That Jefferson Han article points out that Apple "may" be coming out with a "touchscreen iPod" in the future, so I doubt it was written knowing that Han has already posted on his site that "Yes, we saw the keynote too" and that they "have some very, very exciting updates coming soon- stay tuned!" The site may say "February 2007," but it's straight from last year. Yay for magazine-caliber latency.
So, way to not point it out by using an outdated article, but I would be so bold as to venture that Han and Apple are working together.
Depends on what you mean by orientation. If you mean the rotation of those pointers like in the Main Miinu (haha, get it?), that's calculated using the Sensor Bar, erroneously named as it is.
Well, the Torque game engine kinda already does that, with OpenGL no less. One codebase runs on Mac, Linux, Windows, 360, and I'm sure it could move to Wii and PS3 given sufficient motivation.
Whatever it takes, I do agree that it's time to crush D3D before it gets any more entrenched.
"How about texting them?" Shit yeah, I be textin' my ass off. Bitches love textin'. Matter of fact, I also be textin' my weed man, too, cause, you know, he don't like to be on the phone, so I text 'im!
Yeah, he's talking about the GPUs. You basically have to support software rendering in order to "support" said chips, because they're featureless also-rans next to real graphics solutions.
I would love to see some sort of "Gesture Toolkit" for devs that lets you assemble curves with orientation and direction (Bezier vectors, you heard it here first), and a library to detect said curves from input.
Hi, thanks for your message. Unfortunately, Slashdot isn't my personal messaging system, so I didn't read one word of whatever you said. Regardless, I hope you enjoy Twilight Princess!
Love,
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"Has anyone tested their willingness to sell to generic x86 owners?"
Oh yeah, I went to an Apple store just yesterday and bought OS X Tiger. They didn't even ask me to whip out my Power Mac to prove I'm not one of those evil "generic x86 owners!"
Seriously, wtf? Of course they'll sell it to whoever will buy it.
Seriously. Resolution independence, a versioning filesystem and (finally) a unified UI (I'm basing this off the non-brushed-metal look of iChat Leopard) aren't worth ~$150 to most people. So deal until Lion/Ocelot/Pallas/Kodkod/Neko/whatever, and maybe that will help coax Apple to stop making incremental upgrades that are so...er, incremental.:)
...is a total flame, typical of a Microsoftie who expects to jump headfirst into Slackware/Gentoo and understand everything in a week. When he doesn't, it's the fault of "the community."
When using Freespire, you can choose to pay for Click-N-Run service, which is a Linspire-maintained apt repo for upgraded and new software, essentially.
It's kinda like Gizmo Project, a related venture: free to use, pay to use advanced features.
Well, many of the complaints I've heard from CT are about his refusal to acknowledge that things aren't going well in Iraq, instead saying "they're having elections, they've got cell phones, things are great et cetera," which makes him either 1) clueless, or 2) a liar.
Of course, he's a career politician, so it's probably both.
At least, for me, all 3D platformers are steaming piles, no matter how beautiful/whatever they are, because no compelling control interface exists. Even with an analog stick, you're using a 2D control scheme for 3D movement.
That's why Mario 3 kicks Super Mario 64's ass all the way up and down the block.
Virtualization is nice, but not the dual-Jessica-Alba panacea he'd like it to be; I still can't play Windows-only games in Parallels because it doesn't have direct hardware access.
Such a problem isn't easily solved, either, so if you were getting your hopes up about playing the latest games while keeping Windows in the sandbox in which it belongs, you're going to be disappointed.
If someone were to port Cedega to OS X, then we'd start making progress....
Sure, but this headline says the database was comprised BY a consultant, meaning a consultant made up an FBI Password Database out of something, but it doesn't say what.;)
it is intended to countermand society's view (throughout history, in all of society) which respects those who have power...
The meaning of that passage is to point out that with wealth comes great power...
No, I think what both of those verses were intended for was to delude masses of people into thinking they can live forever, thus keeping them from doing things like committing crimes or enjoying various legal activities by dangling unprovable, supernatural rewards in front of their noses.
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That Jefferson Han article points out that Apple "may" be coming out with a "touchscreen iPod" in the future, so I doubt it was written knowing that Han has already posted on his site that "Yes, we saw the keynote too" and that they "have some very, very exciting updates coming soon- stay tuned!" The site may say "February 2007," but it's straight from last year. Yay for magazine-caliber latency.
So, way to not point it out by using an outdated article, but I would be so bold as to venture that Han and Apple are working together.
Hey I'm a USian you insensitive clod!
Seriously, a book has been titled? So what?
I can't believe this is on the Beeb and Slashdot's front pages.
Depends on what you mean by orientation. If you mean the rotation of those pointers like in the Main Miinu (haha, get it?), that's calculated using the Sensor Bar, erroneously named as it is.
Well, the Torque game engine kinda already does that, with OpenGL no less. One codebase runs on Mac, Linux, Windows, 360, and I'm sure it could move to Wii and PS3 given sufficient motivation.
Whatever it takes, I do agree that it's time to crush D3D before it gets any more entrenched.
"This is a positive feedback loop"
Well, if it's positive, then it's good, right? Nothing to worry about here, folks. Good job.
"Meta-validatino?" Is that Italian?
"How about texting them?"
Shit yeah, I be textin' my ass off. Bitches love textin'. Matter of fact, I also be textin' my weed man, too, cause, you know, he don't like to be on the phone, so I text 'im!
"Can anyone name a game that will be a must have or should I just stick with my PS/2?"
:)
Versus the IBM Personal System/2? I hear there's this awesome game called Wii Sports: Tennis that knocks the socks off of Pong.
What would you propose? Semaphore?
It's better than nothing. There's a dearth of Arabic translators, so it's about as good as it's going to get now.
Yeah, he's talking about the GPUs. You basically have to support software rendering in order to "support" said chips, because they're featureless also-rans next to real graphics solutions.
I would love to see some sort of "Gesture Toolkit" for devs that lets you assemble curves with orientation and direction (Bezier vectors, you heard it here first), and a library to detect said curves from input.
Hi, thanks for your message. Unfortunately, Slashdot isn't my personal messaging system, so I didn't read one word of whatever you said. Regardless, I hope you enjoy Twilight Princess!
Love,
Shigeru "Important People Don't Read Slashdot" Miyamoto
"Has anyone tested their willingness to sell to generic x86 owners?" Oh yeah, I went to an Apple store just yesterday and bought OS X Tiger. They didn't even ask me to whip out my Power Mac to prove I'm not one of those evil "generic x86 owners!" Seriously, wtf? Of course they'll sell it to whoever will buy it.
Seriously. Resolution independence, a versioning filesystem and (finally) a unified UI (I'm basing this off the non-brushed-metal look of iChat Leopard) aren't worth ~$150 to most people. So deal until Lion/Ocelot/Pallas/Kodkod/Neko/whatever, and maybe that will help coax Apple to stop making incremental upgrades that are so...er, incremental. :)
...is a total flame, typical of a Microsoftie who expects to jump headfirst into Slackware/Gentoo and understand everything in a week. When he doesn't, it's the fault of "the community."
What a tool.
When using Freespire, you can choose to pay for Click-N-Run service, which is a Linspire-maintained apt repo for upgraded and new software, essentially.
It's kinda like Gizmo Project, a related venture: free to use, pay to use advanced features.
Well, many of the complaints I've heard from CT are about his refusal to acknowledge that things aren't going well in Iraq, instead saying "they're having elections, they've got cell phones, things are great et cetera," which makes him either 1) clueless, or 2) a liar.
Of course, he's a career politician, so it's probably both.
At least, for me, all 3D platformers are steaming piles, no matter how beautiful/whatever they are, because no compelling control interface exists. Even with an analog stick, you're using a 2D control scheme for 3D movement.
;)
That's why Mario 3 kicks Super Mario 64's ass all the way up and down the block.
But I'm not biased, I swear.
Actually, the PS3's RSX GPU is an NVidia production. Hence his tendency to think the PS3 is better.
Virtualization is nice, but not the dual-Jessica-Alba panacea he'd like it to be; I still can't play Windows-only games in Parallels because it doesn't have direct hardware access. Such a problem isn't easily solved, either, so if you were getting your hopes up about playing the latest games while keeping Windows in the sandbox in which it belongs, you're going to be disappointed. If someone were to port Cedega to OS X, then we'd start making progress....
Sure, but this headline says the database was comprised BY a consultant, meaning a consultant made up an FBI Password Database out of something, but it doesn't say what. ;)
No, I think what both of those verses were intended for was to delude masses of people into thinking they can live forever, thus keeping them from doing things like committing crimes or enjoying various legal activities by dangling unprovable, supernatural rewards in front of their noses.
But your explanation works, too.
All software has bugs, is error prone and shows deficiencies in some way. With no exception.
:)
Oh, that's where you're wrong. See, buggy software throws plenty of exceptions.
For the love of God, mod this up. It's good to see Ebert disagreeing with even himself, at least on some base level.