It's actually pretty bad. The app runs slowly (although it gets better if you turn off sound), and it's really easy for your fingers to drift on the screen, in the absence of tactile feedback. The end result is that Mario doesn't jump when you expected him to, instead running headlong into a pit or a goomba.
I don't think there's a menu option...but I've got a program that allows for backgrounding of 3rd party applications (as well as force-quitting Apple applications). Of course, it's a jailbreak modification, but if the functionality wasn't present in the OS, it's not likely that any application could add the functionality in.
Un-jailbroken devices are still running the same underlying system. I can't treat a locked-down public library computer as if it's running Windows (can't access the hard drive, can't install applications, can't open some file types, etc). By your standards, that's no longer a Windows machine. IPhone OS is essentially a locked-down, somewhat stripped version of OSX.
The iPhone runs the Darwin kernel, which is the same kernel at the core of OSX. From my iPod Touch: Khed:~ mobile$ uname -a Darwin Khed 9.4.1 Darwin Kernel Version 9.4.1: Mon Dec 8 20:59:30 PST 2008; root:xnu-128.7.37~4/RELEASE_ARM_S5L8900X iPod1,1 arm N45AP Darwin
Language is defined by use, not by properness. If "metric mile" gains significant use as meaning "1500 meters", then that will become the official definition of the word.
I'm in California. The first thing I thought of was "Wow, it sounds just like iPod", the second thing I thought was that it reminded me of a pad of paper. Someone would have to say "maxi pad" or "sanitary napkin" before I thought of the feminine hygiene product first.
If you want performance, I really wouldn't go for a netbook. They're a better choice for portability and long battery life. Flash performs better on Windows, but even in Linux, I don't have much trouble with youtube videos (non-HD versions of the video). I've got a GMA 950 video chip in mine...the Nvidia one probably has better performance.
It's a closed-source application used ubiquitously on the internet (to the point that many webpages require it to function). The fact that it's not open would be less of a problem if Adobe fixed security holes, released the plugin for new platforms, and generally kept up with new segments of the market (ARM devices, smartphones, etc).
Not to mention that it's overused on many sites. Using flash to provide the user interface for your site is just heinous.
Regardless of the effect on the distributors and advertisers, there's one massive benefit to boycotting the music encumbered with ads....*I* don't have to deal with them. Just because something gets made doesn't mean that I have to buy it. If a company produces things in a way that I don't wish to consume them, I'll find myself another source.
Based on personal experience (the plural of "anecdote" is not "data", yadda yadda), most people aren't aware of anything besides Windows and OSX. Even the people that I know that have heard of Linux think of it as "that geek thing". OO.o is considered to be a distant second choice for most people. While I agree with your position of staying legal but going for free when possible, I think that it's a rare decision. Most people don't care enough about computers to look into their options, and so they'll just continue to use whatever is first set in front of them.
In short, "Why not use it?"? Because they already paid for the other thing, and the pay thing just has to be better, right?
Wow....Yeah, I guess it would've been about 15 years ago that I saw that. About the same period that they had runs of I Love Lucy and such on Nick at Night. I liked Lost in Space, but it's been too long...I didn't get the reference until Black Sabbath mentioned it.
If you want it for the phone features, or as an mp3 player, then the games are a nice bonus. There's nothing particularly special here, though.
Agreed. I mostly use mine as a PDA. Web browser, portable video, music player, and Japanese dictionary. I'll play bejeweled or some other puzzle game if I get bored, but mostly, the games really aren't worth it.
I like the idea of technological levels in a game being different from the levels of fantasy. What I mean is that I don't think a fantasy game is required to be set in a medieval time. I always felt like the higher technology worked nicely in 7; the core of the series is still about life-force, magic, etc, it just has a different flavor with the addition of technological elements.
I'm playing through Crisis Core on PSP right now, and it's pretty arcadey....previously I've played FF1+2 (Japanese 2), FF5, and FF7. They're good solid RPGs. I think the only RPG I like more than FF7 would have to be Chrono Trigger.
But then there are situations where general traffic flow is going 70, you're going 75 in the left lane, and some guy in a BMW tries to crawl up your exhaust pipe at 80 or 85, then hangs on 1 car length behind you.
The way flash works, and the way this would work for video, is to specify a few formats that are acceptable, and to implement those in the browser. It's binary code. The only real overhead to playing video in flash are the controls that get added. Otherwise, it's just a binary video decoder throwing up pixels into a buffer. It's not like they'd implement the video decoding in Javascript too....
I don't see why it would be slow, necessarily. A browser's javascript engine replaces the flash's actionscript, and browser rendering using svg vector graphics replaces the flash vector graphics. It's not a big change. "will be quite slow with any complex SWF" describes Flash pretty well.
Based on the video id, the actual file location of the video itself can be found. My ipod will play the videos in its hardware decoder, since it doesn't have flash installed. It just connects directly to an mp4 video file. No reason that a browser script couldn't do the same thing.
Well, the OSX license agreement says that it can only be installed on an "Apple-labeled" device. My interpretation of that is to put an Apple sticker on the side of a Hackintosh.
I wouldn't say that GIMP is more complex than Photoshop. I've tried using Photoshop, and it looks like an unorganized muddle of garbage to me. I *get* GIMP, though.
Linux is just another Unix, but thankfully, a bit more modern and progressive than many of the others. It's as complex as it needs to be, and no more....that's not taking into account the various windowing environments of various qualities (although Windows 7's interface reminds me more of Gnome than it does Windows XP, somehow).
The British might say "A group of cryptographers have developed". To an American, it sounds more natural as written above. A lot of students of English outside of America are likely to have been taught more British patterns of usage.
I am a software engineer. I ask people if they use social choices to gauge an applicant's suitability for work. If they say yes, I immediately tell them "thank you for your time, but if you're going to judge me based on completely irrelevant information, then I don't think I'm interested".
Inability to understand that the world changes around you, and that you had better keep up with it is absolute proof of an IQ below room temperature.
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It's actually pretty bad. The app runs slowly (although it gets better if you turn off sound), and it's really easy for your fingers to drift on the screen, in the absence of tactile feedback. The end result is that Mario doesn't jump when you expected him to, instead running headlong into a pit or a goomba.
I don't think there's a menu option...but I've got a program that allows for backgrounding of 3rd party applications (as well as force-quitting Apple applications). Of course, it's a jailbreak modification, but if the functionality wasn't present in the OS, it's not likely that any application could add the functionality in.
Un-jailbroken devices are still running the same underlying system. I can't treat a locked-down public library computer as if it's running Windows (can't access the hard drive, can't install applications, can't open some file types, etc). By your standards, that's no longer a Windows machine. IPhone OS is essentially a locked-down, somewhat stripped version of OSX.
The iPhone runs the Darwin kernel, which is the same kernel at the core of OSX. From my iPod Touch:
Khed:~ mobile$ uname -a
Darwin Khed 9.4.1 Darwin Kernel Version 9.4.1: Mon Dec 8 20:59:30 PST 2008; root:xnu-128.7.37~4/RELEASE_ARM_S5L8900X iPod1,1 arm N45AP Darwin
Language is defined by use, not by properness. If "metric mile" gains significant use as meaning "1500 meters", then that will become the official definition of the word.
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I'm in California. The first thing I thought of was "Wow, it sounds just like iPod", the second thing I thought was that it reminded me of a pad of paper. Someone would have to say "maxi pad" or "sanitary napkin" before I thought of the feminine hygiene product first.
If you want performance, I really wouldn't go for a netbook. They're a better choice for portability and long battery life. Flash performs better on Windows, but even in Linux, I don't have much trouble with youtube videos (non-HD versions of the video). I've got a GMA 950 video chip in mine...the Nvidia one probably has better performance.
It's a closed-source application used ubiquitously on the internet (to the point that many webpages require it to function). The fact that it's not open would be less of a problem if Adobe fixed security holes, released the plugin for new platforms, and generally kept up with new segments of the market (ARM devices, smartphones, etc).
Not to mention that it's overused on many sites. Using flash to provide the user interface for your site is just heinous.
Regardless of the effect on the distributors and advertisers, there's one massive benefit to boycotting the music encumbered with ads....*I* don't have to deal with them. Just because something gets made doesn't mean that I have to buy it. If a company produces things in a way that I don't wish to consume them, I'll find myself another source.
Based on personal experience (the plural of "anecdote" is not "data", yadda yadda), most people aren't aware of anything besides Windows and OSX. Even the people that I know that have heard of Linux think of it as "that geek thing". OO.o is considered to be a distant second choice for most people. While I agree with your position of staying legal but going for free when possible, I think that it's a rare decision. Most people don't care enough about computers to look into their options, and so they'll just continue to use whatever is first set in front of them.
In short, "Why not use it?"? Because they already paid for the other thing, and the pay thing just has to be better, right?
Wow....Yeah, I guess it would've been about 15 years ago that I saw that. About the same period that they had runs of I Love Lucy and such on Nick at Night. I liked Lost in Space, but it's been too long...I didn't get the reference until Black Sabbath mentioned it.
If you want it for the phone features, or as an mp3 player, then the games are a nice bonus. There's nothing particularly special here, though.
Agreed. I mostly use mine as a PDA. Web browser, portable video, music player, and Japanese dictionary. I'll play bejeweled or some other puzzle game if I get bored, but mostly, the games really aren't worth it.
I like the idea of technological levels in a game being different from the levels of fantasy. What I mean is that I don't think a fantasy game is required to be set in a medieval time. I always felt like the higher technology worked nicely in 7; the core of the series is still about life-force, magic, etc, it just has a different flavor with the addition of technological elements.
I'm playing through Crisis Core on PSP right now, and it's pretty arcadey....previously I've played FF1+2 (Japanese 2), FF5, and FF7. They're good solid RPGs. I think the only RPG I like more than FF7 would have to be Chrono Trigger.
But then there are situations where general traffic flow is going 70, you're going 75 in the left lane, and some guy in a BMW tries to crawl up your exhaust pipe at 80 or 85, then hangs on 1 car length behind you.
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The way flash works, and the way this would work for video, is to specify a few formats that are acceptable, and to implement those in the browser. It's binary code. The only real overhead to playing video in flash are the controls that get added. Otherwise, it's just a binary video decoder throwing up pixels into a buffer. It's not like they'd implement the video decoding in Javascript too....
I don't see why it would be slow, necessarily. A browser's javascript engine replaces the flash's actionscript, and browser rendering using svg vector graphics replaces the flash vector graphics. It's not a big change. "will be quite slow with any complex SWF" describes Flash pretty well.
Based on the video id, the actual file location of the video itself can be found. My ipod will play the videos in its hardware decoder, since it doesn't have flash installed. It just connects directly to an mp4 video file. No reason that a browser script couldn't do the same thing.
Well, the OSX license agreement says that it can only be installed on an "Apple-labeled" device. My interpretation of that is to put an Apple sticker on the side of a Hackintosh.
I wouldn't say that GIMP is more complex than Photoshop. I've tried using Photoshop, and it looks like an unorganized muddle of garbage to me. I *get* GIMP, though.
Linux is just another Unix, but thankfully, a bit more modern and progressive than many of the others. It's as complex as it needs to be, and no more....that's not taking into account the various windowing environments of various qualities (although Windows 7's interface reminds me more of Gnome than it does Windows XP, somehow).
Then again, maybe I'm weird. My two cents.
The British might say "A group of cryptographers have developed". To an American, it sounds more natural as written above. A lot of students of English outside of America are likely to have been taught more British patterns of usage.
I am a software engineer. I ask people if they use social choices to gauge an applicant's suitability for work. If they say yes, I immediately tell them "thank you for your time, but if you're going to judge me based on completely irrelevant information, then I don't think I'm interested".
Inability to understand that the world changes around you, and that you had better keep up with it is absolute proof of an IQ below room temperature.