The Nokia deal has the "smell of death" around it. Nokia said they won't be introducing any WP7 smartphones until 2012, which is an eternity in today's market. They're going to miss the back-to-school crowd, the Black Friday crowd, and the biggie - the Christmas holiday season. (see the last 8 paragraphs).
No wonder Microsoft had to kick in a billion dollars.... there's no other way that the deal could even begin to make any sort of sanity.
Now as for the game porting, some games are very dependent on screen size. Bejeweled is something you wouldn't waste your time with on a big-screen TV, and SimCity or Flight Simulator isn't something that lends itself to being anything more than an exercise in eyestrain on a cell phone.
Sure there are games that will still work, no matter what the resolution, but the smaller the display, the less perceived value in a game, so while the work is about the same, the income is a lot less, so unless you can get the phone version out as a low-cost side-line to the main event....
I'm not saying it's something people shouldn't consider, just that there are several factors against it:
lower revenue per sale compared to all other channels;
time spent porting could be used to create original content better suited to the form factor instead of "Shovel-Ware 2.0";
mono is always going to be behind compared to the microsoft product...
your collision detection and enemy behaviors logic would remain pretty much unchanged on Android/Java/Dalvik as well.
But Windows Phone 7 is stillborn, and it's doubtful that it will ever break into the double digits, so why bother?
As for the Xbox, that's a different market, different display and controls, etc. Porting those games to a phone is still going to require a major rewrite anyways, so again, why bother?
For man, Mono is just a "solution" looking for a problem; for others, it is a problem all by itself. I'm not a fan of Java by any means, but it gets the job done, and eclipse is a decent development environment, even on comparatively old machines, provided you have a big enough display.
Mutation rates are affected by heat, by light, by food source, by lack of food, chemicals, etc. It's also been proven that horizontal gene transfer (organism incorporates genetic material from another organism without being the offspring of that organism) occurs in nature quite often in single-celled creatures without human intervention. Subsequent offspring inherit the "new" genes.
As for human-guided genetic selection (selective mating) before the use of gene-splicing, it doesn't take that long. To create a new breed of dog that breeds true takes well under 100 years.
Random mutations happen all the time. Most of them are not favourable to life, so they get eliminated. Humans, with their ability to alter the environment (keep predators away from livestock, for example), can allow mutations to persist that would be detrimental to life "au naturel".
As for you, maybe you should stop with the cyber-stalking, and suck it up that your stupid "host files are the best defense against viruses an malware" crap isn't accepted by anyone with brains.
Don't mind me - I'm in the process of trying to remove some of the suckage from writing java code (specifically, removing the need for coders to write all the "*Listener" junk and the associated interfaces, without having to resort to a macro preprocessor.) I just got it to work an hour or so ago for one component, now have to port it to about 50 others, then I can let people play around with it.
After all, I'm not a fan of java, but a part of that is the over-verboseness of it, and part is the weird event handling.
Many of the new species breed true. Dogs and cats, for example. The simple fact is that humans can use genetic drift and mutations (both natural and those caused by altering the environment) to their advantage to create new species, and new traits in existing species, that would never have occurred without human intervention.
The "it's all already encoded in nature" is both a lie and the refuge of fundies who want to deny that evolution in any form can take place.
Environments without predatory pressures and an abundance of food are fully expected to create larger, slower animals. That's even dictated by evolution and something we can verify via recent history and even the obese American epidemic.
FTFY
BTW, when the human-bred strains can no longer easily breed with their original kinds, that's proof that their genes HAVE changed sufficiently from what is found in nature.
Selective breeding is also genetic engineering, just done with a different process. Certainly the crops and animals we eat today are not the result of "natural evolution." Turkeys so big that they can't even walk, cows that need to be milked, wheat, potatoes, corn that don't resemble anything found "in nature", domesticated dogs and cats, etc.
Over in China, though, the preferred method back then (I am not kidding here) is to drill a hole and use a light explosive charge to shatter the fossil-bearing rock and then just glue all the bits back together
Using that technique, it's only a matter of time before they put the pieces together and re-discover Piltdown Man.
A quick look into the history of the Catholic Church and all you find are mass murders, deceit, scandals, and abuse of power with a very light peppering of good acts. Actually, many of the base teachings are even against the Bible and blasphemous.\
Read the bible, it's full of murders, deceit, scandals and abuse of power. In fact, that pretty much sums up the whole gig.
Want deceit? Look in the garden of Eden, where God told Adam and Eve to stay dumb ("You shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil"). So how are they supposed to recognize evil? How are they supposed to know what';s good?
And then a bit later God becomes the biggest mass murderer in history with the Flood. Also, animal torturer (what, you think those animals WANTED to drown?) God kills kittens and puppies.
A prophet gets teased by kids because he's bald, so he sends a bear after them to tear them into pieces. Hey God, nice going there...
And of course, the multiple times that god's followers are commanded by god to kill all their enemies, rape their enemies' women, etc.
The new testament is no better, preaching a politics of exclusion, hate towards LGBT, etc.
It's the Vatican that is spreading policies that are consistent with Satan, not the Internet.
It's all in the labeling. Instead of referring to them as Anti-Gay Inc", why not refer to them as "Anti-Civil Rights", or "the Anti-Freedom of Association clowns"?
Same as the Vatican referring to themselves as "The Holy See". More and more people are referring to them as "Pedophiles International", and Vatican City as PedVille*
*no, I'm not suggesting that zanga come out with a new "kid-themed" game
There's no reason that different packaging systems should be a problem. After all, it's the source you want to be common if you're creating a "common base". The packages are a distro-specific detail.
Think "UnitedLinux."
Remember how Suse was involved then?
Now, while this is probably an April Fools joke, the idea behind it is worth looking at, especially if you want to create a "rolling release". And the OpenSuse project already allows you to create packages in other formats for other distros...
So, probably a joke, but wouldn't it be nice if it were also a trial balloon, with plausible deniability, just in case?
Of course, "teh question" changes all the time, because he has *ahem* issues... and more so issues with women, from the looks of things.
Anyone running into this guy needs to see this. It's funny, he makes threats - either veiled or outright - to sue for libel, and when you tell him "so sue me, you stupid fat tub of lard", he changes the question.
-20 posted by commodore64_love and clones (Note: Reserved for Federal Government use only)
-5? That's it? APK (the hosts file guy) deserves less. -30 or so. Every time someone posts an anonymous reply to him, or down-mods him, he freaks out and thinks it's from me! Then he goes and posts all sorts of crap-floods in my journal and after my posts, all the time accusing me of cyber-stalking him - just like he's doing right now.
The guy is an obese (as in BMI over 30) narcissistic obsessive paranoid misogynist. And those are probably his better qualities.
He's become quite obsessed with me, after I pointed out that his host file claims were total bs on more than one occasion. It's funny - he thinks he's bothering me, but I completely p0wn him. He can't help himself - I just have to post "JUMP, FAT BOY, JUMP" and he jumps. And jumps. And jumps. I figure at least it gives him some exercise, and keeps him off the streets where the sight of him would probably cause pregnant women to miscarry.
HOWTO: trolling the hosts file guy in one easy step
The next time you see a post by him, just reply anonymously. And to really mess with his head, reply anonymously to your anonymous post, disagreeing with your first anon post (extra points if you claim in the second post that you're him - that REALLY sets him off). He'll accuse you of being me, call you a c*nt (and he wonders why women don't like him), then start with the usual crap-floods of half-baked lies and innuendo.
First, I don't past anonymously, you stupid moron. The link you posted proves otherwise.
Second, I doubt anyone is impressed with your use of the "c" word.
Third, same goes for making fun of my going temporarily blind in one eye.
Fourth, it's like I said - you can't help it - you have to attack me whenever you're not busy attacking someone else. Your pitiful ego demands it, because you can't stand that a woman totally p0wns you without even doing anything for months on end.
I must have really hit a nerve for you to think that any AC post about you was written by me. Let me guess - mommy didn't change your diapers when you were little, and you have a thing against women? Or a female obstetrician, and she slapped the wrong end? And when you mother said "Isn't he a treasure", you father said "quick - lets bury it before someone sees it and say you miscarried."
Speaking of which, did your parents have any children who survived?
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The Nokia deal has the "smell of death" around it. Nokia said they won't be introducing any WP7 smartphones until 2012, which is an eternity in today's market. They're going to miss the back-to-school crowd, the Black Friday crowd, and the biggie - the Christmas holiday season. (see the last 8 paragraphs).
No wonder Microsoft had to kick in a billion dollars .... there's no other way that the deal could even begin to make any sort of sanity.
Now as for the game porting, some games are very dependent on screen size. Bejeweled is something you wouldn't waste your time with on a big-screen TV, and SimCity or Flight Simulator isn't something that lends itself to being anything more than an exercise in eyestrain on a cell phone.
Sure there are games that will still work, no matter what the resolution, but the smaller the display, the less perceived value in a game, so while the work is about the same, the income is a lot less, so unless you can get the phone version out as a low-cost side-line to the main event ....
I'm not saying it's something people shouldn't consider, just that there are several factors against it:
But Windows Phone 7 is stillborn, and it's doubtful that it will ever break into the double digits, so why bother?
As for the Xbox, that's a different market, different display and controls, etc. Porting those games to a phone is still going to require a major rewrite anyways, so again, why bother?
For man, Mono is just a "solution" looking for a problem; for others, it is a problem all by itself. I'm not a fan of Java by any means, but it gets the job done, and eclipse is a decent development environment, even on comparatively old machines, provided you have a big enough display.
If you remember your music C# is also D flat (or D-), which is what I grade Mono as, for the simple reason that you don't need it for Android.
Mutation rates are affected by heat, by light, by food source, by lack of food, chemicals, etc. It's also been proven that horizontal gene transfer (organism incorporates genetic material from another organism without being the offspring of that organism) occurs in nature quite often in single-celled creatures without human intervention. Subsequent offspring inherit the "new" genes.
As for human-guided genetic selection (selective mating) before the use of gene-splicing, it doesn't take that long. To create a new breed of dog that breeds true takes well under 100 years.
As for you, maybe you should stop with the cyber-stalking, and suck it up that your stupid "host files are the best defense against viruses an malware" crap isn't accepted by anyone with brains.
After all, I'm not a fan of java, but a part of that is the over-verboseness of it, and part is the weird event handling.
If you're using slides, you better be able to justify it.
FTFY
If you really know your topic, you don't need slides, just a whiteboard, marker, and an audience who wants to ask questions.
The "it's all already encoded in nature" is both a lie and the refuge of fundies who want to deny that evolution in any form can take place.
FTFY
BTW, when the human-bred strains can no longer easily breed with their original kinds, that's proof that their genes HAVE changed sufficiently from what is found in nature.
Selective breeding is also genetic engineering, just done with a different process. Certainly the crops and animals we eat today are not the result of "natural evolution." Turkeys so big that they can't even walk, cows that need to be milked, wheat, potatoes, corn that don't resemble anything found "in nature", domesticated dogs and cats, etc.
Using that technique, it's only a matter of time before they put the pieces together and re-discover Piltdown Man.
The $300 billion is for the damage the tsunami caused, and the thousands of people killed. Not just for the damage to the generators.
Read the bible, it's full of murders, deceit, scandals and abuse of power. In fact, that pretty much sums up the whole gig.
Want deceit? Look in the garden of Eden, where God told Adam and Eve to stay dumb ("You shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil"). So how are they supposed to recognize evil? How are they supposed to know what';s good?
And then a bit later God becomes the biggest mass murderer in history with the Flood. Also, animal torturer (what, you think those animals WANTED to drown?) God kills kittens and puppies.
A prophet gets teased by kids because he's bald, so he sends a bear after them to tear them into pieces. Hey God, nice going there ...
And of course, the multiple times that god's followers are commanded by god to kill all their enemies, rape their enemies' women, etc.
The new testament is no better, preaching a politics of exclusion, hate towards LGBT, etc.
It's the Vatican that is spreading policies that are consistent with Satan, not the Internet.
It's all in the labeling. Instead of referring to them as Anti-Gay Inc", why not refer to them as "Anti-Civil Rights", or "the Anti-Freedom of Association clowns"?
Same as the Vatican referring to themselves as "The Holy See". More and more people are referring to them as "Pedophiles International", and Vatican City as PedVille*
*no, I'm not suggesting that zanga come out with a new "kid-themed" game
Would you really prefer the alternative?
After all, you can go blind doing that.
There's so much free pr0n on teh Innert00bs that the Vatican's stash won't be any big deal. Most slashdotters probably have copies already.
The Vulcan prohibited archives, on the other hand ... that could start a whole new TV series - ST:TPA (Star Trek: The Prohibited Archives).
And the cast wouldn't have to worry about one of the leads ... speaking ... every ... word ... like ... its ... a ... separate ... sentence!
It could rank right up there with Spaceballs II - The Search for More Money.
most of them want to see a movie in 3D I find myself putting on the glasses but covering one eye to avoid eyestrain.
So order the Double-D (DD) glasses. It turns every 3D movie into pr0n.
You'll still strain your eyes (etc.,), but I imagine you won't be complaining as much.
Think "UnitedLinux."
Remember how Suse was involved then?
Now, while this is probably an April Fools joke, the idea behind it is worth looking at, especially if you want to create a "rolling release". And the OpenSuse project already allows you to create packages in other formats for other distros ...
So, probably a joke, but wouldn't it be nice if it were also a trial balloon, with plausible deniability, just in case?
Like in "Spin the Bottle", and "Doctor"?
Oh, wait - this is new, it's "On the Internet". Quick, patent it!!!!
Think of all the royalties and rent-seeking potential for "heaven", "hell", indulgences, salvation, etc.
and for those who would add [citation needed] - look up L. Ron Hubbard + religion
his latest crapflood, still active as of 5 minutes ago. Typical - someone somewhere must have posted something against him as an AC, and he went nutzo again.
Of course, "teh question" changes all the time, because he has *ahem* issues ... and more so issues with women, from the looks of things.
Anyone running into this guy needs to see this. It's funny, he makes threats - either veiled or outright - to sue for libel, and when you tell him "so sue me, you stupid fat tub of lard", he changes the question.
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-20 posted by commodore64_love and clones (Note: Reserved for Federal Government use only)
-5? That's it? APK (the hosts file guy) deserves less. -30 or so. Every time someone posts an anonymous reply to him, or down-mods him, he freaks out and thinks it's from me! Then he goes and posts all sorts of crap-floods in my journal and after my posts, all the time accusing me of cyber-stalking him - just like he's doing right now.
The guy is an obese (as in BMI over 30) narcissistic obsessive paranoid misogynist. And those are probably his better qualities.
He's become quite obsessed with me, after I pointed out that his host file claims were total bs on more than one occasion. It's funny - he thinks he's bothering me, but I completely p0wn him. He can't help himself - I just have to post "JUMP, FAT BOY, JUMP" and he jumps. And jumps. And jumps. I figure at least it gives him some exercise, and keeps him off the streets where the sight of him would probably cause pregnant women to miscarry.
HOWTO: trolling the hosts file guy in one easy step
The next time you see a post by him, just reply anonymously. And to really mess with his head, reply anonymously to your anonymous post, disagreeing with your first anon post (extra points if you claim in the second post that you're him - that REALLY sets him off). He'll accuse you of being me, call you a c*nt (and he wonders why women don't like him), then start with the usual crap-floods of half-baked lies and innuendo.
A continuum would be even better:
+3 I want to have your baby! / +2 love / +1 like / 0 meh / -1 dislike / -2 hate / -3 GODWIN FTW / -4 Belongs on idle.slashdot.org
JUMP, MONKEY-BOY, JUMP!
First, I don't past anonymously, you stupid moron. The link you posted proves otherwise.
Second, I doubt anyone is impressed with your use of the "c" word.
Third, same goes for making fun of my going temporarily blind in one eye.
Fourth, it's like I said - you can't help it - you have to attack me whenever you're not busy attacking someone else. Your pitiful ego demands it, because you can't stand that a woman totally p0wns you without even doing anything for months on end.
I must have really hit a nerve for you to think that any AC post about you was written by me. Let me guess - mommy didn't change your diapers when you were little, and you have a thing against women? Or a female obstetrician, and she slapped the wrong end? And when you mother said "Isn't he a treasure", you father said "quick - lets bury it before someone sees it and say you miscarried."
Speaking of which, did your parents have any children who survived?
JUMP, MONKEY-BOY, JUMP! You can't stop ...