Comment Re:what crap... (Score 1) 214
I work all day in front of two glowing rectangles.
This videogame-based education sounds like an excellent way to prepare for real life!
I'm still waiting to level-up tho...
I work all day in front of two glowing rectangles.
This videogame-based education sounds like an excellent way to prepare for real life!
I'm still waiting to level-up tho...
Beta testers. They have opinions that are ignored unless they properly align with prepared marketing assets.
YOU LIE!!!!
I found Android to be a great platform to develop on. The biggest hurdle was using Eclipse after being a Win32/Visual Studio dev for 10 years.
I was attracted to it by the lower cost of entry (I didn't have to buy an apple!) and the lack of a GateKeeper at the app store. The pleasant development framework was an added bonus. The smaller user population isn't as cool right now, but I haven't invested so much into it that I can't afford to wait while the market grows.
I don't go to movies to cry, to crawl my soul picking it apart, to discover some great psychobabble about about the human condition...
I go to a damn movie to be entertained. This trailer appears to deliver.
I see this a lot: "It's just Dances with Wolves". Yeah. I liked Battlestar Galactica & Batman, both of which got a reboot recently and yet managed to not suck. It's James Cameron, not Uwe Boll: he's got experience NOT sucking.
Several people say it's all about selling toys. Nerd Alert: I've got a full set of the Hasbro Titanium BSG ships, plus as many TIE Fighters as I can find, and display cases of Stormtroopers. I don't have any ewoks or jar-jars, tho. Obviously being a toy source totally dooms the franchise.
"OH NOES! TEH GRAPHICS! THEY SUXXORS!" Really? I didn't notice any issues. In a 90sec trailer I didn't see crappy textures, broken models, horrible design, etc. What issues are people seeing ?
"It's just all CGI" Dude, I loved TRON. My money is already spent on on TRON 2. I loved the burly brawl. Transformers is printing cash by the truckloads. Wall-e. Nemo. The Incredibles. Cars. Robots. Toy Story. I don't care if it's all CGI. Why does the CGI bother people with this movie and not the others?
My first reaction to the images of the human base was a flashback to Zion in the Matrix series: large robotic battlesuits defending the base. My first reaction to Pandora was how it looked like it embodied the art for the Naya shard in Magic: The Gathering's Alara expansion: deep forest, massive monsters, and the catlike leonin/nacatal warriors. The Matrix and MtG: yeah, I'm sold.
Sadly, it's why I stopped watching Dark Angel. It was the Car-Car Binks of Post-Apocalyptic Seattle.
Yes. I want that too. Very much. DO EEEEET!!!!
Yes, but only if you rapidly alternated blinking your eyes. Much like those fancy 3D glasses nowadays, except ET achieved it by sucking so bad it induced seizures.
I'd actually be OK with letting the Tim Hortons in.....
Since we already have white LED's, I'd guess the real benefit is the ability to easily fine-tune the colors by adjusting the coating.
They are the awesome mices. Regular mice kill my wrists in a minute; with the VM I can code all day.
Added bonus: it's weird & confusing to those who aren't used to it, so people actively avoid your computer.
I think I saw him in L4D last night
What would really help would be a VM that would JIT... Dalvik works but is not speedy -- it remains an interpreter. All it really needs is some JIT compilation to take off. Yes, you could do native stuff using the new NDK, but with like 18 announced phones coming out by year-end, I'd rather not get stuck writing custom code for each CPU.
HOLY POLISHED SHILLELAGH! You mean the Atlanteans had a second city by Ireland ?
After Goliath's defeat, giants ceased to command respect. - Freeman Dyson