I think we need some actual specs before we can make such a judgement.
Based on what we've been told, im assuming its going to work more or less like a normal PC currently, switch in and out hardware as you please, but we dont nessisarily know that for sure yet. There might be 'options' but it may be limited to whats supported by the OS or something. I think its safe to say this will change the landscape, in my opinion for the better.
Weather or not they can compete is really really hard to judge right now. What games will be coming out and supported on it? We dont know. What hardware will work and currently does work? We dont know. Is support mainly geared at PC type games or will we be getting effectivly a third console option? We dont know (though it sounds like its mainly a PC port of sorts, as opposed to a SteamMachine only release of a game).
I'd say with good support we should see them compete well, and make more profit even if they fail to sell more machines and games overall. If I had to guess, that would be my guess of how it will play out.
Ahh yes, exactly what we need. A dead document on delivery that lays out whats allowed and what's not, whatever happends next be damned.
The constitution was written the way it was for some very good reasons. What do you suppose is going to exist, say 100 years from now? Do you think 100 years ago anyone forsaw 3d printing? The Internet? Cell Phones? Nuclear weapons? Jet Fighters that can exceed the speed of sound?
If you write a document like that, ridged, unforgiving, you end up with something that works for about 10 years then needs to be rewritten. Abstract interpretation is very important. Its also clearly a huge problem when people take things like "secure in your papers in effects" to not cover things like Email and IM conversations, but thats more because we're a bunch of corrupt jerks than anything else.
We're just experiencing the very thing they forsaw when they wrote this thing, eventually people will corrupt anything you give them. Eventually, you're left with little choice than to take over and redo large parts of the goverment. The nice part is we have legal, non-lethal means to do that, right now. The problem is they're not being used, yet. It remains to be seen if they ever will be.
Thats sorta like asking people for a show of hands of who wants an apple, then insisting that if you dont like apples, thats not a reason to not raise your hand...
Chinese hackers in your system? Some troublemaker from the inner city poking around in a highly classified file network? Just dont like what some guy from the internet is doing on your home page?
For the low low price of 1 billion dollars, I will give you the solution to your problems! DISCLAMER: By reading below you are utilizing my advancted technique and agree to make payment in full to myself. Thank you.
Step 1:
Unplug the machine.
Problem solved. I will be expecting my payment shortly. Thank you.
what are you frothing at the mouth about? Nobody said anything about bringing ads into your house via the controller in question. Try reading what people post before you go crazy next time. And refit that tinfoil while you're at it.
It's the difference between "Some sources cite redbull energy drink as a possible cause of the crash" vs "An anonymous source who worked at the plant said "Oh yeah, its clear Redbull and actual bulls are a really bad idea, those steer went crazy and caused the crash."
What is a map app other than 'data on the backend'?
Either the maps are useful, and therefore the app is useful, or the maps are horribly buggy pieces of garbage, leaving the app a horrible buggy piece of garbage. Just because you like Apple doesn't mean their Map app is worth...anything at all.
You people really are daft. Absolutly nothing in the 'premium' package wouldn't have been developed by the community at large if they were allowed to. These 'packs' work out to be little more than extra maps. Sure you got a few extra vehicles and weapons, but it still works out to be very little content for the money.
Lack of mod support, lack of custom map support. About the only thing BF3 had was you could actually still own a server for it if you wanted to, but I suspect that wont be true for long either.
Netflix doesn't need to be open source. You can stream Netflix to a PC, so you can add it to SteamOS if you wanted to, even if its just through a browser.
I loved my PS3 for some things, but browsing the web was horrible on their terrible piece of garbage of a web browser. This thing can be built to support Firefox or Chrome if you wanted, and im sure the devs of both of those will be working to make sure that happends. That opens up so many options..this thing IS a PC, but its a PC that you operate like a console system, which is the game changer involved. Nobody here will care much for that i'm sure, but its not aimed at geeks, its aimed at mom and dad, your semi-sentient cousins, or your own kids. The masses.
The OS is open source. If you want Netfix, you can add it yourself if you're motivated enough.
Otherwise, just make a large enough demand and the company themselves will put one out im sure. I view this thing as a gamechanger, a console system that is upgradeable like a PC? Geez I might even consider one.
Kid is 15, he knows what GTA is, even if you dont allow him to play it, his friends do.
I wouldn't worry too much about it, its just a game. If he starts acting out scenes in the game i'd start to worry, but chances are he is just wondering what all his friends are talking about. Peer pressure can be pretty strong, and if everyone you know is playing some new game, if you cant contribute to the conversation about it you'll get shunned by the group.
And he's 15, every 15 year old boy is prone to 'fits of violence'. Long as he's not killing animals or stabbing people, you're fine. Try talking to your son instead of spying on him.
I'm gonna preface this with the fact that I do not believe in a god or gods of any sort. But your disagreement with his opinion is sorta silly.
Look, Evolution is fact. The Theory of Evolution is still open to debate, how it works, what impacts it, etc.
His opinion on it seems to be that a creator could design something like a self-serving system to improve over time. Your argument is "Thats not efficent". Who says it needs to be? If God really did exist, who says he cares how much time it takes? Who says they/it would even expierence 'time'?
In the tend, religion and things like 'intelegant design' are little more that faith based beliefs trying to take what science has shown to be true and make sense within their own religious construct. There's nothing wrong with this, even if it's not right. You're doing it right now through your senses. You're not seeing white background and black text, you're interpreting what your eyes are sensing as those colors and shapes.
When you get down to it all you're seeing are waves of photons and a weird mish-mash of quarks and glueons. Trying to talk to someone about why their belief is wrong is like trying to explain to someone why a red apple isn't red. It wont change their world view, so stop trying. Just accept that some people see the apple as Red, while other people dont. Trying to argue against their point only lets them decide how the argument is played out, in their own terms and on their own grounds. If you dont believe, great. If you do, great.
In the end, we're all wrong anyway, that much im certin of.
You're view is increadibly valid, for people who dont understand kickstarter.
If you're using Kickstarter as a pre-order concept, you're not very smart. If you're avoiding Kickstarter because you dont want to get ripped off I could see that. If you're avoiding kickstarter because you're worried you wont get the item you're 'pre-ordering' something then I think we're better off if you dont get involved, because you clearly do not understand it.
Just because you dont enjoy something doesn't mean people who do are 'sheep'. You sound like a jerk, because you are.
60 dollars for a few hundred hours of entertainment isn't a bad deal. Its not entertainment if you dont like the game, which you clearly are dead set to not like. Good for you! So dont buy it.
Not buying something doesn't make you smart, it means you know what you like. That may sugest some wisdom but when your reason is "Because you're all SHEEP!" that more or less shows you're neither wise or smart. You just want to have something to hold over people to try to feel superior because you're not. When the best you can do is not doing something, it only shows how truly pitiful you are. I'm almost sorry for you.
In the good ol' US of A if you bring your phone to another company, you pay the same thing everyone else is paying. No discount for not getting a new shiney through the new company. There are very few exceptions to this (T-Mobile is the only company im aware of).
Bob is part of the Mafia, and some of Bobs friends have made it pretty clear that if Alice testifies against Bob, something unpleasant will happen to Mike, Alice's husband.
The idea is that the 3rd party must testify, to prevent this sort of issue. Wont stop it I am sure, but there are other things that can be done to prevent it (sealing the records so nobody is sure what Alice said for example, vs some of the other witnessess, if early enough even preventing it from being known Alice is a witness.) Any choice you make can be turned to good or evil, in this case its maybe not in the defendants best interest to let the guy testify, but he has no choice. In other cases, it might be the reverse. Pick your poision, at least this way the goverment has a harder time nailing a 3rd party to the wall if they testify on something they dont want coming out, at least from a legal standpoint.
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I think we need some actual specs before we can make such a judgement.
Based on what we've been told, im assuming its going to work more or less like a normal PC currently, switch in and out hardware as you please, but we dont nessisarily know that for sure yet. There might be 'options' but it may be limited to whats supported by the OS or something. I think its safe to say this will change the landscape, in my opinion for the better.
Weather or not they can compete is really really hard to judge right now. What games will be coming out and supported on it? We dont know. What hardware will work and currently does work? We dont know. Is support mainly geared at PC type games or will we be getting effectivly a third console option? We dont know (though it sounds like its mainly a PC port of sorts, as opposed to a SteamMachine only release of a game).
I'd say with good support we should see them compete well, and make more profit even if they fail to sell more machines and games overall. If I had to guess, that would be my guess of how it will play out.
DEA didn't get shut down...there that was hard.
Ahh yes, exactly what we need. A dead document on delivery that lays out whats allowed and what's not, whatever happends next be damned.
The constitution was written the way it was for some very good reasons. What do you suppose is going to exist, say 100 years from now? Do you think 100 years ago anyone forsaw 3d printing? The Internet? Cell Phones? Nuclear weapons? Jet Fighters that can exceed the speed of sound?
If you write a document like that, ridged, unforgiving, you end up with something that works for about 10 years then needs to be rewritten. Abstract interpretation is very important. Its also clearly a huge problem when people take things like "secure in your papers in effects" to not cover things like Email and IM conversations, but thats more because we're a bunch of corrupt jerks than anything else.
We're just experiencing the very thing they forsaw when they wrote this thing, eventually people will corrupt anything you give them. Eventually, you're left with little choice than to take over and redo large parts of the goverment. The nice part is we have legal, non-lethal means to do that, right now. The problem is they're not being used, yet. It remains to be seen if they ever will be.
Thats sorta like asking people for a show of hands of who wants an apple, then insisting that if you dont like apples, thats not a reason to not raise your hand...
Dear UK,
Chinese hackers in your system? Some troublemaker from the inner city poking around in a highly classified file network? Just dont like what some guy from the internet is doing on your home page?
For the low low price of 1 billion dollars, I will give you the solution to your problems! DISCLAMER: By reading below you are utilizing my advancted technique and agree to make payment in full to myself. Thank you.
Step 1:
Unplug the machine.
Problem solved. I will be expecting my payment shortly. Thank you.
what are you frothing at the mouth about? Nobody said anything about bringing ads into your house via the controller in question. Try reading what people post before you go crazy next time. And refit that tinfoil while you're at it.
Twitter is also not the US goverment, the amendments do not apply. If Twitter doesn't want you to speak, there's not much you can do about it.
It's the difference between "Some sources cite redbull energy drink as a possible cause of the crash" vs "An anonymous source who worked at the plant said "Oh yeah, its clear Redbull and actual bulls are a really bad idea, those steer went crazy and caused the crash."
What is a map app other than 'data on the backend'?
Either the maps are useful, and therefore the app is useful, or the maps are horribly buggy pieces of garbage, leaving the app a horrible buggy piece of garbage. Just because you like Apple doesn't mean their Map app is worth...anything at all.
What?
You people really are daft. Absolutly nothing in the 'premium' package wouldn't have been developed by the community at large if they were allowed to. These 'packs' work out to be little more than extra maps. Sure you got a few extra vehicles and weapons, but it still works out to be very little content for the money.
Lack of mod support, lack of custom map support. About the only thing BF3 had was you could actually still own a server for it if you wanted to, but I suspect that wont be true for long either.
Netflix doesn't need to be open source. You can stream Netflix to a PC, so you can add it to SteamOS if you wanted to, even if its just through a browser.
I loved my PS3 for some things, but browsing the web was horrible on their terrible piece of garbage of a web browser. This thing can be built to support Firefox or Chrome if you wanted, and im sure the devs of both of those will be working to make sure that happends. That opens up so many options..this thing IS a PC, but its a PC that you operate like a console system, which is the game changer involved. Nobody here will care much for that i'm sure, but its not aimed at geeks, its aimed at mom and dad, your semi-sentient cousins, or your own kids. The masses.
The OS is open source. If you want Netfix, you can add it yourself if you're motivated enough.
Otherwise, just make a large enough demand and the company themselves will put one out im sure. I view this thing as a gamechanger, a console system that is upgradeable like a PC? Geez I might even consider one.
Kid is 15, he knows what GTA is, even if you dont allow him to play it, his friends do.
I wouldn't worry too much about it, its just a game. If he starts acting out scenes in the game i'd start to worry, but chances are he is just wondering what all his friends are talking about. Peer pressure can be pretty strong, and if everyone you know is playing some new game, if you cant contribute to the conversation about it you'll get shunned by the group.
And he's 15, every 15 year old boy is prone to 'fits of violence'. Long as he's not killing animals or stabbing people, you're fine. Try talking to your son instead of spying on him.
Wow you're so hip I wonder how you see over your own pelvis.
I think that says more about the general discussion around things like politics than anything else.
People dont want to discuss it, they want to yell it at one another loudly. The louder voices tend to 'win' more.
Wow, reviewing that I have more spelling errors than I care to admit to. Between being sick and being short on sleep...it shows.
I'm gonna preface this with the fact that I do not believe in a god or gods of any sort. But your disagreement with his opinion is sorta silly.
Look, Evolution is fact. The Theory of Evolution is still open to debate, how it works, what impacts it, etc.
His opinion on it seems to be that a creator could design something like a self-serving system to improve over time. Your argument is "Thats not efficent". Who says it needs to be? If God really did exist, who says he cares how much time it takes? Who says they/it would even expierence 'time'?
In the tend, religion and things like 'intelegant design' are little more that faith based beliefs trying to take what science has shown to be true and make sense within their own religious construct. There's nothing wrong with this, even if it's not right. You're doing it right now through your senses. You're not seeing white background and black text, you're interpreting what your eyes are sensing as those colors and shapes.
When you get down to it all you're seeing are waves of photons and a weird mish-mash of quarks and glueons. Trying to talk to someone about why their belief is wrong is like trying to explain to someone why a red apple isn't red. It wont change their world view, so stop trying. Just accept that some people see the apple as Red, while other people dont. Trying to argue against their point only lets them decide how the argument is played out, in their own terms and on their own grounds. If you dont believe, great. If you do, great.
In the end, we're all wrong anyway, that much im certin of.
You're view is increadibly valid, for people who dont understand kickstarter.
If you're using Kickstarter as a pre-order concept, you're not very smart. If you're avoiding Kickstarter because you dont want to get ripped off I could see that. If you're avoiding kickstarter because you're worried you wont get the item you're 'pre-ordering' something then I think we're better off if you dont get involved, because you clearly do not understand it.
Ahh yes...only a Slashdot Editor would use the term 'fallout' in a story like this. Great idea...no really...
So your argument is because its possible something might maybe happen, it should never be tried?
What excatly are you doing on a website like Shashdot?
That may make me "humor impaired", but since when being so is a symptom of paranoia?
It isn't, but it is a symptom of the mind-reading beam they're firing into your head.
Just because you dont enjoy something doesn't mean people who do are 'sheep'. You sound like a jerk, because you are.
60 dollars for a few hundred hours of entertainment isn't a bad deal. Its not entertainment if you dont like the game, which you clearly are dead set to not like. Good for you! So dont buy it.
Not buying something doesn't make you smart, it means you know what you like. That may sugest some wisdom but when your reason is "Because you're all SHEEP!" that more or less shows you're neither wise or smart. You just want to have something to hold over people to try to feel superior because you're not. When the best you can do is not doing something, it only shows how truly pitiful you are. I'm almost sorry for you.
Of course, they need to double all of it and send it to the NSA. What, you think they'll pay for that?
Sorry but you're wrong.
In the good ol' US of A if you bring your phone to another company, you pay the same thing everyone else is paying. No discount for not getting a new shiney through the new company. There are very few exceptions to this (T-Mobile is the only company im aware of).
Bob is part of the Mafia, and some of Bobs friends have made it pretty clear that if Alice testifies against Bob, something unpleasant will happen to Mike, Alice's husband.
The idea is that the 3rd party must testify, to prevent this sort of issue. Wont stop it I am sure, but there are other things that can be done to prevent it (sealing the records so nobody is sure what Alice said for example, vs some of the other witnessess, if early enough even preventing it from being known Alice is a witness.) Any choice you make can be turned to good or evil, in this case its maybe not in the defendants best interest to let the guy testify, but he has no choice. In other cases, it might be the reverse. Pick your poision, at least this way the goverment has a harder time nailing a 3rd party to the wall if they testify on something they dont want coming out, at least from a legal standpoint.