Another downside to shifting that dynamic content to the server side, as a result of the increased infrastructure costs in the way of hardware, labor, bandwidth, etc. is that you're not going to run the servers for nearly as long as they currently run authorisation or simple match-making services. Now I REALLY don't want to buy your product, because you're going to render it useless in a few years.
If that were the case I think someone would have already figured out how to emulate the clients in Blu-Ray players, TV's and Roku boxes. But apparently they've locked that delivery mechanism down somehow to prevent portability and clearly have no interest in delivering to linux machines at large. Netflix does have an evil side... customers with linux based media centers (where I'd guess linux is quite popular) are far less important than scratching backs at Microsoft, who desperately want to create a market for Silverlight. Some have pointed out the ceo from Netflix is on the MS board of directors. Surprise of surprises.
You're right. I have both an iPhone and an iPod Touch, and I'd be much happier about being able to watch netflix on any kind of linux box. Linux media centers can't stream netflix because there's no silverlight drm (ick). I almost wish they'd just used flash, but I guess the ceo of netflix is on the MS board of directors... so I guess it makes some sense.
Great, so I make a PayPal cart app that makes a few bucks, problem is PayPal locks up my account without warning and when I finally get through to a CSR they tell me to go fuck myself.
No thanks. Developing for PayPal is about as masochistic as developing for the iPhone.
The insider part would worry me, but I dunno about the organized crime part. I mean, how many basketball and football stars get disappeared before the big game?
"Wow, Xfinity! That sounds great. Where do I sign up? I want better service, faster internet and cheaper prices, and Xfinity sounds like it fits the bill. It's got an "X" in it, so it must be ten times better than what I have now."
Some dick is going to quote this post in a board meeting, citing it as an example of how great the name change is.
To be worth the aggravation they'd have to make good money doing it. If they're making good money doing it the players will notice and play elsewhere. Even with the ban there's brutal competition for players.
Apple has been this way for decades, how in hell is ANYONE pretending to be surprised by the i[maxi]pad?
Remember all the Macs of old? Couldn't work on them, couldn't even get the damned things open. How about your ipod and iphone? You're locked down on those too. Hell you can't even replace the battery without Apple. Want an application that didn't get approved by Apple? You're going to have to INTENTIONALLY BREAK YOUR DEVICE to get it.
Apple has been the industry example of treating your customers like idiot children for as long as I can remember.
What people want to do on their vacation doesn't have to be a measuring stick for the quality of their contributions to society.
MOST people will not volunteer their time during their vacations, because most people don't want to. Some of those people will donate money instead or volunteer on weekends. Some won't. Some wonderful people WILL volunteer on their vacations. That's awesome.
The people who don't are not sociopaths. The people who do are not crazy collectivists. Some people contribute to the lives of people around them in different ways, at different times. Everyone here needs to just relax a bit and try a little reason.
I'd agree with this statement. I think the closest thing I've found to a slick IDE in Linux is QT Creator, which has their fantastic designer, a great editor, etc. all in one package. Obviously this is only good for certain things. NetBeans is also quite good, and considerably more flexible. At a distant third is eclipse, which is most flexible of all, but terribly clunky.
Agreed. Also, a lot of businesses have, for instance, expensive equipment that require old versions of windows to drive them. I'd much rather install a shiny new ReactOS on a new workstation and have active support forums than try to get the control software working in wine on Ubuntu. A lot of us want as few layers of kludge as possible in work environments, where hacking cannot always be easily duplicated by the next guy.
Or worse, comparing an alpha of one distro to a prealpha of another distro, as if the numbers are at all useful. It tells us nothing about their individual speeds by the time we'll be using them, and tell us nothing useful about the speed of either distro. WTF?
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Another downside to shifting that dynamic content to the server side, as a result of the increased infrastructure costs in the way of hardware, labor, bandwidth, etc. is that you're not going to run the servers for nearly as long as they currently run authorisation or simple match-making services. Now I REALLY don't want to buy your product, because you're going to render it useless in a few years.
I can still play Space Quest.
Honest question, wouldn't doing this redline the engine? I mean, it's better than a serious accident either way, but I'm just curious.
If that were the case I think someone would have already figured out how to emulate the clients in Blu-Ray players, TV's and Roku boxes. But apparently they've locked that delivery mechanism down somehow to prevent portability and clearly have no interest in delivering to linux machines at large. Netflix does have an evil side... customers with linux based media centers (where I'd guess linux is quite popular) are far less important than scratching backs at Microsoft, who desperately want to create a market for Silverlight. Some have pointed out the ceo from Netflix is on the MS board of directors. Surprise of surprises.
You're right. I have both an iPhone and an iPod Touch, and I'd be much happier about being able to watch netflix on any kind of linux box. Linux media centers can't stream netflix because there's no silverlight drm (ick). I almost wish they'd just used flash, but I guess the ceo of netflix is on the MS board of directors... so I guess it makes some sense.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/2/19/
Exactly.
Great, so I make a PayPal cart app that makes a few bucks, problem is PayPal locks up my account without warning and when I finally get through to a CSR they tell me to go fuck myself.
No thanks. Developing for PayPal is about as masochistic as developing for the iPhone.
The insider part would worry me, but I dunno about the organized crime part. I mean, how many basketball and football stars get disappeared before the big game?
Or to offset some of the bad press they've had lately with Buzz.
This is one of those situations where I'd like to see a guy try it and post his results.
Exactly! So what? Isn't the point of a beta to identify bugs before the software goes into regular use?
I mean, unless you're Google, who seems to use it like a marketing term for "exclusive!".
"Wow, Xfinity! That sounds great. Where do I sign up? I want better service, faster internet and cheaper prices, and Xfinity sounds like it fits the bill. It's got an "X" in it, so it must be ten times better than what I have now."
Some dick is going to quote this post in a board meeting, citing it as an example of how great the name change is.
After all, why not? What have they got to lose?
To be worth the aggravation they'd have to make good money doing it. If they're making good money doing it the players will notice and play elsewhere. Even with the ban there's brutal competition for players.
Wouldn't have to undergo additional FCC testing as well? If so I'd guess this has an impact on both the time to market and development costs.
Apple has been this way for decades, how in hell is ANYONE pretending to be surprised by the i[maxi]pad?
Remember all the Macs of old? Couldn't work on them, couldn't even get the damned things open. How about your ipod and iphone? You're locked down on those too. Hell you can't even replace the battery without Apple. Want an application that didn't get approved by Apple? You're going to have to INTENTIONALLY BREAK YOUR DEVICE to get it.
Apple has been the industry example of treating your customers like idiot children for as long as I can remember.
The fun is in figuring out if they're retarded, trolling or 11 years old.
What people want to do on their vacation doesn't have to be a measuring stick for the quality of their contributions to society.
MOST people will not volunteer their time during their vacations, because most people don't want to. Some of those people will donate money instead or volunteer on weekends. Some won't. Some wonderful people WILL volunteer on their vacations. That's awesome.
The people who don't are not sociopaths. The people who do are not crazy collectivists. Some people contribute to the lives of people around them in different ways, at different times. Everyone here needs to just relax a bit and try a little reason.
Absolutely agree, and we saw a great example of this recently.
There was a /. article about ReactOS, and I saw more than a few "OMGWTF... why work on your project? Work on Wine instead!"
I heart what Linux has become, but I love to see people do all kinds of crazy, maybe game changing stuff too.
I'd agree with this statement. I think the closest thing I've found to a slick IDE in Linux is QT Creator, which has their fantastic designer, a great editor, etc. all in one package. Obviously this is only good for certain things. NetBeans is also quite good, and considerably more flexible. At a distant third is eclipse, which is most flexible of all, but terribly clunky.
What you learned is that none of these games are any good at putting equally skilled people together.
Agreed. Also, a lot of businesses have, for instance, expensive equipment that require old versions of windows to drive them. I'd much rather install a shiny new ReactOS on a new workstation and have active support forums than try to get the control software working in wine on Ubuntu. A lot of us want as few layers of kludge as possible in work environments, where hacking cannot always be easily duplicated by the next guy.
A few days, sure, a few weeks, I'd guess so... but hasn't Spirit been stuck since May?
What's a more polite way to say, "be more like Vimeo"?
Or worse, comparing an alpha of one distro to a prealpha of another distro, as if the numbers are at all useful. It tells us nothing about their individual speeds by the time we'll be using them, and tell us nothing useful about the speed of either distro. WTF?
Ah yes, the Napster defense. Seems like this has been a colossal fail in the past.
Jailbreak phone, download apps from places other than apple (torrent, etc), install. It just works.