As a heads up it uses European frequencies, and only has the higher frequency for North America. Its fine for T Mobile which only uses 1900mhz, but if you use it with At&T you'll find it wont work indoors as much as other phones, which have both North American bands.
To be honest, I'm really suprised your phone doesn't let you just upload J2ME apps and run them, most phones (RAZR, etc) let you do it, some might require you buy a $6 cable, but its nothing serious.
If you want more choices: 1)Symbian based phones. You can run native C++ apps, and J2ME based ones. A popular example would be the N95. 2)Iphone, although you'll need to go through the iTunes store or jailbreak it. 3)Windows mobile phones, not sure which one to reccomend here. 4)OpenMoko, although I hear this phone still needs a while to go before it becomes something someone will want to use as their primary phone 5)Wait for an android based phones.
However before purchasing new phone see if you can get a cable or modify your phone in such a way you can load java apps onto it, because I'm really surprised its that heavily locked down.
Personally while the last.fm purchase was probably a bit overvalued (they all are), last.fm was actually a decent purpose considering that the site is actually really well done and it works. I think they deserved to get bought out and kudos to them.
I had a look at the other music streaming sites in the article you mentioned and non of them seemed nearly as good.
I mean seriously this is nothing new. Most of these sites just browse through the PAD directory and add your application to their directory. Usually I get them in groups of emails which leads me to believe that for the most part it's just one person creating multiple repositories. The ranking is probably random based, I don't always get fives.
There are several sites that are more specific and don't just add apps and give them awards. These don't automatically award you and may even reject your app if they don't meet standards.
As a user you probably care more for these.
As a developer it doesn't really bother me that my app is getting added everywhere for next to no work. I don't get any downloads from these sites anyway which leads me to believe that users know which sites screen the applications and which ones don't. So what's the point of this article anyway?
There are also sites that offer better ranking if you link to their site (some even threaten to revoke your app) and others that you pay for, which makes sense. The people running the site just want to make money, and why not?
Anyway I think the author may be just trying to get some quick exposure for the last link he recommends. There is a global pad database already and most sites will grab it from there already. And for free, unlike the $70 he spent.
I've not used it myself, but some friends have and it worked pretty well.
http://www.maxivista.com/
Also perhaps you could bug the synergy team (this is an open source project), although I don't think this feature is something that will be implemented anytime soon...
http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Though if you just want to control all the computers from one place, then synergy should work.
I used to play it in class a while back becuase it ran really nice. They have a standalone pack and used to have a community, I don't know how popular it is these days, it looks like they stopped working on it a few years ago..
Linky: http://dday.planetquake.gamespy.com/site/
Yahoo mail seems to work fine for me, and always has with adblock installed.
In fact, i find I actually get a massive performance boost when using adblock with the site since there are no ads. This is unusual since I usually found IE performed such Ajax heavy sites faster. (Though the real reason is probably because Flash is so horridly slow in Firefox that by disabling ads, I've disabled all flash and thus increased performance)
Anyway has anyone else verified this or is this just one guy with some settings incorrect and he's the only one?
Why don't you read the actual wikipedia PS2 page instead?
"By the end of September 2006, there were 8,181 PS2 titles released worldwide (4,554 in Asia, 1,319 in North America, and 2,308 in Europe),[7] accounting for cumulative production shipments of 1.127 billion units"
And the gamecube page "The GameCube currently has over 600 games available in its library"
So at minimum, the PS2 has 10x the games the gamecube does. So the parent poster was right.
Now if your talking strictly american games, okay the PS2 "only" has double, but that's assuming all the gc games were released in america (which they most likely were not)
If it was multiplayer there would be two case scenerios: 1)There is no AI (ala counterstrike) so theres no need for it at all. 2)The AI would be powered by the server. Thus only the server would actaully require the ai card, or the server could run software. Its very rare that the client would handle something like this and it prevents cheating.
I also own a toshiba and yes, the wheel is an old vintage classic wheel which turns the volume down. None of that multimedia crap, and to be honest i love it! In fact its on thing i miss from my old walkman, no that these new cd/mp3 players have all digital volume control these days....
In all fairness Ut2007(i belive thats what you meant by 6?) doesnt ship for a while yet.
Though you could argue that there was also Unreal Championship 1 and 2.
You do realize that in EVERY single case you mentioned, the copy protection was removed in a later patch?
Quake 3, Doom 3, Quake 4 all have had the cd check removed after a few patches.
Thats right Quake 4 no longer requires a cd check. The inclusion of the commercial cd check has more to do with the publisher (activision) then a decision on ID's side.
Carmacks been doing that for much longer then Mr. Sweeney. Quake 3 even doesnt require you to enter a serial number unless you decide to play online. Nothing is crippled single player and lan wise if you dont enter it and cd protection for all his games are released a few months after release.
Quake 4 just had its copy protection removed as well. Doom 3 as well hasnt required it since the second patch.
But i agree with you its a good model and a like it. I just dont buy the game until a few months after it comes out these days.
Well now that they have realeased C&C the first this month, which basically has all the C&C games, its become very easy to find. I just saw around 6 copies in walmart today.
No just intel chip and wireless. I have a centrino and it has a 6600 (nvidia). You can buy a cetrino with an x1600 which should have no problems handling vista.
Thats great and all, except the cell chip isnt responsible for the graphics, that would be why they stuck an nvidia chip in there. (the original plan was to use the cell chip to render the graphics as well, however they found that the cell chip was not quit up to the task).
Really? Please sell me this 100$ pc that will peform as well on call of duty 2 as an xbox 360. Please, i want an x1800 in the pc though, becuase thats what they have in there.
Whats that, exagerated the price a little? i thought so. A comparably pc will cost a hell of a lot more then the xbox 360, my 1000$ notebook runs call of duty 2 like shit, and its a decent lappy (its got a geforce 6600 in there, so its not like im trying to run it on some old POS).
I saw call of duty 2 in the store and it was running a hell of a lot nicer then my computer is running it. and i didnt even have aa on. I could probably get rid of the chopiness by adding ram, but thats another 50$, i dont have to buy new ram for an xbox 360 game do i?
From a different article:
"Pricing will stay level, too. The T1600 Yonah--which runs at 2.16GHz, comes with a 2MB cache and a 667MHz bus--"
so it seems theve upped it a bit, exactly the same jump from 400 to 533 for the dothan.
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As a heads up it uses European frequencies, and only has the higher frequency for North America. Its fine for T Mobile which only uses 1900mhz, but if you use it with At&T you'll find it wont work indoors as much as other phones, which have both North American bands.
To be honest, I'm really suprised your phone doesn't let you just upload J2ME apps and run them, most phones (RAZR, etc) let you do it, some might require you buy a $6 cable, but its nothing serious.
If you want more choices:
1)Symbian based phones. You can run native C++ apps, and J2ME based ones. A popular example would be the N95.
2)Iphone, although you'll need to go through the iTunes store or jailbreak it.
3)Windows mobile phones, not sure which one to reccomend here.
4)OpenMoko, although I hear this phone still needs a while to go before it becomes something someone will want to use as their primary phone
5)Wait for an android based phones.
However before purchasing new phone see if you can get a cable or modify your phone in such a way you can load java apps onto it, because I'm really surprised its that heavily locked down.
Personally while the last.fm purchase was probably a bit overvalued (they all are), last.fm was actually a decent purpose considering that the site is actually really well done and it works. I think they deserved to get bought out and kudos to them. I had a look at the other music streaming sites in the article you mentioned and non of them seemed nearly as good.
I mean seriously this is nothing new. Most of these sites just browse through the PAD directory and add your application to their directory. Usually I get them in groups of emails which leads me to believe that for the most part it's just one person creating multiple repositories. The ranking is probably random based, I don't always get fives.
There are several sites that are more specific and don't just add apps and give them awards. These don't automatically award you and may even reject your app if they don't meet standards.
As a user you probably care more for these.
As a developer it doesn't really bother me that my app is getting added everywhere for next to no work. I don't get any downloads from these sites anyway which leads me to believe that users know which sites screen the applications and which ones don't. So what's the point of this article anyway?
There are also sites that offer better ranking if you link to their site (some even threaten to revoke your app) and others that you pay for, which makes sense. The people running the site just want to make money, and why not?
Anyway I think the author may be just trying to get some quick exposure for the last link he recommends. There is a global pad database already and most sites will grab it from there already. And for free, unlike the $70 he spent.
I've not used it myself, but some friends have and it worked pretty well. http://www.maxivista.com/ Also perhaps you could bug the synergy team (this is an open source project), although I don't think this feature is something that will be implemented anytime soon... http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Though if you just want to control all the computers from one place, then synergy should work.
I ran across this looking for something completely unrelated, apparently DDay still has a community and lots of updates: http://ddc.planetquake.gamespy.com/site/ http://mods.moddb.com/8832/dday-normandy-/ So the last link I gave was the wrong one, sorry!
I used to play it in class a while back becuase it ran really nice. They have a standalone pack and used to have a community, I don't know how popular it is these days, it looks like they stopped working on it a few years ago.. Linky: http://dday.planetquake.gamespy.com/site/
Not really. The Inq also posted a similar article. Not to mention that two of the games that are mentioned were just released on April 1st.
I'm having trouble on even the easier difficulties.
No there was GTA III, a GTA Vice City and a GTA San Andreas. But they are considered part of III I guess.
Yahoo mail seems to work fine for me, and always has with adblock installed. In fact, i find I actually get a massive performance boost when using adblock with the site since there are no ads. This is unusual since I usually found IE performed such Ajax heavy sites faster. (Though the real reason is probably because Flash is so horridly slow in Firefox that by disabling ads, I've disabled all flash and thus increased performance) Anyway has anyone else verified this or is this just one guy with some settings incorrect and he's the only one?
Why don't you read the actual wikipedia PS2 page instead?
"By the end of September 2006, there were 8,181 PS2 titles released worldwide (4,554 in Asia, 1,319 in North America, and 2,308 in Europe),[7] accounting for cumulative production shipments of 1.127 billion units"
And the gamecube page "The GameCube currently has over 600 games available in its library"
So at minimum, the PS2 has 10x the games the gamecube does.
So the parent poster was right.
Now if your talking strictly american games, okay the PS2 "only" has double, but that's assuming all the gc games were released in america (which they most likely were not)
If it was multiplayer there would be two case scenerios:
1)There is no AI (ala counterstrike) so theres no need for it at all.
2)The AI would be powered by the server. Thus only the server would actaully require the ai card, or the server could run software. Its very rare that the client would handle something like this and it prevents cheating.
I also own a toshiba and yes, the wheel is an old vintage classic wheel which turns the volume down. None of that multimedia crap, and to be honest i love it! In fact its on thing i miss from my old walkman, no that these new cd/mp3 players have all digital volume control these days....
"What CPUs are designed to run Java" Lots. Your probably most familiar with the ones on your phone.
In all fairness Ut2007(i belive thats what you meant by 6?) doesnt ship for a while yet. Though you could argue that there was also Unreal Championship 1 and 2.
BOB? The snes platformer?
You do realize that in EVERY single case you mentioned, the copy protection was removed in a later patch?
Quake 3, Doom 3, Quake 4 all have had the cd check removed after a few patches.
Thats right Quake 4 no longer requires a cd check. The inclusion of the commercial cd check has more to do with the publisher (activision) then a decision on ID's side.
Carmacks been doing that for much longer then Mr. Sweeney. Quake 3 even doesnt require you to enter a serial number unless you decide to play online. Nothing is crippled single player and lan wise if you dont enter it and cd protection for all his games are released a few months after release.
Quake 4 just had its copy protection removed as well. Doom 3 as well hasnt required it since the second patch.
But i agree with you its a good model and a like it. I just dont buy the game until a few months after it comes out these days.
Well now that they have realeased C&C the first this month, which basically has all the C&C games, its become very easy to find. I just saw around 6 copies in walmart today.
Well you can either get an apple, or wait this summer for the conroe, which is an enhanced core duo, so it runs faster, but at higher power usages.
No just intel chip and wireless. I have a centrino and it has a 6600 (nvidia). You can buy a cetrino with an x1600 which should have no problems handling vista.
Thats great and all, except the cell chip isnt responsible for the graphics, that would be why they stuck an nvidia chip in there. (the original plan was to use the cell chip to render the graphics as well, however they found that the cell chip was not quit up to the task).
Really? Please sell me this 100$ pc that will peform as well on call of duty 2 as an xbox 360. Please, i want an x1800 in the pc though, becuase thats what they have in there. Whats that, exagerated the price a little? i thought so. A comparably pc will cost a hell of a lot more then the xbox 360, my 1000$ notebook runs call of duty 2 like shit, and its a decent lappy (its got a geforce 6600 in there, so its not like im trying to run it on some old POS). I saw call of duty 2 in the store and it was running a hell of a lot nicer then my computer is running it. and i didnt even have aa on. I could probably get rid of the chopiness by adding ram, but thats another 50$, i dont have to buy new ram for an xbox 360 game do i?
From a different article :
"Pricing will stay level, too. The T1600 Yonah--which runs at 2.16GHz, comes with a 2MB cache and a 667MHz bus--"
so it seems theve upped it a bit, exactly the same jump from 400 to 533 for the dothan.