Speaking with IGN last week, Whitten revealed that "like online, the console will still function if Kinect isn't plugged in, although you won't be able to use any feature or experience that explicitly uses the sensor."
That's pretty clear. It seems to be stating that you can actually unplug it, and that text you're quoting is probably describing the separate ability to turn it off in software.
They'll still have DRM, just not phone-home DRM. It took a fucking long time for PS3 piracy to get off the ground; even now it's pretty hard to successfully play a pirated game; and PS3 had no net-based DRM at all.
No, that's not what this decision is at all. 100% of XBONE owners will still have a Kinect, and if you invest your money in making a game that uses kinect in an innovative, fun way you can be sure that 100% of the XBOX market will be able to potentially buy your game. There is literally no downside to this change, unless you're an NSA goon who was hoping to turn on random people's kinect cameras when people thought they were "disabled".
Actually I'd say the comparison of Jobs to Edison is pretty apt, if not for the reason Ellison intended. Both are famous as inventors and innovators, while in reality both were actually *much* better at marketing and business management, and left the actual invention/innovation to their employees.
You're right of course, but just for the record, this:
The Act extended these terms to life of the author plus 70 years and for works of corporate authorship to 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever endpoint is earlier
Then why have a minimum wage at all? The whole idea of minimum wage is that, minimally, you should be able to keep yourself fed, housed, and clothed by working 40 hours per week, no matter what job you're doing.
Microsoft's "loyal customers" are loyal to exactly Desktop Windows (not RT, not CE, not whateverthefuck, it has to be "real" windows that can run that one app I have from 1997) and nothing else. That loyalty does not extend to any other market, as MS is now learning through this whole Surface fiasco.
Some people are predicting that "desktop Windows and nothing else" won't be a big enough market to sustain MS's size, hence their need to develop customer loyalty in some other market.
The thing is it's not really "Windows", though. They've developed a phone OS and chosen to call it "Windows", but that doesn't make it so.
Windows is only popular on desktop computers because it's backwards compatible with the entire modern history of computing. To call RT "Windows" without that feature is like calling your new mode of transportation "AirplaneRT" even though it can't fly and you have to push pedals with your feet to make it move.
All you have to do to lose weight is eat less calories than you burn. That's it. Simple, right?
It's dead simple as long as you enjoy feeling hungry and irritable all day, have a magical body that burns the same amount of energy regardless of food input, and don't mind losing a ton of muscle mass during your diet.
The real answer is to cut out most of the carbohydrates that you eat (or at least lose the grains, there's some debate about potatoes and such) and replace them with fats instead. After a brief adaptation period, you can just eat when you're hungry and, because fat is more satiating, you'll naturally consume only what you need. Because you're not shoving tons of sugar down your throat, you won't experience the insulin surge-crash cycle, you'll have more energy and be less hungry than you would on a traditional "diet". Because you're eating more protein you'll lose less muscle mass than you would on a typical weight loss diet.
It might seem "extreme" or "fad" at first, but there's a growing body of evidence that suggests cutting carb intake is actually a very healthy and sustainable long-term choice. I do it and I recommend it to everyone who is looking to make a long-term diet adjustment.
Keto FAQ:
Q:But won't eating more fat give me a heart attack? A:No, the idea that saturated fats lead to heart disease was never more than speculation and has never had any scientific evidence behind it.
Q:It's too hard to eat that way in modern America/I don't have time to cook that much. A:Get a crock pot.
Q: How will avatars work in Xbox One and will my avatar items carry over?
A: Xbox One leverages your natural identity while continuing to have avatars as an important part of your identity. We’ll share more in the coming months.
You heard it here first: It's now mandatory to have your real name on your XBOX live profile. Now all those 13 year olds can come to your house and actually fuck your mom!
I'd love to believe that, but it just doesn't seem realistic to me. What interface could possibly be the best UI for a fast, precision pointing device + a fast, accurate keyboard, and simultaneously be the best UI for fat, slow, inaccurate fingers jabbing randomly at a tiny phone screen?
The only way I can see it happening is if we get a lot better at non-invasive EEG interface devices, but that's kind of a pipe dream at the moment...
Congratulations on winning the internet access lottery. For 95% of Americans, anything better than 5Mbps is only available as a top-of-the-line business connection and is priced accordingly.
I think you're overestimating EA's desire to engage in actual market analysis. Piracy hysteria and frantic demands for ever douchier DRM come from corporate management and are based on ego-driven assumptions or political agendas. Factual data about who's pirating and who's buying have no relevancy whatsoever.
You know it won't happen. The US government could literally start putting jews in concentration camps and 99% of the population would keep on watching Reality TV, listening to talk radio, and laughing at all the "nutjobs" who think the US is turning fascist.
there is no excuse for not having 7 on all Windows machines
The very second I want to do something and I find myself unable to do that thing because I'm still on windows XP, I'll switch to 7. Hasn't happened yet.
XP came out a decade ago
How is this relevant? Are the Old Software Gnomes going to sneak into my hard drive while I'm asleep and re-arrange all the bits?
There is a risk that Disney will fuck up the new movies, but there's also a chance that they will make them good. What are the odds of either outcome? I have no idea, maybe it's 99:1, maybe it's 99.999:0.001. All that matters is that the chance of a good movie from Disney is not zero. No matter how bad the odds are, it's still a gamble worth taking because we have nothing to lose.
Let's assume Disney does produce 3 shitfest movies full of musical numbers and talking animal sidekicks. What exactly are we missing out on? It's not like Lucas was going to produce ground-breaking pillars of cinema if he kept the license.
"Too much choice" is strictly a developer problem. If I'm going to be releasing big budget, AAA software on a given platform, I need to know that 99+% of that platform's users will be able to click the icon and have it "just work" with no extra effort, and I also need to know that binaries I release today will still work 5+ years down the line, on the latest version of the OS at that time.
On windows it's easy to meet those requirements. On Linux it's nearly impossible, because "Linux" isn't actually an OS, it's a hundred different OSes, each with it's own GUI quirks and package availabilities and update schedules and hardware compatibilities.
Even though there are already a million people posting this, I'm posting too just so you are aware of how tiny a minority you are with your viewpoint.
I believe that if the rightsholder refuses to make a copyrighted work or patent available, anyone and everyone has the unquestionable moral right to pirate that work, and FUCK prevailing law.
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Speaking with IGN last week, Whitten revealed that "like online, the console will still function if Kinect isn't plugged in, although you won't be able to use any feature or experience that explicitly uses the sensor."
That's pretty clear. It seems to be stating that you can actually unplug it, and that text you're quoting is probably describing the separate ability to turn it off in software.
They'll still have DRM, just not phone-home DRM. It took a fucking long time for PS3 piracy to get off the ground; even now it's pretty hard to successfully play a pirated game; and PS3 had no net-based DRM at all.
No, that's not what this decision is at all. 100% of XBONE owners will still have a Kinect, and if you invest your money in making a game that uses kinect in an innovative, fun way you can be sure that 100% of the XBOX market will be able to potentially buy your game. There is literally no downside to this change, unless you're an NSA goon who was hoping to turn on random people's kinect cameras when people thought they were "disabled".
Actually I'd say the comparison of Jobs to Edison is pretty apt, if not for the reason Ellison intended. Both are famous as inventors and innovators, while in reality both were actually *much* better at marketing and business management, and left the actual invention/innovation to their employees.
The Act extended these terms to life of the author plus 70 years and for works of corporate authorship to 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever endpoint is earlier
does prove that copyright is broken.
Then why have a minimum wage at all? The whole idea of minimum wage is that, minimally, you should be able to keep yourself fed, housed, and clothed by working 40 hours per week, no matter what job you're doing.
Microsoft's "loyal customers" are loyal to exactly Desktop Windows (not RT, not CE, not whateverthefuck, it has to be "real" windows that can run that one app I have from 1997) and nothing else. That loyalty does not extend to any other market, as MS is now learning through this whole Surface fiasco.
Some people are predicting that "desktop Windows and nothing else" won't be a big enough market to sustain MS's size, hence their need to develop customer loyalty in some other market.
The thing is it's not really "Windows", though. They've developed a phone OS and chosen to call it "Windows", but that doesn't make it so.
Windows is only popular on desktop computers because it's backwards compatible with the entire modern history of computing. To call RT "Windows" without that feature is like calling your new mode of transportation "AirplaneRT" even though it can't fly and you have to push pedals with your feet to make it move.
All you have to do to lose weight is eat less calories than you burn. That's it. Simple, right?
It's dead simple as long as you enjoy feeling hungry and irritable all day, have a magical body that burns the same amount of energy regardless of food input, and don't mind losing a ton of muscle mass during your diet.
The real answer is to cut out most of the carbohydrates that you eat (or at least lose the grains, there's some debate about potatoes and such) and replace them with fats instead. After a brief adaptation period, you can just eat when you're hungry and, because fat is more satiating, you'll naturally consume only what you need. Because you're not shoving tons of sugar down your throat, you won't experience the insulin surge-crash cycle, you'll have more energy and be less hungry than you would on a traditional "diet". Because you're eating more protein you'll lose less muscle mass than you would on a typical weight loss diet.
It might seem "extreme" or "fad" at first, but there's a growing body of evidence that suggests cutting carb intake is actually a very healthy and sustainable long-term choice. I do it and I recommend it to everyone who is looking to make a long-term diet adjustment.
Keto FAQ:
Q:But won't eating more fat give me a heart attack?
A:No, the idea that saturated fats lead to heart disease was never more than speculation and has never had any scientific evidence behind it.
Q:It's too hard to eat that way in modern America/I don't have time to cook that much.
A:Get a crock pot.
Q: How will avatars work in Xbox One and will my avatar items carry over?
A: Xbox One leverages your natural identity while continuing to have avatars as an important part of your identity. We’ll share more in the coming months.
You heard it here first: It's now mandatory to have your real name on your XBOX live profile. Now all those 13 year olds can come to your house and actually fuck your mom!
I'd love to believe that, but it just doesn't seem realistic to me. What interface could possibly be the best UI for a fast, precision pointing device + a fast, accurate keyboard, and simultaneously be the best UI for fat, slow, inaccurate fingers jabbing randomly at a tiny phone screen?
The only way I can see it happening is if we get a lot better at non-invasive EEG interface devices, but that's kind of a pipe dream at the moment...
Printing is an operating system function. Just install cutePDF, then everything that can print can print to PDF.
Congratulations on winning the internet access lottery. For 95% of Americans, anything better than 5Mbps is only available as a top-of-the-line business connection and is priced accordingly.
I think you're overestimating EA's desire to engage in actual market analysis. Piracy hysteria and frantic demands for ever douchier DRM come from corporate management and are based on ego-driven assumptions or political agendas. Factual data about who's pirating and who's buying have no relevancy whatsoever.
I will probably still buy it,
Aaaaand this is why we can't have nice things.
You know it won't happen. The US government could literally start putting jews in concentration camps and 99% of the population would keep on watching Reality TV, listening to talk radio, and laughing at all the "nutjobs" who think the US is turning fascist.
there is no excuse for not having 7 on all Windows machines
The very second I want to do something and I find myself unable to do that thing because I'm still on windows XP, I'll switch to 7. Hasn't happened yet.
XP came out a decade ago
How is this relevant? Are the Old Software Gnomes going to sneak into my hard drive while I'm asleep and re-arrange all the bits?
charged is to crime as X to tort.
Uhh... "eat"? Mmmmmmm... . toooort.... *droooool*
For 1/10 C it's more like 1 minute to 1.05 minutes, but your point stands :)
There is a risk that Disney will fuck up the new movies, but there's also a chance that they will make them good. What are the odds of either outcome? I have no idea, maybe it's 99:1, maybe it's 99.999:0.001. All that matters is that the chance of a good movie from Disney is not zero. No matter how bad the odds are, it's still a gamble worth taking because we have nothing to lose.
Let's assume Disney does produce 3 shitfest movies full of musical numbers and talking animal sidekicks. What exactly are we missing out on? It's not like Lucas was going to produce ground-breaking pillars of cinema if he kept the license.
"Too much choice" is strictly a developer problem. If I'm going to be releasing big budget, AAA software on a given platform, I need to know that 99+% of that platform's users will be able to click the icon and have it "just work" with no extra effort, and I also need to know that binaries I release today will still work 5+ years down the line, on the latest version of the OS at that time.
On windows it's easy to meet those requirements. On Linux it's nearly impossible, because "Linux" isn't actually an OS, it's a hundred different OSes, each with it's own GUI quirks and package availabilities and update schedules and hardware compatibilities.
"You will go to hell" is only coercive if hell exists. (it doesn't)
After reading your post I am actually a little excited for Wii U. Maybe we'll get a whole new generation of XBOX is hueg jokes! I can't wait.
I'll be checking in on the Wii U in a year or two; if there's a nice strong catalog of "hardcore" games at that point I'll consider getting one.
Even though there are already a million people posting this, I'm posting too just so you are aware of how tiny a minority you are with your viewpoint.
I believe that if the rightsholder refuses to make a copyrighted work or patent available, anyone and everyone has the unquestionable moral right to pirate that work, and FUCK prevailing law.