If you look at the docs and stuff, there's just so many stupid things.. like there now being no semantic replacement for like there is with and , and the stupid rules involving
s not being allowed in
s. And the worst part, and I don't know if this is w3c's fault, but using & for html entities is inexcusably broken. URLs have already had & reserved for years, and now you suddenly can't use a & in a link.
If Elite comes to Canada (which they probably will) it'll be almost a scam-level bad purchase. You see, the main reason to have the big hard drive is to download video.
But, 99% of the actual video marketplace is not available in Canada.
So we'd be paying $100 basically for an HDMI port and a coat of paint.
Particularly since I believe the wording here involves making 'reasonable' attempts to make sure you dont have anything infringing, and with this to light, Viacom cannot claim that what they want is reasonable.
In a lot of things, there's just no real alternative to Java. You can say "oh flash beats java" but that's not true. Flash is, at it's heart, designed for interactive animations. You can't really do 3D in it, you can't really do networking with it, and you can't share classes between server and client (there is something to be said about being able to write both sides of a client server app, along with the website code, in one language)
"Programming" in Flash is just graphics scripting. You can do alot with it, but it's always going to be a problem.
You also can't develop reasonable flash for free- you can with Java.
There isn't, at this point, a real free semi-common development language for embedding into a webpage other than Java. If they would only make the VM load faster, and make it install easier in different browsers, sun would be laughing...
1) Ask no questions except to put in the install key upfront. Run everything else with basic assumptions. Run the config AFTER installation. Actually, I'd find this to be far more archaic and worse. A 2007 install should work the way you want it right out of the box. Everything should be changeable afterwards, but an install shouldn't bother installing internet components on a non-internet connected machine (for example).
It's not the 90s any more, only installing with 'basic assumptions' is no longer acceptable.
By the way, does Vista dump if you change your motherboard like XP does because of the IDE drivers only being changeable during an install?
If there's one thing that the Wii downloadable content doesn't need right now, it's more shoot em ups. The virtual console has: -Gradius -Xevious -R-Type -R-Type 3 -Super Star Soldier -Soldier Blade
'DVD players needed over a decade to supersede the VCR in the living rooms of the United States and there is little reason to believe that HD DVD and Blu-ray player adoption will outpace that of the DVD.'" In fact, there's every reason to believe that adoption will be significantly slower. Most people switched to DVD players because they had better features, not because they looked better. No tape jams, no rewinding, skipping ahead in a movie, special features, etc.
Plus, we've reached a place where the average person has DVD collections - they didn't so much for VHS tapes. Nobody ever bought season box sets of tapes en masse before DVDs, now they're suddenly saying "buy them again!"?
If they made it on the other systems, then it would be an EXTRA peripheral. Only the Dual Shock, and to a lesser extent the Dance Pad, were ever successful as after-release add ons.
Well, obviously, the DRM would have to require encryption (not heavy, just a few key places in the file that can't be extrapolated)
Make it so you can play it on your machines all the time, but require some sort of identification to play it on someone elses machine that expires once it's played on one of your machines again?
We're never going to win the anti-DRM war, so what the world needs is a RDM that actually works for everybody.
The main problem with DRM is how self-defeating the current model is. If they really want to do the whole thing right it needs to:
Be a universal standard. DRM now is used mostly to lock users down to one class of devices. But it really needs to work between companies and between devices. That video you download off of iTunes should work on your 360 and on your TiVO and on your PSP.
Allow users to do what they want with it, just prevent mass-sharing. But convenience sharing, like bringing it to a friends house, the companies don't realize how important that is.
Work on people's current systems, or at most, require a minor upgrade. This is where HDCP breaks apart entirely. You need to build a new PC from the ground up, including your MONITOR, to be able to play HDCP content. That's just crazy.
You can't put people in chains unless they've done something wrong
Unless ALL of these things come to pass, DRM is an unworkable mess and will cause the companies involved in it to fail miserably.
The accelerometer returns acceleration along 3 directions, with relation to the remote. This allows it to detect tilt by figuring out which way gravity is, giving it 3 rotational axises.
The POINTER system can determine a) how far off in what direction the sensor bar is from where the remote is pointing, b) how far away from the sensor bar the remote is and c) The rotation of the remote with respect to the sensor bar.
THis means the wiimote basically has two ways to detect rotation along that one axis, incidentally.
Of course this whole topic is pretty silly, really: It's not like there's a scale "POWER" that you can say "this machine has X power and this machine has Y power and Y is greater than X.
Word on the developer front is that it takes more of the machine's raw processor power to do certian game-related graphical elements on a PS3 than on 3 60. In fact, some stuff that's easy to do on the XBox 360 with a trivial performance hit, is actually prohibitively expensive performance-wise on a PS3 (such as back buffer anti-aliasing)
If you have two chef robots, and one can process 100 instructions an hour, and another can only process 50, but if the 'faster' one you have to tell "pick up egg" and "crack egg" and "pour egg into bowl" and then "mix egg", but the 'slower one' you can just give one instruction: "mix egg", which is 'more powerful'?
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s. And the worst part, and I don't know if this is w3c's fault, but using & for html entities is inexcusably broken. URLs have already had & reserved for years, and now you suddenly can't use a & in a link.
I don't understand what people are saying here.. Photobucket was never particularly good, it was just there when you needed it.
Didn't they lower their expectations in January? And now they're saying it's higher than expectations? How does that work?
I've always liked "The Internet is a Network of Networks"
Nah, it's not that, he just thought it was cake mix.
They already have that- Zune software and Media Center can stream/send video to a 360.
If Elite comes to Canada (which they probably will) it'll be almost a scam-level bad purchase. You see, the main reason to have the big hard drive is to download video.
But, 99% of the actual video marketplace is not available in Canada.
So we'd be paying $100 basically for an HDMI port and a coat of paint.
Regarding 1), this generation I imagine it costs a lot more to lock in an exclusive. How much is it worth to give up 1/3rd of your profits?
Particularly since I believe the wording here involves making 'reasonable' attempts to make sure you dont have anything infringing, and with this to light, Viacom cannot claim that what they want is reasonable.
Why not download the Demo off Live?
One could argue that the actual evidence collection was when the police got it from the hacker, not when the hacker got it from hacking.
I heard the number of donations tripled in the last six months.
In a lot of things, there's just no real alternative to Java. You can say "oh flash beats java" but that's not true. Flash is, at it's heart, designed for interactive animations. You can't really do 3D in it, you can't really do networking with it, and you can't share classes between server and client (there is something to be said about being able to write both sides of a client server app, along with the website code, in one language)
"Programming" in Flash is just graphics scripting. You can do alot with it, but it's always going to be a problem.
You also can't develop reasonable flash for free- you can with Java.
There isn't, at this point, a real free semi-common development language for embedding into a webpage other than Java. If they would only make the VM load faster, and make it install easier in different browsers, sun would be laughing...
It has nothing to do with rights, it's just a pissing match between companies to lock each other out.
It's CMM - Corporate Monopoly Management.
The ones pushing proprietary DRMs probably could actually care less about piracy.
It's not the 90s any more, only installing with 'basic assumptions' is no longer acceptable.
By the way, does Vista dump if you change your motherboard like XP does because of the IDE drivers only being changeable during an install?
Truly, perhaps, we are the bombs.
If there's one thing that the Wii downloadable content doesn't need right now, it's more shoot em ups. The virtual console has:
-Gradius
-Xevious
-R-Type
-R-Type 3
-Super Star Soldier
-Soldier Blade
Plus, we've reached a place where the average person has DVD collections - they didn't so much for VHS tapes. Nobody ever bought season box sets of tapes en masse before DVDs, now they're suddenly saying "buy them again!"?
If they made it on the other systems, then it would be an EXTRA peripheral. Only the Dual Shock, and to a lesser extent the Dance Pad, were ever successful as after-release add ons.
Well, obviously, the DRM would have to require encryption (not heavy, just a few key places in the file that can't be extrapolated)
Make it so you can play it on your machines all the time, but require some sort of identification to play it on someone elses machine that expires once it's played on one of your machines again?
We're never going to win the anti-DRM war, so what the world needs is a RDM that actually works for everybody.
Unless ALL of these things come to pass, DRM is an unworkable mess and will cause the companies involved in it to fail miserably.
The popular can do whatever they want!
But doesn't this basically mean "if we told everyone the price then people would know it was illegal!"
There's an accelerometer and the pointer.
The accelerometer returns acceleration along 3 directions, with relation to the remote. This allows it to detect tilt by figuring out which way gravity is, giving it 3 rotational axises.
The POINTER system can determine a) how far off in what direction the sensor bar is from where the remote is pointing, b) how far away from the sensor bar the remote is and c) The rotation of the remote with respect to the sensor bar.
THis means the wiimote basically has two ways to detect rotation along that one axis, incidentally.
Of course this whole topic is pretty silly, really: It's not like there's a scale "POWER" that you can say "this machine has X power and this machine has Y power and Y is greater than X.
Word on the developer front is that it takes more of the machine's raw processor power to do certian game-related graphical elements on a PS3 than on 3 60. In fact, some stuff that's easy to do on the XBox 360 with a trivial performance hit, is actually prohibitively expensive performance-wise on a PS3 (such as back buffer anti-aliasing)
If you have two chef robots, and one can process 100 instructions an hour, and another can only process 50, but if the 'faster' one you have to tell "pick up egg" and "crack egg" and "pour egg into bowl" and then "mix egg", but the 'slower one' you can just give one instruction: "mix egg", which is 'more powerful'?