I think there is a part of the psychology that the creators didn't spot: To me, it feels like i'm spending my money two times. First time when i'm exchanging my real-world money for points. And the second time when i'm spending my points on a game.
It obviously vary by country, but I think prepaid phone systems have that policy of not wanting to return your cash. If you dump your money, they are gone. One reason for not paying back (MS points in this case, as i'm most familiar with those), is that the exchange rate varies a lot, depending where you buy them. Sometimes they are even giving them away (in retail games etc). So they don't have one distinct value, and not all the money go to MS.
At least then you get the product slightly cheaper. I find products with plenty of cpu far more annoying. Take the Xbox 360 UI. A lot of the menu navigation has a delay of about 1 sec, just for doing some animation. And input is disabled in that time.
What would we think if M$ or Compu$erve had come up with their own protocol, to be accessed by their own application program?
"Have they documented it?" "Have they made an open sourced reference implementation?" "Is the protocol royalty free?" "Is there any indication that they are are going to drop/deemphasize support for previous protocols?"
Unfortunately for the fish, it never questioned why a free worm was just sort of dangling there in the water.
Do you really think people don't know that Google is ad-supported? Do you think they don't question the economics of offering services "for free"? That they don't notice the ads?
I'm not sure, but wouldn't this exclude them from common-carrier protections? If so, it should be fairly easy to make them provide you with illegal services (think gambling, not CP - no reason to get FBI on your ass).
But a simple app like this* adds more popularity to 3d scanning and printing than a hundred "easy to solder" 3d scanner schematics. Joe Average would never ever build his own, or even buy a pre-built one. But if he can be entertained for 5 minutes by a free app, then maybe he could begin to understand the idea of 3d printers. And then maybe they could become economically viable to mass-produce.
*I haven't actually tried the app, but I assume it at least could be made relatively simple to use.
I think Half-life 2 did something like this. I remember playing a pirated version once, and a couple hours into the game, an NPC would outrun you and lock a fence door ahead of you, then autosave. Damn I hated that NPC, standing there and looking at me through the fence. And yes, I later bought the game.
I would assume the pushed files carried a header with their name in it, and that the browser would cache the files for a short time, until it could match the tags in foo.html with the files pushed (or discard them if unneeded). As to the MIME stuff, I admit I don't really know. But it seems like an academic question, since (I suspect) this needs support in both client and server.
I admit that I'd rather see this done as http version 1.2 and a new version of TCP. But going through ISO or similar would take at least five years, and Google likes to do things fast, love it or hate it.
I can see how they can cut a round-trip with server-push. You request foo.html, and besides giving you that file, it also sends img1.jpg and img2.jpg, that you would likely request anyway.
And doing this over TCP is quite nice. In the ideal world, SCTP would be better, but NAT routers en masse would need an upgrade, so it probably wouldn't happen until the whole world uses IPv6.
I see it more as a typical google-thing, with massive open betas. But I can't see how this would make the browser incompatible. It still serves HTTP(S), and Google's servers work as they've done always (seen from the perspective of a competing browser). And the specs are out there, and documented.
Because that's how cell phones work. Cell phone companies must know where you are so that they can route your calls and data to the nearest cell phone tower.
But they don't need to know where you've been for the last six months.
It's not exactly what you wish for, but I once saw a study that claimed that ~25 Danish people die each year due to the stress of losing an hour of sleep (out of ~5 mill people)(and sorry, I have no source). Half a year later we save 5 lives. With 2 hours of DST, even a politician or a journalist can imagine what will happen.
I'm thinking the same. On one hand, it's understandable, given that they probably aren't going to make a ton of money on GPL apps anyway. But on the other hand, WP7 is late to the smartphone game, and they are going to need all the developers, developers, developers they can get. They are acting like they own the market (well they are used to owning the PC market).
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I think there is a part of the psychology that the creators didn't spot: To me, it feels like i'm spending my money two times. First time when i'm exchanging my real-world money for points. And the second time when i'm spending my points on a game.
It obviously vary by country, but I think prepaid phone systems have that policy of not wanting to return your cash. If you dump your money, they are gone.
One reason for not paying back (MS points in this case, as i'm most familiar with those), is that the exchange rate varies a lot, depending where you buy them. Sometimes they are even giving them away (in retail games etc). So they don't have one distinct value, and not all the money go to MS.
The fact that it's been validated by the system it critiques invalidates it.
No, that's a false dilemma. "Is not perfect" != "Nothing works"
At least then you get the product slightly cheaper. I find products with plenty of cpu far more annoying. Take the Xbox 360 UI. A lot of the menu navigation has a delay of about 1 sec, just for doing some animation. And input is disabled in that time.
What would we think if M$ or Compu$erve had come up with their own protocol, to be accessed by their own application program?
"Have they documented it?"
"Have they made an open sourced reference implementation?"
"Is the protocol royalty free?"
"Is there any indication that they are are going to drop/deemphasize support for previous protocols?"
Unfortunately for the fish, it never questioned why a free worm was just sort of dangling there in the water.
Do you really think people don't know that Google is ad-supported? Do you think they don't question the economics of offering services "for free"? That they don't notice the ads?
It's just the "Labradoodles are fake"-hoax.
I'm not sure, but wouldn't this exclude them from common-carrier protections? If so, it should be fairly easy to make them provide you with illegal services (think gambling, not CP - no reason to get FBI on your ass).
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/looflirpa/e8be/
Yeah, duh.
But a simple app like this* adds more popularity to 3d scanning and printing than a hundred "easy to solder" 3d scanner schematics. Joe Average would never ever build his own, or even buy a pre-built one.
But if he can be entertained for 5 minutes by a free app, then maybe he could begin to understand the idea of 3d printers. And then maybe they could become economically viable to mass-produce.
*I haven't actually tried the app, but I assume it at least could be made relatively simple to use.
I think Half-life 2 did something like this. I remember playing a pirated version once, and a couple hours into the game, an NPC would outrun you and lock a fence door ahead of you, then autosave. Damn I hated that NPC, standing there and looking at me through the fence. And yes, I later bought the game.
But why would Sony want to settle the case?
I would assume the pushed files carried a header with their name in it, and that the browser would cache the files for a short time, until it could match the tags in foo.html with the files pushed (or discard them if unneeded).
As to the MIME stuff, I admit I don't really know. But it seems like an academic question, since (I suspect) this needs support in both client and server.
I admit that I'd rather see this done as http version 1.2 and a new version of TCP. But going through ISO or similar would take at least five years, and Google likes to do things fast, love it or hate it.
I can see how they can cut a round-trip with server-push. You request foo.html, and besides giving you that file, it also sends img1.jpg and img2.jpg, that you would likely request anyway.
And doing this over TCP is quite nice. In the ideal world, SCTP would be better, but NAT routers en masse would need an upgrade, so it probably wouldn't happen until the whole world uses IPv6.
I see it more as a typical google-thing, with massive open betas.
But I can't see how this would make the browser incompatible. It still serves HTTP(S), and Google's servers work as they've done always (seen from the perspective of a competing browser). And the specs are out there, and documented.
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Because that's how cell phones work. Cell phone companies must know where you are so that they can route your calls and data to the nearest cell phone tower.
But they don't need to know where you've been for the last six months.
Do you have access to the metering service of your phone?
Yeah, i'd figure that too. Especially since Libya is a no-fly zone.
How else are you gonna make more virgins? :)
Or you could keep a 2D barcode on your phone, as a picture. Just open the pic and let them scan it.
Wasn't that the benchmark where IE9 "cheated"?
Now, what Apple is similar to trying to trademark "OS" as a name for their Operating System
You mean like OS X? :)
It's not exactly what you wish for, but I once saw a study that claimed that ~25 Danish people die each year due to the stress of losing an hour of sleep (out of ~5 mill people)(and sorry, I have no source). Half a year later we save 5 lives.
With 2 hours of DST, even a politician or a journalist can imagine what will happen.
I'm thinking the same.
On one hand, it's understandable, given that they probably aren't going to make a ton of money on GPL apps anyway.
But on the other hand, WP7 is late to the smartphone game, and they are going to need all the developers, developers, developers they can get.
They are acting like they own the market (well they are used to owning the PC market).