The very idea of using the cloud to render a FPS is preposterous and will never work in practice, for obvious latency reasons.
How else will you start training for the moment when that computing capacity is on every PC?
You use the cloud, ignore the lag and build an engine ready for the generation of computers that will come in five or ten years. You'll lose a lot of your investigation, but anyone who starts studying RT at that point will be years behind you.
As soon as smartphones have enough power to run excel, word and outlook at (current - 5years) office speeds, office wintel will be replaced on a phone price basis.
We'll still have desktops for photo/video edition, gaming, and many other things that can still burn any amount of computing power.
And, some years later, someone will invent the direct brain connection and we'll go back to needing massive hardware beasts to process our home virtual worlds.
Why on earth would someone buy a piece of hardware that continually needs to be "jailbroken" just to be able to be used in the way they want to use it?
I give you the answer to that and many other questions. The answer that you should try on any question before even thinking whether there's a better answer: "People are stupid".
1. If it really becomes a problem for steve, he will block it at the hardware level in the next major version, or even in the next minor version.
The escalation ends at jailbroken, not in protected. Unless you consider possible the full encapsulation of the hardware in a block of resine.
2. I cannot rely on the fact that there will always be a jailbreak available if I lose my phone, due to 1.
1 is false. The argument is similar to "there won't always be cracked versions of windows", i.e.: so unlikely it doesn't really add much to the analysis.
3. It is only semi-legal. Apple will not like me.
Obvious. Non-argument.
4. I lose support.
Only a part of it. But this is completely true and sufficient argument to never crack technology. Exactly the same that we told people some time ago about "clonic computers". Don't play with electronics if you won't be able to deal with the problems.
5. Companies cannot be based on these kind of hacks due to 1,2,3,4, so there will never be a large user-base (or it will grow very slowly)
Companies are an important user base, but not to the point of making private users a minority.
Scientists are wrong again, just like they were about magnets.
Just as wrong as they were about every single thing except those they've not yet been proven wrong about.
The method's kind of based on being provable wrong so, everything's going as planned. Nothing to see here unless you know how to interpret the new data.
i.e.: The news are, on themselves, useless but as a heads up for the result that will come shortly.
This estimate change means climate change has once again been proven wrong! Right? Right?
(Hint: No.)
No, it's just a change in one of the thousands of indicators. However that's only for the people who actually care for the science of climate change.
For the rest, this estimate will prove just about anything between the third coming of the messiah and the imminent destruction of the Earth by magnetic core spin reversal.
The way I see if, for every hundred thousand cookie cutter P2P users, there will be one who is savvy enough, annoyed enough and has the resources to return in kind to Hollywood.
And for every million there may be one who directly goes to Airplex and sets the building on fire.
Vigilantism is never the solution but when you've decided your enemy is the general population, it's idiotic.
Wouldn't that feature let the spambot do the same and deny the legitimate owner access to the account?
Of course not. Facebook has some of the best professionals in the management and securization of personal data and they would've thought of and corrected any flaw as obvious as the one you just pointed.
Now try to say that out loud, with a straight face.
After you've perfected the technique, you can have fun joining in groups of two or three and trying to say that to a fellow IT workmate. I guarantee lols, rofls, and even a roflcopter or two.
A tiny minority will defend it as a great game but the company who made it won't make any money.
Unless the game is cheaper to make than what the tiny minority would pay. And not many people complain about the graphics of a 10$ game.
Anyway, I also disagree with your main statement (to the point that, at this godforsaken hour in the morning, I'm not sure you aren't being sarcastic). I have no problem at all with playing WoG, PvsZ or, nowadays, puzzle quest 2, in my gaming beast machine. I also play brutal graphics games, of course, but I somehow think the simpler games are racking a better benefit ratio.
And I'm eagerly waiting for Diablo 3, but also for Torchlight 2, which must be an order of magnitude cheaper to make.
a suborbital rocket is basically a glorified carnival ride
"Please do not open the safety belt, keep your hands inside the cart and remember to take and hold a big breath before getting out of atmosphere. Oh, and cover your face on the way down, so it won't melt."
In a letter sent today to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, the RIAA and other music trade groups expressed their concern[...]
The only sane answer is: "To say what you just said you have to be either a lying bastard or deeply retarded. I have no interest on educating either profile on the reasons why your statement is manipulative, false and idiotic."
Each day that passes I value education more. If this keeps going I'll end up firmly believing that educating the population is the solution to all of humanity matters.
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Offtopic: About your signature "I want an Android device with Android Market, but I don't want a phone. Is that so much to ask?"
Have you considered an Archos 5 IT?
The very idea of using the cloud to render a FPS is preposterous and will never work in practice, for obvious latency reasons.
How else will you start training for the moment when that computing capacity is on every PC?
You use the cloud, ignore the lag and build an engine ready for the generation of computers that will come in five or ten years. You'll lose a lot of your investigation, but anyone who starts studying RT at that point will be years behind you.
It would've been much more interesting were it made with the discussion on malamanteau.
That would really shake up the Wintel alliance.
As soon as smartphones have enough power to run excel, word and outlook at (current - 5years) office speeds, office wintel will be replaced on a phone price basis.
We'll still have desktops for photo/video edition, gaming, and many other things that can still burn any amount of computing power.
And, some years later, someone will invent the direct brain connection and we'll go back to needing massive hardware beasts to process our home virtual worlds.
I'm not a global warming denialist, mind you ... this obviously means that for the next 80 000 years the IPCC will not make a single wrong prediction !
You're not very strong at probability either. ;)
Wasn't Titanic the biggest and onliest land boat that sank at Fifth Avenue and 32nd?
Why on earth would someone buy a piece of hardware that continually needs to be "jailbroken" just to be able to be used in the way they want to use it?
I give you the answer to that and many other questions. The answer that you should try on any question before even thinking whether there's a better answer: "People are stupid".
1. If it really becomes a problem for steve, he will block it at the hardware level in the next major version, or even in the next minor version.
The escalation ends at jailbroken, not in protected. Unless you consider possible the full encapsulation of the hardware in a block of resine.
2. I cannot rely on the fact that there will always be a jailbreak available if I lose my phone, due to 1.
1 is false. The argument is similar to "there won't always be cracked versions of windows", i.e.: so unlikely it doesn't really add much to the analysis.
3. It is only semi-legal. Apple will not like me.
Obvious. Non-argument.
4. I lose support.
Only a part of it. But this is completely true and sufficient argument to never crack technology. Exactly the same that we told people some time ago about "clonic computers". Don't play with electronics if you won't be able to deal with the problems.
5. Companies cannot be based on these kind of hacks due to 1,2,3,4, so there will never be a large user-base (or it will grow very slowly)
Companies are an important user base, but not to the point of making private users a minority.
Scientists are wrong again, just like they were about magnets.
Just as wrong as they were about every single thing except those they've not yet been proven wrong about.
The method's kind of based on being provable wrong so, everything's going as planned. Nothing to see here unless you know how to interpret the new data.
i.e.: The news are, on themselves, useless but as a heads up for the result that will come shortly.
This estimate change means climate change has once again been proven wrong! Right? Right?
(Hint: No.)
No, it's just a change in one of the thousands of indicators. However that's only for the people who actually care for the science of climate change.
For the rest, this estimate will prove just about anything between the third coming of the messiah and the imminent destruction of the Earth by magnetic core spin reversal.
Is that an English or Metric fuckton?
Metric.
The imperial equivalency is: 1 metric fuckton = 2204 fuckpounds
The way I see if, for every hundred thousand cookie cutter P2P users, there will be one who is savvy enough, annoyed enough and has the resources to return in kind to Hollywood.
And for every million there may be one who directly goes to Airplex and sets the building on fire.
Vigilantism is never the solution but when you've decided your enemy is the general population, it's idiotic.
Just ask "What would Batman do?".
I don't think the RIAA has that kind of interest in Robin.
I'm reading the Diamond Age right now. Can't wait to pirate me some nanos for my daughter.
This is /., you have to say "Infringe the copyright of some nanos for my female instance".
I hoped to see in my lifetime was the ability to safely transmit power wirelessly.
Didn't we have laser powered devices some time ago already?
The only added value I see is that you can now completely waterproof a gadget.
I can see the added value for things like electric toothbrushes
My electric toothbrush is already completely waterproof and it's about ten years old (changeable heads).
The gender neutral pronoun is singular they anyway
Singular they didn't mean it that way. Singular was talking about "singular they" instead of "it".
In singular our humble opinion, of course.
does that not also imply that QM cannot be distinguished from string theory?
That's what I've always said!
The quality manager didn't find it funny.
Wouldn't that feature let the spambot do the same and deny the legitimate owner access to the account?
Of course not. Facebook has some of the best professionals in the management and securization of personal data and they would've thought of and corrected any flaw as obvious as the one you just pointed.
Now try to say that out loud, with a straight face.
After you've perfected the technique, you can have fun joining in groups of two or three and trying to say that to a fellow IT workmate. I guarantee lols, rofls, and even a roflcopter or two.
A tiny minority will defend it as a great game but the company who made it won't make any money.
Unless the game is cheaper to make than what the tiny minority would pay. And not many people complain about the graphics of a 10$ game.
Anyway, I also disagree with your main statement (to the point that, at this godforsaken hour in the morning, I'm not sure you aren't being sarcastic). I have no problem at all with playing WoG, PvsZ or, nowadays, puzzle quest 2, in my gaming beast machine. I also play brutal graphics games, of course, but I somehow think the simpler games are racking a better benefit ratio.
And I'm eagerly waiting for Diablo 3, but also for Torchlight 2, which must be an order of magnitude cheaper to make.
a suborbital rocket is basically a glorified carnival ride
"Please do not open the safety belt, keep your hands inside the cart and remember to take and hold a big breath before getting out of atmosphere. Oh, and cover your face on the way down, so it won't melt."
Seriously, child pornography is the new Godwin for justifying invading privacy and getting constitutional exemptions.
The real question is: Why are people still unable to reply "don't use child porn for your benefits", and stop the argument right there?
This isn't even funny anymore.
In a letter sent today to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, the RIAA and other music trade groups expressed their concern[...]
The only sane answer is: "To say what you just said you have to be either a lying bastard or deeply retarded. I have no interest on educating either profile on the reasons why your statement is manipulative, false and idiotic."
Each day that passes I value education more. If this keeps going I'll end up firmly believing that educating the population is the solution to all of humanity matters.
Proving new technology is just too risky.
Reinventing the wheel is now a long term objective.
how are either of the above better than WebGL + natively JIT compiled Javascript ?
A catchier name.