Back in the Atari 2600 days, Star Raiders was an incredible game for the system. A few years later, a game called Solaris appeared on shelves with similar box art to Star Raiders. The comparisons didn't end there. Solaris featured enemy ships from Star Raiders, the map grid, the hyperwarping between quadrants now had an interactive "focus" element to it to determine fuel usage, the visiting of Federation (was it the same Federation as Star Raiders) planets to refuel (versus the star base) and so on.
Although information was scarce in that era, all signs pointed to Solaris being a superior sequel to Star Raiders.
I've been a fan of physical game carts/discs that are 100% playable offline.
Getting a new PS4 or Xbox One that "bundles" a download code for a game is a rip off if you have to download the game and have it call home every time you want to play.
So when the online component is down, you can't download or play the downloaded game since it can't phone home. That's ridiculous.
I skipped the Xbox One and PS4 for reasons like this. Even more so: 10 years from now when the authentication server goes offline, your Xbox One or PS4 game is dead. Whereas, I can still pop in my favorite NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, PSOne, Saturn, DreamCast, GCN, and PS2 games without any worry for an internet connection. (And select PS3 and Xbox 360 games.)
Vote with your money, people.
The miracle and wonder behind celebrating successful space missions is realizing that going to space is hard and a lot had to go well to get things to turn out right. Even with decades of satellite launches under humanity's belt, each launch is a challenge and a learning opportunity...
I lost interest in mainstream console gaming after the SNES/Genesis and the Saturn/PS1 eras. The way gaming was going on consoles (Xbox, PS2, GCN) just turned me off and I spent more time playing MMOs on PCs. So when the 360 and PS3 came out, I bought a PS3 only to serve as an easy-to-firmware-update Blu-Ray player that can play my PS1 games and, perhaps, any PS3 game that catches my eye (SF4 for example) and retro collection discs.
The killer app for me was when 3D Blu-Ray capability was added. For me, the PS3 will continue to have it's honorary position in my entertainment scenario, so long as it can play Blu-Ray movies and allow me to play Symphony of the Night on the big screen.
If my PS3 breaks while they're still making them? I'm not sure I'd buy another. I'd just get a cheap 3D-capable Blu-Ray player and play SotN by other means.
Well, so restarts the philosophical arguments raised after the original Matrix film came out. You "know" only what your sensory inputs tell you! Is your sensors are being spoofed, may it be a nice steak.
I'm happy that there is still an active remnant of the "cock & balls" NASA out there that is still exploring our universe and showing the world how it's done.
I still wish someone would make (and sell) a USB 5.25" floppy drive. I still have a few 5.25" floppies kicking around that I'd love to get data off of, if they're still readable.
It's great that we have U.S.-based cargo delivery/recovery capacity again. This is definitely a huge milestone. However, the crewed-version of the Dragon will be the true, emotional U.S. milestone, as it replaces the human element lost with the retirement of the space shuttle.
I'm sure they could go the Adobe CS route and create an Apple "Bridge" that allows all the component applications access to the iTunes Library, app library, book library and such.
In the 1990s, there used to be tons of free dial-up ISP providers that gave you free access so long as you agreed to surf the web through their branded version of Internet Explorer that framed websites in ads. Some providers required you to click the ads so many times within a certain interval of time or get disconnected.
I'm sure these frames and banner ads "violated" the design of websites that were browsed by these users, but since the websites themselves were not hacked or damaged and displayed correctly on the computer screen of those not using ad-managed ISPs/web browsers, there is probably not a tangible copyright issue.
Hotel Wi-Fi is just the modern version of this same model, albeit without using software or requiring ad clicks.
1. The websurfer agrees to a Terms of Service that allows the ISP to make changes to inbound website page requests.
2. The websurfer proceeds to request pages from a remote webserver. The ISP injects ads as the customer consented.
No where in this was the remote webserver compromised or hacked. The website still loads as the content owner designed on computers accessing the website through ISPs that have not adjusted the content.
Since the customer is agreeing to allow the ISP to alter his web browsing experience in exchange for Internet Access, this is permissible. Unethical, perhaps, but permissible. Certainly not compyright infringement.
Whether it's free Wi-Fi or paid Wi-Fi, read those Terms of Service. I'm sure this activity was disclosed in theire either explicitly or with ambiguous language. As the saying goes: Don't like it? Don't use it.
-Windows for games and Active Directory-managed MSOffice-dominated corporate offices.
-Mac OS X for creative types and the content creators for the aforementioned corporate offices.
-Linux for the sysadmin to play with at home and, at work, to have running on an old box in the server room to do a task that a Windows server could probably do just fine, but not as efficiently, and is in constant danger of being replaced with a Windows system, just so the SOX manager will be happy.
The more memory in use, the more energy Mobile devices burn. Mozilla's Firefox is a huge memory hog on personal computers. If they want a shot on the mobile market, they'll need to keep the memory footprint to a minimum.
1. earthquakes change earth's angular momentum
2. whole cities may have moved X cms, altering their GPS coordinates
3. people considering building a server farm for Android's version of iCloud will now need to think of quake coverage in their hazard insurance.
The only major problem with the Android Open Accessory port is that some handsets might not be supported (despite having the docking port) because they cannot run the latest version of Android to work with the accessory + app. Handsets are notorious for shipping with older versions of Android or the current major version of Android, but not the current point release.
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Not that old mainframe stuff isn't useful, but let's leverage something modern for the next 50 years of computing and banking.
Back in the Atari 2600 days, Star Raiders was an incredible game for the system. A few years later, a game called Solaris appeared on shelves with similar box art to Star Raiders. The comparisons didn't end there. Solaris featured enemy ships from Star Raiders, the map grid, the hyperwarping between quadrants now had an interactive "focus" element to it to determine fuel usage, the visiting of Federation (was it the same Federation as Star Raiders) planets to refuel (versus the star base) and so on.
Although information was scarce in that era, all signs pointed to Solaris being a superior sequel to Star Raiders.
I've been a fan of physical game carts/discs that are 100% playable offline. Getting a new PS4 or Xbox One that "bundles" a download code for a game is a rip off if you have to download the game and have it call home every time you want to play. So when the online component is down, you can't download or play the downloaded game since it can't phone home. That's ridiculous. I skipped the Xbox One and PS4 for reasons like this. Even more so: 10 years from now when the authentication server goes offline, your Xbox One or PS4 game is dead. Whereas, I can still pop in my favorite NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, PSOne, Saturn, DreamCast, GCN, and PS2 games without any worry for an internet connection. (And select PS3 and Xbox 360 games.) Vote with your money, people.
The miracle and wonder behind celebrating successful space missions is realizing that going to space is hard and a lot had to go well to get things to turn out right. Even with decades of satellite launches under humanity's belt, each launch is a challenge and a learning opportunity...
...some more costly than others.
I lost interest in mainstream console gaming after the SNES/Genesis and the Saturn/PS1 eras. The way gaming was going on consoles (Xbox, PS2, GCN) just turned me off and I spent more time playing MMOs on PCs. So when the 360 and PS3 came out, I bought a PS3 only to serve as an easy-to-firmware-update Blu-Ray player that can play my PS1 games and, perhaps, any PS3 game that catches my eye (SF4 for example) and retro collection discs.
The killer app for me was when 3D Blu-Ray capability was added. For me, the PS3 will continue to have it's honorary position in my entertainment scenario, so long as it can play Blu-Ray movies and allow me to play Symphony of the Night on the big screen.
If my PS3 breaks while they're still making them? I'm not sure I'd buy another. I'd just get a cheap 3D-capable Blu-Ray player and play SotN by other means.
This would have been the perfect chance for Lindows/Linspire to have struck. It was a decade too early!
Well, so restarts the philosophical arguments raised after the original Matrix film came out. You "know" only what your sensory inputs tell you! Is your sensors are being spoofed, may it be a nice steak.
I'm happy that there is still an active remnant of the "cock & balls" NASA out there that is still exploring our universe and showing the world how it's done.
Until it gets subpoena'd for IP addresses.
I still wish someone would make (and sell) a USB 5.25" floppy drive. I still have a few 5.25" floppies kicking around that I'd love to get data off of, if they're still readable.
It's great that we have U.S.-based cargo delivery/recovery capacity again. This is definitely a huge milestone. However, the crewed-version of the Dragon will be the true, emotional U.S. milestone, as it replaces the human element lost with the retirement of the space shuttle.
"Welcome.... You've got mail!"
and driver's licenses to some degree.
I swear I read that as SCROTUS.
I'm sure they could go the Adobe CS route and create an Apple "Bridge" that allows all the component applications access to the iTunes Library, app library, book library and such.
In the 1990s, there used to be tons of free dial-up ISP providers that gave you free access so long as you agreed to surf the web through their branded version of Internet Explorer that framed websites in ads. Some providers required you to click the ads so many times within a certain interval of time or get disconnected.
I'm sure these frames and banner ads "violated" the design of websites that were browsed by these users, but since the websites themselves were not hacked or damaged and displayed correctly on the computer screen of those not using ad-managed ISPs/web browsers, there is probably not a tangible copyright issue.
Hotel Wi-Fi is just the modern version of this same model, albeit without using software or requiring ad clicks.
1. The websurfer agrees to a Terms of Service that allows the ISP to make changes to inbound website page requests.
2. The websurfer proceeds to request pages from a remote webserver. The ISP injects ads as the customer consented.
No where in this was the remote webserver compromised or hacked. The website still loads as the content owner designed on computers accessing the website through ISPs that have not adjusted the content. Since the customer is agreeing to allow the ISP to alter his web browsing experience in exchange for Internet Access, this is permissible. Unethical, perhaps, but permissible. Certainly not compyright infringement.
Whether it's free Wi-Fi or paid Wi-Fi, read those Terms of Service. I'm sure this activity was disclosed in theire either explicitly or with ambiguous language. As the saying goes: Don't like it? Don't use it.
Rule 34, baby.
Hotmail account
.NET Passport account
Passport account
Windows Live ID
now finally just "Microsoft account". It's about time.
-Windows for games and Active Directory-managed MSOffice-dominated corporate offices.
-Mac OS X for creative types and the content creators for the aforementioned corporate offices.
-Linux for the sysadmin to play with at home and, at work, to have running on an old box in the server room to do a task that a Windows server could probably do just fine, but not as efficiently, and is in constant danger of being replaced with a Windows system, just so the SOX manager will be happy.
When the incompatible hardware doesn't sell, the OEMs will hear you loud and clear.
The more memory in use, the more energy Mobile devices burn. Mozilla's Firefox is a huge memory hog on personal computers. If they want a shot on the mobile market, they'll need to keep the memory footprint to a minimum.
1. earthquakes change earth's angular momentum 2. whole cities may have moved X cms, altering their GPS coordinates 3. people considering building a server farm for Android's version of iCloud will now need to think of quake coverage in their hazard insurance.
The only major problem with the Android Open Accessory port is that some handsets might not be supported (despite having the docking port) because they cannot run the latest version of Android to work with the accessory + app. Handsets are notorious for shipping with older versions of Android or the current major version of Android, but not the current point release.