The development kits that Microsoft sent out to developers runs on a modded G5 running a modified NT kernel. I would bet that the dev environment is going to be faster than the actual console, and no current G5 even comes close to what is described....
If Sony does license this they will want inane amounts of money for use. Betamax or Minidisc ring any bells for you?
From dictionary.com: inane: Without contents; empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; characterless; useless
So what is an inane amount of money? A truck full of chocolate coins?
really needs a sanity check and anything they say really should be taken with a grain of salt. They praised Reagan for helping to keep the budget deficit in check.....Now THATS what I call revisionist history!
I will mail a shiny new nickel to whoever can tell me what show and episode the following is from(which is related to a name in the article, as both Lembecks are prominent scientists who dole out rewards, just in different countries):
"Lembeck is staying! Lembeck is staying!"
Yeah, it's a karma burn, but well worth getting the message out.
less people to patch? I can bet it is going to drive IT managers crazy because now they will have to do hardcore tests of all their software to make sure it still works after the patch.
This might just make things less secure overall because nobody is going to want to bork their software. Will it be possible to roll back the patch quickly if someone finds they cannot run program X anymore?
But then again, who knows, it might "accidentally" break Office 97 so people think they need to upgrade to Office 2003.
There is no mention of whether or not they plan to cancel Leisure Suit Larry 8. I hope that they don't considering how far along the project is already. It even has a ps2 and XBox port, which may be important for Linux/Mac people like me since they don't seem to be planning on releasing any other ports of the games.
If you recall, Hungary only recently joined the EU, so while it doesn't count anymore, previously it did. And you may of heard of something called the CAN-SPAM act. Look it up.
If I am interpreting this correctly, it only upholds state laws that say you have to tell a cop your name etc. So you want to avoid having this law on the books? Write to your represntitive/senator. If they don't listen, vote them out, or hell run yourself.
It would be interesting to have a "geek" party, one that stands for privacy, fair use, and patent reform. Hey, narrowly-focused parties have worked before, like the Whigs, who became a full-fledged party, or the Prohibitionists(though you may not agree with what they stood for, they were pretty crucial in getting the amendment banning alcohol passed).
Actually, this seems to be more of a "western" thing(well, Japan too). For instance, in China, while there are more males studying things like math, engineering etc, IIRC 40% or so of those studying in those fields are women. Something to think about.
is a "pyramid scheme" of sorts. People who may or may not be the most adept at technology or business get the idea to spam. They pay the more "gifted" people at the top money for things like addresses and hosting etc. These are the people who are really cleaning up on spam and should probably be the ones that the authorities go after, cept that they usually hide in places
(Russia, Hungary, China etc)where it's hard to enforce international laws, esp. spam laws. Even if we go after the little guy, there will probably be more to take his place, the lure of such "easy money" is too great for some people.
On a side note, it is kind of interesting the comment about bounced mails. My university disabled my account(because they thought I was no longer a student, even though I was) for about 2 months. As soon as I got it re-activated, the spam started flowing in like water again. Amazing.
Oh yeah, forgot about that one! Too bad I already bought an airport(a non-apple one though, in Japan iodata sells routers/access cards with the aiport name, Apple's wireless stuff is called Air-Mac) or I would have bought this, not too much more than a standard 802.11g router, plus you get features. As for remote control, you can throw together some nice web based stuff if you have a laptop, but it's still not very nice. You can also control it w/ a bluetooth phone, but you have to be within bluetooth range(not always true with a multi-story house).
I think it would be nice to have wi-fi on your iPod for other reasons too. For instance, I have a little table by the door that has an outlet nearby(and I suspect this is true for others as well). It would be nice to be able to just throw the iPod on the dock(connected to the charger) when I come home, and just grab it when I leave. However in order to transfer music right now you gotta grab the iPod and the firewire cable(unless you bought another one) and add it to the rats nest, then pick your music and put the iPod back. It would just be simpler if I could add music to it from iTunes from my desk, which is not near my door.
If you make your console backwards compatible, it helps your consumers out by a) reducing the amount of space they have to dedicate in their entertainment center for consoles and b) reduces the rats nest of cables that is bound to be connected to said TV. Plus, the original X-Box isn't very "stackable"
Blech! I'll just keep my little gamecube.
Well, a new XCode is rumored to be part of Tiger. At think secret they have a rumor that XCode 1.5 has been seeded. You can download version 1.2, I haven't yet(because I am happy with it's C support, and I use Eclipse for Java) from Apple for free, I'm not really sure of what the extra features are.
I haven't messed around with the distributed build and fix and continue features of XCode(which seem to be the most interesting), but after I get my G5(currently only have an iBook:( ) I think I will try playing with those.
But yeah, for the time being you are probably better off running Eclipse versus XCode for Java. While XCode "works" under Java(and does automatically set the look and feel to be Aqua), there aren't that many features.
what else Mr. Jobs is planning to reveal at the WWDC. We already got a few updates(G5 speed bump, upgrade to the remote control desktop). Besides Tiger, what else is there? New displays, while interesting, aren't really that groundbreaking(though I could be wrong), a G5 iMac? Probably not all that interesting for developers.
There really isn't a whole lot of chance that there will be a G5 powerbook, so could Steve be holding back on something really groundbreaking?
Lets use this post for pointless speculation!
just make the mega man collection a ps1 game instead of a ps2 game(like Final Fantasy origins), I find it hard to believe that they could not pack all the data onto a cd. Plus, releasing it for the ps1 would have reached a larger audience, maybe not your core audience, but when you have backwards compatability and no need to put a game on a DVD, why bother?
You left a very important name off of your list, Yang Liwei, the first Chinese astronaut(or if you must, taikonaut).
I don't know if it is a very dramatic sounding name though:P
Um, from wikipedia:
China has 1.3 billion people(and is the 4th largest in terms of land mass) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_o f_China
India, (which does have a space program btw, they just haven't had any manned missions yet) India has about 1.05 billion...
You can get a cd from microsoft(more info here that would have a lot of the updates you are looking for. You could also download it from your linux machine, and then do the whole installation offline.
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The development kits that Microsoft sent out to developers runs on a modded G5 running a modified NT kernel. I would bet that the dev environment is going to be faster than the actual console, and no current G5 even comes close to what is described....
I beta tested the stuff, and now my butt won't stop rebooting...
If Sony does license this they will want inane amounts of money for use. Betamax or Minidisc ring any bells for you?
From dictionary.com: inane: Without contents; empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; characterless; useless
So what is an inane amount of money? A truck full of chocolate coins?
really needs a sanity check and anything they say really should be taken with a grain of salt. They praised Reagan for helping to keep the budget deficit in check.....Now THATS what I call revisionist history!
I will mail a shiny new nickel to whoever can tell me what show and episode the following is from(which is related to a name in the article, as both Lembecks are prominent scientists who dole out rewards, just in different countries):
"Lembeck is staying! Lembeck is staying!"
Yeah, it's a karma burn, but well worth getting the message out.
pants optional
less people to patch? I can bet it is going to drive IT managers crazy because now they will have to do hardcore tests of all their software to make sure it still works after the patch.
This might just make things less secure overall because nobody is going to want to bork their software. Will it be possible to roll back the patch quickly if someone finds they cannot run program X anymore?
But then again, who knows, it might "accidentally" break Office 97 so people think they need to upgrade to Office 2003.
There is no mention of whether or not they plan to cancel Leisure Suit Larry 8. I hope that they don't considering how far along the project is already. It even has a ps2 and XBox port, which may be important for Linux/Mac people like me since they don't seem to be planning on releasing any other ports of the games.
If you recall, Hungary only recently joined the EU, so while it doesn't count anymore, previously it did. And you may of heard of something called the CAN-SPAM act. Look it up.
If I am interpreting this correctly, it only upholds state laws that say you have to tell a cop your name etc. So you want to avoid having this law on the books? Write to your represntitive/senator. If they don't listen, vote them out, or hell run yourself.
It would be interesting to have a "geek" party, one that stands for privacy, fair use, and patent reform. Hey, narrowly-focused parties have worked before, like the Whigs, who became a full-fledged party, or the Prohibitionists(though you may not agree with what they stood for, they were pretty crucial in getting the amendment banning alcohol passed).
Actually, this seems to be more of a "western" thing(well, Japan too). For instance, in China, while there are more males studying things like math, engineering etc, IIRC 40% or so of those studying in those fields are women. Something to think about.
is a "pyramid scheme" of sorts. People who may or may not be the most adept at technology or business get the idea to spam. They pay the more "gifted" people at the top money for things like addresses and hosting etc. These are the people who are really cleaning up on spam and should probably be the ones that the authorities go after, cept that they usually hide in places (Russia, Hungary, China etc)where it's hard to enforce international laws, esp. spam laws. Even if we go after the little guy, there will probably be more to take his place, the lure of such "easy money" is too great for some people.
On a side note, it is kind of interesting the comment about bounced mails. My university disabled my account(because they thought I was no longer a student, even though I was) for about 2 months. As soon as I got it re-activated, the spam started flowing in like water again. Amazing.
This movie better kick ass. ^_^;; :P
Maybe I have my technologies confused, but it doesn't really seem like there are too many "movies" on radio
Rejoice!
True, but the last point was just flamebait. Reduced space/ratsnests are a good thing imo
Oh yeah, forgot about that one! Too bad I already bought an airport(a non-apple one though, in Japan iodata sells routers/access cards with the aiport name, Apple's wireless stuff is called Air-Mac) or I would have bought this, not too much more than a standard 802.11g router, plus you get features. As for remote control, you can throw together some nice web based stuff if you have a laptop, but it's still not very nice. You can also control it w/ a bluetooth phone, but you have to be within bluetooth range(not always true with a multi-story house).
I think it would be nice to have wi-fi on your iPod for other reasons too. For instance, I have a little table by the door that has an outlet nearby(and I suspect this is true for others as well). It would be nice to be able to just throw the iPod on the dock(connected to the charger) when I come home, and just grab it when I leave. However in order to transfer music right now you gotta grab the iPod and the firewire cable(unless you bought another one) and add it to the rats nest, then pick your music and put the iPod back. It would just be simpler if I could add music to it from iTunes from my desk, which is not near my door.
If you make your console backwards compatible, it helps your consumers out by a) reducing the amount of space they have to dedicate in their entertainment center for consoles and b) reduces the rats nest of cables that is bound to be connected to said TV. Plus, the original X-Box isn't very "stackable"
Blech! I'll just keep my little gamecube.
They won't run XBox 1 games of the new XBox, but the dev kits for the new XBox run off a modded windows NT kernel that runs off a G5
Well, a new XCode is rumored to be part of Tiger. At think secret they have a rumor that XCode 1.5 has been seeded. You can download version 1.2, I haven't yet(because I am happy with it's C support, and I use Eclipse for Java) from Apple for free, I'm not really sure of what the extra features are. :( ) I think I will try playing with those.
I haven't messed around with the distributed build and fix and continue features of XCode(which seem to be the most interesting), but after I get my G5(currently only have an iBook
But yeah, for the time being you are probably better off running Eclipse versus XCode for Java. While XCode "works" under Java(and does automatically set the look and feel to be Aqua), there aren't that many features.
what else Mr. Jobs is planning to reveal at the WWDC. We already got a few updates(G5 speed bump, upgrade to the remote control desktop). Besides Tiger, what else is there? New displays, while interesting, aren't really that groundbreaking(though I could be wrong), a G5 iMac? Probably not all that interesting for developers.
There really isn't a whole lot of chance that there will be a G5 powerbook, so could Steve be holding back on something really groundbreaking?
Lets use this post for pointless speculation!
just make the mega man collection a ps1 game instead of a ps2 game(like Final Fantasy origins), I find it hard to believe that they could not pack all the data onto a cd. Plus, releasing it for the ps1 would have reached a larger audience, maybe not your core audience, but when you have backwards compatability and no need to put a game on a DVD, why bother?
You left a very important name off of your list, Yang Liwei, the first Chinese astronaut(or if you must, taikonaut). :P
I don't know if it is a very dramatic sounding name though
that Cats doesn't decide to show up...
Um, from wikipedia:o f_China
China has 1.3 billion people(and is the 4th largest in terms of land mass) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_
India, (which does have a space program btw, they just haven't had any manned missions yet) India has about 1.05 billion...
You can get a cd from microsoft(more info here that would have a lot of the updates you are looking for. You could also download it from your linux machine, and then do the whole installation offline.