1. Removing the battery to change games? WTF? Who was the idiot who thought of this? Maybe if the phone design doesn't allow otherwise, then they should spend a month on redesigning it because this alone is a major turnoff.
2. Small vertical screen. This screen layout works well for a cell phone but not for games. Hell, they're selling a Sonic game. That's the one where you run around with the blue hedgehog at wicked fast speeds - horizontally. A vertical screen doesn't make sense for this type of game, you simply can't see where you're going. A vertical shooter, maybe, but Sonic? No.
3. Price. Given nokia's trend in phone pricing, I'd expect the n-gage to be horribly expensive and way out of the price range of the average consumer. Why would they get an overpriced phone with a few crappy games, when they gan go get a GBA (if they don't already own one) with an already huge game library?
Nokia really need to get their act together because this is just going to be a horrible flop.
Well, the gameboy emulator runs natively on the phone, and doesn't rely on the Java VM. You can get the Symbian SDK for free from Nokia and make your own apps in C++.
I've tried a few Series 30-40 Java games and my only gripes would be horrible startup/shutdown times. It kind of destroys the "spontaneous" nature of the game when it takes 20-30 seconds to load.
After manually updating my virus definitions and explicitly pointing NAV to the file, it still reckoned it's clean. Way to go, Norton. At least the MS patch seemed to work, although I've seen some people on IRC get repeatedly raped and always before they managed to download and install the patch. Sucks for them, I guess.
The worm, aptly named msblast.exe and happily sitting in my system32 folder, sending itsself to a bunch of random addresses (that happened to be in a reserved netblock and were timing out, go figure) was packed with UPX, after uncompressing and running strings on it here are some interesting finds:
msblast.exe
I just want to say LOVE YOU SAN!!
billy gates why do you make this possible ? Stop making money and fix your software!!
windowsupdate.com
start %s
tftp -i %s GET %s
%d.%d.%d.%d
%i.%i.%i.%i
windows auto update
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Fun, hah? Way to go you bloody wanker, you made my day. I hope SAN (your right hand) loves you too.
Going after these sorts of user names (or even worrying about it) seems like a joke to me. They're completely useless made up handles, ambiguous, and can be changed in about three seconds. Even the tracking down of IP addresses has questionable risk, but really, "username@kazaa" or "kazaaliteuser@kazaa" or even, say, "joe21@kazaa" are pretty worthless information to identify someone.
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...a great idea gone horribly wrong.
The major flaws that I see with it are:
1. Removing the battery to change games? WTF? Who was the idiot who thought of this? Maybe if the phone design doesn't allow otherwise, then they should spend a month on redesigning it because this alone is a major turnoff.
2. Small vertical screen. This screen layout works well for a cell phone but not for games. Hell, they're selling a Sonic game. That's the one where you run around with the blue hedgehog at wicked fast speeds - horizontally. A vertical screen doesn't make sense for this type of game, you simply can't see where you're going. A vertical shooter, maybe, but Sonic? No.
3. Price. Given nokia's trend in phone pricing, I'd expect the n-gage to be horribly expensive and way out of the price range of the average consumer. Why would they get an overpriced phone with a few crappy games, when they gan go get a GBA (if they don't already own one) with an already huge game library?
Nokia really need to get their act together because this is just going to be a horrible flop.
Division by zero, obviously :)
Well, the gameboy emulator runs natively on the phone, and doesn't rely on the Java VM. You can get the Symbian SDK for free from Nokia and make your own apps in C++.
I've tried a few Series 30-40 Java games and my only gripes would be horrible startup/shutdown times. It kind of destroys the "spontaneous" nature of the game when it takes 20-30 seconds to load.
A quick google search gave this.
After manually updating my virus definitions and explicitly pointing NAV to the file, it still reckoned it's clean. Way to go, Norton. At least the MS patch seemed to work, although I've seen some people on IRC get repeatedly raped and always before they managed to download and install the patch. Sucks for them, I guess.
The worm, aptly named msblast.exe and happily sitting in my system32 folder, sending itsself to a bunch of random addresses (that happened to be in a reserved netblock and were timing out, go figure) was packed with UPX, after uncompressing and running strings on it here are some interesting finds:
msblast.exe
I just want to say LOVE YOU SAN!!
billy gates why do you make this possible ? Stop making money and fix your software!!
windowsupdate.com
start %s
tftp -i %s GET %s
%d.%d.%d.%d
%i.%i.%i.%i
windows auto update
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Fun, hah? Way to go you bloody wanker, you made my day. I hope SAN (your right hand) loves you too.
Going after these sorts of user names (or even worrying about it) seems like a joke to me. They're completely useless made up handles, ambiguous, and can be changed in about three seconds. Even the tracking down of IP addresses has questionable risk, but really, "username@kazaa" or "kazaaliteuser@kazaa" or even, say, "joe21@kazaa" are pretty worthless information to identify someone.
the glaring typo in the title!?
Minature? Wtf is that? Last time I checked it was miniature. Heh.
Actually, moogle is a hybrid word for "molebat".
"mogura" + "koumori" = "moguri" --> "moogle"
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