The Revolution will be a fanboi's wetdream. Something that I think a lot of people are forgetting about the Revolution is the downloadable game component. Turn the Revolution's controller sideways, and I think you'll notice it looks oddly familiar.
Nintendo has said that one of the features of the Revolution will include the ability to download Nintendo titles from their previous consoles. Talk about backwards compatibility! This is a fantastic selling point which would appeal to people like my dad who used to spend hours playing Super Mario World, but has trouble playing some of the more modern games. I predict this feature, combined with it's low price point, is going to sell a ton of Revolutions.
Suck them in with the classics, then sell them some easy to play nextgen games. Maybe I'm just overly optimistic, but I think the guys at Nintendo have put together a very compelling featureset for their next toy.
"Because pdf is for paper, and paper has different right and left margins depending on whether you're on a right or left page, the next page won't have its print filling my screen, it's off to the left or right. Play with the horizontal scroll bar every page."
In Acrobat go to the View menu > Page Layout > Continuous. This will fix your stuck-in-scrollbar-hell problem. Give PDF a chance because it's really an excellent document format. The best feature of PDF is that it is supported on many different platforms and it will look exactly the same regardless of the program. For those people in the design / print industry, that allows reliable electronic proofs so we don't burn up more trees.
Unfortunately for Kerry, the children's Weekly Reader poll says otherwise.
Since 1956, Weekly Reader students in grades 1-12 have correctly picked the president, making the Weekly Reader poll one of the most accurate predictors of presidential outcomes in history.
I feel it's worth mentioning that if you look at the Earth Simulator's event calendar, you can see the Earth Simulator was tested and working in April of 2002. It's amazing it has taken so long for someone to beat their Linpack score... Two years is an eternity in the computing world. Good job NEC, you had a great run!
I agree with you that sometimes it's difficult to find smaller, less popular stories. However, I don't think that was the goal of this project. It was designed to see quickly and visually trends in the news; what the media is focusing their attention on.
The value in this kind of tool isn't in the individual stories it shows. The value is being able to quickly see what occupying our society's mindshare. It gives a glimse as to what the media finds worth writing (and reading) about.
According to their FAQ, they aren't using Bochs for x86 emulation, but QEMU. I have no experience with QEMU, but according to some of the posts on Darwine's sourceforge message board, it's much much faster than Bochs. I wish these guys luck. I'd love to have wine running on OS X.
So now this device communicates over wires, which I'm assuming is also what carries power to the implant. They had said in the article they are planning on producing a self-contained wireless version (which would be really cool). My only question is how it might be powered? Would you need to go under surgery every few months to replace the battery?
Maybe they would use glucose from our bodies to power the device? I would think though that sending a RF signal would consume a lot of juice. Anyone else have any thoughts on how they might supply power to a wireless implant?
So Apple only sells LCD monitors, and fancy looking wireless routers which are pricey. Big deal! Macs will work with any wireless router, and any VGA or DVI monitor, IDE hard drives (now some S-ATA), USB mice, etc. etc. They are selling high-end branded hardware. You pay for the name / bragging rights. All kinds of "high end" companies do this.
Look at BMW. They also have a strong brand as being high end. Try buying "official" BMW floormats. What's that you say? $150 for a pair of floormats? You can just as easily buy non-BMW matts at a local hardware store for about $10. They will certainly keep the dirt of the floor just as well.
Anyhow, perhaps I've borrowed too much from the car analogy, but you get the point. Apple is marketing themselves as a high end computer dealer. I won't even get into all the great included software that comes with their machines. Oh, and by the way, you can get an all-in-one eMac for about $999. Doesn't sound too outrageously priced to me.
(From the Xcode website) With theRendezvous-enabled distributed build feature it's easy to simply farm out your build by distributing compile workload across idle desktop machines or, better, deploy a dedicated Xserve build farm to do in minutes what would take hours on any single machine.
Working for an advertising agency, we get all kinds off odd-ball projects. I've found most of the time a printing press rep. is the best contact. If they don't know, they know someone who knows.
Most of the time it's just a matter of designing around a template, then sending it off to press. They will handle the assembly.
Mac users more technical? HA! I happen to remember when our Creative Director called me at home because he couldn't get on the internet. His description of the problem? "Uh, the big blue 'e' went away" ... Apparently he had pulled IE out of the dock.
I know it's just a game and all, but come on. I'd think it would be clear by now that making negative race related comments in any media is going to get you into trouble.
It's a hard lesson for Rockstar, but they'll recover from it. They make great games, and I'm sure they're kicking themselves now for their lack of foresight.
Apple makes money selling music on the iTunes music store. Probably not much money yet, but certainly they will make considerably more money if they don't restrict users to the Mac platform.
"The iPod makes money. The iTunes Music Store doesn't,"
In fact, Apple doesn't even see iTMS as ever being very profitable. They really just want to sell more iPods and I think they've come up with a compelling way to accomplish that.
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The Revolution will be a fanboi's wetdream. Something that I think a lot of people are forgetting about the Revolution is the downloadable game component. Turn the Revolution's controller sideways, and I think you'll notice it looks oddly familiar.
Nintendo has said that one of the features of the Revolution will include the ability to download Nintendo titles from their previous consoles. Talk about backwards compatibility! This is a fantastic selling point which would appeal to people like my dad who used to spend hours playing Super Mario World, but has trouble playing some of the more modern games. I predict this feature, combined with it's low price point, is going to sell a ton of Revolutions.
Suck them in with the classics, then sell them some easy to play nextgen games. Maybe I'm just overly optimistic, but I think the guys at Nintendo have put together a very compelling featureset for their next toy.
The "Applet"? C'mon... Tablets are lame. I'm perfectly content with my Mactop.
Collaberating on a 32x32 (if that) bitmap? ...
... and by collaberate, I mean "copy shamelessly."
Great, someone pwn3d my Lucky Charms!
"Because pdf is for paper, and paper has different right and left margins depending on whether you're on a right or left page, the next page won't have its print filling my screen, it's off to the left or right. Play with the horizontal scroll bar every page."
In Acrobat go to the View menu > Page Layout > Continuous. This will fix your stuck-in-scrollbar-hell problem. Give PDF a chance because it's really an excellent document format. The best feature of PDF is that it is supported on many different platforms and it will look exactly the same regardless of the program. For those people in the design / print industry, that allows reliable electronic proofs so we don't burn up more trees.
Unfortunately for Kerry, the children's Weekly Reader poll says otherwise.
... I always knew I didn't like kids.
Since 1956, Weekly Reader students in grades 1-12 have correctly picked the president, making the Weekly Reader poll one of the most accurate predictors of presidential outcomes in history.
I feel it's worth mentioning that if you look at the Earth Simulator's event calendar, you can see the Earth Simulator was tested and working in April of 2002. It's amazing it has taken so long for someone to beat their Linpack score... Two years is an eternity in the computing world. Good job NEC, you had a great run!
I agree with you that sometimes it's difficult to find smaller, less popular stories. However, I don't think that was the goal of this project. It was designed to see quickly and visually trends in the news; what the media is focusing their attention on.
The value in this kind of tool isn't in the individual stories it shows. The value is being able to quickly see what occupying our society's mindshare. It gives a glimse as to what the media finds worth writing (and reading) about.
Just my $0.02
According to their FAQ, they aren't using Bochs for x86 emulation, but QEMU. I have no experience with QEMU, but according to some of the posts on Darwine's sourceforge message board, it's much much faster than Bochs. I wish these guys luck. I'd love to have wine running on OS X.
So now this device communicates over wires, which I'm assuming is also what carries power to the implant. They had said in the article they are planning on producing a self-contained wireless version (which would be really cool). My only question is how it might be powered? Would you need to go under surgery every few months to replace the battery?
Maybe they would use glucose from our bodies to power the device? I would think though that sending a RF signal would consume a lot of juice. Anyone else have any thoughts on how they might supply power to a wireless implant?
So Apple only sells LCD monitors, and fancy looking wireless routers which are pricey. Big deal! Macs will work with any wireless router, and any VGA or DVI monitor, IDE hard drives (now some S-ATA), USB mice, etc. etc. They are selling high-end branded hardware. You pay for the name / bragging rights. All kinds of "high end" companies do this.
Look at BMW. They also have a strong brand as being high end. Try buying "official" BMW floormats. What's that you say? $150 for a pair of floormats? You can just as easily buy non-BMW matts at a local hardware store for about $10. They will certainly keep the dirt of the floor just as well.
Anyhow, perhaps I've borrowed too much from the car analogy, but you get the point. Apple is marketing themselves as a high end computer dealer. I won't even get into all the great included software that comes with their machines. Oh, and by the way, you can get an all-in-one eMac for about $999. Doesn't sound too outrageously priced to me.
Apple's Xcode already does this.
(From the Xcode website)
With theRendezvous-enabled distributed build feature it's easy to simply farm out your build by distributing compile workload across idle desktop machines or, better, deploy a dedicated Xserve build farm to do in minutes what would take hours on any single machine.
Ideally, they should build the technology into the hardware of the planes themselves, retrofitting were necessary.
;-)
They do this already... I think they call it a pilot.
Working for an advertising agency, we get all kinds off odd-ball projects. I've found most of the time a printing press rep. is the best contact. If they don't know, they know someone who knows.
Most of the time it's just a matter of designing around a template, then sending it off to press. They will handle the assembly.
Mac users more technical? HA! I happen to remember when our Creative Director called me at home because he couldn't get on the internet. His description of the problem?
"Uh, the big blue 'e' went away"
... Apparently he had pulled IE out of the dock.
I know it's just a game and all, but come on. I'd think it would be clear by now that making negative race related comments in any media is going to get you into trouble. It's a hard lesson for Rockstar, but they'll recover from it. They make great games, and I'm sure they're kicking themselves now for their lack of foresight.
Apple makes money selling music on the iTunes music store. Probably not much money yet, but certainly they will make considerably more money if they don't restrict users to the Mac platform.
Actually, according to Apple's Senior Vice President Phil Schiller:
"The iPod makes money. The iTunes Music Store doesn't,"
In fact, Apple doesn't even see iTMS as ever being very profitable. They really just want to sell more iPods and I think they've come up with a compelling way to accomplish that.