What a walled garden is, how they're constructed, and why. Android and iOS are both walled gardens, and even Microsoft is attempting to make Windows a walled garden.
All garden walls crumble; just look at IBM and AOL.
Maybe with this "innovation" Bethesda won't hobble the game play and UI of the next Elder Scrolls game like they did with Oblivion and Skyrim to make them console-friendly.
The tech-illiterate media essentially stole the word to fearmonger with, then its meaning became diluted and distorted though constant overuse and improper use.
I offer this definition:
Modifying an object or system to change its capability or purpose, especially in ways unintended or unforeseen by the creator.
That definition fits everything from making a paper airplane (among the simplest hacks, that almost everyone has seen), hardware/software exploits, to cybernetic implants, and most of what the maker community does. Importantly, it says nothing about the moral/virtuous nature of the functional change, only that there was a change.
We, the technical community, need to seize control of the word and enforce its proper usage.
First, Nintendo has stated that they intend the Switch to last 7 to 10 years. It's 15 months into that life cycle.
He's overestimating how well gamers will tolerate being pushed into a business model very similar to Adobe CreativeCloud, with the added "features" of microtransactions and pay-to-win. Gaming is not a profession, it's recreation; as such, the market's perception of "necessary" is different.
Then again, as much as gamers say they hate EA, they still put up with EA's skulduggery.
This proclamation is about the potential to capture user data in a mandatory controlled environment, not hardware specs or anything about games themselves.
Precisely. Facebook is Oculus' patent entity, therefore not considered a third party. Every other data-grubbing place that facebook shares data with are third parties.
I still think Zuckerberg knew the "users are the product" social media business model, at least the free-wheeling ere of it, was doomed and that's why he diversified into VR. I don't think he's enough of a visionary to see VR as a next step in social media.
I can't see anyone wanting any tech giant's microphone in their home. Or a TV/cable box with a microphone and/or camera in it. All these devices are designed to spy on the user who has little to no control over what information is gathered... having one is an abdication of any concern for privacy: your own and anyone else who might be in your home.
Facebook's business model is analyzing and selling user data. They're not going to change it at all. User privacy goes against their core values, they only really support the illusion of it.
These companies really don't care what users think. They want users to mindlessly consume. They want to imprison users in convincingly safe and comfortable walled gardens. User conferences are all marketing, hype, and corporate image management.
When is Mozilla going to realize that Firefox got popular because of developers and power users and the fact that they keep doing things like this that are hostile to developers and power users is a contributing factor to Firefox's decline in usage?
JS kiddies take DRY to previously unfathomable heights of zealotry, and can't abide including code they don't need. Their eternal quest for perfect code mass optimization explains a lot of the problems with how JS has evolved.
Some npm packages are as little as 7 lines of code... they have more metadata than content. Do you really want all that (350,000 packages as of January 2017) cluttering up your OS-level package manager?
The people most likely to be using npm, and an apparently untested bleeding-edge version of it that gets pushed out automagically (there's a separate bug that pushed out 5.7.0 prematurely), deserve this rancid dog food. This is incontrovertible proof that the JS community lacks competence and leadership.
The problem isn't software complexity, it's the rabid desire to sandblast the UI beyond a minimum threshold of usefulness to serve a hyper-spartan aesthetic trend.
I thought I had written this in my sleep until I got to the last paragraph.
It really seems these groups/entities are looking for ways to distinguish their products rather than actually make them better. Gratuitous and/or ill-considered change masquerading as improvement.
There are two metrics that critics and the public see differently: quality and entertainment value. Critics are more prone to see them as synchronized, when they're often not. The public, being comparatively less astute, can easily be led believe spectacle and A-list cast mean quality.
Bright was a lousy movie due to lame story, bad writing, and ill-considered worldbuilding. But it had spectacle, A-list cast, was something the public (at least those not familiar with things like Shadowrun) had never seen before, and was entertaining.
Apple has lost its edge mainly by succumbing to its own "function follows form" dogma. The main features of any iPhone are sleekness and thinness, which both compromise functionality.
Cases are a necessity because these devices are designed to be fragile, gouging the customer again for the case itself and/or the inevitable repair/replacement of the device.
It's a vicious scam, and unfortunately every handset OEM is convinced they must follow Apple's lead.
Windows Phone is dead (arguable whether it is a good alternative). Samsung was working on a clean-sheet mobile OS, but hasn't launched anything with it as far as I know.
Mobile devices have become virtually indistinguishable from each other within the phone and tablet categories other than OS and screen size. I gave up on getting a new smartphone because nothing has a hardware keyboard anymore... everything is a super-thin slab of touchscreen-only monotony packed with inevitably over-spec'd hardware driving a new upgrade-go-round... no one needs 4K display or 25MP camera on these things.
If you let anyone say what they want in an attention-seeking environment, you get overloaded with garbage. To paraphrase, "A thousand bloggers, given infinite time, will eventually produce a collection of worthwhile and well-considered life hacks." These articles are distracting clickbait masquerading as productivity tips... wholly counterproductive.
Cookies were added in HTTP/1.1 (RFC 2068) in 1997 after two years of specification development. Lots of things about cookies were naively permissive, but it took years to realize this. HTTP/2 (in 2015) did nothing to address cookie flaws.
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What a walled garden is, how they're constructed, and why. Android and iOS are both walled gardens, and even Microsoft is attempting to make Windows a walled garden.
All garden walls crumble; just look at IBM and AOL.
Maybe with this "innovation" Bethesda won't hobble the game play and UI of the next Elder Scrolls game like they did with Oblivion and Skyrim to make them console-friendly.
The tech-illiterate media essentially stole the word to fearmonger with, then its meaning became diluted and distorted though constant overuse and improper use.
I offer this definition:
That definition fits everything from making a paper airplane (among the simplest hacks, that almost everyone has seen), hardware/software exploits, to cybernetic implants, and most of what the maker community does. Importantly, it says nothing about the moral/virtuous nature of the functional change, only that there was a change.
We, the technical community, need to seize control of the word and enforce its proper usage.
First, Nintendo has stated that they intend the Switch to last 7 to 10 years. It's 15 months into that life cycle.
He's overestimating how well gamers will tolerate being pushed into a business model very similar to Adobe CreativeCloud, with the added "features" of microtransactions and pay-to-win. Gaming is not a profession, it's recreation; as such, the market's perception of "necessary" is different.
Then again, as much as gamers say they hate EA, they still put up with EA's skulduggery.
This proclamation is about the potential to capture user data in a mandatory controlled environment, not hardware specs or anything about games themselves.
Account security is why I left T-Mobile in 2007. I'm not looking forward to being their customer again due to the Sprint merger.
* Parent entity, not patent.
Precisely. Facebook is Oculus' patent entity, therefore not considered a third party. Every other data-grubbing place that facebook shares data with are third parties.
I still think Zuckerberg knew the "users are the product" social media business model, at least the free-wheeling ere of it, was doomed and that's why he diversified into VR. I don't think he's enough of a visionary to see VR as a next step in social media.
I can't see anyone wanting any tech giant's microphone in their home. Or a TV/cable box with a microphone and/or camera in it. All these devices are designed to spy on the user who has little to no control over what information is gathered... having one is an abdication of any concern for privacy: your own and anyone else who might be in your home.
Facebook's business model is analyzing and selling user data. They're not going to change it at all. User privacy goes against their core values, they only really support the illusion of it.
These companies really don't care what users think. They want users to mindlessly consume. They want to imprison users in convincingly safe and comfortable walled gardens. User conferences are all marketing, hype, and corporate image management.
When is Mozilla going to realize that Firefox got popular because of developers and power users and the fact that they keep doing things like this that are hostile to developers and power users is a contributing factor to Firefox's decline in usage?
JS kiddies take DRY to previously unfathomable heights of zealotry, and can't abide including code they don't need. Their eternal quest for perfect code mass optimization explains a lot of the problems with how JS has evolved.
Some npm packages are as little as 7 lines of code... they have more metadata than content. Do you really want all that (350,000 packages as of January 2017) cluttering up your OS-level package manager?
The people most likely to be using npm, and an apparently untested bleeding-edge version of it that gets pushed out automagically (there's a separate bug that pushed out 5.7.0 prematurely), deserve this rancid dog food. This is incontrovertible proof that the JS community lacks competence and leadership.
Facebook would morph from Digg to Reddit. As much as I'd like to see Facebook sublimated into space, a dislike button wouldn't accomplish that.
The problem isn't software complexity, it's the rabid desire to sandblast the UI beyond a minimum threshold of usefulness to serve a hyper-spartan aesthetic trend.
I thought I had written this in my sleep until I got to the last paragraph.
It really seems these groups/entities are looking for ways to distinguish their products rather than actually make them better. Gratuitous and/or ill-considered change masquerading as improvement.
There are two metrics that critics and the public see differently: quality and entertainment value. Critics are more prone to see them as synchronized, when they're often not. The public, being comparatively less astute, can easily be led believe spectacle and A-list cast mean quality.
Bright was a lousy movie due to lame story, bad writing, and ill-considered worldbuilding. But it had spectacle, A-list cast, was something the public (at least those not familiar with things like Shadowrun) had never seen before, and was entertaining.
Apple has lost its edge mainly by succumbing to its own "function follows form" dogma. The main features of any iPhone are sleekness and thinness, which both compromise functionality.
Cases are a necessity because these devices are designed to be fragile, gouging the customer again for the case itself and/or the inevitable repair/replacement of the device.
It's a vicious scam, and unfortunately every handset OEM is convinced they must follow Apple's lead.
He can't justify his decisions, they're unjustifiable. He is Verizon's stooge, pure and simple. I wonder if the other telecoms are chipping in.
Calling his appearance a discussion is laughably generous. He was going to get curb-stomped, at least figuratively.
Windows Phone is dead (arguable whether it is a good alternative). Samsung was working on a clean-sheet mobile OS, but hasn't launched anything with it as far as I know.
Mobile devices have become virtually indistinguishable from each other within the phone and tablet categories other than OS and screen size. I gave up on getting a new smartphone because nothing has a hardware keyboard anymore... everything is a super-thin slab of touchscreen-only monotony packed with inevitably over-spec'd hardware driving a new upgrade-go-round... no one needs 4K display or 25MP camera on these things.
Root your phone, then you'll be able to remove all the crapware.
Until MS devises garden wall technology to keep foxes out.
If you let anyone say what they want in an attention-seeking environment, you get overloaded with garbage. To paraphrase, "A thousand bloggers, given infinite time, will eventually produce a collection of worthwhile and well-considered life hacks." These articles are distracting clickbait masquerading as productivity tips... wholly counterproductive.
Cookies were added in HTTP/1.1 (RFC 2068) in 1997 after two years of specification development. Lots of things about cookies were naively permissive, but it took years to realize this. HTTP/2 (in 2015) did nothing to address cookie flaws.