Cool story. So how is having to explicitly signing yourself into Chrome's password manager the same as Microsoft sending out your encryption keys without asking?
Maybe, but coming down like a ton of bricks on a bunch of fans improving your old games in their spare time would be just about the dumbest thing these game manufacturers could do.
And yet they've done it countless times and people keep buying their games by the droves. So in the real world, it seems like the nerd outrage doesn't extend to most gamers.
Provided it's free and they don't distribute original content directly from the game (e.g if it extends the original content then they provide it as a patch or require you to have the original game to source the original content into a new engine or something)... how can this possibly infringe on copyright.
This is a joke question right? Stories are covered by copyright. Characters can be both copyrighted and trademarked. And since this is a remake of the game using both the story and characters, they infringe Konami's IP.
Web apps are the wild west with every site behaving differently in all but the basics, and then sometimes even the basics don't quite work. Even those who try to mimic a native app's look and feel never seem to get it right, leading to frustration as you then expect things to work in a specific way.
And if they aren't constantly updated that native look and feel mimicry then fails to keep up with the native platform thus defeating the whole point. For example, I've gone to a number of wordpress sites still using a "native" theme for iOS that hasn't matched the platform since iOS 6.
And frankly your article is poorly written. Things like:
From the user's standpoint, it would be far better to have access to all those apps through a browser. Most of the reasons are the same as for the developers—nothing to install and automatic updates.
are silly. Installing an app from Google Play or Apple's app store is trivial and automatic updates have been part of iOS and Android for years now. I've known plenty of people who have never used iOS and only ever dumb phones that have been perfectly capable of installing apps from the App Store and having them be auto-updated.
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Yes, in fact you can't even buy one for linux.
Avast Anti-Virus for Linux. Purchasable for $199 per server per server.
Doesn't fill the coffers of the defense industry.
Cool story. So how is having to explicitly signing yourself into Chrome's password manager the same as Microsoft sending out your encryption keys without asking?
Furthermore, how is this any worse than Google's password manager behavior?
One is something you have to explicitly opt-in to use whereas the other is done without your consent?
Then you don't get encryption.
Bitlocker works without a Microsoft account so this is patently false.
Maybe, but coming down like a ton of bricks on a bunch of fans improving your old games in their spare time would be just about the dumbest thing these game manufacturers could do.
And yet they've done it countless times and people keep buying their games by the droves. So in the real world, it seems like the nerd outrage doesn't extend to most gamers.
Provided it's free and they don't distribute original content directly from the game (e.g if it extends the original content then they provide it as a patch or require you to have the original game to source the original content into a new engine or something)... how can this possibly infringe on copyright.
This is a joke question right? Stories are covered by copyright. Characters can be both copyrighted and trademarked. And since this is a remake of the game using both the story and characters, they infringe Konami's IP.
On what bases have these remakes been "shutdown"?
Copyright and/or trademark law.
But how can someone determine what is original before publishing it and inviting the world to sue?
First criteria is: Don't directly use the IP of a game company.
The Simpsons: Road Rage was not a Crazy Taxi game but still got shut down by the makers of Crazy Taxi.
It wasn't shut down. Sega sued them for patent infringement and they settled privately with Fox.
Yes, because nothing says "not reinventing the wheel" like dozens of Javascript frameworks.
And we all know there are no badly-implemented websites. No, they are all well-architected and coded to perfection. *rolls eyes*
Ooooh boy. We got ourselves a genuine Internet Badass here!
Teah I'm so embarrassed because some guy wrote a shit PRNG. Oh how will I ever live with myself. /s
That's sort of impossible since the iPhone SDK predates the first commercially-released Android phone, the HTC Dream, by 8 months.
And yet I've never heard the average person ever talk about wanting web apps. 99.9% of the time it's from developers or tech bloggers.
Nothing. It's just marketing fluff.
Yeah just throw more bloated Javascript frameworks on top! That'll surely solve the problem!
You joke...
Web apps are the wild west with every site behaving differently in all but the basics, and then sometimes even the basics don't quite work. Even those who try to mimic a native app's look and feel never seem to get it right, leading to frustration as you then expect things to work in a specific way.
And if they aren't constantly updated that native look and feel mimicry then fails to keep up with the native platform thus defeating the whole point. For example, I've gone to a number of wordpress sites still using a "native" theme for iOS that hasn't matched the platform since iOS 6.
Will it be the same year as the Linux desktop?
And frankly your article is poorly written. Things like:
From the user's standpoint, it would be far better to have access to all those apps through a browser. Most of the reasons are the same as for the developers—nothing to install and automatic updates.
are silly. Installing an app from Google Play or Apple's app store is trivial and automatic updates have been part of iOS and Android for years now. I've known plenty of people who have never used iOS and only ever dumb phones that have been perfectly capable of installing apps from the App Store and having them be auto-updated.
Why would there need to be "AI" involved? A script to add entries into a DB is much less work.
You think a script is AI?
Sure, it's only broken when actually used.
Yeah, seems one would have chosen a UUID generator not a PRNG.
Well at least knowing that the guy who wrote this shitty PRNG is a designer of Google's Dart gives you one more reason to avoid it the plague.