Forget your phone, this could provide endless power for medical devices from insulin pumps to more exotic things like replacement limbs and those artificial eyes that are getting better each year (you get to see a 12x12 pixel image now! wooo, shiney). One of the problems with medical devices is finding a continuous power supply.
This technology already exists in the form of Java. Java solved this exact problem in 1997 but despite massive improvements Java is still about 1.5x to 2x slower than native code (it used to be 5-10x slower, so they've really done some work!) which doesn't hurt most applications but the overhead makes it less attractive for game development.
The way I see it, this entire situation is hilarious. Us Linux people have been wanting something like this to happen for, well, forever, and it is finally happening. The lack of serious gaming on Linux has been one of the things holding it back on the desktop market. Now that we're finally getting that, and a serious contender to the Windows gaming hegemony is present, all anyone can do is cry and scream "not good enough dammit not good enough" because not every Steam title ever made will be available on release. I bet if the year of the linux desktop ever happens/. will be the first one to criticize it.
To be fair the games you named are space combat sims and eve/x3 are economic sims with combat to support that. What you really want is a new space combat sim where you get sent on missions until the game ends.
Version fragmentation, like having some computer running windows 2000, some running XP, some running 7, etc. Or having an office with 5 different linux distros. It makes it harder to guarantee your program works anywhere.
Patent trolls acquire obscure or forgotten patents that actually exist. Those trolls OWN the patent to "a cylinder shaped electrolytic capacitor" or something stupid like that and sue people for infringement. Patent trolls abuse the patent system but they don't commit fraud.
Yeah it seems to me that using fake evidence to sue a someone is fraud no matter who the actors are. So assuming that the evidence was fake a crime was committed.
We won't be able to have a good conversation about this because most people only know the history of facebook from the "The Social Network" perspective which has been thoroughly refuted.
I've never seen a free community college where I lived. As for public education, that is "free" because it is paid for by taxes but the USA has a fixation on "getting your degree" that means that if you don't at least get a useless piece of paper like a "communications" degree you are going to be discriminated against even in jobs that don't really require college education. Higher education in the USA is paying $40k+ for the honor of getting your first "real" (remember - the USA also hates people who do work such as janitorial, food service, and stockroom) job.
No, the point is that a proprietary and completely arbitrarily chosen format such as DVD is NOT open by its very existence! There is nothing natural or prior art about the DVD format and it is one of a myriad of viable ways of storing video. The format isn't even going to exist in 2020 because of the limits on video quality the format has. Instead of crying about not being able to pirate something do what the people who made OGG and Theora did and make a better, open, format.
To be fair, it IS illegal to play a dvd on an unlicensed system because, well quite frankly, liddvdcss never paid the license fee and reverse engineered the rather crappy css encryption.
I know that isn't what slashdot wants to hear, but the FBI is there to enforce these kinds of laws, and this IS illegal.
eve is a horrible example. incursions and L4 missions inject trillions of isk into the economy a month. the only reason isk has any value is the sunk costs f lp stores and job installation fees combined with a finite supply of minerals per unit time. kind of like the real world.
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I agree, this is disgusting, "Hey we clipped your wings but now you can use the awkward cart I built to scuttle across the floor.
I'm not an EE, but it seems to me that just "adding more juice" along the power lines might not be a good idea. Might be hard to regulate?
Forget your phone, this could provide endless power for medical devices from insulin pumps to more exotic things like replacement limbs and those artificial eyes that are getting better each year (you get to see a 12x12 pixel image now! wooo, shiney). One of the problems with medical devices is finding a continuous power supply.
No, but you're probably one of the bot-aspiring AFK miners.
This technology already exists in the form of Java. Java solved this exact problem in 1997 but despite massive improvements Java is still about 1.5x to 2x slower than native code (it used to be 5-10x slower, so they've really done some work!) which doesn't hurt most applications but the overhead makes it less attractive for game development.
The way I see it, this entire situation is hilarious. Us Linux people have been wanting something like this to happen for, well, forever, and it is finally happening. The lack of serious gaming on Linux has been one of the things holding it back on the desktop market. Now that we're finally getting that, and a serious contender to the Windows gaming hegemony is present, all anyone can do is cry and scream "not good enough dammit not good enough" because not every Steam title ever made will be available on release. I bet if the year of the linux desktop ever happens /. will be the first one to criticize it.
That's not the party line, citizen.
in jamaica with the funding most likely.
or at least use a distribution besides ubuntu £inux
maybe they are finally giving windows 8 a niche.
To be fair the games you named are space combat sims and eve/x3 are economic sims with combat to support that. What you really want is a new space combat sim where you get sent on missions until the game ends.
In EVE you fight for control of space. If you don't fight you WILL get your alliance kicked out of nullsec. How is that not making a difference?
So basically you're a pubby and a carebear.
Version fragmentation, like having some computer running windows 2000, some running XP, some running 7, etc. Or having an office with 5 different linux distros. It makes it harder to guarantee your program works anywhere.
Does it run Linux?
holy shit it's Groundhog Day I guess
Patent trolls acquire obscure or forgotten patents that actually exist. Those trolls OWN the patent to "a cylinder shaped electrolytic capacitor" or something stupid like that and sue people for infringement. Patent trolls abuse the patent system but they don't commit fraud.
I think it's kind of like the Cylon plan.
Yeah it seems to me that using fake evidence to sue a someone is fraud no matter who the actors are. So assuming that the evidence was fake a crime was committed.
We won't be able to have a good conversation about this because most people only know the history of facebook from the "The Social Network" perspective which has been thoroughly refuted.
I've never seen a free community college where I lived. As for public education, that is "free" because it is paid for by taxes but the USA has a fixation on "getting your degree" that means that if you don't at least get a useless piece of paper like a "communications" degree you are going to be discriminated against even in jobs that don't really require college education. Higher education in the USA is paying $40k+ for the honor of getting your first "real" (remember - the USA also hates people who do work such as janitorial, food service, and stockroom) job.
No, the point is that a proprietary and completely arbitrarily chosen format such as DVD is NOT open by its very existence! There is nothing natural or prior art about the DVD format and it is one of a myriad of viable ways of storing video. The format isn't even going to exist in 2020 because of the limits on video quality the format has. Instead of crying about not being able to pirate something do what the people who made OGG and Theora did and make a better, open, format.
To be fair, it IS illegal to play a dvd on an unlicensed system because, well quite frankly, liddvdcss never paid the license fee and reverse engineered the rather crappy css encryption. I know that isn't what slashdot wants to hear, but the FBI is there to enforce these kinds of laws, and this IS illegal.
eve is a horrible example. incursions and L4 missions inject trillions of isk into the economy a month. the only reason isk has any value is the sunk costs f lp stores and job installation fees combined with a finite supply of minerals per unit time. kind of like the real world.
holy shit! pass the eye bleach.