Admit it.
You *enjoyed* the Phantom Menace didn't you?
:P
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Um. Julian May's Saga of the Exiles would be nice; not too heavy on the S, but good visual potential. Those brightly-lit Tanu cities, the firvulag/howler mutants with their virtual bodies...
Larry Niven's Ringworld might be a goer (although how you'd get past all the exposition required to explain the properties of hulls and other exotic materials I'm not sure, but again the visuals would make up for the effort...)
On a similar note, it'd be really cool to see what Ian M Banks sees when he imagines a Culture ship, or Orbital, or Mind, so one of his Culture novels would be smart.
The danger with all of these is that I suspect the pictures might be better in my head than anything Holywood is likely to dream up. Banks' own vision of a Ship would be spectacular; the same thing visualised by Cronenburg would probably be more pedestrian...
I like this game. I may be back.
Sorry HTC; I love your mobiles (my Desire has been an ambassador for your brand, and for Android, for months) and this looks like some seriously useful kit but c'mon. Are you serious?
Just out of interest, how does this compare with its rest-of-world price? Is this the usual take-the-dollar-price-and-stick-on-a-pound-sign shenanigans?
Or did anyone else read the Brit bail-bunger's name as "Bankski"?
I'm not normally impressed with winkies as graffiti; most artists perfect this and move on before big school, but the scale and, more to the point, the action of this work is fairly moving (so to speak). Execution could use work. 4/10; see me.
Okay, have played with it a little:
(1) the player works fine for me. No problems at all, and I'm definitely in Blighty.
(2) I'm also far more comfortable holding my MP3s etc locally, but this kind of thing is often handy to have anyway, so no worries
(3) I can't see any obvious way to share folders or files, so this may prove marginally less useful than Dropbox after all.
So handy, probably-not-safe-for-critical-shit storage online for free, with optional cheap upgrade from 5GB to 20GB? I'm not going to complain...
Okay, all's I was saying is that for every 1337 coder iPad user (and I'm sure I'd bow to your superior skills...) there's about a dozen marketing wonks won over by the latest shiny. Android, on the other hand, is pretty exclusively loved by geeks.
Sorry if I hurt your feelings, though. Bless...
I guess I was confused by the way that you posted your comment on the article in a reply to my reply to some anon cowherd being silly 'bout the spyware. Context is all.
Nonetheless, I put it to you that you hav a face like a squished tomato hav havent hav ect chiz.
Nothing to see here, move along...
When it comes to comprehending anything tech-related, you're likely to get a better score from an Android enthusiast than an iOS user. Sorry, but there it is. If it makes you feel better, the android bunch are unlikely to be dressed quite as stylishly.
BUT my reply above was about a side-issue: the assumption that the Honeycomb source code was being held back to hide all the spyware that Google had crammed in there. Let me know if there's anything else you're having trouble with and I'll try to explain it in nice, short words for you.
Now... Whish of theshe two routesh to follow home? Hmm?...
Oopsh.., dropped me keys...
No, but seriously though. Drink-driving is a bloody stupid thing to do. Me, I'd have the software route the arseholes TOWARDS the checkpoints...
By the way, you appear to be using "app store" as a generic term in the article. I understand a certain turtle-necked gentleman would disapprove most strongly were he to find out...
Yeah, the used book store. One of the (many) nice things about the interwebs is that it vastly increases your chances of tracking down old, out-of-print books and having a chance to buy them legitimately on the second-hand market. I do like that.
Here's the thing, though: If I find an old copy of an out-of-print favourite and buy it online (or indeed in a second-hand bookshop), I don't think the author or their estate will actually be seeing any royalties on that purchase either. In fact, I could walk into any charity shop and buy armfuls of Katie Price novels (cheaper than toilet paper) without subsidising her lifestyle in any way. Similar argument for libraries, assuming you're lucky enough to still have one near you.
Are charity shops evil? They make money by dealing in copyrighted material without payment to the copyright owner. Doesn't that make them pretty wicked?
Anyway. I can't see mere reason budging your aluminium beanie, so let's just agree to disagree. Google went too far and were slapped for it. That was the right result. But evil? Grow up.
Okay, self-confessed Google apologist right here, with certain reservations. I don't think they're as evil as some seem to think (I keep my tinfoil hat for special occasions) but in this case I thnk the decision was right.
Like Skelband (above) I think it's a shame that the vast majority of our cultural history is vanishing into obscurity, and I think it'd be a worthwhile project to make these works accessible to the public in the public domain (judge a society by its libraries and all that) but that mustn't mean granting the rights to those works to a private company. Public domain should mean precisely that. Something like a creative commons licence, perhaps.
The organisation doing all the work of scanning, indexing and hosting the works should be able to derive some benefit from their efforts, of course, but out-and-out ownership? Probably not. And Google have proven themselves capable of turning a tidy profit from the smallest opportunity...
Anyway, right decision, but it looked like the G had some noble intentions. Or were planning to take over the world if you insist...
...since I tend to use my gadgets to death, or pass them down to one of the kids. I suspect they'd be drooling over either form of tablet from arrival, the teen daughter (fashion-conscious and shallow) would KILL for an iPad, while the teen son (solder-burnt geek) would wet himself over the Android...
Well, strictly speaking Salesforce.com has the "App Exchange" rather than an "App Store", but you're not a million miles off. Didn't know they'd allowed Apple to use it (I assumed Apple just independently arrived at "App" as a handy contraction of "Application" and the whole thing was coincidence...) but hey.
I understand that brand protection is important and all, but sometimes it really does sound like a bunch of eight-year-olds bickering in the back seat on a long car journey... "Dad! Amy touched my App! Tell her, Dad! Dad..."
Surely sometime around now we should be pulling over to the side and stinging knees? (ah, childhood memories...)
That was an educated* guess. Based on what sounded like a version of the "a squared plus b squared equals c squared" formula at some point plus the triangle on the blackboard (what do you mean it didn't have a right-angle?)
Did I get it right, then? :)
<-- Cave chaps; prof's coming!...
HELL yeah!
Now that looks all manner of useful. What battery life are they claiming? Or would it be best to buy two, and use the spare when the first runs out of juice? ;)
Sorry, but even if they DO use the standard £=$ conversion technique, it'd still be tempting. At £300 it's a done deal.