From his twitter, he said he was fired after that article was posted (which is why it doesn't mention it explicitly) but isn't able to talk more. Do you have information showing that this was false and he's still in the job (or quit rather than being fired?)
Actually, it's worth noting that the i-programmer article that's linked first is pretty badly written, and just paraphrases the techcrunch article, anyway (which never claims that you can touch the projection, just that it's a "multi-touch" interface - ie it responds to multiple fingers)
That's a funny definition of "Touch" - yes it responds to your finger, but there isn't anything physical there to push against, so it's no more a touch interface than Kinect is.
I think it should read "highest available version at that time" rather than "current major version" - i.e. for the first three years of the original iPhone's life, it was possible to run what was, at the time, the highest available version of iOS on it.
Also, search for "full keyboard" on the market for a replacement software keyboard that gives lots of useful extra keys, such as a dpad and ctrl-key shortcuts (so you can type ^C with a single keypress)
Study C.S. and do indie games development in your spare time. XNA is pretty easy to get going. You might even be able to make a game for your final year project.
One day the games industry will spit you out, and you'll be looking for another job. At that point you might think "Hey, maybe there's more money outside of games" and start looking for other programming jobs.
If you've got a "Video Games" degree, employers will take one look at your CV and think "plays games all day. No use to us, we need serious engineers".
Games programming is very hard, but most employers (or agencies / HR people) don't seem to grasp that.
Also there's a fair number of Video Games courses that are pretty useless too - as someone who's been involved in interviewing people for games industry programming jobs, I can say the ones with CS experience often have a far better grounding. Having some solid demos that show your coding ability is far more valuable.
I don't know if there's anything out there already, but I'd've thought it'd be possible with lots of #define insanity - basically #define around all the differences between the languages and end up writing in effectively a higher level language that abstracts down into the right language for a particular platform.
(So you'd still have to rewrite most of your existing code to fit your new syntax, but once that was done, you'd have code that could be compiled in multiple languages)
The code would end up ugly as hell, and, as I said, it'd probably drive you loopy, but it should be possible in theory.
(I can't find the link atm, but there's a great site somewhere that talks about multilingual code - basically having a source file that's valid under multiple languages by tricking the compiler into thinking the other language's code are just comments / defined out, etc)
Android supports C++ too, so your best bet is to develop the core in C++, with java and obj-c frontends for Android and iPhone, and just pretend that the MS platform doesn't exist.
Or go mad with #define trickery to make your C++ code compile under CLI
You don't have to worry about giving people bad directions because they're dead-end streets, so nobody will route down them. Nobody is going to be hurt by these little streets in any way.
"Take the third left"?
Is that including the road on the left that's on the map, but doesn't exist in reality.
http://www.schtserv.com/ - I've used that to play Both the GC Ep1&2 and the PC BlueBurst online successfully
It seems to contain players who actually want to play PSO, too, unlike the real servers, that just ended up with idiots using exploits to make other people crash
* Child meets someone online. * Child gets on with person. * Child agrees to meet up with person. * Child meets up with person. * Bad things happen.
How would having a big "Click here to report this person" button help? If they're willing to meet up, then they're obviously not suspicious about the person's intentions. Even a big flashing "Are you sure this person isn't going to try and do nasty things to you?" banner on screen would quickly be ignored and forgotten about
That's a good point - I guess you wouldn't replace your main locks with central locking, but you *would* replace the secondary dead bolts with them. That way you know you can press a single button and have every window/door bolted (or something will beep to tell you it can't lock one of them) but you can also still lock the doors in a regular manner too, for added security.
I often wonder why central locking hasn't caught on for houses yet. Especially if you could set it to beep at you when you've leaving but you've left a door/window open elsewhere.
This is what I do with email. Sadly you'll eventually get spam to the private address when someone visits a "scan my email address book for friends" type thing
Slashdot Mirror
Other than the post on the official Windows blog, I guess
http://blogs.windows.com/blogg...
Although that doesn't say this is the RTM, just that "this build is one step closer to what customers will start to receive on 7/29"
From his twitter, he said he was fired after that article was posted (which is why it doesn't mention it explicitly) but isn't able to talk more. Do you have information showing that this was false and he's still in the job (or quit rather than being fired?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Done.
Yup, Twitter's engineers are on it, apparently : http://status.twitter.com/
Twitter seems to have gone down too
http://status.twitter.com/
Mass internet implosion?
Actually, it's worth noting that the i-programmer article that's linked first is pretty badly written, and just paraphrases the techcrunch article, anyway (which never claims that you can touch the projection, just that it's a "multi-touch" interface - ie it responds to multiple fingers)
That's a funny definition of "Touch" - yes it responds to your finger, but there isn't anything physical there to push against, so it's no more a touch interface than Kinect is.
I think it should read "highest available version at that time" rather than "current major version" - i.e. for the first three years of the original iPhone's life, it was possible to run what was, at the time, the highest available version of iOS on it.
I'd have thought that it's the customer publicly identifying themselves when they send a Twitter message to the bank in the first place.
Also, search for "full keyboard" on the market for a replacement software keyboard that gives lots of useful extra keys, such as a dpad and ctrl-key shortcuts (so you can type ^C with a single keypress)
Study C.S. and do indie games development in your spare time. XNA is pretty easy to get going. You might even be able to make a game for your final year project.
One day the games industry will spit you out, and you'll be looking for another job. At that point you might think "Hey, maybe there's more money outside of games" and start looking for other programming jobs.
If you've got a "Video Games" degree, employers will take one look at your CV and think "plays games all day. No use to us, we need serious engineers".
Games programming is very hard, but most employers (or agencies / HR people) don't seem to grasp that.
Also there's a fair number of Video Games courses that are pretty useless too - as someone who's been involved in interviewing people for games industry programming jobs, I can say the ones with CS experience often have a far better grounding. Having some solid demos that show your coding ability is far more valuable.
Now concentrate this time, Dougal. These chunks of crystallised carbon are very small; those are far away...
Or just use something like Unity ;-)
I don't know if there's anything out there already, but I'd've thought it'd be possible with lots of #define insanity - basically #define around all the differences between the languages and end up writing in effectively a higher level language that abstracts down into the right language for a particular platform.
(So you'd still have to rewrite most of your existing code to fit your new syntax, but once that was done, you'd have code that could be compiled in multiple languages)
The code would end up ugly as hell, and, as I said, it'd probably drive you loopy, but it should be possible in theory.
(I can't find the link atm, but there's a great site somewhere that talks about multilingual code - basically having a source file that's valid under multiple languages by tricking the compiler into thinking the other language's code are just comments / defined out, etc)
Android supports C++ too, so your best bet is to develop the core in C++, with java and obj-c frontends for Android and iPhone, and just pretend that the MS platform doesn't exist.
Or go mad with #define trickery to make your C++ code compile under CLI
They'd be unlocked phones, though, so presumably people could just stick the SIM from their existing phone into it.
(At which point the phone's death claws grab hold of the SIM never to let it go again! Mwahahaaha!)
You don't have to worry about giving people bad directions because they're dead-end streets, so nobody will route down them. Nobody is going to be hurt by these little streets in any way.
"Take the third left"?
Is that including the road on the left that's on the map, but doesn't exist in reality.
It's support for connecting to XBL using XB1 games that's been disabled, so it's the same on a 360 as an original machine
Phantasy Star Online? Not so much.
http://www.schtserv.com/ - I've used that to play Both the GC Ep1&2 and the PC BlueBurst online successfully
It seems to contain players who actually want to play PSO, too, unlike the real servers, that just ended up with idiots using exploits to make other people crash
* Child meets someone online.
* Child gets on with person.
* Child agrees to meet up with person.
* Child meets up with person.
* Bad things happen.
How would having a big "Click here to report this person" button help? If they're willing to meet up, then they're obviously not suspicious about the person's intentions. Even a big flashing "Are you sure this person isn't going to try and do nasty things to you?" banner on screen would quickly be ignored and forgotten about
"EyeToy" was the PS2 camera. PS2/Move use the "Playstation Eye"
That's a good point - I guess you wouldn't replace your main locks with central locking, but you *would* replace the secondary dead bolts with them. That way you know you can press a single button and have every window/door bolted (or something will beep to tell you it can't lock one of them) but you can also still lock the doors in a regular manner too, for added security.
I often wonder why central locking hasn't caught on for houses yet. Especially if you could set it to beep at you when you've leaving but you've left a door/window open elsewhere.
phew... I was wondering if I was in a timewarp there for a second...
This is what I do with email. Sadly you'll eventually get spam to the private address when someone visits a "scan my email address book for friends" type thing