At the office, I'm still running a 350mghz PowerMac G4 computer (the bugger is 10 years old) as a server.
All original components. None failed. System still has it's original bleeding-edge 320megs of Ram, runs Mac OS X Tiger.
It was given a new 40gig baracuda drive that's been sitting on shelves for years. had never been used.
We use this machine as a slowest-denominator software test platform for a product in development and as a distributed networked compiler farm node and backup server for another more important machine (it backs up the backup machine's main OS, not it's files).
MS can argue all it wants about Apple making "aesthetic" machines, they actually use good components. Current XServe hardware being another case in point.
I generally prefer original titles as well. Be it a movie or else.
But if a game, intended for the whole family, isn't available in french, I just dont buy it because I can't expect my 10 and 11 year old kids to enjoy a title in a language they barely understand yet.
But try making an american understand that. They dont even watch translated movies anyway. They prefer to remake them locally.
I dont think this issue can be rationalized south of the border. So, expect lots of insidious comments in this thread about us french canadian.
In 1977, the Charter of the French Language, also known as Bill 101, defined French as the only official language of Quebec and framing fundamental language rights of all Quebecers. In 1997, this law was amended so that every product sold in Quebec must include packaging, instructions and warranty certificates in French. Since then, all computer software, including game software and operating systems, whether installed or uninstalled, must be available in French unless no French version exists. Video games publishers were given a six-year grace period to comply. Since 2003, video games are now available with French packaging/booklets/warranties. In 2007, the Quebec government finalized a deal with the Entertainment Software Association of Canada, to increase the number of video games available in French in Quebec. Activision Blizzard, Disney Interactive Studios, Electronic Arts, Microsoft Canada, Nintendo of Canada, Sony Computer Entertainment Canada, Take2 Interactive, THQ and Ubisoft Canada, who are all members of the Entertainment Software Association of Canada, agreed that they would be able to offer their next-generation games with French content before April 1, 2009, if such a version exists elsewhere in the world. After this deal was announced in 2007, the number of bilingual games raised significantly. For example, in 2007, only 17 percent of Xbox 360 games were available in French in Quebec. Today, half of the Xbox 360 library (about 190 titles out of 380) is available in French in Quebec. Almost every new AAA release is now bilingual or multilingual. Games that are only available in English, that don't exist in French, still can be sold in Quebec. Out of the thousand games released each year, almost every one of them made their way in Quebec. Retailers complaining about possible delays or higher pricing are not truthful.
Damn that's a trollish comment. Sad I dont have mod points right now.
If you think the US, or any other country for that matter, doesn't have such loopholes riddling their system, you're delusional.
Entire elections were stolen though that. Entire civil liberties abolished the same way. Constitutions built that way. Trade laws are nothing but loopholes taken advantage of. Lobbying became the foundation through wich government operate.
Be consequent to your own disclaimer. Your country is no better, and that doesn't mean you should be any less ashamed for living in such a country.
No. Really. That's the only practical use of this, coz i'm sure the dying solder on the battlefield couldn't care less if a doctor hundreds of mines looks through his rib cage.
If you have your XCode project open and your XIB (Interface builder) files open, editing outlets in the header files will automatically update the models in IB. you can then proceed in connecting said outlets. Alternatively you can insert outlets (or actions) in the XIB files and it will insert said elements into your headers.
personally, i tend to edit my headers so IB doesn't mess up my formating.
I'm a casual gamer. Nowhere near hardcore. Partly because of lack of interest, partly because I dont have time to become a good paddle jockey.
One example of a game where I would have liked this feature is Metroid Prime 3 on the Wii. I absolutely loved this game for the puzzles and roaming around and then suddenly, you're confronted with sudden harsh treatment for a grinding session that only looks and feels like that: a grinding session. Typically, the "scene's boss".
While I managed to finish the game, there are a couple of ones that I basically turned off the game after a couple of attempts. It made me feel like it was keeping me away from the game. A passage of rights that didn't have much purpose on *my* gameplay.
Now I know this might very well be due to this particular game itself but the pattern is throughout the game industry, and that's what turning off some prospective players.
While bot-supported games is nothing new, the fashion in wich this patent attempts to use them is an interesting idea.
In my view however, it's not worthy of a patent in itself. Games should always have been like this, with some kind of "assist me here" option/widget to get people (with a life) moving on with the game.
This is precisely what went on prior to the Gulf War. US-made printers were smuggled into Iraq and laced with transponder chips that acted as beacons for air strikes and special ops.
It's been like that in Canada for years. We can not smile on passport photos and in Quebec (I dont know about other provinces), we're not allowed to smile on driver's license.
This predates visual recognition software. It helps agents to more quickly recognise a face because when you're being arrested or go through custom, you rarely feel a need to smile. So the face is more recognisable.
Is more in cause of the frickin' meltdown of the internet with about half the content of web sites being Flash-based animated and (GAH!) audio adds.
Flash video is also irreparably defective.
Disclaimer: did I mention I hate Flash?
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The Will Smith movies was a disgrace to Asimov's legacy with, as one of the worse cinema whoring of all times, them actually making Dr. Calving fuckeable.
This isn't particularly impressive either. I hate these emobots. Animatronics has done better for past movies but at least they didn't pretend they were "robots".
You can get hundreds of iPhone apps from outside the influence of Apple by jailbreaking your phone and installing any number of free community-supported apps through community-based installers (directly off the phone).
This is actually not news. Been using such apps on my iPhone for many months now.
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Or just get quality components to begin with.
At the office, I'm still running a 350mghz PowerMac G4 computer (the bugger is 10 years old) as a server.
All original components. None failed. System still has it's original bleeding-edge 320megs of Ram, runs Mac OS X Tiger.
It was given a new 40gig baracuda drive that's been sitting on shelves for years. had never been used.
We use this machine as a slowest-denominator software test platform for a product in development and as a distributed networked compiler farm node and backup server for another more important machine (it backs up the backup machine's main OS, not it's files).
MS can argue all it wants about Apple making "aesthetic" machines, they actually use good components. Current XServe hardware being another case in point.
If you're referring to "french canadian" above, it's just a careless typo. Like a couple other typos in there (forgot the apostrophe on "dont").
I generally prefer original titles as well. Be it a movie or else.
But if a game, intended for the whole family, isn't available in french, I just dont buy it because I can't expect my 10 and 11 year old kids to enjoy a title in a language they barely understand yet.
But try making an american understand that. They dont even watch translated movies anyway. They prefer to remake them locally.
I dont think this issue can be rationalized south of the border. So, expect lots of insidious comments in this thread about us french canadian.
As per TFA:
In 1977, the Charter of the French Language, also known as Bill 101, defined French as the only official language of Quebec and framing fundamental language rights of all Quebecers. In 1997, this law was amended so that every product sold in Quebec must include packaging, instructions and warranty certificates in French. Since then, all computer software, including game software and operating systems, whether installed or uninstalled, must be available in French unless no French version exists. Video games publishers were given a six-year grace period to comply. Since 2003, video games are now available with French packaging/booklets/warranties.
In 2007, the Quebec government finalized a deal with the Entertainment Software Association of Canada, to increase the number of video games available in French in Quebec. Activision Blizzard, Disney Interactive Studios, Electronic Arts, Microsoft Canada, Nintendo of Canada, Sony Computer Entertainment Canada, Take2 Interactive, THQ and Ubisoft Canada, who are all members of the Entertainment Software Association of Canada, agreed that they would be able to offer their next-generation games with French content before April 1, 2009, if such a version exists elsewhere in the world.
After this deal was announced in 2007, the number of bilingual games raised significantly. For example, in 2007, only 17 percent of Xbox 360 games were available in French in Quebec. Today, half of the Xbox 360 library (about 190 titles out of 380) is available in French in Quebec. Almost every new AAA release is now bilingual or multilingual. Games that are only available in English, that don't exist in French, still can be sold in Quebec. Out of the thousand games released each year, almost every one of them made their way in Quebec. Retailers complaining about possible delays or higher pricing are not truthful.
This is not newsworthy really.
Fair enough.
Damn that's a trollish comment. Sad I dont have mod points right now.
If you think the US, or any other country for that matter, doesn't have such loopholes riddling their system, you're delusional.
Entire elections were stolen though that.
Entire civil liberties abolished the same way.
Constitutions built that way.
Trade laws are nothing but loopholes taken advantage of.
Lobbying became the foundation through wich government operate.
Be consequent to your own disclaimer. Your country is no better, and that doesn't mean you should be any less ashamed for living in such a country.
What did they expect after calling it the God particle? That it would just reveal itself out of oblivion?
Leave that to the creationists and remarket the Boson!
No. Really. That's the only practical use of this, coz i'm sure the dying solder on the battlefield couldn't care less if a doctor hundreds of mines looks through his rib cage.
EFI OpenBoot firmware has more code than the original Mac OS boot floppy, wich cheated by having 4 megs already in ROM.
So, what's your point, really?
My Apple //c and multitude of other antique hardware (including a Lisa 2) might boot faster, but they sure dont do as much.
Quit complaining and head back to your compiler!
They do sync up. Magically. In both directions.
If you have your XCode project open and your XIB (Interface builder) files open, editing outlets in the header files will automatically update the models in IB. you can then proceed in connecting said outlets. Alternatively you can insert outlets (or actions) in the XIB files and it will insert said elements into your headers.
personally, i tend to edit my headers so IB doesn't mess up my formating.
I'm a casual gamer. Nowhere near hardcore. Partly because of lack of interest, partly because I dont have time to become a good paddle jockey.
One example of a game where I would have liked this feature is Metroid Prime 3 on the Wii. I absolutely loved this game for the puzzles and roaming around and then suddenly, you're confronted with sudden harsh treatment for a grinding session that only looks and feels like that: a grinding session. Typically, the "scene's boss".
While I managed to finish the game, there are a couple of ones that I basically turned off the game after a couple of attempts. It made me feel like it was keeping me away from the game. A passage of rights that didn't have much purpose on *my* gameplay.
Now I know this might very well be due to this particular game itself but the pattern is throughout the game industry, and that's what turning off some prospective players.
While bot-supported games is nothing new, the fashion in wich this patent attempts to use them is an interesting idea.
In my view however, it's not worthy of a patent in itself. Games should always have been like this, with some kind of "assist me here" option/widget to get people (with a life) moving on with the game.
Accidental my a$$.
This is precisely what went on prior to the Gulf War. US-made printers were smuggled into Iraq and laced with transponder chips that acted as beacons for air strikes and special ops.
"open source Solaris which finally saw success in 2005"
What? WHAT?? How? When?? By whom?
Why didn't I get the memo??
But rather fantasy-fiction.
There isn't much science in those film.
Objective-C isn't in the list. And that makes me happy.
It's been like that in Canada for years. We can not smile on passport photos and in Quebec (I dont know about other provinces), we're not allowed to smile on driver's license.
This predates visual recognition software. It helps agents to more quickly recognise a face because when you're being arrested or go through custom, you rarely feel a need to smile. So the face is more recognisable.
What good does it do to use the pirated version if you bought the game in the first place??
Is more in cause of the frickin' meltdown of the internet with about half the content of web sites being Flash-based animated and (GAH!) audio adds.
Flash video is also irreparably defective.
Disclaimer: did I mention I hate Flash?
The Will Smith movies was a disgrace to Asimov's legacy with, as one of the worse cinema whoring of all times, them actually making Dr. Calving fuckeable.
She was anything but cute in the books.
This isn't particularly impressive either. I hate these emobots. Animatronics has done better for past movies but at least they didn't pretend they were "robots".
Serves them right for being a Windows-only offering.
I'd have registered in a snap had it been available for Mac.
The first MegaBlocks were really crappy. In recent years, though, they've upped the quality of the plastics considerably.
They also have nice designs but tend to be more specific pieces rather than generic reusable ones across models.
Time will tell if MegaBlocks will withstand the test of heavy usage.
Lego blocks have a strong reputation as being near-indestructible.
Amen.
As a side note, Cray has always had a flair for designing machines that are not only powerful but also have design the conveys this power.
I wouldn't mind having a box like that. I'd wait 'til it runs something else than MS though.
NEWS UPDATE!
You can get hundreds of iPhone apps from outside the influence of Apple by jailbreaking your phone and installing any number of free community-supported apps through community-based installers (directly off the phone).
This is actually not news. Been using such apps on my iPhone for many months now.