When you create a PDF, you specify a particular size of the output.
actually hen it comes to e-readers that's not the case, if it is like the astak device that I use (built on a hanlin), you can reflow the pdf or set it to follow the page breaks and such- it is though, an e-READER and not like the ipad which is essentially a document viewer so it is geared towards text reading.
Meanwhile, these vendors seem totally oblivious to the all the things Apple got exactly right with the iPad (form factor, battery life, consistent touch-optimized UI, integration with the existing iTunes ecosystem......
actually I absolutely disagree, what apple got right is marketing. I know 5 people that have had iPads since the release, 2 of them say it is collecting dust and 2 of them use it because they feel that they should but aren't satisfied with it and one loves it. From what I have used of the device, I am completely unimpressed with it. I think that what it comes down to is that more often than not people are feeling that they have value from the device because they want to have value from the device or because they don't understand the lengths of what a tablet can do versus what an iPad does.
I am all for the lightweight simplified Win7 tablets and the eepad looks like a really nice device. I am not saying windows is the be all end all either- I would love to get one and have it dual boot (how the software keyboard would work I am not sure) with linux, and at the same point I want an android "slate" device, but I see the iPad as all hype for what is essentially a toy and not a computing device.
But - humans, like everything else that walks or swims or flagellates in nature, are just animals. The primitive, tribalist pack mentality is seen at all levels of human interaction, from sports teams to H.O.A.'s to the ethnocentricism of entire corporations, countries, and races. Modern technology enables the development and prosperity of more and more lone wolves. People are becoming greedier and greedier with unprecedented thirst for power and control.
actually that is the exact opposite of the truth- it is our humanity that makes us greedy and with a thirst for power and control.
When you look at animals very few animals hoard or posses anything outside of personal territory, they leave half eaten kills for scavengers- they defend their personal territory but do not subjugate other animals to them unless it is within their social structure to do so and even at that normally the defeated animal yields and joins the group following a defeat. The only other animals that follow our similar negative traits are our closest relatives- primates, which shows verry illustratively that it isn't our animal side- it is our intelligent side- our primate side that is the evil one and our animal one, which acts out of instinct and is ruled by impulse that shies from it.
They're asking the courts to prevent them from downloading their stuff again... How would you implement that?
especially since it isn't a specific studio- it is a gun-for-hire henchmob. None of those movies that are listed are by the same studio, a bunch of greedy and uninformed producers hired the goons to sue people and in the long run are going to have a serious cryfest when they get the bill, you think that that $15 million is going to carry you that far from the hurt locker? I have been working in firms for the last 10 years doing electronic discovery and support to attorneys and I will tell you- labor doesn't come cheap- if out of those 5000 cases 10% of them go to trial (which is the average) they will need to spend on the order of 5-10 times what the film made just to bring those cases to court (especially if they are planning to sieze the defendent's computers), and if they win? they won't get any money anyways- the people that downloaded the films will just go bankrupt and have to pay a court ordered reasonable fee or experience some sort of garnishment that won't pay the bills. Either way the studio goes belly up if they continue the route.
I can see that, though alienware was already designing some pretty cool stuff at that point- and gateway and dell were both starting to bring design elements, they just didn't go as far because they already had a market that they didn't want to upset
the problem though is that the law has it both ways, it says that the IP is licensed when you purchase a copy of it, yet feels no responsibility to either replace if lost or damaged or allow you to reproduce the purchased license to another piece of media, yet it declares that each physical piece of media is a separate purchase and entity.
when it comes down to it IP holders in general (and I am one, though not one that thinks this way) use whatever argument is best suited for them to make money from, not one that is consistent or in the best interest of artists/filmmakers or the consumer.
The unique thing that Apple did was actually bring design into the world of computing
That is very true, I hadn't ever seen anything like the ipad before it was designed, well with the exception of previously designed tablets, digital picture frames, lcd monitors, windows, rectangles, etc.
what apple did isn't bring design to the table, they brought the idea that they were designing to the table, they didn't bring revolution, they brought the idea that they were creating a revolution- they ripped off everything that they have done and repackaged and readvertised it as the next big thing-
true, things have kind of gone off the rails where conservative and liberal don't make sense right now where the far left and far right meet where both are terrible, just in different areas and when it comes to things like copyright both parties have had reasons for coming down on the wrong side, conservatives because of the support for IP ownership and liberals on the side of copyright enforcement. When it comes to issues like copyright, the way an individual politician comes down on the issue tends to be more important than the party affiliation.
But I think you're right that if a game is popular enough the pirates will take interest in it, if only to make it available to others even if they're no interested in it themselves.
actually though it is kind of the opposite, shovelware makes it more desirable to pirate since if you have a small but powerful catalog of games the large scale development of alternative firmwares and/or flashcarts is less likely to happen since the attraction of having x amount of games for free is actually a big draw. You don't see people buying flashcarts for say, puzzlequest but you do for puzzlequest + hundreds of others even if the others are crap
It seems that nintendo isn't interested in the wii right now, it seems to me that they are more focused on the 3ds since it has all of the bells and whistles, 3d, multitouch, accelerometer and 2 screens- they want to give apple a run for their money more than they do microsoft and sony.
you know the game console could just have an sd card slot, you then just sell ROM only SD cards- saves are stored on the system nowadays so you don't need to have the whole readable and writable format on the card- most 360 games aren't more than 4 gigs and many are far less, with a read/write standard SD card being $5-8 for a 2 gig you could certainly press them for even cheaper. Reading the games off of an SD would improve the power consumption for sure as well as speed loading.
in general the only difference between multitouch and single touch is the implementation of the ui, your usual pinch and expand multitouch commands could easily be implemented for example with ctrl+up or down, buttons slaved to keys, none of that would change any of the underlying code or design of the game, it is just an adjustment of a ui layer.
I know what you are saying but flash CS5 besides the new script abilities has a cross compiler for iphone/ipad as well as HTML5, so anything that you do really is cross platform and in order to make changes to say the UI or resolution it is just an.as swap nad a recompile from the same.fla/.as.with the new flash.
Actually I heard a pretty good argument recently about the game and app aspect, the fact is that if you can use flash as a development platform and can compile and hybridize applications, you don't need to port code in order to move to other platforms whereas if you are forced to use objective c then porting becomes more difficult and you end up with timed exclusives on all releases, forcing people that want a specific game or app, at least for a period to purchase them from the app store rather than having a web based or platform based alternative that runs identically to the ipad/iphone versions. Sucks for the public, sucks for devs, good for apple.......
f I'm playing a game with a storyline and a quest, I want the gameplay to be tight, focused on the storyline,
well, I think that both sandboxes and rails have their place, I think that for me the supreme example of how I hate a tight storyline rail was when I played hitman 2, there was a level that I played in that game that drove me nuts because you had to assassinate this official who was having a meeting and the only way to do it was to go into a watchtower and snipe- snipe from the bushes, and his head blows off followed by him getting in a limo and taking off- run up with a rifle and gun down every single guard and the official, after everyone has been killed cut to him getting in a limo and taking off- there was zero room for movement. Those kinds of restrictions make a game no fun since half of playing a game is restriction and half is free will, if you don't balance the 2 and lean too far in either direction then a game tends to lose a lot of enjoyability.
speaking as someone who has worked in the legal field for nearly 10 years now I have to say that the problem is far deeper than to just blame lawyers. Judges are left to interpret standing laws that are passed by persons in the political system be it via proposition or congress. Most people in congress aren't actually lawyers and truth be told those that are tend to be either plaintiff (civil) or criminal, you don't often see defense lawyers running for one because the money is too good and secondly because the public would tear them a new one when they find out that they say, defended corporations, molesting priest, pharma companies, etc.
I think that you are confusing lawyers with politicians and businessmen who use lawyers which are generally a resource to carry out their own ends. For the most part lawyers don't care about WHAT they are fighting for, they fight whatever the fight is because that is their job.
that's a hidden boon for The Pirate Bay, which would quickly be renamed to The Parody Bay, and totally legal!
Here in the US that is for sure, though at the same time that becomes true for all piracy, you could consider any distribution parody so long as you declare that it is being done as a mockery of DMCA and enforcement - in essence any copyright law could be broken by stating that it was broken in parody.
Are people honestly arguing that we should use more paper because the people who stand to financially benefit from using more paper said so? Have we gotten to be that stupid?
have you looked around lately? people are carrying obama-hitler signs and trying to elect people like meg whitman here in California to office because they want change, what change is that? It is the change they get because someone says "I will bring change" even though it is not only the same plan that is killing us but pushes us further down the same path. People think that there are conspiracies with the vaccination program, conspiracies that we didn't land on the moon, drugging of the water, a plan for a global currency, giants living at the north pole- the list goes on and on. People are very good at believing exactly what you tell them so long as you suggest that they are different, that they have some enlightenment that others don't. Personally it has been driving me crazy lately.
I have been working with the neurosky headset as of late, it is less accurate (not in readings but since it has less contact points id has a more broad measure of activity) and doesn't measure facial features but is as easy as putting on a set of headphones and way less expensive. The emoviv set seems like it could be really cool in more of a controlled setting but I don't see it hooking up to your home console with much success anytime soon.
here are actually two left, The Doctor and his "daughter", Jenny.
I really hope they decide to build on that one and bring jenny back- but also actually there are 3- because donna noble is now part time lord, hence why she didn't become a "master" in the end of last season
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When you create a PDF, you specify a particular size of the output.
actually hen it comes to e-readers that's not the case, if it is like the astak device that I use (built on a hanlin), you can reflow the pdf or set it to follow the page breaks and such- it is though, an e-READER and not like the ipad which is essentially a document viewer so it is geared towards text reading.
Meanwhile, these vendors seem totally oblivious to the all the things Apple got exactly right with the iPad (form factor, battery life, consistent touch-optimized UI, integration with the existing iTunes ecosystem......
actually I absolutely disagree, what apple got right is marketing. I know 5 people that have had iPads since the release, 2 of them say it is collecting dust and 2 of them use it because they feel that they should but aren't satisfied with it and one loves it. From what I have used of the device, I am completely unimpressed with it. I think that what it comes down to is that more often than not people are feeling that they have value from the device because they want to have value from the device or because they don't understand the lengths of what a tablet can do versus what an iPad does.
I am all for the lightweight simplified Win7 tablets and the eepad looks like a really nice device. I am not saying windows is the be all end all either- I would love to get one and have it dual boot (how the software keyboard would work I am not sure) with linux, and at the same point I want an android "slate" device, but I see the iPad as all hype for what is essentially a toy and not a computing device.
But - humans, like everything else that walks or swims or flagellates in nature, are just animals. The primitive, tribalist pack mentality is seen at all levels of human interaction, from sports teams to H.O.A.'s to the ethnocentricism of entire corporations, countries, and races. Modern technology enables the development and prosperity of more and more lone wolves. People are becoming greedier and greedier with unprecedented thirst for power and control.
actually that is the exact opposite of the truth- it is our humanity that makes us greedy and with a thirst for power and control.
When you look at animals very few animals hoard or posses anything outside of personal territory, they leave half eaten kills for scavengers- they defend their personal territory but do not subjugate other animals to them unless it is within their social structure to do so and even at that normally the defeated animal yields and joins the group following a defeat. The only other animals that follow our similar negative traits are our closest relatives- primates, which shows verry illustratively that it isn't our animal side- it is our intelligent side- our primate side that is the evil one and our animal one, which acts out of instinct and is ruled by impulse that shies from it.
They're asking the courts to prevent them from downloading their stuff again... How would you implement that?
especially since it isn't a specific studio- it is a gun-for-hire henchmob. None of those movies that are listed are by the same studio, a bunch of greedy and uninformed producers hired the goons to sue people and in the long run are going to have a serious cryfest when they get the bill, you think that that $15 million is going to carry you that far from the hurt locker? I have been working in firms for the last 10 years doing electronic discovery and support to attorneys and I will tell you- labor doesn't come cheap- if out of those 5000 cases 10% of them go to trial (which is the average) they will need to spend on the order of 5-10 times what the film made just to bring those cases to court (especially if they are planning to sieze the defendent's computers), and if they win? they won't get any money anyways- the people that downloaded the films will just go bankrupt and have to pay a court ordered reasonable fee or experience some sort of garnishment that won't pay the bills. Either way the studio goes belly up if they continue the route.
I can see that, though alienware was already designing some pretty cool stuff at that point- and gateway and dell were both starting to bring design elements, they just didn't go as far because they already had a market that they didn't want to upset
the problem though is that the law has it both ways, it says that the IP is licensed when you purchase a copy of it, yet feels no responsibility to either replace if lost or damaged or allow you to reproduce the purchased license to another piece of media, yet it declares that each physical piece of media is a separate purchase and entity.
when it comes down to it IP holders in general (and I am one, though not one that thinks this way) use whatever argument is best suited for them to make money from, not one that is consistent or in the best interest of artists/filmmakers or the consumer.
The unique thing that Apple did was actually bring design into the world of computing
That is very true, I hadn't ever seen anything like the ipad before it was designed, well with the exception of previously designed tablets, digital picture frames, lcd monitors, windows, rectangles, etc.
what apple did isn't bring design to the table, they brought the idea that they were designing to the table, they didn't bring revolution, they brought the idea that they were creating a revolution- they ripped off everything that they have done and repackaged and readvertised it as the next big thing-
true, things have kind of gone off the rails where conservative and liberal don't make sense right now where the far left and far right meet where both are terrible, just in different areas and when it comes to things like copyright both parties have had reasons for coming down on the wrong side, conservatives because of the support for IP ownership and liberals on the side of copyright enforcement. When it comes to issues like copyright, the way an individual politician comes down on the issue tends to be more important than the party affiliation.
But I think you're right that if a game is popular enough the pirates will take interest in it, if only to make it available to others even if they're no interested in it themselves.
actually though it is kind of the opposite, shovelware makes it more desirable to pirate since if you have a small but powerful catalog of games the large scale development of alternative firmwares and/or flashcarts is less likely to happen since the attraction of having x amount of games for free is actually a big draw. You don't see people buying flashcarts for say, puzzlequest but you do for puzzlequest + hundreds of others even if the others are crap
It seems that nintendo isn't interested in the wii right now, it seems to me that they are more focused on the 3ds since it has all of the bells and whistles, 3d, multitouch, accelerometer and 2 screens- they want to give apple a run for their money more than they do microsoft and sony.
you know the game console could just have an sd card slot, you then just sell ROM only SD cards- saves are stored on the system nowadays so you don't need to have the whole readable and writable format on the card- most 360 games aren't more than 4 gigs and many are far less, with a read/write standard SD card being $5-8 for a 2 gig you could certainly press them for even cheaper. Reading the games off of an SD would improve the power consumption for sure as well as speed loading.
in general the only difference between multitouch and single touch is the implementation of the ui, your usual pinch and expand multitouch commands could easily be implemented for example with ctrl+up or down, buttons slaved to keys, none of that would change any of the underlying code or design of the game, it is just an adjustment of a ui layer.
I know what you are saying but flash CS5 besides the new script abilities has a cross compiler for iphone/ipad as well as HTML5, so anything that you do really is cross platform and in order to make changes to say the UI or resolution it is just an .as swap nad a recompile from the same .fla/.as.with the new flash.
Actually I heard a pretty good argument recently about the game and app aspect, the fact is that if you can use flash as a development platform and can compile and hybridize applications, you don't need to port code in order to move to other platforms whereas if you are forced to use objective c then porting becomes more difficult and you end up with timed exclusives on all releases, forcing people that want a specific game or app, at least for a period to purchase them from the app store rather than having a web based or platform based alternative that runs identically to the ipad/iphone versions. Sucks for the public, sucks for devs, good for apple.......
f I'm playing a game with a storyline and a quest, I want the gameplay to be tight, focused on the storyline,
well, I think that both sandboxes and rails have their place, I think that for me the supreme example of how I hate a tight storyline rail was when I played hitman 2, there was a level that I played in that game that drove me nuts because you had to assassinate this official who was having a meeting and the only way to do it was to go into a watchtower and snipe- snipe from the bushes, and his head blows off followed by him getting in a limo and taking off- run up with a rifle and gun down every single guard and the official, after everyone has been killed cut to him getting in a limo and taking off- there was zero room for movement. Those kinds of restrictions make a game no fun since half of playing a game is restriction and half is free will, if you don't balance the 2 and lean too far in either direction then a game tends to lose a lot of enjoyability.
speaking as someone who has worked in the legal field for nearly 10 years now I have to say that the problem is far deeper than to just blame lawyers. Judges are left to interpret standing laws that are passed by persons in the political system be it via proposition or congress. Most people in congress aren't actually lawyers and truth be told those that are tend to be either plaintiff (civil) or criminal, you don't often see defense lawyers running for one because the money is too good and secondly because the public would tear them a new one when they find out that they say, defended corporations, molesting priest, pharma companies, etc.
I think that you are confusing lawyers with politicians and businessmen who use lawyers which are generally a resource to carry out their own ends. For the most part lawyers don't care about WHAT they are fighting for, they fight whatever the fight is because that is their job.
if you changed it so that when your app gets approved you celebrate with a cigarette you would be a shoe in.
I really enjoyed watching pawn stars and antiques roadshow before I knew it was a show about criminals breaking copyright law.
that's a hidden boon for The Pirate Bay, which would quickly be renamed to The Parody Bay, and totally legal!
Here in the US that is for sure, though at the same time that becomes true for all piracy, you could consider any distribution parody so long as you declare that it is being done as a mockery of DMCA and enforcement - in essence any copyright law could be broken by stating that it was broken in parody.
Are people honestly arguing that we should use more paper because the people who stand to financially benefit from using more paper said so? Have we gotten to be that stupid?
have you looked around lately? people are carrying obama-hitler signs and trying to elect people like meg whitman here in California to office because they want change, what change is that? It is the change they get because someone says "I will bring change" even though it is not only the same plan that is killing us but pushes us further down the same path. People think that there are conspiracies with the vaccination program, conspiracies that we didn't land on the moon, drugging of the water, a plan for a global currency, giants living at the north pole- the list goes on and on. People are very good at believing exactly what you tell them so long as you suggest that they are different, that they have some enlightenment that others don't. Personally it has been driving me crazy lately.
I have been working with the neurosky headset as of late, it is less accurate (not in readings but since it has less contact points id has a more broad measure of activity) and doesn't measure facial features but is as easy as putting on a set of headphones and way less expensive. The emoviv set seems like it could be really cool in more of a controlled setting but I don't see it hooking up to your home console with much success anytime soon.
maybe if they did it instead of whining about the ps3 architecture ad handing the code to someone else it wouldn't have been so shoddy
heh, they are using the GTA IV font
I didn't have the patience to read it.
here are actually two left, The Doctor and his "daughter", Jenny.
I really hope they decide to build on that one and bring jenny back- but also actually there are 3- because donna noble is now part time lord, hence why she didn't become a "master" in the end of last season