We all know what ecosystem means, and we all know that DRM-lovers love to euphemistically package DRM as "ecosystem". This looks like a DRM experiment. Stepping towards iOS like DRM store exclusivity. Easy to imagine an "allow unsigned apps" checkbox in Windows now. (I haven't used 10. Maybe it's already there.) They'll let users allow unsigned apps for a few years, then use some convenient cyber-disaster to justify disallowing the feature on national/international security grounds, and voila, Windows DRM only version of Windows is locked in. -- Cloudiot: A person who does not see offsite storage as a way to lose control over access to his or her own data.
I agree. Any meanings found in those words are the products of the readers's sick, twisted minds. Let's debate the use of apostrophe s at the end of plural nouns now.
The customers who pay Google to learn everything about every thought you are ever going to think and kill you before you take action if they don't like you--those supercustomers _deserve_ the benefit of knowing that those who try to gather usage information for free from the sidelines have been thwarted. Only paying customers deserve to rule the world!
under the CFAA any one using this can be facing prison time. Any if they put down jailbreak due to a dumb cop you can get harder time.
Joe: Discussing the CFAA online is a communication that could lead to distress for other Slashdot members. That's a violation of the CFAA. If one of these Vita owners stresses out and commits suicide, you could be hit with a misdemeanor, just like Lori Drew. Let's be nice to the Vita owners. Yes, both of them.
Clearly you never supported the Netware clients for Windows when they were engaged in destroying Novell. They are experts in this operation and have done it multiple times, each time obvious to everyone paying attention. They can and will pull this off, unless they are sued in such a way that the plot is laid bare in public. People will have to be called to testify about off the record conversations. I don't know of any private or corporate entity who could sue Microsoft in such a way. They are simply too powerful. Those of you who think you will resist...well...I'm afraid you will find that you can't. Either the market gets a state-level assist, or MS will get the result it's wanting.
Stop, you two! PC Gaming is easy enough for nerds, hard enough to keep wannabe geeks out, and full of things to fight about for us all! Can't we all just agree to not get along?
I see this is the topmost thread in an important news item. Let's talk about Doctor Who. Man, I love that show...ran for like....ten years or something. I think it's based on a character from "King Kong Escapes". Is that right?
Sounds like both war simulators are very popular with small children to me. Maybe CoD vs. Battlefield can become an ideological war someday, when it grows up.
It sounds like you are describing a Nintendo (3)DS. I don't see Nintendo ever replicating the success of the DS/Lite/XL. Too many parents' old phones laying around to use instead.
Nah, I'm not describing anything from the DS line. Last handheld product I know that fits the description would be the Game Boy Advance. DS's are hardly disconnected. If there's a user agreement involved that applies to my kids, it's not the kind of thing I'm talking about. If there's a wifi antenna involved, it's not what I'm talking about.
My three year old already loves the Game Boy Advance. You know what he loves to do with it? Put in cartridges, turn it on, turn it off. He loves it. When I visualize being a kid and seeing this toy, I find this behavior easy to understand. I think anyone who is honest with themselves finds this easy to understand. This experience obviously cannot be virtualized, and kids love to do it. It is therefore easily predictable that this type of toy will return.
This was a predictable cycle to all of us naysayer luddites who play retro consoles. Some manufacturer will come out with a disconnected toy console for children, and the cycle will begin again.
They're just trying to throw us off the scent. Everybody knows dream product placement is the next big thing. I, for one, love alpha testing my DreamBoy Advance XL, and I can't even remember why.
ABP folks, this is a strong indicator of success. Time to consider charging users for licenses in some way. You're winning. Good luck. Almost every individual human entity using the Internet is on your side, even though they may not know it yet. I'm shooting $20 your way today.
Me too. That's not the reason we increase the use of encryption. That's politics. Encryption is practical technology for securing communications and transactions. It's part of the business of computing. We will be increasing its use regardless of whether stories of intelligence agency tactics leak to the world or not.
What's this? The post says, "The revelations of the last few years about widespread government surveillance, especially that involving cell phones and email systems, has spurred device manufacturers to increase the use of encryption."
Really? THAT'S why we increase the use of encryption? POLITICS? I wonder if the Mr. Fisher believes that as a fact, or is just writing copy.
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We all know what ecosystem means, and we all know that DRM-lovers love to euphemistically package DRM as "ecosystem". This looks like a DRM experiment. Stepping towards iOS like DRM store exclusivity. Easy to imagine an "allow unsigned apps" checkbox in Windows now. (I haven't used 10. Maybe it's already there.) They'll let users allow unsigned apps for a few years, then use some convenient cyber-disaster to justify disallowing the feature on national/international security grounds, and voila, Windows DRM only version of Windows is locked in.
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Cloudiot: A person who does not see offsite storage as a way to lose control over access to his or her own data.
If they're trying to sell us 22 channel surround, we have far surpassed the point of diminishing returns for consumer usage.
It's word salad with some punctuation.
I agree. Any meanings found in those words are the products of the readers's sick, twisted minds. Let's debate the use of apostrophe s at the end of plural nouns now.
Am I the only one that thinks this is gibberish?
My typewriter monkey wrote it. I don't know what it means.
The customers who pay Google to learn everything about every thought you are ever going to think and kill you before you take action if they don't like you--those supercustomers _deserve_ the benefit of knowing that those who try to gather usage information for free from the sidelines have been thwarted. Only paying customers deserve to rule the world!
under the CFAA any one using this can be facing prison time. Any if they put down jailbreak due to a dumb cop you can get harder time.
Joe: Discussing the CFAA online is a communication that could lead to distress for other Slashdot members. That's a violation of the CFAA. If one of these Vita owners stresses out and commits suicide, you could be hit with a misdemeanor, just like Lori Drew. Let's be nice to the Vita owners. Yes, both of them.
Clearly you never supported the Netware clients for Windows when they were engaged in destroying Novell. They are experts in this operation and have done it multiple times, each time obvious to everyone paying attention. They can and will pull this off, unless they are sued in such a way that the plot is laid bare in public. People will have to be called to testify about off the record conversations. I don't know of any private or corporate entity who could sue Microsoft in such a way. They are simply too powerful. Those of you who think you will resist...well...I'm afraid you will find that you can't. Either the market gets a state-level assist, or MS will get the result it's wanting.
I stopped feeling things when I was four. Thanks to Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny, my perceptions were all made of ink.
This news made my day, and the comments were fun too.
Stop, you two! PC Gaming is easy enough for nerds, hard enough to keep wannabe geeks out, and full of things to fight about for us all! Can't we all just agree to not get along?
I see this is the topmost thread in an important news item. Let's talk about Doctor Who. Man, I love that show...ran for like....ten years or something. I think it's based on a character from "King Kong Escapes". Is that right?
Sounds like both war simulators are very popular with small children to me. Maybe CoD vs. Battlefield can become an ideological war someday, when it grows up.
It sounds like you are describing a Nintendo (3)DS. I don't see Nintendo ever replicating the success of the DS/Lite/XL. Too many parents' old phones laying around to use instead.
Nah, I'm not describing anything from the DS line. Last handheld product I know that fits the description would be the Game Boy Advance. DS's are hardly disconnected. If there's a user agreement involved that applies to my kids, it's not the kind of thing I'm talking about. If there's a wifi antenna involved, it's not what I'm talking about.
My three year old already loves the Game Boy Advance. You know what he loves to do with it? Put in cartridges, turn it on, turn it off. He loves it. When I visualize being a kid and seeing this toy, I find this behavior easy to understand. I think anyone who is honest with themselves finds this easy to understand. This experience obviously cannot be virtualized, and kids love to do it. It is therefore easily predictable that this type of toy will return.
This was a predictable cycle to all of us naysayer luddites who play retro consoles. Some manufacturer will come out with a disconnected toy console for children, and the cycle will begin again.
Run Windows programs.
Correct.
Thank you.
They're just trying to throw us off the scent. Everybody knows dream product placement is the next big thing. I, for one, love alpha testing my DreamBoy Advance XL, and I can't even remember why.
ABP folks, this is a strong indicator of success. Time to consider charging users for licenses in some way. You're winning. Good luck. Almost every individual human entity using the Internet is on your side, even though they may not know it yet. I'm shooting $20 your way today.
Me too. That's not the reason we increase the use of encryption. That's politics. Encryption is practical technology for securing communications and transactions. It's part of the business of computing. We will be increasing its use regardless of whether stories of intelligence agency tactics leak to the world or not.
What's this? The post says, "The revelations of the last few years about widespread government surveillance, especially that involving cell phones and email systems, has spurred device manufacturers to increase the use of encryption."
Really? THAT'S why we increase the use of encryption? POLITICS? I wonder if the Mr. Fisher believes that as a fact, or is just writing copy.
Friends don't let friends call DRM stores "ecosystems".
You mean use?
Man! I wish I had a mod point to leverage this upward.
Define the function of "leader" and what it entails in the generic form, Coward.
First rule of leadership: Everything is your fault.
...or the entire sweater of our existence will come unraveled.