What worries me isn't his opinion, or what he thinks is coming. What worries me is his lack of resistance to it and his acceptance of "oh well, that's how it's going, that's what we'll do".
This seeming blazay attitude, coupled with his comments a while back where he said something like "People only need privacy when they're doing something they shouldn't be" really worries me, since he commands a lot of power and sway online. Eric, imagine if someone posted a video of you taking a dump and posted it on youtube, your views on privacy and "I have nothing to hide" might change...
He's probably right in that every government will want online identity, of course they would. But it's up to us to battle for "what is right" and we always hoped Google would help us. If he just rolls over and accepts it, that's terrible for us.
True, but many of those players probably would never have bought it anyway. Therefore it's not costing valve anything. Customers gets something for free, feel happy, Valve gives something away at negligable consumable cost to them, and doesn't loose revenue from lost sales as they wouldn't have been sales in the first place. Genius.
This is the sort of customer service we should expect, not congratulate, but well done Valve, makes me happy:-)
Indeed, if he could make a board that you just plug into your router, that would certainly be an appealing product. Better still, wifi it's ass.
You really don't need a projector, you only need to know that "a" piece has moved from x to y. You don't need to know what piece it is, as that data is already stored on the server. All you need to know is where the piece has moved from and to. As a previous poster said, magnetism would do it with reed switches, or I'm sure some solid state electronics could achieve the same thing.
hmmmm, i'll stop typing here and get typing into my patent portfolio!
The thing about the internet is that you don't have to sell what you make. Monetising the web isn't just about selling the digital content you create, that's too simple and quite frankly, outdated. If you have a news site that has a lot of readers, you can sell other things that people are prepared to pay for. It's obvious that Google's main product is search, but no-one has ever paid for it, so how come they're a $120 billion company? Think about it Rupert, think outside the box.
I'm so glad the system in the UK is different. We have a whole raft of time warping products available including the excellent Sky+. Now, i'm sure there are patents on much of the technology, thus protecting companies IP and encouraging innovation, however people are very free to come up with the same idea but implemented in a different way, or buy a licence and save on development costs and time.
It's like Dyson and the hoover. The patent is on the cyclone technology, not on "the ability to suck dust up off the floor".
Or have I missed the point and just continued the long and quite frankly boring by now patent argument?!
$.06 / kwh?! Wow, that's really cheap. Here in the UK I'm paying 6p / kwh, and I work for a nuclear generator and get "special" rates... Most people are paying over 12p...
I have a couple of these:
http://www.excito.com/ and they are excellent. However, after reading these posts, i'm also going to buy some of those plug servers. Never have too many servers!
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And I even used Google to check the spelling!
What worries me isn't his opinion, or what he thinks is coming. What worries me is his lack of resistance to it and his acceptance of "oh well, that's how it's going, that's what we'll do".
This seeming blazay attitude, coupled with his comments a while back where he said something like "People only need privacy when they're doing something they shouldn't be" really worries me, since he commands a lot of power and sway online. Eric, imagine if someone posted a video of you taking a dump and posted it on youtube, your views on privacy and "I have nothing to hide" might change...
He's probably right in that every government will want online identity, of course they would. But it's up to us to battle for "what is right" and we always hoped Google would help us. If he just rolls over and accepts it, that's terrible for us.
True, but many of those players probably would never have bought it anyway. Therefore it's not costing valve anything. Customers gets something for free, feel happy, Valve gives something away at negligable consumable cost to them, and doesn't loose revenue from lost sales as they wouldn't have been sales in the first place. Genius.
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This is the sort of customer service we should expect, not congratulate, but well done Valve, makes me happy
hear hear again!
hear hear
Indeed, if he could make a board that you just plug into your router, that would certainly be an appealing product. Better still, wifi it's ass. You really don't need a projector, you only need to know that "a" piece has moved from x to y. You don't need to know what piece it is, as that data is already stored on the server. All you need to know is where the piece has moved from and to. As a previous poster said, magnetism would do it with reed switches, or I'm sure some solid state electronics could achieve the same thing. hmmmm, i'll stop typing here and get typing into my patent portfolio!
I hope so!
hah, until I read your comment, that's what I thought it did say...
The thing about the internet is that you don't have to sell what you make. Monetising the web isn't just about selling the digital content you create, that's too simple and quite frankly, outdated. If you have a news site that has a lot of readers, you can sell other things that people are prepared to pay for. It's obvious that Google's main product is search, but no-one has ever paid for it, so how come they're a $120 billion company? Think about it Rupert, think outside the box.
A man much smarter than I once said: "A paperless office is about as likely as a paperless toilet...". Now, where were those three sea shells?
I'm so glad the system in the UK is different. We have a whole raft of time warping products available including the excellent Sky+. Now, i'm sure there are patents on much of the technology, thus protecting companies IP and encouraging innovation, however people are very free to come up with the same idea but implemented in a different way, or buy a licence and save on development costs and time. It's like Dyson and the hoover. The patent is on the cyclone technology, not on "the ability to suck dust up off the floor". Or have I missed the point and just continued the long and quite frankly boring by now patent argument?!
$.06 / kwh?! Wow, that's really cheap. Here in the UK I'm paying 6p / kwh, and I work for a nuclear generator and get "special" rates... Most people are paying over 12p...
I have a couple of these: http://www.excito.com/ and they are excellent. However, after reading these posts, i'm also going to buy some of those plug servers. Never have too many servers!
I'm not sure that they're still trading but I hope so. Their automatic intermittent side impact protection devices were the stuff of legends...