive DVD output a Macrovision free signal,
simply because Macrovision won't work on a progressive output (besides, there are no consumer devices that can record a progressive signal anyway).
The PS2 has a component cable already (I use it to
connect to my TV) and will have a VGA cable when the Linux kit is released.
I don't see how this can work without breaking
all current CD player. Macrovision works only
with analog video, they can't encrypt the CD
digital audio without making it incompatible
with every player out there. Maybe they mean
it as an analog copy protection scheme, (altough
I can't see any use for that).
I'm waiting for it, too. In my opinion they should
forget about competing with PS2 and Xbox and market it as an HDTV box. It could easily be the
only HD-DVD player and HD-Tivo in one box.
all i want to know is WHEN are we going to see a Linux based game console?!? thats what we NEED!:) open
hardware specs and open software running it. these console makers need to realize that they cant do
everything! if i were them, i would create a nice standards based console, then open the specs on the thing and
let the developers do what they may with it.
I don't want to run a cable from my iMac to my TV.
Besides, I'll need an adapter RGB->Component.
Considering that the indrema is supposed to cost
around $300, it's easier to buy one.
As for wasting time, that's what computers are for:)
I'm pretty sure I'm going to buy this one.
As a Linux hacker and proud owner of an HDTV,
I don't really care about third party support
for the box, as long as I can connect it to
my TV and write my own games. My very first
project will be to port MAME to it. That should
keep me busy playing for a while.
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The same is true for Europe, particulary France.
Comics there are considered an art form, and have
a widespread mature audience. Comic artist are well respected and their work is reviewed in newspapers and exposed in museums.
There is a wide range of material, from humor to drama to more traditional genres like Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Adventure. Books are published in hardcover editions with high quality print and paper.
Other countries have a similarly rich comic culture: in Latin America, particularly Argentina,
comics have been used to criticize the establishment, Italy has a long tradition of excellent artists, the same for Spain, Belgium
and England.
Finally, I disagree that in the US comics are
just "teenage power fantasies". This may be true
nowadays, but american comics used to be the most interesting and mature expression of this art form since its birth with Yellow Kid back in 1895.
Artists like Alex Raymond, Milton Caniff, Will Gould, Alex Toth, Al Capp, Harold Foster, Burne Hogarth, Carl Barks, E.C. Segar and all the other
great comic strip artists have given the world some of the best characters and stories ever.
Even today, if you look past the pile of juvenile crap that clog comic shops, you'll find gems by the likes of Frank Miller, Dave Sim, Richard Corben, Mike Mignola, Art Spiegelman, Kyle Baker,
Will Eisner, Jeff Smith to name a few.
Comics ARE a great art form. You just need to know where to look.
I have an HDTV set and I'm very interested in Indrema's HDTV support. Does this box decode OTA
HDTV signals? If not, is there an expansion board
planned to add this functionality?
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The Kindle application framework is Java based. You write "booklets" that work like Java applets. Under the hood the Kindle runs a Linux kernel, so in theory you could just write native C apps, but I doubt Amazon will give developers access to that.
Some more info about hacking your Kindle:
http://igorsk.blogspot.com/2007/12/hacking-kindle-part-3-root-shell-and.html
If everybody stopped laughing and actually RTFA, they aren't claiming 25x compression on anything. The algorithm is targeted at data backup, i.e. very large files and works by comparing incoming data patterns to patterns already stored. Looks like a modification of LZH that uses the compressed file as the pattern table. I'm not saying that it works or that is a breakthrough, but they are not claiming impossible lossless compression on anything. It might actually be interesting for the application it was designed for.
The analog signal will be downconverted to 480i. This is the whole point of the flag.
Battery life for games is between 4 and 6 hours.
Movies will be region locked. Games won't.
iPod Hacks has an article about developing Quicktime applications for iPod. Pretty interesting stuff.
It's actually 160kBps.
You cannot look at the second particle without causing it to collapse. This is the fundamental principle of quantum mechanics: observing a particle modifies it.
Almost. The two particles are ina an undetermined state until a measurement is made on one. At that point, the second particle instantly collapses in the complementary state. In your clock example, imagine the hands spinning incontrollably on both clocks (indetermined state). If someone stops one clock, the other clock will instantly stop in the opposite position, 9e.g if the first one stopped at 6 o'clock, the other one would stop at noon). No information is transferred since the measurement on the first clock is completely random.
No, that's the whole point of quantume entanglement.
Entangled particles are created in a process that conserves quantume properties, like spin. So if a particle is in the spin up state, the other has to be in the spin down state. When they are created, entangled couples are in a undetermined state. As soon as a measurement is made on one of the particles, the other collapse to the complementary state. This happens instantaneously, regardelss of the distance between the particles. However, since you cannot predict the result of the measurements, you cannot transfer information with this method. You can however use it to create secure keys fro criptography.
ICO is my all time favourite game. I would love to see more games like it.
The problem is that ICO didn't sell enough to be profitable. It might look simple, but it didn't cost significantly less than any other game. It sold poorly because it wasn't properly hyped/marketed and because you could not beat up hookers.
A better examples of simple games that cost little to make and can sell well is the Eye Toy stuff that Sony just released in Europe. It has been #1 in UK for three weeks, beating Lara Croft and Pokemon.
Small devs should really look into this peripheral, it might not be the future of gaes, but it certainly is the future of independent games.
1. Doesn't allow mouse control.
PS2 supports USB mice.
2. Doesn't have high-resolution > 1024x768. And even if it did, that doesn't mean much to people who don't have HDTV.
Why would you need high res when playing on a TV?
And current gen consoles do support HDTV, although
very few games actually use it. Next gen it will be pretty much a standard.
3. You are locked into the game...no modding.
Xbox has a hard drive and lots of mods availables.
4. You can't always freely connect with other large groups over the net without using a system that was developed to monitor your gameplay...like Microsoft's.
Sony doesn't monitor online gamers at all.
5. How about setting up a 32 player server with a console?
How about it? Most console online games use one machine as server.
6. Ever try to backup your console game CD?
There's piracy on consoles, if that's what you mean.
7. Can you upgrade you console system without throwing out the entire box?
Can you upgrade your PC spending less than $300?
8. Why do you say consoles are easier? PC game interfaces are exactly the same (on screen configuration and controls)?
Installation, compatibility problems, patches...
9. Consoles are sold separately from PCs. An investment in a console is not an investment in my PC. Why would I do that?
So you bought the latest greatest graphics card because it improves the performances of your word processor?
just when you thought the patent system is evil, :)
they come up with something like this and totally redeem themselves
You don't need a black hole with the mass of earth to create a local zero-G environment.
Gravity is proportional to the inverse square of distance, so for any two given masses, there is a
point along the connecting line of their gravity centers where the gravitational pull balances to zero:
r = R*sqrt(M1/M2)
-------------
1+sqrt(M1/M2)
Where R is the distance between the two masses, M1 and M2 are the tho masses and r is the equilibrium point.
So you only need a black hole big enough so that r is outside the event horizon.
The Linux kit comes with the full set of developer's manuals. It includes specs of all the hardware
(GS/V0/V1/EE), registers, machine code, memory map etc.
Wrong. The DVD consortium agreed to let progressive DVD output a Macrovision free signal, simply because Macrovision won't work on a progressive output (besides, there are no consumer devices that can record a progressive signal anyway). The PS2 has a component cable already (I use it to connect to my TV) and will have a VGA cable when the Linux kit is released.
I don't see how this can work without breaking all current CD player. Macrovision works only with analog video, they can't encrypt the CD digital audio without making it incompatible with every player out there. Maybe they mean it as an analog copy protection scheme, (altough I can't see any use for that).
I'm waiting for it, too. In my opinion they should forget about competing with PS2 and Xbox and market it as an HDTV box. It could easily be the only HD-DVD player and HD-Tivo in one box.
Have you ever heard of Indrema?
I don't want to run a cable from my iMac to my TV. Besides, I'll need an adapter RGB->Component. Considering that the indrema is supposed to cost around $300, it's easier to buy one. As for wasting time, that's what computers are for :)
The same is true for Europe, particulary France. Comics there are considered an art form, and have a widespread mature audience. Comic artist are well respected and their work is reviewed in newspapers and exposed in museums. There is a wide range of material, from humor to drama to more traditional genres like Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Adventure. Books are published in hardcover editions with high quality print and paper. Other countries have a similarly rich comic culture: in Latin America, particularly Argentina, comics have been used to criticize the establishment, Italy has a long tradition of excellent artists, the same for Spain, Belgium and England. Finally, I disagree that in the US comics are just "teenage power fantasies". This may be true nowadays, but american comics used to be the most interesting and mature expression of this art form since its birth with Yellow Kid back in 1895. Artists like Alex Raymond, Milton Caniff, Will Gould, Alex Toth, Al Capp, Harold Foster, Burne Hogarth, Carl Barks, E.C. Segar and all the other great comic strip artists have given the world some of the best characters and stories ever. Even today, if you look past the pile of juvenile crap that clog comic shops, you'll find gems by the likes of Frank Miller, Dave Sim, Richard Corben, Mike Mignola, Art Spiegelman, Kyle Baker, Will Eisner, Jeff Smith to name a few. Comics ARE a great art form. You just need to know where to look.
I have an HDTV set and I'm very interested in Indrema's HDTV support. Does this box decode OTA
HDTV signals? If not, is there an expansion board
planned to add this functionality?