...they should lose it. Are they still actively marketing this game? Do they still sell it? Is there a new version in the works? IP really needs to have a "use-it-or-lose-it" clause.
If you think that all samples are cleared in music, especially electronic music, then you are kidding yourself. Most drums in electronic music, for example, are ripped from older tracks. The Amen break is one of the most glaring examples, but this is true for almost every sound you hear in electronic music, including hip-hop and pop.
As far as loud, I'm reading in other comments that the engine they used in the video from 2 years ago is much louder and less powerful than what'll go into the final version.
With the advent of HTML 5 <video> tags, Flash will soon be unnecessary. Browsers can also play audio, display vector graphics, and network behind the scenes, plus it's all interactive via JavaScript.
Tell me, with all those features maturing quickly, what is the point of duplicating that effort with a plug-in, other than making stupid animations for Newgrounds?
That was the first tweet sent from a person in orbit. It was relayed to a ground controller who actually did the posting. Today's tweet was the first one actually transmitted from space.
With the cost to entry being so high right now, and seeing how orbit has been treated mostly as a trash can, I'm not sure we need it being MORE accessible to just anyone...then again, maybe with launches so cheap, they could afford to launch some kind of clean-up vehicles now.
What was the topic of this story again? Oh yes, that Apple denied Google's app from the app store because it would compete with Apple's own offering. Sounds like power over other companies to me.
Apple is preventing Google from adding a feature to Apple's device only. It still sucks, but Apple is not finding ways to prevent Google from creating, selling, or marketing Latitude in any other form, and that is the big difference.
Also, there is a lot less wrong with Apple's products out of the box. Apple's 3-4 incidents of ACTUALLY acting like a heavy-handed monopolistic tyrant and the number of daily inconveniences their users suffer as a result PALES in comparison to even today's Microsoft, let alone 10-15 years ago.
I have to ask: if you have private pictures, why are they online?
Easy, you're convinced it's "easier" and "More convenient" that way, so that "the cloud" can be forced on you. Then, when everyone is completely dependent on it, they'll start charging (and by "they", I am referring to the entire IT industry).
...but from the fact that too many features that should be included as extensions (to be enabled and disabled at will) are hard-coded. There would be no controversy about the "Awesome Bar" if it was just an included Add-On that could be disabled/removed, and likewise for a slew of other features people complain about.
If Chrome keeps the browser to a bare minimum and implements fancy features through extensions, I think they'll have a huge advantage over the current Firefox implementation on this merrit alone.
Except Facebook apps are harvesting all your personal info and anyone who is your friend, whether they have added the application or not. It's the reason my Application Block List is so long, and I'm not even sure that works to block everything.
Nintendo locked down the original NES for quality control. Crappy games where killing the video game market (see the Atari 2600, among many others). Over time, they've gotten used to subsidizing their hardware with licensing fees as well as game sales.
Opening the platform and losing that means less R&D money and higher hardware prices. That is quite a hole they've dug for themselves, let's hope they find a way out that makes everyone happy.
In other words, it's exactly what mom and pop need. Especially if someone can make it work without needing a security expert to keep it working.
Except that as more people that have grown up with full desktop machines and capabilities at their fingertips become "mom and pop", a concept like this becomes less and less relevant.
I don't want my computing service to come down a wire which can go out each time the idiot ComCast installer unplugs the wrong cable from my apartment building (which is often).
We have the technology to make devices which don't need to rely on being connected to the rest of the world, and no one can search our hard drives for "marketing" data. When I'm "Pop", I expect to have a 128-Core 16x CPU @ 7.6GHz with a 256-bit 5GHz bus, 1EB of RAM/SSD and two drives that read/burn everything from CDs to X-Ray DVD at 96x with wireless AHDMI to a 6480p wall in my living room. From my $499 Mac Mini.
I bought a Pre for the simple fact that it WASN'T on the Verizon or AT&T network, and I'm constantly impressed with it (AT&T has personally dicked me over on a large bill when they where Cingular, and Verizon has done the same to more than a few of my friends). It does seem a little unfortunate that an HTML/CSS/JavaScript based API prevents some really cool things that the iPhone does like 3D games, but I didn't buy a smartphone because I wanted a Nintendo DS, and the Pre is more than capable of handling all the tasks I need it to quite well, and the Sprint 3G network is great here in Boston.
I ditched Sprint for what was then Cingular because I couldn't get Sprint signal in an area I had moved to. Cingular charged me over $400 on my first bill, claiming my first service month was only 2 days long (so the first bill I received was for 2 months, for only 32 days of service), and that I had 3 phones with individual full plans when in fact I had two phones with a share plan. I also lost a number that I wanted to have ported over, and tried really hard to keep. After some fighting, they charged me contract termination of $250 per phone because I wasn't paying the grossly over-inflated price, including for the phone that didn't exist. This bill was $1000 in just under 2 months and I barely used the service.
Needless to say, I now am a very happy Palm Pre owner with a big black mark on my credit score because for almost 5 years now Cingular/AT&T refuses to acknowledge the mistake. Sorry Apple, I've loved the Mac for years, but the iPhone could dispense beer, cocaine and hookers on command and it wouldn't be enough to get me to switch to AT&T.
Considering how mobile gaming is taking off on the iPhone and related devices, I wouldn't be suprised if Palm comes up with some kind of compiled-application ability in the near future. Until then, webOS is a glorified Mac dashboard. Not that I mind; it's certainly more useful than the Dashboard on my desktop Mac, and it beats having a bill from AT&T and an iron-fisted App Store from Apple hands down.
Says someone in response to a company making their own solution to a manufactured compatibility problem WHILE typing from a keyboard connected to a descendant of the IBM PC. Your geek card has been revoked, sir.
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You're not really supposed to read articles on /. so I'm not sure anyone else knows...
...they should lose it. Are they still actively marketing this game? Do they still sell it? Is there a new version in the works? IP really needs to have a "use-it-or-lose-it" clause.
I wonder why there is little to no coverage in the main stream press now days?
It's filtered?
...some other research groups with names that make me giggle like an idiot.
If you think that all samples are cleared in music, especially electronic music, then you are kidding yourself. Most drums in electronic music, for example, are ripped from older tracks. The Amen break is one of the most glaring examples, but this is true for almost every sound you hear in electronic music, including hip-hop and pop.
Please tell me you don't seriously believe you need to have an Apple mouse, keyboard, and screen to be able to hook up a Mac...
As far as loud, I'm reading in other comments that the engine they used in the video from 2 years ago is much louder and less powerful than what'll go into the final version.
With the advent of HTML 5 <video> tags, Flash will soon be unnecessary. Browsers can also play audio, display vector graphics, and network behind the scenes, plus it's all interactive via JavaScript.
Tell me, with all those features maturing quickly, what is the point of duplicating that effort with a plug-in, other than making stupid animations for Newgrounds?
That was the first tweet sent from a person in orbit. It was relayed to a ground controller who actually did the posting. Today's tweet was the first one actually transmitted from space.
With the cost to entry being so high right now, and seeing how orbit has been treated mostly as a trash can, I'm not sure we need it being MORE accessible to just anyone...then again, maybe with launches so cheap, they could afford to launch some kind of clean-up vehicles now.
What was the topic of this story again? Oh yes, that Apple denied Google's app from the app store because it would compete with Apple's own offering. Sounds like power over other companies to me.
Apple is preventing Google from adding a feature to Apple's device only. It still sucks, but Apple is not finding ways to prevent Google from creating, selling, or marketing Latitude in any other form, and that is the big difference.
Also, there is a lot less wrong with Apple's products out of the box. Apple's 3-4 incidents of ACTUALLY acting like a heavy-handed monopolistic tyrant and the number of daily inconveniences their users suffer as a result PALES in comparison to even today's Microsoft, let alone 10-15 years ago.
Easy, you're convinced it's "easier" and "More convenient" that way, so that "the cloud" can be forced on you. Then, when everyone is completely dependent on it, they'll start charging (and by "they", I am referring to the entire IT industry).
...but from the fact that too many features that should be included as extensions (to be enabled and disabled at will) are hard-coded. There would be no controversy about the "Awesome Bar" if it was just an included Add-On that could be disabled/removed, and likewise for a slew of other features people complain about.
If Chrome keeps the browser to a bare minimum and implements fancy features through extensions, I think they'll have a huge advantage over the current Firefox implementation on this merrit alone.
Except Facebook apps are harvesting all your personal info and anyone who is your friend, whether they have added the application or not. It's the reason my Application Block List is so long, and I'm not even sure that works to block everything.
Nintendo locked down the original NES for quality control. Crappy games where killing the video game market (see the Atari 2600, among many others). Over time, they've gotten used to subsidizing their hardware with licensing fees as well as game sales.
Opening the platform and losing that means less R&D money and higher hardware prices. That is quite a hole they've dug for themselves, let's hope they find a way out that makes everyone happy.
Wouldn't the comment about the ignorance of actual monkeys be considered "specist?"
In other words, it's exactly what mom and pop need. Especially if someone can make it work without needing a security expert to keep it working.
Except that as more people that have grown up with full desktop machines and capabilities at their fingertips become "mom and pop", a concept like this becomes less and less relevant.
I don't want my computing service to come down a wire which can go out each time the idiot ComCast installer unplugs the wrong cable from my apartment building (which is often).
We have the technology to make devices which don't need to rely on being connected to the rest of the world, and no one can search our hard drives for "marketing" data. When I'm "Pop", I expect to have a 128-Core 16x CPU @ 7.6GHz with a 256-bit 5GHz bus, 1EB of RAM/SSD and two drives that read/burn everything from CDs to X-Ray DVD at 96x with wireless AHDMI to a 6480p wall in my living room. From my $499 Mac Mini.
Yes, but not in a way that removes any features?
Right, like posting on a Blog is public and sending an email (which requires a password "envelope") is private.
I bought a Pre for the simple fact that it WASN'T on the Verizon or AT&T network, and I'm constantly impressed with it (AT&T has personally dicked me over on a large bill when they where Cingular, and Verizon has done the same to more than a few of my friends). It does seem a little unfortunate that an HTML/CSS/JavaScript based API prevents some really cool things that the iPhone does like 3D games, but I didn't buy a smartphone because I wanted a Nintendo DS, and the Pre is more than capable of handling all the tasks I need it to quite well, and the Sprint 3G network is great here in Boston.
"At least you can't send anthrax over teh intertubes."
Not to worry, I'm working on that.
No sense in over-engineering the problem; a simpler solution has already been posed.
Rubbish, sir! Women don't ever talk to us!
I ditched Sprint for what was then Cingular because I couldn't get Sprint signal in an area I had moved to. Cingular charged me over $400 on my first bill, claiming my first service month was only 2 days long (so the first bill I received was for 2 months, for only 32 days of service), and that I had 3 phones with individual full plans when in fact I had two phones with a share plan. I also lost a number that I wanted to have ported over, and tried really hard to keep. After some fighting, they charged me contract termination of $250 per phone because I wasn't paying the grossly over-inflated price, including for the phone that didn't exist. This bill was $1000 in just under 2 months and I barely used the service.
Needless to say, I now am a very happy Palm Pre owner with a big black mark on my credit score because for almost 5 years now Cingular/AT&T refuses to acknowledge the mistake. Sorry Apple, I've loved the Mac for years, but the iPhone could dispense beer, cocaine and hookers on command and it wouldn't be enough to get me to switch to AT&T.
Considering how mobile gaming is taking off on the iPhone and related devices, I wouldn't be suprised if Palm comes up with some kind of compiled-application ability in the near future. Until then, webOS is a glorified Mac dashboard. Not that I mind; it's certainly more useful than the Dashboard on my desktop Mac, and it beats having a bill from AT&T and an iron-fisted App Store from Apple hands down.
Says someone in response to a company making their own solution to a manufactured compatibility problem WHILE typing from a keyboard connected to a descendant of the IBM PC. Your geek card has been revoked, sir.