That doesn't change the dictionary definition of censorship. Not to mention " you can choose not to consume a company's products/services" is a rose-tinted view of the world that is generally untrue throughout history.
Any entity can censor...which is not a bad thing in and of itself. The debate is, as always, whether or not they (Apple) should.
I'll accept your always-on DRM if you can guarantee 5 nines of uptime for your DRM servers for the next 60 years. After all, I have 30-year-old Atari games that work just fine.
Your modern games should be at least twice as reliable, right?
The majority of PCs had USB, but what used it? A couple of webcams. That's it. I know I had a motherboard from that era that was recalled due to faulty USB ports. I didn't even bother to get it replaced because...nothing used USB. Intel was pushing it, so it was there...but unused.
Peripheral manufacturers did not release anything of consequence using the USB interface until the iMac. Then all of a sudden, we had bondi blue printers, zip drives, CD burners etc (of course most of them worked on PCs as well).
USB also needed to be on the majority of PCs *and* the iMac to succeed. That way, they could target both platforms with 1 interface. The iMac led the way and the PCs finally got some use out of the USB port.
People who feel compelled to explain how desktop X (KDE SC 4, GNOME 3) destroyed their workflow/unhinged their view of the universe by changing the three crucial pixels on which everything stood are mad
Let's get this straight-you don't think OS UI is that important, and you scoff at the idea of a "workflow." Yet you call yourself "KDEUser" and think KDE is the best desktop ever? Schizophrenic much?
PS Yes, Virginia, a poorly-designed UI can inhibit your productivity and make you feel powerless. That's why people are pissed off about GNOME 3. For everyone that's "foaming at the mouth" about it on a blog somewhere, there are 100 more that feel the same way. But rather than whine, they just go back to GNOME 2/Mate/KDE/whatever. I guess that makes them insane?
We all understand what Sony did. It's nothing like your awful car analogy. Everyone here understands what a firmware update is, and what you're describing ain't it.
You're free to hate Sony for any reason you want...but if you really used Linux for anything other than dicking around, you'd know that PS3 Linux was DOA for at least a year before Sony pulled the plug. That's on the community as much as it is on Sony.
Honestly, I'm much more concerned about the ability to lend games/buy used games than I am about Linux. I'm already disgusted by the lack of value in the console market (pay $60 for an incomplete game, then get nickle-and-dimed with DLC). I seriously doubt I will get a PS4 unless something drastic changes.
I'm sure all 13 of them will be heartbroken. PS Speaking as someone who makes a living using Linux, Linux on the PS3 was beyond useless.
The scene was stagnant for a year before Sony pulled the plug. If even half of the people who cry about it on Slashdot actually used it, maybe Sony wouldn't have taken it away.
When a 3rd-party platform gets popular enough, it is adopted by one of the major parties. See Prohibition, womens' suffrage, abolition, civil rights, etc. That is the way 3rd parties influence the political process.
Yes, it's a feature game designers always take out when people start to whine. Stupid majority. Most games would actually be more like games if they would allow permadeath. Or at least severe penalty for dying.
Games would be more like games if they included more of the least fun parts of reality? Did you develop "The Sims"?
On the other hand, if trained dogs detecting drugs on a property shouldn't allow the cops to obtain a warrant, what's next?
Dogs obtaining warrants? Why should we stop there? How about...dogs issuing warrants? Dogs sentencing offenders, dogs interpreting our laws. Yes, I agree that we should cede the judicial branch to the dogs! Screw the Constitution, something that drinks out of a toilet and licks its own butthole should have the authority to lock me away for life!
Great argument. Vegas was run by gangsters, thus we should continue spending billions of taxpayer dollars prosecuting victimless crimes! You've convinced me, master debater!
So the way Pakistanis showed they were OK with this was by arresting those who did it and publicly protesting the attack and praying for the girlâ(TM)s health.
Actually, they didn't arrest the perpetrators, who actually pulled the trigger. They arrested the "mastermind." The Taliban spokesman says that they warned the girl's parents multiple times before shooting her. And no, they didn't arrest him either.
Thank goodness those US telecoms stand up for their customers' constitutional rights! They'd never stand for unconstitutional surveillance on their networks!
The real reason the neocons wanted Saddam gone was that the no fly zone was expensive
Yup, so expensive compared to fighting a protracted 'police action' on the ground for decades! Those neocons, they're nothing if not thrifty. They also seem to have a real penchant for strengthening Iran. Heckuva job!
Yes, the US had to attack Iraq because a neutered dictator who couldn't even fly over his own country without getting blown out of the sky was an imminent threat to the most powerful nation in history. It was a matter of national security, dammit!
Certainly not a wasteful imperialistic adventure that bankrupted the country, killed hundreds of thousands of innocents and left us in worse standing than ever in the Middle East.
When Slashdot needs a meandering wall of text, there's only one man that can get the job done!
[female singers] BENNETT HASSLETON!
(A smart car vrooms through an intersection, crushing JON KATZ who is walking across the street at the time). BENNETT jumps out of the car and pushes his huge nerd glasses back up on his nose.
BENNETT: 'Sup, motherfuckers? I heard you needed some BORING-ASS NAVEL-GAZING! (winks at camera)
Between component and HDMI? Not so much. And if you are talking about component or HDMI cables more than 6 feet long, I'll take component any day of the week. Balanced interconnects with for long cables=horrible idea.
Really, you like 4 hour games, endless visits to the mound by coaches and lots of relief pitchers? Because that kills baseball for me. When the game's moving along it's fun to watch. When the pitcher is taking forever between pitches, consulting everyone in the dugout, and screwing around it's a total bore. That's what happens when there are too many home runs...
You bought a terrible bluray player, and a terrible set of blurays apparently. Buy an OPPO or a PS3 if you're really serious about bluray and 3d and not just ranting.
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Condescending moron,
That doesn't change the dictionary definition of censorship. Not to mention " you can choose not to consume a company's products/services" is a rose-tinted view of the world that is generally untrue throughout history.
Any entity can censor...which is not a bad thing in and of itself. The debate is, as always, whether or not they (Apple) should.
Hey there Microsoft,
I'll accept your always-on DRM if you can guarantee 5 nines of uptime for your DRM servers for the next 60 years. After all, I have 30-year-old Atari games that work just fine.
Your modern games should be at least twice as reliable, right?
You're right. It was all the union's fault. Not the 4 management teams in 6 years that bled the company in the exact way OP described.
The majority of PCs had USB, but what used it? A couple of webcams. That's it. I know I had a motherboard from that era that was recalled due to faulty USB ports. I didn't even bother to get it replaced because...nothing used USB. Intel was pushing it, so it was there...but unused.
Peripheral manufacturers did not release anything of consequence using the USB interface until the iMac. Then all of a sudden, we had bondi blue printers, zip drives, CD burners etc (of course most of them worked on PCs as well).
USB also needed to be on the majority of PCs *and* the iMac to succeed. That way, they could target both platforms with 1 interface. The iMac led the way and the PCs finally got some use out of the USB port.
Everyone wants Mongo and Redis and all that jazz these days anyway...and quite frankly, they ARE better for web applications.
I predict MySQL/MariaDB/whatever will slowly fall out of favor in the next few years.
People who feel compelled to explain how desktop X (KDE SC 4, GNOME 3) destroyed their workflow/unhinged their view of the universe by changing the three crucial pixels on which everything stood are mad
Let's get this straight-you don't think OS UI is that important, and you scoff at the idea of a "workflow." Yet you call yourself "KDEUser" and think KDE is the best desktop ever? Schizophrenic much?
PS Yes, Virginia, a poorly-designed UI can inhibit your productivity and make you feel powerless. That's why people are pissed off about GNOME 3. For everyone that's "foaming at the mouth" about it on a blog somewhere, there are 100 more that feel the same way. But rather than whine, they just go back to GNOME 2/Mate/KDE/whatever. I guess that makes them insane?
Linux on the PS3 was a "great feature"? You must have never used it. The scene was dead for a year before Sony pulled the plug.
Maybe if you and everyone else who cries about it on Slashdot had used it and submitted code, they wouldn't have taken it away.
And what's this racist bullshit about "the Japanese"?
We all understand what Sony did. It's nothing like your awful car analogy. Everyone here understands what a firmware update is, and what you're describing ain't it.
You're free to hate Sony for any reason you want...but if you really used Linux for anything other than dicking around, you'd know that PS3 Linux was DOA for at least a year before Sony pulled the plug. That's on the community as much as it is on Sony.
Honestly, I'm much more concerned about the ability to lend games/buy used games than I am about Linux. I'm already disgusted by the lack of value in the console market (pay $60 for an incomplete game, then get nickle-and-dimed with DLC). I seriously doubt I will get a PS4 unless something drastic changes.
I'm sure all 13 of them will be heartbroken. PS Speaking as someone who makes a living using Linux, Linux on the PS3 was beyond useless.
The scene was stagnant for a year before Sony pulled the plug. If even half of the people who cry about it on Slashdot actually used it, maybe Sony wouldn't have taken it away.
When a 3rd-party platform gets popular enough, it is adopted by one of the major parties. See Prohibition, womens' suffrage, abolition, civil rights, etc. That is the way 3rd parties influence the political process.
Yes, it's a feature game designers always take out when people start to whine. Stupid majority. Most games would actually be more like games if they would allow permadeath. Or at least severe penalty for dying.
Games would be more like games if they included more of the least fun parts of reality? Did you develop "The Sims"?
On the other hand, if trained dogs detecting drugs on a property shouldn't allow the cops to obtain a warrant, what's next?
Dogs obtaining warrants? Why should we stop there? How about...dogs issuing warrants? Dogs sentencing offenders, dogs interpreting our laws. Yes, I agree that we should cede the judicial branch to the dogs! Screw the Constitution, something that drinks out of a toilet and licks its own butthole should have the authority to lock me away for life!
Great argument. Vegas was run by gangsters, thus we should continue spending billions of taxpayer dollars prosecuting victimless crimes! You've convinced me, master debater!
Remember, it's only a problem when unions screw over the public. When corporations do it, well, that's just capitalism, right Ronnie?
Sounds like someone confused their elections with their erections!
So the way Pakistanis showed they were OK with this was by arresting those who did it and publicly protesting the attack and praying for the girlâ(TM)s health.
Actually, they didn't arrest the perpetrators, who actually pulled the trigger. They arrested the "mastermind." The Taliban spokesman says that they warned the girl's parents multiple times before shooting her. And no, they didn't arrest him either.
Thank goodness those US telecoms stand up for their customers' constitutional rights! They'd never stand for unconstitutional surveillance on their networks!
The real reason the neocons wanted Saddam gone was that the no fly zone was expensive
Yup, so expensive compared to fighting a protracted 'police action' on the ground for decades! Those neocons, they're nothing if not thrifty. They also seem to have a real penchant for strengthening Iran. Heckuva job!
THIS IS WHAT NEOCONS ACTUALLY BELIEVE.
Yes, the US had to attack Iraq because a neutered dictator who couldn't even fly over his own country without getting blown out of the sky was an imminent threat to the most powerful nation in history. It was a matter of national security, dammit!
Certainly not a wasteful imperialistic adventure that bankrupted the country, killed hundreds of thousands of innocents and left us in worse standing than ever in the Middle East.
When Slashdot needs a meandering wall of text, there's only one man that can get the job done!
[female singers] BENNETT HASSLETON!
(A smart car vrooms through an intersection, crushing JON KATZ who is walking across the street at the time). BENNETT jumps out of the car and pushes his huge nerd glasses back up on his nose.
BENNETT: 'Sup, motherfuckers? I heard you needed some BORING-ASS NAVEL-GAZING! (winks at camera)
[female singers] BENNETT HASSLETON!
Between composite and HDMI? Yes!
Between component and HDMI? Not so much. And if you are talking about component or HDMI cables more than 6 feet long, I'll take component any day of the week. Balanced interconnects with for long cables=horrible idea.
Oh, you bitter AC...what is it about this comment:
"You'll take our shit and /like/ it" development model to the extreme and wonder why developers are giving it a pass.
That makes this comment sound so hypocritical?
Portable gaming without traditional d-pad and button controls is here. Understand it, or be shoved aside.
It really has nothing to do with controls, and everything to do with the convenience of only having 1 device to carry around.
OpenStack is offered by a variety of vendors...it's the Linux to AWS' Windows.
Really, you like 4 hour games, endless visits to the mound by coaches and lots of relief pitchers? Because that kills baseball for me. When the game's moving along it's fun to watch. When the pitcher is taking forever between pitches, consulting everyone in the dugout, and screwing around it's a total bore. That's what happens when there are too many home runs...
You bought a terrible bluray player, and a terrible set of blurays apparently. Buy an OPPO or a PS3 if you're really serious about bluray and 3d and not just ranting.