Yeah, because being online once in order to download the game at time of purchase is exactly the same as having to being online every time you even think about playing it.
There are enough legit problems with online content delivery that we don't need to get angry about things that really aren't problems.
I love streamed video content. I love it so much that I have a PLEX server and every frame of video I own has been converted to MKV and is available at a few presses of the remote. That being said, the idea of "you want a big screen, go to a movie house" is ridiculous - you need look no further than the sales of HDTVs since they hit the market to see that.
I don't want to pay $13 to sit in their uncomfortable chairs and deal with all the inconsiderate assholes that go to movie theaters. I want to pay far less than that, stretch out on my nice leather couch, and still get premium video quality and surround sound.
And I do, with what I own in my house. And I don't have to pay exorbitant prices for refreshments. And if I need to use the restroom, the playback pauses and waits for me to get back.
You call cable and fixed TVs dinosaurs, I call the movie theater that predates them the pool of muck the dinosaurs crawled out of.
It was a PowerBook 3400 in desktop plastics with some other crap bolted on, and some fancy speakers.
It's good that they only did a limited production run, because it was garbage compared to other desktops they were shipping at the time for far less money.
And, as someone that fired Time Warner's shoddy excuse for a DVR a year or so ago, I have to say that CableCARD has been an incredible success. Moving from their shit hardware to mine + CableCARD paid for my hardware in 8 months of not renting their hardware I hate, and I'm now saving money over what I was paying before, for an improved service level and massively expanded capability.
The LC 520 / Performa 525 / 550 that the Macintosh TV was based on had one PDS slot. I believe they took away the slot and soldered the TV tuner where it was supposed to be.
My dad had a Performa 525 with the Apple II compatibility card in it, and it was quite the solution for it's day - he could still get into his ancient VisiCalc spreadsheets that he'd figured out way back when for formulating bovine nutrition, and I still had (at the time) something modern for doing homework on, and playing the odd game. And, in the Apple II environment, if you wanted to add one of the many hardware additions that was available for the Apple II, it was drag-n-drop emulation.
Have to agree - the one piece of Microsoft software that I use, is Windows 7 Media Center. It's probably the best solution I've seen yet when combined with a Ceton tuner. The only shortcoming I've found is from Time Warner abusing the "broadcast flag" to encrypt everything that they can, so that I'm limited to playback on Microsoft platforms that understand the DRM.
Except that if you are using the Software Update Service that is part of OS X Server, you either have to MITM DNS and re-point swscan.apple.com to your box, or you have to enroll all the Macs you want to redirect to the Profile Manager service on the same server (or another MDM profile you've created with something) that tells it to get it's software updates from that location. Or, if you want to go old school, you'd need to edit the/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist file and add a CatalogURL entry that points to it.
There is absolutely ZERO "automatic repointing" going on. And, the Software Updates are signed by Apple anyway.
Except that you could switch out "Apple Pay" for the upcoming "Samsung Pay" or "Google Wallet" or "Contactless Payments" and still have the same problem.
This is not fraud happening because someone has cracked Apple Pay - this is bad people doing what they would have done before, only using stolen credentials and information on an iPhone.
Also, I love the meaningless statistic at the top of the summary - a 6% fraud rate, out of how many transactions? And that 0.1% fraud rate on traditional magswipe transactions is out of how many orders of magnitude more?
first tricked into giving a little bit of money and then a little more until it's a sizable sum in total. At that point it's very hard to get out because you're mentally holding yourself prisoner there with the logic that if you quit now, you've lost that investment and you're going to look like an idiot.
This is commonly referred to as 'throwing good money after bad.' Very common in large business when people keep chasing that TCO that will never be realized due to being scammed into some crap project that should have never been approved, or should not have been approved as designed.
We appreciate you doing what you can to fix some of these holes. However, Google appears to have no teeth which to use to get the handset manufacturers to actually update their products.
There can be software fixes for every single issue, but if they never get deployed, it does nothing to solve the issues.
I would love to see a 10 year old girl trying to carry the Macintosh Luggable for one mile. The damn thing weighed 16 pounds. Also, who would entrust their 10 year old girl with a $6500 (in 1989) slab of technology to carry for a mile?
Under extremely low atmospheric pressure, it's likely the water would not stay water - it would sublimate to vapor. Nobody said it would be easy and wouldn't present challenges.
So instead of tackling the issues of logistics and construction, we go right on spewing shit into the atmosphere killing thousands of people a year and doing harm to the ecosystem waiting for technology that doesn't exist.
What's funny is that I was able to buy subsidized LED and CFL bulbs from my energy provider at the same to less cost than the incandescents in the shop down the way, so I have a big box of old 60W, 75W and 100W bulbs gathering dust from when I switched out every bulb in the house.
If LED bulbs live up to the lifetime they advertise, I expect I'll not need to look in that box for a long time.
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Not marketing-y enough.
Microsoft CloudSurface (tm)
If you don't think they're going to cobrand it in some way with Bing, you're crazy.
You might be quite close to the mark.
Yeah, because being online once in order to download the game at time of purchase is exactly the same as having to being online every time you even think about playing it.
There are enough legit problems with online content delivery that we don't need to get angry about things that really aren't problems.
That sounds like basically every major urban freeway I've ever driven on. How is this a problem?
I love streamed video content. I love it so much that I have a PLEX server and every frame of video I own has been converted to MKV and is available at a few presses of the remote. That being said, the idea of "you want a big screen, go to a movie house" is ridiculous - you need look no further than the sales of HDTVs since they hit the market to see that.
I don't want to pay $13 to sit in their uncomfortable chairs and deal with all the inconsiderate assholes that go to movie theaters. I want to pay far less than that, stretch out on my nice leather couch, and still get premium video quality and surround sound.
And I do, with what I own in my house. And I don't have to pay exorbitant prices for refreshments. And if I need to use the restroom, the playback pauses and waits for me to get back.
You call cable and fixed TVs dinosaurs, I call the movie theater that predates them the pool of muck the dinosaurs crawled out of.
It was a PowerBook 3400 in desktop plastics with some other crap bolted on, and some fancy speakers.
It's good that they only did a limited production run, because it was garbage compared to other desktops they were shipping at the time for far less money.
And, as someone that fired Time Warner's shoddy excuse for a DVR a year or so ago, I have to say that CableCARD has been an incredible success. Moving from their shit hardware to mine + CableCARD paid for my hardware in 8 months of not renting their hardware I hate, and I'm now saving money over what I was paying before, for an improved service level and massively expanded capability.
The LC 520 / Performa 525 / 550 that the Macintosh TV was based on had one PDS slot. I believe they took away the slot and soldered the TV tuner where it was supposed to be.
My dad had a Performa 525 with the Apple II compatibility card in it, and it was quite the solution for it's day - he could still get into his ancient VisiCalc spreadsheets that he'd figured out way back when for formulating bovine nutrition, and I still had (at the time) something modern for doing homework on, and playing the odd game. And, in the Apple II environment, if you wanted to add one of the many hardware additions that was available for the Apple II, it was drag-n-drop emulation.
Pretty cool stuff for 1996.
Have to agree - the one piece of Microsoft software that I use, is Windows 7 Media Center. It's probably the best solution I've seen yet when combined with a Ceton tuner. The only shortcoming I've found is from Time Warner abusing the "broadcast flag" to encrypt everything that they can, so that I'm limited to playback on Microsoft platforms that understand the DRM.
Time Warner can suck a big fat one for that.
So in order to be able to appreciate music, you also have to be able to create it now?
You're a fucking idiot.
A fix for PLEX, that doesn't even involve jailbreaking: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2...
Been available for almost 2 years. You're welcome.
Except that if you are using the Software Update Service that is part of OS X Server, you either have to MITM DNS and re-point swscan.apple.com to your box, or you have to enroll all the Macs you want to redirect to the Profile Manager service on the same server (or another MDM profile you've created with something) that tells it to get it's software updates from that location. Or, if you want to go old school, you'd need to edit the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist file and add a CatalogURL entry that points to it.
There is absolutely ZERO "automatic repointing" going on. And, the Software Updates are signed by Apple anyway.
There's nothing imitation about Mac OS X. It's actual UNIX.
Right until Google drops the axe on it. They're already well into phase one: ignoring it's existence.
Except that Apple Pay is at contractually negotiated rates, below the "card not present" rates that online retailers already happily pay.
Except that you could switch out "Apple Pay" for the upcoming "Samsung Pay" or "Google Wallet" or "Contactless Payments" and still have the same problem.
This is not fraud happening because someone has cracked Apple Pay - this is bad people doing what they would have done before, only using stolen credentials and information on an iPhone.
Also, I love the meaningless statistic at the top of the summary - a 6% fraud rate, out of how many transactions? And that 0.1% fraud rate on traditional magswipe transactions is out of how many orders of magnitude more?
first tricked into giving a little bit of money and then a little more until it's a sizable sum in total. At that point it's very hard to get out because you're mentally holding yourself prisoner there with the logic that if you quit now, you've lost that investment and you're going to look like an idiot.
This is commonly referred to as 'throwing good money after bad.' Very common in large business when people keep chasing that TCO that will never be realized due to being scammed into some crap project that should have never been approved, or should not have been approved as designed.
We appreciate you doing what you can to fix some of these holes. However, Google appears to have no teeth which to use to get the handset manufacturers to actually update their products.
There can be software fixes for every single issue, but if they never get deployed, it does nothing to solve the issues.
Especially if BlackBerry's treatment of this Samsung device doesn't remove the backdoors in the baseband firmware...
I would love to see a 10 year old girl trying to carry the Macintosh Luggable for one mile. The damn thing weighed 16 pounds. Also, who would entrust their 10 year old girl with a $6500 (in 1989) slab of technology to carry for a mile?
It's a dice throw, as with all Google services, whether they fix it or just outright kill it.
Under extremely low atmospheric pressure, it's likely the water would not stay water - it would sublimate to vapor. Nobody said it would be easy and wouldn't present challenges.
So instead of tackling the issues of logistics and construction, we go right on spewing shit into the atmosphere killing thousands of people a year and doing harm to the ecosystem waiting for technology that doesn't exist.
What's funny is that I was able to buy subsidized LED and CFL bulbs from my energy provider at the same to less cost than the incandescents in the shop down the way, so I have a big box of old 60W, 75W and 100W bulbs gathering dust from when I switched out every bulb in the house.
If LED bulbs live up to the lifetime they advertise, I expect I'll not need to look in that box for a long time.
Well, you might be able to buy them with Bitcoin, so clearly it belongs on the Slashdot front page.