Recent additions to the Flash Actionscript Language make it ideal for an application development platform, particularly its database, HTTP, and XML connectivity. There are simply so many developers out there who know Actionscript that it makes sense to support the system on cell phones. Existing cell phone development tools (particularly BREW) are not only difficult to create simple applications for, but they're intense on the processor and therefore battery life. Flash is incredibly light weight in comparison to a "virtual machine" (Java) and the interface scales to fit whatever sized screen your device may be using. Don't think of it as advertisements for your phone, don't think of it as some sort of evil force trying to create a bunch of garbage pac-man/tetris/pong clones, think of it as a development kit for cell applications.
Those films all had horrible CG effects. I found it very easy to pick out parts that were rendered and parts that weren't. Everything looked like a big, fancy comic book.
Also factor in that the XBox has more 3rd party support and higher perifrial sales. Retail game sales for the GameCube over all are also lower than the XBox just because of the market that they posess (children). A 3rd party developer isn't generally going to risk releasing a game that isn't directly aimed at children on the GameCube because they know it won't sell. Even Capcom is starting to regret releasing games only on the GameCube (seven in all I believe, they're even working on porting them at this point).
Children just don't have the cash of their own to go into a game store and drop $50 on a new game for the cube. The population who is more apt to own an XBox (students and young adults) have that kind of expendable cash flow. It's a lot easier for an adult to whip out the charge card than it is for a child to beg their mom into handing them $49.99 + tax.
If I had the time I could get you the numbers from my store as to how many games we sell for each system and show you that the XBox and PS2 are, really, the only decent ones at this point to even waste your time on.
You get the SP or the GC for the same price.
Look at the third party support. Nintendo just doesn't have enough to ever be able to pull people in.
The ONLY reason their sales resurfaced over the holidays was because of the massive price drop. Even still it isn't enough to bring their numbers to the level of XBox or PS2. It's a critical failure.
The N64 was a terrible console, had fewer games than the Playstation, had terrible texture support, and the games had to be so small to fit on the cartridge that it was near impossible to write a decent RPG for them.
Just because you're a jealous little zealot doesn't always mean you're right.
The only way Nintendo will survive in the game market today is if they stop producing consoles and focus entirely on producing games. They can't keep up with companies like Microsoft and Sony who are willing to try something new. Nintendo makes a few great products and a great handheld (which looks like it could die as well via PSP), but it just can't compete when it comes to 3rd party support and game variety.
It's the oldest horse in the bunch and will probably go the same way as Sega in the next few years.
Critically, Nintendo just can't justify being in last place console-after-console when it can focus on the truely-profitable sectors of the industry that they're already doing well at.
No. IBM and M$ were working together for quite some time back in the early days. When the two decided to cut the umbilical chord Microsoft said that they had so much invested in OS/2 that they should get to use the source for it... or something to that effect. They used taht source code to write NT. That's why the two have some limited binary compatibility.
The N64 and GameCube have been absolute failures comparied to Sony's recent offerings. The GameCube is even falling behind the XBox. Nintendo shut down production of the 'cube for several months over the winter just because they had so many unsold units still in storage. Whoever modded the parent up needs to be taken out back and shot for falling into this non-factual two bit hack's past.
For the last 6 years or so the rates of violence in the US has dropped drastically, especially with the 13-30 range, peak age for gamers. Seems like since gaming has really caught on, violence has gone down... veeeeerry interesting, and completely against those idiots who will blame the easiest, largest, and most profitable target.
Reason being that any wise business will want to get rid of their stock before releasing their product. It will do them no good to liquidate the older iPods at a loss. People will still buy the new iPod if they release it (allbeit unlikely), even if it's after Christmas.
The iPod precaches all the music you're listening to to 32mb of RAM so it plays for about 30 minutes before spinning the hard drive up again. It works fine for all the joggers I know and I've never had a problem with it in my car, with rattles constantly and can't support a CD player without more than 10 seconds of buffer.
Every science company and scientist in America needs to pull out their wallet or check book to pay tribute to PBS and the folks at NOVA. This is by far one of the most informative television programs ever created.
I'm pretty sure PBS just recently lost a huge amount of governmental funding, so please, do your part.
It totally agree with you. Anothing thing I was thinking was that if an OS is able to send anything over the network that will compromise the network, than their is somthing flawed with the infastructure or way the network was setup. Port 80 to the WAN should be blocked if they don't want people to access the web without a proxy. If a network is able to be infected just becuase of a different OS is being used, then I see no reason why anyone couldn't waltz in with a modded xbox or a sharp zarus and infect the whole network. Security through obsurity doesn't work.
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Family Guy, duh. It's the Episode where Meg's story about Adam West gets replaced with Peter's story about how Luke Perry is gay.
If you payed any attention to the last Apple conference you'd of known that Apple's CPU sales are up in addition to their marginal market share.
Recent additions to the Flash Actionscript Language make it ideal for an application development platform, particularly its database, HTTP, and XML connectivity. There are simply so many developers out there who know Actionscript that it makes sense to support the system on cell phones. Existing cell phone development tools (particularly BREW) are not only difficult to create simple applications for, but they're intense on the processor and therefore battery life. Flash is incredibly light weight in comparison to a "virtual machine" (Java) and the interface scales to fit whatever sized screen your device may be using. Don't think of it as advertisements for your phone, don't think of it as some sort of evil force trying to create a bunch of garbage pac-man/tetris/pong clones, think of it as a development kit for cell applications.
Those films all had horrible CG effects. I found it very easy to pick out parts that were rendered and parts that weren't. Everything looked like a big, fancy comic book.
Also factor in that the XBox has more 3rd party support and higher perifrial sales. Retail game sales for the GameCube over all are also lower than the XBox just because of the market that they posess (children). A 3rd party developer isn't generally going to risk releasing a game that isn't directly aimed at children on the GameCube because they know it won't sell. Even Capcom is starting to regret releasing games only on the GameCube (seven in all I believe, they're even working on porting them at this point). Children just don't have the cash of their own to go into a game store and drop $50 on a new game for the cube. The population who is more apt to own an XBox (students and young adults) have that kind of expendable cash flow. It's a lot easier for an adult to whip out the charge card than it is for a child to beg their mom into handing them $49.99 + tax. If I had the time I could get you the numbers from my store as to how many games we sell for each system and show you that the XBox and PS2 are, really, the only decent ones at this point to even waste your time on.
You get the SP or the GC for the same price. Look at the third party support. Nintendo just doesn't have enough to ever be able to pull people in. The ONLY reason their sales resurfaced over the holidays was because of the massive price drop. Even still it isn't enough to bring their numbers to the level of XBox or PS2. It's a critical failure. The N64 was a terrible console, had fewer games than the Playstation, had terrible texture support, and the games had to be so small to fit on the cartridge that it was near impossible to write a decent RPG for them. Just because you're a jealous little zealot doesn't always mean you're right. The only way Nintendo will survive in the game market today is if they stop producing consoles and focus entirely on producing games. They can't keep up with companies like Microsoft and Sony who are willing to try something new. Nintendo makes a few great products and a great handheld (which looks like it could die as well via PSP), but it just can't compete when it comes to 3rd party support and game variety. It's the oldest horse in the bunch and will probably go the same way as Sega in the next few years. Critically, Nintendo just can't justify being in last place console-after-console when it can focus on the truely-profitable sectors of the industry that they're already doing well at.
No. IBM and M$ were working together for quite some time back in the early days. When the two decided to cut the umbilical chord Microsoft said that they had so much invested in OS/2 that they should get to use the source for it... or something to that effect. They used taht source code to write NT. That's why the two have some limited binary compatibility.
The N64 and GameCube have been absolute failures comparied to Sony's recent offerings. The GameCube is even falling behind the XBox. Nintendo shut down production of the 'cube for several months over the winter just because they had so many unsold units still in storage. Whoever modded the parent up needs to be taken out back and shot for falling into this non-factual two bit hack's past.
You forgot to mention that NT is really just an off shoot of OS/2 so we're really just using well disguised copies of OS/2.
For the last 6 years or so the rates of violence in the US has dropped drastically, especially with the 13-30 range, peak age for gamers. Seems like since gaming has really caught on, violence has gone down... veeeeerry interesting, and completely against those idiots who will blame the easiest, largest, and most profitable target.
Reason being that any wise business will want to get rid of their stock before releasing their product. It will do them no good to liquidate the older iPods at a loss. People will still buy the new iPod if they release it (allbeit unlikely), even if it's after Christmas.
Maybe they'll make the new one's "Lip Stick Pocket Sized" (the little pocket inside the big pocket in those stylish new ladie's jeans).
The iPod precaches all the music you're listening to to 32mb of RAM so it plays for about 30 minutes before spinning the hard drive up again. It works fine for all the joggers I know and I've never had a problem with it in my car, with rattles constantly and can't support a CD player without more than 10 seconds of buffer.
Let's send it back in time to shove Jesus.
Every science company and scientist in America needs to pull out their wallet or check book to pay tribute to PBS and the folks at NOVA. This is by far one of the most informative television programs ever created. I'm pretty sure PBS just recently lost a huge amount of governmental funding, so please, do your part.
another hidden sid? what others are there? and I am confused, how do you get the year? I only see the month, date.
yeah, I was pretty confused there, and yeah, I know it was .ORG, I just typed it wrong :P
btw, the binary says Slashdot.org
Your sig sucks man.
* obscurity
It totally agree with you. Anothing thing I was thinking was that if an OS is able to send anything over the network that will compromise the network, than their is somthing flawed with the infastructure or way the network was setup. Port 80 to the WAN should be blocked if they don't want people to access the web without a proxy. If a network is able to be infected just becuase of a different OS is being used, then I see no reason why anyone couldn't waltz in with a modded xbox or a sharp zarus and infect the whole network. Security through obsurity doesn't work.
not all robots download robots.txt. In fact, I'd assume most of the more annoying ones don't, nor do they identify as anything other than MSIE 5.5.
Simple solution: Block all MSIE users from your site.
From the last page of the breezepad:
;)
Again something that will get overly popular instantly. Hehe, I wish.
Be careful what you wish for! I know I am going to show this to my friends and rig one up, and I know alot of others will too...
That was so funny, even I laughed, if I had mod points right now, I'd mod you up :P
It's we're not were, silly editors.