"the revenue-share agreement will be based on how much the application uses the network"
So... the more popular my app, the more $ t-mobile keeps? how the hell is that fair when t-mobile customers are (probably) paying per byte already?
Wait, the diary was from 1660, but ends in 1942?
Tell me we've sequenced his DNA and found out how he lived that long.
I don't think I'm going to get through the whole thing if I read just one entry a day.
Bah! I misread as "for a final RC for the MySQL 5.1 server, Monty Widenius" and thought it was the latest version name, like Hardy Heron or Fallacious Ferret or Mr. Ed or something.
When Alec Guinness died, we said that he's become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
When Douglas Adams died, we said that he's no doubt spending a year dead for tax reasons.
When Arthur C. Clarke died, we said that he's probably been reincarnated as a large orbiting fetus.
When Gary Gygax died, we said that he's lost his last saving throw.
No, it's never too early, especially if the deceased would have appreciated the joke. When Terry Gilliam dies, you bet we're going to say: "Well you're dead now, so shut up." When Neal Stephenson dies, you bet we're going to comment about how the ending was a bit abrupt.
What will they say about Slashdot? All I can think of is that the first page of the guest book at the way will be full of "FRIST PO$T!!1!"
Case in point, this is a situation where a LARGER form factor would be better. People are less likely to steal something the size of a tower case than a macbook air, just because of the sheer bulk of the thing.
In the classic test you sit at a terminal and basically IRC with someone who could be a human, alien, dog, or ai. Your goal is to decide if that "someone" is smarter than you.
Before I even get to that decision, I'd like to just sit and wait. After all, if this intelligent being knows it is being tested, sooner or later it is going to wonder what is going on and say "hello?"
Basically what I'm looking for is initiative and inquisitiveness. Without either of those I refuse to believe it's sentient.
Just like AOL did with Time Warner. Seriously, if EA is willing to pay 2B then they're willing to go for more, so get concessions in that put TT management at the top of EA and voila!
How big does EA have to get before a government forces them to split up, like the phone companies? Ok, sure, it's not an essential service. (What is that howling sound?) It is, however, so large that ownership of TT would mean nobody could seriously compete with them. That's an effective monopoly. Ms. Indie gamer isn't going to influence shelf space at Best Buy or tell MS what the XBox Live price point will be.
In a few years we'll all be using solid state drives, anyhow. With 10,000x fetch rate, who'll know the difference? At that speed it makes me wonder when ram will be phased out completely. What's that, you say? Fewer parts, lower overhead, less environmental impact, and smaller form factor all for the cost of a few ms access time I'll barely notice anyways? Sounds like a good deal to me.
If the government talks about having access to the data of the citizens,/. throws a fit. But talk about letting the parents have access to the children's data and/. in general seems to think that's the only acceptable choice.
Hm.
There was a time when a 7 year old would already be learning a trade and be married by 13. We infantilise everyone and then act surprised that they grow up to be giant children. How about instead you teach the 7 year old about the dangers of talking to strangers, about the really really gross shit on the internet, and then maintain an active interest in their computer use - just as you would ask them about what they learned in school or how they're doing with soccer practice.
And for those of you who say my comparison is junk I ask you this: At what age should a child be before parents should stop monitoring the child's computer use? Either you won't reach a consensus or you'll come up with a number that frustrates most kids and helps almost none. Not unlike a typical government policy.
Maybe... maybe if the music industry collapses then it will go back to being about the love and the art of music instead of the industrialization of music. Maybe the industrialization of music was a bubble doomed to pop. Maybe we'll just go back to LPs and stop cutting ourselves off from each other with those @#*($@ ipods.
Gaming experts gaming the system? They have way too much experience, they'll run circles around their competitors! At the very least lobbyists should have to get past some kind of jumping puzzle to reach the senate, only to be told their congressman is in another office.
"no software developer kit is required for the iPhone."
So
They might actually have one (eventually)
It could be that all you need are OSX SDKs and an awareness of the hardware limitations.
As a developer these possibilities sound exciting - If all I have to do is take my existing OSX apps, dial them down for reduced memory footprint, and recompile.... sweet. No new APIs to learn! No wierd config problems with linking libraries! We'll drive flying cars and eat dinner in pill form - because the future is now!:)
Well great, that only strengthens my complaint. I appreciate that they want people who have a GC controller and memory card to be able to "carry over" their old save files, but I don't see any reason why new Wii owners can't use the VC controller and save to the Wii's memory. Nintendo built both machines, they should be able to interrupt & redirects request for memory card access.
Perhaps the best way would be if Nintendo sold a USB harddrive with, say, 25 of their top selling Virtual Console games already installed on it. All you'd have to do is plug it in and play. A Wii software update would ensure that the machine could read the drives well before they hit the shelves. To move units they'd make it slightly less than cost of drive + cost of 25 games downloaded. Who knows, maybe they could even put something unique to the drives like Folding @ Home for Wii on there. (No doubt Folding @ Home for Wii would be available to the general public 6 months later to reward early adopters.)
A gripe: Why the hell didn't they put a Z button on the VC classic controller? I don't appreciate having to shell out extra bucks just to play a few games on the *exact same system*. Hell, if they had dropped the GC sockets on the top of the Wii they'd probably have room for a hard drive! It all strengthens my belief that Nintendo is deliberately manipulating things to ensure that they sell off their GC stock of products.
I have an apartment with (maybe) 600 square feet and most of that is the bedroom. I still manage to host a party for 30 and everybody has a good time. I took the biggest blank wall and, opposite, put a shelf right near the ceiling on which sits a $800 projector from costco. I also bought a $60 dvd player and a $850 5.1 stereo/receiver from Best buy. (found one that had been previously opened, discount=good). atop the receiver sits my Wii. The only trick is running the cable from the receiver on one side of the room to the projector on the other, and the cables for this I was able to get at the dollar store. Anyone else would sell me the same 25' for >$100. I'll take the signal degredation, thank you. If I suddenly come into some money then I'll get apple TV and hack it so i can run VLC and connect that to my receiver, because right now the only problem is that I have no way to get 5.1 out from my Mac (that I know of).
This set up has a number of advantages. It's almost invisible. I don't have to worry about a guest thowing the controllers at the wall. The projector makes a 93" picture, which would cost about $10,000 if it was a flat panel TV. I can't watch during the day which forcibly curtails my video addiction.
The kitchen is only remarkable in that my breakfast table is one of those flat arcade machines you can sit down and put your drink on. This way People can Wii Box, smoke on the balcony, hang out in the kitchen, or Galaga to their heart's content.
I have a single 802.1g Wifi connection which doesn't see much use, a decent number of fish and easy to take care of plants (like bamboo), and a few pieces of art. I used the Rastorbator to blow up my favorite photo from spain and it covers one wall. My place still provides me with all the high tech I need, requires no maintenance, is girl-friendly, and all I need to do for a party is roll up the carpet to prevent spill damage.
So I hope that gives you some ideas for your place.
A lot of people seem to think the FPS market is basically dead. Personally, I suspect that anything Carmack touches will sell a million copies regardless of how good it is. A sucker born, right? What would motivate me to shell out hard earned bucks is if they could do it better than, say, half life 2, where my only real gripe is that there were a grand total of, what, four kinds of enemies? The same problem happens in the last quake game - you know when you enter a large room that there will be a certain number of enemies. Hell, there's probably an equation to figure it out by the footage of space.
In fact the longer I think about it the more I realize the problem isn't the number of enemies. It's the total utter lack of suprise. When I was 14 playing these games was the bomb because it was totally new and that felt *good*. Half life scared the bejeezus out of me a couple of times and that's why it worked. These new games don't make me feel a damn thing. So make your FPS, or your RTS, or your RPG - just as long as it gets me emotionally invested so that I want to keep playing.
Which reminds me of a funny story: Recently I played capture the flag in the park. When I told a friend about it he became puzzled and asked "What, you mean live action CTF?"
Slashdot Mirror
Sue the US Army for playing the song in a public venue without compensating the artists, producers, or record companies. DMCA their asses.
...and buy GameStop. Think of it as the missing step #3.
I'm sure there were studies that proved Chrome wasn't the fastest but I can't seem to Google them any more. Maybe I'm not using the right keywords...
"the revenue-share agreement will be based on how much the application uses the network" So... the more popular my app, the more $ t-mobile keeps? how the hell is that fair when t-mobile customers are (probably) paying per byte already?
Wait, the diary was from 1660, but ends in 1942? Tell me we've sequenced his DNA and found out how he lived that long. I don't think I'm going to get through the whole thing if I read just one entry a day.
Stronglifts 5x5 - http://stronglifts.com/stronglifts-5x5-beginner-strength-training-program/
The Hacker's Diet - http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/hackdiet.html
I used these two as a guide and have gone from 6'2" 165lbs squatting 100lbs to squatting 210lbs in less than three months. Feels awesome.
How long until RELOADED steps forward and sues Ubisoft for the theft of RELOADED's closed-source application and demands payment per copy distributed?
Bah! I misread as "for a final RC for the MySQL 5.1 server, Monty Widenius" and thought it was the latest version name, like Hardy Heron or Fallacious Ferret or Mr. Ed or something.
...the start of a howie mandel joke?
Anyone found a link to a gun that shoots reel to reel or audio casette tapes?
Soon enough they will dig too deep and unleash a terror the world has long forgotten. Maybe a Deep Crow? How exciting! :)
When Alec Guinness died, we said that he's become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
When Douglas Adams died, we said that he's no doubt spending a year dead for tax reasons.
When Arthur C. Clarke died, we said that he's probably been reincarnated as a large orbiting fetus.
When Gary Gygax died, we said that he's lost his last saving throw.
No, it's never too early, especially if the deceased would have appreciated the joke. When Terry Gilliam dies, you bet we're going to say: "Well you're dead now, so shut up." When Neal Stephenson dies, you bet we're going to comment about how the ending was a bit abrupt.
What will they say about Slashdot? All I can think of is that the first page of the guest book at the way will be full of "FRIST PO$T!!1!"Case in point, this is a situation where a LARGER form factor would be better. People are less likely to steal something the size of a tower case than a macbook air, just because of the sheer bulk of the thing.
In the classic test you sit at a terminal and basically IRC with someone who could be a human, alien, dog, or ai. Your goal is to decide if that "someone" is smarter than you.
Before I even get to that decision, I'd like to just sit and wait. After all, if this intelligent being knows it is being tested, sooner or later it is going to wonder what is going on and say "hello?"
Basically what I'm looking for is initiative and inquisitiveness. Without either of those I refuse to believe it's sentient.
Just like AOL did with Time Warner. Seriously, if EA is willing to pay 2B then they're willing to go for more, so get concessions in that put TT management at the top of EA and voila!
How big does EA have to get before a government forces them to split up, like the phone companies? Ok, sure, it's not an essential service. (What is that howling sound?) It is, however, so large that ownership of TT would mean nobody could seriously compete with them. That's an effective monopoly. Ms. Indie gamer isn't going to influence shelf space at Best Buy or tell MS what the XBox Live price point will be.
In a few years we'll all be using solid state drives, anyhow. With 10,000x fetch rate, who'll know the difference? At that speed it makes me wonder when ram will be phased out completely. What's that, you say? Fewer parts, lower overhead, less environmental impact, and smaller form factor all for the cost of a few ms access time I'll barely notice anyways? Sounds like a good deal to me.
If the government talks about having access to the data of the citizens, /. throws a fit. But talk about letting the parents have access to the children's data and /. in general seems to think that's the only acceptable choice.
Hm.
There was a time when a 7 year old would already be learning a trade and be married by 13. We infantilise everyone and then act surprised that they grow up to be giant children. How about instead you teach the 7 year old about the dangers of talking to strangers, about the really really gross shit on the internet, and then maintain an active interest in their computer use - just as you would ask them about what they learned in school or how they're doing with soccer practice.
And for those of you who say my comparison is junk I ask you this: At what age should a child be before parents should stop monitoring the child's computer use? Either you won't reach a consensus or you'll come up with a number that frustrates most kids and helps almost none. Not unlike a typical government policy.
Maybe... maybe if the music industry collapses then it will go back to being about the love and the art of music instead of the industrialization of music. Maybe the industrialization of music was a bubble doomed to pop. Maybe we'll just go back to LPs and stop cutting ourselves off from each other with those @#*($@ ipods.
Gaming experts gaming the system? They have way too much experience, they'll run circles around their competitors! At the very least lobbyists should have to get past some kind of jumping puzzle to reach the senate, only to be told their congressman is in another office.
Makes me think of the "phone buster buster".
So
- They might actually have one (eventually)
- It could be that all you need are OSX SDKs and an awareness of the hardware limitations.
As a developer these possibilities sound exciting - If all I have to do is take my existing OSX apps, dial them down for reduced memory footprint, and recompile.... sweet. No new APIs to learn! No wierd config problems with linking libraries! We'll drive flying cars and eat dinner in pill form - because the future is now!Well great, that only strengthens my complaint. I appreciate that they want people who have a GC controller and memory card to be able to "carry over" their old save files, but I don't see any reason why new Wii owners can't use the VC controller and save to the Wii's memory. Nintendo built both machines, they should be able to interrupt & redirects request for memory card access.
Perhaps the best way would be if Nintendo sold a USB harddrive with, say, 25 of their top selling Virtual Console games already installed on it. All you'd have to do is plug it in and play. A Wii software update would ensure that the machine could read the drives well before they hit the shelves. To move units they'd make it slightly less than cost of drive + cost of 25 games downloaded. Who knows, maybe they could even put something unique to the drives like Folding @ Home for Wii on there. (No doubt Folding @ Home for Wii would be available to the general public 6 months later to reward early adopters.)
A gripe: Why the hell didn't they put a Z button on the VC classic controller? I don't appreciate having to shell out extra bucks just to play a few games on the *exact same system*. Hell, if they had dropped the GC sockets on the top of the Wii they'd probably have room for a hard drive! It all strengthens my belief that Nintendo is deliberately manipulating things to ensure that they sell off their GC stock of products.
I have an apartment with (maybe) 600 square feet and most of that is the bedroom. I still manage to host a party for 30 and everybody has a good time. I took the biggest blank wall and, opposite, put a shelf right near the ceiling on which sits a $800 projector from costco. I also bought a $60 dvd player and a $850 5.1 stereo/receiver from Best buy. (found one that had been previously opened, discount=good). atop the receiver sits my Wii. The only trick is running the cable from the receiver on one side of the room to the projector on the other, and the cables for this I was able to get at the dollar store. Anyone else would sell me the same 25' for >$100. I'll take the signal degredation, thank you. If I suddenly come into some money then I'll get apple TV and hack it so i can run VLC and connect that to my receiver, because right now the only problem is that I have no way to get 5.1 out from my Mac (that I know of).
This set up has a number of advantages. It's almost invisible. I don't have to worry about a guest thowing the controllers at the wall. The projector makes a 93" picture, which would cost about $10,000 if it was a flat panel TV. I can't watch during the day which forcibly curtails my video addiction.
The kitchen is only remarkable in that my breakfast table is one of those flat arcade machines you can sit down and put your drink on. This way People can Wii Box, smoke on the balcony, hang out in the kitchen, or Galaga to their heart's content.
I have a single 802.1g Wifi connection which doesn't see much use, a decent number of fish and easy to take care of plants (like bamboo), and a few pieces of art. I used the Rastorbator to blow up my favorite photo from spain and it covers one wall. My place still provides me with all the high tech I need, requires no maintenance, is girl-friendly, and all I need to do for a party is roll up the carpet to prevent spill damage.
So I hope that gives you some ideas for your place.
A lot of people seem to think the FPS market is basically dead. Personally, I suspect that anything Carmack touches will sell a million copies regardless of how good it is. A sucker born, right? What would motivate me to shell out hard earned bucks is if they could do it better than, say, half life 2, where my only real gripe is that there were a grand total of, what, four kinds of enemies? The same problem happens in the last quake game - you know when you enter a large room that there will be a certain number of enemies. Hell, there's probably an equation to figure it out by the footage of space.
In fact the longer I think about it the more I realize the problem isn't the number of enemies. It's the total utter lack of suprise. When I was 14 playing these games was the bomb because it was totally new and that felt *good*. Half life scared the bejeezus out of me a couple of times and that's why it worked. These new games don't make me feel a damn thing. So make your FPS, or your RTS, or your RPG - just as long as it gets me emotionally invested so that I want to keep playing.
Which reminds me of a funny story: Recently I played capture the flag in the park. When I told a friend about it he became puzzled and asked "What, you mean live action CTF?"