Wats absurd is that a larg porton of Inglish words cant be speld corectly by sownding them out. I wish I culd agre with yu but tha truth is, memorizaton is prabably tha only 100% efectiv mens ov lrning Inglish.
What's absurd is that a large portion of English words can't be spelled correctly by sounding them out. I wish I could agree with you but the truth is, memorization is probably the only 100% effective means of learning English.
Yeah your correct, XInput isn't Required. But if you want the triggers to play nice you need to use it.
Well I don't have any AAA titles under my belt so I'm probably not the one to ask in terms of releasing a profitable game. My stuff so far hasn't had money as a goal.
If your serious about it though, try putting together a demo in your off time. Then pitch it to a publisher. Check out the GDR link in my signature. There's a few guys that have pulled it off.
I think your catch 22 description hits the nail on the head. The situation actually seems to have gotten worse over the years. I remember in the mid and late 90's you could go to any store that sold computers and see a whole isle dedicated to gamepads and flight sticks. Gravis was all the rage and most of these devices could be daisy chained. Now you go into a store and if your lucky you'll find a Dual Shock style gamepad hanging all alone on a hook back in some corner.
Microsoft's no help requiring devs to use an additional API to support the 360 gamepad. Although I agree it's a great pad and own one myself (and I don't even have a 360).
Perhaps someone will break the mold with a quality game that supports four players or some such. Until then, there's Wii.
Your right, I don't have a G1, I have four of them.
Your also right that you need a dataplan to activate the phone. That's easy to work around; Stick in a SIM card with a dataplan, activate the phone, then put in your prepaid SIM.
Not only will the phone work without a dataplan, it will work with no plan at all! If you have a SIM card that has no service, on a completely stock G1, you can still connect to the internet via wifi and download apps and use Google Maps and Street View and everything. You just have to activate the phone first. Obviously you can't make calls like that, but wifi works 100% fine.
Now to answer your questions:
I bought an expensive (actually mine cost me about $90) niche phone because it has a full keyboard and HTML web browser. Texting on a numeric pad is a pain in the ass. Which is why I didn't op for one of the newer Android phones. It's all about the keyboard.
I didn't get a $20 flip phone because I already have a working RAZR V3i which now serves as a backup. I can use either phone with the same prepaid SIM card.
I'm guessing when you guys say, "mandatory data plan" this is something T-Mobile employees insist on selling you. The G1 itself can function without a dataplan. It can get it's internet connection via wifi. Obviously if your out of range for wifi you won't have internet access but you can still do everything else like make calls just fine. I've been using my G1 this way on prepaid for months. Another advantage of buying your phone without a contract.
I think the GP has a valid point. Replace "rapist" with your nutjob of choice. Imagine a guy in the bushes next to a railroad track, on a downhill road, any freeway, around a blind curve, the list goes on..
If one of these got into the wrong hands it would be devastating.
This is how Google Maps (currently) is on Android as well. Crazy that there's more then enough storage on the SD Card for map data (roads at least) yet I'm required to have cell/wifi signal to use a map while out in the boonies.
That's the main reason I'm sticking with Tom Tom. That and Tom Tom is still a bit ahead of Google in terms of features/usability but I'm sure that gap will be shrinking fairly quickly.
Well nVidia released the GT 240 not long ago for $100. My guess is this is AMD's answer to that. nVidia's card supports DirectX10.1. If AMD can't make a card that out performs it, they can at least have a bigger number on the box.
For developers, both of these cards are good news. It means anyone can afford a video card that can handle the latest features (even if it does them slowly). Devs can focus on making games instead of supporting legacy hardware or creating workarounds for people without feature x. Users don't have to drop hundreds/thousands for a gaming rig anymore. Everybody wins!
Not to mention Android and iPhone can also decode H.264. It would be sweet if it was selected as the standard for those and I'm sure other mobile devices as well. No more having clunky apps just to view YouTube and such. Embedded videos would just work, even on your phone.
That is insightful, I still agree with myself and the above poster that one of the two coins/children are constant before the question is even posed. Thus the other has a 50% probability.
"If I flip two coins and one of them is heads, what are the odds the other one is also heads?"
I just don't see any other way to interpret that question.
//If I flip two coins and one of them is heads, what are the odds the other one is also heads?
if (coin_1 == flipped && coin_2 == flipped) { if (coin_1 == heads || coin_2 == heads) { //Odds of other coin being heads is 50%. } else { //Neither coin was heads. } }
It doesn't matter how fantastical your software is. The internet as it is today in the US has very real limits. The numbers given by the parent are fairly accurate. It doesn't matter if you've got 50MB of bandwidth, the latency is still going to make those 50MB arrive too late.
Linux IS an open OS.. that doesn't solve what I think your trying to wish for though.
What I think your asking for is Java, and we see how that worked out. Different hardware requires different software. Unless you don't mind your apps running like frozen turds your not going to find a magic OS/API/Language/Whatever that makes apps run on everything.
That's because T-Mobile's website is just god awful in every way imaginable. They're still my choice of provider but their site has disappointed me for years.
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That's why I said spelled, as in writing.
Reading is a bit more forgiving when sounding things out.
Wats absurd is that a larg porton of Inglish words cant be speld corectly by sownding them out.
I wish I culd agre with yu but tha truth is, memorizaton is prabably tha only 100% efectiv mens ov lrning Inglish.
What's absurd is that a large portion of English words can't be spelled correctly by sounding them out.
I wish I could agree with you but the truth is, memorization is probably the only 100% effective means of learning English.
But of course, having pictures of murdered children (cartoon or otherwise) is perfectly legal.
Yeah your correct, XInput isn't Required. But if you want the triggers to play nice you need to use it.
Well I don't have any AAA titles under my belt so I'm probably not the one to ask in terms of releasing a profitable game. My stuff so far hasn't had money as a goal.
If your serious about it though, try putting together a demo in your off time. Then pitch it to a publisher. Check out the GDR link in my signature. There's a few guys that have pulled it off.
I think your catch 22 description hits the nail on the head. The situation actually seems to have gotten worse over the years. I remember in the mid and late 90's you could go to any store that sold computers and see a whole isle dedicated to gamepads and flight sticks. Gravis was all the rage and most of these devices could be daisy chained.
Now you go into a store and if your lucky you'll find a Dual Shock style gamepad hanging all alone on a hook back in some corner.
Microsoft's no help requiring devs to use an additional API to support the 360 gamepad. Although I agree it's a great pad and own one myself (and I don't even have a 360).
Perhaps someone will break the mold with a quality game that supports four players or some such. Until then, there's Wii.
Think of all the people you know that has a PC. Not just your hardcore geek friends but everyone.
How many of them have multiple game controllers?
How many even have one game controller?
That's why.
Your right, I don't have a G1, I have four of them.
Your also right that you need a dataplan to activate the phone. That's easy to work around; Stick in a SIM card with a dataplan, activate the phone, then put in your prepaid SIM.
Not only will the phone work without a dataplan, it will work with no plan at all! If you have a SIM card that has no service, on a completely stock G1, you can still connect to the internet via wifi and download apps and use Google Maps and Street View and everything. You just have to activate the phone first. Obviously you can't make calls like that, but wifi works 100% fine.
Here's one of my phones running with no service.
Look at the status icons. No bars at all, but I've got wifi and GPS.
Now to answer your questions:
I bought an expensive (actually mine cost me about $90) niche phone because it has a full keyboard and HTML web browser. Texting on a numeric pad is a pain in the ass. Which is why I didn't op for one of the newer Android phones. It's all about the keyboard.
I didn't get a $20 flip phone because I already have a working RAZR V3i which now serves as a backup. I can use either phone with the same prepaid SIM card.
I use my G1 constantly.
I'm guessing when you guys say, "mandatory data plan" this is something T-Mobile employees insist on selling you. The G1 itself can function without a dataplan. It can get it's internet connection via wifi. Obviously if your out of range for wifi you won't have internet access but you can still do everything else like make calls just fine. I've been using my G1 this way on prepaid for months. Another advantage of buying your phone without a contract.
I would assume it's from global botnets running scripted attacks in unison at particular times.
I think the GP has a valid point. Replace "rapist" with your nutjob of choice. Imagine a guy in the bushes next to a railroad track, on a downhill road, any freeway, around a blind curve, the list goes on..
If one of these got into the wrong hands it would be devastating.
Mod parent up, I'm out of points
This is how Google Maps (currently) is on Android as well. Crazy that there's more then enough storage on the SD Card for map data (roads at least) yet I'm required to have cell/wifi signal to use a map while out in the boonies.
That's the main reason I'm sticking with Tom Tom. That and Tom Tom is still a bit ahead of Google in terms of features/usability but I'm sure that gap will be shrinking fairly quickly.
Well nVidia released the GT 240 not long ago for $100. My guess is this is AMD's answer to that.
nVidia's card supports DirectX10.1. If AMD can't make a card that out performs it, they can at least have a bigger number on the box.
For developers, both of these cards are good news. It means anyone can afford a video card that can handle the latest features (even if it does them slowly). Devs can focus on making games instead of supporting legacy hardware or creating workarounds for people without feature x.
Users don't have to drop hundreds/thousands for a gaming rig anymore. Everybody wins!
Not to mention Android and iPhone can also decode H.264. It would be sweet if it was selected as the standard for those and I'm sure other mobile devices as well. No more having clunky apps just to view YouTube and such. Embedded videos would just work, even on your phone.
So we just have to wait for their agreement period to end and we should get a sane version on Wii as well :)
That is insightful, I still agree with myself and the above poster that one of the two coins/children are constant before the question is even posed. Thus the other has a 50% probability.
"If I flip two coins and one of them is heads, what are the odds the other one is also heads?"
I just don't see any other way to interpret that question.
Please see the replies to your own link.
//If I flip two coins and one of them is heads, what are the odds the other one is also heads?
//Odds of other coin being heads is 50%.
//Neither coin was heads.
if (coin_1 == flipped && coin_2 == flipped)
{
if (coin_1 == heads || coin_2 == heads)
{
}
else
{
}
}
Or maybe they've seen the same joke over and over for the past ten years?
Not changing with the times is the doom of many companies. Times have changed.
I for one welcome our new Android overlords.
Because they do.
Wish I had mod points.
It doesn't matter how fantastical your software is. The internet as it is today in the US has very real limits. The numbers given by the parent are fairly accurate. It doesn't matter if you've got 50MB of bandwidth, the latency is still going to make those 50MB arrive too late.
Linux IS an open OS.. that doesn't solve what I think your trying to wish for though.
What I think your asking for is Java, and we see how that worked out.
Different hardware requires different software. Unless you don't mind your apps running like frozen turds your not going to find a magic OS/API/Language/Whatever that makes apps run on everything.
Just because something is common doesn't mean it is right.
That's because T-Mobile's website is just god awful in every way imaginable. They're still my choice of provider but their site has disappointed me for years.