No you wouldn't:) Since you'd be paying for data transfer to the phone you would likely find it far cheaper to just buy an MP3 player and the songs you want.
Even still, the bandwidth and unreliability of UDP over the cellular networks (including GSM) would most certainly make you want to beat yourself to death with the nGage rather than use it:)
Re:Shouldn't this be true only for J2ME games?
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The software should be runnable on any similarly equipped Series 60 phone such as the 3650 - but more likely these games will simply live on in PC based emulators.
A failure of DRM is likely the last nail in the coffin for the nGage. Now that the content can be readily pirated - I'm not sure the remaining 'gung-ho' companies will stick with the platform.
Not true, most of the commercial games for mobile phones ARE coded with J2ME if we look at the ecosystem that the nGage lives in. There are games written in C/C++ as well and all of the games you buy at retail on carts are written in C, but the vast majority of content available is in J2ME.
Why this is market flamebait is a mystery to me as the author is CLEARLY correct. Patents are not inherently evil. They can be abused just like anything else, but the patents aren't the problem.
For some reason I don't think that it would be a good idea to have Symbian controlled by an Nokia. One of the good things about Symbian is that it is beign advanced to cover the needs of general mobile applications, and should this become co'opted by a single party like Nokia it is likely that such a vendor focus could stunt the growth of the Symbian platform overall.
They've decided to start paying people to migrate away from Linux? I thought that Linux was illegal and they were going to force people to leave Linux through lawsuits and license fees. Somewhat odd that you'd take the position of paying people... seems to suggest that your original position isn't expected to succeed. Hmmm....
Heck many times NO OS gets patched the same day that an exploit is discovered. Its not like they have some sort of 'fix exploit' button in the XCode compiler.
MS gets blasted because it takes them in many instances weeks or months to fix an issue after its reported, many times not even acknowledging the problem.
First we have a guy running the place who has left a wake of unsuccessful companies - many of which are bankrupt.
Next we have a console that noone has ever seen.
Next we have a sales and distribution model that requires you to pay them before you get product... pay to an address that is a PO box.
Finally you have no developer interest of any kind from major players, let alone publishers. No sign of an office or hosting facility that can handle delivering applications. No sign of infrastructure to manufacture or support the box either. Sketchy always changing specifications and unreachable personnel.
It would not surprise me in the least if these guys take a bunch of orders and then just 'disappear'. I mean there is no sign that there is any plans for a business at this point.
It seems that we are 'discovering' new species of something all the time - so either new species are being created or we're just doing a half-ass job in classification:)
These species aren't exactly coming from places that we've never been before or anything. Too bad you don't really get to name the new species that you find:)
Mod parent up. As a person who has deployed Firebird to more than a few locations, this is the type of thing that makes system administrators think twice about doing it for large installs.
I still don't understand your objection. If you don't want to be reached - turn it off or don't take it with you (leave it in the car). However if people do need to reach you in an emergency they are a voice mail or SMS message away from getting access to you when you DO turn it on.
Well something in the plans for Winamp is support for AAC encoded files. The AOL folks are known to be integrating support into the AOL client and 'AOL Media Player' for this sort of thing as well.
With AAC being an open standard, it is likely that we'll soon see many media players supporting AAC.
Not really... we have been building the capacity to launch microsatellites from conventional aircraft with the expectation that some of the more capable 'space eyes' will be elimimated.
Nevertheless its pretty pointless as we still have the ability to outshoot (at range) ANY of our would-be enemies and terrorist cells have proven time and time again that satellite surveillance is nearly ineffective at handling the movement of pockets of human sized targets.
In any event, even if we DID lose our 'space eyes' - it doesn't matter all that much once our forces are engaged. We always use U2s and similar for battlefield surveillance.
I can ditto this as well. I recently picked up an AlBook 1.2Ghz and had to use 10.2.8. After 2 days I just updated to the last available seed rather than endure 10.2.8 any longer. 10.3 is a huge leap in terms of usability and overall system responsiveness... and my old box was a TiBook 667!
I use this Java based mail server called James that hasn't needed a patch in several months. Everything new added to it has been features, but I have yet to see a patch.
Haven't had to patch Resin nor Jetty recently either.
Freedom of speech is not an absolute, therefore people who might want to reveal information (which might violate national security concerns) would definitely be interested in a truly anonymous network that lets them air 'issues' without reasonable fear of prosecution.
I'm not sure I really see the validity of carrying movies and TV shows around with me. With music its different - I can listen to music while driving, while coding, while jogging, etc. I just don't see the same appeal for video. While it would be a very useful device for those long plane rides when you're unfortunate enough to not be travelling on JetBlue or to calm a child on a road trip (and you already have a larger screen for them to watch) - I just don't see video being a big a draw.
Listening to music is just a much more passive activity than actually watching a movie. I simply see fewer instances where I'd want to use it AND I wouldn't want a more compelling experience from a gameboy or cellphone games. Maybe its just me - but by the time this market develops - I would expect that 4G phones would be able to deliver all the video I need right to me:)
Safari has its fair share of bugs - just to keep things properly in perspective. There are many sites that simply don't even work on Safari and many rendering issues.
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No you wouldn't :) Since you'd be paying for data transfer to the phone you would likely find it far cheaper to just buy an MP3 player and the songs you want.
:)
Even still, the bandwidth and unreliability of UDP over the cellular networks (including GSM) would most certainly make you want to beat yourself to death with the nGage rather than use it
The software should be runnable on any similarly equipped Series 60 phone such as the 3650 - but more likely these games will simply live on in PC based emulators.
A failure of DRM is likely the last nail in the coffin for the nGage. Now that the content can be readily pirated - I'm not sure the remaining 'gung-ho' companies will stick with the platform.
Not true, most of the commercial games for mobile phones ARE coded with J2ME if we look at the ecosystem that the nGage lives in. There are games written in C/C++ as well and all of the games you buy at retail on carts are written in C, but the vast majority of content available is in J2ME.
Why this is market flamebait is a mystery to me as the author is CLEARLY correct. Patents are not inherently evil. They can be abused just like anything else, but the patents aren't the problem.
For some reason I don't think that it would be a good idea to have Symbian controlled by an Nokia. One of the good things about Symbian is that it is beign advanced to cover the needs of general mobile applications, and should this become co'opted by a single party like Nokia it is likely that such a vendor focus could stunt the growth of the Symbian platform overall.
They've decided to start paying people to migrate away from Linux? I thought that Linux was illegal and they were going to force people to leave Linux through lawsuits and license fees. Somewhat odd that you'd take the position of paying people... seems to suggest that your original position isn't expected to succeed. Hmmm....
Excellent! I think I'll take that for my tagline :)
Heck many times NO OS gets patched the same day that an exploit is discovered. Its not like they have some sort of 'fix exploit' button in the XCode compiler.
MS gets blasted because it takes them in many instances weeks or months to fix an issue after its reported, many times not even acknowledging the problem.
That's South Park you heathen!
First we have a guy running the place who has left a wake of unsuccessful companies - many of which are bankrupt.
Next we have a console that noone has ever seen.
Next we have a sales and distribution model that requires you to pay them before you get product... pay to an address that is a PO box.
Finally you have no developer interest of any kind from major players, let alone publishers. No sign of an office or hosting facility that can handle delivering applications. No sign of infrastructure to manufacture or support the box either. Sketchy always changing specifications and unreachable personnel.
It would not surprise me in the least if these guys take a bunch of orders and then just 'disappear'. I mean there is no sign that there is any plans for a business at this point.
It seems that we are 'discovering' new species of something all the time - so either new species are being created or we're just doing a half-ass job in classification :)
:)
These species aren't exactly coming from places that we've never been before or anything. Too bad you don't really get to name the new species that you find
Now you too can reenact the famous Goldfinger scene with family and friends. "Do you expect me to cut the grass?" 'No my friend I expect you to die!"
Mod parent up. As a person who has deployed Firebird to more than a few locations, this is the type of thing that makes system administrators think twice about doing it for large installs.
I still don't understand your objection. If you don't want to be reached - turn it off or don't take it with you (leave it in the car). However if people do need to reach you in an emergency they are a voice mail or SMS message away from getting access to you when you DO turn it on.
Well something in the plans for Winamp is support for AAC encoded files. The AOL folks are known to be integrating support into the AOL client and 'AOL Media Player' for this sort of thing as well. With AAC being an open standard, it is likely that we'll soon see many media players supporting AAC.
Not really... we have been building the capacity to launch microsatellites from conventional aircraft with the expectation that some of the more capable 'space eyes' will be elimimated.
Nevertheless its pretty pointless as we still have the ability to outshoot (at range) ANY of our would-be enemies and terrorist cells have proven time and time again that satellite surveillance is nearly ineffective at handling the movement of pockets of human sized targets.
In any event, even if we DID lose our 'space eyes' - it doesn't matter all that much once our forces are engaged. We always use U2s and similar for battlefield surveillance.
I can ditto this as well. I recently picked up an AlBook 1.2Ghz and had to use 10.2.8. After 2 days I just updated to the last available seed rather than endure 10.2.8 any longer. 10.3 is a huge leap in terms of usability and overall system responsiveness... and my old box was a TiBook 667!
I use this Java based mail server called James that hasn't needed a patch in several months. Everything new added to it has been features, but I have yet to see a patch.
Haven't had to patch Resin nor Jetty recently either.
Cool. Now we can play the 5 songs in the world with no copyrights associated with them.
Freedom of speech is not an absolute, therefore people who might want to reveal information (which might violate national security concerns) would definitely be interested in a truly anonymous network that lets them air 'issues' without reasonable fear of prosecution.
And you wouldn't get those same discounts for buying large volumes of PCs? I'm intrigued by this :)
Are they rewriting the OS so that its actually secure this time or are they waiting until people readily accept DRM as part of the operating system :)
Cool... where are those benchmark scores?
I'm not sure I really see the validity of carrying movies and TV shows around with me. With music its different - I can listen to music while driving, while coding, while jogging, etc. I just don't see the same appeal for video. While it would be a very useful device for those long plane rides when you're unfortunate enough to not be travelling on JetBlue or to calm a child on a road trip (and you already have a larger screen for them to watch) - I just don't see video being a big a draw.
:)
Listening to music is just a much more passive activity than actually watching a movie. I simply see fewer instances where I'd want to use it AND I wouldn't want a more compelling experience from a gameboy or cellphone games. Maybe its just me - but by the time this market develops - I would expect that 4G phones would be able to deliver all the video I need right to me
Safari has its fair share of bugs - just to keep things properly in perspective. There are many sites that simply don't even work on Safari and many rendering issues.