Please name a few where more modern, widely-adopted and -accepted alternative solutions aren't available.
I can name one, voicemail playback with Google Voice. On the iPhone the alternative is to launch quicktime, which takes forever and it takes you away from the page you were on.
If you were paying attention value wise the ipad is economically sound. it is about half of what other vendors where thinking about.
You mean it's half of what Apple told the WSJ it would be. Apple played you like a fiddle. They told the WSJ it would be $1000, and then when they officially announce that it's $500, everyone acts like that's an amazing deal.
You can still target builds for your project for 10.4 if you like, but Apple included new, faster APIs for text rendering in 10.5
You need two code bases.. you need to target ATSUI for 10.4, and CoreText for 10.6. 10.5 can use either one.. 10.4 can't use CoreText, and 10.6 can't use ATSUI.
Ok.. I just did. I dragged an image from firefox and dropped it into gimp. Gimp opens the image. Maybe it's something magic with Gimp? I just repeated the process, this time, dropping the image into Open Office. Hey, that works too.. the image is now embedded in the Writer document.
Except flash isn't a video player. It can be used as one, but it does far more than that. Steve doesn't want you to play flash games for free when you should be spending money at the app store.
The FSB is faster on the Pavilion than on the MacBook, yet the MacBook beats it in real world performance and benchmarks.
So either you believe Apple sprinkles magic fairy dust into their machines that make them run faster than the exact same hardware elsewhere, or you fucked up your tests.
Of course, I don't own any Apple devices but Apple is a large enough company to throw some weight around and if this helps kill flash forever it will make me happy.
The iPhone has not supported flash for 3 years now, and flash hasn't been hurt in the slightest. Apple can't kill flash unless they have a viable alternative... and html5 isn't it as long as IE rules the web.
Plus the resolution of the Droid is astounding. The horizontal resolution is the same as the vertical resolution of the iphone. You literally can display 2 iphone screens side-by-side on the Droid.
Son of a... that means another 2.5 gigabyte download to update the SDK. I hope whoever it is at Apple that doesn't believe in binary diffs dies in a fire.
You can't tell from the photo, but that keyboard doesn't even have an escape key... instead it's a special "home" key that does the same thing as the home button on the iphone.
The dialog wheel doesn't control Shepards actions, it just controls how much a dick he is about them.
We must be playing a different game... because not 1 hour into the game I went the paragon route and let the guy Zaeed was chasing get away and thus failed to secure Zaeed's loyalty.
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And now they've adopted an ammo management system, which they could easily work into the story, though it DOES feel like a step backwards
They did work it into the story. After the attack on the citadel, scientists studied the Geth weaponry they collected. They found the Geth weapons used the heat sink "ammo" which allowed them to fire faster and hit harder.
At least that's what the codex says on the subject. I don't much like the ammo system in ME2.. I have run out a few times during battles across the map where my only option was to sprint across the battlefield to snatch up some dropped ammo. It doesn't help that my favorite assault rifle only carries 96 rounds.
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I don't see how you could miss it, considering the mission on Freedom's Progress required you to plant your squadmates on either side of a door in order to advance.
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You need the minerals you find on those planets, but scanning is 2-3 minutes of slowly passing the scanner over the planet and watching for a signal change showing where they are.
It may be different on the PC, but I've found some shortcuts on the 360.
I just hammer the left trigger to turn the scanner on and off really quickly, this lets me move the scanner quickly, but still scan at a "lower resolution". I move the target up and down while I spin the planet underneath. Then I only bother with prominent spikes. I can scan a planet and be done with it in less than 30 seconds... and I don't even bother with any planet that's not Good or Rich. Sure I don't get *everything* from the planet, it'll often still be "Good" when I'm done with it, but please, by the suicide mission I had upgraded everything and still had over 100,000 iridium etc.
and the side effect are shiny closed boxes that 'just work'.
Except they don't "just work" anymore. No flash means many websites won't work. The lockdown of the app store means things don't work as well as they do on other platforms. My wife's droid interfaces with google voice seemlessly, my iPhone doesn't.
The fear is that Apple sees the iPhoneOS as the future, and OSX as the past. The iPad is just a stepping stone. I wouldn't be surprised if the next macbook runs iPhoneOS, not OSX.
No.. once you get approval from Apple, you can sign provisional versions of your app to install on up to 100 devices for testing. It's a provisional license though, it expires after 3 months.
There's no multitasking at all. It's a real disappointment. All this power and very little you can do with it at once. No multitasking means no streaming Pandora when you're working in Pages... you can figure it out. It's a real setback for this device.
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I can name one, voicemail playback with Google Voice. On the iPhone the alternative is to launch quicktime, which takes forever and it takes you away from the page you were on.
You mean it's half of what Apple told the WSJ it would be. Apple played you like a fiddle. They told the WSJ it would be $1000, and then when they officially announce that it's $500, everyone acts like that's an amazing deal.
You need two code bases.. you need to target ATSUI for 10.4, and CoreText for 10.6. 10.5 can use either one.. 10.4 can't use CoreText, and 10.6 can't use ATSUI.
Ok.. I just did. I dragged an image from firefox and dropped it into gimp. Gimp opens the image. Maybe it's something magic with Gimp? I just repeated the process, this time, dropping the image into Open Office. Hey, that works too.. the image is now embedded in the Writer document.
I don't use an offline word-processor on any of my machines.. I can't even imagine a scenario where I'd need one. So don't speak for everyone.
Except flash isn't a video player. It can be used as one, but it does far more than that. Steve doesn't want you to play flash games for free when you should be spending money at the app store.
Mozilla doesn't ship with flash. It's an extra install.
Yes, but there will be more than 16 times as much video content on the web.
So either you believe Apple sprinkles magic fairy dust into their machines that make them run faster than the exact same hardware elsewhere, or you fucked up your tests.
How are they subsidizing anything? Is Apple paying people to write iPhone Apps now?
Except it doesn't. If it did work perfectly for the users, I would have google voice and latitude on my iphone.
Instead I am forced to use inferior web versions of those two apps.
The iPhone has not supported flash for 3 years now, and flash hasn't been hurt in the slightest. Apple can't kill flash unless they have a viable alternative... and html5 isn't it as long as IE rules the web.
Plus the resolution of the Droid is astounding. The horizontal resolution is the same as the vertical resolution of the iphone. You literally can display 2 iphone screens side-by-side on the Droid.
Son of a... that means another 2.5 gigabyte download to update the SDK. I hope whoever it is at Apple that doesn't believe in binary diffs dies in a fire.
You can't tell from the photo, but that keyboard doesn't even have an escape key... instead it's a special "home" key that does the same thing as the home button on the iphone.
That'll hurt us vim-users.
that has nothing to do with this game.. but since I don't want to get shot...
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We must be playing a different game... because not 1 hour into the game I went the paragon route and let the guy Zaeed was chasing get away and thus failed to secure Zaeed's loyalty.
They did work it into the story. After the attack on the citadel, scientists studied the Geth weaponry they collected. They found the Geth weapons used the heat sink "ammo" which allowed them to fire faster and hit harder.
At least that's what the codex says on the subject. I don't much like the ammo system in ME2.. I have run out a few times during battles across the map where my only option was to sprint across the battlefield to snatch up some dropped ammo. It doesn't help that my favorite assault rifle only carries 96 rounds.
I don't see how you could miss it, considering the mission on Freedom's Progress required you to plant your squadmates on either side of a door in order to advance.
It may be different on the PC, but I've found some shortcuts on the 360.
I just hammer the left trigger to turn the scanner on and off really quickly, this lets me move the scanner quickly, but still scan at a "lower resolution". I move the target up and down while I spin the planet underneath. Then I only bother with prominent spikes. I can scan a planet and be done with it in less than 30 seconds... and I don't even bother with any planet that's not Good or Rich. Sure I don't get *everything* from the planet, it'll often still be "Good" when I'm done with it, but please, by the suicide mission I had upgraded everything and still had over 100,000 iridium etc.
Except they don't "just work" anymore. No flash means many websites won't work. The lockdown of the app store means things don't work as well as they do on other platforms. My wife's droid interfaces with google voice seemlessly, my iPhone doesn't.
The fear is that Apple sees the iPhoneOS as the future, and OSX as the past. The iPad is just a stepping stone. I wouldn't be surprised if the next macbook runs iPhoneOS, not OSX.
No.. once you get approval from Apple, you can sign provisional versions of your app to install on up to 100 devices for testing. It's a provisional license though, it expires after 3 months.
It also costs $100 to even do that much.
Engadget played around with one.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/apple-ipad-first-hands-on/
It doesn't.
My wife's netbook is half the price of the cheapest iPad, and it can play Hulu and Netflix Instant View.