I'm pretty sure the device is capable of multitasking just fine. But Apple doesn't want applications to run in the background. The upside of this is increased battery life and no CPU hogging by buggy applications.
=> No matter how much crap you install, your iPhone can't get slowed down by it.
And of course applications are expected to perfectly be able to resume their tasks where they left off once you give them the focus again.
That means in practice, you won't even notice you're only running one app at a time.
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Except that you can't run multiple apps on the iPhone, the only exceptions are the phone software, the ipod and internet tethering. But you can't run more than one custom application at the same time. Once you press the menu button to switch to another app the old one gets immediately suspended.
What really breaks Wii Fit is the time spent navigating the menus between exercises.
What it needs is a way to setup a simple list of exercises in advance (like a songlist in Guitar Hero's quickplay mode), and then run you through those as quickly as possible (don't explain to me how it worked *every time*, thank you), and with as short load times as possible.
Which one should I use? Is FoxIt's reader any better? I suspect it also has some vulnerabilities but gets less attention from the bad guys because Acrobat's Reader is much mode widely used.
Mod parent up. Anyone who claims computer vs. computer games are dull is either outright lying or has no clue about chess (and hence probably finds all games boring).
In fact, these days it's hard to tell the games between the top 20 players and the top engines apart. Both groups (computers and men) are not afraid of losing and will go for the move that promises the most chances (and will lead to the most imbalanced positions), instead of going for a safer and 'duller' alternatives, as you often see players in the 2500-2700 elo range play (disclaimer: I'm only around 2300 elo).
The whole discussion is about providing information about the file in *some other way then the file extension*.
My point is that the necessary mechanisms for preserving that information over a HTTP download already exists. The mime-type.
How that information is preserved on the server side, or even during an upload is totally another point. As far as I know FTP doesn't have a mechanism to transfer meta data.
The browser and the user are the same thing, from the servers point of view.
The user wants to know what type of file it is? The browser should tell him!
As the AC post mentioned, the browser can even query that information without downloading with a simple HEAD request (e.g. if it wants to display icons instead of text links, wants user confirmation before downloading, etc.).
> Metadata sufficient to render file extensions obsolete would leave us with http://example.com/file, with no way to tell what it contains.
That's where MIME types come in to save you. While it is true that from the URL you can't tell the contents, the moment you do a "GET/file" the server will tell you the mime type (e.g. application/msword), and you can save that information in the file's meta data on your local filesystem (e.g. save it as file.doc).
> While it is true that in some countries you can see naked women (as in, bare breasts, not genitalia) in advertising in broad daylight and afternoon tv, I've yet to see anyone > with their tits out in public, and I've been basically everywhere in Europe.
That's probably because you've been there in Winter. It's not fun to walk around bare breasted through the snow. Come back in summer, and visit any recreational areas (parks / lakesides etc.).
I guess if you'd walk around (half) naked at a shopping mile and walked into the autorities, you'd probably kindly get asked to get dressed please, not arrested.
It was my impression that they don't want to go after the distributors of illegally made copies (which I don't have a problem with), they want go after the tools. Modchips & drives that can be used for ripping the original DVDs.
By limiting the availability of these tools (hence making them more expensive to obtain), they're in fact worsening the situation. If I buy the modchip & pay or find someone to install it for me (I'm no good with a soldering iron) and buy a special drive to backup my games, I have spent at least the amount of money to buy two more games. In order to recover the amount I spent for what I regard as 'fair use', i.e. which should be essentially free for me, I would have to 'skip buying' two games at least. Mod chip makers: 2, Nintendo: 0
....see mine. I have two kids (2 & 4), sometimes I play Wii Music / Wii Fit / Wii Play (Fishing!) with the older. It's too troublesome to lock all stuff away all the time (and sometimes I just forget to remove the disk from the console), so I've already thought a few times about modding the console to be able to backup the games before the kids manage to destroy the disks accidently.
As it is, they won't replace my scratched disks, so I don't have so much simpathy for them.
> In the WoW universe, little is permanent.... NPCs (computer controlled characters) simply respawn in the same spot after a certain amount of time.
Not so true anymore. With Blizzard's "phasing" technology, there are some really world changing quests now (in the world you see, not what other players see). For example, in my version of Undercity, Varimathras is gone for good (I killed him).
If I want to play a fighting game, I can always fire up my Dreamcast and put in Soul Calibur.
What I enjoyed most in Sands of Time was the jumping from ledges, dodging the blades etc. etc. and of course the fact that you could go back 5 seconds through time if you missed a critical jump.
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Two great platformers I played through 100% on the PC that are perfectly controllable with the keyboard:
Pandemonium I and Pandemonium II
Two great platformers on the Mac (originally the Mac Plus) that make awesome use of the mouse as well:
Dark Castle, Beyond Dark Castle
Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Castle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemonium_(video_game)
I'm pretty sure the device is capable of multitasking just fine. But Apple doesn't want applications to run in the background. The upside of this is increased battery life and no CPU hogging by buggy applications.
=> No matter how much crap you install, your iPhone can't get slowed down by it.
And of course applications are expected to perfectly be able to resume their tasks where they left off once you give them the focus again.
That means in practice, you won't even notice you're only running one app at a time.
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Except that you can't run multiple apps on the iPhone, the only exceptions are the phone software, the ipod and internet tethering. But you can't run more than one custom application at the same time. Once you press the menu button to switch to another app the old one gets immediately suspended.
What really breaks Wii Fit is the time spent navigating the menus between exercises.
What it needs is a way to setup a simple list of exercises in advance (like a songlist in Guitar Hero's quickplay mode), and then run you through those as quickly as possible (don't explain to me how it worked *every time*, thank you), and with as short load times as possible.
As it is now, you never really break a sweat...
Which one should I use? Is FoxIt's reader any better? I suspect it also has some vulnerabilities but gets less attention from the bad guys because Acrobat's Reader is much mode widely used.
The 'awesome bar' in firefox automagically searches your bookmarks.
Mod parent up. Anyone who claims computer vs. computer games are dull is either outright lying or has no clue about chess (and hence probably finds all games boring).
In fact, these days it's hard to tell the games between the top 20 players and the top engines apart. Both groups (computers and men) are not afraid of losing and will go for the move that promises the most chances (and will lead to the most imbalanced positions), instead of going for a safer and 'duller' alternatives, as you often see players in the 2500-2700 elo range play (disclaimer: I'm only around 2300 elo).
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The whole discussion is about providing information about the file in *some other way then the file extension*.
My point is that the necessary mechanisms for preserving that information over a HTTP download already exists. The mime-type.
How that information is preserved on the server side, or even during an upload is totally another point. As far as I know FTP doesn't have a mechanism to transfer meta data.
> MIME types are for the browser, not the user.
The browser and the user are the same thing, from the servers point of view.
The user wants to know what type of file it is? The browser should tell him!
As the AC post mentioned, the browser can even query that information without downloading with a simple HEAD request (e.g. if it wants to display icons instead of text links, wants user confirmation before downloading, etc.).
> How would the server determine HTML from XHTML from CSS from JavaScript?
The server obviously knows this from the meta data contained in his file system.
> Metadata sufficient to render file extensions obsolete would leave us with http://example.com/file, with no way to tell what it contains.
That's where MIME types come in to save you. While it is true that from the URL you can't tell the contents, the moment you do a "GET /file" the server will tell you the mime type (e.g. application/msword), and you can save that information in the file's meta data on your local filesystem (e.g. save it as file.doc).
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"Once upon a time this rule only applied to delicious foodstuffs dropped on the floor..."
Whoever did come up with that rule wasn't a parent.
> While it is true that in some countries you can see naked women (as in, bare breasts, not genitalia) in advertising in broad daylight and afternoon tv, I've yet to see anyone
> with their tits out in public, and I've been basically everywhere in Europe.
That's probably because you've been there in Winter. It's not fun to walk around bare breasted through the snow. Come back in summer, and visit any recreational areas (parks / lakesides etc.).
I guess if you'd walk around (half) naked at a shopping mile and walked into the autorities, you'd probably kindly get asked to get dressed please, not arrested.
It was my impression that they don't want to go after the distributors of illegally made copies (which I don't have a problem with), they want go after the tools. Modchips & drives that can be used for ripping the original DVDs.
By limiting the availability of these tools (hence making them more expensive to obtain), they're in fact worsening the situation. If I buy the modchip & pay or find someone to install it for me (I'm no good with a soldering iron) and buy a special drive to backup my games, I have spent at least the amount of money to buy two more games. In order to recover the amount I spent for what I regard as 'fair use', i.e. which should be essentially free for me, I would have to 'skip buying' two games at least. Mod chip makers: 2, Nintendo: 0
....see mine. I have two kids (2 & 4), sometimes I play Wii Music / Wii Fit / Wii Play (Fishing!) with the older. It's too troublesome to lock all stuff away all the time (and sometimes I just forget to remove the disk from the console), so I've already thought a few times about modding the console to be able to backup the games before the kids manage to destroy the disks accidently.
As it is, they won't replace my scratched disks, so I don't have so much simpathy for them.
Is there a better way to deny him clicks then linking from /.? Noone (at least with an uid with 6 digits or less) reads the articles anyway.
What about American McGee's Strawberry Shortcake?
I know a certain wizard who's reached the level cap...
> In the WoW universe, little is permanent. ... NPCs (computer controlled characters) simply respawn in the same spot after a certain amount of time.
Not so true anymore. With Blizzard's "phasing" technology, there are some really world changing quests now (in the world you see, not what other players see). For example, in my version of Undercity, Varimathras is gone for good (I killed him).
Play Bejeweled
It's the only way to pull him away from World of Warcraft. So he's actually saving his life.
If I want to play a fighting game, I can always fire up my Dreamcast and put in Soul Calibur.
What I enjoyed most in Sands of Time was the jumping from ledges, dodging the blades etc. etc. and of course the fact that you could go back 5 seconds through time if you missed a critical jump.