You don't understand. This is Slashdot, where you must be emotionally invested in an operating system, and you must demand that anything which challenges your favorite platform be investigated by the government for monopoly abuse, even though the fact you use an alternative counters your own monopoly claims. You must be incapable of tolerating the existence of an opposing, popular choice.
VP8 has already been dissected and determined to be a bad video codec that likely steps on several H.264 patents. Note that Google isn't providing any legal protection for using this codec.
No, it's not. VP8 is a bad codec. Maybe on Slashdot where emotion-based idealism outweighs technical facts, it outweighs those disadvantages, but there are already questions about whether VP8 is free anyway since it's so similar to H.264, and statements have been made that license fees will be sought. Note that Google isn't protecting anybody from legal attacks.
I think VP8 is dead in the water. H.264 is the standard, just like MP3 is the audio standard.
One puzzle game proves that it's worth it to port to Linux?
If it took two months to port a puzzle game, imagine how much time and expenses it would take to port a big-name game with much higher technical demands and support requirements.
The Fairness Doctrine gives the government the power to determine what is "fair" coverage of a viewpoint by regulating how it is presented and even artificially boosting the coverage of opposing viewpoints.
If some hardcore Christian became president, his administration might decide anti-Christianity sites constituted hate speech and have them regulated. Any regulation of public opinion by the government is a form of censorship.
Sorry, but Slashdotters absolutely hate any form of DRM, even when it's completely non-intrusive, unnoticeable, and doesn't interfere whatsoever with your ability to make personal backups of the game. Basically, Steam addresses every single complaint they've ever made about DRM, but they still don't like it because a lot of them want to pirate the game.
Civ 5 will only have hexagons. Hexagons are superior because moving in a diagonal direction in a square grid is essentially cheating. It allows you to cover more distance by skipping a tile. If today's Civ was using a square system legitimately, you would only be able to move up, down, left, or right.
This is basically the Pakistani version of the Fairness Doctrine--a government deciding what is fair and what should be read by its citizens. Situations like this are exactly why people oppose this stuff.
I'm posting here because it takes me a whopping 20 seconds to click Reply and type this.
It signifies a lack of perspective if you believe there is some threat to the public here. It's the public who obviously doesn't care about these issues as much as people like you, which is why they stood in line to buy iPhones.
We do need to be idealistic about things in life. Phone applications are not one of those things.
The real story here is that if Apple did this, the comments would be full of Apple-haters having a field day about how Steve Jobs thinks he has control over your phone. But it's Google, so it's full of defenders telling us how gracious and loving Google is for remotely deleting an app for us.
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Microsoft software repository = evil defacto stranglehold on an entire platform
Ubuntu software repository = benign, helpful source of apps
You don't understand. This is Slashdot, where you must be emotionally invested in an operating system, and you must demand that anything which challenges your favorite platform be investigated by the government for monopoly abuse, even though the fact you use an alternative counters your own monopoly claims. You must be incapable of tolerating the existence of an opposing, popular choice.
Better than the Wild West free-for-all that is the Android marketplace.
VP8 has already been dissected and determined to be a bad video codec that likely steps on several H.264 patents. Note that Google isn't providing any legal protection for using this codec.
You can blame the lack of hardware support if you want, but it won't change the fact that VP8 is crap as a codec and likely steps on H.264 patents.
The Wii is more than an "overclocked GameCube with a Bluetooth receiver." It has a motion-based controller, which did make it state of the art.
VP8 doesn't even hold up against H.264.
I accidentally left out the link dissecting the VP8 codec and determining it to be bad:
http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=377
No, it's not. VP8 is a bad codec. Maybe on Slashdot where emotion-based idealism outweighs technical facts, it outweighs those disadvantages, but there are already questions about whether VP8 is free anyway since it's so similar to H.264, and statements have been made that license fees will be sought. Note that Google isn't protecting anybody from legal attacks.
I think VP8 is dead in the water. H.264 is the standard, just like MP3 is the audio standard.
One puzzle game proves that it's worth it to port to Linux?
If it took two months to port a puzzle game, imagine how much time and expenses it would take to port a big-name game with much higher technical demands and support requirements.
The Fairness Doctrine gives the government the power to determine what is "fair" coverage of a viewpoint by regulating how it is presented and even artificially boosting the coverage of opposing viewpoints.
If some hardcore Christian became president, his administration might decide anti-Christianity sites constituted hate speech and have them regulated. Any regulation of public opinion by the government is a form of censorship.
No offense, but delaying the ability to play just for no reason is a silly idea.
More lies about Steam. What's worse is that morons will see your post and assume it's true, spreading the lies to other forums.
Sorry, but Slashdotters absolutely hate any form of DRM, even when it's completely non-intrusive, unnoticeable, and doesn't interfere whatsoever with your ability to make personal backups of the game. Basically, Steam addresses every single complaint they've ever made about DRM, but they still don't like it because a lot of them want to pirate the game.
Hell, even Genghis Khan for the NES used a hex system.
Civ 5 will only have hexagons. Hexagons are superior because moving in a diagonal direction in a square grid is essentially cheating. It allows you to cover more distance by skipping a tile. If today's Civ was using a square system legitimately, you would only be able to move up, down, left, or right.
This is basically the Pakistani version of the Fairness Doctrine--a government deciding what is fair and what should be read by its citizens. Situations like this are exactly why people oppose this stuff.
This is Pakistan's form of net neutrality. Doesn't it make you excited to bring it over to the States? I'm sure nothing but good would come of it.
No, it's not.
You shouldn't have idealism about any platform. This materialistic crap doesn't matter that much.
And why do you think that is? Wal-mart, Target, and Amazon have become the place where the populace has chosen to go. It is a free market economy.
I'm posting here because it takes me a whopping 20 seconds to click Reply and type this.
It signifies a lack of perspective if you believe there is some threat to the public here. It's the public who obviously doesn't care about these issues as much as people like you, which is why they stood in line to buy iPhones.
We do need to be idealistic about things in life. Phone applications are not one of those things.
The real story here is that if Apple did this, the comments would be full of Apple-haters having a field day about how Steve Jobs thinks he has control over your phone. But it's Google, so it's full of defenders telling us how gracious and loving Google is for remotely deleting an app for us.
Yo, quit fronting. All my geek homies be rapping 'bout Google security. They's down with it, dawg.
If Apple did this, the ball of rage and fury on Slashdot would give off the heat of several suns.
So what happened to Chrome OS?