The #1 mistake that Nintendo made with the GameCube was locking the system so hard that nobody was ever able to successfully run homebrew or backups on it. The competing systems allowed it, and that seemed to be the only reason the Xbox got any sales at all (not counting people who bought it just for Halo.)
Whereas some of your comment may be true, much of it is unrelated. Having support for vCards and support for an open user directory are two completely different things.
For one thing, a server can have vCard support and no user directory. In fact, the vast majority of open, public Jabber servers fall under this category, including many of those still listed on that IM Federation site you linked to. But also, a server could have a user directory with no vCard support.
Google are already part of the XMPP network as far as the XMPP federation is concerned. Actually, isn't that other IM Federation site run by a company who makes a competing Jabber client? Wouldn't you expect such a company to come up with arbitrary reasons why a major competitor shouldn't be listed on their site? It does seem awfully convenient.
It's funny, though. Markdown does a perfectly good job of marking up natural text into HTML, that even I, as a developer, never have to write HTML. So why, exactly, do we need Word?
"kept the same game engine, design and features (just added onto it)."
In this sense, Quake 2 kept the same game engine as Quake 1, just added features onto it. There was a marked difference between the quality of GTA3 and San Andreas, which is very noticeable if you play one and then the other, but don't play Vice City in-between.
Anyone who played the PS2 version though, probably wouldn't notice the difference, because the hardware capabilities of that particular pile of dog crap maxed out before GTA3.
Hell no. I couldn't care less about HD-DVD or Blu-ray, or any other standards bodies who can't be fucked working out a deal to ensure cross-compatibility.
Actually, that was the one thing that struck me about the article. He says he'll be "enjoying" his Windows experience. However, nobody truly enjoys a Windows experience. The moment someone does, the earth will probably open up and swallow everyone on it.
Strictly speaking the limitation is 8 devices per network, so it doesn't matter what kind of devices they are. The limit is 8 for a net, and one of those is the master. Of course, nothing stops you having five Bluetooth devices in a single device, for a total of 28 peripherals.
That being said, I have a hard enough time finding three players to play a four player game. Can you really imagine trying to find seven players for an eight player game? Not to mention some sucker with a lounge room spacious enough to seat them all.
The grandparent poster was probably talking about standard Bluetooth HID. HID should be more than enough to control a robot (since you can basically represent any given joystick as a human interface device.) However, I doubt most phones' limited HID interface would offer nearly enough control for anything serious.
Then again, I thought most of the point of robotics was to make the things able to control themselves with a minimal amount of wetware.
Problem is the person buying the graphics card isn't going to be able to take the CPU bottleneck out of the equation, so for everyone who would actually want to buy the cheaper graphics cards, the review is almost useless.
Why does it have to ship with it? How exactly, do all these copies of things like Mathematica make it onto the Macs in high school, if the teachers are so afraid to install a simple BASIC interpreter?
Only if you were dumb enough to not turn it off before the upgrade, or you lost your recovery password - RTFM.
So in other words, it isn't tied to the hardware.
If all you have to do is guess a password, then the problem reverts to brute forcing, not hardware-lockout.
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There is a difference here. Game & Watch was massively successful. Hands up if you had one. Hands up if you know someone who had FIVE. *sticks hand up*
Yes. As people have already pointed out, it's already quite possible to do any of this by programming both devices separately. However, the entire point of a DVR is to automate this so that you don't *have* to deal with them both separately. In many cases this is possible by having the DVR box send remote control signals to the cable box. However, that still prevents you watching another channel while it's recording. A true DVR system could handle two channels at once, but I suspect that flexibility is what worries Foxtel.
Yeah, trusted computing makes it worse. But that's fine, because it also makes life worse for the user of the system. You upgrade your computer, and bam... whoops, can't read the data anymore. Too bad.
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The #1 mistake that Nintendo made with the GameCube was locking the system so hard that nobody was ever able to successfully run homebrew or backups on it. The competing systems allowed it, and that seemed to be the only reason the Xbox got any sales at all (not counting people who bought it just for Halo.)
"Few restrictions" doesn't sound like the GPL I'm familiar with. *cough* linking restrictions *uncough*
This gives us a total of approx US$10200, so why not add a sweetener of a Nintendo Wii and US$2000 of mixed games.
One good reason: the Wii isn't out yet.
But with open source, once you contribute code, you are part of "us".
IMO, the true blame for this rests with ATI and NVIDIA for not releasing the drivers open source in the first place.
How will you know unless you test it?
Whereas some of your comment may be true, much of it is unrelated. Having support for vCards and support for an open user directory are two completely different things.
For one thing, a server can have vCard support and no user directory. In fact, the vast majority of open, public Jabber servers fall under this category, including many of those still listed on that IM Federation site you linked to. But also, a server could have a user directory with no vCard support.
Google are already part of the XMPP network as far as the XMPP federation is concerned. Actually, isn't that other IM Federation site run by a company who makes a competing Jabber client? Wouldn't you expect such a company to come up with arbitrary reasons why a major competitor shouldn't be listed on their site? It does seem awfully convenient.
Of course they will stick to an existing blog API -- they will support only the MSN Spaces API. What else would you expect?
But will they actually remove Comic Sans? It doesn't matter how much you donate to charity if you murdered a million innocents.
It's funny, though. Markdown does a perfectly good job of marking up natural text into HTML, that even I, as a developer, never have to write HTML. So why, exactly, do we need Word?
"kept the same game engine, design and features (just added onto it)."
In this sense, Quake 2 kept the same game engine as Quake 1, just added features onto it. There was a marked difference between the quality of GTA3 and San Andreas, which is very noticeable if you play one and then the other, but don't play Vice City in-between.
Anyone who played the PS2 version though, probably wouldn't notice the difference, because the hardware capabilities of that particular pile of dog crap maxed out before GTA3.
Hell no. I couldn't care less about HD-DVD or Blu-ray, or any other standards bodies who can't be fucked working out a deal to ensure cross-compatibility.
Actually, that was the one thing that struck me about the article. He says he'll be "enjoying" his Windows experience. However, nobody truly enjoys a Windows experience. The moment someone does, the earth will probably open up and swallow everyone on it.
Or... 3. had held off on buying the original trilogy until such a version was released.
Strictly speaking the limitation is 8 devices per network, so it doesn't matter what kind of devices they are. The limit is 8 for a net, and one of those is the master. Of course, nothing stops you having five Bluetooth devices in a single device, for a total of 28 peripherals.
That being said, I have a hard enough time finding three players to play a four player game. Can you really imagine trying to find seven players for an eight player game? Not to mention some sucker with a lounge room spacious enough to seat them all.
Support the CPL, for maximum incompatibility.
The grandparent poster was probably talking about standard Bluetooth HID. HID should be more than enough to control a robot (since you can basically represent any given joystick as a human interface device.) However, I doubt most phones' limited HID interface would offer nearly enough control for anything serious.
Then again, I thought most of the point of robotics was to make the things able to control themselves with a minimal amount of wetware.
Problem is the person buying the graphics card isn't going to be able to take the CPU bottleneck out of the equation, so for everyone who would actually want to buy the cheaper graphics cards, the review is almost useless.
Many of us were around when Doom 3 came out on Linux, and suffered ATI's drivers at that point in time.
Why does it have to ship with it? How exactly, do all these copies of things like Mathematica make it onto the Macs in high school, if the teachers are so afraid to install a simple BASIC interpreter?
Only if you were dumb enough to not turn it off before the upgrade, or you lost your recovery password - RTFM.
So in other words, it isn't tied to the hardware.
If all you have to do is guess a password, then the problem reverts to brute forcing, not hardware-lockout.
There is a difference here. Game & Watch was massively successful. Hands up if you had one. Hands up if you know someone who had FIVE. *sticks hand up*
Yes. As people have already pointed out, it's already quite possible to do any of this by programming both devices separately. However, the entire point of a DVR is to automate this so that you don't *have* to deal with them both separately. In many cases this is possible by having the DVR box send remote control signals to the cable box. However, that still prevents you watching another channel while it's recording. A true DVR system could handle two channels at once, but I suspect that flexibility is what worries Foxtel.
Yeah, trusted computing makes it worse. But that's fine, because it also makes life worse for the user of the system. You upgrade your computer, and bam... whoops, can't read the data anymore. Too bad.
And yet, I never said it would, nor do I care about digital cameras and music players in general.