But since it's an executable installer, doesn't that mean the CD is a Data/Audio hybrid CD? Many CDs have extras and stuff, and I remember many old games used CD audio and could be played in a regular CD player. So I'd have to think that this counts as a data CD.
Zelda IV, the GB game, Link's Awakening I think it was called, had user-controlled jumping. You equipped a feather and used it to jump two squares. Not an important point at all, but I thought I'd point it out just to nitpick.
BREW is a standard supporting C, C++ and Java. Supported by cheap phones here in Japan, and it's an American-developed standard, so you can get it in the US as well. There's also a content-delivery platform with a cathegorized, searchable catalog where you can buy and download games instantly. The free phone I've got has 2 MB allocated to applications, which I guess isn't that much. Also pauses and resumes instantly with the press of a butoon, though the state is erased if the phone is turned off. This is a Sony Ericsson, sold in Japan by au as A1402S. So some of the points you bring up are taken care of. I've noticed many of my friends with DoCoMo have the exact same version of Tetris as I do. The keypad still sucks, though.
Yeah? Last I checked (3 weeks ago) the FOMA 900 phones cost 30,000 yen at minimum, with a new subscription. That's closer to 300 dollars (not sure about the yen-dollar rate), and you're stuck with DoCoMo. I'll take my [b]free[/b] au phone any time, even though I don't get Final Fantasy. Tetris is enough for me, and it cost 105 yen to buy extra.
This particular test should be called, "The 128 kbps test for iTunes/WMA, and the low-130 test for AC3 and LAME, and the close-to-160 test for MPC/Vorbious.
Leahy iTunes MPC Vorbis Lame WMA Atrac3
bitrate 128 155 149 133 128 132
Score 4.34 4.41 4.68 4.11 4.37 3.76
That really doesn't look very fair to me! MPC and Vorbis using about 20% more bits than Lame and iTunes AAC.
Various user forums? Which user forums? I guess you followed the link to my severely outdated home page, then went to SunSword's. The "stalker" comment was jujst a joke; I'm just surprised, that's all.
I seem like that kind of person? You must have been stalking me for quite a while to deduce that. Er, no I haven't met anyone by those names. Japan IS, as you say, a pretty big place, and I only see on average one or two foreigners a week, so unfortunately I think you're out of luck with that. The email address I use for Slashdot isn't greylisted anymore, by the way, since I assume you tried to send an email there first...
Most Japanese use the older system (or a slight variation; Kunrei-Shiki), because it's taught in school. So they write "tu, zi, di, si", and the rest...
"Basically"? Literally, according to the Hepburn romanization system, which is the most common outside Japan: ko" shi" ra = gojira. In the Kunrei-shiki and Nihon-shiki systems, which are the ones sanctioned by Japanese government for use in schools, it's "gozira".
Tested myself, finally, and iBooks too... Using KisMac, my iBook G4 with integrated AP extreme picked up about 150 networks on my trip from Kyoto to Gifu, about 40 minutes by express train.
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Though one of the links has the words "ref" in it...
I think he's Canadian.
My iBook G4 12" 800 MHz's serial number starts with UV402, so they've kept the "UV" code. Bought it in, humm, February, maybe.
But since it's an executable installer, doesn't that mean the CD is a Data/Audio hybrid CD? Many CDs have extras and stuff, and I remember many old games used CD audio and could be played in a regular CD player. So I'd have to think that this counts as a data CD.
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Zelda IV, the GB game, Link's Awakening I think it was called, had user-controlled jumping. You equipped a feather and used it to jump two squares. Not an important point at all, but I thought I'd point it out just to nitpick.
BREW is a standard supporting C, C++ and Java. Supported by cheap phones here in Japan, and it's an American-developed standard, so you can get it in the US as well. There's also a content-delivery platform with a cathegorized, searchable catalog where you can buy and download games instantly. The free phone I've got has 2 MB allocated to applications, which I guess isn't that much. Also pauses and resumes instantly with the press of a butoon, though the state is erased if the phone is turned off. This is a Sony Ericsson, sold in Japan by au as A1402S. So some of the points you bring up are taken care of. I've noticed many of my friends with DoCoMo have the exact same version of Tetris as I do. The keypad still sucks, though.
Yeah? Last I checked (3 weeks ago) the FOMA 900 phones cost 30,000 yen at minimum, with a new subscription. That's closer to 300 dollars (not sure about the yen-dollar rate), and you're stuck with DoCoMo. I'll take my [b]free[/b] au phone any time, even though I don't get Final Fantasy. Tetris is enough for me, and it cost 105 yen to buy extra.
Jobs is teh stoopid. Y'know, there sure are many stories about him being an ass with everyone he's worked with...
What's the exact price? Will it work with my iBook?
"Birth of the W3C working group"? Nah. Doesn't sound very catchy.
pwned! The other reply was more interesting, though. Would have modded it up if my mod points hadn't expired today... Still pwned, though.
That really doesn't look very fair to me! MPC and Vorbis using about 20% more bits than Lame and iTunes AAC.
Various user forums? Which user forums? I guess you followed the link to my severely outdated home page, then went to SunSword's. The "stalker" comment was jujst a joke; I'm just surprised, that's all.
Apple iPod 20 GB: 158 grams.
I seem like that kind of person? You must have been stalking me for quite a while to deduce that. Er, no I haven't met anyone by those names. Japan IS, as you say, a pretty big place, and I only see on average one or two foreigners a week, so unfortunately I think you're out of luck with that. The email address I use for Slashdot isn't greylisted anymore, by the way, since I assume you tried to send an email there first...
So you let your girlfriend pay so you could cut in line? I know Asian girls are desperate for crackers, but that's mean, dude.
Read 1984. Please.
The real old system is Nihon-shiki. Kunrei-shiki takes some stuff from Hepburn. Read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunrei-shiki
Most Japanese use the older system (or a slight variation; Kunrei-Shiki), because it's taught in school. So they write "tu, zi, di, si", and the rest...
"Basically"? Literally, according to the Hepburn romanization system, which is the most common outside Japan: ko" shi" ra = gojira. In the Kunrei-shiki and Nihon-shiki systems, which are the ones sanctioned by Japanese government for use in schools, it's "gozira".
Yeah, the FCKGW (fuck G.W.?) key was blacklisted, but then everyone switched to the K2KB2 key.
Tested myself, finally, and iBooks too... Using KisMac, my iBook G4 with integrated AP extreme picked up about 150 networks on my trip from Kyoto to Gifu, about 40 minutes by express train.