What the hell are you talking about? Sony has never had as many problems with hardware as (for example), Microsoft. Sony is a hardware company, and as such has always done a great job of slowly improving their hardware processes (look at the over 10 generations of PS2). Sony also tends toward open standards, like USB (without locks), Firewire, HDMI, etc. The PS3 uses no proprietary external connectors, and the original (which I own) has memory card support for CompactFlash not just Memory Stick.
The PS3 uses standard SATA hard drives, and supports Bluetooth for wireless, not a proprietary radio signal format, and doesn't require licensed hardware to operate. Plug in any USB keyboard and you can type in text fields. The PSP has a standard mini-usb port, with a standard eighth-inch connector for stereo headphones, can't say that about many other portable devices.
Sony if anything is a supporter of standards, and openness. Sony distributed two game consoles with Linux support so far (despite taking it away).
A lot of discs are being mastered with a warning or loading image that stays on the screen for up to 30 seconds before the disc starts playing, usually saying things like "if you have an old player not all features may function as designed" and such.
I've found in most cases that it can be removed by hitting next-chapter (skip), but if you didn't know this, you'd think it was a natural delay in the format.
HD-DVD and Bluray both used blue lasers to read smaller pits and therefore store more data.
The feature of HD-DVD that was more like DVDs was the physical formatting -- there was a thicker layer of plastic, much like DVDs have, whereas Blu-ray discs have a much thinner layer, which I understand allows for the extreme cases of 100, 200, and 300GB discs.
HD-DVD lacked upward mobility in data sizes due to a physical compatibility with old mastering hardware.
Staples Business Depot here sells pre-configured routers at $15 over retail. They're pre-configured for local ISPs with big stickers on the outside to show which ones. If you use ISPA, and don't want to configure your router, just purchase a pre-configured ISPA router and bring it home.
This is equivalent to not changing your own oil. Just because its easy or simple doesn't mean its not worth paying someone else to do it for some people.
You're perceiving depth of field and other illusions that directors and cameramen have been using for ages to simulate depth when they can't do real 3D on a 2D screen.
They use distant known objects for perspective, use focus pulls, slowly expanding fields of view, etc. to help the user reconstruct the original scene.
With a 3D camera system, many of these are unnecessary as the illusion of depth can be directly coerced into the brain for most people, but when both are used together there can be confusion. A good example is one of the angles in Avatar when the camera is behind a piece of foliage that is in the foreground but out of focus. Without 3D glasses/projection, we ignore the unfocused branch as being irrelevant, but with the full illusion of depth in place, the user notices a branch floating a few feet away in front of them and tries to focus on it.
There are huge differences between real 3D perception and the illusions you've grown up with and become accustomed to in 2D movies and there is a place for both, in my opinion, as directors learn to use the technologies at their disposal. To beat a dead horse, The Wizard of Oz is garish in its use of colour, including a yellow road, to essentially brag about the new technology available to it. Why should we expect new 3D movies to by any different? When it becomes normal, I expect it to be as smooth as the use of colour in current movies.
OpenVPN is easier but not cleaner. Its TCP based and there can be nasty repercussions when doing TCP over TCP due to exponential back-off and other problems.
On nice clean normal connections, it seems to work fine, but IPSec is a more rugged way to handle the problem.
Exactly. If there were one thing I could explain to Android app developers, its to put a big qrcode link to their app's Market entry on their website. That one thing lets me download their app quickly and easily while sitting in front of my PC.
That's not exactly how it works. First of all, its not exclusive of Google services, and secondly, anyone can install third party apps on their Android phone without rooting it. Feel free to install some other search apk instead.
That said, doing an IPSec tunnel to your machine would use exactly one port on your router, and give you full access to all services on the internal machine you connect to by tunnelling the TCP/IP data in other IP packets.
NAT didn't exist in its present form when these addresses were handed out. The assumption was that every machine on the Internet was a routable entity unto itself.
IPv6 brings back that concept, with all its benefits and security issues.
Yeah I don't understand that attitude either. Canonical has done huge things for making Linux more usable to people, and I'm glad they have. I hope they profit from it and thereby encourage others to get into the game.
He was involved in the creation of Wurm Online before Minecraft as well. He did fantastic things as a one-man army working on that client to do things that hadn't been done before in cross-platform 3D Java gaming.
In Canada we have Interac. Many don't realize it, but every bank card in the country can be used to do online person-to-person money transfers without using Paypal.
I'm pretty sure you just said "Nobody's forcing me to do something I don't want to do but if I were someone else I might prefer to do otherwise."
In other words, you didn't actually respond to my point at all. I expressed a preference in terms of platform restrictions both as a user and a developer. That preference does not change what I sometimes must do, but it does change whether I like doing it, and whether I'll make a fuss about it.
That fuss got this change made, and hopefully more people making a fuss about systems they don't like will keep getting other good changes made.
Telling people they need to put up with the status quo to make money is pointless. Some people actually bother trying to make the system better.
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Sony already makes Android devices. Get over it.
Name me another game company that offered a Linux option on two of its consoles so far at all?
Thanks. End story.
The Java hating kinda has to end when Minecraft is doing so well.
But some people never update their memes.
What the hell are you talking about? Sony has never had as many problems with hardware as (for example), Microsoft. Sony is a hardware company, and as such has always done a great job of slowly improving their hardware processes (look at the over 10 generations of PS2). Sony also tends toward open standards, like USB (without locks), Firewire, HDMI, etc. The PS3 uses no proprietary external connectors, and the original (which I own) has memory card support for CompactFlash not just Memory Stick.
The PS3 uses standard SATA hard drives, and supports Bluetooth for wireless, not a proprietary radio signal format, and doesn't require licensed hardware to operate. Plug in any USB keyboard and you can type in text fields. The PSP has a standard mini-usb port, with a standard eighth-inch connector for stereo headphones, can't say that about many other portable devices.
Sony if anything is a supporter of standards, and openness. Sony distributed two game consoles with Linux support so far (despite taking it away).
What FUD have you been reading?
A lot of discs are being mastered with a warning or loading image that stays on the screen for up to 30 seconds before the disc starts playing, usually saying things like "if you have an old player not all features may function as designed" and such.
I've found in most cases that it can be removed by hitting next-chapter (skip), but if you didn't know this, you'd think it was a natural delay in the format.
HD-DVD and Bluray both used blue lasers to read smaller pits and therefore store more data.
The feature of HD-DVD that was more like DVDs was the physical formatting -- there was a thicker layer of plastic, much like DVDs have, whereas Blu-ray discs have a much thinner layer, which I understand allows for the extreme cases of 100, 200, and 300GB discs.
HD-DVD lacked upward mobility in data sizes due to a physical compatibility with old mastering hardware.
Oh whatever. When Geeksquad charges plumber rates for opening the box and doing the firmware updates, you can start crying foul.
Until then, $30 is nothing. Welcome to how business works.
Staples Business Depot here sells pre-configured routers at $15 over retail. They're pre-configured for local ISPs with big stickers on the outside to show which ones. If you use ISPA, and don't want to configure your router, just purchase a pre-configured ISPA router and bring it home.
This is equivalent to not changing your own oil. Just because its easy or simple doesn't mean its not worth paying someone else to do it for some people.
Why do you want a game that's limited by the size of your room?
Maybe you should go look at a Nintendo 3DS as soon as they become available.
The hologram on your Windows CD is a good start to "3D without glasses" as well.
The original release Blu-ray disc also has no extras, no commentary, and no additonal scenes.
Its a huge cash-cow early release.
You're perceiving depth of field and other illusions that directors and cameramen have been using for ages to simulate depth when they can't do real 3D on a 2D screen.
They use distant known objects for perspective, use focus pulls, slowly expanding fields of view, etc. to help the user reconstruct the original scene.
With a 3D camera system, many of these are unnecessary as the illusion of depth can be directly coerced into the brain for most people, but when both are used together there can be confusion. A good example is one of the angles in Avatar when the camera is behind a piece of foliage that is in the foreground but out of focus. Without 3D glasses/projection, we ignore the unfocused branch as being irrelevant, but with the full illusion of depth in place, the user notices a branch floating a few feet away in front of them and tries to focus on it.
There are huge differences between real 3D perception and the illusions you've grown up with and become accustomed to in 2D movies and there is a place for both, in my opinion, as directors learn to use the technologies at their disposal. To beat a dead horse, The Wizard of Oz is garish in its use of colour, including a yellow road, to essentially brag about the new technology available to it. Why should we expect new 3D movies to by any different? When it becomes normal, I expect it to be as smooth as the use of colour in current movies.
OpenVPN is easier but not cleaner. Its TCP based and there can be nasty repercussions when doing TCP over TCP due to exponential back-off and other problems.
On nice clean normal connections, it seems to work fine, but IPSec is a more rugged way to handle the problem.
If you believe Microsoft doesn't have a backdoor in that protection clause, you haven't seen them in court.
Microsoft isn't going to stand up for you or me or anyone else. They'll drop you like they dropped the PlaysForSure suckers.
Exactly. If there were one thing I could explain to Android app developers, its to put a big qrcode link to their app's Market entry on their website. That one thing lets me download their app quickly and easily while sitting in front of my PC.
That's not exactly how it works. First of all, its not exclusive of Google services, and secondly, anyone can install third party apps on their Android phone without rooting it. Feel free to install some other search apk instead.
You do realize there are countries in the world without American speed limits, right?
Tunnels eliminate this problem.
Side note: I don't think NAT is the solution.
That said, doing an IPSec tunnel to your machine would use exactly one port on your router, and give you full access to all services on the internal machine you connect to by tunnelling the TCP/IP data in other IP packets.
NAT didn't exist in its present form when these addresses were handed out. The assumption was that every machine on the Internet was a routable entity unto itself.
IPv6 brings back that concept, with all its benefits and security issues.
Its a frequently ignored politics question in Canada. Canada has had two founding documents, and Quebec belongs only to the first, the Federation.
Its something like wanting to be one of the original 13 states, and not being party to the addendums.
Quebec never signed onto the Canadian constitution. That's a major issue for our legal framework up here right there.
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Yeah I don't understand that attitude either. Canonical has done huge things for making Linux more usable to people, and I'm glad they have. I hope they profit from it and thereby encourage others to get into the game.
He was involved in the creation of Wurm Online before Minecraft as well. He did fantastic things as a one-man army working on that client to do things that hadn't been done before in cross-platform 3D Java gaming.
See also notch on pcgamer.
In Canada we have Interac. Many don't realize it, but every bank card in the country can be used to do online person-to-person money transfers without using Paypal.
I'm pretty sure you just said "Nobody's forcing me to do something I don't want to do but if I were someone else I might prefer to do otherwise."
In other words, you didn't actually respond to my point at all. I expressed a preference in terms of platform restrictions both as a user and a developer. That preference does not change what I sometimes must do, but it does change whether I like doing it, and whether I'll make a fuss about it.
That fuss got this change made, and hopefully more people making a fuss about systems they don't like will keep getting other good changes made.
Telling people they need to put up with the status quo to make money is pointless. Some people actually bother trying to make the system better.
That guarantee (which I can't find in Apple's store details anywhere) has nothing to do with the restrictions I eschew.