The answer is the PC games model we already had, where the platform is open and the infrastructure isn't something you are forced to buy from a single seller you are locked to for life (xbox live).
The problem is, the games on PC *suck*.
Online support shouldn't be provisional, but it's de-facto provisional. Armored Core 4: For Answer still has online servers running but... No one's playing. They might as well shut the servers down. For many games that has online support, LAN still works, and LAN VPN is always an option.
I think everyone's going to dogpile on Apple for this, but I think they're missing the point, the point of the removal isn't the word Android, or Google, but the whole phrase of Google Android Developer Contest. They want to be disassociated with that contest. Given that Apple hasn't delisted apps that claim compatibility with other phones, and they even list a whole crap load of Android podcasts and other Android content in the iTunes store, I don't think Apple's paranoid about just the Apple or Google part.
This time, book sellers didn't miss the boat. They were on board with Kindle, they're on board with Nook, and they're on board, in theory, with the iPad.
Rupert Murdoch and by extension, Harper Collins, did, however, miss that boat.
(Am I the only one who's having a hard time reading the comments and the article with out hearing keith olbermann's murdoch impression going in their head?)
I'd imagine people looking for a specific gaming *phone* won't mind having a gaming centric phone.
You can have proper gaming controls on a phone with out making it bulky. Look at the PSPGo. DPad, analog nub, buttons all hidden behind the screen. Given that Android requires some sort of 4 way input device, you could have the controller buttons bound to keyboard presses.
Until the hurdles to get openness on my phone become too great, I'll chose usability over openness. In handheld devices, Freedom is a red herring. Make it work right first. Make the interface and the hardware great, then I'll worry about opening it.
Of all the shit that's been given to the NGage, it did quite a bit right. Controller DPad was fine, plenty of buttons and supposedly the development environment was pretty good(it was Symbian after all).
of course, everything it did *wrong* sank it. But if you took the iPhone or Droid's touch screenscreen, with a DPad and buttons that didn't get in the way of the screen or using it as a phone/smart phone, along with Android? I might give up my iPhone 3gs for one.
It's picking your battles. If I picked up an Android I'd be fighting with the vendor and Google on when I got to update my phone, and with what. If I picked a WinMo phone, I'd be fighting against a lot of horrible decisions. If picking Apple means having to run Purplera1n and not rushing out to upgrade firmware the second new ones drop and waiting a bit for the jailbreak, then fine by me.
My MacBook shipped with an X implementation and a full set of GNU tools.
Name one OEM that has a Linux machine sitting in every electronics store in every state and nearly every town in America with as much mindshare as Apple? Dell provides Linux machines, but try buying one in store.
Macs are still geek friendly. Yes, anyone can download Cygwin on their own, but given that Apple decided that every mac owner to be a potential Mac developer, with no borders to entry to their development environment, it shows a huge geek friendly side that geeks don't want to admit.
I live less than 20 miles from one of the greatest public works projects on the face of this earth, which out which, my way of life wouldn't exist. Hoover Dam. You're damned wrong that there's a dichotomy between social and technological problems. Technology spurs society to do more, which allows for more social mobility. Ask anyone who's making money today as a programmer...
Because I believe that most people who are on handouts generally don't want to be. Generally there's more money to be made working, not to mention social and intellectual satisfaction to be had. I was on unemployment for about 7 months, and while I didn't mind being paid to search for a job, it's pretty unappealing overall to be on the dole. It's a safety net, not a teat. Even teats stop giving milk at some point, in some mammals.
I follow Phil via twitter, he's pretty spot on about space and space exploration. He even goes into the false dichotemy of funding social spending programs first then NASA in one of his posts. NASA research lead to cheaper, more viable foodstuffs for the poor in the past, I don't see why it's breakthroughs couldn't assist us in our search for solutions to problems here on Earth.
That's pretty painless when dealing with a Joomla! install.
That being said though, I work with Joomla! as an internal tool. It's not as painful as any number of CMS systems I've worked with, but it's certainly not the best. the API in 1.5 is surprisingly robust but has some documentation issues. Thankfully if you can fully grok PHP, and don't mind peering into the codebase every now and then, it's not a horrible experience.
The techie in me picked up an Apple because of the fact that it's a portable, UNIX certified machine with a bundled development environment that's got great support from the manufacturer with local repair locations in my home town and most major metropolitan areas.
That being said, a 3g/4g device with a Cradlepoint wifi bridge will mean 3g everywhere, 4g where i'm lucky, and an SSH terminal, games device, and a competent browser where ever I go.
You can do to the iPad whatever you wish. It's just that Apple's also allowed to sell you a locked down piece of hardware. If you want it, you have to work for it and jail break it yourself.
If Apple and AT&T bricked unlocked iPhones, iPod Touches, and Classic iPods running Rockbox or other alt. OSes ad-hoc, sure. But they're not. They're not telling you can't do what you want with what you own. They're just saying, "You want openness? Do it yourself."
Probably not directly, I don't imagine the HV allowing *direct* access to the isolated SPEs, but I do imagine an exploit through the hypervisor being the key to get those encryption keys.
Do you understand that the hack right now isn't very useful?
I have no doubt eventually keys will be extracted, and the thing will be hacked based on this hack here, but, until that happens, Sony's still winning.
Until you can get hypervisor access with out glitching the memory bus, or get homebrew working in the XMB, Sony still wins.
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Why isn't anyone talkinga bout Microsoft and Nintendo doing the same damned things?
why are you talking about Apple, in terms of the iPhone/iPod, when Nokia and Microsoft are on board with "trusted" computing?
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The answer is the PC games model we already had, where the platform is open and the infrastructure isn't something you are forced to buy from a single seller you are locked to for life (xbox live).
The problem is, the games on PC *suck*.
Online support shouldn't be provisional, but it's de-facto provisional. Armored Core 4: For Answer still has online servers running but... No one's playing. They might as well shut the servers down. For many games that has online support, LAN still works, and LAN VPN is always an option.
I think everyone's going to dogpile on Apple for this, but I think they're missing the point, the point of the removal isn't the word Android, or Google, but the whole phrase of Google Android Developer Contest. They want to be disassociated with that contest. Given that Apple hasn't delisted apps that claim compatibility with other phones, and they even list a whole crap load of Android podcasts and other Android content in the iTunes store, I don't think Apple's paranoid about just the Apple or Google part.
This time, book sellers didn't miss the boat. They were on board with Kindle, they're on board with Nook, and they're on board, in theory, with the iPad.
Rupert Murdoch and by extension, Harper Collins, did, however, miss that boat.
(Am I the only one who's having a hard time reading the comments and the article with out hearing keith olbermann's murdoch impression going in their head?)
It's possible to be a bad innovator, particularly given Microsoft's track record. Just have a bunch of new ideas that are sort of crap.
I'd call charging 100 bucks for a 802.11g adapter innovative, and I'd call it crap too.
There's a reason why I joined a Young Communists group on Facebook and friended the GOP on MySpace...
or Kathy Griffin.
I'd imagine people looking for a specific gaming *phone* won't mind having a gaming centric phone.
You can have proper gaming controls on a phone with out making it bulky. Look at the PSPGo. DPad, analog nub, buttons all hidden behind the screen. Given that Android requires some sort of 4 way input device, you could have the controller buttons bound to keyboard presses.
Until the hurdles to get openness on my phone become too great, I'll chose usability over openness. In handheld devices, Freedom is a red herring. Make it work right first. Make the interface and the hardware great, then I'll worry about opening it.
of what to do.
Of all the shit that's been given to the NGage, it did quite a bit right. Controller DPad was fine, plenty of buttons and supposedly the development environment was pretty good(it was Symbian after all).
of course, everything it did *wrong* sank it. But if you took the iPhone or Droid's touch screenscreen, with a DPad and buttons that didn't get in the way of the screen or using it as a phone/smart phone, along with Android? I might give up my iPhone 3gs for one.
It's picking your battles. If I picked up an Android I'd be fighting with the vendor and Google on when I got to update my phone, and with what. If I picked a WinMo phone, I'd be fighting against a lot of horrible decisions. If picking Apple means having to run Purplera1n and not rushing out to upgrade firmware the second new ones drop and waiting a bit for the jailbreak, then fine by me.
My MacBook shipped with an X implementation and a full set of GNU tools.
Name one OEM that has a Linux machine sitting in every electronics store in every state and nearly every town in America with as much mindshare as Apple? Dell provides Linux machines, but try buying one in store.
Macs are still geek friendly. Yes, anyone can download Cygwin on their own, but given that Apple decided that every mac owner to be a potential Mac developer, with no borders to entry to their development environment, it shows a huge geek friendly side that geeks don't want to admit.
I live less than 20 miles from one of the greatest public works projects on the face of this earth, which out which, my way of life wouldn't exist. Hoover Dam. You're damned wrong that there's a dichotomy between social and technological problems. Technology spurs society to do more, which allows for more social mobility. Ask anyone who's making money today as a programmer...
Because I believe that most people who are on handouts generally don't want to be. Generally there's more money to be made working, not to mention social and intellectual satisfaction to be had. I was on unemployment for about 7 months, and while I didn't mind being paid to search for a job, it's pretty unappealing overall to be on the dole. It's a safety net, not a teat. Even teats stop giving milk at some point, in some mammals.
I follow Phil via twitter, he's pretty spot on about space and space exploration. He even goes into the false dichotemy of funding social spending programs first then NASA in one of his posts. NASA research lead to cheaper, more viable foodstuffs for the poor in the past, I don't see why it's breakthroughs couldn't assist us in our search for solutions to problems here on Earth.
rm -rf /var/www/
That's pretty painless when dealing with a Joomla! install.
That being said though, I work with Joomla! as an internal tool. It's not as painful as any number of CMS systems I've worked with, but it's certainly not the best. the API in 1.5 is surprisingly robust but has some documentation issues. Thankfully if you can fully grok PHP, and don't mind peering into the codebase every now and then, it's not a horrible experience.
Vaccines are a break even product for pharmacos.
Profits? Not likely.
The techie in me picked up an Apple because of the fact that it's a portable, UNIX certified machine with a bundled development environment that's got great support from the manufacturer with local repair locations in my home town and most major metropolitan areas.
That being said, a 3g/4g device with a Cradlepoint wifi bridge will mean 3g everywhere, 4g where i'm lucky, and an SSH terminal, games device, and a competent browser where ever I go.
For 200 bucks, I'll take a tablet that's not running a 32bit desktop OS with known security flaws, driver flaws and usability flaws.
The fact is though, I could throw ubuntu on there too.
It also groks Bluetooth Keyboards as well.
Not USB, but, given the formfactor of this, thing, forcing bluetooth would be a superior experience.
(That keyboard dock looks like trash though.)
But this doesn't violate first sale doctrine.
You can do to the iPad whatever you wish. It's just that Apple's also allowed to sell you a locked down piece of hardware. If you want it, you have to work for it and jail break it yourself.
If Apple and AT&T bricked unlocked iPhones, iPod Touches, and Classic iPods running Rockbox or other alt. OSes ad-hoc, sure. But they're not. They're not telling you can't do what you want with what you own. They're just saying, "You want openness? Do it yourself."
You mean if I buy a MacBook Pro I'm going to be completely locked out of it? or do you mean that shocker, Apple makes OSes for their own hardware?
Probably not directly, I don't imagine the HV allowing *direct* access to the isolated SPEs, but I do imagine an exploit through the hypervisor being the key to get those encryption keys.
Do you understand that the hack right now isn't very useful?
I have no doubt eventually keys will be extracted, and the thing will be hacked based on this hack here, but, until that happens, Sony's still winning.
Until you can get hypervisor access with out glitching the memory bus, or get homebrew working in the XMB, Sony still wins.
Why isn't anyone talkinga bout Microsoft and Nintendo doing the same damned things?
why are you talking about Apple, in terms of the iPhone/iPod, when Nokia and Microsoft are on board with "trusted" computing?