Huh? We hate Yahoo for doing this just as much as we hated Microsoft when they did exactly the same thing to their service last year.
The answer is to condemn them for breaking compatibility, because it isn't exactly rocket science to come up with a protocol which keeps compatibility when adding features.
Either way, Yahoo should make a declarative statement about their attitude towards 3rd party clients of their protocol - so their current/potential users know where they stand, so these 3rd party clients know where they stand, etc.
Well they did (was it January? or earlier) the last time they did it, what they said was they were prepared to do anything necessary to block third-party clients from using their server.
Whether they have changed stances is anybody's guess, but making yet another change only half a year later seems to be dodgy to me.
When you get a new feature in your mail client, it doesn't break every other client on the market.
When you get a new feature on your Jabber client, it doesn't break every other client on the market.
When you get a new feature on a web browser, it doesn't break every other browser on the market.
When Yahoo introduce a new feature on their client, it magically breaks every other client on the market.
Now sing along: "One of these things is not like the other ones!"
If Jabber does begin gaining ground, you can expect that Yahoo and the gang will declare war on the Jabber gateways' interoperability.
On the other hand if Jabber does get up to a reasonable population, enough to "threaten" Yahoo, and Yahoo did lock them out, then Yahoo's user count would be severely impacted to the point where all the people leaving it might make everyone remaining on, even less likely to stay.
It is hard to bootstrap a distributed service, when so (relatively) few people are running Jabber servers.
This is true, but the other services only have one server each, and they don't seem to have a problem. I suspect what we really need are bigger servers, and for ISPs to give their clients Jabber servers! After all, ISPs give out email accounts.
Jabber does not currently provide all the fancy bells and whistles that proprietary IM clients provide, such as audio/video chat.
[For the purposes of this discussion I will ignore Neos, a Jabber client which already provides audio and video chat, as you have also ignored it.]
It's bad enough that idiot companies have made consumers think that video and voice chat are even in the category of IM. They're not!
That being said, integration with other applications to perform said features is a good idea. I'm currently playing around with Skype and I think it would be a trivial matter to hook it into Psi for the purpose of providing voice chat. The obvious advantage of using a single app for voice chat is that no matter where you fire it up from (via Jabber messages, email messages, links passed on IRC, etc.), it works the same way. Nobody should be reinventing the wheel, particularly when the axle to fit it onto the new chassis is so cheap.
I dunno about having no carpeting. Sure, it makes scooting across the floor really fast. And it makes the coffee spills easier to clean too. But nothing hurts more than pratfalling because your chair has slid out from underneath you in the two seconds it took to plug a cable into the back of your PC.
I know, I have the same problem with my cigarette lighters. They keep running out of butane and the last thing I need to be doing is wandering around at night trying to find some butant to power my cigarette lighter.
The six button arrangement is bad, but at least two are different sizes, unlike the Megadrive controller...
The main problem with the Xbox controller which I find is that it's still too big (even after they made it smaller, it's still too goddamned big), and the sticks aren't as easy to control as the GameCube's left stick (although easier than the right... but the right stick on the GameCube isn't intended for the same sort of thing anyway.) Also clicking on a stick is not the best idea in the world, since it almost always results in moving the stick accidentally. I would rather they just not use that feature in games...:-/
Isn't this what Microsoft's gaming platform is supposed to eventually solve? Multiple gaming systems playing the same game, delivered in a standard format? (Or did they intend people recompile the game at development time? That would suck.)
The article pointed out that they still didn't fix one major problem with the original: the screen orientation. That alone is enough for me to not want to touch it with a ten foot stylus.
Maybe Nintendo don't need to. We've already seen portable media players from third parties, a third party GSM phone attachment would be priceless.
Although with the current GBA-SP it wouldn't be very practical. You would need a second speaker (one which doesn't irk other people in your immediate vicinity) as well as a microphone, and the two would need to be on opposite sides of the device. That is one hell of a chunky addon module.:-(
What I really, really, really want to see from the GBA-SP is official PIM software. Perhaps the DS will bring us that though since the hardware is closer to the mark. We can only hope.
When they can invent a phone with a 19" screen, 3D accelleration, a mouse and a keyboard that fits in your pocket easily, I'll buy it.
I'm getting a VR vibe out of this idea. RSDs over one or both eyes, with keyboard and mouse implemented by tracking the tips of your fingers using the gloves you're wearing.
Perhaps the assumption was that people had heard of the game. It is afterall one of the biggest titles of this year... unless your head is stuck up Valve's arse.:-)
Maybe not, but if a CD didn't work in my player, and I looked around and it didn't have the logo, and it was bought from a so-called CD store, then I would be right there complaining.
Actually, the Redbook standard seems like one way we can ensure CDs remain non-DRM'd. As soon as someone makes a CD which is completely encrypted and only works on one or two devices, it becomes non-Redbook, and thus not CD Audio. I would be surprised if people were allowed to use the "CD Audio" logo on such disks.
I don't understand this though. How do these disks work in real CD players? And if the CD player can hear the audio track, why can't my ripping software just record it? Does the WMA even enter into the picture?
On the topic of authoring, it's a damn shame there is no good Mozilla-official authoring tool. There is Nvu, but whereas it's based on Mozilla it doesn't come with the same consistency as other Mozilla apps... and it would be a lot better if these things focused on authoring XML in general, rather than HTML.
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They can't be against it too strongly. If they were, they would simply have the server boot people who send messages too fast.
Huh? We hate Yahoo for doing this just as much as we hated Microsoft when they did exactly the same thing to their service last year.
The answer is to condemn them for breaking compatibility, because it isn't exactly rocket science to come up with a protocol which keeps compatibility when adding features.
Either way, Yahoo should make a declarative statement about their attitude towards 3rd party clients of their protocol - so their current/potential users know where they stand, so these 3rd party clients know where they stand, etc.
Well they did (was it January? or earlier) the last time they did it, what they said was they were prepared to do anything necessary to block third-party clients from using their server.
Whether they have changed stances is anybody's guess, but making yet another change only half a year later seems to be dodgy to me.
When you get a new feature in your mail client, it doesn't break every other client on the market.
When you get a new feature on your Jabber client, it doesn't break every other client on the market.
When you get a new feature on a web browser, it doesn't break every other browser on the market.
When Yahoo introduce a new feature on their client, it magically breaks every other client on the market.
Now sing along: "One of these things is not like the other ones!"
If Jabber does begin gaining ground, you can expect that Yahoo and the gang will declare war on the Jabber gateways' interoperability.
On the other hand if Jabber does get up to a reasonable population, enough to "threaten" Yahoo, and Yahoo did lock them out, then Yahoo's user count would be severely impacted to the point where all the people leaving it might make everyone remaining on, even less likely to stay.
It is hard to bootstrap a distributed service, when so (relatively) few people are running Jabber servers.
This is true, but the other services only have one server each, and they don't seem to have a problem. I suspect what we really need are bigger servers, and for ISPs to give their clients Jabber servers! After all, ISPs give out email accounts.
Jabber does not currently provide all the fancy bells and whistles that proprietary IM clients provide, such as audio/video chat.
[For the purposes of this discussion I will ignore Neos, a Jabber client which already provides audio and video chat, as you have also ignored it.]
It's bad enough that idiot companies have made consumers think that video and voice chat are even in the category of IM. They're not!
That being said, integration with other applications to perform said features is a good idea. I'm currently playing around with Skype and I think it would be a trivial matter to hook it into Psi for the purpose of providing voice chat. The obvious advantage of using a single app for voice chat is that no matter where you fire it up from (via Jabber messages, email messages, links passed on IRC, etc.), it works the same way. Nobody should be reinventing the wheel, particularly when the axle to fit it onto the new chassis is so cheap.
I dunno about having no carpeting. Sure, it makes scooting across the floor really fast. And it makes the coffee spills easier to clean too. But nothing hurts more than pratfalling because your chair has slid out from underneath you in the two seconds it took to plug a cable into the back of your PC.
Most explosions are purely chemical processes.
I know, I have the same problem with my cigarette lighters. They keep running out of butane and the last thing I need to be doing is wandering around at night trying to find some butant to power my cigarette lighter.
:-)
Don't worry, 2.5x the heat is nothing compared to the heat of an explosion of a fuel cell on your gonads.
Anyone with money and who is willing to spend it on a console, is part of the market.
Of course, nobody is the market. That would be like saying the market is one person, and we're talking about PS3 and Xbox2 here, not the 3DO.
The six button arrangement is bad, but at least two are different sizes, unlike the Megadrive controller...
The main problem with the Xbox controller which I find is that it's still too big (even after they made it smaller, it's still too goddamned big), and the sticks aren't as easy to control as the GameCube's left stick (although easier than the right... but the right stick on the GameCube isn't intended for the same sort of thing anyway.) Also clicking on a stick is not the best idea in the world, since it almost always results in moving the stick accidentally. I would rather they just not use that feature in games... :-/
Isn't this what Microsoft's gaming platform is supposed to eventually solve? Multiple gaming systems playing the same game, delivered in a standard format? (Or did they intend people recompile the game at development time? That would suck.)
That's because audio is already up to scratch today. Ever hear of headphones? They're not even expensive. :-)
The article pointed out that they still didn't fix one major problem with the original: the screen orientation. That alone is enough for me to not want to touch it with a ten foot stylus.
Maybe Nintendo don't need to. We've already seen portable media players from third parties, a third party GSM phone attachment would be priceless.
Although with the current GBA-SP it wouldn't be very practical. You would need a second speaker (one which doesn't irk other people in your immediate vicinity) as well as a microphone, and the two would need to be on opposite sides of the device. That is one hell of a chunky addon module. :-(
What I really, really, really want to see from the GBA-SP is official PIM software. Perhaps the DS will bring us that though since the hardware is closer to the mark. We can only hope.
When they can invent a phone with a 19" screen, 3D accelleration, a mouse and a keyboard that fits in your pocket easily, I'll buy it.
I'm getting a VR vibe out of this idea. RSDs over one or both eyes, with keyboard and mouse implemented by tracking the tips of your fingers using the gloves you're wearing.
It sounds like a good idea...
WTF, how is this a troll? This is exactly what I would do too, if I needed a TV tuner.
Perhaps the assumption was that people had heard of the game. It is afterall one of the biggest titles of this year... unless your head is stuck up Valve's arse. :-)
Well at the very least, an XML editor is simpler than an HTML editor. XUL would be a pain though, I agree. But very, very cool to have in Composer. :-)
Maybe not, but if a CD didn't work in my player, and I looked around and it didn't have the logo, and it was bought from a so-called CD store, then I would be right there complaining.
Actually, the Redbook standard seems like one way we can ensure CDs remain non-DRM'd. As soon as someone makes a CD which is completely encrypted and only works on one or two devices, it becomes non-Redbook, and thus not CD Audio. I would be surprised if people were allowed to use the "CD Audio" logo on such disks.
While they're at it, they should have the shift key declared a circumvention device too.
I don't understand this though. How do these disks work in real CD players? And if the CD player can hear the audio track, why can't my ripping software just record it? Does the WMA even enter into the picture?
On the topic of authoring, it's a damn shame there is no good Mozilla-official authoring tool. There is Nvu, but whereas it's based on Mozilla it doesn't come with the same consistency as other Mozilla apps... and it would be a lot better if these things focused on authoring XML in general, rather than HTML.
"A new option to prevent sites from using JavaScript to block the browser's context menu."
Hallelujah! Maybe eventually idiots will stop using this trick once they realise it isn't stopping anything. It would make my life so much easier.