Hyep, that would get cracked in about 43 seconds. Android crackers have cracked pretty much all in-app protections. We even have apps that crack other apps and remove ads from them.
Cracking apps is unnecessary. You can block almost all ads with a properly updated hosts file.
It's an elegant solution, which illustrates the difference between an open platform and a closed one.
Standards compliance with multiple standards is a headache, but diversity is generally a good thing so long as it's balanced with reliability and thorough testing.
I don't know how this will evolve over the next few years, but my gut says it'll end up being positive with a few downsides.
At risk of sounding trite (for which I apologize), I'll just say competition is a seed for innovation.
Steam is a pile of !@#$% whether its on Linux or Windows. What Valve needs to do is get busy on L4D3.
Seriously, Linux as a high-end game platform is the worst idea I've ever heard. What are people going to dual boot their game boxes to support all of their games? Do you realize how hard it is keeping a game box stable as it is? Now we are having to screw around with keeping it stable on Linux too?
This is a huge waste of time, and suggests how no adults are running the show over at Valve.
Are you the guy I always see at the truck-stop diner double fisting coffee with a cigarette in his mouth?
were I rich, I would be all over autonomous vehicle for a few reasons: 1) you can probably drive it yourself if you want to speed 2) I could hit the pub and get wrecked and have the car drive me home without worrying about getting arrested for DUI
So, our roads would be safer, but covered in puke?
Honestly though, I bought an I7 desktop almost two years ago with 12Gb of memory and a pretty good graphics card. I haven't found any reason why that PC isn't still fast enough for about for of anything I use it for today. This compares to ten years ago when a two year old desktop simply cried with the lowest settings of the newest computer games.
Exactly.
With many PC games in recent years targeting DirectX 9 for easier Xbox 360 portability, any halfway decent hardware can run the latest games.
It'll be interesting to see if the next generation of consoles causes a ripple into the PC game market as well, bumping up the minimum specs new games.
You're a company. The fact that any constitutional rights apply to you is because of dirty lawmaking. Kindly screw off. I *hope* you can only piss off the people so much before they realize "Hey, that's pretty dumb."
'Cause, you know, corporations are endowed by their creators with inalienable rights.
"Corporations are people, my friend." - Thomas Jefferson
"That's a big pile of horse shit." -- Abraham Lincoln
I think what Norvig should have said is that robots with convincible, but ultimately non-intelligent soft AI will enter the consumer market within the next few decades - which is true, but something else entirely.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean there. If it's 'convincible,' doesn't that indicate a certain threshold of intelligence? Or are you suggesting a technicality I'm missing?
I'm not terribly convincible prior to my morning coffee, I know that much.
if you like exposing your penis to pressures so low that the blood inside it boils, while also subjecting it to temperatures so low as to cause the urine to flash freeze before it can leave the urethra, be my guest.
Probably forever. Slashdot users with mod points have been rewarding early-posted pedantry for years. The audience of Slashdot tends to self-select for programming skill, and pedantry is part of programming skill because a computer is probably the most pedantic device in existence.
That's great and all, but pedantry is detrimental to conversational skill. It is possible to practise skills selectively.
How about the part where your context magically modifies the definition of developers to only include those who devote above a certain implicit threshold of time/money on their work? Because here on slashdot, there's no way you could be talking about amateur/indie developers is there?
How the hell does my definition exclude amateur/indie developers? Sounds more like you're reading what you want into what I said.
Are you saying amateur/indie devs don't devote time/money to their work? Because that's definitely not something I inferred.
Technology doesn't promote world peace, that's a side effect. Free trade promotes world peace. It's that trade of goods, information and ideas that makes people respect and want to know someone else. Though societies that don't have anything to export are generally pretty good importers of said culture, throwing the "fear of god" into said places.
I agree with you with one caveat:
Taking government subsidies for domestic industries such as agriculture into consideration, what many people refer to now as 'free trade' in bi-lateral and regional trade agreements isn't even close to 'free trade,' as in trade unencumbered by restriction.
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Hyep, that would get cracked in about 43 seconds. Android crackers have cracked pretty much all in-app protections. We even have apps that crack other apps and remove ads from them.
Cracking apps is unnecessary. You can block almost all ads with a properly updated hosts file.
It's an elegant solution, which illustrates the difference between an open platform and a closed one.
Maybe it enables you do "un-hear" people you don't want to hear? You know, automatically turn down the volume when people you don't like speak?
I'm sure this will be available at some point. Sadly, though, it's pretty much a great way to become a complete fool:
Want to rebut the arguments of the people you don't like? Well, you can't, because you don't know what they're saying...
Standards compliance with multiple standards is a headache, but diversity is generally a good thing so long as it's balanced with reliability and thorough testing.
I don't know how this will evolve over the next few years, but my gut says it'll end up being positive with a few downsides.
At risk of sounding trite (for which I apologize), I'll just say competition is a seed for innovation.
Kilometers suck because 100 Km/h is too slow to be such a nice round number.
Problem solved, just go 100 Km per minute. Elon Musk should be able to help you.
Steam is a pile of !@#$% whether its on Linux or Windows. What Valve needs to do is get busy on L4D3.
Seriously, Linux as a high-end game platform is the worst idea I've ever heard. What are people going to dual boot their game boxes to support all of their games? Do you realize how hard it is keeping a game box stable as it is? Now we are having to screw around with keeping it stable on Linux too?
This is a huge waste of time, and suggests how no adults are running the show over at Valve.
Are you the guy I always see at the truck-stop diner double fisting coffee with a cigarette in his mouth?
Not a chemist either, just a chemistry nerd, but:
First. Its "Fluorine", not "flourine".
It's "it's" not "its" for 'it is,' or is it?
...Sorry, I'd never correct something like that, but the urge to nitpick a nitpick is just too great. My apologies to all normal people. :)
Yes, they're fat, white nerds. But this is slashdot. They're *OUR* fat, white nerds!
Hey! That's unfair to the slightly off-white blueish nerds, freckled pinkish nerds and all the other myriads!
To paraphrase Roy: It's a delicate ecosystem!
Tablets are great, and an optimized tablet UI can be both intuitive and efficient so long as you're using a fucking tablet.
Seriously... it's like MS is trying to put the umbrella down the chimney up for this one.
were I rich, I would be all over autonomous vehicle for a few reasons:
1) you can probably drive it yourself if you want to speed
2) I could hit the pub and get wrecked and have the car drive me home without worrying about getting arrested for DUI
So, our roads would be safer, but covered in puke?
Honestly though, I bought an I7 desktop almost two years ago with 12Gb of memory and a pretty good graphics card. I haven't found any reason why that PC isn't still fast enough for about for of anything I use it for today. This compares to ten years ago when a two year old desktop simply cried with the lowest settings of the newest computer games.
Exactly.
With many PC games in recent years targeting DirectX 9 for easier Xbox 360 portability, any halfway decent hardware can run the latest games.
It'll be interesting to see if the next generation of consoles causes a ripple into the PC game market as well, bumping up the minimum specs new games.
You're a company. The fact that any constitutional rights apply to you is because of dirty lawmaking. Kindly screw off. I *hope* you can only piss off the people so much before they realize "Hey, that's pretty dumb."
'Cause, you know, corporations are endowed by their creators with inalienable rights.
"Corporations are people, my friend." - Thomas Jefferson
"That's a big pile of horse shit." -- Abraham Lincoln
This new piece of information leads me to believe I made the right decision.
While most of my concerns lay with Activision proper, Blizzard now seems close to the same dark hole in light of their recent user abuse.
How truly complex is the problem they're trying to solve?
Nothing that an old-fashioned optical scan ballot couldn't handle.
In other words, using the machine was a solution looking for a problem (and causing numerous problems of its own).
How long before FB is hated and flamed as much as MS and Apple on /.?
Probably not before it slips away into the obscure forgotten Internet shoe-box along with Myspace and Friendster.
I am so close to closing my Facebook account it is not even funny anymore.
Just do it.
I deleted mine over a year ago and haven't missed it for a second.
I think what Norvig should have said is that robots with convincible, but ultimately non-intelligent soft AI will enter the consumer market within the next few decades - which is true, but something else entirely.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean there. If it's 'convincible,' doesn't that indicate a certain threshold of intelligence? Or are you suggesting a technicality I'm missing?
I'm not terribly convincible prior to my morning coffee, I know that much.
The Mozilla Foundation reportedly receives ~$300 million annually from Google.
Google is certainly an interested party when it comes to tracking user behavior.
Is this really a good move for Mozilla strategically?
if you like exposing your penis to pressures so low that the blood inside it boils, while also subjecting it to temperatures so low as to cause the urine to flash freeze before it can leave the urethra, be my guest.
Hey man, don't judge until you try it.
Possibly somewhat impossible to determine, but it should precipitate further inquiry into potential points of cultural exchange between species.
Perhaps neanderthals are the key to making Linux the most popular desktop... now we'll never know.
No other major manufacturer has committed to delivering ICS to their last range of phones like Sony has.
I think HTC is arguably the best in that area. Either way, both Sony and HTC are light-years ahead of Samsung (in releasing updates).
Sony should've tested the upgrade a bit more before releasing it.
That said, I imagine users with rooted phones probably have many alternatives to get Wi-Fi working.
Wi-Fi problems are possibly the most common issue in Android (possibily Linux as well, possibly in every OS).
While I imagine it's a pretty big issue for those people who upgraded, I wouldn't be surprised if the fix is pretty straightforward.
Overall, I wouldn't describe it as a "Pandora's Box."
Probably forever. Slashdot users with mod points have been rewarding early-posted pedantry for years. The audience of Slashdot tends to self-select for programming skill, and pedantry is part of programming skill because a computer is probably the most pedantic device in existence.
That's great and all, but pedantry is detrimental to conversational skill. It is possible to practise skills selectively.
How about the part where your context magically modifies the definition of developers to only include those who devote above a certain implicit threshold of time/money on their work? Because here on slashdot, there's no way you could be talking about amateur/indie developers is there?
How the hell does my definition exclude amateur/indie developers? Sounds more like you're reading what you want into what I said.
Are you saying amateur/indie devs don't devote time/money to their work? Because that's definitely not something I inferred.
Technology doesn't promote world peace, that's a side effect. Free trade promotes world peace. It's that trade of goods, information and ideas that makes people respect and want to know someone else. Though societies that don't have anything to export are generally pretty good importers of said culture, throwing the "fear of god" into said places.
I agree with you with one caveat:
Taking government subsidies for domestic industries such as agriculture into consideration, what many people refer to now as 'free trade' in bi-lateral and regional trade agreements isn't even close to 'free trade,' as in trade unencumbered by restriction.
Since certain of its posters became inept at using the language.
Inept in which part? Is there a portion of my argument you failed to understand?