What is your point?
There are many things in life that aren't available if you don't have the funds.
This isn't the peoples pad, it is an Apple product. It is designed for elitist snobs like myself.
I really have no intention of sharing my iPad with anyone. It would be like sharing a physical address book, calendar or notebook with someone else.
This is an exceptionally personal device, much like the iPhone and the iPod. Being that way dramatically reduces the number of steps between thinking something and doing something. If you want a device you can share, then you want something else. It is not a multipurpose laptop, and that is why I like it.
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Actually it doesn't. I was in Antigua a couple of months back and the GPS thought it was in New Hampshire until I managed to find a cell signal.
It basically gives up after a couple of minutes. I tried this for several days, before giving up and connecting to a network, where it found itself in a minute or so.
This isn't such a big deal, but I've been unimpressed by the GPS in the iPhone.
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I've bought a couple of VNC / RDP clients and they are good 'in a pinch' solutions. The problem is the mouse. Touch and point are too very different metaphors. They work, you can do everything, it just isn't as smooth as using it from a mouse based device.
Although the biggest criminal here is the web. Yes the standards are sloppy, but writing a decent web gui is a royal pain in the arse, it is not just IE, but it is certainly the biggest culprit.
I think it is simpler than this. Apple just don't want to do this. The RAM and HDD market is so volatile that having excess stock is simply inefficient unless it is your primary business.
Apple have a different attitude to manufacturing. They make millions of identical machines, which are customised at the end of the production line. Dell make millions of custom machines, that are modified at every part of the production. It is a different philosophy and reflect the different markets that they operate in, and it works. Dell own the cheap ass custom builds, Apple owns 75% of the >$1000 market.
As geeks we should just tell our friends to take the hint and buy third party RAM and HDD (just like we do).
I think the author was confused. What they actually meant was functional programming. In fact I know the author was confused. How did they not make the connection that the 4 CD PS1 games had a lot of FMV?
An excellent example of a little knowledge doing a lot of harm. It reads well enough that my non coding tech friends could read it, and then tell me I'm a fuck-gnut for not using a procedural language...
Still, I'm going to assume that the eds know what they're doing and are actually just trying to get an argument blaring on this no news sunday.
The interesting thing about web programming is that it's rarely the application itself that is slowing the system down. Disk I/O, network and database speed are far more likely to be the bottleneck than the application. That's why web programmers get away with the likes of Hibernate, Ruby on Rails, J2EE etc and games programmers don't, and if thats not the case, the code is so naturally multi-threaded that app server problems can normally be solved by buying another box far quicker than they can by implementing the server in C (although with data center power costs the way they are, that might not always be the case:p ).
If the app is slowing you down the chances are that you're doing some thing algorithmically bad, or forcing the app server to do something that should have been done on the database - these problems are unlikely to go away with a platform change.
1: Its on a disc, so it takes up a lot of phyisical space and isn't instantly accessable like my music. 2: Its low quality. I have a nice 21" iMac and a new MacBook and would like to watch movies without the jaggies. (I know about VLC)
I don't want bluray or hddvd. I just want H.264, DivX or even MPEG2 in 720p or 1080p delivered via an online store, for a reasonable amount of money (bandwidth, servers and software do not cost as much as drivers, plastic, trucks, fuel and retail outlets - it just doesn't), that I can watch on any OS that I choose to use that day.
The DVD drive, for me at least, is going the way of the floppy. If I can't send it over the network, I use a $15 2GB flash stick. I need a DVD drive to occasionaly watch a DVD or incase it all goes fubar and I need to reimage (and that's only because I'm too lazy to have a bootable image lying around on firewire). My next laptop will hopefully be devoid of this most unreliable, power hungry, space eating item of history and replaced either with a bigger battery, ram or another processor - and whilst we're at it can I have my HDD replaced with flash as well? And I want a pony.
I almost wish this argument was redundant, but I fear its going to be at least anoth 5 years before the idiots from the Copyright 1.0 world realise that their business model needs an overhaul in the Web 2.0 world - and my dream of living without coasters is truely realised.
I can definately see where you're coming from. TP was my first Zelda game, I loved it so much that I went out and bought the OOT and WW. They are the same game with subtly different twists. I had a mixed feelings about this. On one hand having the same music and recognisable locations was refreshing, but it was also the same puzzles which I found frustrating. I guess its no different to any other series that has a 40 hour ark built in the same universe and the same core charactors. But OOT and TP were so close that I could play it without feeling like I was playing the same game, but with crudier graphics.
It is an excellent game, but thats because OOT was an excellent game. Better graphics, better interface, slightly less frustrating puzzles - ie a genuine upgrade, not a new game. Depends if you like reliving classics. I know I'd buy a new Monkey Island or X-Wing game in a heart-beat.
What the hell is wrong with some people? Who, outside of crazy, Nazi scientists and ralieans thinks its a good idea to voluntarily put a chip in a persons body for no good reason. The few people who this might help, the few who are randomly incapacitated by illness have several, better alternatives: bracelets, id cards and if you want to get medievil tattooing themselves. A better alternative would be to place the chip in body jewelery. At least then, you can remove it.
Why would you do this to yourself, and perhaps more importantly why would you invest millions in R&D? The only way this system would work on a national level was if it was mandated by government. If that happens its time to start the revolution and get in line at the gun shop not the chip shop.
Why not? It's internet enabled, the device is uniquely identified by both its MAC and its processor ID and with flash memory at £12 for 2GB even at consumer prices it seems that its probably more viable for a DS-like device than a console where the games are gigabytes not megabytes. Of course it might be the end of game sharing, but hopefully the games will drop from £30 to £20 (yeah right).
Dreamworks don't understand animated movies. They understand celebrity and set-pieces, but they don't understand movies.
Dreamworks CGI movies are a series of set-pieces held loosly together by a lame plot. This works great for kids because they just skip to the bit they like, and don't really get the plot anyway, but if you want to convince a parent to pay to go and see it at a cinema you need more. At best they draw an adult audience because of celebrity pulling power - and comes away feeling cheated.
Dreamworks was always going to be a poor choice for Aardman. Perhaps this will make Disney/Pixar wake up and adopt them. They seem to have similar goals. I'd also expect them to split their concerns so that they have Aardmen for clay and Pixar for CGI.
there was a way to transmit digital data between places that didn't cost any real money.
It could be a connection of all the big networks, an Internet if you will.
Over this internet we could send our electronic wares like music, video, photos and games for for a reasonable amount of money. Of course, to make this possible home networks would need to be connected this internet too, and at speeds of 1-2 Mbps at least!
Oh shit, its 2007 and this has actually happend. The games industry is lazy and greedy, just like the RIAA, and the MPAA. There is nothing sopping all game distributers doing the same as Valve and selling their wares online. With any luck, the additional competition will mean that the Valves draconian DRM will be relaxed along with other electronic retailers.
Companies (sorry I'm british) like Game, HMV, Virgin should consider themselve lucky that that the BPA et al are as slow as they are, other wise they would have been in trouble 3 years ago when broadband really took off.
It makes no sense to buy digital media in shops on physical drives when there is a reliable internet. Manufacturing, distribution, handling, sudden drops in recommended retail price and bad / poorly marketed games are going to drive up the cost to consumer, and reduce the margins for the retailers and producers.
Its not even as if games can't be a closed system. Wii Virtual Console, Valve Steam and Live Arcade both demonstrate that a download model can work - how long until premium titles are distributed this way?
The reason I didn't buy a 360 at launch was because I didn't want one. It was too expensive, I thought it was going to fail, and there weren't any decent games for it.
The reason I didn't buy a 360 6 months ago was because it was too expensive, and I wanted a Wii (which I love).
Now I want a 360, but its too expensive. By the time I've added WiFi, an extra controller and games that I actually want it always looks to be £350 to £400 which is an astronomical amount of money, especially as I don't own or want a HDTV.
A decent package for under £200 is where I want to see the 360. The hardware has been out for over a year and the volumes are good, so how much longer will I have to wait?
As a side point... why is the cost of HD so high? Compare a Apple cinema screen to a Sony Bravia and you can double the price on the Bravia despite it having a lower pixel count. Is a remote control and a freeview tuner really that expensive to integrate? As daft as it sounds the cost of a HDTV is a factor when considering buying a 360.
Thank god for that, I thought it was going to be difficult!;)
Whilst your at it... do you have a short folder action that will convert avi to mov and then import to iTunes Movies and delete the original? It doesn't have to re-encode, just repackage.
I'll be suprised if the new UK ads make an impact. We don't react very well to negative advertising over here and we tend to be more diserning consumers. Most people who are using Windows are using XP. XP, for all of its faults is stable, verstaile and familiar; on modern hardware with oodles of ram its fast and it does work with all of those odd USB gadgets that people buy (my missle launcher doesn't work under OS X).
Its also cheap. You can buy a decent computer from Dell with LCD monitor etc. for under £300.
I'm a devout Mac user and even I don't relate to adverts. Yes, I have made photo albums, they did look fantastic and I could do it with the software that was provided with the machine but it also cost me £30. Yes, I can watch DVDs out of the box, but if I want to watch anything in fullscreen in Quicktime I need to buy a £20 pro update, or import them into iTunes (not iMovie) and watch them in front row.
As for the 'no drivers' being a good thing, I'm not sure what they are smoking. There are laser printers that require you to compile open source drivers to get to work, mobile phones that refuse to connect via bluetooth and perhaps my biggest irritation is cameras whose RAW file format isn't supported. Now these arn't necessarily Apples problem: Fujitsu encrypt their RAW, Minolta only support Macs on their more expensive printers and Motorola are the worst phone manufacturer, but they ALL work on Windows with the drivers in the box.
Telling Brits that they are stupid for buying a PC isn't going to work. Buying a PC is a choice. There is more software (including viruses), they are cheaper and they are as stable. The reason I bought a Mac? UNIX under the hood, a great interface (apart from finder), great hardware and in my experience less goes wrong.
Perhaps you missed my point. I'm an end user. If I was an admin I wouldn't have chosen Citrix in the first place. Your solutions are valid, but Citrix has robbed me of that kind of control and I am forced to rely on the 'expertise' of the MSCEs. I just wish that they had as much knowledge as you.
Citrix is as much about social control as anything else. I think thats why it smells so bad.
I use Citrix as an end user for internet access. I can say that it is the worst user experience I've ever had. Slow page loading, having to log on twice (once to the OS, then again for Citrix) and perhaps worse of all it is incredibly unstable. I've ended up using a 3G phone and a personal laptop to access the internet because its faster.
Of course the Kitten doesn't have a microwave() method.
class Kitten : Meatbag
def sleep(box) end end
class Microwave : Box
attr_accessor:time,:power
def microwave(meatbag) end end
Kittens are definately not procedural. Following rules is not part of the cats remit - at least not anything elses rules. I guess it could be argued that cats are weakly functional as they can kill rodents, but it has strong side effects including attacking your feet whilst your sleeping a leaving parts of dead rabbits/song birds on your pillow in your shoes which goes against the grain for purely functional langauges.
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What is your point? There are many things in life that aren't available if you don't have the funds. This isn't the peoples pad, it is an Apple product. It is designed for elitist snobs like myself.
I really have no intention of sharing my iPad with anyone. It would be like sharing a physical address book, calendar or notebook with someone else. This is an exceptionally personal device, much like the iPhone and the iPod. Being that way dramatically reduces the number of steps between thinking something and doing something. If you want a device you can share, then you want something else. It is not a multipurpose laptop, and that is why I like it.
Actually it doesn't. I was in Antigua a couple of months back and the GPS thought it was in New Hampshire until I managed to find a cell signal. It basically gives up after a couple of minutes. I tried this for several days, before giving up and connecting to a network, where it found itself in a minute or so. This isn't such a big deal, but I've been unimpressed by the GPS in the iPhone.
I've bought a couple of VNC / RDP clients and they are good 'in a pinch' solutions. The problem is the mouse. Touch and point are too very different metaphors. They work, you can do everything, it just isn't as smooth as using it from a mouse based device.
Although the biggest criminal here is the web. Yes the standards are sloppy, but writing a decent web gui is a royal pain in the arse, it is not just IE, but it is certainly the biggest culprit.
If could download coffee, I would.
In the UK, the trick was to take a rubbish job, in a rubbish area with a big company. In my case Capgemini in Bumblefuck, Shropshire.
I think it is simpler than this. Apple just don't want to do this. The RAM and HDD market is so volatile that having excess stock is simply inefficient unless it is your primary business. Apple have a different attitude to manufacturing. They make millions of identical machines, which are customised at the end of the production line. Dell make millions of custom machines, that are modified at every part of the production. It is a different philosophy and reflect the different markets that they operate in, and it works. Dell own the cheap ass custom builds, Apple owns 75% of the >$1000 market. As geeks we should just tell our friends to take the hint and buy third party RAM and HDD (just like we do).
I think the author was confused. What they actually meant was functional programming. In fact I know the author was confused. How did they not make the connection that the 4 CD PS1 games had a lot of FMV?
An excellent example of a little knowledge doing a lot of harm. It reads well enough that my non coding tech friends could read it, and then tell me I'm a fuck-gnut for not using a procedural language...
Still, I'm going to assume that the eds know what they're doing and are actually just trying to get an argument blaring on this no news sunday.
The interesting thing about web programming is that it's rarely the application itself that is slowing the system down. Disk I/O, network and database speed are far more likely to be the bottleneck than the application. That's why web programmers get away with the likes of Hibernate, Ruby on Rails, J2EE etc and games programmers don't, and if thats not the case, the code is so naturally multi-threaded that app server problems can normally be solved by buying another box far quicker than they can by implementing the server in C (although with data center power costs the way they are, that might not always be the case :p ).
If the app is slowing you down the chances are that you're doing some thing algorithmically bad, or forcing the app server to do something that should have been done on the database - these problems are unlikely to go away with a platform change.
DVD has two faults in my eyes:
1: Its on a disc, so it takes up a lot of phyisical space and isn't instantly accessable like my music.
2: Its low quality. I have a nice 21" iMac and a new MacBook and would like to watch movies without the jaggies. (I know about VLC)
I don't want bluray or hddvd. I just want H.264, DivX or even MPEG2 in 720p or 1080p delivered via an online store, for a reasonable amount of money (bandwidth, servers and software do not cost as much as drivers, plastic, trucks, fuel and retail outlets - it just doesn't), that I can watch on any OS that I choose to use that day.
The DVD drive, for me at least, is going the way of the floppy. If I can't send it over the network, I use a $15 2GB flash stick. I need a DVD drive to occasionaly watch a DVD or incase it all goes fubar and I need to reimage (and that's only because I'm too lazy to have a bootable image lying around on firewire). My next laptop will hopefully be devoid of this most unreliable, power hungry, space eating item of history and replaced either with a bigger battery, ram or another processor - and whilst we're at it can I have my HDD replaced with flash as well? And I want a pony.
I almost wish this argument was redundant, but I fear its going to be at least anoth 5 years before the idiots from the Copyright 1.0 world realise that their business model needs an overhaul in the Web 2.0 world - and my dream of living without coasters is truely realised.
I can definately see where you're coming from. TP was my first Zelda game, I loved it so much that I went out and bought the OOT and WW. They are the same game with subtly different twists. I had a mixed feelings about this. On one hand having the same music and recognisable locations was refreshing, but it was also the same puzzles which I found frustrating. I guess its no different to any other series that has a 40 hour ark built in the same universe and the same core charactors. But OOT and TP were so close that I could play it without feeling like I was playing the same game, but with crudier graphics.
It is an excellent game, but thats because OOT was an excellent game. Better graphics, better interface, slightly less frustrating puzzles - ie a genuine upgrade, not a new game. Depends if you like reliving classics. I know I'd buy a new Monkey Island or X-Wing game in a heart-beat.
Does that mean that Vista will need to wait for the compressed air version to run Aero?
What the hell is wrong with some people? Who, outside of crazy, Nazi scientists and ralieans thinks its a good idea to voluntarily put a chip in a persons body for no good reason. The few people who this might help, the few who are randomly incapacitated by illness have several, better alternatives: bracelets, id cards and if you want to get medievil tattooing themselves. A better alternative would be to place the chip in body jewelery. At least then, you can remove it.
Why would you do this to yourself, and perhaps more importantly why would you invest millions in R&D? The only way this system would work on a national level was if it was mandated by government. If that happens its time to start the revolution and get in line at the gun shop not the chip shop.
He said or not xor.
Why not? It's internet enabled, the device is uniquely identified by both its MAC and its processor ID and with flash memory at £12 for 2GB even at consumer prices it seems that its probably more viable for a DS-like device than a console where the games are gigabytes not megabytes. Of course it might be the end of game sharing, but hopefully the games will drop from £30 to £20 (yeah right).
Dreamworks don't understand animated movies. They understand celebrity and set-pieces, but they don't understand movies.
Dreamworks CGI movies are a series of set-pieces held loosly together by a lame plot. This works great for kids because they just skip to the bit they like, and don't really get the plot anyway, but if you want to convince a parent to pay to go and see it at a cinema you need more. At best they draw an adult audience because of celebrity pulling power - and comes away feeling cheated.
Dreamworks was always going to be a poor choice for Aardman. Perhaps this will make Disney/Pixar wake up and adopt them. They seem to have similar goals. I'd also expect them to split their concerns so that they have Aardmen for clay and Pixar for CGI.
there was a way to transmit digital data between places that didn't cost any real money.
It could be a connection of all the big networks, an Internet if you will.
Over this internet we could send our electronic wares like music, video, photos and games for for a reasonable amount of money. Of course, to make this possible home networks would need to be connected this internet too, and at speeds of 1-2 Mbps at least!
Oh shit, its 2007 and this has actually happend. The games industry is lazy and greedy, just like the RIAA, and the MPAA. There is nothing sopping all game distributers doing the same as Valve and selling their wares online. With any luck, the additional competition will mean that the Valves draconian DRM will be relaxed along with other electronic retailers.
Companies (sorry I'm british) like Game, HMV, Virgin should consider themselve lucky that that the BPA et al are as slow as they are, other wise they would have been in trouble 3 years ago when broadband really took off.
It makes no sense to buy digital media in shops on physical drives when there is a reliable internet. Manufacturing, distribution, handling, sudden drops in recommended retail price and bad / poorly marketed games are going to drive up the cost to consumer, and reduce the margins for the retailers and producers.
Its not even as if games can't be a closed system. Wii Virtual Console, Valve Steam and Live Arcade both demonstrate that a download model can work - how long until premium titles are distributed this way?
The reason I didn't buy a 360 at launch was because I didn't want one. It was too expensive, I thought it was going to fail, and there weren't any decent games for it.
The reason I didn't buy a 360 6 months ago was because it was too expensive, and I wanted a Wii (which I love).
Now I want a 360, but its too expensive. By the time I've added WiFi, an extra controller and games that I actually want it always looks to be £350 to £400 which is an astronomical amount of money, especially as I don't own or want a HDTV.
A decent package for under £200 is where I want to see the 360. The hardware has been out for over a year and the volumes are good, so how much longer will I have to wait?
As a side point... why is the cost of HD so high? Compare a Apple cinema screen to a Sony Bravia and you can double the price on the Bravia despite it having a lower pixel count. Is a remote control and a freeview tuner really that expensive to integrate? As daft as it sounds the cost of a HDTV is a factor when considering buying a 360.
Many thanks!
That will save me a lot of time!
Thank god for that, I thought it was going to be difficult! ;)
Whilst your at it... do you have a short folder action that will convert avi to mov and then import to iTunes Movies and delete the original? It doesn't have to re-encode, just repackage.
Thanks in advance
I worry about this too.
I'll be suprised if the new UK ads make an impact. We don't react very well to negative advertising over here and we tend to be more diserning consumers. Most people who are using Windows are using XP. XP, for all of its faults is stable, verstaile and familiar; on modern hardware with oodles of ram its fast and it does work with all of those odd USB gadgets that people buy (my missle launcher doesn't work under OS X).
Its also cheap. You can buy a decent computer from Dell with LCD monitor etc. for under £300.
I'm a devout Mac user and even I don't relate to adverts. Yes, I have made photo albums, they did look fantastic and I could do it with the software that was provided with the machine but it also cost me £30. Yes, I can watch DVDs out of the box, but if I want to watch anything in fullscreen in Quicktime I need to buy a £20 pro update, or import them into iTunes (not iMovie) and watch them in front row.
As for the 'no drivers' being a good thing, I'm not sure what they are smoking. There are laser printers that require you to compile open source drivers to get to work, mobile phones that refuse to connect via bluetooth and perhaps my biggest irritation is cameras whose RAW file format isn't supported. Now these arn't necessarily Apples problem: Fujitsu encrypt their RAW, Minolta only support Macs on their more expensive printers and Motorola are the worst phone manufacturer, but they ALL work on Windows with the drivers in the box.
Telling Brits that they are stupid for buying a PC isn't going to work. Buying a PC is a choice. There is more software (including viruses), they are cheaper and they are as stable. The reason I bought a Mac? UNIX under the hood, a great interface (apart from finder), great hardware and in my experience less goes wrong.
Perhaps you missed my point. I'm an end user. If I was an admin I wouldn't have chosen Citrix in the first place. Your solutions are valid, but Citrix has robbed me of that kind of control and I am forced to rely on the 'expertise' of the MSCEs. I just wish that they had as much knowledge as you.
Citrix is as much about social control as anything else. I think thats why it smells so bad.
I use Citrix as an end user for internet access. I can say that it is the worst user experience I've ever had. Slow page loading, having to log on twice (once to the OS, then again for Citrix) and perhaps worse of all it is incredibly unstable. I've ended up using a 3G phone and a personal laptop to access the internet because its faster.
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Your sig is poorly designed.
Of course the Kitten doesn't have a microwave() method.
class Kitten : Meatbag
def sleep(box) end
end
class Microwave : Box
attr_accessor
def microwave(meatbag) end
end
Kittens are definately not procedural. Following rules is not part of the cats remit - at least not anything elses rules. I guess it could be argued that cats are weakly functional as they can kill rodents, but it has strong side effects including attacking your feet whilst your sleeping a leaving parts of dead rabbits/song birds on your pillow in your shoes which goes against the grain for purely functional langauges.