I agree. Not to mention that a fully interactive environment misses the point - it's not the end-all-and-be-all of gaming, but rather the vehicle for a certain type of game. A game, just like any other form of narrative, needs to guide the player along a certain story line. There has to be a point. Just as the real universe has physical laws for a reason, so do games; having malleable worlds for the sake of "realism" is only a single aspect of gaming, not the ultimate evolution of gaming in its entirety.
I forgot to mention how full of crap I thought that Brian Chen article was the first time around I read it two years ago (of course, he's billed as an "analyst", so your BS filter should be firmly in place before reading). If you read the editor's note at the bottom, added a year after the article was published, you'll see that they basically say the original article's speculations were wrong. Having had Japanese feature phones for six years and an iPhone since it was released here, I can tell you that the article was BS from the get-go. There was about a six-month gap between me purchasing one and six of my friends getting on board, too. Working at a high school, I'd say that between 40%~50% of my students now carry one, too.
I live in Japan and everyone and their dog wants a smart phone (they recognize that smart phones are more advanced than TVs). The built-in TV fad is very five years ago, and at least for iPhone users, you can always buy a TV antenna adapter. For everyone else, there's Youtube, and people are cutting the cord right and left. For a group-based society like Japan and with the average work schedule that most people have, being able to share and view video on demand is very appealing.
Just check out the amazing lineup of smart phones from Docomo (http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/smart_phone/) and Softbank (http://mb.softbank.jp/mb/smartphone/product/). I think the trend is apparent.
If you're a big enough facility who needs to add another seat, I'm sure Apple will find a copy for you somewhere. I agree, though, I've suddenly put off my upgrade plans for a while.
If you're end the high-end market, however, you know that this particular scenario has played out time and time again, and not just with Apple. In the 3D arena, SGI, Softimage, and now Newtek have also had to do complete rethinks of their software and it took years for the aftershocks to fade out.
A very interesting question, as the new method of distribution (electronic download vs. physical DVD) doesn't allow you to reboot in order to reset the password. Sure, the previous method was a horrible security flaw, anyway, but how are you supposed to reinstall the OS from scratch?
Although nothing beats hand-written code, as far as visual editors go nothing beats Dreamweaver. Despite its obvious flaws and tendency to create bloated pages, at least it makes a good effort at scripting and coding around browser limitations so that the user typically gets a usable result. If you're not being hired to be a web coder, there's no shame in using it.
"Native" means "proprietary" and not dependent on the largess of the cell phone providers to realize (instead, it requires the largess of Apple, but they actually have a vested interest and, hey, they're making it free).
This will be like FaceTime, except useful, since I've never had the opportunity to use FaceTime even once.
Your TV-buying experience is unfortunate, but look at your average iMac and you'll see a very impressive monitor with a built-in computer that won't suffer the same fate as your Samsung. Also, it's still a PC. Win-win.
Stop giving into the paranoia and get on with your lives. You're exposed to more radiation on a daily basis than you'll ever get from potentially contaminated food. Nuclear power plant meltdowns may be scary scary, but biological damage due to food contamination is so rare as to be statistically insignificant. If you want to protect your Japanese family, tell them to stop going to restaurants and other public places that allow smoking (which is not only harmful in all the known ways, but is also slightly radioactive).
Sounds like they did some hard-coding to the XOOM specs and will be making up for it later.
As for the embarrassment factor, Microsoft has been following the same policy for years and the world hasn't exploded yet. Not for lack of effort, mind you.;)
Read the patent and then you'll know. Apple considers it a feature that would allow you a temporal overview of where you were and when, which I for one would find a cool feature for people who are hiking or other long-distance journeys where such data could be interesting and useful. The puzzling question is why they're using the relatively unreliable cell phone tower triangulation rather than the perfectly good GPS data.
Apple's only mistake was in not encrypting this, and even that's debatable, as you need physical access and quite a bit of technical savvy to access it, at which point you already have the physical device in your hands and all the other data it includes (photos, emails, addresses, etc., which nobody else expects to be encrypted, either). Every cell phone company on the planet also collects this data as a matter of course, and they are more than happy to hand it over to the authorities in exchange for a subpoena and/or a small fee. This is a whole lotta fuss from the tin-foil hat department over something relatively obscure and non-exploitable (again, you have to have the physical device before you can actually do something about it, and that particular security flaw covers every computer in existence).
Considering that the judgement is only an opinion and doesn't have the force of law. TFA says that the court would consider the board's opinion in a case, but this is nothing like a done deal.
I agree that Adobe is overpriced, but $19.99 is pretty weak justification for your piracy. If you do free stuff that is hampered by the Gimp's limitations but can only justify twenty dollars for Adobe, I seriously doubt that what you're doing is important enough to justify the excuses. There is a broad spectrum of shareware out there for your price range; I suggest you give it a look. Googling, by the way, is free.
If you're on the last month of a four-year project with a deadline and you upgrade vital software, you're an idiot either way. The software was good enough to get you this far; if you thought you needed those new features in order to finish then you were taking a ridiculous gamble in the first place.
I live in Japan and I can tell you that China did not immediately send support; they sent a handful of people after several days, and finally ramped things up when it became the media circus it is now and people started commenting that China wasn't really participating much.
The Chinese government's radiation scare is just that; with the exception of Japanese TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) workers, nobody's been allowed close enough to suffer any significant exposure. If they were exposed, then they voluntarily traveled inside the 20-km evacuation radius and it's their own damn fault. The cases of contamination were mostly due to radiation detected on ships, which was most likely on the ships' hulls themselves, picked up from trace amounts in the ocean.
The Chinese themselves say it's trace amounts. However, they also don't usually use radiation detectors at the airport, either, and they don't disclose their definition of abnormally high levels.
This is business as usual for relations between Japan and China. Google last year's scuffle when a Chinese trawler rammed a Japanese coast guard ship and see what you get.
I agree. If you really need a control panel to allow you to tweak your system to that low a level, it sounds like the system itself is too dumb to take care of itself. If you really need that kind of control, you're probably capable of hacking the necessary software together yourself.
Keep in mind that the comment was made by a Japanese representative of Panasonic. They already have print club photo sticker machines that automatically enhance and enlarge the subjects' eyes so that they'll look "cuter". This camera is designed for people who are happy with head-on flash photography at parties and really don't care about composition or carrying around large light boxes just in case.
Yeah, that one had me scratching my head for a second. I think the author meant "dyeing". Yes, it may look wrong, but it's spelled right for obvious reasons.
The new OS is version 4.3, only a point release different than the current version. All it does is give Safari a new, faster JavaScript engine and add some new wireless sharing features. The reason why the 3G struggled so hard under iOS 4 was because of the addition of multitasking, among other things. I don't think you have anything to worry about.
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I agree. Not to mention that a fully interactive environment misses the point - it's not the end-all-and-be-all of gaming, but rather the vehicle for a certain type of game. A game, just like any other form of narrative, needs to guide the player along a certain story line. There has to be a point. Just as the real universe has physical laws for a reason, so do games; having malleable worlds for the sake of "realism" is only a single aspect of gaming, not the ultimate evolution of gaming in its entirety.
I forgot to mention how full of crap I thought that Brian Chen article was the first time around I read it two years ago (of course, he's billed as an "analyst", so your BS filter should be firmly in place before reading). If you read the editor's note at the bottom, added a year after the article was published, you'll see that they basically say the original article's speculations were wrong. Having had Japanese feature phones for six years and an iPhone since it was released here, I can tell you that the article was BS from the get-go. There was about a six-month gap between me purchasing one and six of my friends getting on board, too. Working at a high school, I'd say that between 40%~50% of my students now carry one, too.
I live in Japan and everyone and their dog wants a smart phone (they recognize that smart phones are more advanced than TVs). The built-in TV fad is very five years ago, and at least for iPhone users, you can always buy a TV antenna adapter. For everyone else, there's Youtube, and people are cutting the cord right and left. For a group-based society like Japan and with the average work schedule that most people have, being able to share and view video on demand is very appealing.
Just check out the amazing lineup of smart phones from Docomo (http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/smart_phone/) and Softbank (http://mb.softbank.jp/mb/smartphone/product/). I think the trend is apparent.
If you're a big enough facility who needs to add another seat, I'm sure Apple will find a copy for you somewhere. I agree, though, I've suddenly put off my upgrade plans for a while.
If you're end the high-end market, however, you know that this particular scenario has played out time and time again, and not just with Apple. In the 3D arena, SGI, Softimage, and now Newtek have also had to do complete rethinks of their software and it took years for the aftershocks to fade out.
What amazes me is they actually label it "poop burger" (unko baagaa) on the white board (when he uses the lady-finger pointer).
A very interesting question, as the new method of distribution (electronic download vs. physical DVD) doesn't allow you to reboot in order to reset the password. Sure, the previous method was a horrible security flaw, anyway, but how are you supposed to reinstall the OS from scratch?
Although nothing beats hand-written code, as far as visual editors go nothing beats Dreamweaver. Despite its obvious flaws and tendency to create bloated pages, at least it makes a good effort at scripting and coding around browser limitations so that the user typically gets a usable result. If you're not being hired to be a web coder, there's no shame in using it.
Now just try to keep it from looking ugly. ;)
Seems like Steve saw Walt Disney's old video about the true vision of EPCOT and decided to make it happen.
He was in good form, despite looking poorly. The inane comments from the city council members couldn't have helped.
"Native" means "proprietary" and not dependent on the largess of the cell phone providers to realize (instead, it requires the largess of Apple, but they actually have a vested interest and, hey, they're making it free).
This will be like FaceTime, except useful, since I've never had the opportunity to use FaceTime even once.
Are you referring only to the central notification center, or the other six or so features that Android doesn't actually include?
Except that none of the others you just listed combine all of those features in a single OS, and on a smart phone to boot.
Your TV-buying experience is unfortunate, but look at your average iMac and you'll see a very impressive monitor with a built-in computer that won't suffer the same fate as your Samsung. Also, it's still a PC. Win-win.
Stop giving into the paranoia and get on with your lives. You're exposed to more radiation on a daily basis than you'll ever get from potentially contaminated food. Nuclear power plant meltdowns may be scary scary, but biological damage due to food contamination is so rare as to be statistically insignificant. If you want to protect your Japanese family, tell them to stop going to restaurants and other public places that allow smoking (which is not only harmful in all the known ways, but is also slightly radioactive).
Sounds like they did some hard-coding to the XOOM specs and will be making up for it later.
As for the embarrassment factor, Microsoft has been following the same policy for years and the world hasn't exploded yet. Not for lack of effort, mind you. ;)
Read the patent and then you'll know. Apple considers it a feature that would allow you a temporal overview of where you were and when, which I for one would find a cool feature for people who are hiking or other long-distance journeys where such data could be interesting and useful. The puzzling question is why they're using the relatively unreliable cell phone tower triangulation rather than the perfectly good GPS data.
Apple's only mistake was in not encrypting this, and even that's debatable, as you need physical access and quite a bit of technical savvy to access it, at which point you already have the physical device in your hands and all the other data it includes (photos, emails, addresses, etc., which nobody else expects to be encrypted, either). Every cell phone company on the planet also collects this data as a matter of course, and they are more than happy to hand it over to the authorities in exchange for a subpoena and/or a small fee. This is a whole lotta fuss from the tin-foil hat department over something relatively obscure and non-exploitable (again, you have to have the physical device before you can actually do something about it, and that particular security flaw covers every computer in existence).
Considering that the judgement is only an opinion and doesn't have the force of law. TFA says that the court would consider the board's opinion in a case, but this is nothing like a done deal.
I agree that Adobe is overpriced, but $19.99 is pretty weak justification for your piracy. If you do free stuff that is hampered by the Gimp's limitations but can only justify twenty dollars for Adobe, I seriously doubt that what you're doing is important enough to justify the excuses. There is a broad spectrum of shareware out there for your price range; I suggest you give it a look. Googling, by the way, is free.
If you're on the last month of a four-year project with a deadline and you upgrade vital software, you're an idiot either way. The software was good enough to get you this far; if you thought you needed those new features in order to finish then you were taking a ridiculous gamble in the first place.
I live in Japan and I can tell you that China did not immediately send support; they sent a handful of people after several days, and finally ramped things up when it became the media circus it is now and people started commenting that China wasn't really participating much.
The Chinese government's radiation scare is just that; with the exception of Japanese TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) workers, nobody's been allowed close enough to suffer any significant exposure. If they were exposed, then they voluntarily traveled inside the 20-km evacuation radius and it's their own damn fault. The cases of contamination were mostly due to radiation detected on ships, which was most likely on the ships' hulls themselves, picked up from trace amounts in the ocean.
The Chinese themselves say it's trace amounts. However, they also don't usually use radiation detectors at the airport, either, and they don't disclose their definition of abnormally high levels.
This is business as usual for relations between Japan and China. Google last year's scuffle when a Chinese trawler rammed a Japanese coast guard ship and see what you get.
They've had that since the beginning: http://www.maclife.com/article/feature/seven_hidden_features_ipad_camera_connection_kit
I agree. If you really need a control panel to allow you to tweak your system to that low a level, it sounds like the system itself is too dumb to take care of itself. If you really need that kind of control, you're probably capable of hacking the necessary software together yourself.
Keep in mind that the comment was made by a Japanese representative of Panasonic. They already have print club photo sticker machines that automatically enhance and enlarge the subjects' eyes so that they'll look "cuter". This camera is designed for people who are happy with head-on flash photography at parties and really don't care about composition or carrying around large light boxes just in case.
Yeah, that one had me scratching my head for a second. I think the author meant "dyeing". Yes, it may look wrong, but it's spelled right for obvious reasons.
The new OS is version 4.3, only a point release different than the current version. All it does is give Safari a new, faster JavaScript engine and add some new wireless sharing features. The reason why the 3G struggled so hard under iOS 4 was because of the addition of multitasking, among other things. I don't think you have anything to worry about.
XOOM: doesn't actually have flash yet. Malware isn't a feature. Costs more.