I mean, they are having a massive upgrade to their infrastructure to handle their customers properly, right? Surely they don't expect to add many more customers with increasing bandwidth demands without upgrading their infrastructure.
Steve Perlman has made his living off of tech-deficient investors and hapless early adopters.
With Xband, he had to contend with limited bandwidth.
With WebTV, he had to contend with limited processing power
With onlive, he has to contend with the biggest hurdle of all: the speed of light.
Controller input lag + rendering lag + video compression lag + television input lag + stream decoding + network lag itself is not going to make for a great experience. Watch any youtube video with Onlive and Unreal Tournament III. Notice how the player is playing on the easiest settings and requires fairly stationary or predictable targets just to connect with a shot.
This system will be great for people who play facebook apps and turn-based strategy games, but everyone else is just going to be frustrated.
After helping to develop Quicktime, Steve Perlman has made his living bilking investors and early adopters into technology that doesn't work. While Xband wasn't really his fault because bandwidth was lacking, he now has to contend with a greater technology hurdle:
c itself.
Check out youtube videos of any Unreal Tournament III match, and notice the inability of the player to hit all but the most stationary enemies. It's not going to work. Network lag + rendering lag + controller input lag + television input lag = an unplayable experience, unless you exclusively play turn-based strategy games.
I'm sure the subject line drew some rolled eyes or a wistful smile. You know why? Because we all know that any legal avenues to get what we want from the government are closed. And guess what kind of avenues people take when their legal ones are exhausted. The French Revolution was illegal as hell, too.
Last year, I got Beneath a Steel sky for my iPhone. It was the first graphic adventure I ever played to completion.
Without the aid of nostalgia, I can honestly say it's among the ten best games I've ever played. Anyone who loves a good story should take a look into adventure games. You can actually own it for free just by signing up at GOG
Highly recommended for anyone wanting to give it a spin.
Are you reading this, The U.S. Government? The moon is of endless strategic military value! You could be the most powerful military on earth if you had the most advanced space programs.
Divert some of that ridiculously high military funding toward space programs, as much as you can spare!
It's sickening that their stance is "The FCC has no right to get between us and our customers' sweet, tight anuses". Maybe they'd prefer the Deparment of Justice. They've been allowed to abuse their monopoly/duopoly in every one of their markets for far too long.
The United States vs. Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, and Time Warner has a nice ring to it.
So if we record a publicly broadcast performance, someone can claim copyright. Hmm... Does this mean I can keep people from recording me in public by claiming copyright over my performance as a human being?
Now that Comcast has got Americans hooked on the idea that $60 per month is a good price for a 12 mbit connection with a 250GB cap, their margins keep getting bigger and bigger and they can raise the price any time they want. Even if the piracy rate rose to 100%, they'd still be making money hand over fist. Hell, the piracy rate could rise to 200% and they'd still be in business.
While I'm sure it will sell like gangbusters on Verizon, the AT&T exclusivity of the iPhone allowed the Android platform to flourish on the nation's largest wireless network.
Apple is now releasing a seven month old single-core phone against a deluge of versatile dual-core Tegra 2 devices.
Is it us? If yes:
Do not eat or enslave
If no:
Eat and enslave
I don't know if dolphins are the key, but the current criterion is pretty shitty. And primitive.
Apparently they run the Department of the Interior like the Air Force. I remember waiting four weeks and paying $80 for three ounces of a very specific lithium grease for some of our equipment that had an extremely similar clone at Lowe's for $4.
I, for one, am glad to see that Onlive is going to be included in a tablet. In fact, it should be included in every device with a display!
Before Onlive, I was throwing away over $50,000 per year on expensive consoles and PC upgrades, which is an average amount that any family can spend on gaming every year. Not only that, but I couldn't run games even on my netbook or portable devices like I can with Onlive!
When I saw how low Onlive's prices were compared to the $50,000 a year it costs to maintain my consoles/PC upgrades, I knew right away that this was the service for me.
Now for a low monthly fee*, I can get great Onlive service with zero latency whatsoever in all the latest games. It seems that Onlive has conquered the laws of physics!
Be sure to pre-order the Onlive MicroConsole like I did. I'm very certain it will be a big improvement on what is already a great Onlive experience!
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I mean, they are having a massive upgrade to their infrastructure to handle their customers properly, right? Surely they don't expect to add many more customers with increasing bandwidth demands without upgrading their infrastructure.
Steve Perlman has made his living off of tech-deficient investors and hapless early adopters.
With Xband, he had to contend with limited bandwidth.
With WebTV, he had to contend with limited processing power
With onlive, he has to contend with the biggest hurdle of all: the speed of light.
Controller input lag + rendering lag + video compression lag + television input lag + stream decoding + network lag itself is not going to make for a great experience. Watch any youtube video with Onlive and Unreal Tournament III. Notice how the player is playing on the easiest settings and requires fairly stationary or predictable targets just to connect with a shot.
This system will be great for people who play facebook apps and turn-based strategy games, but everyone else is just going to be frustrated.
After helping to develop Quicktime, Steve Perlman has made his living bilking investors and early adopters into technology that doesn't work. While Xband wasn't really his fault because bandwidth was lacking, he now has to contend with a greater technology hurdle:
c itself.
Check out youtube videos of any Unreal Tournament III match, and notice the inability of the player to hit all but the most stationary enemies. It's not going to work. Network lag + rendering lag + controller input lag + television input lag = an unplayable experience, unless you exclusively play turn-based strategy games.
I'm sure the subject line drew some rolled eyes or a wistful smile. You know why? Because we all know that any legal avenues to get what we want from the government are closed. And guess what kind of avenues people take when their legal ones are exhausted. The French Revolution was illegal as hell, too.
Bury the real scientists in a mountain of FUD.
Make great advancements, but don't pursue them unless they produce a profit.
While you're not using those advancements, be sure to sue everyone who stumbles upon what you stumbled upon first.
Last year, I got Beneath a Steel sky for my iPhone. It was the first graphic adventure I ever played to completion.
Without the aid of nostalgia, I can honestly say it's among the ten best games I've ever played. Anyone who loves a good story should take a look into adventure games. You can actually own it for free just by signing up at GOG Highly recommended for anyone wanting to give it a spin.
Are you reading this, The U.S. Government? The moon is of endless strategic military value! You could be the most powerful military on earth if you had the most advanced space programs.
Divert some of that ridiculously high military funding toward space programs, as much as you can spare!
They make laws go "poof".
It's sickening that their stance is "The FCC has no right to get between us and our customers' sweet, tight anuses". Maybe they'd prefer the Deparment of Justice. They've been allowed to abuse their monopoly/duopoly in every one of their markets for far too long.
The United States vs. Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, and Time Warner has a nice ring to it.
If you think this article is propagandist garbage, you should see the propaganda that some of the companies in the article crank out.
How soon Nintendo forgets that its market positions and price points are directly proportional on all its systems...
So if we record a publicly broadcast performance, someone can claim copyright. Hmm... Does this mean I can keep people from recording me in public by claiming copyright over my performance as a human being?
Now that Comcast has got Americans hooked on the idea that $60 per month is a good price for a 12 mbit connection with a 250GB cap, their margins keep getting bigger and bigger and they can raise the price any time they want. Even if the piracy rate rose to 100%, they'd still be making money hand over fist. Hell, the piracy rate could rise to 200% and they'd still be in business.
Maybe a couple of "Zuckerberg has a big ego" pieces to get some of the people who see through the sex crime allegations, too.
That's how we roll.
I have faith in the civility and objectiveness of slashdotters, even on climate change issues.
Worldwide, over 21.5 billion jobs have been lost due to piracy. PIracy is the reason that everyone in the world is homeless and starving.
While I'm sure it will sell like gangbusters on Verizon, the AT&T exclusivity of the iPhone allowed the Android platform to flourish on the nation's largest wireless network.
Apple is now releasing a seven month old single-core phone against a deluge of versatile dual-core Tegra 2 devices.
Clothing store, department store, toilet store. What would be the obvious name for a store that sells apps?
Oh well. I guess if I have to choose the lesser of two evils, I'll at least get an Atrix out of the deal with ATT.
Is it us?
If yes:
Do not eat or enslave
If no:
Eat and enslave
I don't know if dolphins are the key, but the current criterion is pretty shitty. And primitive.
Like the digital media producers of the world, these Australian retailers would rather shift the earth than themselves.
I don't think they're losing much, since it seems the Department of the Interior didn't seem interested in doing business with Google anyway.
Apparently they run the Department of the Interior like the Air Force. I remember waiting four weeks and paying $80 for three ounces of a very specific lithium grease for some of our equipment that had an extremely similar clone at Lowe's for $4.
I, for one, am glad to see that Onlive is going to be included in a tablet. In fact, it should be included in every device with a display!
Before Onlive, I was throwing away over $50,000 per year on expensive consoles and PC upgrades, which is an average amount that any family can spend on gaming every year. Not only that, but I couldn't run games even on my netbook or portable devices like I can with Onlive!
When I saw how low Onlive's prices were compared to the $50,000 a year it costs to maintain my consoles/PC upgrades, I knew right away that this was the service for me.
Now for a low monthly fee*, I can get great Onlive service with zero latency whatsoever in all the latest games. It seems that Onlive has conquered the laws of physics!
Be sure to pre-order the Onlive MicroConsole like I did. I'm very certain it will be a big improvement on what is already a great Onlive experience!
*Games sold separately
...Is lower the bar for "copyright infringement" or the enforcement thereof.
It's already happening in the US. Homeland Security to fourth amendment: "Fuck you."