The people at Nokia are stupid. The N-Gage is useless as a gaming phone. If they had any sense, they'd market it as a phone which happens to play some games. Except the official N-Gage lineup sucks the wang. As I said, the other features are what make it desirable, especially at its low price point.
Overpriced? For a super featured phone, it's cheap. Getting a carrier unlocked triband GSM phone with the Nokia series 60 platform, full-on GPRS support, bluetooth, and expandable memory is going to cost a whole lot more than the current $259 CDN retail on the N-Gage. We're talking around the $1,000CDN for an unlocked P900.
No phone I can get for 220$ CDN does MP3, AAC, MIDI, WAV, etc, playback that also does movies. It also has an FM radio which I can record from. It's also got support for all the whizzy ringers (the aforementioned MP3, MIDI, etc support) and a big, colour screen.
The NES, NeoGeoPocket Color, and GameBoy emulators for it are the icing on the cake. I own a lot of NES and GB/GBC games, and a lot of them fit on a 128mb MMC card. I don't have to change those games all the time:p
Let's review. The N-Gage is not a gaming deck, but it is a great phone which does a whole bunch of whiz-bang over the 200$ 6310i my provider was offering me for another 2 year renewal (which has bluetooth, but is not colour, no MMC support, etc, etc, etc). And I can use my N-Gage in Japan and Europe on their GSM networks with local SIM cards.
His problem the tech support guy didn't let him know that Airport runs its own DHCP server, that the Apple documentation doesn't mention it, or that it was one of those things that Just Runs (TM) even if you already have a DHCP server on the network (the Linux machine).
It's totally his fault that a piece of equipment was designed to be "smarter" by autoproviding certain services without checking to see if they already exist!
Sound channels in http://xodnizel.net/neogeo/VideoGameWeenie.jpg
Lists Neo Geo as 15, TG16 as 10, and Sega Genesis as 8.
Yet http://xodnizel.net/neogeo/Specifications%20Sheet. jpg Lists Neo Geo as 15, Genesis as 10, SNES as 8, and TG16 as 6.
Quite the difference!
The other specs also change seemingly randomly. It's quite the bad-ol'-days FUD that video game companies slung around before they learned that all they had to do was release PR about how their new Emotio^WCELL chip would rock, and let their devoted fan-boys do the rest of the work for them.
The proof's in the games, and these advertisements are the kind of things that cater to people who want to make up for a small penis with game console specs, not people who love games. Sad, really:(
What exactly is broken in gcj's SWING implementation? Why is the layout different? Those windows should be pretty much pixel-perfect copies of each other, but they're not.
There seems to be some bugs regarding padding on controls and between controls. Frankly, that's not good enough.
But then, I don't buy PC games either. Not that there aren't console and handheld games that have bugs in them, but the magnitude is usually not remotely comparable.
Except maybe in Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness. That piece of shit stunk so hard. But, like most people who have basic litteracy capability, I was able to read the reviews and stay away:)
I'd say the biggest design flaw there..
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Is the fact that it's a sports car with an automatic transmission. Really, manual is more efficient, and more fun to drive!
"Why system administrators should have to pay a levy to the music industry in order to archive data to CD is a bit hazy."
Audio-blanks are a lot more expensive than Data-blanks because they have the legit copying levy + pirating levy on them. Data-blanks only have the pirating levy on them, since it's assumed that audio blanks are used for audio, and data blanks for PCs and pirating.
Not quite accurate, naturally, but not as uneven as you seem to think.
Considering that he was the Emporer in ROTJ, and considering that the "Emperor" in ESB was only a voice part, I don't think it'd be really worth the dubbing and resyncing of audio. I mean, really, how far must you go?
They're fine, it's fine, everything's fine. Enjoy the movies for what they are -- an epic space adventure. Don't nitpick everything into nothingness.
"Where are the modern fanless low power fast processors?" Why, they're in Transmeta-powered laptops.
An x86 laptop like Toshiba makes gets about 1.5 - 2 hours of battery life. 3 if you only use things like Word, which let Speedstep and the like kick in. A 17" TiBook gets about 3-4 hours, again dependant on load.
Practically every Transmeta-based x86 laptop gets 5 hours, up to 7 if you're using Word. That is nothing to sneeze at. Fujitsu has an optional battery pack for their laptops which nets you 7 to 9 hours of battery life on their Lifestyle series. True x86 laptops are a joke in comparison.
Naturally, trolls ignore these facts when trolling. If you repeat a lie often enough, some moderators will believe it true enough to mod you up...
This makes sense. No, wait, what's hardware acceleration? I just want to take a picture from this DVD I'm playing on my computer!
Do you have any idea what kind of people use computers? Everyone! Not just people who know what hardware acceleration is, or even know where to start to find that particular slider in a control panel. It's a fucking joke that you'd be modded up for saying that, too, since having a menu entry for it is proper UI design -- because then you have the possibility of explaining it over the phone to your grandma.
"That's right, Grandma, just right click the desktop, then choose advanced, then go to the hardware tab, then you want to move that slider over and... Grandma?"
Compared to: "Go to the top and choose Edit, then pick Screenshot."
Your comment is a joke to people who aren't computer nerds.
A legally binding contract is a legally binding contract when you sign it, even if you're a whiney bitch.
Plus, they do mention that all TOS for Xbox Live! are on Xbox.comright in plain sight! Plus, they even give you a nice login message whenever they change it.
Why exactly the original poster (Ungrounded Lightning [Rod]) gave the rather dubious example "(That's why it's so much harder to get tours of manufacturing plants these days. Kelloggs, for instance, used to give plant tours all the time. Was a regular tourist attraction. But they stopped them entirely after the Japanese cloned the rice crispies machine.)"
I mean, really. What grand process is there in making Rice Cripies (TM) is there to be learned by a picture of the machine involved? What process? I'm not saying that industrial espionage doesn't happen, but I am saying that this person (UG[R]) was essentially spouting random conjecture to support a weak anti-Japanese story that sounds very like an urban legend.
Yes, of course. The Rice Crispies machine. A simple set of photos of the outside allows them to clone it. Here's a roll of film I took of my car. Make a fuel injected 4-cyclinder DOHC engine now, please.
Just sitting on your hands and whinning about something when you can quickly find out & decide for yourself is silly. I'll humour you for a couple more clicks, though...
WhatACrappyPresent is their creation, and they've been in the news a whole bunch. You can even call Nicholas, one of the creators of the site, at home via the whois info. I'm sure he'll be happy to answer your questions.
Every week or so, we'll be choosing a few independent artists and a particular album of theirs which we will repeatedly purchase using the donated codes. If we buy enough copies of a single album, we might even be able to move it up the iTunes charts-- it's not too hard these days. All the artists will be from independent labels with reputations for treating artists fairly.
How do I know you guys aren't just going to buy music for yourself?
Well, we run the music activism project Downhill Battle, which is working to bring positive change to the music industry. A central theme of our site is that it's simply unethical to purchase major label music. So clearly, if we wanted free major label music, we'd just take it. Furthermore, since iTunes is essentially a voluntary contribution system (you're paying for something that you could get for free), there's just no incentive to scam people out of bottlecaps. We're just trying to make it easier for people to do something good with their caps instead of throwing them away."
Holy Shit, Batman! Score another one for the "can load the page before hitting reply button" team!
I don't think Dance Dance Revolution has only novelty appeal. I still enjoy going to play it at the arcade, even though I have Max/Max 2 and 2nd Mix here, and my friend has Max/Max2/Extreme import and a set of Red Octane hardmats.
Konami owns arcades for a reason. Now, if only more Bemani games would come to North America...
All you had was wild speculation ending with, "I've never used.NET,"
Let's pause a second and see how programs work on a modern operating system.
There are 2 kinds of programs, typically, in an environment such as your PC: statically linked programs, and dynamically linked programs. Statically linked programs have the library calls included in the binary, wherease dynamically linked programs rely on library implementations stored in a system directory (like \windows\system or/usr/lib). The run-time linker resolves all the dependancies and loads the related libraries for every dynamic application you start (run the ldd command on a binary you have to see the libraries).
But a.NET program (or a Java program, or a batch file, or a shell script, etc, etc) isn't a binary. It's PCode. It requires an interpreter to parse its Pcode. To make the.NET program stand-alone, ala a statically linked binary, you'd need to include the interpreter, a set of all used class libraries, and any other parts of the environment that are required. A typical 1-3mb application would have to be distributed as a 30mb+ file.
When you want to run a Python program, you install a Pynthon interpreter. When you want to run a Java program, you have to install the Java runtime environment. When you want to run.NET programs, you need a.NET environment. It's not some crazy lock-in scheme, miyako, it's merely a fact of how virtual machines and Pcode work.
Before you sit down to learn about.NET, I think you should take off your aluminium beany and learn about how computers work.
The original post incorrectly had the possesive your in place of the contraction you're.
I merely quoted this and made grammar mistakes in my reply to draw attention to the irony of a person saying that incorrect spelling works, while spelling incorrectly.
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The people at Nokia are stupid. The N-Gage is useless as a gaming phone. If they had any sense, they'd market it as a phone which happens to play some games. Except the official N-Gage lineup sucks the wang. As I said, the other features are what make it desirable, especially at its low price point.
Overpriced? For a super featured phone, it's cheap. Getting a carrier unlocked triband GSM phone with the Nokia series 60 platform, full-on GPRS support, bluetooth, and expandable memory is going to cost a whole lot more than the current $259 CDN retail on the N-Gage. We're talking around the $1,000CDN for an unlocked P900.
:p
No phone I can get for 220$ CDN does MP3, AAC, MIDI, WAV, etc, playback that also does movies. It also has an FM radio which I can record from. It's also got support for all the whizzy ringers (the aforementioned MP3, MIDI, etc support) and a big, colour screen.
The NES, NeoGeoPocket Color, and GameBoy emulators for it are the icing on the cake. I own a lot of NES and GB/GBC games, and a lot of them fit on a 128mb MMC card. I don't have to change those games all the time
Let's review. The N-Gage is not a gaming deck, but it is a great phone which does a whole bunch of whiz-bang over the 200$ 6310i my provider was offering me for another 2 year renewal (which has bluetooth, but is not colour, no MMC support, etc, etc, etc). And I can use my N-Gage in Japan and Europe on their GSM networks with local SIM cards.
That what is [question sentence form]?
:p
Japanese is a fantastic language, one well worth studying. And it's most definitely SOV
His problem the tech support guy didn't let him know that Airport runs its own DHCP server, that the Apple documentation doesn't mention it, or that it was one of those things that Just Runs (TM) even if you already have a DHCP server on the network (the Linux machine).
It's totally his fault that a piece of equipment was designed to be "smarter" by autoproviding certain services without checking to see if they already exist!
Sound channels in http://xodnizel.net/neogeo/VideoGameWeenie.jpg
. jpg
:(
Lists Neo Geo as 15, TG16 as 10, and Sega Genesis as 8.
Yet http://xodnizel.net/neogeo/Specifications%20Sheet
Lists Neo Geo as 15, Genesis as 10, SNES as 8, and TG16 as 6.
Quite the difference!
The other specs also change seemingly randomly. It's quite the bad-ol'-days FUD that video game companies slung around before they learned that all they had to do was release PR about how their new Emotio^WCELL chip would rock, and let their devoted fan-boys do the rest of the work for them.
The proof's in the games, and these advertisements are the kind of things that cater to people who want to make up for a small penis with game console specs, not people who love games. Sad, really
What exactly is broken in gcj's SWING implementation? Why is the layout different? Those windows should be pretty much pixel-perfect copies of each other, but they're not.
There seems to be some bugs regarding padding on controls and between controls. Frankly, that's not good enough.
But then, I don't buy PC games either. Not that there aren't console and handheld games that have bugs in them, but the magnitude is usually not remotely comparable.
:)
Except maybe in Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness. That piece of shit stunk so hard. But, like most people who have basic litteracy capability, I was able to read the reviews and stay away
Is the fact that it's a sports car with an automatic transmission. Really, manual is more efficient, and more fun to drive!
"Why system administrators should have to pay a levy to the music industry in order to archive data to CD is a bit hazy."
Audio-blanks are a lot more expensive than Data-blanks because they have the legit copying levy + pirating levy on them. Data-blanks only have the pirating levy on them, since it's assumed that audio blanks are used for audio, and data blanks for PCs and pirating.
Not quite accurate, naturally, but not as uneven as you seem to think.
Considering that he was the Emporer in ROTJ, and considering that the "Emperor" in ESB was only a voice part, I don't think it'd be really worth the dubbing and resyncing of audio. I mean, really, how far must you go?
They're fine, it's fine, everything's fine. Enjoy the movies for what they are -- an epic space adventure. Don't nitpick everything into nothingness.
"Where are the modern fanless low power fast processors?"
Why, they're in Transmeta-powered laptops.
An x86 laptop like Toshiba makes gets about 1.5 - 2 hours of battery life. 3 if you only use things like Word, which let Speedstep and the like kick in. A 17" TiBook gets about 3-4 hours, again dependant on load.
Practically every Transmeta-based x86 laptop gets 5 hours, up to 7 if you're using Word. That is nothing to sneeze at. Fujitsu has an optional battery pack for their laptops which nets you 7 to 9 hours of battery life on their Lifestyle series. True x86 laptops are a joke in comparison.
Naturally, trolls ignore these facts when trolling. If you repeat a lie often enough, some moderators will believe it true enough to mod you up...
This makes sense. No, wait, what's hardware acceleration? I just want to take a picture from this DVD I'm playing on my computer!
... Grandma?"
Do you have any idea what kind of people use computers? Everyone! Not just people who know what hardware acceleration is, or even know where to start to find that particular slider in a control panel. It's a fucking joke that you'd be modded up for saying that, too, since having a menu entry for it is proper UI design -- because then you have the possibility of explaining it over the phone to your grandma.
"That's right, Grandma, just right click the desktop, then choose advanced, then go to the hardware tab, then you want to move that slider over and
Compared to:
"Go to the top and choose Edit, then pick Screenshot."
Your comment is a joke to people who aren't computer nerds.
Source of the comment from here, probably cribbed from this comment.
I don't know why you'd do that, especially when you break all formatting and make it impossible to read. Paragraph breaks are your friend.
Because it solves another problem, that of no or conflicting eye-witness reports.
Solved crimes are prevented crimes, because criminals in jails aren't going to reoffend while in jail.
I really dug the part where it said, " /krishnan/review/kde3.2/ on this server.
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access
Apache/1.3.27 Server at fedoranews.org Port 80
"
It's so true!
A legally binding contract is a legally binding contract when you sign it, even if you're a whiney bitch.
Plus, they do mention that all TOS for Xbox Live! are on Xbox.com right in plain sight! Plus, they even give you a nice login message whenever they change it.
Why exactly the original poster (Ungrounded Lightning [Rod]) gave the rather dubious example "(That's why it's so much harder to get tours of manufacturing plants these days. Kelloggs, for instance, used to give plant tours all the time. Was a regular tourist attraction. But they stopped them entirely after the Japanese cloned the rice crispies machine.)"
I mean, really. What grand process is there in making Rice Cripies (TM) is there to be learned by a picture of the machine involved? What process? I'm not saying that industrial espionage doesn't happen, but I am saying that this person (UG[R]) was essentially spouting random conjecture to support a weak anti-Japanese story that sounds very like an urban legend.
Yes, of course. The Rice Crispies machine. A simple set of photos of the outside allows them to clone it. Here's a roll of film I took of my car. Make a fuel injected 4-cyclinder DOHC engine now, please.
Oh, you can't? Hmmm. Funny.
" all engineered by a mild-mannered economist named Gus Weiss -- helped us win the cold war."
Error: the EPATRIOT condition indicates that a person thinks that their country "won" an unwinnable situation.
Just sitting on your hands and whinning about something when you can quickly find out & decide for yourself is silly. I'll humour you for a couple more clicks, though...
WhatACrappyPresent is their creation, and they've been in the news a whole bunch. You can even call Nicholas, one of the creators of the site, at home via the whois info. I'm sure he'll be happy to answer your questions.
" Which Musicians are Getting the Money?
Every week or so, we'll be choosing a few independent artists and a particular album of theirs which we will repeatedly purchase using the donated codes. If we buy enough copies of a single album, we might even be able to move it up the iTunes charts-- it's not too hard these days. All the artists will be from independent labels with reputations for treating artists fairly.
How do I know you guys aren't just going to buy music for yourself?
Well, we run the music activism project Downhill Battle, which is working to bring positive change to the music industry. A central theme of our site is that it's simply unethical to purchase major label music. So clearly, if we wanted free major label music, we'd just take it. Furthermore, since iTunes is essentially a voluntary contribution system (you're paying for something that you could get for free), there's just no incentive to scam people out of bottlecaps. We're just trying to make it easier for people to do something good with their caps instead of throwing them away."
Holy Shit, Batman! Score another one for the "can load the page before hitting reply button" team!
I don't think Dance Dance Revolution has only novelty appeal. I still enjoy going to play it at the arcade, even though I have Max/Max 2 and 2nd Mix here, and my friend has Max/Max2/Extreme import and a set of Red Octane hardmats.
Konami owns arcades for a reason. Now, if only more Bemani games would come to North America...
All you had was wild speculation ending with, "I've never used .NET,"
/usr/lib). The run-time linker resolves all the dependancies and loads the related libraries for every dynamic application you start (run the ldd command on a binary you have to see the libraries).
.NET program (or a Java program, or a batch file, or a shell script, etc, etc) isn't a binary. It's PCode. It requires an interpreter to parse its Pcode. To make the .NET program stand-alone, ala a statically linked binary, you'd need to include the interpreter, a set of all used class libraries, and any other parts of the environment that are required. A typical 1-3mb application would have to be distributed as a 30mb+ file.
.NET programs, you need a .NET environment. It's not some crazy lock-in scheme, miyako, it's merely a fact of how virtual machines and Pcode work.
.NET, I think you should take off your aluminium beany and learn about how computers work.
Let's pause a second and see how programs work on a modern operating system.
There are 2 kinds of programs, typically, in an environment such as your PC: statically linked programs, and dynamically linked programs. Statically linked programs have the library calls included in the binary, wherease dynamically linked programs rely on library implementations stored in a system directory (like \windows\system or
But a
When you want to run a Python program, you install a Pynthon interpreter. When you want to run a Java program, you have to install the Java runtime environment. When you want to run
Before you sit down to learn about
The original post incorrectly had the possesive your in place of the contraction you're.
I merely quoted this and made grammar mistakes in my reply to draw attention to the irony of a person saying that incorrect spelling works, while spelling incorrectly.
Obviously sarcasm doesn't translate well :p