Hang on a second... $9 worth of electricity is quite a lot in terms of kWh. Last time I checked my basic physics, to shift that in 5 minutes needs a damn huge current. I for one am not keen on letting Joe Public wave high current charging equipment around.
Wrong! Game assets are copyright of their creator by default. This includes textures, models, maps, sounds, scripts, you name it. It doesn't matter if it was created in-game, it is still *yours*.
Just out of interest, is there any way to 'slipstream' (to use an MSism) an extension into a FF install? I want to build some to just hand out to people with IETab ready to go.
Actually, it is a percentile. It's your ability to solve logical puzzles expressed as a percentage of the average ability to do the same tasks. And IQ of 100 is average, 80 is below average, 120 is above average.
Why not just complex-command-run download-something lib/nvidia wtf-is-legacy-anyway -s -f -F/obscure/path | make this-thingy install -t now_dammit? I heard that works just as well, and makes about as much sense to the average Windows user.
If Apple bundles PDF and you don't want it, buy a Dell or a Lenovo. If the Open Office team bundles PDF, buy Wordperfect or download Koffice.
If Microsoft bundles it, go download your favourite Linux distro. That's roughly equivalent in complexity to downloading and installing Koffice, or at least I keep being told it is.
If I publish a recipe for cheese I expect people to do what they like with it unless my licence says otherwise. Find me the clause in the PDF spec licence which says it can't be integrated with an OS.
Seconded. If you make a standard open (PDF) you should expect people to integrate it with other apps. Adobe have shot themselves in the foot with this.
As for a security centre, how much easier will it make life if you can tell *every* Vista user "Go Start, Control Panel, Security Center, and read what it says"? The one in XPSP2 was a good start, hopefully Vista will hook it into onecare so it really is a one-stop point.
I often hear similar about games consoles, and whilst I'm not a fan of them it does give me a way to explain why I want a Wii. I don't want it to play on my own, I want it because it looks like it will have several games which are great for grabbing a friend/family member or two and playing. Sod 360/PS3's FPS madness, I want Wii sports!
I'm not so much disappointed as completely baffled. Janus (The WM10 DRM) is easily updateable and extendable on-the-fly, so what's to stop WMP11 from adding Zune DRM to a Janus file? You're cutting out a huge audience who have bought tunes with things like Napster.
I could understand Zune files not playing on older MP3 devices which don't support the DRM mechanism, but all this does is break compatability in a rather confusing way. If Apple can update FairPlay to cover countless models of iPod (1G, 2G, 3G, 4G, Photo, 5G, 5G-2, Mini, Nano, Shuffle, Shuffle-2) without breaking backwards compatability how can MS, who have invested a lot in PlaysForSure, not manage it? Sure you can't use a 5G-2 iPod with iTunes 4, but I wouldn't expect to be able to.
Not to mention many monitors' colour quality was poor at best unless you shelled out for expensive ones. 32 bit colour is kinda unnecessary when you can't tell the difference between shades of red.
Trouble is, firewire only works with a system with a firewire port and an iPod thick enough to hold a firewire port. You couldn't have a nano with a firewire connection. My iPod connects to firewire or USB.
The dock connector is universal amongst all models, you get a universal dock and an adaptor to make it fit your model perfectly. You can't do this with a firewire.
In the UK, $5 converts to £2.60(ish). This is the price of a coffee and muffin from Starbucks. I think it's perfectly fair for a classic game, even more so if it just gets on and downloads it.
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This, my friends, is why FlashBlock was invented.
Soapbox - Thing you stand on to make a speech.
Hang on a second... $9 worth of electricity is quite a lot in terms of kWh. Last time I checked my basic physics, to shift that in 5 minutes needs a damn huge current. I for one am not keen on letting Joe Public wave high current charging equipment around.
Wrong! Game assets are copyright of their creator by default. This includes textures, models, maps, sounds, scripts, you name it. It doesn't matter if it was created in-game, it is still *yours*.
Just out of interest, is there any way to 'slipstream' (to use an MSism) an extension into a FF install? I want to build some to just hand out to people with IETab ready to go.
Apparently so, along with elevation information.
Next you'll be telling me that Linux has a common clipboard, and Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V works in every application.
Actually, it is a percentile. It's your ability to solve logical puzzles expressed as a percentage of the average ability to do the same tasks. And IQ of 100 is average, 80 is below average, 120 is above average.
Why not just complex-command-run download-something lib/nvidia wtf-is-legacy-anyway -s -f -F /obscure/path | make this-thingy install -t now_dammit? I heard that works just as well, and makes about as much sense to the average Windows user.
Old enough to be able to Google for a very similar concept and find Flixter.
If Microsoft bundles it, go download your favourite Linux distro. That's roughly equivalent in complexity to downloading and installing Koffice, or at least I keep being told it is.
And OS X. Oh, and OpenOffice.org.
If I publish a recipe for cheese I expect people to do what they like with it unless my licence says otherwise. Find me the clause in the PDF spec licence which says it can't be integrated with an OS.
Seconded. If you make a standard open (PDF) you should expect people to integrate it with other apps. Adobe have shot themselves in the foot with this.
As for a security centre, how much easier will it make life if you can tell *every* Vista user "Go Start, Control Panel, Security Center, and read what it says"? The one in XPSP2 was a good start, hopefully Vista will hook it into onecare so it really is a one-stop point.
Or you wait for iTV to be released and use that.
Latest beta has it there, same place it's always been.
I often hear similar about games consoles, and whilst I'm not a fan of them it does give me a way to explain why I want a Wii. I don't want it to play on my own, I want it because it looks like it will have several games which are great for grabbing a friend/family member or two and playing. Sod 360/PS3's FPS madness, I want Wii sports!
I'm not so much disappointed as completely baffled. Janus (The WM10 DRM) is easily updateable and extendable on-the-fly, so what's to stop WMP11 from adding Zune DRM to a Janus file? You're cutting out a huge audience who have bought tunes with things like Napster.
I could understand Zune files not playing on older MP3 devices which don't support the DRM mechanism, but all this does is break compatability in a rather confusing way. If Apple can update FairPlay to cover countless models of iPod (1G, 2G, 3G, 4G, Photo, 5G, 5G-2, Mini, Nano, Shuffle, Shuffle-2) without breaking backwards compatability how can MS, who have invested a lot in PlaysForSure, not manage it? Sure you can't use a 5G-2 iPod with iTunes 4, but I wouldn't expect to be able to.
Not to mention many monitors' colour quality was poor at best unless you shelled out for expensive ones. 32 bit colour is kinda unnecessary when you can't tell the difference between shades of red.
Closed source socks? O_o
Nah, just 5Bob. Bob^5 would be a much larger value, presuming bob>1 (Which most people are)
Using IE Tab it looks exactly the same, but has the added bonus of launching pop-up windows which play music at me.
BASIC is pretty much set in stone. Sure the compiler may change, but 20 GOTO 10 isn't going anywhere.
Trouble is, firewire only works with a system with a firewire port and an iPod thick enough to hold a firewire port. You couldn't have a nano with a firewire connection. My iPod connects to firewire or USB.
The dock connector is universal amongst all models, you get a universal dock and an adaptor to make it fit your model perfectly. You can't do this with a firewire.
In the UK, $5 converts to £2.60(ish). This is the price of a coffee and muffin from Starbucks. I think it's perfectly fair for a classic game, even more so if it just gets on and downloads it.