I sat in a Mitsubishi electric car two weekends ago in Portland (being tested by someone at PGE) and it had two recharge plugs. The slow one - ran off 120v - took 8-10 hours to charge. The fast one (I assume 220 or more) he claimed could charge the entire car in 10-15 minutes. And it had a 150 mile range.
Catch? Only sold in Japan (was a right hand drive car even).
Motorola and Nokia have a distinct advantage over Apple too - as they (and their partners) invented the vast majority of the technology that makes cell phones work at all, and Apple never paid.
Of course I tried this on my Android phone (2.2) running Quick Office and it won't let me copy and paste either - even though all other apps seem to support this...
I managed to get a girlfriend and found she is far more fun to play with than any game - the downside is just how much time I seem to have lost playing WoW since its inception.
They don't care about Flash (because they don't know what it is) until they notice a whole in a page that shouldn't be there.
Build a lab of 200 or so Windows machines and don't install any plugins - trust me on this (this is my job) you will get complaints that stuff doesn't work.
Flash on Android is interesting. I think that article really misses the fact that it does in fact work, but some sites are really not designed for touch. I found its pretty fun to watch videos on my phone on sites like escapist.com - you can't do that on IOS, but you can on Android and it does work and its not a battery drain.
There are in fact examples of HTML 5 based sites that totally fail on the ipod/iphone/ipad/android as well.
Not everything Apple championed has become standard - localtalk, ADB, the literally dozens of video plugs they have invented, USB speakers (G4 cube - I curse you), the dozens of system buses (many of which the same, just different form factors) they have come up with etc etc. Having had a lot of macs - most of these standards are annoyances. I like choice:). I didn't like the fact that my Mac had to have a special video card (has a voltage rail to power the screen/usb plugs) - despite being based on AGP at 4x the cost.
Anyhow if you think people would still be using floppies if Apple didn't say so - whatever I guess... (I personally think the market decided this - based on the fact that floppies are slow, unreliable and have little storage compared to alternatives) The point is - if I want Dell to put a floppy drive in my PC - they will at extra cost and its my choice. Apple said fuck you - no choice you're using CD's (the iMac came out long before usb memory sticks were around, and before people had wide access to personal file servers or the internet).
Yeah it panned out, but I personally know a few people who had to buy a USB floppy drive/ZIP drive to do work.
Read the marketplace comments for Flash - there's plenty of praise for it. While its not perfect - it does work, and it allows you to see a full website where there were holes before.
On my nexus one - battery life actually got better with 2.2 and Flash installed so I don't think its really a resource hog any more than any other app.
You can't write files to \windows\system under vista/windows 7 without elevation to administrator. Under XP/2000 as a regular user - ditto.
That said - there's probably an alarming amount of people who would enter credentials upon getting the elevation prompt on Mac/Windows/Linux after clicking on an attachment or link in their email client.
Yes yes, Apple invented the ultimate smartphone - they set that trend, but since then they haven't done anything. They are slow to iterate hardware and software features unlike Google and their partners where there seems to be a new phone coming out or announced every single day (follow a site like Android Central - not really even exaggerating there).
On that boycott link - I found a bunch of "HD" (not sure what that means really in this case) games from gameloft on marketplace just doing a simple search on my Droid - I wonder how firm this policy is? Why are they boycotting the market? I'd suggest that the market (no pun intended) will sort things out - their sales will be lower because most users will get programs via the Android Marketplace since its pre-installed on every Google branded Android phone - there must people making money on there too - the amount of paid apps keeps increasing quickly.
Also there's at least one guy earning 10k a month from Google ads on his Android apps.
What I find funny is that everything the iPhone 4 added as a new feature Android has had either since launch (multi-tasking) or since 2.1 (almost a year now) and they are polished features (unlike my fucking Nokia) - they haven't set a single trend since the launch of the original iPhone honestly. I've actually heard on twitter and other places people looking for a better "more android like" notification system for their Jailbroken phones. Competition is only a good thing if your actually trying to be better than them.
Logic went out the door when criticizing Flash on the phone (as a lot of the experience comes down to the developer still) - I've found plenty of HTML 5 demos/apps/games that work pretty horribly on the iOS/Android as well.
So your comparing a show on Comedy Central to a show on a cable news TV channel?
The big difference is - yes both are showmen, but Glen takes it a step further by genuinely convincing his viewers that the scary stuff he reveals on his show is in fact true (and if you don't believe me - ask one of his many followers).
I have a feeling that if NCSoft put "warning this game has been proven by Court Precident to be extremely addicting" more people would pick it up.
Seriously though - while I believe this lawsuit is pretty dumb (this is right up there with suing a crack dealer because he/she didn't warn you about how addictive it is) some people take addictions differently. I've experimented with various recreational drugs/alcohol etc - many of which are potentially addictive and walked away in each case never to do it again, but I played World of Warcraft since launch up until recently 10-20 hours a week and didn't really realize how much I'd lost up until that time. People I've skipped out on, girlfriends I've ignored, vacations I never did but planned - stuff like that.
What changed was a Chinese hacker raped my account, and while Blizzard fixed everything - I didn't play for like 2 weeks and had realized what happened over the last few years. The bad thing is - if my friends ever moved away or my girlfriend left me I'd probably relapse, but I hope not. Thank you Chinese hacker.
I was told by someone at Blizzcon no less that the only thing the in WoW that is handled on the client is terrain data (and the physical graphics/sound files themselves). There are some client side hacks that fool the user (more than anything) into thinking they have super powers, but the client can't say to the server this player has a billion hit points or that a boss is now dead or that you have items and achievements you didn't earn. The client can tell the server that I've randomly teleported to another location - but they likely flag players who move without using an api. WoW doesn't appear to do move validation (probably to prevent rubber banding so I can see why they chose the path they did)
The way bosses work, the way the game determines how much health/spellpower/hit/haste etc you have, when you jump off something high how much health you have when you land, statistics, and how much you get hit for by enemies etc - all handled on the server. Whether you can walk forward, fall off a cliff or not walk through walls - client. You can write terrain hacks to go places your not supposed to be in the game - and the server will let you do this.
And if you've ever played around with a 3rd party server you'd see I'm right - about the only thing that is 100% accurate on those is moving/flying. Everything else is a horribly implemented deviation from the original game. Most all bosses just stand there and do hardly anything and some dungeons have no bosses. All the player abilities don't work properly (as blizzard intended).
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I sat in a Mitsubishi electric car two weekends ago in Portland (being tested by someone at PGE) and it had two recharge plugs. The slow one - ran off 120v - took 8-10 hours to charge. The fast one (I assume 220 or more) he claimed could charge the entire car in 10-15 minutes. And it had a 150 mile range.
Catch? Only sold in Japan (was a right hand drive car even).
Motorola and Nokia have a distinct advantage over Apple too - as they (and their partners) invented the vast majority of the technology that makes cell phones work at all, and Apple never paid.
Of course I tried this on my Android phone (2.2) running Quick Office and it won't let me copy and paste either - even though all other apps seem to support this...
I won't tell you what I first read that as - but the answer was - sometimes :).
My DroidX seems faster than my GF's iphone... I always thought it was impressive considering most everything on it is running under a VM.
Worse - if they did find the password and convict him he'd likely spend more time in prison than if he killed someone.
The way crimes are prosecuted in the USA is clinically insane.
Using his mouth?
I managed to get a girlfriend and found she is far more fun to play with than any game - the downside is just how much time I seem to have lost playing WoW since its inception.
Verizon did a lot to market rim's devices to everyone - especially the people who like to send text messages constantly.
One thing about fake torrents though - unless the content is interesting they won't go anywhere because they won't be seeded.
Its sadly another place the market has its hand.
Still kinda useless for a mobile phone - I have one of those, its really only useful when your sitting at a desk with a flat surface.
They don't care about Flash (because they don't know what it is) until they notice a whole in a page that shouldn't be there.
Build a lab of 200 or so Windows machines and don't install any plugins - trust me on this (this is my job) you will get complaints that stuff doesn't work.
Flash on Android is interesting. I think that article really misses the fact that it does in fact work, but some sites are really not designed for touch. I found its pretty fun to watch videos on my phone on sites like escapist.com - you can't do that on IOS, but you can on Android and it does work and its not a battery drain.
There are in fact examples of HTML 5 based sites that totally fail on the ipod/iphone/ipad/android as well.
Not everything Apple championed has become standard - localtalk, ADB, the literally dozens of video plugs they have invented, USB speakers (G4 cube - I curse you), the dozens of system buses (many of which the same, just different form factors) they have come up with etc etc. Having had a lot of macs - most of these standards are annoyances. I like choice :). I didn't like the fact that my Mac had to have a special video card (has a voltage rail to power the screen/usb plugs) - despite being based on AGP at 4x the cost.
Anyhow if you think people would still be using floppies if Apple didn't say so - whatever I guess... (I personally think the market decided this - based on the fact that floppies are slow, unreliable and have little storage compared to alternatives) The point is - if I want Dell to put a floppy drive in my PC - they will at extra cost and its my choice. Apple said fuck you - no choice you're using CD's (the iMac came out long before usb memory sticks were around, and before people had wide access to personal file servers or the internet).
Yeah it panned out, but I personally know a few people who had to buy a USB floppy drive/ZIP drive to do work.
Read the marketplace comments for Flash - there's plenty of praise for it. While its not perfect - it does work, and it allows you to see a full website where there were holes before.
On my nexus one - battery life actually got better with 2.2 and Flash installed so I don't think its really a resource hog any more than any other app.
By default ALL Windows 7 and Windows Vista accounts are limited accounts.
You can't write files to \windows\system under vista/windows 7 without elevation to administrator. Under XP/2000 as a regular user - ditto.
That said - there's probably an alarming amount of people who would enter credentials upon getting the elevation prompt on Mac/Windows/Linux after clicking on an attachment or link in their email client.
Yes yes, Apple invented the ultimate smartphone - they set that trend, but since then they haven't done anything. They are slow to iterate hardware and software features unlike Google and their partners where there seems to be a new phone coming out or announced every single day (follow a site like Android Central - not really even exaggerating there).
On that boycott link - I found a bunch of "HD" (not sure what that means really in this case) games from gameloft on marketplace just doing a simple search on my Droid - I wonder how firm this policy is? Why are they boycotting the market? I'd suggest that the market (no pun intended) will sort things out - their sales will be lower because most users will get programs via the Android Marketplace since its pre-installed on every Google branded Android phone - there must people making money on there too - the amount of paid apps keeps increasing quickly.
Also there's at least one guy earning 10k a month from Google ads on his Android apps.
What I find funny is that everything the iPhone 4 added as a new feature Android has had either since launch (multi-tasking) or since 2.1 (almost a year now) and they are polished features (unlike my fucking Nokia) - they haven't set a single trend since the launch of the original iPhone honestly. I've actually heard on twitter and other places people looking for a better "more android like" notification system for their Jailbroken phones. Competition is only a good thing if your actually trying to be better than them.
Logic went out the door when criticizing Flash on the phone (as a lot of the experience comes down to the developer still) - I've found plenty of HTML 5 demos/apps/games that work pretty horribly on the iOS/Android as well.
So your comparing a show on Comedy Central to a show on a cable news TV channel?
The big difference is - yes both are showmen, but Glen takes it a step further by genuinely convincing his viewers that the scary stuff he reveals on his show is in fact true (and if you don't believe me - ask one of his many followers).
I have a feeling that if NCSoft put "warning this game has been proven by Court Precident to be extremely addicting" more people would pick it up.
Seriously though - while I believe this lawsuit is pretty dumb (this is right up there with suing a crack dealer because he/she didn't warn you about how addictive it is) some people take addictions differently. I've experimented with various recreational drugs/alcohol etc - many of which are potentially addictive and walked away in each case never to do it again, but I played World of Warcraft since launch up until recently 10-20 hours a week and didn't really realize how much I'd lost up until that time. People I've skipped out on, girlfriends I've ignored, vacations I never did but planned - stuff like that.
What changed was a Chinese hacker raped my account, and while Blizzard fixed everything - I didn't play for like 2 weeks and had realized what happened over the last few years. The bad thing is - if my friends ever moved away or my girlfriend left me I'd probably relapse, but I hope not. Thank you Chinese hacker.
Ironically Apple invented Truetype ;).
Except Google really doesn't care what SDK you wrote the app in... be it Flash or that drag and drop tool they have.
With exact copies of the actors/scenes/lines who made the original movie.
I was told by someone at Blizzcon no less that the only thing the in WoW that is handled on the client is terrain data (and the physical graphics/sound files themselves). There are some client side hacks that fool the user (more than anything) into thinking they have super powers, but the client can't say to the server this player has a billion hit points or that a boss is now dead or that you have items and achievements you didn't earn. The client can tell the server that I've randomly teleported to another location - but they likely flag players who move without using an api. WoW doesn't appear to do move validation (probably to prevent rubber banding so I can see why they chose the path they did)
The way bosses work, the way the game determines how much health/spellpower/hit/haste etc you have, when you jump off something high how much health you have when you land, statistics, and how much you get hit for by enemies etc - all handled on the server. Whether you can walk forward, fall off a cliff or not walk through walls - client. You can write terrain hacks to go places your not supposed to be in the game - and the server will let you do this.
And if you've ever played around with a 3rd party server you'd see I'm right - about the only thing that is 100% accurate on those is moving/flying. Everything else is a horribly implemented deviation from the original game. Most all bosses just stand there and do hardly anything and some dungeons have no bosses. All the player abilities don't work properly (as blizzard intended).