That is pretty cool. If there was no mistake in communication, the important things we can glean from this are:
GBA games can take advantage of the wireless capabilities in the DS.
Some GBA games put out by Nintendo were ALREADY created in such a way to take advantage of that fact.
Nintendo may still not be in to the "online" thing yet.
I bring up that last point because it sounds as if they are expecting you to bring the DS to a location (a movie theater) to get the data, rather than being able to get it over the internet through any hotspot. While that may tie into their plans of drawing people in to their movies, it seems to ignore the fact that the content could be delivered without doing so.
That said, I don't think that XAML itself is a good idea. Apart from XAML vs XUL/SVG/etc. issues,.NET itself is fundamentally broken. I'm not sure that it will be fixed and serious design issues will not make its way to Longhorn.
What exactly is "fundamentally broken" about.NET? If you are referring to that joke of an article you linked to, you should probably look further. That was the biggest joke of an "article" criticizing.NET that I've ever seen.
He says that C# needs anonymous inner classes. He also says it will probably be a "cold day in hell" before Microsoft adds them. It's kind of embarassing for him that he had to put the update that they are adding them in 2.0
He says that there is a big problem that the syntax for structs and classes is so similiar. Big freakin' deal. If you don't know if the type you are using is a value type or a reference type, that's really your problem, isn't it? He wants Microsoft to have to require people to put the word "struct" when using a struct type everywhere, which is work that shouldn't be required.
He has a few valid points, but most of his whining comes from not using enough of this pattern or that pattern. I would hardly call his criticisms as pointing out "serious design issues", and it is far from saying that.NET is "fundamentally broken".
Not interesting at all. In fact
Toshiba was actually a partner with Sony in the building of a fab plant for the PS2 processors.
But at that time, Toshiba was not pushing for an alternative disc format for DVD's. Helping Sony create the PS3 (which is using Blu-Ray) is going to be a big help in pushing Blu-Ray as the next generation standard over HD-DVD.
Converting AIFF to MP3, AAC, or WMV isn't transcoding if the AIFF data is lossless. The only lossy compression scheme that AIFF is spec'ed to support is IMA 4:1, but Griffin isn't likely to use that since the Apple and Microsoft playback implementations of IMA weren't compatible with each other. (Byte order issues, I've read.)
In my mind I was thinking AAC, not AIFF. I didn't know anything about the AIFF format. Thanks for the info!
You don't get AM, which is what I would imagine a lot of this would be used for (think talk radio).
My biggest complaint is it doesn't do MP3 (only AIFF). I have a portable CD player that does MP3's on CD, which is where I would be transferring this too. I guess I could transcode, but since AM radio already has such poor quality, I'm not sure I would want to do that.
You can confirm that they spoke about being in a recession, but you can't confirm that what they were saying was causing a recession.
Also, the same people who were claiming Bush was bringing down the economy before he became President by his talking, are the same people who today talk down the economy as much as possible (like Clinton's Secretary of Labor Robert Reich). It's absolutely ridiculous to think that policial candidates takling down an economy actually bring down an economy the size of the United States. It's a pathetic attempt at trying to pin the cyclic recession we had on Bush.
Just a cursory look at the two candidate's views on the war show that their support differs quite a bit. Such a smart man as Badnarik, as evidenced by his other answers, should see that. Too bad he chose to lie.
Well, maybe the day he was asked these questions it was true.
So the company cuts testing, release a bad batch, people die, they file a class action lawsuit and the company gets in line.. Times are good then they get bad, rinse repeat
You must have missed the part where he talks about corporations not being shields for shareholders anymore. Do you think the shareholders of a pharmaceutical company are going to allow cuts in testing if they are going to be held responsible for the effects of such a move?
Only on Slashdot would such a comment be moderated "Insightful". I guess the reason that any comment that insults the majority of the populace gets modded up on Slashdot is the social insecurity felt by the moderators. Does it make you feel good to insult a huge portion of the populace? Does it make everyone feel so much smarter and better than all those evil "jocks" that picked on you in high school?
Grow up. Nerds, geeks, computer experts are not the only intelligent people out there.
I didn't know about Avalon, but Microsoft has said for quite a while they were going to be releasing Indigo for platforms other than Longhorn. Indigo is a technology that will be replacing.NET remoting and it allows for secure, reliable and transactional communication between.NET applications. It only made sense to have a version available for other versions of Windows to make sure that applications could communicate.
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You know when you're a geek when the prospect of blowing a girlfriend up to pices to settle a dispute sounds more exciting than anything else. Wink, wink.
I've used the Color Schemer Online to come up with some cool color schemes for web pages. Sometimes it doesn't seem to turn out right, but I seem to avoid coming up with... *ahem*... wonderful color schemes that Slashdot has (I'm looking at you IT and Games section).
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Ever since download.com went from a free listing of free/shareware to a pay for listing service they've gotten far less scrupleless
Ok, I don't think scrupleless is even a word. Do you mean "having less scruples" by that word? If so, are you saying that now have more scruples through the double negative? I'm honestly not trying to be a Nazi here, I'm just trying to figure out what you attempting to say. Some people must understand because you've already been modded insightful.
Just equate linux vs windows with car transmissions. Linux is like a manual, it's $300 cheaper, slightly longer learning curve, gives you more control, but the people who get it are unique because they like to drive.
Most people get their OS on the computer they purchased. Most people never pay $300 for Windows. They pay around $45-$65 in addition to the cost of their computer.
I've never been a strong Linux user. I use Windows at home and at work. I'm a developer for the Microsoft platform. But I love to see Microsoft competing. Not because I have some religious problem with them, or because I hate their business practices. I just know that competition from Linux is only going to make Microsoft products stronger (and vice versa).
Honestly, with this kind of competition, everybody wins.
Someone needs to come up with an entire list of the SFII moves and what people call them. I'm not sure what they are saying, but when Ken and Ryu do that spin-type kick (down-back-kick), we always called that the "Rich-Rich-Karl-Kick", because that's what we heard.
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How's this for a troll?
How can you be a UT2K4 fan and give a crap about Halo 2? :-)
UT2K4 4-EVER!!!!1!
That is pretty cool. If there was no mistake in communication, the important things we can glean from this are:
I bring up that last point because it sounds as if they are expecting you to bring the DS to a location (a movie theater) to get the data, rather than being able to get it over the internet through any hotspot. While that may tie into their plans of drawing people in to their movies, it seems to ignore the fact that the content could be delivered without doing so.
Anyway, cool news and thanks for the link!
What exactly is "fundamentally broken" about .NET? If you are referring to that joke of an article you linked to, you should probably look further. That was the biggest joke of an "article" criticizing .NET that I've ever seen.
He says that C# needs anonymous inner classes. He also says it will probably be a "cold day in hell" before Microsoft adds them. It's kind of embarassing for him that he had to put the update that they are adding them in 2.0
He says that there is a big problem that the syntax for structs and classes is so similiar. Big freakin' deal. If you don't know if the type you are using is a value type or a reference type, that's really your problem, isn't it? He wants Microsoft to have to require people to put the word "struct" when using a struct type everywhere, which is work that shouldn't be required.
He has a few valid points, but most of his whining comes from not using enough of this pattern or that pattern. I would hardly call his criticisms as pointing out "serious design issues", and it is far from saying that .NET is "fundamentally broken".
But at that time, Toshiba was not pushing for an alternative disc format for DVD's. Helping Sony create the PS3 (which is using Blu-Ray) is going to be a big help in pushing Blu-Ray as the next generation standard over HD-DVD.
In my mind I was thinking AAC, not AIFF. I didn't know anything about the AIFF format. Thanks for the info!
You don't get AM, which is what I would imagine a lot of this would be used for (think talk radio).
My biggest complaint is it doesn't do MP3 (only AIFF). I have a portable CD player that does MP3's on CD, which is where I would be transferring this too. I guess I could transcode, but since AM radio already has such poor quality, I'm not sure I would want to do that.
I was going to bring the point up, but you did it so much better than I could have.
You can confirm that they spoke about being in a recession, but you can't confirm that what they were saying was causing a recession.
Also, the same people who were claiming Bush was bringing down the economy before he became President by his talking, are the same people who today talk down the economy as much as possible (like Clinton's Secretary of Labor Robert Reich). It's absolutely ridiculous to think that policial candidates takling down an economy actually bring down an economy the size of the United States. It's a pathetic attempt at trying to pin the cyclic recession we had on Bush.
Well, maybe the day he was asked these questions it was true.
You must have missed the part where he talks about corporations not being shields for shareholders anymore. Do you think the shareholders of a pharmaceutical company are going to allow cuts in testing if they are going to be held responsible for the effects of such a move?
Heh, you obviously don't know who Raymond Chen is.
In the new version of Episode 4, the Death Star's beam has been changed into a giant walkie-talkie.
One of the most insightful posts I've ever seen on Slashdot.
Yes, running applications in RAM works better than running them straight from the HD.
(Yeah, I know. I'm guessing he means running indexing in the background or something. It still sounds funny.)
Only on Slashdot would such a comment be moderated "Insightful". I guess the reason that any comment that insults the majority of the populace gets modded up on Slashdot is the social insecurity felt by the moderators. Does it make you feel good to insult a huge portion of the populace? Does it make everyone feel so much smarter and better than all those evil "jocks" that picked on you in high school?
Grow up. Nerds, geeks, computer experts are not the only intelligent people out there.
Yeah, mod me as flamebait, whatever.
This has to be the wittiest comment I have ever seen on Slashdot. I'm guessing it was intentional.
I didn't know about Avalon, but Microsoft has said for quite a while they were going to be releasing Indigo for platforms other than Longhorn. Indigo is a technology that will be replacing .NET remoting and it allows for secure, reliable and transactional communication between .NET applications. It only made sense to have a version available for other versions of Windows to make sure that applications could communicate.
Funny, I thought the word was "homicidal maniac".
I've used the Color Schemer Online to come up with some cool color schemes for web pages. Sometimes it doesn't seem to turn out right, but I seem to avoid coming up with ... *ahem* ... wonderful color schemes that Slashdot has (I'm looking at you IT and Games section).
Ok, I don't think scrupleless is even a word. Do you mean "having less scruples" by that word? If so, are you saying that now have more scruples through the double negative? I'm honestly not trying to be a Nazi here, I'm just trying to figure out what you attempting to say. Some people must understand because you've already been modded insightful.
Most people get their OS on the computer they purchased. Most people never pay $300 for Windows. They pay around $45-$65 in addition to the cost of their computer.
I've never been a strong Linux user. I use Windows at home and at work. I'm a developer for the Microsoft platform. But I love to see Microsoft competing. Not because I have some religious problem with them, or because I hate their business practices. I just know that competition from Linux is only going to make Microsoft products stronger (and vice versa).
Honestly, with this kind of competition, everybody wins.
I think the original post was a "joke". You might want to get a "sense of humor".
You're no fun. I always though Haduken sounded like "How are you Ken!!??". It made sense when Ryu was fighting Ken.
Someone needs to come up with an entire list of the SFII moves and what people call them. I'm not sure what they are saying, but when Ken and Ryu do that spin-type kick (down-back-kick), we always called that the "Rich-Rich-Karl-Kick", because that's what we heard.
I'm sure there are a ton of similiar stories.