I largely agree... When the service or product I'm using is free to me(eg: Facebook, GMail)
When I buy a product though, I'd rather not be a trojan horse for ads. The Xbox360 pissed me off in a huge part due to this. The 360 shits ads at you even if you're paying for XBLA Gold.
Before you start going crazy thinking about how great it'll be that Google owns Moto Mobility, remember that Google wants to snoop in on everything you do, everything you say, and everything on your phone so they can sell ads. They don't care about ecosystem, they don't care about fragmentation, they don't care about YOU. They want you to generate ads.
Android is nothing but a giant trojan horse. It is evil. It should be antithetical to everything Google claims to be("Don't be evil.").
most players are noobs, and getting owned is a really shitty gameplay experience.
It's like the people bitching about how Super Street Fighter IV and Marvel vs Capcom 3 let players make mistakes. Hint: It's not fun if the other guys keep wiping the floor with you. Also, to the percentage of players who are good enough to be offended by this: Fuck off. You're a bunch of whiny, self important bastards who cry whenever anyone so much dares not give into your shitty whims. You're the reason why PC gaming has gone to shit.
what i never understood was why was there never wide spread support for the USB printer class. I mean, HID did wonders for joypads and all sorts of other input devices. Why did printer vendors fore go sanity with their software support?
As we're all aware, one of the problems with the patent system is that patents don't always equal products. How many times has an Apple patent made the news with no product to show for it? How many people missed the iPhone because they weren't paying attention to the right patents?
That being said, this is WAY more plausible given Apple's work with CUPS and AirPrint.
Because they put together a compelling narrative and they're ignoring what their fans want. Even worse, Gabe made the comment that Chell was going to be involved in the HL2 story and with portal 2, that didn't happen.
I just wish valve didn't say anything about ep 3 or put the huge cliff hanger involving aperture science in ep 2. You cant knee your fan base in the balls like that with out some outcry that you indeed kneed them in the twins.
At first i thought you were insane because writing for individual vendors was kind of crazy. However, between Intel, nVidia and ATI, you've cast a pretty wide net.
Then I realized it's even crazier wanting nVidia, ATi and Intel to all make their hardware communicate the same way through out the generations.
Bro, it's a rectangle. The whole basis here is that it "looks" like an iPad. That's all. Are you telling me Apple invented the rectangle?
In context of technology.
Yes. The clean use of minimalist rectangles was an apple invention. Every tech gadget on earth I know of gives into this bizarre temptation to load every edge and non-screen space of the device with buttons, rocker switches, DPads, etc. everywhere.
I was exhausted last night. I meant to say that it's incredibly bridgable not protocol agnostic.
But my point stands, it's meant to compete with ExpressCard, which also is another means of breaking out PCIe lanes. Thunderbolt is not meant to compete with USB.
if you read the news story, it's pretty light on details.
There are pretty good reasonable reasons why you might get searched and seized. Until we get more details about what the fuck happened, it's really asinine to just quote the 4th Amendment.
BTW, if you read the TSA blog entry, the Minty MP3 player got blown up because someone left a weird box full of wires, plugs and batteries unattended in an airport.
I think that it's absurd to have the opinion that nothing is unhackable. I think it's feasible to think that there may come a day when security gets tight enough that a computing system for consumer use could become exploit-proof. Look at the PS3. It wasn't until that USB boot exploit was discovered was the thing broken open.
Yes, it's a bit of special pleading, but, most attack vectors were covered. Sony did learn from the PSP. It's conceivable that there could be a day when the only way to hack a machine to run arbitrary code is to intercept the CPU itself, and even that's theoretically beatable.
I'm sure having record year over year profits is so short sighted.:) Even over a year after the iPhone 4 came out, it's still outselling individual phones from the likes of HTC and Samsung.
People want products they can use now, not products they might be able to get to work with some hacking.
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...using the power of a monopoly in one market to extend into another
Isn't google doing such a thing by leveraging their ad and search revenue? Microsoft by leveraging office and windows?
I largely agree... When the service or product I'm using is free to me(eg: Facebook, GMail)
When I buy a product though, I'd rather not be a trojan horse for ads. The Xbox360 pissed me off in a huge part due to this. The 360 shits ads at you even if you're paying for XBLA Gold.
Before you start going crazy thinking about how great it'll be that Google owns Moto Mobility, remember that Google wants to snoop in on everything you do, everything you say, and everything on your phone so they can sell ads. They don't care about ecosystem, they don't care about fragmentation, they don't care about YOU. They want you to generate ads.
Android is nothing but a giant trojan horse. It is evil. It should be antithetical to everything Google claims to be("Don't be evil.").
most players are noobs, and getting owned is a really shitty gameplay experience.
It's like the people bitching about how Super Street Fighter IV and Marvel vs Capcom 3 let players make mistakes. Hint: It's not fun if the other guys keep wiping the floor with you. Also, to the percentage of players who are good enough to be offended by this: Fuck off. You're a bunch of whiny, self important bastards who cry whenever anyone so much dares not give into your shitty whims. You're the reason why PC gaming has gone to shit.
what i never understood was why was there never wide spread support for the USB printer class. I mean, HID did wonders for joypads and all sorts of other input devices. Why did printer vendors fore go sanity with their software support?
As we're all aware, one of the problems with the patent system is that patents don't always equal products. How many times has an Apple patent made the news with no product to show for it? How many people missed the iPhone because they weren't paying attention to the right patents?
That being said, this is WAY more plausible given Apple's work with CUPS and AirPrint.
Because they put together a compelling narrative and they're ignoring what their fans want. Even worse, Gabe made the comment that Chell was going to be involved in the HL2 story and with portal 2, that didn't happen.
I just wish valve didn't say anything about ep 3 or put the huge cliff hanger involving aperture science in ep 2. You cant knee your fan base in the balls like that with out some outcry that you indeed kneed them in the twins.
I wonder how much of a bitch a pure CUDA port of Quake would be.
Dear Valve.
L4D/L4D2, Portal 2, etc. etc. were fun.
NOW TELL ME WHERE BARNEY CALHOUN WENT.
At first i thought you were insane because writing for individual vendors was kind of crazy. However, between Intel, nVidia and ATI, you've cast a pretty wide net.
Then I realized it's even crazier wanting nVidia, ATi and Intel to all make their hardware communicate the same way through out the generations.
no, but he does cite a more practical example. Speedy Gonzales doesn't work right on most emulators it seems.
Bro, it's a rectangle. The whole basis here is that it "looks" like an iPad. That's all. Are you telling me Apple invented the rectangle?
In context of technology.
Yes. The clean use of minimalist rectangles was an apple invention. Every tech gadget on earth I know of gives into this bizarre temptation to load every edge and non-screen space of the device with buttons, rocker switches, DPads, etc. everywhere.
Apple said, "NO. No more."
Could you elaborate why florian mueller is so evil? I don't get it.
You don't need a turban to set off a bomb.
however, a tiny box full of electronics is always handy for doing such a job.
Here's a tip: don't leave your shit unattended at the airport.
I was exhausted last night. I meant to say that it's incredibly bridgable not protocol agnostic.
But my point stands, it's meant to compete with ExpressCard, which also is another means of breaking out PCIe lanes. Thunderbolt is not meant to compete with USB.
Thunderbolt is protocol agnostic. It's not meant to compete with USB, but express card. In fact you can run USB devices over thunderbolt.
Lets see that unhackable system pal
Sure, try to hack a NAND gate.
Short of feeding it a crapload of volts and amps, there's not much you can do to really feed it some kind of input that'll fuzz it's output.
if you read the news story, it's pretty light on details.
There are pretty good reasonable reasons why you might get searched and seized. Until we get more details about what the fuck happened, it's really asinine to just quote the 4th Amendment.
BTW, if you read the TSA blog entry, the Minty MP3 player got blown up because someone left a weird box full of wires, plugs and batteries unattended in an airport.
No.
There are morons who are banking everything based on what John C. Dvorak or whatever moron in InfoWeek or CompuTron monthly is publishing.
In short, lazy stupid journalists will never die as long as those who are too lazy to be properly informed are willing to buy.
That being said, Google's best behind them? Probably. Is Google going to crash like Yahoo or Altavista? No. God no.
Okay, then, CPU?
I think that it's absurd to have the opinion that nothing is unhackable. I think it's feasible to think that there may come a day when security gets tight enough that a computing system for consumer use could become exploit-proof. Look at the PS3. It wasn't until that USB boot exploit was discovered was the thing broken open.
Yes, it's a bit of special pleading, but, most attack vectors were covered. Sony did learn from the PSP. It's conceivable that there could be a day when the only way to hack a machine to run arbitrary code is to intercept the CPU itself, and even that's theoretically beatable.
I'm sure having record year over year profits is so short sighted. :) Even over a year after the iPhone 4 came out, it's still outselling individual phones from the likes of HTC and Samsung.
People want products they can use now, not products they might be able to get to work with some hacking.
I'm amazed geeks DO NOT GET IT.
At all.
ALL OPERATING SYSTEMS CAN BE EXPLOITED!!!
You're a moron.
Insecurity isn't an inevitability.
Grindr.
so why are so many iPads syncing to Windows machines?
I like the fact that browsing and doing stuff doesn't have to be constrained either by small screen size or having to gently handle a laptop.
I can flip open my iPad's smart cover and be ready to browse. Can't do that on a cheap ass netbook or laptop.
Which is a damn shame, because WebOS is such a damn good mobile OS.
I'm not sure if it's this price drop or the fact that it showed up on Woot for 20 bucks off a few days ago that really is the final bell for WebOS.