Exactly this. Honestly, I'm sure all developers want as many players as possible for their games regardless of platform. But if you release a game on a specific platform that isn't a PC, you're going to have to abide by the platform-holder's rules. That's not the developer's fault. And Sony isn't going to hand their sizable player-base to Microsoft because that only benefits Microsoft. The player-base count is part of the platform proposition - why would Sony add value to Microsoft's product when they'd much rather those XB1 users bought a PS4?
Oh, please.
The developer above clearly would be happy for this to happen. He was explaining why it won't....and it's down to common sense business from Sony (or just as easily Microsoft, if they were winning this cycle). You're looking for some righteous indignation where none exists.
I think in the story you mentioned they were wanting the recording that was made *after* the keyword was spoken each time during the evening because the recording of the Alexa request would also naturally record whatever was happening in the background, regardless if Alexa could isolate the request from the background noise. That very different to recording constantly and I very much doubt the Echo has the storage space to store a days worth of recording....and it certainly isn't saving it on the device and beaming it back to Amazon each day because I'd notice that kind of spike in my network traffic as it's all monitored 24/7. I'd have to re-read the story to be sure, though.
I read that story as well. It may well have an internal cache that is constantly refreshed but it certainly isn't transmitting anything outside my local network until you ask it something.
Re: My shopping habits. Well.....yeah. But Amazon would get that information anyway if I were to simply use their website to...you know...buy stuff from Amazon.
The rest of your post sounds like paranoid claptrap, I'm afraid.
The Echo doesn't transmit ANYTHING until you say the assigned keyword. I know this because I did a network traffic analysis on my Echo as soon as I set it up. So there's that.
And the Echo is functionally incapable of calling the emergency services under any circumstances...at least in my country. Perhaps it can in the USA, I don't know.
Why is it people are all "hur-hur....you gullible sheeple, letting this thing into your house to spy on you!" about the Echo, yet are more than happy to have an potentially much more invasive device be on their person at all times? Do you have a smartphone? Because I'm betting you do.
Oh shut up. I keep hearing this paranoid bullshit. I did a network traffic analysis on my Echo as soon as I set it up. It doesn't fucking transmit anything until you say the assigned keyword. At least back up your tinfoil hat wearing bullshit with something more than "yeah, right!".
Well, I can't speak for anybody but myself but I bought an Amazon Echo about six months ago because I wanted a Bluetooth speaker and because I'm not an audio-nerd, it sounded just fine in my living room for music streamed from my phone or tablet. The Echo part was just kind of a fun bonus at first.
Then I found it very useful for streaming BBC radio. I found out it can play all my Audible books. I use it for the customisable news-flash from the BBC, CNN and Sky News, setting timers, telling me what the weather is going to be tomorrow, finding out what is on at my local cinema this weekend, telling the time without having to fumble for my phone. It'll play the latest podcast episodes of my fav shows and order stuff from Amazon for me. As I'm into astronomy, it'll tell me what celestial objects are above the horizon in my part of the world and at what time and which direction. It'll tell me when the ISS is overhead. I can order Dominos Pizza from it and request an Uber.
My young son loves it because he can request music without having to navigate any complex UIs, it can answer basic general knowledge questions for him, tell him jokes and stories and play interactive audio adventure games - some of which are surprisingly polished.
I have two more Echo Dots in the study and the bedroom now.
The technology may not be a necessity yet and not for everyone, but for a tech geek like me it's much more useful than I thought it would be.
"Any action that involves killing a person is a choice of last resort, you should have to be willing to deal with the emotional harm of having a person do it if you decide it's the path that needs to happen."
Are you sure wars are fought like that now? When somebody launches a cruise missile from 100 miles away, do you think that's the same as pulling a trigger on a gun and looking at your victim in the eyes as you do so? What about nuclear weapons or air combat where you don't even see your target, just a blip on your HUD. Really, unless you want to go back 70 years or so, it's all just statistics now. I don't see this as anything different. War has been automated and mechanised for a very long time and, unless you're a ground-pounder I very much doubt you see anything of your enemy before he's so much red mist and debris.
Oh shut up you elist fuck. It's news for nerds and by that, this piece of news fits. The fact that *you* don't find it worthwhile is neither here nor there.
Then they fucked up. I was going to buy one of these for myself for Christmas and as something to play with my little boy, but they're sold out everywhere. As I resigned myself to not getting one until the new year, I then thought "what the fuck am I doing?" bought a Raspberry Pi 3, two USB controllers and installed RetroPie for the same money with next-day delivery.
Ah, much better.
I'm with Zen Internet. They're cheap, they give me a static IP address, they don't mind me running a Linux server off my connection and....lord be praised....when you call technical support you immediately get to speak to an honest-to-goodness engineer. AN ACTUAL ENGINEER. Somebody who knows the difference between a web address and an IP address and doesn't ask you to turn off your firewall as part of their checklist/script.
They don't supply a router when you sign up, but they seem to know the admin screens of lots of different makes and basically talked me through configuring mine over the phone.
I was a Sky customer for a week once when my previous small ISP got bought out by them. Never again.
Don't be so closed minded. That's the sort of software that is important to you and me. For the vast majority of people, all they need is a word processor, email, instant messaging, web-browsing and Candy Crush Saga. Those sorts of things can absolutely be replaced by something like that.
You download and install VirtualBox. You define a new virtual machine (File -> New) for the operating system you want to run as a virtual machine. You define it's memory, ethernet, HDD size, etc. You attach the operating system ISO file to the virtual optical drive of the new virtual machine you created and then you start it. It installs the operating system as normal and now you have an operating system in a window in your physical operating system.
That's it. Hardly wizardry.
I know! All Americans seem to have, like, massive cable bills. I get Netflix for £5.99 pcm, my broadband for £49 pcm (including line rental and an actual landline telephone) and whatever Amazon Prime goes for a year these days...£80 a year? Can't remember. I don't get Sky or anything but it's not that expensive.
It's weird.
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I'm not saying that, you fucking idiot. I'm saying there is ZERO evidence for your paranoid delusions in this instance.
God, Slashdot is populated by paranoid loons. Was it always like this?
Exactly this. Honestly, I'm sure all developers want as many players as possible for their games regardless of platform. But if you release a game on a specific platform that isn't a PC, you're going to have to abide by the platform-holder's rules. That's not the developer's fault. And Sony isn't going to hand their sizable player-base to Microsoft because that only benefits Microsoft. The player-base count is part of the platform proposition - why would Sony add value to Microsoft's product when they'd much rather those XB1 users bought a PS4?
Oh, please. The developer above clearly would be happy for this to happen. He was explaining why it won't....and it's down to common sense business from Sony (or just as easily Microsoft, if they were winning this cycle). You're looking for some righteous indignation where none exists.
Nativity? The glasses of Christmas-past?
I think in the story you mentioned they were wanting the recording that was made *after* the keyword was spoken each time during the evening because the recording of the Alexa request would also naturally record whatever was happening in the background, regardless if Alexa could isolate the request from the background noise. That very different to recording constantly and I very much doubt the Echo has the storage space to store a days worth of recording....and it certainly isn't saving it on the device and beaming it back to Amazon each day because I'd notice that kind of spike in my network traffic as it's all monitored 24/7. I'd have to re-read the story to be sure, though.
I read that story as well. It may well have an internal cache that is constantly refreshed but it certainly isn't transmitting anything outside my local network until you ask it something.
Re: My shopping habits. Well.....yeah. But Amazon would get that information anyway if I were to simply use their website to...you know...buy stuff from Amazon. The rest of your post sounds like paranoid claptrap, I'm afraid. The Echo doesn't transmit ANYTHING until you say the assigned keyword. I know this because I did a network traffic analysis on my Echo as soon as I set it up. So there's that. And the Echo is functionally incapable of calling the emergency services under any circumstances...at least in my country. Perhaps it can in the USA, I don't know. Why is it people are all "hur-hur....you gullible sheeple, letting this thing into your house to spy on you!" about the Echo, yet are more than happy to have an potentially much more invasive device be on their person at all times? Do you have a smartphone? Because I'm betting you do.
Oh shut up. I keep hearing this paranoid bullshit. I did a network traffic analysis on my Echo as soon as I set it up. It doesn't fucking transmit anything until you say the assigned keyword. At least back up your tinfoil hat wearing bullshit with something more than "yeah, right!".
Well, I can't speak for anybody but myself but I bought an Amazon Echo about six months ago because I wanted a Bluetooth speaker and because I'm not an audio-nerd, it sounded just fine in my living room for music streamed from my phone or tablet. The Echo part was just kind of a fun bonus at first. Then I found it very useful for streaming BBC radio. I found out it can play all my Audible books. I use it for the customisable news-flash from the BBC, CNN and Sky News, setting timers, telling me what the weather is going to be tomorrow, finding out what is on at my local cinema this weekend, telling the time without having to fumble for my phone. It'll play the latest podcast episodes of my fav shows and order stuff from Amazon for me. As I'm into astronomy, it'll tell me what celestial objects are above the horizon in my part of the world and at what time and which direction. It'll tell me when the ISS is overhead. I can order Dominos Pizza from it and request an Uber. My young son loves it because he can request music without having to navigate any complex UIs, it can answer basic general knowledge questions for him, tell him jokes and stories and play interactive audio adventure games - some of which are surprisingly polished. I have two more Echo Dots in the study and the bedroom now. The technology may not be a necessity yet and not for everyone, but for a tech geek like me it's much more useful than I thought it would be.
"Any action that involves killing a person is a choice of last resort, you should have to be willing to deal with the emotional harm of having a person do it if you decide it's the path that needs to happen." Are you sure wars are fought like that now? When somebody launches a cruise missile from 100 miles away, do you think that's the same as pulling a trigger on a gun and looking at your victim in the eyes as you do so? What about nuclear weapons or air combat where you don't even see your target, just a blip on your HUD. Really, unless you want to go back 70 years or so, it's all just statistics now. I don't see this as anything different. War has been automated and mechanised for a very long time and, unless you're a ground-pounder I very much doubt you see anything of your enemy before he's so much red mist and debris.
Oh shut up you elist fuck. It's news for nerds and by that, this piece of news fits. The fact that *you* don't find it worthwhile is neither here nor there.
Found the Trump supporter.
That's cruel, inhumane, dangerous and painful for the cat. You fucking monster.
No, no. I saw this on CSI. You just enhance the image. Jeez, I thought as somebody posting on Slashdot you would know this! What a n00b.
Because taste is subjective, you dumb fuck.
Then they fucked up. I was going to buy one of these for myself for Christmas and as something to play with my little boy, but they're sold out everywhere. As I resigned myself to not getting one until the new year, I then thought "what the fuck am I doing?" bought a Raspberry Pi 3, two USB controllers and installed RetroPie for the same money with next-day delivery. Ah, much better.
Trumpazi? Tazi?
I'm with Zen Internet. They're cheap, they give me a static IP address, they don't mind me running a Linux server off my connection and....lord be praised....when you call technical support you immediately get to speak to an honest-to-goodness engineer. AN ACTUAL ENGINEER. Somebody who knows the difference between a web address and an IP address and doesn't ask you to turn off your firewall as part of their checklist/script. They don't supply a router when you sign up, but they seem to know the admin screens of lots of different makes and basically talked me through configuring mine over the phone. I was a Sky customer for a week once when my previous small ISP got bought out by them. Never again.
Don't be so closed minded. That's the sort of software that is important to you and me. For the vast majority of people, all they need is a word processor, email, instant messaging, web-browsing and Candy Crush Saga. Those sorts of things can absolutely be replaced by something like that.
Works fine for me - PS4 is attached to gigabit switch which it shares with my 360 and Raspberry Pi.
You download and install VirtualBox. You define a new virtual machine (File -> New) for the operating system you want to run as a virtual machine. You define it's memory, ethernet, HDD size, etc. You attach the operating system ISO file to the virtual optical drive of the new virtual machine you created and then you start it. It installs the operating system as normal and now you have an operating system in a window in your physical operating system. That's it. Hardly wizardry.
Works fine under 64-Bit Wine - at least the GOG version does.
Woohoo! Brighton represent! :D
I know! All Americans seem to have, like, massive cable bills. I get Netflix for £5.99 pcm, my broadband for £49 pcm (including line rental and an actual landline telephone) and whatever Amazon Prime goes for a year these days...£80 a year? Can't remember. I don't get Sky or anything but it's not that expensive. It's weird.