My Nokias have come with multi-touch keypads since day one. And they have had Opera as the web browser for as long as I can remember off hand. But the main problem with web browsing on a phone is not the device itself, its with the speed of the network - anything below full 3G just doesn't cut it. Websites are just too big - even ones like Slashdot or news sites like CNN or BBC - to go back to dialup speeds and have any kind of usable experience.
And even now that I have 3G I don't browse on my phone because with bluetooth I can simply use it as a modem for my laptop without even taking my phone out of my pocket.
I'm sure the iphone will be a good phone, but I just don't see that it solves any problems that needed fixing - you still have a small screen, a very limited text input system and slow speeds. Its not a mass market device and people in the niche can already get everything the iphone provides (I can run Opera, putty, multi-service IM, ebook reader, mail client, mp3 player, Word doc reader, PDF reader, SIP client, with bluetooth and WIFI, on my Nokia _and_ it came free with my contract, and the next version will come free when I upgrade).
The final selection for power generation has yet to be made; it will be a yo-yo-like device that can be pulled by hand or foot, with a strap that can attached it to a belt or table. The yo-yo generates around 10 watts, while the XO consumes a mere 3 watts in non-intensive computing. This means, for example, that that for every 10 minutes of power generation, a child should be able to surf the internet for a half hour.
Shooting games (House of the Dead, etc) would no doubt work they way they always have, by reading the pixel colour on the screen.
Any motion sensing madness is really just a bonus - and I guess would all help in the calculation and maybe make it more accurate. Its not like you haven't been able to buy gun based games on older systems, like the Dreamcast.
Also, it wouldn't surprise me if you larger/more powerful sensor bars were on sale at some point in the future - if not from Nintendo, then from 3rd parties. I suspect the reason for its size is simply that it has to be generic and fit TVs right down to 14" portable jobbies. It seems like to good an opportunity too ignore, though - offering larger sensors for bigger screens.
The PS3's browser is not free, its included in the $600 one off payment you make at the start. Personally, if I was ever going to use my Wii to browse the Internet I'd rather pay $5 for a good browser with a long development history. Since I'm never going to use my Wii to browse the Internet I can save myself the $5, which I couldn't do if it was built in and Nintendo were paying per unit licensing. (In reality, since its going to be free I can actually have the best of both worlds - but I'm not fooling myself that I am ever going to use my Wii to browse the net, I'm just not going to miss the chance to grab it for free).
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No doubt. In my defence I'm not the one who pulled a line straight out of an 18th century potboiler
"...your true agenda, which is to implement failed draconian social policies under the guise of "science."". Classic.
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The fact that you blindly side with the Liberal politician betrays your true agenda, which is to implement failed draconian social policies under the guise of "science."
WOO HA HA HA!!!!!!! I will release my failed Draconian Social Policies unless you send me... A HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS!!!!!
Sounds good. Maybe the rest of the world should use that as an example. Instead of one rich company you get 51 companies making a living. No-one becomes big enough to abuse the advantage. Surely that is the free market.
But they also statistically live longer, so I would presume that even if it did lead to obesity it doesn't also lead to increased diabetes or other obesity related diseases. Sorry can't really find any links - http://www.you.com.au/news/371.htm is the best I can get (its down the bottom of the text).
This isn't a dig at your comment, but don't we already have 3D interfaces? My windows' sit forward or behind each other - I have x,y and z. So what they are talking about is 'more 3d-er'. More things behind and infront of other things - or things further behind other things. I'm sure I could make a KDE skin that made all my windows look like buildings, with a bit more fake 3d depth to them, but that's just an affectation - it has no intrinstic value or advantage. I can open hundreds of windows already and stack them one behind the other like a giant filing cabinet, but what's the advantage? I guess I can't have my windows at an angle to my view, but surely that is also a good thing?
I just don't see it at all - like all 'sci-fi' ideas the reality is much less romantic than the idea.
I find it funny as well, since I live in Glasgow and would happily walk around the city center at any time of day of night without feeling threatened. I don't doubt that there is some trouble now and then, but the 'epedemic' that is spoken of must stop when I turn a corner and start up again when I turn the next corner, because I just don't see it. I've also seen one fight (one guy in a chip shop getting beaten up by his Protestant friends because he went to a Rangers/Celtic game with some Catholic friends - some friends. They also legged it when the owner came out with his cleaver. And that was maybe 16 years ago). I've seen the odd disagreement, but that's the kind of thing where some friends get a bit heated and within two minutes they are all hugging and singing loudly together. I have never felt threatened.
According to the media though, everytime I go into the city centre on a Saturday night and come home alive I should be thanking the God of my choice for a lucky escape.
It would seem better to say 'if you care about rankings or the meta-game of achievements, then go for the XBox 360'. I would hazarad the opinion that most people don't. Only a small, vocal hardcore do. To get anecdotal about it, I don't know anyone who does, but then I don't hang out in online game crowds - just with people who like a casual game. Personally I've been playing online games since Doom and I would find it hard to care less about rankings or even what score I get during an individual game. I play for the fun of it - full stop.
Even assuming your conspiracy theory is right (I'm not suggesting it isn't), what has it got to do with racism? Niggers go home because I don't want to be controlled by a cadre of elite Illuminatti?
He's got a point though. Maybe we should be enouraging six toes, webbed feet and even siamese twins. After all, how diverse will humanity be when everyone has the same number of conjoined twins?
I would think you'd have to read the question to understand the answer. That's why its called 'Prime Minister's Question Time'. Its usually in the form of "MP asks question like 'Would the Prime Minister agree that the British game industry has made significant strides over the last few years to clear up its image and become one of the most successful areas of British Industry. Blah blah blah bully bad blah blah blah also agree to a full review into banning it'. Blair responds as above".
I guess its like Jeopardy - even if you just want to lick Tony's ballsack verbally, you still have to phrase it as a question. "Would the Right Honourable Genleman agree that your ass tastes like liquid honey and you are probably the greatest thing since my wife agreed to anal".
I would like make two points though - 1) I'm not defending Blair, just the seeming illogicality of the quote, which probably makes logical sense in context. I personally think (know) Tony Blair is a compulsive liar who would tell you you smelled of roses if you'd just taken a bath in shit. 2) One of the reasons this will make waves in Parliament is because, in the UK at least, all members of parliament are the very people who were bullied at school. You only have to look at most of them to know, and opening their mouths just confirms it.
Stop swapping one fear for another. Lets take normal, sensible precautions like we used to. Will some children get hurt? Of course they will. But that is life. You have to hope your child will never be molested or break their neck playing football but to eliminate the risk 100% is a ridiculous goal which leads to the banning of tag in schools or creating such a large barrier to entry that the good teachers will do something easier (like becoming peace negotiators in Palestine).
Maybe the two are related - when the good teachers are fed up living in a climate of fear, who's going to take the risks?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and risk the wrath of geekdom, but both of these theories (TV as child rearer and 'refrigerator mothers') have a ring of truth to them - to someone like me, with no knowledge or direct experience of autism. I'm not saying they are true, just that I could belleive them if shown evidence. I'm a new father and it is amazing to watch our child's development as he plays and discovers everything; learns to communicate and interact with his surroundings from first principles. I find it hard to believe that lack of emotional contact, especially from the mother, couldn't have a fundamental impact on a child. After all, they are born knowing nothing about the world - even discovering slowly that those things flapping around them are their own limbs.
Please re-read the article. The warning is attached when it is flagged by viewers. It then goes into a queue to await review by a YouTube employee. The YouTube employee then decides what further action to take, such as remove the warning or remove the video
So once again, nothing to see here, please move along.
The GPs point (as I read it) was that the Walkman lost its throne to other portable cassette players, not to the ipod. It lost its crown long before mp3s were even invented, when cheap oriental ripoffs could be had for a tenth of the price - after all the basic functionality is just to play cassettes, anything else is bells and whistles.
Same with an ipod, we're not talking about it being replaced by some new technology (as I read the PS) like holodisks - just the commodotising of mp3 players, for example, or subscription services, or a sciesmic shift in fashion back to the 80s style of techno-ugly, or removable card based players for a tenth of the price, etc.
As someone pointed out above though, does it actually clean up the crap, or does it just stop it displaying? If its the former I agree it is impressive, but given that many tool bars are just a front for installing less savoury items like spyware, browsing trackers or adware I think I'll hold judgement until someone more knowledgable checks it out.
There is also the point that many toolbars are installed deliberately (as I say, that is the point) so an average user will click yes at security confirmations. The question is, what is installed then.
You are comparing the walkman to the ipod, which is a pretty useless comparison. The point is that the walkman dominated early portable cassette player sales. The ipod dominates current (which is early in the day) portable 'mp3' player sales (although unlike Sony, Apple didn't create the market in the first place). There is nothing in the ipod that another mp3 player cannot do, just like there was nothing in the walkman that another cassette player couldn't do.
I certainly hope the Zune won't just replace the ipod as the defacto player, but if I were Apple I would be worried that it (or some other player, or players) will remove my market dominance. I don't know what could do it (or I'd be making it) but I would say it is innevitable and Microsoft stand a good chance simply because of its OS dominance.
Maybe it will be subscription licensing - itunes is an expensive way to fill 15GB of space. If MS can make a subscription model that is as easy to use and intigrate with the Zune as itunes/ipod then it could be a big selling point (note - I don't like the subscription model, I like to own, but I learnt a long time ago I am far from the median in most markets).
Joe Sixpack might love the fact that he can pay $10 a month and have his Zune filled with trackes he loves, tracks related to tracks he loves, suggested tracks, his friends playlists, related playlists (think amazon 'similar' and 'recommended' items) but all synced and put on his player when he leaves it charging. After all, most people simply don't have a 15GB core music collection and I'll bet many would be happy to see the rest of the space used with a changing flow of music.
I think Manuel the drug dealer should be given an award by the local Chamber of Commerce for services to the free market under difficult circumstances.
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And even now that I have 3G I don't browse on my phone because with bluetooth I can simply use it as a modem for my laptop without even taking my phone out of my pocket.
I'm sure the iphone will be a good phone, but I just don't see that it solves any problems that needed fixing - you still have a small screen, a very limited text input system and slow speeds. Its not a mass market device and people in the niche can already get everything the iphone provides (I can run Opera, putty, multi-service IM, ebook reader, mail client, mp3 player, Word doc reader, PDF reader, SIP client, with bluetooth and WIFI, on my Nokia _and_ it came free with my contract, and the next version will come free when I upgrade).
...was too much to ask
The final selection for power generation has yet to be made; it will be a yo-yo-like device that can be pulled by hand or foot, with a strap that can attached it to a belt or table. The yo-yo generates around 10 watts, while the XO consumes a mere 3 watts in non-intensive computing. This means, for example, that that for every 10 minutes of power generation, a child should be able to surf the internet for a half hour.
Shooting games (House of the Dead, etc) would no doubt work they way they always have, by reading the pixel colour on the screen. Any motion sensing madness is really just a bonus - and I guess would all help in the calculation and maybe make it more accurate. Its not like you haven't been able to buy gun based games on older systems, like the Dreamcast.
Also, it wouldn't surprise me if you larger/more powerful sensor bars were on sale at some point in the future - if not from Nintendo, then from 3rd parties. I suspect the reason for its size is simply that it has to be generic and fit TVs right down to 14" portable jobbies. It seems like to good an opportunity too ignore, though - offering larger sensors for bigger screens.
The PS3's browser is not free, its included in the $600 one off payment you make at the start. Personally, if I was ever going to use my Wii to browse the Internet I'd rather pay $5 for a good browser with a long development history. Since I'm never going to use my Wii to browse the Internet I can save myself the $5, which I couldn't do if it was built in and Nintendo were paying per unit licensing.
(In reality, since its going to be free I can actually have the best of both worlds - but I'm not fooling myself that I am ever going to use my Wii to browse the net, I'm just not going to miss the chance to grab it for free).
"...your true agenda, which is to implement failed draconian social policies under the guise of "science."". Classic.
The fact that you blindly side with the Liberal politician betrays your true agenda, which is to implement failed draconian social policies under the guise of "science."
WOO HA HA HA!!!!!!! I will release my failed Draconian Social Policies unless you send me... A HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS!!!!!
Professor ScienceThen we could have 51 JonnyCalcuttas doing alright instead of 1 JonnyCalcutta getting all the glory.
Sounds good. Maybe the rest of the world should use that as an example. Instead of one rich company you get 51 companies making a living. No-one becomes big enough to abuse the advantage. Surely that is the free market.
Pah! Deer! I only have my whanger to play with...
But they also statistically live longer, so I would presume that even if it did lead to obesity it doesn't also lead to increased diabetes or other obesity related diseases. Sorry can't really find any links - http://www.you.com.au/news/371.htm is the best I can get (its down the bottom of the text).
I just don't see it at all - like all 'sci-fi' ideas the reality is much less romantic than the idea.
According to the media though, everytime I go into the city centre on a Saturday night and come home alive I should be thanking the God of my choice for a lucky escape.
It would seem better to say 'if you care about rankings or the meta-game of achievements, then go for the XBox 360'. I would hazarad the opinion that most people don't. Only a small, vocal hardcore do. To get anecdotal about it, I don't know anyone who does, but then I don't hang out in online game crowds - just with people who like a casual game. Personally I've been playing online games since Doom and I would find it hard to care less about rankings or even what score I get during an individual game. I play for the fun of it - full stop.
Even assuming your conspiracy theory is right (I'm not suggesting it isn't), what has it got to do with racism? Niggers go home because I don't want to be controlled by a cadre of elite Illuminatti?
He's got a point though. Maybe we should be enouraging six toes, webbed feet and even siamese twins. After all, how diverse will humanity be when everyone has the same number of conjoined twins?
I guess its like Jeopardy - even if you just want to lick Tony's ballsack verbally, you still have to phrase it as a question. "Would the Right Honourable Genleman agree that your ass tastes like liquid honey and you are probably the greatest thing since my wife agreed to anal".
I would like make two points though -
1) I'm not defending Blair, just the seeming illogicality of the quote, which probably makes logical sense in context. I personally think (know) Tony Blair is a compulsive liar who would tell you you smelled of roses if you'd just taken a bath in shit.
2) One of the reasons this will make waves in Parliament is because, in the UK at least, all members of parliament are the very people who were bullied at school. You only have to look at most of them to know, and opening their mouths just confirms it.
Maybe the two are related - when the good teachers are fed up living in a climate of fear, who's going to take the risks?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and risk the wrath of geekdom, but both of these theories (TV as child rearer and 'refrigerator mothers') have a ring of truth to them - to someone like me, with no knowledge or direct experience of autism. I'm not saying they are true, just that I could belleive them if shown evidence. I'm a new father and it is amazing to watch our child's development as he plays and discovers everything; learns to communicate and interact with his surroundings from first principles. I find it hard to believe that lack of emotional contact, especially from the mother, couldn't have a fundamental impact on a child. After all, they are born knowing nothing about the world - even discovering slowly that those things flapping around them are their own limbs.
So once again, nothing to see here, please move along.
Same with an ipod, we're not talking about it being replaced by some new technology (as I read the PS) like holodisks - just the commodotising of mp3 players, for example, or subscription services, or a sciesmic shift in fashion back to the 80s style of techno-ugly, or removable card based players for a tenth of the price, etc.
There is also the point that many toolbars are installed deliberately (as I say, that is the point) so an average user will click yes at security confirmations. The question is, what is installed then.
I certainly hope the Zune won't just replace the ipod as the defacto player, but if I were Apple I would be worried that it (or some other player, or players) will remove my market dominance. I don't know what could do it (or I'd be making it) but I would say it is innevitable and Microsoft stand a good chance simply because of its OS dominance.
Maybe it will be subscription licensing - itunes is an expensive way to fill 15GB of space. If MS can make a subscription model that is as easy to use and intigrate with the Zune as itunes/ipod then it could be a big selling point (note - I don't like the subscription model, I like to own, but I learnt a long time ago I am far from the median in most markets).
Joe Sixpack might love the fact that he can pay $10 a month and have his Zune filled with trackes he loves, tracks related to tracks he loves, suggested tracks, his friends playlists, related playlists (think amazon 'similar' and 'recommended' items) but all synced and put on his player when he leaves it charging. After all, most people simply don't have a 15GB core music collection and I'll bet many would be happy to see the rest of the space used with a changing flow of music.
I think Manuel the drug dealer should be given an award by the local Chamber of Commerce for services to the free market under difficult circumstances.
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Sounds good to me. Anything that slows down politicians has to be a good thing - the less the do the better off we all are.