Except Nintendo is practically the only game developer that does this. Search for "let's play" videos on youtube; there are TONS of them, from current generation games no less. If you upload a let's play for a nintendo game, they'll DMCA you and either demand you insert ads and they keep all of its revenue, or you have to remove it completely.
You didn't answer his second question though, which was finding out which features a rom supports. On my Galaxy Note 4, basically no AOSP roms support the fingerprint sensor (not a big loss, admittedly) they don't support call recording apps (and before somebody rants, yes, it's legal to record your own calls in 40 states even if the other party isn't aware) and they don't support amr wideband (aka HD Voice.)
I presently use AICP on my Note 4. It has a call record option in the dialer app, but it isn't automatic like I prefer and that some apps provide.
Personally though, I'm never going to buy another non-Nexus device again. I didn't realize just how much Samsung's smartphones sucked until I actually had one.
Nintendo has a long history of treating its fans with contempt. Take for example how it issues DMCA notices to anybody who posts a video showing themselves playing their games. Honestly I stopped giving a shit about Nintendo after the SNES because as of the N64 and onward they basically gave the middle finger to both the developers and fans of third party titles of their systems. If they ever go belly up, I'd just say good riddance.
You don't have to have LTE for that to work. When I first started using HD Voice on T-Mobile, my phone wasn't even LTE capable, and there was no LTE in my area just yet (it was HSPA+ 42.) The ITU standard by the way is G.722.2.
IMO since we're entering the IoE (Internet of Everything) age, I think it's probably worth having some kind of legislation that every company that sells a consumer product that is network connected must provide free security updates for a minimum of 5 years after the device's end of manufacture date (i.e. when the last batch of product hits channel.) If not, we're looking at a new era where the whole world is under a constant threat of botnet DDoS, spam, and identity theft.
This could be enforced with hefty fines and civil liability in the event the device owners are targeted after 90 days of a known exploit and no patch is available. If they can't patch it, then a recall is required. If the company folds, then whoever buys the biggest portion of its assets assumes responsibility. If it folds and nobody buys its assets, then the source code for all components (including signing keys) must be released to an escrow company (no, open sourcing it all isn't practical for various reasons) that can fulfill the security updates for the remainder of the 5 year period. The escrow service would be paid by some kind of insurance (or bond) that must be paid prior to the company being legally allowed to sell network capable products to consumers within the US.
That's adaptive multi-rate wideband, which goes by the commercial name of "HD Voice." T-mobile actually had that feature long before iPhone even supported it (was first available on some Android phones.) Sprint added that feature about 1.5 years after T-Mobile did. I believe Verizon added it just after T-Mobile and AT&T kind of has it (it's only in certain areas if you have AT&T.)
I was with Sprint for 10 years, and during that entire 10 years it was "oh we have really good upgrades right around the corner". They even had this bullshit website that showed the upgrade status for their towers, and each one would range from 3 months to a 12 months for the next "upgrade". If you checked back 3 months later, you'd still see the same numbers there, and if you called to complain about the service, the rep would go to this website and read those same bullshit numbers to you.
Meanwhile, the service continued to deteriorate with increasing dropped calls, their 3g was so terrible that your phone would quickly drain its battery if you had no wifi around, and they never offered 4G in Phoenix, which is quite a populated city. Even when they did finally offer 4g in a given area, it was spotty at best, more closely resembling what other cities called a soft launch (i.e. service is available and turned on in the area but not finished, and they don't announce it to the public until its been optimized to be contiguous across the coverage area) and it never reaches the full quality of a hard launch, even though they announce it as such.
Sprint is and always has been perpetually a "coming soon" network, has never been the "now" network that it claims to be.
Anyways since their service is so bad, I'll bet that if they go out of business, nobody will even notice. In fact it will likely be an improvement because somebody who actually knows how to run a company might buy their assets and completely throw out their management, engineers, QA, and support teams. It very likely won't be another carrier that buys their assets though, instead it will probably be somebody like Dish.
I was under the impression that the English language, lacking a neuter, uses the masculine when the gender is unknown. The distinction is that the listener may interpret this to be an assumption of actually being male, but that would be his mistake, not that of the speaker.
Well you could always refer to classic literature, which is generally considered authoritative proper use of language. It's practically unseen. In recent times however, most people have used "their" instead of "his", "her", or "his or her" but their is plural, and thus is not correct usage for one person. Also, I don't know about you, but I've found it kind of jarring when people use "her" when the gender is unspecified, and I don't think I'm alone in that.
No, that's not it. The English language (and just about every other language) assumes the default person to be male unless otherwise specified. Though English is rather light on that assumption as we actually have a common pronoun for gender neutral (namely, it) which a lot of other languages lack (and they refer to objects as our equivalent of him or her.) That, and some languages like Spanish if you have a big stadium of a thousand women you refer to them as ellas (them, fem) but if you add just one man to the group of a thousand women, then they become ellos (them, masc.)
And for what it's worth, for all of the complaints given about the US, the US is perhaps one of the least male-dominated societies out there. Or at least, most women I meet from other countries always talk about how where they're from the men always get to set rules for any women around.
Umm...there are actually quite a few countries closer to Cuba than the United States (at the tip of florida): Haiti, Jamaica, Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Grand Cayman, and Mexico.
The US embargo only impacted trade to and from the US. It wasn't a blockade. Cuba did indeed to a lot of trading with Russia, Venezuela, and a lot of other countries. The reason they're poor is because Dear Leader decided that capitalism was bad and that working for anybody besides the government was immoral, and furthermore, talking to the outside world (or even so much as receiving US television signals) was also immoral.
In fact the whole reason that Cuba had no internet access was because the government decided to ban it, except for a select few who could be trusted to toe the party line.
Anyways we've seen this movie before in other places where US influence is practically non-existent, such as North Korea.
Umm...don't 14nm chips already have transistors that are 1-2 atoms (width) by 10 atoms (depth)? I thought 14nm just refers to the distance between discrete components?
I understand Fin FET will reduce the distance between components more, but afaik the "atom width" is already about as small as it can possibly get.
Unless the "40 atoms" measurement is just using the diameter of the atom to measure the distance between components?
Believe me, as a libertarian I love questioning the wisdom of all laws, but every time I do some social justice activist calls the PC Principal on me, and he's not nice.
I'm pretty sure that is more up to Amazon than it is to Apple. Prime video isn't on Apple TV or chromecast for the same reason: Amazon doesn't want to pay Google or Apple their standard app revenue cut. The only reason they pay the cut to roku/Xbox/psx is because they're already too big to ignore, but chromecast and appletv aren't, and Amazon's fear is that one day they might be, so this is their attempt to prevent that.
Well I think the law would be able to prevent somebody from extorting you in a manner I've seen mentioned. Basically if somebody uses spambots to shit on your reputation and extorts you for money to have it removed, and if you've got proof of that occurring, then you have the right to ask the site admin to remove the sham reviews, and if they don't, then they can be held liable for extortion.
1) Before you go around accusing the NRA of being terrorist, ask yourself, which one of them have actually committed a terrorist act? 2) There's not a chance in hell you'll ever ban guns. Even if you did, that would never get rid of them. So why not look for a practical solution instead of going after something that you'll never achieve with any measure of success? Politicians who promise to ban guns are the real corrupt ones because they know they can't, they just want votes. 3) Fun fact: Nearly all of the mass shooters in America have been left wing activists, and nearly all of them have been in urban areas, where firearm restriction is the tightest, rather than being in rural areas where almost everywhere you look it is perfectly legal to discharge a firearm.
Either way, US politicians will never have a resolution to this problem because they always look for unrealistic solutions. For example, there's not a realistic chance in hell that there will ever be a universal gun ban, and even if there was, that wouldn't eliminate guns. But, they'll still waste the effort on trying anyways.
You don't. Verizon just does whatever the hell they want to do.
Though if a stagefright vulnerability made it into the wild and started bringing down Verizon's wireless infrastructure...that might trigger a reaction. Hard to say though, because the affected customers would get a high data bill, which Verizon would love. Though if they can demonstrate in a civil court that a Verizon brand phone operating within Verizons own parameters is misbehaving due to somebody the customer has no relationship to taking nefarious action, that might prompt a few lawsuits....and that too might trigger a reaction.
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I thought it was the total disaster known as the world of warcraft cataclysm expansion.
Except Nintendo is practically the only game developer that does this. Search for "let's play" videos on youtube; there are TONS of them, from current generation games no less. If you upload a let's play for a nintendo game, they'll DMCA you and either demand you insert ads and they keep all of its revenue, or you have to remove it completely.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/a...
If you want Nintendo to share the ad revenue, you have to delete all of your videos of non-Nintendo games from youtube:
http://recode.net/2015/02/04/n...
(Disclaimer: I don't watch pewdiepie.)
You didn't answer his second question though, which was finding out which features a rom supports. On my Galaxy Note 4, basically no AOSP roms support the fingerprint sensor (not a big loss, admittedly) they don't support call recording apps (and before somebody rants, yes, it's legal to record your own calls in 40 states even if the other party isn't aware) and they don't support amr wideband (aka HD Voice.)
I presently use AICP on my Note 4. It has a call record option in the dialer app, but it isn't automatic like I prefer and that some apps provide.
Personally though, I'm never going to buy another non-Nexus device again. I didn't realize just how much Samsung's smartphones sucked until I actually had one.
Nintendo has a long history of treating its fans with contempt. Take for example how it issues DMCA notices to anybody who posts a video showing themselves playing their games. Honestly I stopped giving a shit about Nintendo after the SNES because as of the N64 and onward they basically gave the middle finger to both the developers and fans of third party titles of their systems. If they ever go belly up, I'd just say good riddance.
You don't have to have LTE for that to work. When I first started using HD Voice on T-Mobile, my phone wasn't even LTE capable, and there was no LTE in my area just yet (it was HSPA+ 42.) The ITU standard by the way is G.722.2.
IMO since we're entering the IoE (Internet of Everything) age, I think it's probably worth having some kind of legislation that every company that sells a consumer product that is network connected must provide free security updates for a minimum of 5 years after the device's end of manufacture date (i.e. when the last batch of product hits channel.) If not, we're looking at a new era where the whole world is under a constant threat of botnet DDoS, spam, and identity theft.
This could be enforced with hefty fines and civil liability in the event the device owners are targeted after 90 days of a known exploit and no patch is available. If they can't patch it, then a recall is required. If the company folds, then whoever buys the biggest portion of its assets assumes responsibility. If it folds and nobody buys its assets, then the source code for all components (including signing keys) must be released to an escrow company (no, open sourcing it all isn't practical for various reasons) that can fulfill the security updates for the remainder of the 5 year period. The escrow service would be paid by some kind of insurance (or bond) that must be paid prior to the company being legally allowed to sell network capable products to consumers within the US.
That's adaptive multi-rate wideband, which goes by the commercial name of "HD Voice." T-mobile actually had that feature long before iPhone even supported it (was first available on some Android phones.) Sprint added that feature about 1.5 years after T-Mobile did. I believe Verizon added it just after T-Mobile and AT&T kind of has it (it's only in certain areas if you have AT&T.)
I was with Sprint for 10 years, and during that entire 10 years it was "oh we have really good upgrades right around the corner". They even had this bullshit website that showed the upgrade status for their towers, and each one would range from 3 months to a 12 months for the next "upgrade". If you checked back 3 months later, you'd still see the same numbers there, and if you called to complain about the service, the rep would go to this website and read those same bullshit numbers to you.
Meanwhile, the service continued to deteriorate with increasing dropped calls, their 3g was so terrible that your phone would quickly drain its battery if you had no wifi around, and they never offered 4G in Phoenix, which is quite a populated city. Even when they did finally offer 4g in a given area, it was spotty at best, more closely resembling what other cities called a soft launch (i.e. service is available and turned on in the area but not finished, and they don't announce it to the public until its been optimized to be contiguous across the coverage area) and it never reaches the full quality of a hard launch, even though they announce it as such.
Sprint is and always has been perpetually a "coming soon" network, has never been the "now" network that it claims to be.
Anyways since their service is so bad, I'll bet that if they go out of business, nobody will even notice. In fact it will likely be an improvement because somebody who actually knows how to run a company might buy their assets and completely throw out their management, engineers, QA, and support teams. It very likely won't be another carrier that buys their assets though, instead it will probably be somebody like Dish.
Are you sure about that?
I was under the impression that the English language, lacking a neuter, uses the masculine when the gender is unknown. The distinction is that the listener may interpret this to be an assumption of actually being male, but that would be his mistake, not that of the speaker.
Well you could always refer to classic literature, which is generally considered authoritative proper use of language. It's practically unseen. In recent times however, most people have used "their" instead of "his", "her", or "his or her" but their is plural, and thus is not correct usage for one person. Also, I don't know about you, but I've found it kind of jarring when people use "her" when the gender is unspecified, and I don't think I'm alone in that.
No, that's not it. The English language (and just about every other language) assumes the default person to be male unless otherwise specified. Though English is rather light on that assumption as we actually have a common pronoun for gender neutral (namely, it) which a lot of other languages lack (and they refer to objects as our equivalent of him or her.) That, and some languages like Spanish if you have a big stadium of a thousand women you refer to them as ellas (them, fem) but if you add just one man to the group of a thousand women, then they become ellos (them, masc.)
And for what it's worth, for all of the complaints given about the US, the US is perhaps one of the least male-dominated societies out there. Or at least, most women I meet from other countries always talk about how where they're from the men always get to set rules for any women around.
Umm...there are actually quite a few countries closer to Cuba than the United States (at the tip of florida): Haiti, Jamaica, Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Grand Cayman, and Mexico.
I think that more likely it would end up being used DSLAMS from US regions that were upgraded to fiber.
The US embargo only impacted trade to and from the US. It wasn't a blockade. Cuba did indeed to a lot of trading with Russia, Venezuela, and a lot of other countries. The reason they're poor is because Dear Leader decided that capitalism was bad and that working for anybody besides the government was immoral, and furthermore, talking to the outside world (or even so much as receiving US television signals) was also immoral.
In fact the whole reason that Cuba had no internet access was because the government decided to ban it, except for a select few who could be trusted to toe the party line.
Anyways we've seen this movie before in other places where US influence is practically non-existent, such as North Korea.
IMO just don't live in the CtPaTown and you'll be fine.
Umm...don't 14nm chips already have transistors that are 1-2 atoms (width) by 10 atoms (depth)? I thought 14nm just refers to the distance between discrete components?
I understand Fin FET will reduce the distance between components more, but afaik the "atom width" is already about as small as it can possibly get.
Unless the "40 atoms" measurement is just using the diameter of the atom to measure the distance between components?
Believe me, as a libertarian I love questioning the wisdom of all laws, but every time I do some social justice activist calls the PC Principal on me, and he's not nice.
I thought that was for Marijuana legalization in certain states.
I'm pretty sure that is more up to Amazon than it is to Apple. Prime video isn't on Apple TV or chromecast for the same reason: Amazon doesn't want to pay Google or Apple their standard app revenue cut. The only reason they pay the cut to roku/Xbox/psx is because they're already too big to ignore, but chromecast and appletv aren't, and Amazon's fear is that one day they might be, so this is their attempt to prevent that.
Or rather, they'd be complicit to extortion.
Well I think the law would be able to prevent somebody from extorting you in a manner I've seen mentioned. Basically if somebody uses spambots to shit on your reputation and extorts you for money to have it removed, and if you've got proof of that occurring, then you have the right to ask the site admin to remove the sham reviews, and if they don't, then they can be held liable for extortion.
1) Before you go around accusing the NRA of being terrorist, ask yourself, which one of them have actually committed a terrorist act?
2) There's not a chance in hell you'll ever ban guns. Even if you did, that would never get rid of them. So why not look for a practical solution instead of going after something that you'll never achieve with any measure of success? Politicians who promise to ban guns are the real corrupt ones because they know they can't, they just want votes.
3) Fun fact: Nearly all of the mass shooters in America have been left wing activists, and nearly all of them have been in urban areas, where firearm restriction is the tightest, rather than being in rural areas where almost everywhere you look it is perfectly legal to discharge a firearm.
Either way, US politicians will never have a resolution to this problem because they always look for unrealistic solutions. For example, there's not a realistic chance in hell that there will ever be a universal gun ban, and even if there was, that wouldn't eliminate guns. But, they'll still waste the effort on trying anyways.
http://littlefun.org/uploads/5...
Sounds good. Perhaps everybody on slashdot should start with a review of Bennet Hasselton.
You don't. Verizon just does whatever the hell they want to do.
Though if a stagefright vulnerability made it into the wild and started bringing down Verizon's wireless infrastructure...that might trigger a reaction. Hard to say though, because the affected customers would get a high data bill, which Verizon would love. Though if they can demonstrate in a civil court that a Verizon brand phone operating within Verizons own parameters is misbehaving due to somebody the customer has no relationship to taking nefarious action, that might prompt a few lawsuits....and that too might trigger a reaction.