So you believe installing and maintaining cell phone towers and server networks costs nothing? Why do so many readers of Slashdot have such an uninformed, anti-capitalist view of how the world works?
Even the software you think of as free, such as Linux, is worked on by paid developers working at companies with a vested interest in the software. Nothing in the world is truly free. It's all based on an exchange of something.
What's messed up is that if Republicans were doing something like this, Democrats would accuse them of being sleazeballs, but when it benefits them, the ends suddenly justify the means. Assholes.
Hahaha, your entire point is based on proof-in-concept "malware" that requires installation at the physical location of the machine itself. Apple-haters will use ANYTHING to bash Apple.
You embarrassed yourself. Stop before you dig the hole even deeper.
I guess we'll just have to live without another Google-branded device in our lives among the Google phones, Google web browsers, Google search engines, Google email, Google documents, and other cynical technologies that only exist to get users' personal content indexed for advertisers.
Yep. Sure can't wait for "net neutrality." The government is totally neutral in all things. Government regulation of the internet sounds like a fabulous idea. What could possibly go wrong?
Alien was well acted and was certainly a great technical production, but how it ever became "a masterpiece of horror" is a huge mystery.
The oppressive environment of the ship, "truckers in space" motif, underlying sexual connotation of the alien lifecycle, and the uniqueness of the alien design make it a horror classic.
Alien is timelessly scary in a psychological way. It has underlying connotations of rape and forced pregnancy that creep people out. The movie wasn't a success because of gore or Signourney Weaver's panties. The best parts of the film are the claustrophobia of the ship's industrial environment and the weirdness of the alien's lifecycle. If the prequel can tap into those psychological aspects that freak people out, it'll be worth checking out.
The first film was full of sexual imagery and rape connotations. The facehugger symbolizes involuntary oral sex and pregnancy. The heads of the aliens resemble ejaculating penises. Even the entrances to the alien ship intentionally look like giant vaginas.
After reading the link I now see the direction this film might be taking, finally there will be some answers as to what this Alien race is, and possibly where it originated from what I understand. They mention something from the first Alien movie regarding the possible genetic manipulated alien sitting in the chair-like thing and envisioning this Alien race... so there is no "knowing what will happen", we only know what happens in Alien..but HOW did that ship crash on that planet? Where did it come from? Who created those aliens?
I think turning them into genetically engineered weapons would not only be predictable, it would make them less terrifying. Part of their horror is that they were apparently a natural occurrence, encountered by space-traveling humans, which taps into that fear of nature's uncaring cruelty. Explaining their origins would make them seem tangible and almost earthly, no longer the strange, engimatic threat from space. Even the "space jockey" is more poignant by how mysterious it is. The appeal is in the mystery itself and wondering what happened. I'm a big fan, so I'm leery of the direction the prequel is apparently heading, but I have hope.
The only people who really care about this sort of thing anymore are ideologues. Otherwise, this has little to no value to end users or their computing experience.
ChromeOS if far from dead, but probably a bit ahead of its time. Soon everything will be in the cloud.
Every year, somebody makes this statement, and every year, Apple releases a new mobile device that people happily download native apps for. The "cloud" (aka "the Internet") will be used for the same old things--email, picture-hosting, social profiles, and other things that have been around for over a decade now. There's not going to be some magical transformation where everybody carries around a dumb terminal and connects to some nameless server to run their apps.
The usage pattern for this buzzword seems to be to simply replace "Internet" with "cloud." Accordingly, people using Hotmail and uploading websites to Geocities in the 90s were apparently "cloud computing." That this buzzword has grown to encompass common things like web-based email and online social profiles is embarrassing.
You also look like a moron when you double-space every single sentence for no reason. I can't believe you're actually defending a patent for auto-highlighting search results on a page, but I guess since "this is Slashdot," Google must be defended at every opportunity.
To my knowledge, Windows itself has no such feature, nor any other program I've seen for that matter.
Safari's search field already darkens the page and highlights all search results in yellow. I'm certain other applications on various platforms have done this as well.
So that's why Valve/Bioware/Blizzard have ported their games to Android...oh, wait.
Carmack's technology is on the cutting edge of real-time 3D rendering, so of course he's going to worry more about supporting hardware platforms and their specific features. Bioware targets consoles which are fixed in features, Valve targets hardware of yesteryear, and Blizzard targets hardware from the stone age, so their concerns are obviously going to be a little different than id Software's.
It sounds to me like some people are just annoyed that Carmack is being critical of their beloved Android platform.
"Even in the old days of the feature phone world, we always had EA Mobile or JAMDAT to build the 300 or 400 SKUs that they had for all the worldwide feature phone splits that we had from our four base versions."
No, not the same. OS X and iOS share most of the same frameworks and the same programming language, with the primary difference being the use of AppKit for standard apps and UIKit for touchscreen apps. Most non-interface code can run on both without modification.
Android, on the other hand, doesn't derive from Chrome OS, which is itself based around a web browser. They're totally different.
Mario Galaxy 2 is not a bad game (it has some clever level design), but it has a good number of flaws, including a lack of innovation compared to its predecessor, an imprecise control system (in a game that requires a high degree of precision on many occasions) and outdated game-mechanics such as a lives-system. And yet it had ecstatic reviews, including a frankly incomprehensible 10/10 from IGN.
Because it was a good game that outweighed its supposed flaws. In fact, your comment about outdated mechanics is weird. What's outdated about a lives system? Games still use it and probably always will.
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So you believe installing and maintaining cell phone towers and server networks costs nothing? Why do so many readers of Slashdot have such an uninformed, anti-capitalist view of how the world works?
Even the software you think of as free, such as Linux, is worked on by paid developers working at companies with a vested interest in the software. Nothing in the world is truly free. It's all based on an exchange of something.
I thought the point of Android was that it was totally open and free?
What's messed up is that if Republicans were doing something like this, Democrats would accuse them of being sleazeballs, but when it benefits them, the ends suddenly justify the means. Assholes.
Hahaha, your entire point is based on proof-in-concept "malware" that requires installation at the physical location of the machine itself. Apple-haters will use ANYTHING to bash Apple.
You embarrassed yourself. Stop before you dig the hole even deeper.
Sorry, but bashing Apple and its fans means easy upvotes on Slashdot.
I guess we'll just have to live without another Google-branded device in our lives among the Google phones, Google web browsers, Google search engines, Google email, Google documents, and other cynical technologies that only exist to get users' personal content indexed for advertisers.
Yep. Sure can't wait for "net neutrality." The government is totally neutral in all things. Government regulation of the internet sounds like a fabulous idea. What could possibly go wrong?
The oppressive environment of the ship, "truckers in space" motif, underlying sexual connotation of the alien lifecycle, and the uniqueness of the alien design make it a horror classic.
Alien is timelessly scary in a psychological way. It has underlying connotations of rape and forced pregnancy that creep people out. The movie wasn't a success because of gore or Signourney Weaver's panties. The best parts of the film are the claustrophobia of the ship's industrial environment and the weirdness of the alien's lifecycle. If the prequel can tap into those psychological aspects that freak people out, it'll be worth checking out.
The first film was full of sexual imagery and rape connotations. The facehugger symbolizes involuntary oral sex and pregnancy. The heads of the aliens resemble ejaculating penises. Even the entrances to the alien ship intentionally look like giant vaginas.
Yeah, have fun watching Alien now.
I think turning them into genetically engineered weapons would not only be predictable, it would make them less terrifying. Part of their horror is that they were apparently a natural occurrence, encountered by space-traveling humans, which taps into that fear of nature's uncaring cruelty. Explaining their origins would make them seem tangible and almost earthly, no longer the strange, engimatic threat from space. Even the "space jockey" is more poignant by how mysterious it is. The appeal is in the mystery itself and wondering what happened. I'm a big fan, so I'm leery of the direction the prequel is apparently heading, but I have hope.
The only people who really care about this sort of thing anymore are ideologues. Otherwise, this has little to no value to end users or their computing experience.
Every year, somebody makes this statement, and every year, Apple releases a new mobile device that people happily download native apps for. The "cloud" (aka "the Internet") will be used for the same old things--email, picture-hosting, social profiles, and other things that have been around for over a decade now. There's not going to be some magical transformation where everybody carries around a dumb terminal and connects to some nameless server to run their apps.
The usage pattern for this buzzword seems to be to simply replace "Internet" with "cloud." Accordingly, people using Hotmail and uploading websites to Geocities in the 90s were apparently "cloud computing." That this buzzword has grown to encompass common things like web-based email and online social profiles is embarrassing.
They have? Then what the hell is the point of Chrome OS?
Consoles long ago stole the crown of premier gaming platform.
You also look like a moron when you double-space every single sentence for no reason. I can't believe you're actually defending a patent for auto-highlighting search results on a page, but I guess since "this is Slashdot," Google must be defended at every opportunity.
Safari's search field already darkens the page and highlights all search results in yellow. I'm certain other applications on various platforms have done this as well.
You actually typed "y'all." Ugh.
Yes! Text will load even more imperceptibly quickly!
So that's why Valve/Bioware/Blizzard have ported their games to Android...oh, wait.
Carmack's technology is on the cutting edge of real-time 3D rendering, so of course he's going to worry more about supporting hardware platforms and their specific features. Bioware targets consoles which are fixed in features, Valve targets hardware of yesteryear, and Blizzard targets hardware from the stone age, so their concerns are obviously going to be a little different than id Software's.
It sounds to me like some people are just annoyed that Carmack is being critical of their beloved Android platform.
Uh, he specifically mentions fragmentation:
"Even in the old days of the feature phone world, we always had EA Mobile or JAMDAT to build the 300 or 400 SKUs that they had for all the worldwide feature phone splits that we had from our four base versions."
Steam for Android wouldn't magically solve that.
No, not the same. OS X and iOS share most of the same frameworks and the same programming language, with the primary difference being the use of AppKit for standard apps and UIKit for touchscreen apps. Most non-interface code can run on both without modification.
Android, on the other hand, doesn't derive from Chrome OS, which is itself based around a web browser. They're totally different.
Because it was a good game that outweighed its supposed flaws. In fact, your comment about outdated mechanics is weird. What's outdated about a lives system? Games still use it and probably always will.
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