My biggest problem is that support seems to wax and wane with actually moving songs/videos on and off an iPod with open source alternatives... so that leaves me tied to the beast that is iTunes.
Moving songs and videos on and off a device should be trivial. If it's not, it's a shitty device. Don't blame open source alternatives for whatever convoluted bullshit Apple implemented in their product.
It's not shocking because it's Flash. You expect it to be bad, it can't be anything else. It leaves me wondering, just how bad is Flash on Android that it would be shocking to anyone.
You might have a point, if "the Col." was responsible for Gamestop's decision. Nothing I've read indicates that it was, so my point stands. Soldiers are adults who are fully able to decide for themselves what sort of entertainment they want. They don't need Gamestop deciding for them.
I wouldn't put much credit in the words that are spoken at all. Even an honest eyewitness is horribly unreliable. It is always reasonable to doubt an eyewitness. If the physical evidence is insufficient to prove guilt, I'd have to vote not guilty.
Is there a website that collects some of the worst (or best) awkward, embarassing, incriminating, etc Facebook posts? That could be be good for a laugh.
Nah, it was the 32X that was the beginning. The Saturn itself was a fine machine, but horribly mismanaged by Bernie Stolar. The Dreamcast was, and still is, an amazing machine. It was just too late by then to beat Sony.
I think for this discussion to be fruitful, we need to agree on what an awful system is. Consoles that didn't get a lot of mainstream attention, but still have awesome games are not awful systems. This would be things like the TG-16, Sega Saturn, or Neo Geo.
Then there's the 3D0. Amazing hardware really, but it failed due to marketing issues. There are a few truly amazing games for it, but just a few. Most of it's potential is untapped. Is that an awful system?
I think we can all agree that things like the Action MAX, Hyperscan, and game.com are awful systems.
As a (unfortunately non-car) analogy, think about the question "why did my wife smile when she looked at me just now?". The answer "she loves me" wouldn't be appropriate in a journal article in a scientific journal about correlating human brain activity with human actions, but it might very well be an appropriate answer in other contexts.
Are you arguing that "God" like "love" is an entirely subjective phenomenon that occurs only in the human brain? As an atheist, I'd tend to agree with that.
I haven't seen anyone mention this one yet. The 3D0 version of Road Rash is one of the greatest games of all time, on one of the biggest flops of all time. If you had a Genesis, you know how awesome Road Rash is. It was perfected on the 3D0. Fast gameplay, fluid graphics, high quality audio. For a system that was known for shitty FMV games, this is arcade style perfection. It's worth buying a 3D0 for Road Rash alone.
The Saturn was not an awful system. It may not have been the strongest seller at the the time, but it hosts a respectable library of excellent games. Certainly far better than the Sega CD/32X. Every gamer should have a modded Saturn to play Radiant Silvergun, Die Hard Arcade, Virtual Cop, Guardian Heroes, Panzer Dragoon, and a shit-ton of other shooters and fighters.
If you want to be secure from government intrusion, all of them. Don't be naive and think that US based CAs are any better. They'll roll over for an NSL in a second. If you want to be secure from the government manually create, exchange, and verify your own certificates.
It would be stupid to roll out a network that restricted your customers to 3.0mbit/s when you can offer them the ability to burst at higher speeds and even sustain them when others don't need them.
That's fine and all, but sell it as a 3.0 mbit/s service with higher burst speeds as a bonus. Don't sell it as a 10mbit/s service when you never see those speeds in reality.
With Ubuntu, a lot of people chipped in to write and make available many different device drivers so that a huge range of hardware could be supported. Phones too require different device drivers - but on phones, many of those drivers are still proprietary.
How do vendors distribute proprietary device drivers linked to the GPL Linux kernel?
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My biggest problem is that support seems to wax and wane with actually moving songs/videos on and off an iPod with open source alternatives ... so that leaves me tied to the beast that is iTunes.
Moving songs and videos on and off a device should be trivial. If it's not, it's a shitty device. Don't blame open source alternatives for whatever convoluted bullshit Apple implemented in their product.
It's not shocking because it's Flash. You expect it to be bad, it can't be anything else. It leaves me wondering, just how bad is Flash on Android that it would be shocking to anyone.
You might have a point, if "the Col." was responsible for Gamestop's decision. Nothing I've read indicates that it was, so my point stands. Soldiers are adults who are fully able to decide for themselves what sort of entertainment they want. They don't need Gamestop deciding for them.
Respect would be acknowledging that our men and women in uniform are adults and can decide for themselves how they want to spend their leisure time.
I peel them off and put them on other things. My Atari 2600 has Intel inside.
I wouldn't put much credit in the words that are spoken at all. Even an honest eyewitness is horribly unreliable. It is always reasonable to doubt an eyewitness. If the physical evidence is insufficient to prove guilt, I'd have to vote not guilty.
Is there a website that collects some of the worst (or best) awkward, embarassing, incriminating, etc Facebook posts? That could be be good for a laugh.
jurors don't need to be "experts in body language and voice analysis" to spot when someone's body language and tone of voice makes them a likely liar.
Lying makes people nervous. Being on trial also makes people nervous. Just because you're nervous doesn't mean you're a liar.
I bet YOU make assumptions based on something other than what is actually said.
I'm not on a jury.
M.U.L.E. was on the Atari 8-bit. That's an awesome game for an awesome system. Not applicable to this discussion.
I wish jury service was a voluntary duty, not unlike voting.
It is. If you want to get out of jury duty, just use the magic words "jury nullification".
Nah, it was the 32X that was the beginning. The Saturn itself was a fine machine, but horribly mismanaged by Bernie Stolar. The Dreamcast was, and still is, an amazing machine. It was just too late by then to beat Sony.
Did it provoke an enjoyable discussion? Yes? Then it's more than welcome on /..
I think for this discussion to be fruitful, we need to agree on what an awful system is. Consoles that didn't get a lot of mainstream attention, but still have awesome games are not awful systems. This would be things like the TG-16, Sega Saturn, or Neo Geo.
Then there's the 3D0. Amazing hardware really, but it failed due to marketing issues. There are a few truly amazing games for it, but just a few. Most of it's potential is untapped. Is that an awful system?
I think we can all agree that things like the Action MAX, Hyperscan, and game.com are awful systems.
Wow. That's some world class crazy you have going on there. Must be fun.
As a (unfortunately non-car) analogy, think about the question "why did my wife smile when she looked at me just now?". The answer "she loves me" wouldn't be appropriate in a journal article in a scientific journal about correlating human brain activity with human actions, but it might very well be an appropriate answer in other contexts.
Are you arguing that "God" like "love" is an entirely subjective phenomenon that occurs only in the human brain? As an atheist, I'd tend to agree with that.
That doesn't count. The TG-16 is not an awful system.
Matt at Armchair Arcade has a video review of Tunnels of Doom. It's one I'd love to get for my TI-99/4a.
I haven't seen anyone mention this one yet. The 3D0 version of Road Rash is one of the greatest games of all time, on one of the biggest flops of all time. If you had a Genesis, you know how awesome Road Rash is. It was perfected on the 3D0. Fast gameplay, fluid graphics, high quality audio. For a system that was known for shitty FMV games, this is arcade style perfection. It's worth buying a 3D0 for Road Rash alone.
Wouldn't a Road Rash HD be amazing?
The Saturn was not an awful system. It may not have been the strongest seller at the the time, but it hosts a respectable library of excellent games. Certainly far better than the Sega CD/32X. Every gamer should have a modded Saturn to play Radiant Silvergun, Die Hard Arcade, Virtual Cop, Guardian Heroes, Panzer Dragoon, and a shit-ton of other shooters and fighters.
If you want to be secure from government intrusion, all of them. Don't be naive and think that US based CAs are any better. They'll roll over for an NSL in a second. If you want to be secure from the government manually create, exchange, and verify your own certificates.
leisure reading at my computer is simply not possible.
Why? What's wrong with your computer?
It would be stupid to roll out a network that restricted your customers to 3.0mbit/s when you can offer them the ability to burst at higher speeds and even sustain them when others don't need them.
That's fine and all, but sell it as a 3.0 mbit/s service with higher burst speeds as a bonus. Don't sell it as a 10mbit/s service when you never see those speeds in reality.
With Ubuntu, a lot of people chipped in to write and make available many different device drivers so that a huge range of hardware could be supported. Phones too require different device drivers - but on phones, many of those drivers are still proprietary.
How do vendors distribute proprietary device drivers linked to the GPL Linux kernel?
They're really exploiting the fact that the law hasn't kept up with the technology to be able to fuck everyone around.
The law will evolve
The law will evolve, but it will evolve to codify their right to fuck around with the console you own.
Here's one.