UEFI doesn't solve the problems that it's supposed to either.
UEFI means the firmware now has to have drivers for devices and the OS is now supposed to have drivers. In an ideal world, only the firmware would need drivers or the device itself would inject drivers into firmware on boot or connection.
The internals to the iPhone 5 are different from the iPhone 4S. Big deal the outside still looks the same. Who cares if the body looks the same or different? it's a nicer phone than the one before it(which was pretty nice to begin with).
Wrong. That's what we have copyright for. By your logic, I should be allowed to just pull someone's shoes off because hey, no one can stop me from just taking shoes right?
Yes, copyright infringement isn't theft; but ownership of physical property is the same illusion that ownership of IP is. There's no physical law of the universe that prevents someone from just taking your phone out of your hand(Other than you fighting back). As long as we agree that ownership means something in the abstract, we need to agree that yes, people can have monopolies on ideas.
Copyright IS too long and it's really fucked up. But copyright IS a net positive. No one should be allowed to profit off of the hard work and inspiration of someone else.
(I also think the altruism inherent in Copyleft is a bigger societal net positive; but as long as people need to eat and pay for things to live, copyright is something we have to live with.)
So yes. Good ideas will forever be scarce. It is now less scarce given the tools to make and publish new works for nearly anything are easier than ever. But still scarce.
I'm hip to the idea that piracy shouldn't be punished to the degree that it is, but, we are not entitled to other people's ideas such to pull them wholesale. We are entitled to be inspired by them, after all that is the nature of inspiration. But to steal outright? That's too far for me.
What has been going on in California is that they have insane and unclear laws with regard to medicinal marijuana. That's why the busts are happening there but not Washington, Colorado or other states that have made it legal to grow for medicinal purposes.
I stopped feeling bad for these guys when I found out they're using warehouses to grow hundreds of pounds of this stuff. The spirit of the law was that you could grow for yourself and as a non profit dispensary, but not make a business of it.
Which, I think is wrong. It should be legal, but it isn't. This isn't some act of bold defiance, this is trying to skirt the law.
If you're talking about something like cave story or bit trip... Anything, sure. USB dongles will be pretty quick.
But not nearly as fast as plugging rom chips directly into the memory bus. Even that has its downsides. Street fighter alpha 2 for snes for example had loading times due to the compression it used.
The reason why that worked was that the pins in those cartridge slots were basically pins to system memory. So when you plugged in a cart it was like plugging in roms directly to the board.
Flash just isn't as fast for reading as you think it is. Even on the ds and vita, you're still waiting for load times.
The PS3 supports keyboard and mouse via usb and bluetooth. The PS3 also supports loading data via USB, and UT3 supports loading mods in from a USB drive.
So, given all of this, this is laziness on the part of developers. not on the part of Sony.
No, I'm just saying our modern American atrocity isn't the same as a past American atrocity. Being pedantic when it comes to history is really important because understanding the finer nuances of history allow us to sift through the noise and hyperbole.
No they aren't. Guantanamo hasn't seen a new prisoner since Obama took office and probably way before then. Guantanamo has very few Americans. Guantanamo has been open for way longer. The living conditions are slightly better...
Seriously, pay closer attention to the past and present.
are you looking at the same iTunes 11 I am? in music mode, it just shows me a player on the top bar with simple controls(Previous track, play, next track), a volume slider and search.
Then a mode sensitive bar where I can switch between various types of media, different categories in those types of media, and any devices connected. Then a simple interface for picking items from that category.
Compare that to the default WinAmp install which is kind of a bloody mess.
This is only true if you're holding vast amounts of currency and your definition of tyranny is that a lot of really poor people elected people to go to congress to represent their interests.
A fiat currency means that instead of having magic rocks determine our economic future, output of industry, GDP and our credit rating do.
In libertarian fantasy land, this would be a disaster as we wouldn't be able to on demand inflate or deflate the currency to deal with unexpected hard times like a drought or recession.
And no, fiat currencies and the Federal Reserve are not the only causes of recessions and economic hard times. Endless unchecked growth is not only infeasible it is impossible. Unchecked growth isn't sound fiscal policy, it's cancer.
It needs retail presence. Once that happens, maybe. It all depends if the package actually comes together. If it sucks, I think it'll go the way of the RZone and the game.com.
If they execute, then sure. But you haven't even seen one.
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Next it generates nothing but drinking games drinking games that ensure alcohol poisoning.
The world is ruined.
I know I'm the gp, but, mod parent up. I'd still like to stress that UEFI is ultimately flawed.
Sure, but I don't think it's unreasonable for a manufacturer to sell sealed black boxes.
What is unreasonable is if they sue anyone who tries to publish breaking into those black boxes. Which I don't think they're planning on.
UEFI doesn't solve the problems that it's supposed to either.
UEFI means the firmware now has to have drivers for devices and the OS is now supposed to have drivers. In an ideal world, only the firmware would need drivers or the device itself would inject drivers into firmware on boot or connection.
But the iPhone 5 gets better performance. The CPU in the iphone 5 is faster with a better graphics part. Plus it does LTE.
The only thing the iPhone 5 really could've used is NFC.
The internals to the iPhone 5 are different from the iPhone 4S. Big deal the outside still looks the same. Who cares if the body looks the same or different? it's a nicer phone than the one before it(which was pretty nice to begin with).
Wrong. That's what we have copyright for. By your logic, I should be allowed to just pull someone's shoes off because hey, no one can stop me from just taking shoes right?
Yes, copyright infringement isn't theft; but ownership of physical property is the same illusion that ownership of IP is. There's no physical law of the universe that prevents someone from just taking your phone out of your hand(Other than you fighting back). As long as we agree that ownership means something in the abstract, we need to agree that yes, people can have monopolies on ideas.
Copyright IS too long and it's really fucked up. But copyright IS a net positive. No one should be allowed to profit off of the hard work and inspiration of someone else.
(I also think the altruism inherent in Copyleft is a bigger societal net positive; but as long as people need to eat and pay for things to live, copyright is something we have to live with.)
ideas are dime a dozen.
*GOOD* Ideas are and forever will be, scarce.
Sturgeon's Law.
90% of everything is crap.
So yes. Good ideas will forever be scarce. It is now less scarce given the tools to make and publish new works for nearly anything are easier than ever. But still scarce.
I'm hip to the idea that piracy shouldn't be punished to the degree that it is, but, we are not entitled to other people's ideas such to pull them wholesale. We are entitled to be inspired by them, after all that is the nature of inspiration. But to steal outright? That's too far for me.
Good ideas will always be a scarce resource.
Furthermore, valve owes for bandwidth when transferring the game. So a cut doesn't sound insane.
Ah the lament of the Apple hater. Everything Apple does is backwards and wrong until they succeed in the market then it becomes obvious!
Sounds like Samsung is ripping off Sony security.
Quick! Get Kaz Hirai on the phone!
Misspoke. I meant to say that this is profit making in disguise of non profit.
That has been the case this whole time.
What has been going on in California is that they have insane and unclear laws with regard to medicinal marijuana. That's why the busts are happening there but not Washington, Colorado or other states that have made it legal to grow for medicinal purposes.
I stopped feeling bad for these guys when I found out they're using warehouses to grow hundreds of pounds of this stuff. The spirit of the law was that you could grow for yourself and as a non profit dispensary, but not make a business of it.
Which, I think is wrong. It should be legal, but it isn't. This isn't some act of bold defiance, this is trying to skirt the law.
If you're talking about something like cave story or bit trip... Anything, sure. USB dongles will be pretty quick.
But not nearly as fast as plugging rom chips directly into the memory bus. Even that has its downsides. Street fighter alpha 2 for snes for example had loading times due to the compression it used.
The reason why that worked was that the pins in those cartridge slots were basically pins to system memory. So when you plugged in a cart it was like plugging in roms directly to the board.
Flash just isn't as fast for reading as you think it is. Even on the ds and vita, you're still waiting for load times.
Also, rms is to blame too.
The onus is on him to prove his claims. That having open access to source is better and software freedom is paramount.
Don't blame apple when they figured out having a more closed ecosystem meant things ran more smoothlyn, and not just from the security side either.
I've banged on about this over and over again.
The PS3 supports keyboard and mouse via usb and bluetooth. The PS3 also supports loading data via USB, and UT3 supports loading mods in from a USB drive.
So, given all of this, this is laziness on the part of developers. not on the part of Sony.
No, I'm just saying our modern American atrocity isn't the same as a past American atrocity. Being pedantic when it comes to history is really important because understanding the finer nuances of history allow us to sift through the noise and hyperbole.
After the Verge's great article on Samsung's history of corruption and now this?
Apple's kind of mean, and maybe possibly evil but this is undeniable.
No they aren't. Guantanamo hasn't seen a new prisoner since Obama took office and probably way before then. Guantanamo has very few Americans. Guantanamo has been open for way longer. The living conditions are slightly better...
Seriously, pay closer attention to the past and present.
are you looking at the same iTunes 11 I am? in music mode, it just shows me a player on the top bar with simple controls(Previous track, play, next track), a volume slider and search.
Then a mode sensitive bar where I can switch between various types of media, different categories in those types of media, and any devices connected. Then a simple interface for picking items from that category.
Compare that to the default WinAmp install which is kind of a bloody mess.
This is only true if you're holding vast amounts of currency and your definition of tyranny is that a lot of really poor people elected people to go to congress to represent their interests.
A fiat currency means that instead of having magic rocks determine our economic future, output of industry, GDP and our credit rating do.
In libertarian fantasy land, this would be a disaster as we wouldn't be able to on demand inflate or deflate the currency to deal with unexpected hard times like a drought or recession.
And no, fiat currencies and the Federal Reserve are not the only causes of recessions and economic hard times. Endless unchecked growth is not only infeasible it is impossible. Unchecked growth isn't sound fiscal policy, it's cancer.
Go home. You are drunk.
It needs retail presence. Once that happens, maybe. It all depends if the package actually comes together. If it sucks, I think it'll go the way of the RZone and the game.com.
If they execute, then sure. But you haven't even seen one.
consensus is they can make one hell of a keyboard though! :D