THIS is the problem I have with RMS, is that anything that helps OTHER people is considered "bad" even if it helps you, equally
I would agree, if RMS were talking about other 'people'. He's talking about for-profit enterprises, companies, corporations. Not 'people'. I'm a person, you're a person. My corporation is not a person, regardless of what US law states.
You are correct. How can Nintendo salvage this, easily? FREE IDEAS-
Remove the gamepad from the system. Offer it by itself, if people want it. Replace it's (optional) functionality with the usage of iOS/Android/Windows phones.
The core system is fine, just needs that gamepad stripped. It already has HD, no need for a new console. 2nd thing that could be done, drop barriers to entry for development on the console. You can have strict quality requirements and reject most submissions, just make it cheap and sensible to dev for.
Changing anything else (like a new console) doesn't make sense. Once the 1st party titles arrive though, Nintendo has enough sway that none of this may be necessary. Their games are just better than what's on XBO/PS4 in my opinion. I'm a PC gamer + Nintendo guy.
Call this gamepad-less Wii U the Wii HD. Change how that version connects to a tablet/phone so it's compatible with anything. Done. That's what I think people are looking for, the cheaper price, the better branding (HD), the more flexible system (BYOD for the 2nd screen). If Nintendo had the hardware in the PS4, they could have even rebranded it the Wii 4K.:D Their games tend to have less graphical requirements, and could probably hit 4K before the others with the right hardware. Instead, they should sell these Wii HDs till they are all over, then release revised hardware in a few years called the Wii 4K (with glasses-free 3D support) that auto upscales the 1080P Wii U/HD games to 4K as well.
If Nintendo needs any ideas guys for gaming or hardware, I'm available for hire
Exactly my overseas friend. What DarkOx said is bullshit pure and simple. The cheaper cost is because of the vaster distances typically driven, and maximizing what the market will bear. We aren't getting some sort of deal because of the misuse of our military. They'd love for us to think that it's not all a waste, but it is. Not only that, wouldn't the UK be getting cheap oil? They're in on it too.
We don't have our social programs because the people are duped into thinking government socialism is only acceptable for big business (they do create the jobs in China after all), and that nothing is to fill the void when businesses aren't voluntarily or involuntarily holding up any sort of social contract that at one time were in place of government programs.
That sounds like one of the more worthless uses of RFID. I doubt the percentage of people who do that is high enough to matter. Also, even if it did matter statistically, pop is so cheap to produce (especially with HFCS) that little is lost. I'd be more worried if people were no longer interested in stealing the rancid HFCS stuff (include me in that camp).
They'd be better off letting some people pirate a little bit than cutting them off. They might find something better.
I would have to say Win8 is worse than ME or Vista. I ran Vista, and never had any real complaints. It was the driver vendors, mostly Nvidia who dropped the ball with Vista. The OS for me was fine.
Windows 8 is a problem mainly because it has two different UIs. Once they remove one or the other without breaking any application compatibility, I may be onboard. In general though, I've made this my stopping point to move away from MS vendor lock in my personal life.
If a for-profit entity offers you a service for free, you're not the customer -- you're the product. Mozilla offers freebies and you are not the product. Ubuntu shifts the profit elsewhere from the sticker price, like Google does. That said, I'll take Canonical over Google any day. And Mozilla's products over both. I use both FirefoxOS and Ubuntu. Because it's the most polished distro, I realize I'm not cool for that.. and I can live with that.
The French seem to not be brainwashed by the propaganda machine enough to harm themselves as pro-WTO trade undermines careers in the global race to the bottom.
When the robots and software start to do significant damage worldwide to jobs (it's only just beginning and some are taking notice) the French will likely be the last holdout.
"Protectionism" is not viewed as bad everywhere; at least the marketing hasn't succeeded everywhere just yet.
I generally agree with you but you do have 1 thing wrong. When automation starts replacing the workforce en masse, the French will be the best equipped society to deal with the crisis in the only way that is reasonable: socialism. Without it, we will have a true disaster fixable only with massive depopulation.
When each has no useful ability, each will still have needs. We're going to have to learn to work together and expand the welfare state with 'free' stuff.
On the other hand, you've shown on several occasions that your goal with Ubuntu is to take the effort of thousands of volunteer developers and sell it and the Ubuntu install base for personal profit. That turns those same formerly motivated volunteers into chumps who worked for you for free, and nobody likes being a chump.
Mark Shuttleworth sells Ubuntu? News to me. He does provide a free desktop/server OS with paid support as an option. One of few options for corporations who want to use Linux but need broad paid support (beyond a few individual experts being on tap).
"Steve Jobs was ruthless & lucky, and like all deified CEOs, stood on the shoulders of giants. Where would Mr Jobs be without Steve Wozniak? Where would Jobs be if Apple didn't have the pulling power needed to employ the best & brightest? You would never have heard of him."
So basically, like you.
I mean come on, no one can make a big impact without all this stuff. He did build Apple though. You act as if he was Bill Gates and born into a wealthy east coast elite family, given every advantage. This guy was an orphan. Get real man. He wasn't some silver spoon fed bastard. He was just really good, and ya may have been right man at the right place and time.. but Steve Jobs earned what he achieved on his own. And was smart enough to surround himself with the talent required to build the business. He was a big part of that talent.
Studies have shown no increase in math and reading scores with the adoption of high technology - use of tables or laptops.
The moral of the story being there's no magic bullet to replace old fashion reading, writing and arithmetic.
Just because it's sexy, doesn't mean you need to spend the money.
Yes those damn kids these days with all their fancy toys. Adopting the use tables. Sickens me, in my day, we got by with just the chair. Big government spending at its worst. What's next??
While tinkering with cockroaches hold no scientific importance or results. On what ethical base do we kill billion of pests with poisons each day, so if someone kill one without is a moral question in what level? This operation on the insect if done right, is not even lethal and you can remove those electrodes without killing the bug. Thus you at best cause little stress to one bug. I see bigger moral questions over general handling of pests humanity do everyday.
Personally I DO like Canonical's direction. I see exactly the same kind of ill-informed hate on/. for Unity that I see for Metro, and from the same people who've not spent more than a few hours using them (and starting with a negative attitude at that.)
Unity is an amazing product, it is visually beautiful, my Mac uber-fanboy flatmate was fascinated by it and it's perfectly obvious to a 'granny' that you click on the buttons to make stuff happen and they soon get the hang that you click on the top button to find stuff.
The real beauty of Unity though is how it works for power users with the keyboard. How many of you know about click/hold the super key? How many know about the HUD? Click on Alt in any app and see what happens. Unity at the start was a pure desktop solution, the touch stuff was added later because a lot of the ideas translated . Once you get used to it it is brilliant
I've pretty much always had a Linux box somewhere in my den but only yesterday I set up my new, main dev machine as pure Ubuntu 13.10 booting from UEFI off a SSD and running Mir
If it weren't for Canonical making Ubuntu such a polished distro I would probably be dual-booting Win7 or 8 and some-other-linux and mostly only ever booting to Windows.
Pretty much what occasional_dabbler said ^
He's right. While I'm onboard with the idea of Unity as well, and appreciate Ubuntu a lot. I really haven't found another Linux distro that I prefer over it, even though it is hard to not let the masses collective hatred for it influence me...
But I am guilty a bit in my own mind about Metro hating without trying it. I don't run around posting it sucks, never have, because I've never used it outside of a store. Yet I assume it sucks based on others' opinions, and I avoid it. Not that I'm crazy about continually giving MS my money anyway. But still, I'm definitely guilty of disliking Metro without even trying it. That's a shame on me really and something this post has caused me to realize.
I'm not sure I'd be so enthusiastic about MIR though, I'm OK with whatever Canonical makes default. As long as everything works with it flawlessly who cares. I'm a little concerned that Canonical took a big diversion into mobile like MS has, instead of taking the Win8 opportunity to advance further into the enterprise space. They took their eye off the ball the last time they had this opportunity too, in the Vista days. Though I'm definitely mostly interested in FirefoxOS and UbuntuMobile than I am iOS/Android. The latter products aren't my cup o tea.
In general though, I like Canonical's direction, and as long as they keep Ubuntu working as well as it is I won't be joining the angry mob. Just having a stable, painless Linux distro.:) That never harmed anyone, and it sure is welcome.
I've always used Android (3 phones total) and am switching to an iPhone next time given the same price. Mostly for all the reasons you listed. I don't have a particular grudge against either. I'm probably more distrustful of Google overall due to their data collection business model.
If I'm paying for my next phone I'll probably go with something along the lines of that ZTE FirefoxOS phone. But if paying the price for a top tier phone, I'm going with the iPhone if it's the same price as the top Android choices.
It's just the build quality. My wife has an old 4S and I prefer it over my current GS3.
The AMD APUs really are a great melding of price vs performance. Sure Intel has faster CPUs, but they're also more than twice as much! The highest end APU is $150, and the highest i7 is $340. The i7 will have higher CPU performance, but most games aren't CPU bound, they're GPU bound. The AMD APUs have decent GPUs. They won't replace your high end GPU if you're playing Battlefield at 1080p, but if you're a mid-level gamer they perform great. Plus you can always add a decent GPU for $150 and you're still less than that 4700 i7!
This is why my next machine will be an AMD APU. While I have a standalone card now, if it dies I'd likely just move to using the APU alone. I don't think it'd present a major problem, especially whenever it is I upgrade. They're only getting better.
Yeah I'd still ask the people of Fukushima how they feel about those bottom dollar prices. According to your angle, no problems were caused by the fact they were using nuclear power. It's all the tsunami's fault.
Lesson learned folks: it's not the use of nuclear power that's at fault, it's those darn tsunamis getting in the way of my meltdown everytime!
Just to preempt your next gem of wisdom for everyone: Chernobyl was caused by Communism.
Is taking Python, the language semantics and placing it on top of another language (as Jython/IronPython does) been considered as a way forward for a future Python version? Leaving both the CPython version intact and developed by those who wish to do so, and move those who are interested onto the 'Jython' or 'PyPy' version (Python4000)?
Have you considered including PyPy alongside CPython in the standard distribution of Python 2.7 and 3.x (if PyPy were to be pushed forward to 3.x)? Mainly to gain exposure, since many think PyPy is the future of Python. But given as an officially unsupported until the day the switchover comes.
Such as IBM (or the Bush family) in bed with Nazi Germany. Maybe we should rethink 'business as usual'. Sounds a little too similar to 'just following orders' to me.
You realize there's a difference between hating the military, and hating the government's use of the military in enforcing misguided policy, right?
Short hand: don't hate the players, hate the game.
No, they are one in the same- it's a volunteer army. You join it to support the policy, and no one that joined after 9/11 has any excuse. Hate the players and hate the game.
If no one were joining, the mission wouldn't be possible. You can't support the troops if you don't support the mission.
Just allow Metro apps to function in the desktop environment. Then they'll have a product that rides a balance well. Stop the jarring change for desktop users to go to Metro and back to the desktop. I don't see how this change would hurt either side, while still introducing desktop users to the start menu / metro. Make it appealing enough and maybe they'll turn off boot to desktop mode to have their Win8 devices all on the same UI, but give them the choice on the desktop.
The removal of the start menu/metro being a hot corner, and allowing boot to desktop was necessary.
I could live with the Metro interface being the new start menu. Not a big problem for desktop users.
It is kind of fanboy hyperbole. But what no one has noted is that as work is shifted from the server to the browser, JS is in a unique position in that regard. Everyone keeps saying how someday we'll be charged by CPU time in "the cloud". If so, work can be dynamically pushed to the client or server side dynamically much more efficiently than a Ruby backend to JS frontend. If that would even be a feasible task to attempt at all.
Price? TBD. To me until I have that this thing is meaningless.
Also, it's meant to compete with the MBP, not the MBA. Unless it's going to be the same price.
From what I see so far, all things considered (not forgetting the build quality of Apple could possibly be matched, at best)- the MBA would still be my choice.
Uhhh it'll be a flop anyhow not because of the DRM, but because they are releasing a console with shittier specs than the other guy for $500 in a down economy. I'm sorry but that is fucking RETARDED, and if the reports are true that a LOT of that extra cost is forcing everyone to take the fucking Kinect, which NOBODY liked the God damned Kinect so you have saddled your console with a higher price tag to push shit your customers never liked? Well i'm sorry but you deserve to lose for being stupid.
Hell the Kinect is so damned bad the fans of Angry Joe keeping voting for Kinect games for him to play just because they know they'll be fucking awful and love to see Joe flip his shit trying to fight the damned Kinect. If you haven't seen Joe play Steel Battalion you really need to watch, he just fights and struggles against the kinect until he is just a ball of pissed off fury.
Mark my words Kinect will go down like the NES glove or the Sega bazooka in the "man that was stupid" pile, but not until MSFT keeps flogging the dead horse long past anyone caring, like how they cranked out Zunes long after people gave a shit.
The above is False. Hold your words until you use the Kinect 2.0. It's a long shot from the 1st version. Motion and voice controls are the peak of the casual gaming market and I think you'll see soon enough what will happen.
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THIS is the problem I have with RMS, is that anything that helps OTHER people is considered "bad" even if it helps you, equally
I would agree, if RMS were talking about other 'people'. He's talking about for-profit enterprises, companies, corporations. Not 'people'. I'm a person, you're a person. My corporation is not a person, regardless of what US law states.
The core system is fine, just needs that gamepad stripped. It already has HD, no need for a new console. 2nd thing that could be done, drop barriers to entry for development on the console. You can have strict quality requirements and reject most submissions, just make it cheap and sensible to dev for.
Changing anything else (like a new console) doesn't make sense. Once the 1st party titles arrive though, Nintendo has enough sway that none of this may be necessary. Their games are just better than what's on XBO/PS4 in my opinion. I'm a PC gamer + Nintendo guy.
Call this gamepad-less Wii U the Wii HD. Change how that version connects to a tablet/phone so it's compatible with anything. Done. That's what I think people are looking for, the cheaper price, the better branding (HD), the more flexible system (BYOD for the 2nd screen). If Nintendo had the hardware in the PS4, they could have even rebranded it the Wii 4K. :D Their games tend to have less graphical requirements, and could probably hit 4K before the others with the right hardware. Instead, they should sell these Wii HDs till they are all over, then release revised hardware in a few years called the Wii 4K (with glasses-free 3D support) that auto upscales the 1080P Wii U/HD games to 4K as well.
If Nintendo needs any ideas guys for gaming or hardware, I'm available for hire
We don't have our social programs because the people are duped into thinking government socialism is only acceptable for big business (they do create the jobs in China after all), and that nothing is to fill the void when businesses aren't voluntarily or involuntarily holding up any sort of social contract that at one time were in place of government programs.
They'd be better off letting some people pirate a little bit than cutting them off. They might find something better.
Windows 8 is a problem mainly because it has two different UIs. Once they remove one or the other without breaking any application compatibility, I may be onboard. In general though, I've made this my stopping point to move away from MS vendor lock in my personal life.
In not-unrelated news: You can get a Nexus 5 for half the price of an equivalent iPhone.
Does nobody apart from me see that as newsworthy?
If it's truly equivalent in every way, then sure. There's probably a reason they aren't marketing it as an iPhone equal at half the price.
I wasn't aware of Ghostery. Do you really need No Google Analytics if you have Ghostery installed though? It seems redundant.
If a for-profit entity offers you a service for free, you're not the customer -- you're the product. Mozilla offers freebies and you are not the product. Ubuntu shifts the profit elsewhere from the sticker price, like Google does. That said, I'll take Canonical over Google any day. And Mozilla's products over both. I use both FirefoxOS and Ubuntu.
Because it's the most polished distro, I realize I'm not cool for that.. and I can live with that.
The French seem to not be brainwashed by the propaganda machine enough to harm themselves as pro-WTO trade undermines careers in the global race to the bottom.
When the robots and software start to do significant damage worldwide to jobs (it's only just beginning and some are taking notice) the French will likely be the last holdout.
"Protectionism" is not viewed as bad everywhere; at least the marketing hasn't succeeded everywhere just yet.
I generally agree with you but you do have 1 thing wrong. When automation starts replacing the workforce en masse, the French will be the best equipped society to deal with the crisis in the only way that is reasonable: socialism. Without it, we will have a true disaster fixable only with massive depopulation.
When each has no useful ability, each will still have needs. We're going to have to learn to work together and expand the welfare state with 'free' stuff.
On the other hand, you've shown on several occasions that your goal with Ubuntu is to take the effort of thousands of volunteer developers and sell it and the Ubuntu install base for personal profit. That turns those same formerly motivated volunteers into chumps who worked for you for free, and nobody likes being a chump.
Mark Shuttleworth sells Ubuntu? News to me. He does provide a free desktop/server OS with paid support as an option. One of few options for corporations who want to use Linux but need broad paid support (beyond a few individual experts being on tap).
"Steve Jobs was ruthless & lucky, and like all deified CEOs, stood on the shoulders of giants. Where would Mr Jobs be without Steve Wozniak? Where would Jobs be if Apple didn't have the pulling power needed to employ the best & brightest? You would never have heard of him."
So basically, like you.
I mean come on, no one can make a big impact without all this stuff. He did build Apple though. You act as if he was Bill Gates and born into a wealthy east coast elite family, given every advantage. This guy was an orphan. Get real man. He wasn't some silver spoon fed bastard. He was just really good, and ya may have been right man at the right place and time.. but Steve Jobs earned what he achieved on his own. And was smart enough to surround himself with the talent required to build the business. He was a big part of that talent.
Studies have shown no increase in math and reading scores with the adoption of high technology - use of tables or laptops. The moral of the story being there's no magic bullet to replace old fashion reading, writing and arithmetic. Just because it's sexy, doesn't mean you need to spend the money.
Yes those damn kids these days with all their fancy toys. Adopting the use tables. Sickens me, in my day, we got by with just the chair.
Big government spending at its worst. What's next??
Thanks for the socialism, Obama.
While tinkering with cockroaches hold no scientific importance or results. On what ethical base do we kill billion of pests with poisons each day, so if someone kill one without is a moral question in what level? This operation on the insect if done right, is not even lethal and you can remove those electrodes without killing the bug. Thus you at best cause little stress to one bug. I see bigger moral questions over general handling of pests humanity do everyday.
Personally I DO like Canonical's direction. I see exactly the same kind of ill-informed hate on /. for Unity that I see for Metro, and from the same people who've not spent more than a few hours using them (and starting with a negative attitude at that.)
Unity is an amazing product, it is visually beautiful, my Mac uber-fanboy flatmate was fascinated by it and it's perfectly obvious to a 'granny' that you click on the buttons to make stuff happen and they soon get the hang that you click on the top button to find stuff.
The real beauty of Unity though is how it works for power users with the keyboard. How many of you know about click/hold the super key? How many know about the HUD? Click on Alt in any app and see what happens. Unity at the start was a pure desktop solution, the touch stuff was added later because a lot of the ideas translated . Once you get used to it it is brilliant
I've pretty much always had a Linux box somewhere in my den but only yesterday I set up my new, main dev machine as pure Ubuntu 13.10 booting from UEFI off a SSD and running Mir
If it weren't for Canonical making Ubuntu such a polished distro I would probably be dual-booting Win7 or 8 and some-other-linux and mostly only ever booting to Windows.
Pretty much what occasional_dabbler said ^
He's right. While I'm onboard with the idea of Unity as well, and appreciate Ubuntu a lot. I really haven't found another Linux distro that I prefer over it, even though it is hard to not let the masses collective hatred for it influence me...
But I am guilty a bit in my own mind about Metro hating without trying it. I don't run around posting it sucks, never have, because I've never used it outside of a store. Yet I assume it sucks based on others' opinions, and I avoid it. Not that I'm crazy about continually giving MS my money anyway. But still, I'm definitely guilty of disliking Metro without even trying it. That's a shame on me really and something this post has caused me to realize.
I'm not sure I'd be so enthusiastic about MIR though, I'm OK with whatever Canonical makes default. As long as everything works with it flawlessly who cares. I'm a little concerned that Canonical took a big diversion into mobile like MS has, instead of taking the Win8 opportunity to advance further into the enterprise space. They took their eye off the ball the last time they had this opportunity too, in the Vista days. Though I'm definitely mostly interested in FirefoxOS and UbuntuMobile than I am iOS/Android. The latter products aren't my cup o tea. :) That never harmed anyone, and it sure is welcome.
In general though, I like Canonical's direction, and as long as they keep Ubuntu working as well as it is I won't be joining the angry mob. Just having a stable, painless Linux distro.
If I'm paying for my next phone I'll probably go with something along the lines of that ZTE FirefoxOS phone. But if paying the price for a top tier phone, I'm going with the iPhone if it's the same price as the top Android choices. It's just the build quality. My wife has an old 4S and I prefer it over my current GS3.
The AMD APUs really are a great melding of price vs performance. Sure Intel has faster CPUs, but they're also more than twice as much! The highest end APU is $150, and the highest i7 is $340. The i7 will have higher CPU performance, but most games aren't CPU bound, they're GPU bound. The AMD APUs have decent GPUs. They won't replace your high end GPU if you're playing Battlefield at 1080p, but if you're a mid-level gamer they perform great. Plus you can always add a decent GPU for $150 and you're still less than that 4700 i7!
This is why my next machine will be an AMD APU. While I have a standalone card now, if it dies I'd likely just move to using the APU alone. I don't think it'd present a major problem, especially whenever it is I upgrade. They're only getting better.
Lesson learned folks: it's not the use of nuclear power that's at fault, it's those darn tsunamis getting in the way of my meltdown everytime!
Just to preempt your next gem of wisdom for everyone: Chernobyl was caused by Communism.
Is taking Python, the language semantics and placing it on top of another language (as Jython/IronPython does) been considered as a way forward for a future Python version?
Leaving both the CPython version intact and developed by those who wish to do so, and move those who are interested onto the 'Jython' or 'PyPy' version (Python4000)?
Have you considered including PyPy alongside CPython in the standard distribution of Python 2.7 and 3.x (if PyPy were to be pushed forward to 3.x)?
Mainly to gain exposure, since many think PyPy is the future of Python. But given as an officially unsupported until the day the switchover comes.
Such as IBM (or the Bush family) in bed with Nazi Germany. Maybe we should rethink 'business as usual'.
Sounds a little too similar to 'just following orders' to me.
You realize there's a difference between hating the military, and hating the government's use of the military in enforcing misguided policy, right?
Short hand: don't hate the players, hate the game.
No, they are one in the same- it's a volunteer army. You join it to support the policy, and no one that joined after 9/11 has any excuse. Hate the players and hate the game.
If no one were joining, the mission wouldn't be possible. You can't support the troops if you don't support the mission.
The removal of the start menu/metro being a hot corner, and allowing boot to desktop was necessary.
I could live with the Metro interface being the new start menu. Not a big problem for desktop users.
It is kind of fanboy hyperbole. But what no one has noted is that as work is shifted from the server to the browser, JS is in a unique position in that regard. Everyone keeps saying how someday we'll be charged by CPU time in "the cloud". If so, work can be dynamically pushed to the client or server side dynamically much more efficiently than a Ruby backend to JS frontend. If that would even be a feasible task to attempt at all.
Price? TBD. To me until I have that this thing is meaningless. Also, it's meant to compete with the MBP, not the MBA. Unless it's going to be the same price. From what I see so far, all things considered (not forgetting the build quality of Apple could possibly be matched, at best)- the MBA would still be my choice.
Uhhh it'll be a flop anyhow not because of the DRM, but because they are releasing a console with shittier specs than the other guy for $500 in a down economy. I'm sorry but that is fucking RETARDED, and if the reports are true that a LOT of that extra cost is forcing everyone to take the fucking Kinect, which NOBODY liked the God damned Kinect so you have saddled your console with a higher price tag to push shit your customers never liked? Well i'm sorry but you deserve to lose for being stupid.
Hell the Kinect is so damned bad the fans of Angry Joe keeping voting for Kinect games for him to play just because they know they'll be fucking awful and love to see Joe flip his shit trying to fight the damned Kinect. If you haven't seen Joe play Steel Battalion you really need to watch, he just fights and struggles against the kinect until he is just a ball of pissed off fury.
Mark my words Kinect will go down like the NES glove or the Sega bazooka in the "man that was stupid" pile, but not until MSFT keeps flogging the dead horse long past anyone caring, like how they cranked out Zunes long after people gave a shit.
The above is False. Hold your words until you use the Kinect 2.0. It's a long shot from the 1st version. Motion and voice controls are the peak of the casual gaming market and I think you'll see soon enough what will happen.