Actually you have that backward. The Nintendo64 was an engineering marvel in the gaming world, it just wasn't well supported because it still used cartridges. Nintendo didn't go to optical media because it was slower and they wanted instant game start-up, and it didn't pay off. That said, the N64's processors were much more advanced that anything it was competing against.
I believe that's when Nintendo realized it wasn't worth it to be the top dog in hardware. The Gamecube, Wii and Wii U are interesting unique devices that aren't top of the line in specs and designed to attract buyers who don't know the difference.
On the other hand, its made me enjoy the gaming on my PS3 even more because the developers who do focus on it seem to be out to prove something. Naughty Dog and Insomniac and others' offerings on the PS3 have been absolutely beautiful and sounded incredible. I dare say nothing else out there has the kind of sound track heard in Uncharted. I can understand why others prefer something else, but for someone who wants to play a dozen fantastic games and not a hundred me-too games, its a great platform.
Same thing I was thinking. Even if you took the current PS3 and simply jacked the RAM up to 8GB (4GB each video and RAM) instead of its current 1GB, it would make a huge difference at a fairly low cost.
As someone who deals with security on a regular basis, I know that SSL doesn't fix any of the problems you're mentioning. In fact, my point is only invalidated in situations where the content itself is private to the user. Connection tracking negates your points entirely. Assuming any middle-man knowledge, I can already determine what sites you visit. Assuming any level of police state, I can just put a keyboard monitor on your USB input or a pinhole video monitor through your wall if I care.
SSL (especially without client-side certificates, which is 99.9% of the web) is just there to keep honest people out of your data.
Every company I do border gateway IT for has a border cache that filters all Internet access for the client. All connections to Internet servers go through it and reduce overall Internet bandwidth requirements, speed up actual content delivery for content accessed by multiple users (Windows Updates are a huge win) and allow the disallowing of specific sites or URIs by policy controls.
I also operate the same thing at home because well, I'm good at it and its worth it for the PS3+PC+Laptop+Tablet+SmartPhones+3DS all accessing the Internet.
They're also sometimes implemented (although now more rarely) by ISPs to reduce their bandwidth needs to service clients to frequently visited websites.
HTTPS-only is a hack from a lack of foresight and breaks caching.
What we need is a signature-only system for content that isn't private. There's no reason to encrypt the front page images on CNN to each user, but signing them so they are provably from CNN is valuable.
Yawn, another idiotic comment from someone who's knowledge of religion came from a first year lecture by a crotchety old atheist.
Not that you or anyone else is actually willing to consider this, but the major problem in religion is that humans are the actors, and tend toward being uncivil jerks to each other.
Yes and they're complete idiots for ignoring how much of the original work they got for free because of that same license and how many thousands of people lost their 'leet' exclusivity themselves to get them this far.
You're correct up to the NDA part. The GPL however requires that I give all the same rights I had to the software to the person I distribute it to. You can't remove rights you received via the GPL.
So I give my binaries to one person, I owe that one person the source, nobody else, but that person can then do whatever they want with both just like I could.
As if selling the most console units to the most people actually matters to anyone except shareholders.
Do you have shares? Thanks for the disclosure.
Personally, I loved the N64, couldn't be bothered getting a Gamecube and didn't enjoy playing games in SD anymore by the time the Wii came out. Now sure, lots of people did, and still put up with it, but it looks like dirt on a big screen.
Hell I've never seen someone manage to claim 80% income taxes up here in Canada where we really are taxed more. PS for those interested, this is federal income taxes here:
15% on the first $42,707 of taxable income, + 22% on the next $42,707 of taxable income (on the portion of taxable income over $42,707 up to $85,414), + 26% on the next $46,992 of taxable income (on the portion of taxable income over $85,414 up to $132,406), + 29% of taxable income over $132,406.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but while they did in fact lose, claiming their loss is the result of "what the American people" wanted is just callous and ignorant. Fully half the American people wanted what they got. Almost all of the other half did not.
"As of Noon on Friday, with nearly all votes in, Obama assuredly will win the popular vote, leading Romney by a count of 61,173,739 or 50.5% to 58,167,260 or 48.0%. At this point, a few final votes are being counted and then all that's left is for the results to be officially certified.)" - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/who-won-the-popular-vote-2012_n_2087038.html
That's right, out of the three hundred million people in the USA, a whopping 3 million more people voted for Obama than Romney. i wouldn't write any cheques on that opinion level.
The problem with making my argument is that it almost certainly requires insulting people randomly, but I don't mean to in advance.
But here goes. Your NAS was easy to set up, but I've seen people install three drives because they know multiple drives gives redundancy, choose JBOD or RAID-0 and not understand that a single drive failure loses most or all of their data. It was so easy after all.
I've seen people configure the NAS automatic backup and not realize it wasn't working because they didn't know to check the logs and see if it had actually worked.
I've helped people reconfigure a NAS box that they'd set up on a home LAN with a port forward so they could access it from work and not understand why having ports 139 and 445 visible from the Internet is a bad thing even with the password protection Windows file sharing offers.
I repeat that I believe the problem with easy-to-use things that are in fact very complicated is that people without the proper basic understanding of how to configure such things will trust their (very poor) instincts when making decisions.
This also applies to Wifi routers, network switches, wireless printers, laptops, etc.
A counter-example would be a coffee maker. Most people couldn't build one if they had to and don't really understand the internals but they get that it needs water and if its gummed up to wash it out. If they do that wrong, there's very little that can go wrong, and the bits that will electrocute them are hidden away and require severe effort to get at.
I'm quite certain anyone with the background necessary to understand what I said would follow (and possibly disagree) with what I said.
No tricks necessary.
If you really need an example, look at those Habitat for Humanity and other 'non-pro-built' homes or construction jobs.
Most people wouldn't pick up flooring nail gun and tries to use it without asking how, but many many people pick up a saw or hammer and think since its use is obvious they can help without asking how to best use the object in question.
As long as your dual-licensed code works by itself, there's no problem.
Its once you combine it with GPL-only code (not your own) and ship it to a customer that you have a problem, because any such action means you shipped the customer either GPL'd (or unlawfully copied) code.
Now yes, its possible to make Linux drivers so completely separate that the kernel interfaces are used but no actual code from Linux is, and that's how current binary blobs are licensed and shipped out.
I've seen this problem with Skype specifically as there are carrier-specific versions of it in Google Play, but never seen it with Google Talk or any SIP package.
Google Talk works by voice and video without adding minutes, Skype is often dinged for minutes (because it has per-carrier versions) and true SIP apps don't charge minutes either.
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Hmm ... it would be worth responding to your point if it wasn't so mockable.
Have you looked up console sales recently? You should do that.
Actually you have that backward. The Nintendo64 was an engineering marvel in the gaming world, it just wasn't well supported because it still used cartridges. Nintendo didn't go to optical media because it was slower and they wanted instant game start-up, and it didn't pay off. That said, the N64's processors were much more advanced that anything it was competing against.
I believe that's when Nintendo realized it wasn't worth it to be the top dog in hardware. The Gamecube, Wii and Wii U are interesting unique devices that aren't top of the line in specs and designed to attract buyers who don't know the difference.
On the other hand, its made me enjoy the gaming on my PS3 even more because the developers who do focus on it seem to be out to prove something. Naughty Dog and Insomniac and others' offerings on the PS3 have been absolutely beautiful and sounded incredible. I dare say nothing else out there has the kind of sound track heard in Uncharted. I can understand why others prefer something else, but for someone who wants to play a dozen fantastic games and not a hundred me-too games, its a great platform.
Same thing I was thinking. Even if you took the current PS3 and simply jacked the RAM up to 8GB (4GB each video and RAM) instead of its current 1GB, it would make a huge difference at a fairly low cost.
More myths from the paranoid.
As someone who deals with security on a regular basis, I know that SSL doesn't fix any of the problems you're mentioning. In fact, my point is only invalidated in situations where the content itself is private to the user. Connection tracking negates your points entirely. Assuming any middle-man knowledge, I can already determine what sites you visit. Assuming any level of police state, I can just put a keyboard monitor on your USB input or a pinhole video monitor through your wall if I care.
SSL (especially without client-side certificates, which is 99.9% of the web) is just there to keep honest people out of your data.
Every company I do border gateway IT for has a border cache that filters all Internet access for the client. All connections to Internet servers go through it and reduce overall Internet bandwidth requirements, speed up actual content delivery for content accessed by multiple users (Windows Updates are a huge win) and allow the disallowing of specific sites or URIs by policy controls.
I also operate the same thing at home because well, I'm good at it and its worth it for the PS3+PC+Laptop+Tablet+SmartPhones+3DS all accessing the Internet.
They're also sometimes implemented (although now more rarely) by ISPs to reduce their bandwidth needs to service clients to frequently visited websites.
cf. WPAD
Since the cache servers in between the client and the server can't cache the content for multiple users.
Oh, you thought only browser caches mattered.
Consider the still excellent though ancient http://www.ircache.net/
HTTPS-only is a hack from a lack of foresight and breaks caching.
What we need is a signature-only system for content that isn't private. There's no reason to encrypt the front page images on CNN to each user, but signing them so they are provably from CNN is valuable.
Yawn, another idiotic comment from someone who's knowledge of religion came from a first year lecture by a crotchety old atheist.
Not that you or anyone else is actually willing to consider this, but the major problem in religion is that humans are the actors, and tend toward being uncivil jerks to each other.
Relevant and interesting quiz on what the rich really pay in taxes: http://money.cnn.com/quizzes/2012/pf/taxes/rich-pay-tax/
Yes and they're complete idiots for ignoring how much of the original work they got for free because of that same license and how many thousands of people lost their 'leet' exclusivity themselves to get them this far.
You're correct up to the NDA part. The GPL however requires that I give all the same rights I had to the software to the person I distribute it to. You can't remove rights you received via the GPL.
So I give my binaries to one person, I owe that one person the source, nobody else, but that person can then do whatever they want with both just like I could.
I still have my PS2 hooked up as well. Was just playing Shadow Hearts again actually. Ahh ... such really good RPGs.
Meanwhile, I can't play Wii games, they hurt my eyes. Too grainy.
As if selling the most console units to the most people actually matters to anyone except shareholders.
Do you have shares? Thanks for the disclosure.
Personally, I loved the N64, couldn't be bothered getting a Gamecube and didn't enjoy playing games in SD anymore by the time the Wii came out. Now sure, lots of people did, and still put up with it, but it looks like dirt on a big screen.
I was going to write almost exactly the same thing, I'm glad you got modded up for it.
Now, I believe the EA games comment was "two gamecubes held together with tape" but lol anyway.
Hell I've never seen someone manage to claim 80% income taxes up here in Canada where we really are taxed more. PS for those interested, this is federal income taxes here:
15% on the first $42,707 of taxable income, +
22% on the next $42,707 of taxable income (on the portion of taxable income over $42,707 up to $85,414), +
26% on the next $46,992 of taxable income (on the portion of taxable income over $85,414 up to $132,406), +
29% of taxable income over $132,406.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but while they did in fact lose, claiming their loss is the result of "what the American people" wanted is just callous and ignorant. Fully half the American people wanted what they got. Almost all of the other half did not.
"As of Noon on Friday, with nearly all votes in, Obama assuredly will win the popular vote, leading Romney by a count of 61,173,739 or 50.5% to 58,167,260 or 48.0%. At this point, a few final votes are being counted and then all that's left is for the results to be officially certified.)" - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/who-won-the-popular-vote-2012_n_2087038.html
That's right, out of the three hundred million people in the USA, a whopping 3 million more people voted for Obama than Romney. i wouldn't write any cheques on that opinion level.
The problem with making my argument is that it almost certainly requires insulting people randomly, but I don't mean to in advance.
But here goes. Your NAS was easy to set up, but I've seen people install three drives because they know multiple drives gives redundancy, choose JBOD or RAID-0 and not understand that a single drive failure loses most or all of their data. It was so easy after all.
I've seen people configure the NAS automatic backup and not realize it wasn't working because they didn't know to check the logs and see if it had actually worked.
I've helped people reconfigure a NAS box that they'd set up on a home LAN with a port forward so they could access it from work and not understand why having ports 139 and 445 visible from the Internet is a bad thing even with the password protection Windows file sharing offers.
I repeat that I believe the problem with easy-to-use things that are in fact very complicated is that people without the proper basic understanding of how to configure such things will trust their (very poor) instincts when making decisions.
This also applies to Wifi routers, network switches, wireless printers, laptops, etc.
A counter-example would be a coffee maker. Most people couldn't build one if they had to and don't really understand the internals but they get that it needs water and if its gummed up to wash it out. If they do that wrong, there's very little that can go wrong, and the bits that will electrocute them are hidden away and require severe effort to get at.
I'm quite certain anyone with the background necessary to understand what I said would follow (and possibly disagree) with what I said.
No tricks necessary.
If you really need an example, look at those Habitat for Humanity and other 'non-pro-built' homes or construction jobs.
Most people wouldn't pick up flooring nail gun and tries to use it without asking how, but many many people pick up a saw or hammer and think since its use is obvious they can help without asking how to best use the object in question.
As long as your dual-licensed code works by itself, there's no problem.
Its once you combine it with GPL-only code (not your own) and ship it to a customer that you have a problem, because any such action means you shipped the customer either GPL'd (or unlawfully copied) code.
Now yes, its possible to make Linux drivers so completely separate that the kernel interfaces are used but no actual code from Linux is, and that's how current binary blobs are licensed and shipped out.
Oh, duly noted, just posted it without commentary to be as neutral sounding as possible.
He seems completely oblivious to the effects of his behaviour at some level, and I posted as much on my own G+ feed.
I've told lots of friends to get an Android device and use Google Talk / Skype to make calls rather than paying for minutes. Its just logical.
I've seen this problem with Skype specifically as there are carrier-specific versions of it in Google Play, but never seen it with Google Talk or any SIP package.
Google Talk works by voice and video without adding minutes, Skype is often dinged for minutes (because it has per-carrier versions) and true SIP apps don't charge minutes either.
Except perhaps when ordering it from a sufficiently snotty employee who spat in it after you mispronounced it :)