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by teamonkey 18y ago
This is built in to the Maps functionality on the iPhone. Typing in "taxi" will show me the details of the nearest cab companies and touching the phone number that appears will let me call them. Getting the nearest free cab to drive to me w
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by teamonkey 18y ago
No problem. If Lively becomes popular it's still not going to be in the same market space as what the OP is doing. Not all Virtual Worlds share the same market. Google don't want to take over any and all VW, they want to be the platform tha
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by teamonkey 18y ago
SVG on the iPhone would be a big plus. All the web-based clients use flash so can't be accessed on the iphone. I'm sure there's a SVG->VML javascript toolkit out there somewhere.
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by teamonkey 18y ago
Lively is and never will be a significant competitor to the VW business as we know it now. It's an early prototype of a tiny part of the vision they have; the dipping of the proverbial toe in the water. What Lively and the other Google tech
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by teamonkey 18y ago
You have a distinct advantage over a 3D world if you don't need a special plugin (other than a bog standard Flash player) and it works in the most common browsers (Firefox, IE6, IE 7, Safari). Cater to what people would have installed at wo
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by teamonkey 18y ago
To be honest I didn't see that many valid points. Plenty of "lol wut?" but no real criticism apart from the colour of the background. Having said that, like a lot of those people I'm also 100% sure I can build a trip counter with a much bet
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by teamonkey 18y ago
Surely all they need to protect themselves is publish a paper outlining the method into the public domain?
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by teamonkey 18y ago
Raph Koster did a presentation at GDC2007 that touched on this: http://www.raphkoster.com/gaming/gdcprime2007.shtml The slides that struck me were this one: http://www.raphkoster.com/gaming/gdcprime2007/Slide61.JPG followed by this one
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by teamonkey 18y ago
>I wonder how non-technical people not knowledgeable about crontab and scripting deal with such things? I don't know without knowing the contents of his crontab. I can't honestly think how using cron could help you become more stream-ce
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by teamonkey 18y ago
A lightbulb wastes watts, idle power adaptors waste milliwatts. You can still save a few <currency> on your annual bill by switching the lights off when you don't need them and using energy-saving bulbs. OK, so that's probably in th
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by teamonkey 18y ago
The Fruit OS has been mentioned before in the GTA series, in a radio debate between Bill and Steve... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto:_Liberty_City_...
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by teamonkey 18y ago
My brain's frazzled. Are you using US gallons or Imperial gallons in those calculations? I'd suggest they go a step further though. The first thing I do when looking for a new car is convert the mpg figures into pence per mile.
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by teamonkey 18y ago
I don't think he's saying that little actions have no effect, just that the little actions that have an effect aren't always the ones you'd think.
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by teamonkey 18y ago
Tim Sweeney (Epic/UnrealEngine) did a great presentation a while ago about what his ideal game engine programming language would be like. http://www.st.cs.uni-sb.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced-fp/doc... (PDF) It's almost a cry for help, bu
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by teamonkey 18y ago
...And an expiry time for unregistered users. Also, think about reducing the size of the save game file! Many PS2 game saves fitted into 32K. Good game though :)
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by teamonkey 18y ago
Why can't you store the save games on the server? You can easily store a unique access key in the default 100k for casual users (and I assume that registered users log in).
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by teamonkey 18y ago
I've used Funambol for some time on WinMo. I'm not quite sure how it would work on the iPhone without being able to run as a background process. Anyone know?
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by teamonkey 18y ago
Thanks for that, Dani. For an astrophysics geek like me this is a huge deal and that post was beautifully clear and eloquent. I imagine there are some very excited cosmologists right now.
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by teamonkey 18y ago
Yeah, a quick look at Wiki shows that there aren't many VCS compatible with the BSD license. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_...
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by teamonkey 18y ago
Don't you have to be already registered as an undergraduate student at MIT to be eligible for those examinations?
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by teamonkey 18y ago
There's Zopa, which probably inspired Couchtycoon. Zopa does P2P loans rather than investments (like Prosper, I guess). I don't know what the state is in the US, but it's all above board in the EU. There have been a few companies looking fo
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by teamonkey 18y ago
>The best reason to keep the Eurovision though is as a stark warning to what would happen if the UK integrates any further with Europe. We run the risk of winning and have to host the thing?
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by teamonkey 18y ago
I grew up in and around Oxford. In my summer I worked for a laundry service that cleaned the sheets of Oxford students. I know for a fact that they often made the wrong decisions in many different ways.
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by teamonkey 18y ago
>I realize it is 'just a piece of paper', but that piece of paper signifies an accomplishment. What's written on that piece of paper is more important than the accomplishment in my experience, at least as long as finding a job is concer
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by teamonkey 18y ago
"What is scientific about giving game figures an artificial idea of morals?" I got the impression that the "next" game he was talking about, the scientific achievement that would be on the cover of Wired, would be the one after Fable 2.