You are correct, and here is the relevant link:
http://blogs.msdn.com/xboxteam/archive/2006/02/17/534421.aspx
Before the 360 development hardware was complete, there was some form of Windows running on PowerMac G5s serving as the development environment for studios, but that was a stop gap.
It doesn't run Windows:
http://blogs.msdn.com/xboxteam/archive/2006/02/17/534421.aspx
What if you get an e-mail from a business associate asking for a price of one of your widgets? You would have to memorize what the quantity was, go to your spreadsheet app, and pull that price from the list and memorize it. Then you have to go back and write it in the e-mail. Room for error? I think so.
Not offering an opinion on multitasking vs not, but for this specific example I'd assume one would use the Copy & Paste feature. I typically do that even on my desktop just to make sure I don't brainfart and typo something even if I'm looking right at it.
As another poster correctly pointed out, you can put non-DRM books on the iPad. There's actually a number of alternative eBook applications too if you don't like iBooks - INCLUDING Amazon's Kindle for reading your Kindle content. I will, however, be interested to see if Apple's app approval no-no of "Not duplicating built-in functionality" will be retroactively applied to those applications on the iPad now that iBooks exists....
You know it can watch YouTube right? Just like the iPhone/iPod, it even has a built-in app for this. Somehow it doesn't need Flash to do that. Also, you're perfectly free to load your own videos in from your computer and watch those - or any of the increasingly common websites that are offering HTML5 video players.
But I guess that would get in the way of your uninformed ranting about being forced to buy videos from Apple.
If you'd had experience with the MacOS version of Flash, you wouldn't blame Apple for not wanting to use it. It's simply a lousy product, not only is it horribly unstable but it's a MASSIVE CPU hog, watching a 20 minute Flash video on my Mac Book Pro drives the CPU temp up a good 20 degrees C within minutes, and then the fans kick in full speed. No thanks, I'd prefer to keep some battery life on my iPod. What I like is that Apple has enough clout these days to push sites towards the HTML5 *standard* and away from Flash.
Apple has done and will continue to do a lot of questionable things that are worthy of healthy debates. But let's not pretend that giving Flash the cold shoulder is a bad thing =)
Not on iPhone it doesn't.
(Search for iPhone)
Assuming you didn't mind the incredibly short cord. That thing kept me from being able to sit on a couch while playing. I actually switched to Master System controllers (which were compatible) for games like Sonic that didn't need more than 1 button as those had insanely long cords.
It works fine in the WebKit nightlies, at least as far as comment titles and scores (Don't see any other problems either). I'd venture to guess it's a problem with the Safari 4 build - webkit itself has been updated a lot since then, and should therefore be working when Safari 4 final comes out.
Really? I never get a receipt for app updates. I do get a $0 receipt for free apps I download for the first time, but never an update to one I have installed. Not sure if deleting it, then downloading an updated version "fresh" again would be different, I haven't tried.
But anyway, you're making a lot of assumptions about how they're counting downloads. How do you know they aren't filtering out re-downloads/updates, or even free apps from the count? I can't imagine it'd be hard to do.
I don't know that they are either, but unless they published their methodology somewhere it's all just conjecture.
But why didn't Rare just use the Nintendo 64 Controller Pak, a memory card that was designed for this sort of thing?
Only thing I can think of is to prevent people from cheating by copying the file around. If the game software has to write special values into RAM that have to be quickly read by the other game, that makes it a lot harder for people who didn't earn the reward to get it.
Of course, I can't imagine that it's a big enough deal to warrant all that extra complication.
As opposed to the bountiful productivity that's normally to be found here?
In WoW perhaps, but the concept as a whole isn't quite so bad. Remember that they adopted it from XBox, where it's a platform-wide concept.
In games I already like, I find it fun to hunt (most) achievements as an added challenge. They don't keep me playing a game I'm not having fun with though.
To do nothing is to be nothing.
