I haven't been paying close attention, so I could be a bit out of date here. As far as I'm aware though, mobile safari doesn't have JIT compilation for JS yet. Without that, anything intensive with javascript will run at a snail's pace.
This made me both realize that I've never seen a game based on trying to get into a train on time. God help me, I think I need to make it. It is probably the single highest adrenaline rush for the week. That has to translate to a game.
I will never understand why something like mario all stars wasn't more popular among game companies. There's so many old nes properties that were fun, loved by everyone, and could have gotten a huge benefit from a graphical makeover and collection. You'd even see things like the mega man collection for the mega drive, or the snes ninja gaiden collection. But they'd miss the opportunity and make only the most minor of graphic upgrades.
Is it me, are/. articles more and more making wild assumptions about the knowledge level of us nerd news readers?
I'm trying to think of a polite way of saying this. I suspect you're getting older/getting more of a non-geek centered life. Boxxee's obscure to the average consumer, and it's not the most amazingly well known thing in the world as far as geeky news. But it's still very high profile among the low profile of geek things. And google tv? It's from google. They can literally announce work on something with 0 information about it other than a name and it's instantly high profile. Not just for geeks, but for anything related to technology.
It's not the end of the world though. Relish the fact that you're probably actually happy and have a life, while I have knowledge of projects and releases I don't even care about and live in misery.
In theory, the ability, finally, for actual viewership of a tv show to count against whether it's canceled or not. Not yet, but it's at least a step in that direction. Going along with that, the ability to get away from the network decay life support.
One that doesn't have a high precision scale and might need to subdivide things by "eyeballing" it.
The point where someone measures by guesswork is the point where they need to turn in their geek card. For the most part, I don't even care about food as anything other than a big casing for nutrients. And I still have a scale accurate to the mg.
I've joked in the past that "geek" should be declared a religion for when the shoe finally drops. This almost makes me think that it might seriously have to be considered. I mean that's fucked up. They're essentially trying to make it illegal to have impaired hearing. They're trying to make deaf people illegal. WTF!
At some point at least, centos didn't. Or possibly it shipped with it, but in a useless state. I remember we used to get calls about it fairly frequently. That was a hell of a long time ago though.
What really bugs me is the people who complain that it gives them headaches. They've got a minor disability. For a huge chunk of my life, I had a major disability. My right leg and foot were hardly even usable. It's improved significantly, but at the time when I couldn't walk I never started complaining that sidewalks existed. But these people are lucky enough that they have a disability that's so amazingly minor as to cause almost no difficulty in life. And their response to that luck, to having such an otherwise blessed life as far as physical ailment goes, is to complain that the world isn't bowing to their special needs. It's really annoying.
Because it's not shockingly bad. There's downsides to it, to be sure. Some really weird design choices. But anyone who calls it "shockingly bad" is either working from some weird bias or trolling for page hits.
Works fine. The big thing is that they, for some insane reason, didn't hook up a software keyboard to it. So you often wind up somewhat limited if you don't have a hardware keyboard. Still, a fair number of games only need the arrow keys, and the optical sensor at least works with that. I've played a few flash games with that, and they work fine. And plants versus zombies plays fine, thankfully.
They havent been doing anything _but_ buing for the last years.
I'd say it's a bit of a cross between buying and innovating. While it's true that they do put out new services in large part by buying up existing code, I think it's unfair to say that's the whole of what they do. Usually once they buy a service, they spend a fairly significant amount of time and effort building on and improving the platform. In particular, tying it in with their api system, writing and providing bindings for multiple languages, and streamlining the interface.
I don't get why people expect the high end of the creative spectrum to remain there for life, anymore than someone would expect an olympic level running to still be getting the gold at age 60. The mind comes from the brain, and the brain is an aging and dying piece of meat the same as the heart or any other part of the body.
It's because the economy is shit that I have free time and a need to find stuff to do in the city for free. If I can only get 20 hours of work in a week, might as well try to salvage it for fun instead of crying over the life I used to have.
Only if you're on the lower end of data use. Verizon caps at 4 or 5gb. I typically burn through nearly that much just from internet radio and podcast streams during my commute.
I have no less than 6-7 obvious choices for broadband right now
I'm in a similar situation, good for us. But I'm also in a huge city. This is the first time that's ever been the cast for me. I've moved about ten times in my life, and all but this one wound up with me having a choice between either two high speed providers or having only one option. And when there were two, they would never actually compete.
One of the main reasons webapps on the iphone didn't take off is that apple just did a piss poor job of it. Their html5 support is piss poor now. Beck then it was even more of a mess. And they also lacked extra functionality to make a webapp take on the feel of an app app. Android recently received JIT compilation for JS, and it made me take back a lot of my previous bias about webapps. I have a couple on there right now, and with froyo they really are pretty much indistinguishable in terms of performance.
I have no complaints. It seems very dependent on accent. The midwestern one of myself and my friends tends to get somewhere around 90% accuracy. Some people I work with in texas have something closer to 20%.
Ohhh! I wonder if that's the reason that android phone's with sense come with a custom bluetooth extension that breaks compatibility with a couple normal android apps. I'd been wondering what the point of fragmenting it like that was. If it was to get an early fix, I can see it as justification. Even if it's not a choice I'd have personally made.
Why people willingly go for locked down technologies like Kindle and iTunes, I'll never understand. Is it just because of the hype?
Because DRM doesn't work. I have a kindle. One of the first thing I did was crack the drm on my old mobi ebooks that I had and put them on there. One of the first things I did on getting a new phone, before the kindle app was released, was to crack the drm on my kindle ebooks and toss them on there. It's not perfect yet, only about 75% of them were able to be cracked. But I consider it almost impossible that this will still be the case when I'm ready to try a new device.
That's what I always find baffling about people who complain about format support. Kindle uses mobi, most others have epub support, big deal. It doesn't mean you can just transfer the books over from device to device. The actual file format is the least important thing there. If there's no drm, any good ebook management program will just automatically convert between formats when it detects what ebook reader you've got plugged in.
It's just clicking a checkbox. It's a bit deep in the menu structure, but it's not like noscript just magically appears on someone's firefox install either. You have to send them a link to it, or they have to google it.
Personally, I got used to the settings pretty quickly. I really take back every bad thing I said about its development after its first windows only release. This is one of the few programs whose cross-platform state really does seem to have taken a while in large part because they were working hard to not only get it working in linux, but working right.
Reading over all of this, I've been wondering what the hell metaweb is. Your couple sentences explained it better than the pages of text leading up to it by others. Showing, in this case, seems far better to telling in order to properly describe it. And holy shit is that awesome!
I find that both sad and hilarious as well. Even on twitter of all places there's a whole day devoted to it. The most annoying aspect is that it could be so much more. Imagine if by breast cancer awareness, they meant actual education in science and technology so that the average person would understand a lot more about how cancer functions.
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I haven't been paying close attention, so I could be a bit out of date here. As far as I'm aware though, mobile safari doesn't have JIT compilation for JS yet. Without that, anything intensive with javascript will run at a snail's pace.
This made me both realize that I've never seen a game based on trying to get into a train on time. God help me, I think I need to make it. It is probably the single highest adrenaline rush for the week. That has to translate to a game.
I will never understand why something like mario all stars wasn't more popular among game companies. There's so many old nes properties that were fun, loved by everyone, and could have gotten a huge benefit from a graphical makeover and collection. You'd even see things like the mega man collection for the mega drive, or the snes ninja gaiden collection. But they'd miss the opportunity and make only the most minor of graphic upgrades.
Is it me, are /. articles more and more making wild assumptions about the knowledge level of us nerd news readers?
I'm trying to think of a polite way of saying this. I suspect you're getting older/getting more of a non-geek centered life. Boxxee's obscure to the average consumer, and it's not the most amazingly well known thing in the world as far as geeky news. But it's still very high profile among the low profile of geek things. And google tv? It's from google. They can literally announce work on something with 0 information about it other than a name and it's instantly high profile. Not just for geeks, but for anything related to technology.
It's not the end of the world though. Relish the fact that you're probably actually happy and have a life, while I have knowledge of projects and releases I don't even care about and live in misery.
In theory, the ability, finally, for actual viewership of a tv show to count against whether it's canceled or not. Not yet, but it's at least a step in that direction. Going along with that, the ability to get away from the network decay life support.
One that doesn't have a high precision scale and might need to subdivide things by "eyeballing" it.
The point where someone measures by guesswork is the point where they need to turn in their geek card. For the most part, I don't even care about food as anything other than a big casing for nutrients. And I still have a scale accurate to the mg.
I've joked in the past that "geek" should be declared a religion for when the shoe finally drops. This almost makes me think that it might seriously have to be considered. I mean that's fucked up. They're essentially trying to make it illegal to have impaired hearing. They're trying to make deaf people illegal. WTF!
At some point at least, centos didn't. Or possibly it shipped with it, but in a useless state. I remember we used to get calls about it fairly frequently. That was a hell of a long time ago though.
What really bugs me is the people who complain that it gives them headaches. They've got a minor disability. For a huge chunk of my life, I had a major disability. My right leg and foot were hardly even usable. It's improved significantly, but at the time when I couldn't walk I never started complaining that sidewalks existed. But these people are lucky enough that they have a disability that's so amazingly minor as to cause almost no difficulty in life. And their response to that luck, to having such an otherwise blessed life as far as physical ailment goes, is to complain that the world isn't bowing to their special needs. It's really annoying.
Because it's not shockingly bad. There's downsides to it, to be sure. Some really weird design choices. But anyone who calls it "shockingly bad" is either working from some weird bias or trolling for page hits.
Works fine. The big thing is that they, for some insane reason, didn't hook up a software keyboard to it. So you often wind up somewhat limited if you don't have a hardware keyboard. Still, a fair number of games only need the arrow keys, and the optical sensor at least works with that. I've played a few flash games with that, and they work fine. And plants versus zombies plays fine, thankfully.
They havent been doing anything _but_ buing for the last years.
I'd say it's a bit of a cross between buying and innovating. While it's true that they do put out new services in large part by buying up existing code, I think it's unfair to say that's the whole of what they do. Usually once they buy a service, they spend a fairly significant amount of time and effort building on and improving the platform. In particular, tying it in with their api system, writing and providing bindings for multiple languages, and streamlining the interface.
I don't get why people expect the high end of the creative spectrum to remain there for life, anymore than someone would expect an olympic level running to still be getting the gold at age 60. The mind comes from the brain, and the brain is an aging and dying piece of meat the same as the heart or any other part of the body.
It's because the economy is shit that I have free time and a need to find stuff to do in the city for free. If I can only get 20 hours of work in a week, might as well try to salvage it for fun instead of crying over the life I used to have.
yes, you can use 3G/4G for Internet access
Only if you're on the lower end of data use. Verizon caps at 4 or 5gb. I typically burn through nearly that much just from internet radio and podcast streams during my commute.
I have no less than 6-7 obvious choices for broadband right now
I'm in a similar situation, good for us. But I'm also in a huge city. This is the first time that's ever been the cast for me. I've moved about ten times in my life, and all but this one wound up with me having a choice between either two high speed providers or having only one option. And when there were two, they would never actually compete.
I think it's just spillover from a generation of geeks that really didn't have much else in terms of epics in space.
One of the main reasons webapps on the iphone didn't take off is that apple just did a piss poor job of it. Their html5 support is piss poor now. Beck then it was even more of a mess. And they also lacked extra functionality to make a webapp take on the feel of an app app. Android recently received JIT compilation for JS, and it made me take back a lot of my previous bias about webapps. I have a couple on there right now, and with froyo they really are pretty much indistinguishable in terms of performance.
I have no complaints. It seems very dependent on accent. The midwestern one of myself and my friends tends to get somewhere around 90% accuracy. Some people I work with in texas have something closer to 20%.
Ohhh! I wonder if that's the reason that android phone's with sense come with a custom bluetooth extension that breaks compatibility with a couple normal android apps. I'd been wondering what the point of fragmenting it like that was. If it was to get an early fix, I can see it as justification. Even if it's not a choice I'd have personally made.
Why people willingly go for locked down technologies like Kindle and iTunes, I'll never understand. Is it just because of the hype?
Because DRM doesn't work. I have a kindle. One of the first thing I did was crack the drm on my old mobi ebooks that I had and put them on there. One of the first things I did on getting a new phone, before the kindle app was released, was to crack the drm on my kindle ebooks and toss them on there. It's not perfect yet, only about 75% of them were able to be cracked. But I consider it almost impossible that this will still be the case when I'm ready to try a new device.
That's what I always find baffling about people who complain about format support. Kindle uses mobi, most others have epub support, big deal. It doesn't mean you can just transfer the books over from device to device. The actual file format is the least important thing there. If there's no drm, any good ebook management program will just automatically convert between formats when it detects what ebook reader you've got plugged in.
It's just clicking a checkbox. It's a bit deep in the menu structure, but it's not like noscript just magically appears on someone's firefox install either. You have to send them a link to it, or they have to google it.
Personally, I got used to the settings pretty quickly. I really take back every bad thing I said about its development after its first windows only release. This is one of the few programs whose cross-platform state really does seem to have taken a while in large part because they were working hard to not only get it working in linux, but working right.
Reading over all of this, I've been wondering what the hell metaweb is. Your couple sentences explained it better than the pages of text leading up to it by others. Showing, in this case, seems far better to telling in order to properly describe it. And holy shit is that awesome!
I find that both sad and hilarious as well. Even on twitter of all places there's a whole day devoted to it. The most annoying aspect is that it could be so much more. Imagine if by breast cancer awareness, they meant actual education in science and technology so that the average person would understand a lot more about how cancer functions.