Okay, so in less than 24 hours, we've gone from saying that the PSP has virtually no support, and certainly no new games, to saying that it has tons of features, and pleanty of new games.
"Plenty of new games" is definitely an overstatement. 20 titles, 1/4th of which are made by sony, another 1/4th are board games like Mahjong, and the other half are of dubious value.
I haven't tried Morrowind on the PC... but the Xbox version was buggy as hell; and the re-release GOTY edition didn't fix any of the damn bugs, either.
Morrowind on the PC (GOTY-edition) is probably the most buggy piece of software this side of Temple of Elemental Evil.
It crashes all the time.. either dumps to the desktop or reboots XP.
The origional bug relating to handing off unhandled URI's to the OS goes back that far. It kept getting marked as "will not fix" because it was a stupid architectural decision that some of the guys at Netscape made.
It was hardly a stupid decision. Passing unhandled URIs to the OS is a perfectly acceptable thing to do. Unless you think that handling things like ed2k: URIs and other yet-to-be-invented URIs is a bad thing.
Perhaps the URI handler built into the OS needs a local versus foreign flag..
The number of songs sold at the first time was 99992422. The number of songs sold at the second time was 100014607.
Apple sold a total of 22185 songs in that five minute 24 second period. For those wondering that's roughly 68.5 songs per second.
What a waste of your time. If you'd bother to graph those numbers you'd see that the counter is an approximation. It's not accurate. It doesn't ebb and flow with the daily traffic cycles. It's as accurate as those national debt counters you see on the sides of buildings.
ah yes, but with iTunes, anybody can be a "record company". when the artists start figuring out that they have a 100 Million-song distribution channel at their disposal, without having to give a penny to a "big" label... well I hope it happens soon.
The artists have already figured this out. The problem is that Apple refuses to deal directly with the artists. They'll only deal with *large* publishers.
Would you rather spend $13 (or $10, or whatever) for a single song you want, or just to buy that one song and not have to deal with the rest of the crap on there?
I'd rather listen to bands that actually make good albums and not single-of-the-week crap. In fact, for most of my albums, I find I like some of the other songs on the album *better* than the single that gets airplay.
Looks like a reflection, rather than a transparent window.
I'm wondering is that isn't doctored. He's looking straight at the camera... unless they've somehow come up with one-way displays with cameras behind them as well... and that would of course be the bigger story.
No, not Apple's Dashboard, Nat's dashboard. It's a pretty cool concept, and I can guarrantee you that Apple will steal it and put it in OS X 10.5.
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It's called Fast User Switching, but realise that they are all active at the same time.
Fast User Switching is the most misnamed feature ever. It should be called flashy, really fucking slow user switching.
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It means if I have Safari open full screen, and want to change the mp3 playing in iTunes in full screen, i press and hold the middle mouse button, mouse over itunes, let the button go.
First of all, this only works if you only work in one application at a time. If you have an editor open alongside a browser window pointed to the html you're editing, expose doesn't work. Maybe if expose supported Window Grouping.
Second of all, if I have Firefox open full screen and want to change the mp3 playing in RhythmBox. I click the little Note icon in the top menubar, RhythmBox appears, I change the mp3, I click the icon again, it disappears, leaving me back in my current active app.
There's another distribution for iOpener that i keep meaning to try called jailbait linux.
I helped put together Jailbait. It's a nice distro, although a little out-dated (uses a test 2.4 kernel). I still have it installed on one of my iOpeners.
It has netscape 4, apache, ssh and mp321. It uses blackbox for WM and busybox for the apps.
It would definitely work as a test distro, and it will fit on even the smallest thumbdrives (it weighs in at 16 megs).
Its a cultural thing, as an American I really never noticed the way customers are treated in the states until I travelled abroad.
It's a geographic thing. Go to any small town in America, and you'll get excellent service.
Go to New York, LA etc and you'll get shitty service.
Then again, if you have a shitty attitude, and you have ever uttered the phrase "I know my rights" or "I'll just go to your competitor" you'll get shitty service no matter where you go.
Then the door greeter leaned over and told me I should buy a product replacement plan. Then the manager of the store came over and told me I should buy the product replacement plan.
I'd be willing to bet that if this did indeed happen, you are the only person this has ever happened to.
Well, now that you mention it, it would be kind of interesting to see Spidey trade in his suit for a bowler hat and codpiece, and belt out "Singin' in the Rain" while stomping on some bad guy.
The funny thing is in the Spider-Man 2 video game, you occasionally come across a bunch of thugs talking about a "bit of the ol' ultra violence"
My first Sony purchase, of any significance, was a Beta VCR. I still have it. It still works. It's a really amazing piece of engineering. Truly awesome.
I have a first generation Sony WatchMan (1986 I think).. it still works perfectly.
The only place where Sony's manufacturing has problems is in the playstation arena. I have a first generation Vaio that still works as well... and doesn't have the hinge problems that nearly every other laptop in existence has.
Didn't we have a similiar discussion when the world went from vinyl records to the CD disk?
Actually, we went from Tape to CD.. and yes, we did go through this discussion back then. I was an early adopter of CDs. The first CDs sounded like crap. Very tinny.
They got better though.. and maybe iTMS will get better too.
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Okay, so in less than 24 hours, we've gone from saying that the PSP has virtually no support, and certainly no new games, to saying that it has tons of features, and pleanty of new games.
"Plenty of new games" is definitely an overstatement. 20 titles, 1/4th of which are made by sony, another 1/4th are board games like Mahjong, and the other half are of dubious value.
I haven't tried Morrowind on the PC... but the Xbox version was buggy as hell; and the re-release GOTY edition didn't fix any of the damn bugs, either.
Morrowind on the PC (GOTY-edition) is probably the most buggy piece of software this side of Temple of Elemental Evil.
It crashes all the time.. either dumps to the desktop or reboots XP.
I dont see how this is worse than while(true) { window.open(document.location); }
Actually, I think mozilla has something in there that prevents this bomb from working.
However, one that drives me nuts is while (true) { print() }
The origional bug relating to handing off unhandled URI's to the OS goes back that far. It kept getting marked as "will not fix" because it was a stupid architectural decision that some of the guys at Netscape made.
It was hardly a stupid decision. Passing unhandled URIs to the OS is a perfectly acceptable thing to do. Unless you think that handling things like ed2k: URIs and other yet-to-be-invented URIs is a bad thing.
Perhaps the URI handler built into the OS needs a local versus foreign flag..
Has anyone been tracking Firefox/Mozilla in the User-Agent stats for a large site to see if it is truly pulling browsershare from IE?
I work for a newspaper.. we don't do technology news so the people visiting our site are strictly Joe Blow. (Same dudes who read our paper).
Here are our top browsers for July:
68% IE 6.0
6.2% AOL (IE)
4.3% Mozilla/Firefox
4% IE 5.5
4% Netscape 7
2% Safari
all the others are webtv, opera, konq, etc
I don't know why they count Gecko based browsers separate from Netscape 7.. it's just something Omniture does.
The number of songs sold at the first time was 99992422.
The number of songs sold at the second time was 100014607.
Apple sold a total of 22185 songs in that five minute 24 second period. For those wondering that's roughly 68.5 songs per second.
What a waste of your time. If you'd bother to graph those numbers you'd see that the counter is an approximation. It's not accurate. It doesn't ebb and flow with the daily traffic cycles. It's as accurate as those national debt counters you see on the sides of buildings.
Out of their $.35 they have to pay for bandwidth, servers, admins, advertising, and most importantly credit card transaction fees.
This is how brilliant Apple is. They've convinced you that they're losing money on iTMS.. thus you feel like you're getting a great deal.
The fact is, they're making money on iTMS.. not a lot of money, but none-the-less they're in the black.
Just to compare, look at www.apple.com/trailers
This site is free, and costs Apple much much more than iTMS costs to run.
ah yes, but with iTunes, anybody can be a "record company". when the artists start figuring out that they have a 100 Million-song distribution channel at their disposal, without having to give a penny to a "big" label... well I hope it happens soon.
The artists have already figured this out. The problem is that Apple refuses to deal directly with the artists. They'll only deal with *large* publishers.
Would you rather spend $13 (or $10, or whatever) for a single song you want, or just to buy that one song and not have to deal with the rest of the crap on there?
I'd rather listen to bands that actually make good albums and not single-of-the-week crap. In fact, for most of my albums, I find I like some of the other songs on the album *better* than the single that gets airplay.
Buying a single is for teenie boppers.
Looks like a reflection, rather than a transparent window.
I'm wondering is that isn't doctored. He's looking straight at the camera... unless they've somehow come up with one-way displays with cameras behind them as well... and that would of course be the bigger story.
Where are the free software projects investigating next generation UI concepts?
You just aren't looking.
Here's one: dashboard
No, not Apple's Dashboard, Nat's dashboard. It's a pretty cool concept, and I can guarrantee you that Apple will steal it and put it in OS X 10.5.
It's called Fast User Switching, but realise that they are all active at the same time.
Fast User Switching is the most misnamed feature ever. It should be called flashy, really fucking slow user switching.
It means if I have Safari open full screen, and want to change the mp3 playing in iTunes in full screen, i press and hold the middle mouse button, mouse over itunes, let the button go.
First of all, this only works if you only work in one application at a time. If you have an editor open alongside a browser window pointed to the html you're editing, expose doesn't work. Maybe if expose supported Window Grouping.
Second of all, if I have Firefox open full screen and want to change the mp3 playing in RhythmBox. I click the little Note icon in the top menubar, RhythmBox appears, I change the mp3, I click the icon again, it disappears, leaving me back in my current active app.
Much quicker than your way.
There's another distribution for iOpener that i keep meaning to try called jailbait linux.
I helped put together Jailbait. It's a nice distro, although a little out-dated (uses a test 2.4 kernel). I still have it installed on one of my iOpeners.
It has netscape 4, apache, ssh and mp321. It uses blackbox for WM and busybox for the apps.
It would definitely work as a test distro, and it will fit on even the smallest thumbdrives (it weighs in at 16 megs).
They are extremely paranoid about data being carried out of the bank. The only thing is: they aren't consequent.
They aren't a logical conclusion?!
Its a cultural thing, as an American I really never noticed the way customers are treated in the states until I travelled abroad.
It's a geographic thing. Go to any small town in America, and you'll get excellent service.
Go to New York, LA etc and you'll get shitty service.
Then again, if you have a shitty attitude, and you have ever uttered the phrase "I know my rights" or "I'll just go to your competitor" you'll get shitty service no matter where you go.
Then the door greeter leaned over and told me I should buy a product replacement plan. Then the manager of the store came over and told me I should buy the product replacement plan.
I'd be willing to bet that if this did indeed happen, you are the only person this has ever happened to.
Therefore, mirror image shots are not accidental.
Unless they happen at your theater. It is certainly possible to screw up a splice and flip the film around.
Knowing the careless teenagers working at your local theater, it probably happens more than you think.
Given that Peter is his only lead on Spider-Man, it makes no sense that Doc Ock would effectively try to kill him.
Who says Peter is his only lead? If I were Doc Ock, I'd be throwing cars around just for fun.. it's sure to attract that damned do-gooder arachnid.
Well, now that you mention it, it would be kind of interesting to see Spidey trade in his suit for a bowler hat and codpiece, and belt out "Singin' in the Rain" while stomping on some bad guy.
The funny thing is in the Spider-Man 2 video game, you occasionally come across a bunch of thugs talking about a "bit of the ol' ultra violence"
My first Sony purchase, of any significance, was a Beta VCR. I still have it. It still works. It's a really amazing piece of engineering. Truly awesome.
I have a first generation Sony WatchMan (1986 I think).. it still works perfectly.
The only place where Sony's manufacturing has problems is in the playstation arena. I have a first generation Vaio that still works as well... and doesn't have the hinge problems that nearly every other laptop in existence has.
Didn't we have a similiar discussion when the world went from vinyl records to the CD disk?
Actually, we went from Tape to CD.. and yes, we did go through this discussion back then. I was an early adopter of CDs. The first CDs sounded like crap. Very tinny.
They got better though.. and maybe iTMS will get better too.
Integers are at maximum 32-bit signed
Actually, integers and floats in php are whatever the native integer and floats are for the platform.
On a 64bit platform, integers are 64 bit signed.
Plus there are bigmath libraries for any size integer, just like in perl.
Virtual monopoly? Wow, I think you need to go look at the sales numbers and rethink that. Owning less than 60% of the market does not a monopoly make.
Depends on the market. If the market is mp3 players, then you're right. If the market is online music sales however...
If the Dell DJ was any good, they wouldn't need a stunt like this to gain market share.
Why is this a stunt? Are car dealers in trouble because they all accept trade ins?