Totally totally sucks. The game-play is VERY jerky (as others have also noted), and that's not even full-screen. If anything, that's a great ad for showing why it's better to do games in flash. You get full-screen mode and multi-platform pretty much for free, and nowhere near as jerky for the same amount of effects.
Can you try this and let me know if it works okay. It's the lowest res possible - 400x225. Touch anywhere to start, move to the edge of the screen after it's shuffled to see timer, score, tille. Click on tile to select, click on second tile to swap. Tiles lock in place when correctly positioned.
I would really like feedback from mobile users. (non-iPhone, obviously:-)
Just for fun, I haven't had any feedback from smartphone users - if your smartphone will do 400x225 or better, could you go to http://alphagfx.com/ and try one of the puzzles in 5x5 resolution? the only input is to click. No dragging, no keyboard - I tried to keep it K.I.S.S. all the way.
If you don't want to have to go through the web page, here's a direct link to the first puzzle, in 5x5 mode. It's my first Newfie; I took the picture the day I had to put him down (cancer had pretty much eaten him up and he was having seizures).
The Wii is a comparatively low-res device (720x480 in widescreen mode) but it works fine (just point at a tile and press the A button to select, point at another one, press A again, the tiles swap. Move the pointer to a screen edge to see the time left, a pop-up window with the completed level, title, score, etc.
The Wii scales it properly even with the 13x13 grid (1040x585). For reference, the other grid pixel sizes are 7x7 = 560x315, 9x9 = 720x405, and 11x11 = 880x495. It would be interesting to see which smartphone platforms scale the image properly and which have problems.
In comparison to Flash, nobody's doing "little games" in Java. And javascript doesn't have the same level of control and portability out of the box compared to flash.
Now, since you brought up the subject of whores, video was used by Jobs as a red herring to get people to focus on video, so he can whore h264, which he owns some patents in.
Flash is pretty much the environment you want to use if you want to write a game that works on pcs and game consoles without having to do any special tricks.
Jobs was wrong. Look at all the games written in flash. They don't need tons of bandwidth, and its something people want.
Video is a red herring. Bandwidth will catch up. It always does. Or have you forgotten the bad old days of watching postage-stamp-sized video barely playing from your hard disk, and not playing at all across the net?
That's not true, jurors are only required to remain silent during the trial, afterward, they're allowed to talk to council and anybody else they like. In practice former jurors tend to remain silent for the simple reason that it's very easy to say something after the fact which causes huge headaches or can even cause the case to be set aside. At least that's how it is here in WA, USA, not sure about other parts of the world.
Which is why I wrote "up here". Which country is usually "up here" in relation to many slashdot readers?
Kanuckistan? PoutineVille? The Great White North? (no, it has NOTHING to do with skin colour, you insensitive clod!)
Contempt of court is typically not a criminal conviction. It can land you in jail for the duration of the contempt plus several months or years depending on the state.
But it carries no criminal record.
The longest jail sentence for contempt in a CIVIL proceeding in the United States was 14 years in a divorce case. This isn't some old case - he was finally let out of jail last year.
Then again, Chadwick was a lawyer - and I can get behind the idea that more lawyers should be behind bars rather than practicing at the bar.
Technically, the judge HAS tried her. The judge has the authority to convict her of contempt of court. Up here, when a juror does that, they're looking at up to 2 years in jail, which is one reason why you don't see jurors talking about jury deliberations even decades after a trial - what is said in deliberations is forever secret.
Ex-parte communication with the defendant is also a good way to go to jail.
Please DON'T stop making fun of us. Good neighbors should be able to take a joke.
Besides, where else can we export our crackpots to so easily and have them just blend right in. (not saying he was from Kanuckistan - but his domain registrationpoints to LotusLand - our name for BC).
Makes me wonder, though. He has a previous conviction from 2008 - wouldn't he just have been deported if he weren't a US citizen?
In 2008 Lee was arrested and convicted for holding a week-long protest outside the Discovery Channel building in Silver Spring, Maryland, in which he hired homeless people to form a crowd, and threw around bundles of cash to encourage bystanders to join in.
That's actually pretty smart. Politicians have been doing the same thing for rallies for decades - I guess he infringed on their patents or something.
Anyway, he got his wish - there's now one less person than there would have been. Give the man a Darwin!
I 'm sorry - it's just that this whole "social media" thing is just the dot-bomb with a new slogan. The bottom line so often is still "get eyeballs and we'll figure out how to make money afterward".
Look at all the people trying to cash in on iApps - it's already an overcrowded space, and it's going to get a lot worse.
People could have frozen to death. We have cold spells where it stays in the minus 30 - minus 35 range for weeks.
Amazing that more people didn't die, and that most of them were from things like slipping on ice and knocking themselves out, then being found as a corpsicle within a few feet of their house, stuff like that. Or one woman I knew who opened her front door, the lawn had several feet of compacted snow on it covered with a thick crust of ice. Her dog ran out onto it and started sliding towards the street, and couldn't stop. The muni snowblower spit it out all over her lawn.
I had always told my sister that this woman (who claimed to be a psychic) was a phoney. If she had really been, she wouldn't have let the dog get out.
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The Discovery Channel MUST broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet and to do the following IMMEDIATELY: 1. The Discovery Channel and it's affiliate channels MUST have daily television programs at prime time slots based on Daniel Quinn's "My Ishmael" pages 207-212 where solutions to save the planet would be done in the same way as the Industrial Revolution was done, by people building on each other's inventive ideas. Focus must be given on how people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions continue pollution and are pollution. A game show format contest would be in order. Perhaps also forums of leading scientists who understand and agree with the Malthus-Darwin science and the problem of human overpopulation. Do both. Do all until something WORKS and the natural world starts improving and human civilization building STOPS and is reversed! MAKE IT INTERESTING SO PEOPLE WATCH AND APPLY SOLUTIONS!!!!
2. All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions. In those programs' places, programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility must be pushed. All former pro-birth programs must now push in the direction of stopping human birth, not encouraging it.
3. All programs promoting War and the technology behind those must cease. There is no sense in advertising weapons of mass-destruction anymore. Instead, talk about ways to disassemble civilization and concentrate the message in finding SOLUTIONS to solving global military mechanized conflict. Again, solutions solutions instead of just repeating the same old wars with newer weapons. Also, keep out the fraudulent peace movements. They are liars and fakes and had no real intention of ending the wars. ALL OF THEM ARE FAKE! On one hand, they claim they want the wars to end, on the other, they are demanding the human population increase. World War II had 2 Billion humans and after that war, the people decided that tripling the population would assure peace. WTF??? STUPIDITY! MORE HUMANS EQUALS MORE WAR!
4. Civilization must be exposed for the filth it is. That, and all its disgusting religious-cultural roots and greed. Broadcast this message until the pollution in the planet is reversed and the human population goes down! This is your obligation. If you think it isn't, then get hell off the planet! Breathe Oil! It is the moral obligation of everyone living otherwise what good are they??
5. Immigration: Programs must be developed to find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that. Find solutions to stopping it. Call for people in the world to develop solutions to stop it completely and p
... which, on second thought, may be the case. Your neighbors reported blown light bulbs. You didn't have any protection on some of those circuits, and you still didn't suffer damage. Your proximity to the pole isn't necessarily going to be the determining factor as to who gets to melt down.
Sure they do - they communicate with them all the time. Programmers are especially prone to do this. Oh wait - you wouldn't know, you're not a programmer. Head over to mini microsofts blog and read the comments about how many programmers have iPhones. They use them, even though it's a competitors' device.
Some of the slashdotters use their smartphones in a pinch to shell into servers when something has to be fixed "right now.That's part of "running your business" - quick response times. They don't have to bring a laptop with them everywhere.
Take a look at how many businesses have become dependent on crackberries to keep in touch with people in the field. The too are running their businesses using smartphones - it's become part of their infrastructure, of how they do business.
Our communications infrastructure stayed up the whole time (though they had do do some "interesting" jury-rigging, like taking a couple of diesel-electric locomotives, derailing them, and having them drive down main street so they could be used as in-sutu emergency generators. Wrecked the asphalt, but everyone had power picbecause itdid happen).
I'm not worried. It's not like it's going to cache writes for 10-15 seconds. Also, you're much more likely to have problems with a multi-disk raid set (which is another reason not to go above raid 1 - raid 5 is suicide on today's large hard drives, and it's only going to get worse as we start looking at 10TB hard drives later on this decade).
There is no way they have diesel generators at each cell tower, nor is there any provision for refueling them.
Sure they do. I've seen hushed diesel genset that are so quiet they make your window AC sound loud. And I'm not talking a one-person portable, but the ones built on their own trailers. Cities are now now requiring them for urban construction sites when you have to keep 100,000 watts of lights on and the power hasn't been connected. You can also get gensets that run on natural gas - no need to have a bottle or a delivery truck. Also, stationary gensets run on #2 diesel year-round if they're indoors, and that's just heating oil - and since it's not being used for automotive transport, they can actually legally use heating oil. A couple of 200-gallon tanks, same as a house, will do them just fine for quite a while. So you don't even need special fuel transports - just have the heating oil guy top it off.
And yes, here in Quebec we had a month-long outage during the killer ice storm, and the region's cell towers stayed up. Maybe you're slackers in the US, but that was over a decade ago, so it's not like it's a new practice.
If they want to "tie up" the internet without actually shutting it down, just set up a bunch of servers, and when it's time to swing into action, release all that gubbiment pr0n that the employees have been collecting on your dime.
The cell phone towers all have gensets. Even the ones with the antennas mounted on the roof of an apartment building. They'll either mount it on the roof, or as part of the leasing for the roof space, also lease a small apartment, completely soundproof it, and leave it very anonymous. Found this out while on jury duty listening to the cell company's expert witness explain the set-up of each antenna as they were able to track several user's locations while they were driving around.
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Totally totally sucks. The game-play is VERY jerky (as others have also noted), and that's not even full-screen. If anything, that's a great ad for showing why it's better to do games in flash. You get full-screen mode and multi-platform pretty much for free, and nowhere near as jerky for the same amount of effects.
I would really like feedback from mobile users. (non-iPhone, obviously :-)
If you don't want to have to go through the web page, here's a direct link to the first puzzle, in 5x5 mode. It's my first Newfie; I took the picture the day I had to put him down (cancer had pretty much eaten him up and he was having seizures).
The Wii is a comparatively low-res device (720x480 in widescreen mode) but it works fine (just point at a tile and press the A button to select, point at another one, press A again, the tiles swap. Move the pointer to a screen edge to see the time left, a pop-up window with the completed level, title, score, etc. The Wii scales it properly even with the 13x13 grid (1040x585). For reference, the other grid pixel sizes are 7x7 = 560x315, 9x9 = 720x405, and 11x11 = 880x495. It would be interesting to see which smartphone platforms scale the image properly and which have problems.
In comparison to Flash, nobody's doing "little games" in Java. And javascript doesn't have the same level of control and portability out of the box compared to flash.
Now, since you brought up the subject of whores, video was used by Jobs as a red herring to get people to focus on video, so he can whore h264, which he owns some patents in.
Flash is pretty much the environment you want to use if you want to write a game that works on pcs and game consoles without having to do any special tricks.
Well, if someone is asking for a brick in the face when they troll, you sort of have to "go with the flow" if you know what I mean.
Video is a red herring. Bandwidth will catch up. It always does. Or have you forgotten the bad old days of watching postage-stamp-sized video barely playing from your hard disk, and not playing at all across the net?
Hitler.
There, was it that hard?
Which is why I wrote "up here". Which country is usually "up here" in relation to many slashdot readers?
Kanuckistan? PoutineVille? The Great White North? (no, it has NOTHING to do with skin colour, you insensitive clod!)
The longest jail sentence for contempt in a CIVIL proceeding in the United States was 14 years in a divorce case . This isn't some old case - he was finally let out of jail last year.
Then again, Chadwick was a lawyer - and I can get behind the idea that more lawyers should be behind bars rather than practicing at the bar.
How about when the other person shows they're Darwin Award material for sliding down a chimney, getting jammed in the tight space, and suffocating to death?
That's stalking material.
Technically, the judge HAS tried her. The judge has the authority to convict her of contempt of court. Up here, when a juror does that, they're looking at up to 2 years in jail, which is one reason why you don't see jurors talking about jury deliberations even decades after a trial - what is said in deliberations is forever secret.
Ex-parte communication with the defendant is also a good way to go to jail.
Please DON'T stop making fun of us. Good neighbors should be able to take a joke.
Besides, where else can we export our crackpots to so easily and have them just blend right in. (not saying he was from Kanuckistan - but his domain registrationpoints to LotusLand - our name for BC).
Makes me wonder, though. He has a previous conviction from 2008 - wouldn't he just have been deported if he weren't a US citizen?
That's actually pretty smart. Politicians have been doing the same thing for rallies for decades - I guess he infringed on their patents or something.
Anyway, he got his wish - there's now one less person than there would have been. Give the man a Darwin!
Look at all the people trying to cash in on iApps - it's already an overcrowded space, and it's going to get a lot worse.
People could have frozen to death. We have cold spells where it stays in the minus 30 - minus 35 range for weeks.
Amazing that more people didn't die, and that most of them were from things like slipping on ice and knocking themselves out, then being found as a corpsicle within a few feet of their house, stuff like that. Or one woman I knew who opened her front door, the lawn had several feet of compacted snow on it covered with a thick crust of ice. Her dog ran out onto it and started sliding towards the street, and couldn't stop. The muni snowblower spit it out all over her lawn.
I had always told my sister that this woman (who claimed to be a psychic) was a phoney. If she had really been, she wouldn't have let the dog get out.
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1. The Discovery Channel and it's affiliate channels MUST have daily television programs at prime time slots based on Daniel Quinn's "My Ishmael" pages 207-212 where solutions to save the planet would be done in the same way as the Industrial Revolution was done, by people building on each other's inventive ideas. Focus must be given on how people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions continue pollution and are pollution. A game show format contest would be in order. Perhaps also forums of leading scientists who understand and agree with the Malthus-Darwin science and the problem of human overpopulation. Do both. Do all until something WORKS and the natural world starts improving and human civilization building STOPS and is reversed! MAKE IT INTERESTING SO PEOPLE WATCH AND APPLY SOLUTIONS!!!!
2. All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions. In those programs' places, programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility must be pushed. All former pro-birth programs must now push in the direction of stopping human birth, not encouraging it.
3. All programs promoting War and the technology behind those must cease. There is no sense in advertising weapons of mass-destruction anymore. Instead, talk about ways to disassemble civilization and concentrate the message in finding SOLUTIONS to solving global military mechanized conflict. Again, solutions solutions instead of just repeating the same old wars with newer weapons. Also, keep out the fraudulent peace movements. They are liars and fakes and had no real intention of ending the wars. ALL OF THEM ARE FAKE! On one hand, they claim they want the wars to end, on the other, they are demanding the human population increase. World War II had 2 Billion humans and after that war, the people decided that tripling the population would assure peace. WTF??? STUPIDITY! MORE HUMANS EQUALS MORE WAR!
4. Civilization must be exposed for the filth it is. That, and all its disgusting religious-cultural roots and greed. Broadcast this message until the pollution in the planet is reversed and the human population goes down! This is your obligation. If you think it isn't, then get hell off the planet! Breathe Oil! It is the moral obligation of everyone living otherwise what good are they??
5. Immigration: Programs must be developed to find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that. Find solutions to stopping it. Call for people in the world to develop solutions to stop it completely and p
Sure they do - they communicate with them all the time. Programmers are especially prone to do this. Oh wait - you wouldn't know, you're not a programmer. Head over to mini microsofts blog and read the comments about how many programmers have iPhones. They use them, even though it's a competitors' device.
Some of the slashdotters use their smartphones in a pinch to shell into servers when something has to be fixed "right now.That's part of "running your business" - quick response times. They don't have to bring a laptop with them everywhere.
Take a look at how many businesses have become dependent on crackberries to keep in touch with people in the field. The too are running their businesses using smartphones - it's become part of their infrastructure, of how they do business.
You got the date right :-)
Our communications infrastructure stayed up the whole time (though they had do do some "interesting" jury-rigging, like taking a couple of diesel-electric locomotives, derailing them, and having them drive down main street so they could be used as in-sutu emergency generators. Wrecked the asphalt, but everyone had power pic because it did happen).
You ever sat in a meeting when marketing is pitching their latest retread "... with social media!!! It'll be awesome."
You won't lose money over the long term betting against them.
I'm not worried. It's not like it's going to cache writes for 10-15 seconds. Also, you're much more likely to have problems with a multi-disk raid set (which is another reason not to go above raid 1 - raid 5 is suicide on today's large hard drives, and it's only going to get worse as we start looking at 10TB hard drives later on this decade).
Certainly SSDs are nice, but I'm a cheap date. I'll stick with hard drives for now (they tend to fill up no matter what you do :-)
Sure they do. I've seen hushed diesel genset that are so quiet they make your window AC sound loud. And I'm not talking a one-person portable, but the ones built on their own trailers. Cities are now now requiring them for urban construction sites when you have to keep 100,000 watts of lights on and the power hasn't been connected. You can also get gensets that run on natural gas - no need to have a bottle or a delivery truck. Also, stationary gensets run on #2 diesel year-round if they're indoors, and that's just heating oil - and since it's not being used for automotive transport, they can actually legally use heating oil. A couple of 200-gallon tanks, same as a house, will do them just fine for quite a while. So you don't even need special fuel transports - just have the heating oil guy top it off.
And yes, here in Quebec we had a month-long outage during the killer ice storm, and the region's cell towers stayed up. Maybe you're slackers in the US, but that was over a decade ago, so it's not like it's a new practice.
If they want to "tie up" the internet without actually shutting it down, just set up a bunch of servers, and when it's time to swing into action, release all that gubbiment pr0n that the employees have been collecting on your dime.
Nothing clogs up the inner00bs like free porn.
The cell phone towers all have gensets. Even the ones with the antennas mounted on the roof of an apartment building. They'll either mount it on the roof, or as part of the leasing for the roof space, also lease a small apartment, completely soundproof it, and leave it very anonymous. Found this out while on jury duty listening to the cell company's expert witness explain the set-up of each antenna as they were able to track several user's locations while they were driving around.
Thank you. BTW, you might want to check my profile ... just saying ;-)