Well, considering the Dick Cheney had his house obscured... I suppose the answer is yes.
Unlike secret military bases and such, I don't think Dick Cheney's house was obscured because of any legal reasoning. My guess is that Google went along with obscuring it either out of an implied threat threat that they didn't want to bother wrestling with or just as a favor to the VP.
How is the number 6,666,666,666 not arbitrary? It's just a number. It doesn't have any special meaning. If we all counted in binary rather than decimal, it would be 110001101010111010100001010101010...whoopty doo!
In that case, they've got Apple, the service provider, standing in the way ready to put the squeeze on small game developers when they start doing well.
Anything's possible, but I doubt it. I think it's like $100 or something to be able to sell applications on iTunes, and Apple has been pretty fair across the board so far with indie musicians selling music on iTunes. I doubt there's going to be any serious problems with iTunes as a distribution mechanism, other than the fact that you can't distribute apps without Apple, which is kind of annoying.
So can the accelerometers in a Wii Remote or SIXAXIS controller. How is this any different from those, other than that it's easier for a small ISV to get the iPhone SDK than the Wii SDK?
It's not terribly different, although you are tilting the thing that you're looking at, so it feels more natural.
You said "mercury". You're not talking about Mercury Meltdown Wii [wikipedia.org], are you?
Does Mercury Meltdown use actual mercury? Then no, that's not what I'm talking about. Little plastic toy maze games used to be made with a little dot of mercury back before people realized how bad of an idea it is...
Sounds like something that would be made for a DS [freewebs.com].
I don't have a DS, but I do believe the iPhone touchscreen is significantly larger than the DS touchscreen.
If Mac had a stronger stranglehold on gaming and depending on how things go, isn't Apple based off Unix?
Apple OSX is based of BSD, so yes, indirectly it is based off of Unix. However, many applications are written in Objective C, which I don't think is available for Linux.
The iPhone / iTouch actually has a pretty unique interface for casual games. The touch screen and accelerometer allow for some really unique games that don't translate as well onto other devices. For instance, there are a few marble-maze sorts of games available for Jailbroken iPhones that allow you to control work your way through a maze just by tilting the phone. It's like those old games with a little bead of mercury or a ball bearing, only without the problems of friction making the ball stick. And there's a partial port of Crayon Physics that's really slick. Given a handful of good games, I could easily see the iPhone becoming a great handheld gaming platform.
I don't understand why this hasn't happened sooner. I've filled out that complaint form on donotcall.gov a number of times since it's inception when I get a call from some telemarketer for a company I've never dealt with. I always hoped that, even if my individual complaints weren't looked into, maybe they would aggregate complaints, and investigate the bigger offenders. Apparently they haven't really even been doing that...
And as a CS grad student, how is this different from every other semester and summer?
I've played the Tower of Goo game. It's really a fun "casual game" sort of game, and honestly, they came up with an idea that was fairly different from much of anything else out there, which isn't easy to do. They didn't just make yet another Tetris clone, or a Bejeweled clone, or some other puzzle game that's been done a million times, they seem to have tried to come up with really innovative game ideas.
Who cares? Maybe if Microsoft spent less time worrying about how to beat Google, and more time working on improving their operating system and office suite, maybe people would actually be pleased with the products they have to offer.
I seem to remember iFrames not working in Netscape 4.7, back when our client's spec sheets would still include Netscape 4.7 (that browser took forever to die), so they were basically useless for me.
"Web 2.0" is clearly just a meaningless buzz-word, but "AJAX" has a relatively distinct and understandable meaning. The use of the XMLHttpRequest to alter portions of a page without reloading the whole page seems like it should have _some_ name, especially since we all remember a time when it was basically impossible to do. AJAX is as good a name as any other.
I guess we'll find out soon enough, won't we. Either the Virginia Supreme Court will decide, and the US Supreme Court will decline to take the case, or the US Supreme Court will decide. Then we'll know, I guess. I wouldn't think the use of overseas servers would make any difference, though, if the communications originated from a US citizen, I would imagine the 1st amendment would apply.
Won't someone finally lock this guy up in a mental institution? This man seriously needs therapy.
Somebody should offer to either have his grandchildren play GTA IV for an hour or be infected with polio. I wonder which one he'll choose. Oh wait, I know which one he'll choose. He'll choose the one that isn't the horrible, crippling virus. If I were a polio victim, I'd be horribly offended by his remarks.
: What IS the diff between Java and JavaScript-really?
Java is an object-oriented programming language originally released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. JavaScript is a functional scripting language originally derived from Ecmascript. Java requires a Java Virtual Machine to be installed on your computer or some other device like a mobile phone. Javascript runs right in your web browser. Javascript was originally named LiveScript, but through a marketing deal between Netscape and Sun, became named JavaScript, even though the two languages are unrelated, thus dooming those in the know to have to constantly correct people who refer to JavaScript as Java, assuming that "Java" is just like a nickname or something. However, they are both based on syntax that looks a good deal like C.
The article suggests that the speed was not bad. (The sample Tetris [accelart.jp] clone loaded very quickly for me.) And the article's commenters note that this runs on an iPhone. In other words, Orto could be a route to port Java apps to be iPhone aps.
I think the article was likely talking about web-based iPhone games, which presently is the only Apple-sanctioned way of playing a game on your iPhone. Unfortunately, the web-based games are pretty limited compared to what can be played on, say, a Jailbroken iPhone. Native iPhone applications aren't written in Javascript...I think the new SDK is based on Objective C, though I haven't actually done any iPhone development.
If nothing else it means that the next time (in about 3 minutes if today is a normal day) somebody gets Java and Javascript confused, I can say they really ARE "basically the same thing" now!
Fantastic. Somebody's found a way to make the morons of the world slightly more correct without them even knowing it.
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Well, considering the Dick Cheney had his house obscured... I suppose the answer is yes.
Unlike secret military bases and such, I don't think Dick Cheney's house was obscured because of any legal reasoning. My guess is that Google went along with obscuring it either out of an implied threat threat that they didn't want to bother wrestling with or just as a favor to the VP.
How is the number 6,666,666,666 not arbitrary? It's just a number. It doesn't have any special meaning. If we all counted in binary rather than decimal, it would be 110001101010111010100001010101010...whoopty doo!
Well, that's certainly arbitrary, and almost certainly completely incorrect...
In that case, they've got Apple, the service provider, standing in the way ready to put the squeeze on small game developers when they start doing well.
Anything's possible, but I doubt it. I think it's like $100 or something to be able to sell applications on iTunes, and Apple has been pretty fair across the board so far with indie musicians selling music on iTunes. I doubt there's going to be any serious problems with iTunes as a distribution mechanism, other than the fact that you can't distribute apps without Apple, which is kind of annoying.
So can the accelerometers in a Wii Remote or SIXAXIS controller. How is this any different from those, other than that it's easier for a small ISV to get the iPhone SDK than the Wii SDK?
It's not terribly different, although you are tilting the thing that you're looking at, so it feels more natural.
You said "mercury". You're not talking about Mercury Meltdown Wii [wikipedia.org], are you?
Does Mercury Meltdown use actual mercury? Then no, that's not what I'm talking about. Little plastic toy maze games used to be made with a little dot of mercury back before people realized how bad of an idea it is...
Sounds like something that would be made for a DS [freewebs.com].
I don't have a DS, but I do believe the iPhone touchscreen is significantly larger than the DS touchscreen.
In the mobile phone space, they've got the service provider standing in the way ready to put the squeeze on Apple when they start doing well.
Not at all. iPhone and iTouch games will be distributed via iTunes. They don't have to worry about the service provider at all.
or get mainstream games to run on their mobile hardware (not sure on the feasibility of this),
There's a NES emulator for Jailbreak...you can play mainstream games from 1985!
If Mac had a stronger stranglehold on gaming and depending on how things go, isn't Apple based off Unix?
Apple OSX is based of BSD, so yes, indirectly it is based off of Unix. However, many applications are written in Objective C, which I don't think is available for Linux.
The iPhone / iTouch actually has a pretty unique interface for casual games. The touch screen and accelerometer allow for some really unique games that don't translate as well onto other devices. For instance, there are a few marble-maze sorts of games available for Jailbroken iPhones that allow you to control work your way through a maze just by tilting the phone. It's like those old games with a little bead of mercury or a ball bearing, only without the problems of friction making the ball stick. And there's a partial port of Crayon Physics that's really slick. Given a handful of good games, I could easily see the iPhone becoming a great handheld gaming platform.
If you're talking about the US, unfortunately, our politicians are incapable of learning from others. Sorry.
I don't understand why this hasn't happened sooner. I've filled out that complaint form on donotcall.gov a number of times since it's inception when I get a call from some telemarketer for a company I've never dealt with. I always hoped that, even if my individual complaints weren't looked into, maybe they would aggregate complaints, and investigate the bigger offenders. Apparently they haven't really even been doing that...
And as a CS grad student, how is this different from every other semester and summer?
I've played the Tower of Goo game. It's really a fun "casual game" sort of game, and honestly, they came up with an idea that was fairly different from much of anything else out there, which isn't easy to do. They didn't just make yet another Tetris clone, or a Bejeweled clone, or some other puzzle game that's been done a million times, they seem to have tried to come up with really innovative game ideas.
The Experimental Gameplay Project has a lot of really unique game concepts like this.
Who cares? Maybe if Microsoft spent less time worrying about how to beat Google, and more time working on improving their operating system and office suite, maybe people would actually be pleased with the products they have to offer.
I seem to remember iFrames not working in Netscape 4.7, back when our client's spec sheets would still include Netscape 4.7 (that browser took forever to die), so they were basically useless for me.
"Web 2.0" is clearly just a meaningless buzz-word, but "AJAX" has a relatively distinct and understandable meaning. The use of the XMLHttpRequest to alter portions of a page without reloading the whole page seems like it should have _some_ name, especially since we all remember a time when it was basically impossible to do. AJAX is as good a name as any other.
I guess we'll find out soon enough, won't we. Either the Virginia Supreme Court will decide, and the US Supreme Court will decline to take the case, or the US Supreme Court will decide. Then we'll know, I guess. I wouldn't think the use of overseas servers would make any difference, though, if the communications originated from a US citizen, I would imagine the 1st amendment would apply.
Won't someone finally lock this guy up in a mental institution? This man seriously needs therapy.
Somebody should offer to either have his grandchildren play GTA IV for an hour or be infected with polio. I wonder which one he'll choose. Oh wait, I know which one he'll choose. He'll choose the one that isn't the horrible, crippling virus. If I were a polio victim, I'd be horribly offended by his remarks.
Something tells me there will be another "upgrade" on January 19, 2009.
I'm pretty sure a contract that involves an illegal act is an invalid contract, so the EULA would be invalid from the start. Ivan is their only hope.
: What IS the diff between Java and JavaScript-really?
Java is an object-oriented programming language originally released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. JavaScript is a functional scripting language originally derived from Ecmascript. Java requires a Java Virtual Machine to be installed on your computer or some other device like a mobile phone. Javascript runs right in your web browser. Javascript was originally named LiveScript, but through a marketing deal between Netscape and Sun, became named JavaScript, even though the two languages are unrelated, thus dooming those in the know to have to constantly correct people who refer to JavaScript as Java, assuming that "Java" is just like a nickname or something. However, they are both based on syntax that looks a good deal like C.
The article suggests that the speed was not bad. (The sample Tetris [accelart.jp] clone loaded very quickly for me.) And the article's commenters note that this runs on an iPhone. In other words, Orto could be a route to port Java apps to be iPhone aps.
I think the article was likely talking about web-based iPhone games, which presently is the only Apple-sanctioned way of playing a game on your iPhone. Unfortunately, the web-based games are pretty limited compared to what can be played on, say, a Jailbroken iPhone. Native iPhone applications aren't written in Javascript...I think the new SDK is based on Objective C, though I haven't actually done any iPhone development.
If nothing else it means that the next time (in about 3 minutes if today is a normal day) somebody gets Java and Javascript confused, I can say they really ARE "basically the same thing" now!
Fantastic. Somebody's found a way to make the morons of the world slightly more correct without them even knowing it.
Well, they didn't "call bullshit" on these ones:
http://www.coherentbabble.com/signingstatements/TOCindex.htm
Right, which is why he'll just issue a signing statement saying that it doesn't apply to him.
Yeah, somebody just needs to write an Operating System in "Internet", and then we'll be set.