... but they did indeed hit the ball out of the park on this one. This has everything I hoped for and more. 160ppi screen is fantastic. The only bummers are battery life, price, and Cingular lock-in, but all of those things may change.
Big question is whether the phone will run 3rd party software, since developers could make a lot of money off this.
If Cmdr Taco had actually read the friggin' MacSlash article he links to, and scrolled down to the comments, he'd see that the 'exploit' is not fixed by this patch and what's more, doesn't send info to the server. Fer feck's sake.
I'm so friggin' tired of his blathering on this subject. Apple's DRM has done more for the availability of music on the internets than anything except bittorrent. If it wasn't for Jobs having the cojones to square off against the music and movie congloms we'd all be renting our music by now. Without DRM iTunes would be eMusic.
The guy needs to try a spell in the real world.
And his novels SUCK. No wonder he has no need for DRM.
I really like BumpTop but others might not. Evidently what we really need is a universal file management etc API so that third parties can write interfaces which are independent of the underlying platform. I can then write a Finder replacement for OS X which will also run on Linux or Vista, and developers can market interfaces as they do any other app.
The interface is just another app. Once we get that, we'll be rockin'.
I use it for location research for movies. For example, trying to find a cemetery to film in, I can instantly see how big it is and whether it is surrounded by roads with heavy traffic.
I find myself buying fewer and fewer games as time goes by, and I believe it's thinking like that that really shows why.
mmm... have you controlled for 'growing older'?
quite a significant variable
btw, those games you think were so great? they aren't.
I still have fond, fond memories of the original UNREAL TOURNAMENT and have been sorely disappointed by subsequent releases... and yet when I go back to play UT1 I can't stand it... it pales in comparison to the more recent versions, even though the underlying gameplay is better.
What if you could do a honest search that did not factor in the prior popularity of the site, but relied on other criteria, so that a new site with unique content might have a chance of getting found?
Oh, you mean, so my search results would begin with nineteen pages of splogs? Bright idea. I wonder why no-one's thought of it before.
Spore is going to be a monster hit. The video is from a year ago. Knowing Will Wright, it has probably evolved a long way since then.
Anyone else play SimLife, which was a kind of very primitive precursor to this? I bought it, along with all of the other Maxis sim-titles way back when, and spent a long while playing it, but found it frustrating in the end because the complexity was not well handled and every scenario seemed to decompose into a monoculture or a mass extinction. If Spore can nail all that, it will be a massive winner. It will also prove WW's point that procedural content is better than created content.
What I like about WW is that he seems to have thought more deeply about the concept of play than anyone else I can think of in the videogame realm. His are the games you don't feel bad giving to your kids (in fact I don't feel bad about giving most games to my kids).
I'm actually building a house at this very moment. It has almost no tech stuff in it. I'm relying totally on wireless for all the internet stuff and I'm not wiring it for speakers... airtunes can handle that. It will have a generator power back up and I will probably put in wind power at some point as we're right on the top of a hill. The problem with most tech infrastructure is that it outdates reeeeeally fast.
of America flushing itself down the toilet of total fucking irrelevance.
I was skiing this week with a friend of mine who manages a half-billion dollar investment fund. His skepticism about the US was withering. It will not be very long before the world economy interprets America, with its spaghetti of ludicrous, paranoiac IT legislation, DMCA bullshit and general hostility towards 'the other', as damage, and routes around it.
Maybe the last person in the US with a job which does not involve burgers could turn out the lights.
Slashdot Mirror
Um, what, close to a million hits for the key right now on Google?
DMCA applies only in the United States.
What is that sound? A toilet flushing?
n/t
He looks old and tired and crotchety and he plain doesn't get it any more, does he?
Also, I know it might SEEM like Bush and Cheney have made it okay to just flat out lie, but it isn't, and you will all burn in hell.
I suspect that this may turn out to be the 2007 equivalent of Cmdr Taco's infamous iPod post.
5 hrs w/video, 16 for audio only. Hmmm. Dunno about standby.
... but they did indeed hit the ball out of the park on this one. This has everything I hoped for and more. 160ppi screen is fantastic. The only bummers are battery life, price, and Cingular lock-in, but all of those things may change.
Big question is whether the phone will run 3rd party software, since developers could make a lot of money off this.
If Cmdr Taco had actually read the friggin' MacSlash article he links to, and scrolled down to the comments, he'd see that the 'exploit' is not fixed by this patch and what's more, doesn't send info to the server. Fer feck's sake.
Get a Mac. Both Pages and TextEdit will open and translate .doc files directly.
I'm so friggin' tired of his blathering on this subject. Apple's DRM has done more for the availability of music on the internets than anything except bittorrent. If it wasn't for Jobs having the cojones to square off against the music and movie congloms we'd all be renting our music by now. Without DRM iTunes would be eMusic.
The guy needs to try a spell in the real world.
And his novels SUCK. No wonder he has no need for DRM.
Not only that, but the rest of the world is watching and drawing its own conclusions.
You can open them directly in Safari and cut/paste into TextEdit too.
I really like BumpTop but others might not. Evidently what we really need is a universal file management etc API so that third parties can write interfaces which are independent of the underlying platform. I can then write a Finder replacement for OS X which will also run on Linux or Vista, and developers can market interfaces as they do any other app.
The interface is just another app. Once we get that, we'll be rockin'.
I love that the parent was modded 'informative'.
Legions of slashdotters staring at the monitor, their eyes widening in a moment of epiphany. "Beer... women... REALLY??"
I use it for location research for movies. For example, trying to find a cemetery to film in, I can instantly see how big it is and whether it is surrounded by roads with heavy traffic.
I find myself buying fewer and fewer games as time goes by, and I believe it's thinking like that that really shows why.
mmm... have you controlled for 'growing older'?
quite a significant variable
btw, those games you think were so great? they aren't.
I still have fond, fond memories of the original UNREAL TOURNAMENT and have been sorely disappointed by subsequent releases... and yet when I go back to play UT1 I can't stand it... it pales in comparison to the more recent versions, even though the underlying gameplay is better.
What if you could do a honest search that did not factor in the prior popularity of the site, but relied on other criteria, so that a new site with unique content might have a chance of getting found?
Oh, you mean, so my search results would begin with nineteen pages of splogs? Bright idea. I wonder why no-one's thought of it before.
Anyone who spent any time trying to debug extension conflicts did not shed a tear for OS 9.
OS 9 seemed faster because the first iteration of OS X, which people tended to run on the same hardware, was dog slow.
Spore is going to be a monster hit. The video is from a year ago. Knowing Will Wright, it has probably evolved a long way since then.
Anyone else play SimLife, which was a kind of very primitive precursor to this? I bought it, along with all of the other Maxis sim-titles way back when, and spent a long while playing it, but found it frustrating in the end because the complexity was not well handled and every scenario seemed to decompose into a monoculture or a mass extinction. If Spore can nail all that, it will be a massive winner. It will also prove WW's point that procedural content is better than created content.
What I like about WW is that he seems to have thought more deeply about the concept of play than anyone else I can think of in the videogame realm. His are the games you don't feel bad giving to your kids (in fact I don't feel bad about giving most games to my kids).
No professional photographers I know (and I know a LOT) use GIMP because Linux doesn't have ubiquitous color management. Bzzt!
I'm actually building a house at this very moment. It has almost no tech stuff in it. I'm relying totally on wireless for all the internet stuff and I'm not wiring it for speakers... airtunes can handle that. It will have a generator power back up and I will probably put in wind power at some point as we're right on the top of a hill. The problem with most tech infrastructure is that it outdates reeeeeally fast.
Canadian or American dollars? Or Australian?
As it happens, Canadian.
What makes you think he (or his fund) are American?
of America flushing itself down the toilet of total fucking irrelevance.
I was skiing this week with a friend of mine who manages a half-billion dollar investment fund. His skepticism about the US was withering. It will not be very long before the world economy interprets America, with its spaghetti of ludicrous, paranoiac IT legislation, DMCA bullshit and general hostility towards 'the other', as damage, and routes around it.
Maybe the last person in the US with a job which does not involve burgers could turn out the lights.
I always have audit rights
By the way, in case anyone actually believe this plank, there is a very good article here which details the costs associated with producing a movie:
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/friday_review/story/0,3
Exhibitors get a sliding scale cut of gross depending on how long after initial release the movie is being shown.