The solution isn't Free Software, the solution is trust and trying to tamp down on malfeasance by software and hardware vendors.
There are three big problems with Free Software. First, the assumption that having the source code is useful for the average user. Second, the assumption that having source code available is useful for those who are technically competent. Not every geek is going to analyze every piece of code that comes out. I'd wager a lot of code would go largely unreviewed. Third, the assumption that somehow techies can eat and survive when their code is being passed around freely and they have no right to see a dime for their work.
As long as those problems exist, we're stuck with trusting carriers and software vendors to do the right thing.
The Famicom lacked the lockout chip. The lockout chip was designed to keep absolutely godawful software from hitting the console. It's not like DRM happened in a bubble. The famicom saw a huge piracy and crapware problem, so did the Atari 2600. Especially on the Famicom Disk System.
My point was that your console isn't going to crash and crap out because the registry died or that you can't play the latest game because your video card isn't up to spec. You just plugged it in and it just worked... well, of course, most of the time. Of course they break and sometimes you'd need wonky peripherals to make some games work.
Back in the late 80's, during the era of the NES, there was very little DRM. Game consoles arose because it gave a very compelling gameplay experience to people who didn't want to invest a lot of money into a PC to play games.
We see the same thing going into the early 2000's when the PS2 came out. Which I'd say is probably the last year that statement could be considered accurate. Gaming on a PC is a pain in the ass. Further more, while it's superior for FPSing, the average PC gamer seems to forget that there are games other than FPSes, RTSes and MMOs out there.
I couldn't imagine playing Tiger Woods Golf or Katamari Damacy on a keyboard and mouse.
No game developer is putting out a game experience like Uncharted or Gears of War out on a tablet.
While the iOS and Android SDKs allows you to connect arbitrary bluetooth accessories to devices, which bluetooth devices are you supporting? More to the point, what do you do when someone's spent money on your game and they don't have a controller?
I think Lord British is being ridiculous. Tablets can't "replace" consoles. Consumers may buy less consoles because they own a tablet, but that doesn't mean they "replaced' the console. More likely they're less likely to buy portable devices... But consoles? I don't think so.
Given that the 360 saw record sales and the PS3 isn't doing poorly either two years after the iPad and a year after the onslaught of Android tablets, I don't think we're going to see consoles go anywhere anytime soon.
When you activate an iOS device, it prompts you if you want to send this data. Further more, if you go into the device settings, and look at the diagnostics, it shows you all the files it's storing and what exactly it's reporting.
Granted, it could be doing something else behind the scenes, but this is more than what you're getting with the Android Carrier IQ(As someone pointed out on The Talk Show, a great oxymoron) installs.
it's unknown whether or not his delaying the surgery lead to his death.
It's not a matter of too soon, it's a matter of we don't know what ultimately did him in. We don't know if it metastasized or if something else was going on.
Uh. Pirates have been working on breaking the ps3 open. The first tool shipped with the jb dongle was an hdloader with no provided tool chain.
The fact that the damn thing was 5 bucks in parts that was sold for much more than that should be evidence enough that this whole notion that hackers break consoles first for the good of the gaming community is silly at best, stupid at worst. Every console got broken for piracy first then homebrew.
They could've produced an easy to use personal computer but they didn't. They were too busy chasing their own bread and butter to try to change the world.
Xerox had a decade to put out a Mac style product for the masses. They never did. They doomed themselves to being a printer and copier company since then.
You do need project managers. People who understand the stuff they're trying to sell to the general public.
MBAs don't teach you that. They don't teach you taste or creativity. They teach you how to waste people's time and ruin perfectly good output from talented people and potentially destroy hearts, minds and souls in the process.
Yeah, it was non-slave owning notherners who didn't want slaves to be counted as a person. Politically it would be a disaster if you could just import more people to boost your population numbers and stuff the legislature with more seats.
The GP is right. The constitution was a document for a simpler time. It's also not even close to being perfect.
Interstate commerce. The guy's *Oklahoma* based distributor got in trouble. He's based in California.
Also, the Constitution isn't this amazingly perfect document; not even close. It was an incredible improvement in practical terms to the Articles of Confederation. However, it's huge compromise between various factions who had interests where power lay. Which is why we even have both the general welfare clause AND the 10th amendment.
I'm willing to bet if we knew what an MRI was going to be or what an AK47 was going to be, the Constitution would've been a much different document.
The Founding Fathers aren't American deities. They're flawed, old, rich white men who cared about their bottom line who couldn't agree on much. They couldn't even agree that black people were a whole person for the purposes of population counting for christ's sake.
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I thought Free Software was Free as in Freedom? Yes, someone was suggesting Free Software.
Also part of Software Freedom is the freedom to copy.
The solution isn't Free Software, the solution is trust and trying to tamp down on malfeasance by software and hardware vendors.
There are three big problems with Free Software. First, the assumption that having the source code is useful for the average user. Second, the assumption that having source code available is useful for those who are technically competent. Not every geek is going to analyze every piece of code that comes out. I'd wager a lot of code would go largely unreviewed. Third, the assumption that somehow techies can eat and survive when their code is being passed around freely and they have no right to see a dime for their work.
As long as those problems exist, we're stuck with trusting carriers and software vendors to do the right thing.
The Famicom lacked the lockout chip. The lockout chip was designed to keep absolutely godawful software from hitting the console. It's not like DRM happened in a bubble. The famicom saw a huge piracy and crapware problem, so did the Atari 2600. Especially on the Famicom Disk System.
My point was that your console isn't going to crash and crap out because the registry died or that you can't play the latest game because your video card isn't up to spec. You just plugged it in and it just worked... well, of course, most of the time. Of course they break and sometimes you'd need wonky peripherals to make some games work.
Predicting that far out in the future is tricky. Like, wiring up cat 5 wearing boxing gloves tricky.
Lord British is a PC developer and seeing it from a PC dev's POV. I don't think he sees it from a consumer POV.
the problem is transparency.
If not Carrier IQ what next? What information are they gathering? What's the performance cost with this thing running in the background?
Somewhere in the back of my head Richard M. Stallman is laughing(and eating foot fungus).
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Adam Smith wrote the rules on capitalism. There's your true True Scotsman for you.
Back in the late 80's, during the era of the NES, there was very little DRM. Game consoles arose because it gave a very compelling gameplay experience to people who didn't want to invest a lot of money into a PC to play games.
We see the same thing going into the early 2000's when the PS2 came out. Which I'd say is probably the last year that statement could be considered accurate. Gaming on a PC is a pain in the ass. Further more, while it's superior for FPSing, the average PC gamer seems to forget that there are games other than FPSes, RTSes and MMOs out there.
I couldn't imagine playing Tiger Woods Golf or Katamari Damacy on a keyboard and mouse.
the point on 2.
No game developer is putting out a game experience like Uncharted or Gears of War out on a tablet.
While the iOS and Android SDKs allows you to connect arbitrary bluetooth accessories to devices, which bluetooth devices are you supporting? More to the point, what do you do when someone's spent money on your game and they don't have a controller?
I think Lord British is being ridiculous. Tablets can't "replace" consoles. Consumers may buy less consoles because they own a tablet, but that doesn't mean they "replaced' the console. More likely they're less likely to buy portable devices... But consoles? I don't think so.
Given that the 360 saw record sales and the PS3 isn't doing poorly either two years after the iPad and a year after the onslaught of Android tablets, I don't think we're going to see consoles go anywhere anytime soon.
sure.
When you activate an iOS device, it prompts you if you want to send this data. Further more, if you go into the device settings, and look at the diagnostics, it shows you all the files it's storing and what exactly it's reporting.
Granted, it could be doing something else behind the scenes, but this is more than what you're getting with the Android Carrier IQ(As someone pointed out on The Talk Show, a great oxymoron) installs.
While Free as in Freedom is a huge reason why this is problematic, are we free to counterfeit goods?
it's unknown whether or not his delaying the surgery lead to his death.
It's not a matter of too soon, it's a matter of we don't know what ultimately did him in. We don't know if it metastasized or if something else was going on.
It's like we said on the iPad, if you see a stylus, they blew it. In multitasking, if you see a task manager... they blew it.
I doubt it highly.
Normally I'd agree but given that there are some practical reasons to make sure you're eating one thing but not another...
Uh. Pirates have been working on breaking the ps3 open. The first tool shipped with the jb dongle was an hdloader with no provided tool chain.
The fact that the damn thing was 5 bucks in parts that was sold for much more than that should be evidence enough that this whole notion that hackers break consoles first for the good of the gaming community is silly at best, stupid at worst. Every console got broken for piracy first then homebrew.
No. That was GNU/Jesus and those were GPL'd loaves and fishes.
I agree, Italian and German fascists were competent economists.
Anti-semitism, mass extermination of undesirables and world conquest are horrible things but comparing Republicans to Nazis is unfair to well, Nazis.
They could've produced an easy to use personal computer but they didn't. They were too busy chasing their own bread and butter to try to change the world.
Xerox had a decade to put out a Mac style product for the masses. They never did. They doomed themselves to being a printer and copier company since then.
You do need project managers. People who understand the stuff they're trying to sell to the general public.
MBAs don't teach you that. They don't teach you taste or creativity. They teach you how to waste people's time and ruin perfectly good output from talented people and potentially destroy hearts, minds and souls in the process.
They are far more important than senors
That's sexist. Even in a male dominated sport like Football, the señoras are important too.
Hey! That's not fair.
Ted Bundy was a violent psychopath and Charles Manson had a hippie cult of personality around him.
Wait, never mind. Continue.
(Although I don't think Ted Bundy threw chairs.)
Yeah, it was non-slave owning notherners who didn't want slaves to be counted as a person. Politically it would be a disaster if you could just import more people to boost your population numbers and stuff the legislature with more seats.
The GP is right. The constitution was a document for a simpler time. It's also not even close to being perfect.
Interstate commerce. The guy's *Oklahoma* based distributor got in trouble. He's based in California.
Also, the Constitution isn't this amazingly perfect document; not even close. It was an incredible improvement in practical terms to the Articles of Confederation. However, it's huge compromise between various factions who had interests where power lay. Which is why we even have both the general welfare clause AND the 10th amendment.
I'm willing to bet if we knew what an MRI was going to be or what an AK47 was going to be, the Constitution would've been a much different document.
The Founding Fathers aren't American deities. They're flawed, old, rich white men who cared about their bottom line who couldn't agree on much. They couldn't even agree that black people were a whole person for the purposes of population counting for christ's sake.
yes, because completely anonymous crowd sourced location data is just like having the carrier snoop on your every text and call.
*yawn* Boring troll is boring.
What's your thoughts on chiropractic? or HOSTS files?