Who is perplexed of the success of Android despite the huge fragmentation issue? Case in point - a particular QVGA sold like hot cakes here in NZ...does it run Angry Birds? Nope. Doodle Jump? Nope. Web browsing? If you're really desperate I guess. I see a lot of developers/users like myself getting sick of a million different phones (I've seen developers with a desk full of androids, with a single Iphone 4 at the side!). MS may be late to the game, but they're running the right play.
The PS2 was released March 2000. The PS3 November 2006. If the XBOX team hasn't started yet, I'm surprised.
Kinect is seen as a generation extension for the Xbox and given Sony have finally turned the finances around on the PS3 they're not going to start pumping out PS4s.
Then again, they are releasing a PSP sucessor - so who knows!
Unless their tech is based on magic there is no way they can get mass market appeal. No one is going to put up with games that feel unresponsive/laggy. Gamefly is a vastly better option.
I served with Jack Kennedy: I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Steve, you're no Jack Kennedy.
Besides, we all know its a gigantic growth on his ego gland, he has been hiding it behind turtle necks for years.
Hence its hardly a perfect testbed for radiation effects regarding long-term space flights. You have to wonder if the factored in the change solar activity makes to the earth's magnetic field when putting this all together.
Theres been a Sony retail store in Wellington, NZ for quite a while now, I didn't think it was such a new thing. I guess they like testing out their ideas in smaller markets first?
Cooling my friend cooling. Mars' core cooled alot further than earth's due to its smaller size/distance from the sun. And a planet with no in ternal heat can not hold an atmosphere properly.
Meh, I live an hour and a half away from Wellington - I'll just rock on down there with a truck and ram-raid the place. Just have to avoid the cops and the odd cave troll.
Its a shame NASA hadn't gone that way and used the shuttle as a engineering research tool. What amazes me is think about in the 20 or so years all the developments in aircraft + all the different models of cars that and our piece of (vehicular) space technology has stayed pretty much the same. Doesn't really make much sense for something thats supposed to be embarking on a new frontier does it?
The buron was pretty much the russians trying to emulate the shuttle, the difference being - they worked out the economics alot sooner than NASA (given russia's tighter pockets). As much as I love the shuttle, when you're pushing things into orbit at insane veolocities then pull them back down at a squllion degrees, you're not gonna have something is indefinitely reusable and isn't gonna explode/break up.
I'd like to give major kudos to the people behind the rovers, it really is amazing we have a couple of robots buzzing around another planet actively doing science. We're unlocking the mysteries of a world thats not our own, thats pretty damn cool.
The main reason I'd want such a small board would be some sort of set-top box project involving MythTv or such like. Hence a pci slot is necessary for a tv tuner, well unless they start putting those on motherboards too (unlikely).
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Who is perplexed of the success of Android despite the huge fragmentation issue? Case in point - a particular QVGA sold like hot cakes here in NZ...does it run Angry Birds? Nope. Doodle Jump? Nope. Web browsing? If you're really desperate I guess. I see a lot of developers/users like myself getting sick of a million different phones (I've seen developers with a desk full of androids, with a single Iphone 4 at the side!). MS may be late to the game, but they're running the right play.
The PS2 was released March 2000. The PS3 November 2006. If the XBOX team hasn't started yet, I'm surprised.
Kinect is seen as a generation extension for the Xbox and given Sony have finally turned the finances around on the PS3 they're not going to start pumping out PS4s. Then again, they are releasing a PSP sucessor - so who knows!
Unless their tech is based on magic there is no way they can get mass market appeal. No one is going to put up with games that feel unresponsive/laggy. Gamefly is a vastly better option.
I did read it. Sorry, what I meant to say was Don't Bring JFK into this GIZMODO. And yes...I wanted a pop at Steve Jobs
I served with Jack Kennedy: I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Steve, you're no Jack Kennedy. Besides, we all know its a gigantic growth on his ego gland, he has been hiding it behind turtle necks for years.
Hence its hardly a perfect testbed for radiation effects regarding long-term space flights. You have to wonder if the factored in the change solar activity makes to the earth's magnetic field when putting this all together.
Theres been a Sony retail store in Wellington, NZ for quite a while now, I didn't think it was such a new thing. I guess they like testing out their ideas in smaller markets first?
Cooling my friend cooling. Mars' core cooled alot further than earth's due to its smaller size/distance from the sun. And a planet with no in ternal heat can not hold an atmosphere properly.
Meh, I live an hour and a half away from Wellington - I'll just rock on down there with a truck and ram-raid the place. Just have to avoid the cops and the odd cave troll.
Make sure you come to my country (New Zealand) one day and try it. Heaps of caches, and the land is built for trekking :)
Its a shame NASA hadn't gone that way and used the shuttle as a engineering research tool. What amazes me is think about in the 20 or so years all the developments in aircraft + all the different models of cars that and our piece of (vehicular) space technology has stayed pretty much the same. Doesn't really make much sense for something thats supposed to be embarking on a new frontier does it?
I'm pretty sure the shuttles land under autopilot, I remember reading somewhere a shuttle has been sticked in only once.
The buron was pretty much the russians trying to emulate the shuttle, the difference being - they worked out the economics alot sooner than NASA (given russia's tighter pockets). As much as I love the shuttle, when you're pushing things into orbit at insane veolocities then pull them back down at a squllion degrees, you're not gonna have something is indefinitely reusable and isn't gonna explode/break up.
I'd like to give major kudos to the people behind the rovers, it really is amazing we have a couple of robots buzzing around another planet actively doing science. We're unlocking the mysteries of a world thats not our own, thats pretty damn cool.
The main reason I'd want such a small board would be some sort of set-top box project involving MythTv or such like. Hence a pci slot is necessary for a tv tuner, well unless they start putting those on motherboards too (unlikely).