The big problem with the Ouya is that there is no really good exclusive out there to show people what the console can really be pushed to do. So you have a lot of half-hearted ports from other platforms, pretty much limiting the sales of the product to people who haven't purchased any recent computer, game console, phone or tablet (very few indeed).
Frankly, Ouya needs to pick a product that is distinctly their market - nurture and help it be THE GAME on the Ouya to own, a reason to buy the console and controllers. Really showcasing what the system can do with the hardware its got will bring developers looking to 'one-up' that product and it really would have a shot.
Right now - its a no-mans land of retreads and badly written indie games. And I can say this as someone looking to release a product on the Ouya.
With that said I wish you the best of luck with your product release.
When I was one of the first few hundred to sign up for their kickstarter and then received my unit well after I could have purchased it for the same price at Best Buy, I was done.
Then, when it took them another 3-4 weeks to get me my other controller, I sold it on the Internet like I did the Ouya and first controller.
I've heard nothing but complaints about it, and now they're removing one of the only promises they've actually kept to this point.
What a way to blow through millions of dollars. It'll be dead in a year. And I say good riddance.
+1 for similar experiences. I was also early on the Kickstarter, and my model showed up with a bad HDMI solder. When I found out how long it would take to get a replacement, and that I couldn't walk into the aforementioned big box store and swap it out, I decided to fix the solder myself. Then it worked...but the controller rattled because of a broken tab, which would occasionally cause a button to stick as well as just being purely annoying. Build quality control did not seem to be a priority. I never did return that nor did I sell it -- opting instead to throwing it away. Partially out of laziness and partially out of spite. I like to support the little guy, but when the little guy has millions to invest into a project I would expect a million dollar project. 2
right now we are developing stronger armor when what we should be doing is stopping the shooter/spammer.
Seems easier said than done! I don't have numbers to support this, but I would think most form spam comes from botnets. As long as Oracle (Java), Adobe (Flash), and Microsoft (ActiveX) products (among others) continue to have security issues, malware will continue to thrive. And so will botnets.
On topic, as a web developer I ended up just custom coding a little check box that asks if my users are human and programmatically placing the form submit button the page after that is clicked. Since a bot can't see an input button on the form it skips the page. Maybe that's too simplistic for experts, of which I am not one, but it has resulted in less user complaints than the old ReCAPTCHA I used. This number one does look easier to use, but it's still bulky.
Wish I had points to mod this up. With anything mainstream-popular there will be a backlash from people determined not to like the product, for one reason or another. A prime example is the Twilight movie series. I for one do not enjoy pretty much anything about these movies, but they did gross 1.3 BILLION dollars. (http://boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=twilight.htm) I can't realistically say the movies suck because there are enough people watching to prove me wrong.
I disagree that the keyboard is defunct as a gaming device. Combined with a mouse it allows for two separate sets of controls, something a game controller can never reproduce. It is "just a bunch of buttons" but its a bunch of buttons that can be operated with one hand.
I can't get my goddamn home purchase closed because nobody's home at the USDA. Then again, looking at the hundreds of thousands of employees out of work, I feel like my problems are minimal. Nothing good can come of this.
My post relates to approving work on DRM in HTML 5.1. How is your reply relevant to my point that it will be twenty years before this spec sees the light of Internet-day? The fact that Netflix uses EME now? Ok. Apparently Netflix users don't care and I overestimated 21 million streaming customers' common sense http://www.wired.com/business/2012/01/netflix-q4-results/...and Netflix is not the entire Internet.
Even if this does get included in the HTML 5.1 spec, it will be twenty years before it sees the light on Internet-day. Hell, a pretty huge chunk of the web doesn't even use HTML 5 and that spec isn't even finished. Even if 5.1 supports DRM individual site owners have the option of making use of it. And those sites will revel in the shit-ton of complaint emails and unsubscribers. Let them try it I say.
Well, a phone isn't going in the same pocket as keys, and I don't like to jingle when I walk so I tend to keep spare change in the opposite pocket as my keys. That leaves wallet and Nexus. Back pockets seem logical.
Not to mention that a decent-sized smartphone is not exactly comfortable in the front pocket when sitting down, and also it involves standing up to fish it out and answer a phone call. First world problems.
While I would defend to the death his right to publish his ravings on the internet, he still has no inherent right to my money.
Apparently a lot of other people feel the same way, hence a boycott.
I tried to read Ender's Game once. A friend lent a copy to me. I don't think I got further than the first 20 pages or so when I found myself thinking that, gee, something's not quite right here. This sounds just as contrived as a Chick tract. So I looked up his background and lo and behold I found out he was a Mormon.
Maybe some day I'll finish Ender's game, but if the first few pages are any indication, it's a contrived, shallow story that attempts to create a pity party for a contrived, shallow protagonist. Apparently I'm not the only person who thinks that, and apparently there are people who think that who don't even care about gay marriage.
Neon Genesis Evangelion was a much more compelling story with similar themes. Then again, I just set a pretty low bar for a compelling story.
That being said, maybe the movie will be better. Perhaps I'll torrent it at some point in the future and watch it opposite Battleship.
It's pretty easy to look back at works written decades ago and see them as contrived because we have been exposed to so many books and movies in the genre since then that use similar plot lines. Ender's Game was unique because the shallow protagonist you refer to is an enigma. He is a combination of understanding well past his years, genius beyond the level of nearly all adults, and yet sees everything through a child's innocent eyes. The telling of the story with this combination is far from shallow in my opinion. Aside: I also very much enjoyed Evangelion.
Nope. Nobody force feeds me marketing now. There's no problem to solve there. No force is in play. The only force I experience comes from the government. All else is at my option. You're a bit bewildered here.
I am having trouble figuring out how this is a response to my comment. Did you reply to the wrong comment? If not, where did I imply that you had a problem to solve? I was explaining how you misinterpreted the previous poster's comment.
Also, if you live in modern society, you are subjected to billboards, media ads, and other marketing at every turn. You don't have a choice about what to see on the side of the road. It's there, you look at it. This is force-fed. If you want to pretend you have magic pretentious blinders and don't see them, fine, have at it.
Of course you have an option for paying taxes: don't live in a society that demands rent from you for the privilege.
No. This old canard incorrectly presumes that there is somewhere to go that resolves the issues you have with where you are; it also incorrectly presumes that such mobility is practical or even possible. All of these are disingenuous presumptions.
You're wrong. The previous comment suggested to live somewhere that doesn't charge taxes and/or rent. Live off the grid, out in the wilderness. Practical? Maybe not, depends who you ask. Possible? Definitely. Would I do it and lose my Internet? Hell no. From what I gathered though, this wasn't the point of the comment, the point was that there is an option to not be force-fed marketing.
"The tool works by accessing Apple's database of wireless access points, which is collected by iPhones and iPads that have GPS and wifi location services enabled."
Although other devices may be accessing these points as well, these locations were reported by Apple devices. Once the MAC is resolved for that point, the process continues by isolating the devices using that router using a service such as Google's location services. Google locked down security on this service for this exact reason http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20074571-281/google-curbs-web-map-exposing-phone-locations/.
Witness the devolving into indie bands patting each other's backs. Anybody notice the directional path being eerily similar to what happened to MySpace?
Incidentally, if I see someone post that they like a song on (pick your social network) I ignore it. Can't remember the last time I actually clicked one. Maybe that's just me.
What's it going to take for people to realize that Obama is just as bad as and in many ways worse than Bush?
I swear, Obama could issue an executive order mandating that they suck a dick and the apologists would just shrug and say "Yeah, but Bush would have made us swallow!"
It would be grand if people only had to live with the consequences of the policies they support.
LK
It would be even nicer if people understood that we have this thing called Congress, and that THEY are the ones who passed the laws which require your bank to report this activity in the first place.
"legal experts emphasize that this sharing of data is permissible under U.S. law. Specifically, banks' suspicious activity reporting requirements are dictated by a combination of the Bank Secrecy Act and the USA PATRIOT Act"
If you really must bitch, at least bitch about the right people. You retards are busy attacking what is essentially a Straw Man who will be gone forever in a few years, while the goons who actually are trashing your liberties keep getting elected term after term. It's not an especially clever plan, but it works every damn time... Congress gives power to the President to decide to implement an unpopular policy, he takes the blame and all you fucking idiots eat it up like candy.
It's not the President's fucking budget, it's Congress's budget. It's not the President's Law... it's Congress's law. If you mental midgets can't figure this shit out it's never going to change.
Personal attacks have no place in what should be an intellectual conversation. This isn't 4Chan, this is Slashdot. Of course, this is just anonymously posted flamebait so I am not sure why I should be surprised.
On topic, the previous responder was right about one thing. These are not the President's policies, because the President himself cannot pass laws. Congress needs to pass them. Where the previous poster is wrong though is using the assumption that Congress has any power whatsoever. No member of Congress votes on a topic based on an unbiased political stance. Special interest and central bank money are behind every single thing that goes through Congress's hands. They are puppets controlled by the hands of the same people that brought us the Federal Reserve.
This kind of reminds me of something that Katt Williams once said, to use a highly credible source. pause... "Shaquille O'Neal isn't rich. The man that signs Shaq's paychecks is the rich one. And to relate... Congress doesn't have power. The man that pays members of Congress has power.
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The big problem with the Ouya is that there is no really good exclusive out there to show people what the console can really be pushed to do. So you have a lot of half-hearted ports from other platforms, pretty much limiting the sales of the product to people who haven't purchased any recent computer, game console, phone or tablet (very few indeed).
Frankly, Ouya needs to pick a product that is distinctly their market - nurture and help it be THE GAME on the Ouya to own, a reason to buy the console and controllers. Really showcasing what the system can do with the hardware its got will bring developers looking to 'one-up' that product and it really would have a shot.
Right now - its a no-mans land of retreads and badly written indie games. And I can say this as someone looking to release a product on the Ouya.
With that said I wish you the best of luck with your product release.
When I was one of the first few hundred to sign up for their kickstarter and then received my unit well after I could have purchased it for the same price at Best Buy, I was done.
Then, when it took them another 3-4 weeks to get me my other controller, I sold it on the Internet like I did the Ouya and first controller.
I've heard nothing but complaints about it, and now they're removing one of the only promises they've actually kept to this point.
What a way to blow through millions of dollars. It'll be dead in a year. And I say good riddance.
+1 for similar experiences. I was also early on the Kickstarter, and my model showed up with a bad HDMI solder. When I found out how long it would take to get a replacement, and that I couldn't walk into the aforementioned big box store and swap it out, I decided to fix the solder myself. Then it worked...but the controller rattled because of a broken tab, which would occasionally cause a button to stick as well as just being purely annoying. Build quality control did not seem to be a priority. I never did return that nor did I sell it -- opting instead to throwing it away. Partially out of laziness and partially out of spite. I like to support the little guy, but when the little guy has millions to invest into a project I would expect a million dollar project. 2
The Propellerheads had this idea years ago. [end of obscure musical reference]
Closed beta is this weekend, I know that. I think they're doing a stress test.
This is the only choice. Play now if you're in, play later if you aren't, but either way play it. It's groundbreaking.
right now we are developing stronger armor when what we should be doing is stopping the shooter/spammer.
Seems easier said than done! I don't have numbers to support this, but I would think most form spam comes from botnets. As long as Oracle (Java), Adobe (Flash), and Microsoft (ActiveX) products (among others) continue to have security issues, malware will continue to thrive. And so will botnets.
On topic, as a web developer I ended up just custom coding a little check box that asks if my users are human and programmatically placing the form submit button the page after that is clicked. Since a bot can't see an input button on the form it skips the page. Maybe that's too simplistic for experts, of which I am not one, but it has resulted in less user complaints than the old ReCAPTCHA I used. This number one does look easier to use, but it's still bulky.
Thanks for the good points.
I disagree that the keyboard is defunct as a gaming device. Combined with a mouse it allows for two separate sets of controls, something a game controller can never reproduce. It is "just a bunch of buttons" but its a bunch of buttons that can be operated with one hand.
I can't get my goddamn home purchase closed because nobody's home at the USDA. Then again, looking at the hundreds of thousands of employees out of work, I feel like my problems are minimal. Nothing good can come of this.
The witch hunt continues.
My post relates to approving work on DRM in HTML 5.1. How is your reply relevant to my point that it will be twenty years before this spec sees the light of Internet-day? The fact that Netflix uses EME now? Ok. Apparently Netflix users don't care and I overestimated 21 million streaming customers' common sense http://www.wired.com/business/2012/01/netflix-q4-results/...and Netflix is not the entire Internet.
Even if this does get included in the HTML 5.1 spec, it will be twenty years before it sees the light on Internet-day. Hell, a pretty huge chunk of the web doesn't even use HTML 5 and that spec isn't even finished. Even if 5.1 supports DRM individual site owners have the option of making use of it. And those sites will revel in the shit-ton of complaint emails and unsubscribers. Let them try it I say.
Good luck running the 25 foot HDMI cable from the room with the PC to the room with the TV, as adolf pointed out.
Laptop?
pun p = "This guy was a specialist, who capitalized on his expertise and lived a happy life.";
return p;
No longer weakly-typed.
I'm not much of a fan of the Total Recall remake myself, but is a thread's description the appropriate place for such opinion?
no.
Not to mention that a decent-sized smartphone is not exactly comfortable in the front pocket when sitting down, and also it involves standing up to fish it out and answer a phone call. First world problems.
While I would defend to the death his right to publish his ravings on the internet, he still has no inherent right to my money.
Apparently a lot of other people feel the same way, hence a boycott.
I tried to read Ender's Game once. A friend lent a copy to me. I don't think I got further than the first 20 pages or so when I found myself thinking that, gee, something's not quite right here. This sounds just as contrived as a Chick tract. So I looked up his background and lo and behold I found out he was a Mormon.
Maybe some day I'll finish Ender's game, but if the first few pages are any indication, it's a contrived, shallow story that attempts to create a pity party for a contrived, shallow protagonist. Apparently I'm not the only person who thinks that, and apparently there are people who think that who don't even care about gay marriage.
Neon Genesis Evangelion was a much more compelling story with similar themes. Then again, I just set a pretty low bar for a compelling story.
That being said, maybe the movie will be better. Perhaps I'll torrent it at some point in the future and watch it opposite Battleship.
It's pretty easy to look back at works written decades ago and see them as contrived because we have been exposed to so many books and movies in the genre since then that use similar plot lines. Ender's Game was unique because the shallow protagonist you refer to is an enigma. He is a combination of understanding well past his years, genius beyond the level of nearly all adults, and yet sees everything through a child's innocent eyes. The telling of the story with this combination is far from shallow in my opinion. Aside: I also very much enjoyed Evangelion.
Thanks
Nope. Nobody force feeds me marketing now. There's no problem to solve there. No force is in play. The only force I experience comes from the government. All else is at my option. You're a bit bewildered here.
I am having trouble figuring out how this is a response to my comment. Did you reply to the wrong comment? If not, where did I imply that you had a problem to solve? I was explaining how you misinterpreted the previous poster's comment.
Also, if you live in modern society, you are subjected to billboards, media ads, and other marketing at every turn. You don't have a choice about what to see on the side of the road. It's there, you look at it. This is force-fed. If you want to pretend you have magic pretentious blinders and don't see them, fine, have at it.
You're wrong. The previous comment suggested to live somewhere that doesn't charge taxes and/or rent. Live off the grid, out in the wilderness. Practical? Maybe not, depends who you ask. Possible? Definitely. Would I do it and lose my Internet? Hell no. From what I gathered though, this wasn't the point of the comment, the point was that there is an option to not be force-fed marketing.
Although other devices may be accessing these points as well, these locations were reported by Apple devices. Once the MAC is resolved for that point, the process continues by isolating the devices using that router using a service such as Google's location services. Google locked down security on this service for this exact reason http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20074571-281/google-curbs-web-map-exposing-phone-locations/.
Read deeper into the article before judging.
What video game crash? Unless you are referring to arcade games, video gaming is more lucrative and ubiquitous than ever.
Great post btw, I wasn't aware of a few of these networks.
Incidentally, if I see someone post that they like a song on (pick your social network) I ignore it. Can't remember the last time I actually clicked one. Maybe that's just me.
Well, Sprint does make an effort in advertising to say that it's truly unlimited. They do require you to pay extra for tethering.
But Sprint's service is only unlimited in that there is no data shutoff. They do throttle speeds when certain bandwidth thresholds are met. They're even doing it now on the "entry service" they bought -- Boost Mobile http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/sprints-boost-mobile-start-smartphone-throttling-january/2012-12-19
And watch out for those Kazons, Hirogens and Borgs.
We're going to need a ruling on the proper plural of these races... Any Delta Quadrant sociologists on slashdot?
What's it going to take for people to realize that Obama is just as bad as and in many ways worse than Bush?
I swear, Obama could issue an executive order mandating that they suck a dick and the apologists would just shrug and say "Yeah, but Bush would have made us swallow!"
It would be grand if people only had to live with the consequences of the policies they support.
LK
It would be even nicer if people understood that we have this thing called Congress, and that THEY are the ones who passed the laws which require your bank to report this activity in the first place.
"legal experts emphasize that this sharing of data is permissible under U.S. law. Specifically, banks' suspicious activity reporting requirements are dictated by a combination of the Bank Secrecy Act and the USA PATRIOT Act"
If you really must bitch, at least bitch about the right people. You retards are busy attacking what is essentially a Straw Man who will be gone forever in a few years, while the goons who actually are trashing your liberties keep getting elected term after term. It's not an especially clever plan, but it works every damn time... Congress gives power to the President to decide to implement an unpopular policy, he takes the blame and all you fucking idiots eat it up like candy. It's not the President's fucking budget, it's Congress's budget. It's not the President's Law... it's Congress's law. If you mental midgets can't figure this shit out it's never going to change.
Personal attacks have no place in what should be an intellectual conversation. This isn't 4Chan, this is Slashdot. Of course, this is just anonymously posted flamebait so I am not sure why I should be surprised.
On topic, the previous responder was right about one thing. These are not the President's policies, because the President himself cannot pass laws. Congress needs to pass them. Where the previous poster is wrong though is using the assumption that Congress has any power whatsoever. No member of Congress votes on a topic based on an unbiased political stance. Special interest and central bank money are behind every single thing that goes through Congress's hands. They are puppets controlled by the hands of the same people that brought us the Federal Reserve.
This kind of reminds me of something that Katt Williams once said, to use a highly credible source. pause... "Shaquille O'Neal isn't rich. The man that signs Shaq's paychecks is the rich one. And to relate... Congress doesn't have power. The man that pays members of Congress has power.