Now Linux users can experience the joys of Wine Wrapper and Cider gaming without having to borrow someone's Mac!
I suppose the Linux drivers for nVidia chips are probably in better shape than the ones for my MacBook Pro though, so maybe Wine'd games will be more stable there. I'll certainly be checking it out at some point.
I'm a TekSavvy customer and I'm sort of hoping Voltage comes after me... I've never downloaded The Hurt Locker. In fact, it's still sitting on my Bell box waiting for us to watch it... we recorded it when it was on TMN a couple years ago.
The best movie in Voltage's catalogue is Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, which I bought as soon as it was released. That movie's comedy gold!
My favourite part of the article was that you swipe down from the top to get the menu full of your apps at the bottom of the screen.
That's stupid enough on a small tablet or phone screen, but imagine it on a decent-sized LCD or your 1080p TV.
Fitts's Law was proposed in 1954 guys, come on. Did MS's entire UX department somehow miss that one while learning about human-computer interaction?
They did study some HCI, right?
That's more of an iPad issue than an Android issue though. Of the two, the Android tablet is much more likely to work with other, "foreign" devices in a useful way, without requiring bloaty software (hi iTunes, glad the new version uses about half the RAM of the previous version!) from the original manufacturer.
In my recent experience (trying to play The Witcher on my MacBook Pro) it's irrelevant because the unstable games (ones using Wine wrappers) will have to logging out and/or rebooting every hour or so anyway.
TF2 has been very stable though.
Apple's proven time and again that they're not at all interested in gaming on Mac OS X, I don't know why I even bother trying. They love it on iOS, of course.
Rebooting to play games is such a pain though.
I've been using Clementine (http://www.clementine-player.org/ for Linux, Mac, Windows) for a few weeks now, since the last article bitching about iTunes was on
And it uses a lot less RAM than iTunes, even after this iTunes update cut its RAM usage roughly in half... Clementine's still using only half as much.
The fact that they rated Sophos so highly, when it opens up a huge exciting new attack surface for you sort of suggests this "certification" is fairly pointless.
I've had similar backwards experiences with my AppleTV2... streaming from Apple is unwatchable (5-10 minute 'buffering' sequences every 20-30 minutes), but Netflix runs great on that thing.
I suspect Apple's pathetic Canadian CDN is to blame... downloads from their app store max out around 150K/sec on my connection (damn XCode, why you so big), while Steam can sustain 500K/sec no problem.
Given that I've killed a "server quality" Time Capsule via heat death of the built-in power supply, I don't think I'd trust a "server" Mac Mini for anything important unless I could keep it air conditioned below normal room temperature, with lots of air flow around it.
Which isn't really what you'd expect to do with something in that form factor, you'd probably expect to be able to stack a few of them in a corner somewhere.
Apple didn't "go with" BSD for OS X, it came as part of the NeXTStep bits, which predate Linux by several years (first commercial release in 1989 for NeXTStep vs 0.1 or whatever in 1991 for Linux).
NeXTStep was a microkernel, with a BSD "personality" module (so people could run portable software), and an advanced (at the time) GUI. IIRC there were plans for other "personality" modules, but I don't think any were ever built... people wanted NeXT GUI software for everything that wasn't "good enough" on the BSD command-line.
I know, Stephen Harper is such a weasel isn't he?
Why isn't "Slutty Costumes" an option? Are you trying to give us all diabetes?
Apparently all of Yahoo!'s users only use the latest top-of-the-line smartphones. Even some that aren't available yet.
Unless things have changed in the last ~2 years, Outlook rolls its own HTML/CSS/JavaScript engine to avoid IE issues like this.
Unfortunately, it opens Outlook up to their own HTML/CSS/JavaScript related bugs, and their implementation is half-assed like old versions of IE (that is, you can't expect HTML and CSS to work normally, even for features that Outlook implements).
Sorry, PTSD moment from having to "fix" HTML newsletters for Outlook once upon a time...
Have you considered putting Block Story on RIM's PlayBook platform? Since version 2.0 of the PlayBook OS, they've supported Android executables (although you do have to repackage them). It seems to help with downloads and sales.
It's a trivial "port" if your app doesn't require native code, so it's not a huge investment on your part. BlackBerry 10 is going to support Android apps too, so you won't be limited to just the PlayBook for long.
Disclosure: I work for RIM.
Remember to say hello to your bank teller.
