I agree. C# is very likely to become a powerful language in today's market, if it isn't so already (It isn't on my market, people just seem to love Visual Basic and PHP a lil' too much). That said, the new COBOL versions, as my father says, who's a guy who's been working with computers for over 30 years, have programming environments which are very close to what Java offers. Perhaps you should look into that area.
... you sound quite butthurt.
To be fair and honest, the only thing that seems interesting out of it all is the reset button feature. The rest aren't really all that interesting or controversial at all. Yep, the app store isn't really controversial. You are all making such a fuss out of it.:/
Do you realize what it means? You have standards that could be stretched by people being "too lenient" or "less lenient"? This could make the Appstore a very high risk to take. Whatever the real reason is, the Appstore is becoming a bit too difficult to manage. Apple should take another look at its policies if they pretend to keep its App market as highly valued as it is right now.
Whoever modded this insightful has no idea whatsoever about the word "interface", "standards" and "usability". Also I have my doubts about their knowledge of the real meaning behind the word "brains".
Don't be silly, you'll watch it and hate it just like when you watched Johnny Mnemonic and stood in awe as Dolph Lungren proceeded to religiously destroy your faith in film industry.
They *will* eventually make one. I mean, they made one from "Where the Wild Things are", which is one of the most bizarre movies I have ever seen. Neuromancer has a lot more to make a movie than that.
I have no idea which one was, but i'm pretty sure this goes back to the counters that said "Click here to give pikachu another watt to help on his quest for world domination!".
There is a huge difference between taking you a hundred monsters to level up and taking you four hundred monsters to level up.
The only MMORPG i took time to play was RF Online, and with 30X exp we had to level (as a group, otherwise that was impossible as characters died in literally two hits, tanks in three) on a cave where it took it anywhere from 1 to 3 minutes to kill a mob. The experience table was such that each level needed twice as many mobs to kill. Every mob gave me 0.3%.
Either you hack it, or you're left to play with whatever Apple and your phone company wants you to do with it. In this case, the problem is Apple for playing along, and the phone company for... i'm not even sure what they are doing by locking it. Saving money, i would guess.
Down here in Venezuela we don't really have that problem, as our phone companies apparently don't give a damn about what we do with our lines, but we're cut short by the crapiness of the network. Apparently, in a highway in the middle of nothing is a wonderful spot to navigate via the fabled 3G, but somewhere in the suburbs isn't.
I didn't even think about it that way (of course, i have no idea of swedish political agenda), and it will really stir some good drama. I don't think their intentions are to sweep the whole battleground, but to make a point by becoming a very real pressence in the elections.
Considering who the other players in the field are, why would you want them to both lose?
Would you rather Microsoft, Sony, or the nascent overlord Google win?
No one really needs to lose at all. I'd rather have them all go bankrupt, though, just to see if that would give back the quality PC gaming before we had to dumb down the games, simplify the engines, and lock the game down just to make them compatible with console gaming.
That said, Apple can be a competitor to Nintendo, if, and that's a big if, the bigger companies decide that. I have a hunch they won't, but I could be wrong.
... that when people pirate software they were most likely not going to buy the software anyway?
You're claiming you lost something you never really had, and never really were going to have.
I wholeheartily agree that piracy is a terrible problem, but these over inflated numbers are not helping at all. It just makes them seem a lot more desperate and a lot less innocent.
I'm not really trying to start a flamewar, but the iPad is a crippled, underpowered device. It might have its uses, but you can't deny that it is grossly overcosted.
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I agree. C# is very likely to become a powerful language in today's market, if it isn't so already (It isn't on my market, people just seem to love Visual Basic and PHP a lil' too much). That said, the new COBOL versions, as my father says, who's a guy who's been working with computers for over 30 years, have programming environments which are very close to what Java offers. Perhaps you should look into that area.
... you sound quite butthurt. To be fair and honest, the only thing that seems interesting out of it all is the reset button feature. The rest aren't really all that interesting or controversial at all. Yep, the app store isn't really controversial. You are all making such a fuss out of it. :/
Do you realize what it means? You have standards that could be stretched by people being "too lenient" or "less lenient"? This could make the Appstore a very high risk to take. Whatever the real reason is, the Appstore is becoming a bit too difficult to manage. Apple should take another look at its policies if they pretend to keep its App market as highly valued as it is right now.
Whoever modded this insightful has no idea whatsoever about the word "interface", "standards" and "usability". Also I have my doubts about their knowledge of the real meaning behind the word "brains".
Don't be silly, you'll watch it and hate it just like when you watched Johnny Mnemonic and stood in awe as Dolph Lungren proceeded to religiously destroy your faith in film industry.
BTW, I want room service.
They *will* eventually make one. I mean, they made one from "Where the Wild Things are", which is one of the most bizarre movies I have ever seen. Neuromancer has a lot more to make a movie than that.
You mean you actually read it?
The topic is far too idiotic for me to actually spend those five minutes.
I have no idea which one was, but i'm pretty sure this goes back to the counters that said "Click here to give pikachu another watt to help on his quest for world domination!".
I do know that, and I do agree with you, but that was awfully off topic.
Not to mention it would be a Windows-only product.
Pretty much. That article is terribly biased.
But then again, this IS slashdot.
There is a huge difference between taking you a hundred monsters to level up and taking you four hundred monsters to level up.
The only MMORPG i took time to play was RF Online, and with 30X exp we had to level (as a group, otherwise that was impossible as characters died in literally two hits, tanks in three) on a cave where it took it anywhere from 1 to 3 minutes to kill a mob. The experience table was such that each level needed twice as many mobs to kill. Every mob gave me 0.3%.
I was 8 levels away from the maximum level.
Those were the highest mobs in the game.
That was grinding.
That is pointless.
Well, that's pretty much the deal with iPhones.
Either you hack it, or you're left to play with whatever Apple and your phone company wants you to do with it. In this case, the problem is Apple for playing along, and the phone company for... i'm not even sure what they are doing by locking it. Saving money, i would guess.
Down here in Venezuela we don't really have that problem, as our phone companies apparently don't give a damn about what we do with our lines, but we're cut short by the crapiness of the network. Apparently, in a highway in the middle of nothing is a wonderful spot to navigate via the fabled 3G, but somewhere in the suburbs isn't.
I didn't even think about it that way (of course, i have no idea of swedish political agenda), and it will really stir some good drama. I don't think their intentions are to sweep the whole battleground, but to make a point by becoming a very real pressence in the elections.
Interesting point.
The PC isn't irrelevant. And it won't ever be irrelevant.
I differ. Third party developers do make or break a console. Without the big names behind a console, it won't work.
I am not talking about farmille, I'm talking about Deus Ex II.
Considering who the other players in the field are, why would you want them to both lose? Would you rather Microsoft, Sony, or the nascent overlord Google win?
No one really needs to lose at all. I'd rather have them all go bankrupt, though, just to see if that would give back the quality PC gaming before we had to dumb down the games, simplify the engines, and lock the game down just to make them compatible with console gaming. That said, Apple can be a competitor to Nintendo, if, and that's a big if, the bigger companies decide that. I have a hunch they won't, but I could be wrong.
That oughta hurt.
Excuse *me* but my copy of Windows 7 and my copy of Office 2008 is quite legal thank you.
... that when people pirate software they were most likely not going to buy the software anyway?
You're claiming you lost something you never really had, and never really were going to have.
I wholeheartily agree that piracy is a terrible problem, but these over inflated numbers are not helping at all. It just makes them seem a lot more desperate and a lot less innocent.
I'd guess it's because there are more users more likely to stick their mouse pointers where they are not supposed to.
That'd be because apple users aren't exactly the kind of users to keep legacy tech around.
ooops "Don't you think that *it might be* the fact..."
I'm not really trying to start a flamewar, but the iPad is a crippled, underpowered device. It might have its uses, but you can't deny that it is grossly overcosted.