No, not always. I can think of more than a few games where DLC released after the fact added huge value to an already good game. Speaking in absolutes just makes you sound like an idiot.
Absolutely. The exception proves the rule, after all. Since some games have DLC which isn't just cut content tacked on after the fact, it stands to reason that all DLC is the same.
Jim Sterling ranted about this. Basically, at some point the creative types who started a studio start to feel overwhelmed by the managerial aspects of running a company. So they bring in "professional management," many of whom from come industries entirely unlike the games industry. So some CEO who previously ran a shoe manufacturer gets brought on into a game studio and proceeds to enact policies that would, were making games anything like manufacturing, make things more efficient. Instead, these policies completely destroy the creativity of the team, and eventually the people who were making the great games move on to greener (money ain't the only green!) pastures, leaving a desiccated husk of a studio which continues to churn out garbage hoping desperately to move units based solely on the whatever brand recognition remains intact.
Whether or not you consider games to be art, creating games is undeniably a creative endeavor. When the bean counters move in with their metrics and demands for predictable results... well, shit like SimCity 2013 happens. If the new management is lucky enough to have a highly regarded franchise, expect them to churn out yearly increments of whatever they think works. You only have to look at the endless Battlefield and Call of Duty releases to see that reliable sales figures is more important than creating new and interesting games. Like OP said, a factory that produces widgets. Formulaic crap is the order of the day, and despite the fact that we all know it sucks, people still eat it up.
It didn't make it to the S6....(although there will presumably be an S6 active that is)
Neither did an easily replaceable battery or SD card slot. The S6 is a iPhone wannabe piece of trash. Can't wait to see how bloated with useless garbage this it is. Samsung is pants on head retarded.
That's a nice little rant you got going there, but the reason the airways are considered "commons" is because there is a finite amount of spectrum, which is ostensibly owned by the public. This limited bandwidth is auctioned off so that broadcasters are not stepping on each others toes and interfering with each others broadcasts. The 2.4Ghz band, for example, is set aside for WiFi, cordless phones (remember those!) and other consumer uses. Other areas are designated for TV broadcasts, AM radio, FM radio, Cellular, etc. If anyone could just blast their transmission on any band they could overpower and interrupt other broadcasts. In fact, that's exactly what pirate radio stations do. Set up a transmitter on some frequency and take over that frequency by overpowering whatever the "legitimate" user of that band is transmitting.
So what's the precedent for "blogger licenses"? I'm as wary of governmental overreach as the next guy, but I'm not seeing the slippery slope your describing here. The FCC "censorship of broadcast radio/TV" came about because of the status of the RF spectrum as publicly owned. It was determined that those using the public space to broadcast messages shouldn't be broadcasting "naughty" stuff. Sure it's puritan nonsense, but done in the same spirit as not having lewd messages on say, billboards or public signage. Unless you're imagining that the FCC is about to nationalize the telecommunications infrastructure I'm not sure where you think they're going to derive the authority to unilaterally censor the internet.
I don't think it's all that far fetched. Leasing is an increasing popular way to "buy" cars. I'd expect robots to be produced by companies who already only sell licenses to their products. Furthermore, arguably the most important part of a robot is going to be its programming, and software is already only ever sold under license. Ok, so you own the mechanical parts of the robot. Great, now try and load your own software on the bloody thing. If it's a huge pain in the ass to replace the OS on your cell phone (and increasingly seen as an abnormal thing to want to do) just imagine what a clusterfuck it'd be for a robot. Undoubtedly it'd locked down to the maximum extent in for security purposes, can't have the crackers pwning your robot, or breaking it by installing the wrong apps.
Looking at the current state of the software and mobile industries, I can hardly imagine a future where robots are under the control of anything but the manufacturers. And for your fridge example, what's the EULA going to look like on that SmartFridge going to look like down the road? People don't even care they don't actually own anything, the very idea of ownership has been watered down by the inexorable march towards everything being Intellectual Property.
There are a few things one can mention to get APK to come roaring out of his troll-cave, of which Delphi is the most prominent. Seriously, he loves it, even more than the HOSTS file. In fact, I'm surprised he didn't mention that he wrote his hosts file maintenance suite in Delphi, he usually does. We ought to compile a list of APK signal words so people can put trigger warnings before they use them.
Not to mention fascist dictators predilection for mass murder renders any concern about staving off death moot. Then again, maybe this guy is just in the right [race|religion|political] group and would be more than happy to line up with the rest and shout whatever mantras the regime cooks up. America has a pretty strong history of Jingoism, so expect a hardline super baptist wrapped up in Jesus and the Flag.
The really crappy part is that it doesn't HAVE to be as difficult as it is.
If handsets weren't as locked down as they are, installing a new ROM could be a pretty simple process.
The problem of device support is a whole other ball of wax, especially for a custom ROM like Cyanogenmod. It's a shame there isn't more standardization in the parts put into a handset (e.g., radio, etc), but that's not something we're likely to ever see. The state of the art is moving so quickly Google would have a really hard time supporting the multitude of device hardware configurations. The Galaxy S4 alone has at least 6 different models and hardware configurations for various regions and cellular signal types. Add in stuff like S4 Active and whatever other form factor modifications and it makes for a pretty complicated field of possible handset configurations.
Cyanogenmod IS Android, without the bullshit. Pre-rooted, adds a few bells and whistles on top of the standard AOSP apps. I put it on my Galaxy S4, which as shipped by Samsung had 7.5GB of the on-board 16GB filled with dumb ass fucking bullshit. I can't really understand the reluctance of people to rooting and or installing a custom ROM. How many people here would bend over backwards to remove bloatware and crapware from a new PC but throw up their hands because, "Oh well, the carriers installed a bunch of garbage, what am I to do?" or "My phone should just work," even though history has shown that the company's that 'sell' the handsets don't give two fucks whether it does (just work) or not, just that we keep buying the damnable things. The status quo of "We, the almighty carriers outright own your handset, so fuck off and die" in the U.S. is mind boggling.
Towelroot worked like a charm on my 2013 Nexus 7. Admittedly, this was long before this recent Lolipop debacle, but it was the easiest damn root I've ever done.
They didn't jump the shark! They bought the shark, re-released it with a new name and then killed it off a couple of years later because reasons. That's the Google Way! (tm)
It's gonna take some time for Samsung to bring Lolipop down to their abysmal standards. With a Samsung device, you're better off using Cyanogenmod in the first place, although they don't have Lolipop images for very many phones, and the ones they do have are all unstable/nightlies.
Cyanogenmod is the only thing keeping my S4 from being an expensive paperweight. I don't think there's any way I could go back to an official Samsung image without losing my mind! Especially the S4, which they loaded down with gobs and gobs of utter garbage. 16GB storage is paltry enough as it is without the base image sucking down half of it with useless bullshit.
The renderer isn't the issue. On iOS, alternative browsers cannot take advantage of the same Javascript runtime that Safari does, so they end up with pretty lousy performance. Unless they changed things in the last year or so. I ran screaming from iOS, through the misshapen abomination that is TouchWiz and into the warm embrace of Cyanogenmod Android, now with slightly less Googly-woogly-data-mining.
It's still better than fucking Chrome. From making it impossible to stop the address bar from being hidden to getting rid of the progress bar, every single update makes that dumbass browser worse and worse. I'd rather have an amature colonoscopy than use Chrome Mobile.
Not even a little bit. Considering that the multi window thing is only available on TouchWiz, developers have little incentive to bother with supporting a feature which only a fraction of the Android users have, of which only a tiny fraction even use.
The UI for the multi window setup is typical Samsung, I.e., complete, and utter garbage. The whole thing is just another pound of bloat shoveled into the TouchWiz stock ROM; another nice sounding, but ultimately pointless feature, created mainly to have one more check box in the Samsung/Apple dick waving contest.
It isn't, OP was making sarcastic jabs at the knee jerk SJW stance of "Only white people can be racist," and "white people have caused literally every problem faced by People of Color (PoC)."
In other words, the simple minded individuals who take such obviously illogical stances would crow about it being racist to imply that yes, their precious PoC's were just as guilty in perpetuating the slave trade as all the evil CIS White males they blather on and on about.
Hardly. I was playing off the "tramp stamp" phrase, and the gross generalization that all strippers have one. Then again, puns are literally Hitler, so...
Issue and use an official stamp. If the stamp matches, its a valid certificate. If it doesn't, its not a valid certificate, no records needed.
If you want to talk about fraudulent usage/stolen official stamps, you have bigger problems than verifying people's ages.
Could even tattoo it on their lower back, worked into the "stamp" they've inevitably got already. At the very least it would make the phrase "tramp stamp" have an official purpose!
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No, not always. I can think of more than a few games where DLC released after the fact added huge value to an already good game. Speaking in absolutes just makes you sound like an idiot.
Absolutely. The exception proves the rule, after all. Since some games have DLC which isn't just cut content tacked on after the fact, it stands to reason that all DLC is the same.
What other industry can you release an unfinished product and then charge for the finished bits?
"The 2016 Ford Focus doesn't have a radio or an air conditioner, but they should be available first quarter 2017 as upgrade packs."
Can't see too many suckers lining up for that great "deal."
Jim Sterling ranted about this. Basically, at some point the creative types who started a studio start to feel overwhelmed by the managerial aspects of running a company. So they bring in "professional management," many of whom from come industries entirely unlike the games industry. So some CEO who previously ran a shoe manufacturer gets brought on into a game studio and proceeds to enact policies that would, were making games anything like manufacturing, make things more efficient. Instead, these policies completely destroy the creativity of the team, and eventually the people who were making the great games move on to greener (money ain't the only green!) pastures, leaving a desiccated husk of a studio which continues to churn out garbage hoping desperately to move units based solely on the whatever brand recognition remains intact.
Whether or not you consider games to be art, creating games is undeniably a creative endeavor. When the bean counters move in with their metrics and demands for predictable results... well, shit like SimCity 2013 happens. If the new management is lucky enough to have a highly regarded franchise, expect them to churn out yearly increments of whatever they think works. You only have to look at the endless Battlefield and Call of Duty releases to see that reliable sales figures is more important than creating new and interesting games. Like OP said, a factory that produces widgets. Formulaic crap is the order of the day, and despite the fact that we all know it sucks, people still eat it up.
S5 waterproofing isn't all it's cracked up to be.
It didn't make it to the S6....(although there will presumably be an S6 active that is)
Neither did an easily replaceable battery or SD card slot. The S6 is a iPhone wannabe piece of trash. Can't wait to see how bloated with useless garbage this it is. Samsung is pants on head retarded.
Even worse, a clothes hanger!
That's a nice little rant you got going there, but the reason the airways are considered "commons" is because there is a finite amount of spectrum, which is ostensibly owned by the public. This limited bandwidth is auctioned off so that broadcasters are not stepping on each others toes and interfering with each others broadcasts. The 2.4Ghz band, for example, is set aside for WiFi, cordless phones (remember those!) and other consumer uses. Other areas are designated for TV broadcasts, AM radio, FM radio, Cellular, etc. If anyone could just blast their transmission on any band they could overpower and interrupt other broadcasts. In fact, that's exactly what pirate radio stations do. Set up a transmitter on some frequency and take over that frequency by overpowering whatever the "legitimate" user of that band is transmitting.
So what's the precedent for "blogger licenses"? I'm as wary of governmental overreach as the next guy, but I'm not seeing the slippery slope your describing here. The FCC "censorship of broadcast radio/TV" came about because of the status of the RF spectrum as publicly owned. It was determined that those using the public space to broadcast messages shouldn't be broadcasting "naughty" stuff. Sure it's puritan nonsense, but done in the same spirit as not having lewd messages on say, billboards or public signage. Unless you're imagining that the FCC is about to nationalize the telecommunications infrastructure I'm not sure where you think they're going to derive the authority to unilaterally censor the internet.
I don't think it's all that far fetched. Leasing is an increasing popular way to "buy" cars. I'd expect robots to be produced by companies who already only sell licenses to their products. Furthermore, arguably the most important part of a robot is going to be its programming, and software is already only ever sold under license. Ok, so you own the mechanical parts of the robot. Great, now try and load your own software on the bloody thing. If it's a huge pain in the ass to replace the OS on your cell phone (and increasingly seen as an abnormal thing to want to do) just imagine what a clusterfuck it'd be for a robot. Undoubtedly it'd locked down to the maximum extent in for security purposes, can't have the crackers pwning your robot, or breaking it by installing the wrong apps.
Looking at the current state of the software and mobile industries, I can hardly imagine a future where robots are under the control of anything but the manufacturers. And for your fridge example, what's the EULA going to look like on that SmartFridge going to look like down the road? People don't even care they don't actually own anything, the very idea of ownership has been watered down by the inexorable march towards everything being Intellectual Property.
...to pay your $699 licensing fee you cock-smoking teabaggers.
There are a few things one can mention to get APK to come roaring out of his troll-cave, of which Delphi is the most prominent. Seriously, he loves it, even more than the HOSTS file. In fact, I'm surprised he didn't mention that he wrote his hosts file maintenance suite in Delphi, he usually does. We ought to compile a list of APK signal words so people can put trigger warnings before they use them.
TW: Delphi, may draw APK!
Not to mention fascist dictators predilection for mass murder renders any concern about staving off death moot. Then again, maybe this guy is just in the right [race|religion|political] group and would be more than happy to line up with the rest and shout whatever mantras the regime cooks up. America has a pretty strong history of Jingoism, so expect a hardline super baptist wrapped up in Jesus and the Flag.
The really crappy part is that it doesn't HAVE to be as difficult as it is.
If handsets weren't as locked down as they are, installing a new ROM could be a pretty simple process.
The problem of device support is a whole other ball of wax, especially for a custom ROM like Cyanogenmod. It's a shame there isn't more standardization in the parts put into a handset (e.g., radio, etc), but that's not something we're likely to ever see. The state of the art is moving so quickly Google would have a really hard time supporting the multitude of device hardware configurations. The Galaxy S4 alone has at least 6 different models and hardware configurations for various regions and cellular signal types. Add in stuff like S4 Active and whatever other form factor modifications and it makes for a pretty complicated field of possible handset configurations.
Cyanogenmod IS Android, without the bullshit. Pre-rooted, adds a few bells and whistles on top of the standard AOSP apps. I put it on my Galaxy S4, which as shipped by Samsung had 7.5GB of the on-board 16GB filled with dumb ass fucking bullshit. I can't really understand the reluctance of people to rooting and or installing a custom ROM. How many people here would bend over backwards to remove bloatware and crapware from a new PC but throw up their hands because, "Oh well, the carriers installed a bunch of garbage, what am I to do?" or "My phone should just work," even though history has shown that the company's that 'sell' the handsets don't give two fucks whether it does (just work) or not, just that we keep buying the damnable things. The status quo of "We, the almighty carriers outright own your handset, so fuck off and die" in the U.S. is mind boggling.
. Heaven forbid the UI tell you what gestures are available too, that would be cheating. Phones should be like puzzle boxes apparently.
It's all part of the User eXperience! UX uber alles!
Towelroot worked like a charm on my 2013 Nexus 7. Admittedly, this was long before this recent Lolipop debacle, but it was the easiest damn root I've ever done.
They didn't jump the shark! They bought the shark, re-released it with a new name and then killed it off a couple of years later because reasons. That's the Google Way! (tm)
It's gonna take some time for Samsung to bring Lolipop down to their abysmal standards. With a Samsung device, you're better off using Cyanogenmod in the first place, although they don't have Lolipop images for very many phones, and the ones they do have are all unstable/nightlies.
Cyanogenmod is the only thing keeping my S4 from being an expensive paperweight. I don't think there's any way I could go back to an official Samsung image without losing my mind! Especially the S4, which they loaded down with gobs and gobs of utter garbage. 16GB storage is paltry enough as it is without the base image sucking down half of it with useless bullshit.
The renderer isn't the issue. On iOS, alternative browsers cannot take advantage of the same Javascript runtime that Safari does, so they end up with pretty lousy performance. Unless they changed things in the last year or so. I ran screaming from iOS, through the misshapen abomination that is TouchWiz and into the warm embrace of Cyanogenmod Android, now with slightly less Googly-woogly-data-mining.
It's still better than fucking Chrome. From making it impossible to stop the address bar from being hidden to getting rid of the progress bar, every single update makes that dumbass browser worse and worse. I'd rather have an amature colonoscopy than use Chrome Mobile.
FYI:
Hope that helps! Cheers!
Why do you hate freedom? You can't socialize music into your little National Public Domain you goddamned red bastard!
Wouldn't that make it imaginary? Subtle difference, when talking about rationality in the psychological sense.
Not even a little bit. Considering that the multi window thing is only available on TouchWiz, developers have little incentive to bother with supporting a feature which only a fraction of the Android users have, of which only a tiny fraction even use.
The UI for the multi window setup is typical Samsung, I.e., complete, and utter garbage. The whole thing is just another pound of bloat shoveled into the TouchWiz stock ROM; another nice sounding, but ultimately pointless feature, created mainly to have one more check box in the Samsung/Apple dick waving contest.
It isn't, OP was making sarcastic jabs at the knee jerk SJW stance of "Only white people can be racist," and "white people have caused literally every problem faced by People of Color (PoC)."
In other words, the simple minded individuals who take such obviously illogical stances would crow about it being racist to imply that yes, their precious PoC's were just as guilty in perpetuating the slave trade as all the evil CIS White males they blather on and on about.
Hardly. I was playing off the "tramp stamp" phrase, and the gross generalization that all strippers have one. Then again, puns are literally Hitler, so...
Issue and use an official stamp. If the stamp matches, its a valid certificate. If it doesn't, its not a valid certificate, no records needed.
If you want to talk about fraudulent usage/stolen official stamps, you have bigger problems than verifying people's ages.
Could even tattoo it on their lower back, worked into the "stamp" they've inevitably got already. At the very least it would make the phrase "tramp stamp" have an official purpose!