I totally agree with you about java not being slow. But, check out the mac users who bitch about limewire because it is writen in java. If my app was going to be an in house job, sure, java is great. but consumers think you are some how ripping them off when you ship a java app.
I really feel that in this day and age we don't need a VM in the traditional sense. I think it would be much better if Java just compiled to native code and we had FAT binaries then people would just need libs like Java141.so and everything would work, and no one would bitch about java being slow.
What am i missing? Why the VM and not just a good all ecompasing class lib?
This is a great way to use The Way Back Machine
The should just rename it to The Prior Art Archive. Oh wait, that name sucks, better stick with way back machine.
This is not a troll, but fact.
Maybe the tetris seach is something trivial like n^1.0001 with normal games of n 10000, but still - the post says "decides the optimum move."
Jon Hess
I've got a good deal of WiFi equipment, a linksys AP, a netgear AP (two locations), a Netgear PCMCIA card, a microsoft USB WiFi adapter, a Netgear PCI card, an AirPort card in my iBook, and two Orinico (Lucent WaveLAN) cards.
I run windows XP/2k and Mac OS X. It is my experience that the Microsoft and Netgear products are worthless as far as client adapters are concerned.
The microsoft USB device seems to JAM my net everytime i set it up. If i turn it on, no new clients can join the network. Both netgear adapters can't keep a TCP connection for more than a minure (with 100% reception).
Now, the Lucent stuff is GREAT! it work everywhere flawlessly, same for AirPort (although i think that they use the same chipset). Both the netgear and linksys APs work great.
So, cheapo client adapters are a no go. Stick with Lucent stuff.
D & E think FOO is worth $5 at the time of release. Why do you assume they will buy it at that price 30 months after release.
Because the poster i was replying to doesn't think LCDs are worth it yet, and is waiting for the price to come down to that of CRTs, he's probably been holding out at this price point the whole time.
Just like people do with Game Cubes, PS2s, and iPods, all of those are excellent examples of catching buyers at their highest reservation price. ]
No, I said D and E would not buy it unless it cost less than $5.
What this translates to in real life is that they've decide that a FOO isn't worth more than $5 and if they can't get one for $5 then they would rather just keep there money. So even if they knew the price wan't going under $8, then would still never buy one.
Its kinda like me and a cray super computer. I think they're neat, i want one, but i would never spend more than $3000 dollars on a computer, and since cray's will never cost $3000 or less, i'll just never buy one.
I just want to make a point that I think many people may not be aware of. I'm currently a student at UC Berkeley and we have all kinds of classes like this, from history of video games, stock market course, male/female sexuality, simpsons to 80's pop-culture. BUT, they are all taught by STUDENTS. And the students can teach anything here at UCB as long as they get a faculty adviser. The adviser doesn't really play a part in the course though.
DeCal stands for Democratic education, it is students teaching students. Don't be confused and thing NYU highered a new Anime history. They didn't, and UCB didn't high LoTR profs or Simpsons ones either, students are teaching these classes...
Its called "Reservation Price" and if you don't do it in business, you're doing the 'wrong' (profitwise) thing.
A persons reservation price, is the max $ they are willing to spend on an item. Lets say there are 5 (A, B, C, D, E) people in our world interesting in buying a shinny new FOO.
Bar INC. the maker of FOO does market research before releasing FOO and finds that some people (A and B) would pay $10 for foo, C thinks it is only worth $8 and D, E wouldn't buy it unless it were $5 or less.
So to make maximum profit, Bar INC. first prices FOO at $10 for a year, A and B pick up one each. Then they drop it to $8, C picks one, then after 18 more months, they drop it to $5 and D and E get there FOO's. Total revenue is 38$ for Bar INC. If they had just marketed at some average of like ~$8 they would have only made $24 because D and E would never purchase.
It is safe to assume that nearly all hardware companies practice this.
Around the time nintendo came out with the gameboy they also came out with a zelda and mario watch. You konw those hand held games (the really old cheap ones) that tiger used to make were it was more like a grey and black screen with ~30 randomly placed leds that were each the shape of an object in the game and it played by the different LEDs lighting up? They were like that, but watch form.
You can transfer files with an iPod, in iTunes look at player prefs and make the iPod browsable from the Finder (I would tell you exactly how to do it but i'm not at my mac). Then in the finder you can use the iPod as a hard disk, drag and drop MP3s from there.
However, the MP3s copied over by iTunes are in a hidden folder that you can't get to from the finder, but you can from the terminal, so just load up your terminal and go to/Volumes/You iPod/ and enjoy.
There is demand for the good nintendo software though. Just because there were a boatload of Mario Duck Hunt combo carts and they now cost 15c doesn't mean that there isn't a market anymore. Final Fantasy 1, The Mega Man Series, Metroid, and many of the other classics still command a price higher than $20. They could all be release, heck, some companies are even release NEW PSX software with MSRP lower than $20!!! The overly generic 'Action' and 'Boxing' games come to mind.
Also, these nintendo games often don't have the boxes or books, collector types want that stuff and would pay.
Another point, the front loading nintendo blows! Literally! The top loading one sells for 70$ at the local store, personally i would love to have them re-released, new, for $40 to $75.
Ok, nintendo would not crack down on pirates for the sake of cracking down on pirates, or even just to ruin your fun:).
They would crack down on pirates because they feel that they could still profit from their IP, and if people are still willing to pay for the stuff, and you're distributing it for free when you don't own it, then you are harming nintendo
So i just watched the weakest link college edition and this idiot from mich state deerborn wins. He's a pol sci major, and when asked 'What body of congress is composed of 100 members' he answered 'The House Of Representatives'.... Then at the end he bragged that his school was the best and that is why he won, and he's taking it home to them. I bet the pol sci department is proud...
I have a Sony Ericson t68i from AT&T Wireless. It has pop3/smtp functionality built into it, and i can use what ever email provider i want. It also has SMS and MMS for the record.
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I totally agree with you about java not being slow. But, check out the mac users who bitch about limewire because it is writen in java. If my app was going to be an in house job, sure, java is great. but consumers think you are some how ripping them off when you ship a java app.
I really feel that in this day and age we don't need a VM in the traditional sense. I think it would be much better if Java just compiled to native code and we had FAT binaries then people would just need libs like Java141.so and everything would work, and no one would bitch about java being slow.
What am i missing? Why the VM and not just a good all ecompasing class lib?
This is a great way to use The Way Back Machine The should just rename it to The Prior Art Archive. Oh wait, that name sucks, better stick with way back machine.
This is not a troll, but fact. Maybe the tetris seach is something trivial like n^1.0001 with normal games of n 10000, but still - the post says "decides the optimum move." Jon Hess
I've got a good deal of WiFi equipment, a linksys AP, a netgear AP (two locations), a Netgear PCMCIA card, a microsoft USB WiFi adapter, a Netgear PCI card, an AirPort card in my iBook, and two Orinico (Lucent WaveLAN) cards.
I run windows XP/2k and Mac OS X. It is my experience that the Microsoft and Netgear products are worthless as far as client adapters are concerned.
The microsoft USB device seems to JAM my net everytime i set it up. If i turn it on, no new clients can join the network. Both netgear adapters can't keep a TCP connection for more than a minure (with 100% reception).
Now, the Lucent stuff is GREAT! it work everywhere flawlessly, same for AirPort (although i think that they use the same chipset). Both the netgear and linksys APs work great.
So, cheapo client adapters are a no go. Stick with Lucent stuff.
Yeah, i want to see it on MTV, in claymation? Or better yet, Afganistanimation!
D & E think FOO is worth $5 at the time of release. Why do you assume they will buy it at that price 30 months after release.
Because the poster i was replying to doesn't think LCDs are worth it yet, and is waiting for the price to come down to that of CRTs, he's probably been holding out at this price point the whole time.
Just like people do with Game Cubes, PS2s, and iPods, all of those are excellent examples of catching buyers at their highest reservation price.
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No, I said D and E would not buy it unless it cost less than $5. What this translates to in real life is that they've decide that a FOO isn't worth more than $5 and if they can't get one for $5 then they would rather just keep there money. So even if they knew the price wan't going under $8, then would still never buy one. Its kinda like me and a cray super computer. I think they're neat, i want one, but i would never spend more than $3000 dollars on a computer, and since cray's will never cost $3000 or less, i'll just never buy one.
thing = think high = higher history = historian. ;-D I'm good thing i'm not an english major!
I just want to make a point that I think many people may not be aware of. I'm currently a student at UC Berkeley and we have all kinds of classes like this, from history of video games, stock market course, male/female sexuality, simpsons to 80's pop-culture. BUT, they are all taught by STUDENTS. And the students can teach anything here at UCB as long as they get a faculty adviser. The adviser doesn't really play a part in the course though.
DeCal stands for Democratic education, it is students teaching students. Don't be confused and thing NYU highered a new Anime history. They didn't, and UCB didn't high LoTR profs or Simpsons ones either, students are teaching these classes...
Its called "Reservation Price" and if you don't do it in business, you're doing the 'wrong' (profitwise) thing.
A persons reservation price, is the max $ they are willing to spend on an item. Lets say there are 5 (A, B, C, D, E) people in our world interesting in buying a shinny new FOO.
Bar INC. the maker of FOO does market research before releasing FOO and finds that some people (A and B) would pay $10 for foo, C thinks it is only worth $8 and D, E wouldn't buy it unless it were $5 or less.
So to make maximum profit, Bar INC. first prices FOO at $10 for a year, A and B pick up one each. Then they drop it to $8, C picks one, then after 18 more months, they drop it to $5 and D and E get there FOO's. Total revenue is 38$ for Bar INC. If they had just marketed at some average of like ~$8 they would have only made $24 because D and E would never purchase.
It is safe to assume that nearly all hardware companies practice this.
Around the time nintendo came out with the gameboy they also came out with a zelda and mario watch. You konw those hand held games (the really old cheap ones) that tiger used to make were it was more like a grey and black screen with ~30 randomly placed leds that were each the shape of an object in the game and it played by the different LEDs lighting up? They were like that, but watch form.
Nintendo Watches are cheap, nerdy, and the coolest!
You is brain dead!
80% of your images are unique 20% are dupes ;)
Its too bad snood is just a rip of puzzle bobble and snood seems to get all of the credit.
:)
Most snood players have never even heard of puzzle bobble even though it is original, and has "Cooler" features.
Maybe i'm wrong, but it seems puzzle bobble came out in '94, i don't know when snood was released.
Here is a link to some puzzle bobble info if anyone cares
http://taito.overclocked.org/pbobble.html
You can transfer files with an iPod, in iTunes look at player prefs and make the iPod browsable from the Finder (I would tell you exactly how to do it but i'm not at my mac). Then in the finder you can use the iPod as a hard disk, drag and drop MP3s from there. However, the MP3s copied over by iTunes are in a hidden folder that you can't get to from the finder, but you can from the terminal, so just load up your terminal and go to /Volumes/You iPod/ and enjoy.
There is demand for the good nintendo software though. Just because there were a boatload of Mario Duck Hunt combo carts and they now cost 15c doesn't mean that there isn't a market anymore. Final Fantasy 1, The Mega Man Series, Metroid, and many of the other classics still command a price higher than $20. They could all be release, heck, some companies are even release NEW PSX software with MSRP lower than $20!!! The overly generic 'Action' and 'Boxing' games come to mind.
Also, these nintendo games often don't have the boxes or books, collector types want that stuff and would pay.
Another point, the front loading nintendo blows! Literally! The top loading one sells for 70$ at the local store, personally i would love to have them re-released, new, for $40 to $75.
Ok, nintendo would not crack down on pirates for the sake of cracking down on pirates, or even just to ruin your fun :).
They would crack down on pirates because they feel that they could still profit from their IP, and if people are still willing to pay for the stuff, and you're distributing it for free when you don't own it, then you are harming nintendo
How about the vidPod that steve is about to tell us about at MWSF :)
I wish
So i just watched the weakest link college edition and this idiot from mich state deerborn wins. He's a pol sci major, and when asked 'What body of congress is composed of 100 members' he answered 'The House Of Representatives'.... Then at the end he bragged that his school was the best and that is why he won, and he's taking it home to them. I bet the pol sci department is proud...
I have a Sony Ericson t68i from AT&T Wireless. It has pop3/smtp functionality built into it, and i can use what ever email provider i want. It also has SMS and MMS for the record.
haha, due to bugeting. Yeah right! It cost $46,000,000,001 which is $1 too much!
Everyone watch at slashdot morphs to MacRumors!
They've been saying this for months Apple 15" LCD No Longer Available.
Did anyone notice there were 6 times as many OS/2 users than linux users yesterday!