AVGN is a reviewer, he is safe. He only shows a very small fraction of the games therefore making it fair use. Let's Play basically show the entire game as movie with some nerd talking in the background.
Personally, I'm curious on what they are going to do here in Japan. I've been what japanese Let's Play videos (aka Jikkyopurei) since 2006 on nicovideo. And Nintendo in Japan is much more strict then in America when comes to copyright and trademarks(second only to Disney which rules their content with an iron fist).
Don't like to do that but I will quote myself from a similar topic from just a couple of days ago:
Well, I HATE this software argument about patents as, to be honest, EVERYTHING can be described as mathematics. From mechanical systems to genetic code, from electrical designs to source code. You can name anything: I can write it down either as mathematical model using a set of formulas or using a array of numbers. If mechanical designs and electronic systems can be patented so can be software.
The problem with the current patent system, in particular in the US, is that it is a lousy version of an idea from the 19th century. It doesn't take in consideration how fast technology improves, barely acknowledges the immense variety of new tech fields and how their are interconnected and it's filled with abused double standards.
How to solve this problem this problem? Modernize it and make it more strict(only absolutely novel tech for a much more limited time with very specific implementations). Is that perfect? NO. But a business is much more than just inventing stuff; use marketing, funding, quality, support and be secretive to overcome the copycats.
Software can be patented if the patent system was more adequate. If you don't want software patents then I don't want hardware patents either.
Well, I HATE this software argument about patents as, to be honest, EVERYTHING can be described as mathematics. From mechanical systems to genetic code, from electrical designs to source code. You can name anything: I can write it down either as mathematical model using a set of formulas or using a array of numbers. If mechanical designs and electronic systems can be patented so can be software.
The problem with the current patent system, in particular in the US, is that it is a lousy version of an idea from the 19th century. It doesn't take in consideration how fast technology improves, barely acknowledges the immense variety of new tech fields and how their are interconnected and it's filled with abused double standards.
How to solve this problem this problem? Modernize it and make it more strict(only absolutely novel tech for a much more limited time with very specific implementations). Is that perfect? NO. But a business is much more than just inventing stuff; use marketing, funding, quality, support and be secretive to overcome the copycats.
Until Apple has a similar app to substitute their Palm Desktop crappy clone, alongside a real file explorer, the ability to instal alternative appstores and a better "desktop" that is not just a grid of icons that makes me remember something from windows 95 era, all that without jailbreaking, their iDevices will never see my money.
Is that really too much to ask? I just don't see the downsides. The average joe will still use only the apple defaults and so will be the apple loyalists so they won't be losing their precious moneystream. And on top of that they'll get great publicity from the more "geeky"(I hate this word) audience.
FFTs will allow the analysis of all frequencies up to half the sampling frequency using a single algorithm per execution. A processing method using IIR filters can only be used for a single band/filter. If whistles were the sole application I would agree with you(heck, I'm just a 27 old recently graduated from my PhD course and I think I could do that using only analog components). But the developer himself talks about other applications that could use other sounds. Instead of implementing and executing different IIRs for every single application, using a single FFT is far more productive. Plus, we're in the second decade of the 21st century. Unless there is explicit need to do so or you're a passionate about optimization, our hardware can handle "bloat".
Anyway, opensource or licence/patent free commercial artificial limbs, while technically possible, I believe are practically impossible at lest for now. Legislation(FDA, etc) on this tech is the harshest and from my experience as a medical engineer they don't like any time of user customization (and for valid reasons, for MOST of the time). You might be able to build your own from scratch or buy compatible parts from some unlicensed(or pirate) vendor in the future, but most likely it will void all warranty and insurance you have on the prosthetic device.
Well at least your coworkers use a keyboard. I see my co-workers typing all the time on their ipads WITHOUT a freaking keyboard! And they aren't even standing up(I have to say tablets a quite useful in this situation) and their PCs are just a few inches away from them. Well I'm quite guilty myself as well but at least I use a Transformer Pad (an old TF101) with it's complimentary keyboard.
I agree with Bill Gates on this one, but logic doesn't apply on the mainstream market. Unless MS has a marketing strategy that reconvinces the mainstream crowd that keyboards are "cool" they'll lose the battle to iPads and even Android Tablets. I agree that tablets are great, maybe even better than standard PCs, for the average Joe and grandmother's media consumption/internet browsing but for the workplace, even if you just wrte word documents all the day long, a classic PC is better. What pisses me off is that tablet users still prefer an iPad to work with. I can't comprehend how people can work without a file browser with integrated packaging capabilities and the lack of true multitasking. Use at least a Nexus 10 or a Transformer Pad or a Surface Pro.
You totally missed my point!
I'm NOT talking about how all these accessories improve gaming. As a dedicated gamer myself I know first hand how these accessories can improve the experience from both a gameplay and immersion point of view.
I'm talking about BUSINESS. Steering wheels et al. can be as good as you can imagine, without support, platform integration, marketing, exclusive content etc, all these accessories will be a niche market. Being a good product alone does not guarantee success.
As quick example take peripherals like the Wii Fit, Kinect or even the PS Move with the anything else. They all sell by the tens of millions. I've never heard of a 3rd party peripheral capable of that.
Too bad the lack of marketing, platform integration, exclusive content (as well as general multi-plat form general content) and perceived "high" price will most likely kill those devices. If they survive they end up being niches even smaller than other computer gaming peripherals like steering wheels or fighting/flying joysticks.
One of the early Gopher/FTP sites was at tudelft and was called the Digital Archive on the 17th Floor (List of websites founded before 1995). This small image archive contained some low quality scanned pornographic images that were initially available to anyone anonymously, but the site soon became restricted to Netherlands only access.
Unfortunately the link is dead. And even searching for the archive using archive.org database, the earliest I could find was December 2, 1998. The porn was already deleted.
If anyone saved that picture archive, please notice that what you have is data is a landmark in human history(Just like that Playboy picture used in computer graphics). Quoting Dr. Jones: This archive belongs in a museum!
You won't be for too long. Tokyo Institute of Technology(TIT, couldn't be more appropriate) already has a robot snake. I trust the Japanese will deliver.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Google fanboy much less I'm defending their bullshit. But if I had mod points right now, I think I'd vote you down.
You may not agree with what Google do. That is alright, there are thousands of things(including this topic) I don't agree either. But to say that Eric Schmidt is incompetent or a dork is just a display of ignorance. The guy successfully helped Google to become on of the most important technology companies in the world from both a economical/marketing/money making point of view as well as sociological/structural point of view. If that is incompetence then I'll never try to be competent in my life again.
He says crap? Yes he does and a LOT. Why? Because that is part of his freaking job. Google makes money by using other people privacy. I guarantee you he knows very well what internet is and that data can be deleted. If he said anything different he would either ruin Google image(perceived by the average Joe, Google's main target) or ruin Google strategy.
Bullshitting is common practice for CEOs that making a living out of the average Joe/mainstream market that doesn't know any better. His job is to bring money to his company and bullshitting is just another tool. He doesn't need to care about what a handful of nerds think. It sucks, but there better ways to fight against him instead of just speculating about his intellect and calling him names. The guys from DC got it in the right direction.
One of the labs in the university I graduated from also specialized in omnitreadmills. I heard they even had model capable of 3D(upstairs/uphill and downstairs/downhill) movements, which they showed on SIGGRAPH a few years ago.
Why not C#? I understand the hate against.Net/Mono because of the framework nature and MS influence but C# as a language is a pretty damn good one(the best IMO). If someone developed a native C#-like programming toolset with openCL/GL and Qt support alongside other popular libraries for both ARM and x86, I'd never look at C++ again.
For browsing Google.com or Slashdot, most likely not. As a matter of fact, as a guy who lives in Japan with a 1Gbps connection(infrastructure is from NTT B-fletz fiber(Y3600(40)/month), provider is Hi-bit(Y800($10)/month)), if I access anything outside Japan (and maybe South Korea),it's not uncommon for me to be bottle-necked by the other end. However, for watching videos(hosted in Japanese servers such as NicoNico) or accessing my workplace network, with anything from ssh to VPN with VNC, it does make the difference. A jump from 1Gbps to 2Gbps would make those non webbrowsing network activities even smoother.
But, I speculate, the reason for sony to invest in a faster network is the PS4. The PS4 has two confirmed features for which 1Gbps+ internet connection is ideal: 4K video streaming and 1080p Gaikai game streaming. Attempting to create a infrastructure so people can actually use these services without complaining about lag/artifacts/etc makes sense. If someone who has a slower connection starts complaining, they can just blame the connection.
'...How would you feel if your neighbor went over and bought a commercial observation drone that they can launch from their backyard. It just flies over your house all day. How would you feel about it?'
Said the guy who sends a car to photograph my entire neighborhood and collects hi-res satellite pictures of it every 6 months or so.
Medical engineer here. Technically, anyone could make a clone easily. But it won't be FDA approved and therefore doctors won't be able to use them as diagnosis or treatment tools. Not even if the the original developer can port it. As a matter of fact it won't even be FDA approved if the app is run on any other iOS device that is not an iPhone 4S. FDA(and similar European and Japanese institutions) are extremely rigorous when it comes to approving medical products and even the smallest change to the software or hardware is enough to lose the "medical device" status. That is why they will sell the device pre-loaded with the app instead of using the appstore, so they can have a pre-determined OS version, no updates, no 3rd party apps or content. Also you need tons of testing(clinical trials and journal papers). Being cautions when it comes to health is very important but even I find FDA and friends a bit of excessive sometimes. This being an example, as I'm positive they could easily allow any other high-end phone. Heck, with all the respect, the Retina Display on the apple handheld devices (phones and PMPs) is actually is one of the "crappiest" smartphone displays nowadays(still good enough, but compared to the Galaxy S4 and Xperia Z and even phones from last year and a half, it sucks). Obviously, as another potential problem, they are at the mercy of Apple now. If Apple decide to stop selling the iPhone4S or decide that modding it and reselling it is against their rules, VAS has no choice but to get a new device and go through the FDA approval process all over again. Ideally they should develop their own system. It's more expensive, but it'll guarantee them a much higher degree of control.
I wished I hadn't post so I could have modded you insightful. Come to think about it, this is a quintessential example of an anti-competitive practice. If MS or Google did that EU would be all over their asses by now.
I hate to defend Apple, but you got to admit, it's Apple's own turf, directly or indirectly we're talking about their servers. Even if you try to get the comic through a 3rd party app, the app must be downloaded through their servers. Is it an asshole thing to do? Since they don't let applications to be installed from outside the Appstore, I say yes. Who to blame? Their beloved costumers, as they are the ones funding this system.
Apple is not telling them how to run their business. Image Comics still can create sell their content anywhere else they want, if allowed(try selling gay porn at a church bookstore). And Apple can't do nothing about it.
It appears that another part of the issue is that criminal organizations are putting up fake websites that masquarade as the official website of real, but obscure journals (that don't have a website) or a website that is confusingly similar to a well known journal and then using these websites to trick people into sending them submission fees. Often these websites have scraped academic search sites for TOC and other publically available information to fool people.
This. Unfortunately the original NYT article isn't really well written in my opinion. It starts by mentioning the naming scam (Entomology-2013 vs. Entomology 2013) but somewhere in the middle it starts talking about fake/weak journals that accept anything so that they can collect publishing money(which are the scam discussed by the Nature article) and then it goes back to the naming scam.
This aspect is like people putting up typosquating websites, cloning websites in different top level domains, or setting up fake websites for businesses that don't have a website (kind of like what domain tasters do, but in a more malicious manner) and doing a bit of SEO...
Exactly same issue. And given the niche target victims and the decentralized nature of academic conferences(every year is a different places(even countries), different staff, no fixed office) and the potentially and relatively large money to be gained(participation, events and related hotel and transportation fees) they make nice scam material
Regardless, both issues are a huge problem not only because they help the increase of lazy or wrong science to be spread, but they ruin the chances that the good science published through them to be seen or respected and they ruin the credibility(and even chances of success) of other new and small but legit and serious conferences and journals. Finally, while were talking a lot about new, smaller and/or less known journals, it's important to remember that even well known popular journals like Nature(widely known Schon case) and Science(recent Stapel case) are not immune to fraudulent data. The whole system is kind of messy right now.
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AVGN is a reviewer, he is safe. He only shows a very small fraction of the games therefore making it fair use. Let's Play basically show the entire game as movie with some nerd talking in the background.
Personally, I'm curious on what they are going to do here in Japan. I've been what japanese Let's Play videos (aka Jikkyopurei) since 2006 on nicovideo. And Nintendo in Japan is much more strict then in America when comes to copyright and trademarks(second only to Disney which rules their content with an iron fist).
Well, I HATE this software argument about patents as, to be honest, EVERYTHING can be described as mathematics. From mechanical systems to genetic code, from electrical designs to source code. You can name anything: I can write it down either as mathematical model using a set of formulas or using a array of numbers. If mechanical designs and electronic systems can be patented so can be software. The problem with the current patent system, in particular in the US, is that it is a lousy version of an idea from the 19th century. It doesn't take in consideration how fast technology improves, barely acknowledges the immense variety of new tech fields and how their are interconnected and it's filled with abused double standards. How to solve this problem this problem? Modernize it and make it more strict(only absolutely novel tech for a much more limited time with very specific implementations). Is that perfect? NO. But a business is much more than just inventing stuff; use marketing, funding, quality, support and be secretive to overcome the copycats.
Software can be patented if the patent system was more adequate. If you don't want software patents then I don't want hardware patents either.
Well, I HATE this software argument about patents as, to be honest, EVERYTHING can be described as mathematics. From mechanical systems to genetic code, from electrical designs to source code. You can name anything: I can write it down either as mathematical model using a set of formulas or using a array of numbers. If mechanical designs and electronic systems can be patented so can be software.
The problem with the current patent system, in particular in the US, is that it is a lousy version of an idea from the 19th century. It doesn't take in consideration how fast technology improves, barely acknowledges the immense variety of new tech fields and how their are interconnected and it's filled with abused double standards.
How to solve this problem this problem? Modernize it and make it more strict(only absolutely novel tech for a much more limited time with very specific implementations). Is that perfect? NO. But a business is much more than just inventing stuff; use marketing, funding, quality, support and be secretive to overcome the copycats.
Until Apple has a similar app to substitute their Palm Desktop crappy clone, alongside a real file explorer, the ability to instal alternative appstores and a better "desktop" that is not just a grid of icons that makes me remember something from windows 95 era, all that without jailbreaking, their iDevices will never see my money.
Is that really too much to ask? I just don't see the downsides. The average joe will still use only the apple defaults and so will be the apple loyalists so they won't be losing their precious moneystream. And on top of that they'll get great publicity from the more "geeky"(I hate this word) audience.
Mir was the first example of this particular kind of ship that we had seen in sci-fi for decades
Until I see unwanted Alien contamination I would refrain from saying that.
Exactly. Plus they still have 8 million subscribers. That is still almost an order of magnitude more than any MMO I've heard of.
FFTs will allow the analysis of all frequencies up to half the sampling frequency using a single algorithm per execution. A processing method using IIR filters can only be used for a single band/filter. If whistles were the sole application I would agree with you(heck, I'm just a 27 old recently graduated from my PhD course and I think I could do that using only analog components). But the developer himself talks about other applications that could use other sounds. Instead of implementing and executing different IIRs for every single application, using a single FFT is far more productive. Plus, we're in the second decade of the 21st century. Unless there is explicit need to do so or you're a passionate about optimization, our hardware can handle "bloat".
I may also want a custom chainsaw arm, too.
Groovy
Anyway, opensource or licence/patent free commercial artificial limbs, while technically possible, I believe are practically impossible at lest for now. Legislation(FDA, etc) on this tech is the harshest and from my experience as a medical engineer they don't like any time of user customization (and for valid reasons, for MOST of the time). You might be able to build your own from scratch or buy compatible parts from some unlicensed(or pirate) vendor in the future, but most likely it will void all warranty and insurance you have on the prosthetic device.
Define "Drone".
It's the same discussion between Robots and modern mechatronical Vehicles/Machines.
Nah, Disney is a pretty damn Evil Empire on its own. EA licencing deal is more like an alliance with the Mandalorians.
Well at least your coworkers use a keyboard. I see my co-workers typing all the time on their ipads WITHOUT a freaking keyboard! And they aren't even standing up(I have to say tablets a quite useful in this situation) and their PCs are just a few inches away from them. Well I'm quite guilty myself as well but at least I use a Transformer Pad (an old TF101) with it's complimentary keyboard.
I agree with Bill Gates on this one, but logic doesn't apply on the mainstream market. Unless MS has a marketing strategy that reconvinces the mainstream crowd that keyboards are "cool" they'll lose the battle to iPads and even Android Tablets. I agree that tablets are great, maybe even better than standard PCs, for the average Joe and grandmother's media consumption/internet browsing but for the workplace, even if you just wrte word documents all the day long, a classic PC is better. What pisses me off is that tablet users still prefer an iPad to work with. I can't comprehend how people can work without a file browser with integrated packaging capabilities and the lack of true multitasking. Use at least a Nexus 10 or a Transformer Pad or a Surface Pro.
You totally missed my point!
I'm NOT talking about how all these accessories improve gaming. As a dedicated gamer myself I know first hand how these accessories can improve the experience from both a gameplay and immersion point of view.
I'm talking about BUSINESS. Steering wheels et al. can be as good as you can imagine, without support, platform integration, marketing, exclusive content etc, all these accessories will be a niche market. Being a good product alone does not guarantee success.
As quick example take peripherals like the Wii Fit, Kinect or even the PS Move with the anything else. They all sell by the tens of millions. I've never heard of a 3rd party peripheral capable of that.
Too bad the lack of marketing, platform integration, exclusive content (as well as general multi-plat form general content) and perceived "high" price will most likely kill those devices. If they survive they end up being niches even smaller than other computer gaming peripherals like steering wheels or fighting/flying joysticks.
One of the early Gopher/FTP sites was at tudelft and was called the Digital Archive on the 17th Floor (List of websites founded before 1995). This small image archive contained some low quality scanned pornographic images that were initially available to anyone anonymously, but the site soon became restricted to Netherlands only access.
Unfortunately the link is dead. And even searching for the archive using archive.org database, the earliest I could find was December 2, 1998. The porn was already deleted.
If anyone saved that picture archive, please notice that what you have is data is a landmark in human history(Just like that Playboy picture used in computer graphics). Quoting Dr. Jones: This archive belongs in a museum!
You won't be for too long. Tokyo Institute of Technology(TIT, couldn't be more appropriate) already has a robot snake. I trust the Japanese will deliver.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Google fanboy much less I'm defending their bullshit. But if I had mod points right now, I think I'd vote you down.
You may not agree with what Google do. That is alright, there are thousands of things(including this topic) I don't agree either. But to say that Eric Schmidt is incompetent or a dork is just a display of ignorance. The guy successfully helped Google to become on of the most important technology companies in the world from both a economical/marketing/money making point of view as well as sociological/structural point of view. If that is incompetence then I'll never try to be competent in my life again.
He says crap? Yes he does and a LOT. Why? Because that is part of his freaking job. Google makes money by using other people privacy. I guarantee you he knows very well what internet is and that data can be deleted. If he said anything different he would either ruin Google image(perceived by the average Joe, Google's main target) or ruin Google strategy.
Bullshitting is common practice for CEOs that making a living out of the average Joe/mainstream market that doesn't know any better. His job is to bring money to his company and bullshitting is just another tool. He doesn't need to care about what a handful of nerds think. It sucks, but there better ways to fight against him instead of just speculating about his intellect and calling him names. The guys from DC got it in the right direction.
One of the labs in the university I graduated from also specialized in omnitreadmills. I heard they even had model capable of 3D(upstairs/uphill and downstairs/downhill) movements, which they showed on SIGGRAPH a few years ago.
Why not C#? I understand the hate against .Net/Mono because of the framework nature and MS influence but C# as a language is a pretty damn good one(the best IMO). If someone developed a native C#-like programming toolset with openCL/GL and Qt support alongside other popular libraries for both ARM and x86, I'd never look at C++ again.
That doesn't mean that Kobo sells washing mashines. That is like saying that Youtube, which is owned by Google, provides a internet search engine.
For browsing Google.com or Slashdot, most likely not. As a matter of fact, as a guy who lives in Japan with a 1Gbps connection(infrastructure is from NTT B-fletz fiber(Y3600(40)/month), provider is Hi-bit(Y800($10)/month)), if I access anything outside Japan (and maybe South Korea),it's not uncommon for me to be bottle-necked by the other end. However, for watching videos(hosted in Japanese servers such as NicoNico) or accessing my workplace network, with anything from ssh to VPN with VNC, it does make the difference. A jump from 1Gbps to 2Gbps would make those non webbrowsing network activities even smoother.
But, I speculate, the reason for sony to invest in a faster network is the PS4. The PS4 has two confirmed features for which 1Gbps+ internet connection is ideal: 4K video streaming and 1080p Gaikai game streaming. Attempting to create a infrastructure so people can actually use these services without complaining about lag/artifacts/etc makes sense. If someone who has a slower connection starts complaining, they can just blame the connection.
'...How would you feel if your neighbor went over and bought a commercial observation drone that they can launch from their backyard. It just flies over your house all day. How would you feel about it?'
Said the guy who sends a car to photograph my entire neighborhood and collects hi-res satellite pictures of it every 6 months or so.
Medical engineer here. Technically, anyone could make a clone easily. But it won't be FDA approved and therefore doctors won't be able to use them as diagnosis or treatment tools. Not even if the the original developer can port it. As a matter of fact it won't even be FDA approved if the app is run on any other iOS device that is not an iPhone 4S. FDA(and similar European and Japanese institutions) are extremely rigorous when it comes to approving medical products and even the smallest change to the software or hardware is enough to lose the "medical device" status. That is why they will sell the device pre-loaded with the app instead of using the appstore, so they can have a pre-determined OS version, no updates, no 3rd party apps or content. Also you need tons of testing(clinical trials and journal papers). Being cautions when it comes to health is very important but even I find FDA and friends a bit of excessive sometimes. This being an example, as I'm positive they could easily allow any other high-end phone. Heck, with all the respect, the Retina Display on the apple handheld devices (phones and PMPs) is actually is one of the "crappiest" smartphone displays nowadays(still good enough, but compared to the Galaxy S4 and Xperia Z and even phones from last year and a half, it sucks). Obviously, as another potential problem, they are at the mercy of Apple now. If Apple decide to stop selling the iPhone4S or decide that modding it and reselling it is against their rules, VAS has no choice but to get a new device and go through the FDA approval process all over again. Ideally they should develop their own system. It's more expensive, but it'll guarantee them a much higher degree of control.
I wished I hadn't post so I could have modded you insightful. Come to think about it, this is a quintessential example of an anti-competitive practice. If MS or Google did that EU would be all over their asses by now.
I hate to defend Apple, but you got to admit, it's Apple's own turf, directly or indirectly we're talking about their servers. Even if you try to get the comic through a 3rd party app, the app must be downloaded through their servers. Is it an asshole thing to do? Since they don't let applications to be installed from outside the Appstore, I say yes. Who to blame? Their beloved costumers, as they are the ones funding this system.
Apple is not telling them how to run their business. Image Comics still can create sell their content anywhere else they want, if allowed(try selling gay porn at a church bookstore). And Apple can't do nothing about it.
It appears that another part of the issue is that criminal organizations are putting up fake websites that masquarade as the official website of real, but obscure journals (that don't have a website) or a website that is confusingly similar to a well known journal and then using these websites to trick people into sending them submission fees. Often these websites have scraped academic search sites for TOC and other publically available information to fool people.
This. Unfortunately the original NYT article isn't really well written in my opinion. It starts by mentioning the naming scam (Entomology-2013 vs. Entomology 2013) but somewhere in the middle it starts talking about fake/weak journals that accept anything so that they can collect publishing money(which are the scam discussed by the Nature article) and then it goes back to the naming scam.
This aspect is like people putting up typosquating websites, cloning websites in different top level domains, or setting up fake websites for businesses that don't have a website (kind of like what domain tasters do, but in a more malicious manner) and doing a bit of SEO...
Exactly same issue. And given the niche target victims and the decentralized nature of academic conferences(every year is a different places(even countries), different staff, no fixed office) and the potentially and relatively large money to be gained(participation, events and related hotel and transportation fees) they make nice scam material
Regardless, both issues are a huge problem not only because they help the increase of lazy or wrong science to be spread, but they ruin the chances that the good science published through them to be seen or respected and they ruin the credibility(and even chances of success) of other new and small but legit and serious conferences and journals. Finally, while were talking a lot about new, smaller and/or less known journals, it's important to remember that even well known popular journals like Nature(widely known Schon case) and Science(recent Stapel case) are not immune to fraudulent data. The whole system is kind of messy right now.