Baer sued Atari over patent infringement when Atari introduced Pong, and for a long time there was bad blood between him and Bushnell.
What are you feelings about Atari's Nolan Bushnell? He took a lot of credit in the media as being the "father of video games.":
Baer: There was a demonstration of the Odyssey in California, which was attended by one Nolan Bushnell. He played the ping-pong game hands-on. He went back to his partner, Ted Dabney, and they hired Al Alcorn. Al had just graduated from the university up there. Nolan gave Al the job of building a ping-pong game. Al got done, and it was Pong. Pong became the successful start of the arcade business. Almost simultaneously, the home and arcade businesses were launched. Look, I'm 87. I'm long past the point of carrying grudges, and I'm much more philosophical than I might have been 30 years ago. I always respected Bushnell for having the guts to start a company with almost no money, along with his partner Ted Dabney, who never seems to get any credit even though he did most of the work in the beginning. He was the only technical guy there. Nolan didn't know from anything, but he was a damn good marketer. He was good at hiring very good people, like Al Alcorn and some brilliant guys.
ArsTechnica has reposted their article on Mr. Ralph H. Baer from a few years back. It covers the patent fights with Atari, and the hit game Simon (and it's sequel) were both Baer inventions. The mans life story is inspiring.
My guess, less than half would bring back their battery. Many would sell them.
Also, your local staff would steal many of your deliveries and sell them at the local flea market. Then come back to you with all sorts of excuses and reasons about what happened.
The smarter guys would buy fresh labels from some print shop and sell the batteries as new to some store.
Most of your batteries would end up being disassembled for precious metals by some at-home shops in the slum. They rarely care about the toxic fumes they produce n the process, and the waste water that goes into the river behind their house.
But then, there are different levels of "slum". But since we are talking about those without even electricity lines, that's probably what would happen.
Apple did admit to deleting non iTunes music from 2007 - 2009...
"... Coughlin explained the procedure as to which Apple employed to remove songs from users’ iPods. The vaguely duplicitous act was executed by Apple when iPod users would attempt to sync their iPod with iTunes after downloading music from rival music services. The user would be instructed by an error message instructing it to restore the iPod to its factory setting. Once the user synced their iPod with iTunes after restoring their iPod to its factory settings, the non-Apple music files music would gone.
Apple defends its action and claims it was just worried its users were at the hands of hackers. Apple’s security director Augustin Farrugia informed the court that hackers “DVD John” and “Requiem” were potential threats to users and thus removed non-Apple music files from iPods. Farrugia reasons Apple did not inform users of the deletion because the company does not want to “confuse users” with “too much information.”....
Apple admits to deleting music from 2007 - 2009...
"... Coughlin explained the procedure as to which Apple employed to remove songs from users’ iPods. The vaguely duplicitous act was executed by Apple when iPod users would attempt to sync their iPod with iTunes after downloading music from rival music services. The user would be instructed by an error message instructing it to restore the iPod to its factory setting. Once the user synced their iPod with iTunes after restoring their iPod to its factory settings, the non-Apple music files music would gone.
Apple defends its action and claims it was just worried its users were at the hands of hackers. Apple’s security director Augustin Farrugia informed the court that hackers “DVD John” and “Requiem” were potential threats to users and thus removed non-Apple music files from iPods. Farrugia reasons Apple did not inform users of the deletion because the company does not want to “confuse users” with “too much information.”....
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It's kind of like back in the pre-cellphone days, people would memorize long telephone numbers, now we just store 'em and forget 'em. Now we remember passwords.
....(An as aside, a pilot friend of mine thinks the answer to this issue is to arm the planes. A small gatling type gun with say, hard plastic bullets would take down any drone in existence. Think of the fun! You could hook them to an airliner's video feed and charge passengers to look out and possibly shoot drones and birds and UFOs. Better than an in flight magazine any day.)
Do you really think that armed combat going on in public airspace is a good idea?
Ok, I get that we're entering a brave new world of technology with drones, and just like any other life changing tech, they can be used for both useful and nefarious purposes. Drones can be used to do useful things that can aid mankind, uch as conveniently deliver a varied number of products/ food/ life saving medications, and more mundane everyday uses will easily be available to people. Such as returning borrowed library materials. Your friend needs to borrow an item from you, just drone it over to them. The positive uses for this life changing tech is staggering.
Conversely, they can also be utilized to anonymously spy on people in ways that have never before been available to the average person/extremist types. Since they can also deliver explosive devices, they can be a very dangerous tool. It's easy to understand why governments are very wary of drones proliferating, since they are relatively cheap to produce. Law enforcemnt will want to be able to know who exactly sent which drone to wherever, and who sent it.
Today tech is advancing at such a rapid rate. We as a people can eventually adapt to whatever is coming. The question seems to be, can the powers that be adapt to the new freedoms drone tech will be bringing us.
Phone apps and operating systems have progressed to the point where new privacy laws will need to be enacted.
It's why I have learned to keep the internet turned off, and force stop any apps that I'm not actively using. I shouldn't have to root my phone just to have granular permissions, that should be an automatic user right.
All of your points are valid ones, imo. Being able to selectively turn off permissions could/should be permitted. Then if a denied permission is needed, the app would inform you that it needs that one permission re-enabled.
I just didn't like the idea that my credit card info was on their servers when I had no intention of ever using Uber. An Uber employee sent me an email in a timely manner confirming she had indeed deleted my information. Best I can do.
I just deleted my uber app and will use left going forward
Uber will keep your information in their system ntil you specifically request for your info to be deleted. The only way to do this (that I found) is by digging into their website for the correct email address.
If you didn't use the app on one of your devices, you didn't agree to the terms and conditions. Out of sheer curiosity, I tried it for an hour, then uninstalled. Getting Uber to delete my personal info meant searching online for help, and writing emails. Uber did get back to me within a day or so and confirmed my info got deleted.
Every time I've seen someone with broken screen, it was an iPhone. It's about time Apple did this, but then they do profit by making phones that need repairs/ replacing.
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What are you feelings about Atari's Nolan Bushnell? He took a lot of credit in the media as being the "father of video games.":
Baer: There was a demonstration of the Odyssey in California, which was attended by one Nolan Bushnell. He played the ping-pong game hands-on. He went back to his partner, Ted Dabney, and they hired Al Alcorn. Al had just graduated from the university up there. Nolan gave Al the job of building a ping-pong game. Al got done, and it was Pong. Pong became the successful start of the arcade business. Almost simultaneously, the home and arcade businesses were launched. Look, I'm 87. I'm long past the point of carrying grudges, and I'm much more philosophical than I might have been 30 years ago. I always respected Bushnell for having the guts to start a company with almost no money, along with his partner Ted Dabney, who never seems to get any credit even though he did most of the work in the beginning. He was the only technical guy there. Nolan didn't know from anything, but he was a damn good marketer. He was good at hiring very good people, like Al Alcorn and some brilliant guys.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/...
http://www.arstechnica.com/gam...
My guess, less than half would bring back their battery. Many would sell them. Also, your local staff would steal many of your deliveries and sell them at the local flea market. Then come back to you with all sorts of excuses and reasons about what happened. The smarter guys would buy fresh labels from some print shop and sell the batteries as new to some store. Most of your batteries would end up being disassembled for precious metals by some at-home shops in the slum. They rarely care about the toxic fumes they produce n the process, and the waste water that goes into the river behind their house. But then, there are different levels of "slum". But since we are talking about those without even electricity lines, that's probably what would happen.
Apple defends its action and claims it was just worried its users were at the hands of hackers. Apple’s security director Augustin Farrugia informed the court that hackers “DVD John” and “Requiem” were potential threats to users and thus removed non-Apple music files from iPods. Farrugia reasons Apple did not inform users of the deletion because the company does not want to “confuse users” with “too much information.” ....
http://www.digitaltrends.com/m...
"... Coughlin explained the procedure as to which Apple employed to remove songs from users’ iPods. The vaguely duplicitous act was executed by Apple when iPod users would attempt to sync their iPod with iTunes after downloading music from rival music services. The user would be instructed by an error message instructing it to restore the iPod to its factory setting. Once the user synced their iPod with iTunes after restoring their iPod to its factory settings, the non-Apple music files music would gone.
Apple defends its action and claims it was just worried its users were at the hands of hackers. Apple’s security director Augustin Farrugia informed the court that hackers “DVD John” and “Requiem” were potential threats to users and thus removed non-Apple music files from iPods. Farrugia reasons Apple did not inform users of the deletion because the company does not want to “confuse users” with “too much information.” ....
http://www.digitaltrends.com/m...
Link to the Verge's coverage of this story... http://www.theverge.com/2014/1...
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I don't think a big screen is worth dying for.
Of course not. But it's a lot of fun to think about. PewPewPew!
:-)
It's kind of like back in the pre-cellphone days, people would memorize long telephone numbers, now we just store 'em and forget 'em. Now we remember passwords.
....(An as aside, a pilot friend of mine thinks the answer to this issue is to arm the planes. A small gatling type gun with say, hard plastic bullets would take down any drone in existence. Think of the fun! You could hook them to an airliner's video feed and charge passengers to look out and possibly shoot drones and birds and UFOs. Better than an in flight magazine any day.)
Do you really think that armed combat going on in public airspace is a good idea?
Conversely, they can also be utilized to anonymously spy on people in ways that have never before been available to the average person/extremist types. Since they can also deliver explosive devices, they can be a very dangerous tool. It's easy to understand why governments are very wary of drones proliferating, since they are relatively cheap to produce. Law enforcemnt will want to be able to know who exactly sent which drone to wherever, and who sent it.
Today tech is advancing at such a rapid rate. We as a people can eventually adapt to whatever is coming. The question seems to be, can the powers that be adapt to the new freedoms drone tech will be bringing us.
It's why I have learned to keep the internet turned off, and force stop any apps that I'm not actively using. I shouldn't have to root my phone just to have granular permissions, that should be an automatic user right.
All of your points are valid ones, imo. Being able to selectively turn off permissions could/should be permitted. Then if a denied permission is needed, the app would inform you that it needs that one permission re-enabled.
I just didn't like the idea that my credit card info was on their servers when I had no intention of ever using Uber. An Uber employee sent me an email in a timely manner confirming she had indeed deleted my information. Best I can do.
I just deleted my uber app and will use left going forward
Uber will keep your information in their system ntil you specifically request for your info to be deleted. The only way to do this (that I found) is by digging into their website for the correct email address.
Contacts: For splitting fares with friends, inviting friends to use Uber
Phone: To call your Uber driver or for them to call you
Camera/Microphone: Uber has a function that lets you take a photo of your credit card for scanning
Wi-Fi Connection: Checks if you have internet and attempts to use the WiFi name to help determine your location
Device ID and Call Information: Allows access to your phone number and a unique ID for your device
Identity: Allows Android users to sign in and pay with one tap (using the Google Sign-In and Google Wallet services)
Photos/Media/Files: Uber says this is to “save data and cache mapping vectors.”
http://thenextweb.com/apps/201...
If you didn't use the app on one of your devices, you didn't agree to the terms and conditions. Out of sheer curiosity, I tried it for an hour, then uninstalled. Getting Uber to delete my personal info meant searching online for help, and writing emails. Uber did get back to me within a day or so and confirmed my info got deleted.
Bruce Lee TAUGHT Chuck Norris!
http://www.arstechnica.com/gad...
Every time I've seen someone with broken screen, it was an iPhone. It's about time Apple did this, but then they do profit by making phones that need repairs/ replacing.
Why not just have a decent aftermarket radio installed and be done with all those problems?