1. Photo backup service that is not intended for sharing, encrypts photos on the client before being sent up, and has a EULA that does not cede ownership to the cloud provider, 2. ??? 3. Profit
You're missing step 2 there Sparky.
i.e. How are you going to pay for the servers / bandwidth / back-end ? People have been conditioned that "free is good enough" not realizing THEY are the product.
How many people _actually_ care about your service? Because it sure isn't the mass market.
Considering they use the phrase... critical "inferencing" computation, called multiply and accumulate... instead of the terms fused MAC or FMAC I'm wondering why are they just using nVidia's Tensor Cores ?
> But now I would barely break even on the price of the modem by the time my service got upgraded and I needed a new modem. > So I could keep buying new modems every 4-5 years,
Huh??
DOCSIS 3.0 was released August 2006. I'm not sure when cable companies allowed customers to use their own cable modem but its been at least 5 years.
A basic DOCSIS 3.0 modem was like $70 a few years back. Your cable company charges you a rental fee of ~ $10/month so buying your own cable modem would pay for itself within a year.
> The fact that you can't down mod prevents a lot of trolling and control of the narrative by censorship.
Bullshit.
Over in/r/minecraft it is "illegal" to discuss the history of famous minecraft servers such, as 2B2T, because one can't discuss server names. WTF??? Who knew discussing history was "illegal"! *facepalm* (I'm assuming the intent was probably to stop server spam.)
The lack of downvotes is idiotic. How do you convey that the information is mis-leading or incorrect???
Both upvotes, downvotes are needed along with a context for WHY it was upvoted/downvoted (Informative, Insightful, Troll, etc.)
ALL of these can be played "offline". They are not MMORPGs, they are RPGs.
EVEN on PS4 I can play:
* Horizon Zero Dawn
Your rant against MMORPGs is ASSUMING everyone has fallen for the F2P we-own-the-server bullshit. Stop ignoring the genre just because the majority of games have gone for the SaS (Software-as-a-Service) model. There ARE exceptions no matter how much ranting you do.
> idiots giving money to skins in games they don't own, no level editors, no ownership
Yes, this sucks. Unfortunately your zeal for your proselytizing is not going to win any converts. Instead of ranting I would recommend a different approach -- keep it SHORT and SIMPLE:
I don't support the following Companies / Games because
* There is no level editor * Can't run my ow private server
The same thing has happened in TV. People would rather watch another person's fake life then live their own with shit such as Keeping Up with the Kartrashians.
No amount of ranting is going to change that. Deal with it in a more constructive manner.
Since technology changes so fast I would propose a common sense solution:
Software should only have copyright protection for 25 years from the date of first commercial sale.
This would give commercial entities more then enough time to make money from their product.
This would give consumers the legal protection to archive ancient games.
It is BULLSHIT that 8-bit games & productive software from 1980's for the Apple, C64, Atari, etc. are STILL copyrighted. NO ONE is using them EXCEPT for collectors and us old farts.
i.e. It SHOULD be legal to run Diablo 2 server emulators in (2000 +25 = 2025) without getting bullshit DMCA, C&D, and sued to kingdom come for wanting to play a game 25 years after the fact it first entered our culture. Blizzard has had more then enough time to make money off of it.
It SHOULD be legal to run WoW server emulators in (2004 + 25 = 2029).
Can we get a lawyer / politician who is looking out for preserving our culture???
> The attack on game ownership began with ultima series back in the 90's as all PC rpg's in development were relabelled mmo's and moved over to server locked pieces of software
While I agree with 90% of what you wrote you are omitting a key critical bit of information:
Ultima 1 - 9 were all single player.
Ultima Online was the first Ultima to offer a multiplayer experience in 1999 using Client-Server networking. While Origin could have offered a 4 - 16 player RPG they wanted to support 1,000's of players on the same server. There is no way ANY consumer hardware could have supported the SCALE of UO's networking. No consumer could afford the "Blade Servers" to host the game. Yes, there were a few different UO server emulators. But supporting 50 people is a completely different experience then supporting thousands of people on the same server.
Yes, not ALL the game data files were on the client, and yes the MMO's led the way to F2P gaming and ultimately (pardon the pun) "getting rid of game ownership." But this is a SYMPTOM of Bad Law (TM).
If copyright would stop being hijacked and only lasted 25 years since first commercial sale then we could legally preserve old games.
Gee, soldering the RAM and SSD to the MBP mobo ISN'T a dick move???
Stockholm Syndrome much?
I love my MBP and iPhone 7+ too but let's cut the bullshit of Apple's anti-right-to-repair shenanigans.
Their gimping of the Mac Mini also isn't winning any fans.
Instead of embracing Vulkan (or OpenGL) they have NIH syndrome with Metal.
HTF am I supposed to charge AND listen to my wired headphones on the iPhone now? Oh that's right buy your shitty overpriced Beats headphone garbage. NOT. Fuck this "courage" nonsense.
Apple has lost their way. All they care about is branding and making money. The _also_ used to care about technology at one time.
the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
1. the state of knowing : knowledge as distinguished from ignorance or misunderstanding 2. a) department of systematized knowledge as an object of study 2. b) something (such as a sport or technique) that may be studied or learned like systematized knowledge 3. a) knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific method 3. b) such knowledge or such a system of knowledge concerned with the physical world and its phenomena 4. a system or method reconciling practical ends with scientific laws
Science is the pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology based on evidence
Scientific methodology includes the following:
* Objective observation: Measurement and data (possibly although not necessarily using mathematics as a tool) * Evidence * Experiment and/or observation as benchmarks for testing hypotheses * Induction: reasoning to establish general rules or conclusions drawn from facts or examples * Repetition * Critical analysis * Verification and testing: critical exposure to scrutiny, peer review and assessment
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I'm wonder if this isn't a sign that sales are down?
e.g. Blizzard did the same thing with WoW when they peaked at 12 million subs and were hemorrhaging customers.
1. Security is viewed as an expense instead of as an investment.
* It takes 20 years to build a good reputation,
* It takes 20 seconds to lose it.
2. Murphy's Computer Law:
There is never time to do it right, but always time to do it over.
> Banning all ads is certainly possible in a democracy.
I don't think that's realistic at this stage of human development. :-/
> A generic ban on tv ads and web-ads (outside webshops) would be great.
That indeed would be a noble goal to reach for but, sadly, human nature is still based on an archaic paradigm: There is never enough.
Once free energy is (re)discovered, our POV will change and maybe then people will realize that ads are destructive long term.
Ah-ha, that skit! Thanks!
I *really* wish we could ban all ads. Getting rid of the visual pollution alone would make it worth it.
As in Bill Hicks the fantastic comedian? ?
What's the reference?
> You shouldn't have the right to offend others.
Bullshit.
That's how you end with idiotic Political Correctness (aka Censorship) which to quote George Carlin "is Fascidm pretending to be manners."
Only cowards censor.
The pronunciation of a related term Gimbal Lock depends if you are English or US. :-)
i.e.
* Gim
* Jim
So let's go over this business plan.
1. Photo backup service that is not intended for sharing, encrypts photos on the client before being sent up, and has a EULA that does not cede ownership to the cloud provider,
2. ???
3. Profit
You're missing step 2 there Sparky.
i.e. How are you going to pay for the servers / bandwidth / back-end ? People have been conditioned that "free is good enough" not realizing THEY are the product.
How many people _actually_ care about your service? Because it sure isn't the mass market.
> and if coded well,
IF
That's a mighty big if as websites pull in JS and images from a dozen different sites ...
Just ban ads already. The world would be a better place with the visual vomit of ads.
Indeed.
Considering they use the phrase ... critical "inferencing" computation, called multiply and accumulate ... instead of the terms fused MAC or FMAC I'm wondering why are they just using nVidia's Tensor Cores ?
Are you saying ...
Social Media IS malware? =P
> but why aren't they releasing this on PC.
To (artificially) prop up sales on consoles. i.e. Pay if you wanna play.
It will probably come to PC a year later, much like GTA V.
> But now I would barely break even on the price of the modem by the time my service got upgraded and I needed a new modem.
> So I could keep buying new modems every 4-5 years,
Huh??
DOCSIS 3.0 was released August 2006. I'm not sure when cable companies allowed customers to use their own cable modem but its been at least 5 years.
A basic DOCSIS 3.0 modem was like $70 a few years back. Your cable company charges you a rental fee of ~ $10/month so buying your own cable modem would pay for itself within a year.
Hell, the Motorola Surfboard SB6141 is down to $40 now.
> My current ISP also doesn't charge for modem rental
Now THAT'S the key difference. They DO charge for it -- just no upfront. It is bundled in with the subscription rate which is rather snarky of them.
While that is a nice sentiment it is rather naive.
Reality: CEO gets paid millions while the grunt workers doing, you know, the ACTUAL work get paid peanuts.
e.g. Case in point Bezos and Amazon workers.
> The fact that you can't down mod prevents a lot of trolling and control of the narrative by censorship.
Bullshit.
Over in /r/minecraft it is "illegal" to discuss the history of famous minecraft servers such, as 2B2T, because one can't discuss server names. WTF??? Who knew discussing history was "illegal"! *facepalm* (I'm assuming the intent was probably to stop server spam.)
The lack of downvotes is idiotic. How do you convey that the information is mis-leading or incorrect???
Both upvotes, downvotes are needed along with a context for WHY it was upvoted/downvoted (Informative, Insightful, Troll, etc.)
> they took the "single player" PC RPG, and rebranded it mmo
1. Who is "they" ???
2. MMORPG != all RPGs!
3. You are STILL conveniently ignoring the facts:
* Grim Dawn
* Torchlight 1
* Torchlight 2
* Titan Quest
ALL of these can be played "offline". They are not MMORPGs, they are RPGs.
EVEN on PS4 I can play:
* Horizon Zero Dawn
Your rant against MMORPGs is ASSUMING everyone has fallen for the F2P we-own-the-server bullshit. Stop ignoring the genre just because the majority of games have gone for the SaS (Software-as-a-Service) model. There ARE exceptions no matter how much ranting you do.
> idiots giving money to skins in games they don't own, no level editors, no ownership
Yes, this sucks. Unfortunately your zeal for your proselytizing is not going to win any converts. Instead of ranting I would recommend a different approach -- keep it SHORT and SIMPLE:
The same thing has happened in TV. People would rather watch another person's fake life then live their own with shit such as Keeping Up with the Kartrashians.
No amount of ranting is going to change that. Deal with it in a more constructive manner.
Since technology changes so fast I would propose a common sense solution:
This would give commercial entities more then enough time to make money from their product.
This would give consumers the legal protection to archive ancient games.
It is BULLSHIT that 8-bit games & productive software from 1980's for the Apple, C64, Atari, etc. are STILL copyrighted. NO ONE is using them EXCEPT for collectors and us old farts.
i.e.
It SHOULD be legal to run Diablo 2 server emulators in (2000 +25 = 2025) without getting bullshit DMCA, C&D, and sued to kingdom come for wanting to play a game 25 years after the fact it first entered our culture. Blizzard has had more then enough time to make money off of it.
It SHOULD be legal to run WoW server emulators in (2004 + 25 = 2029).
Can we get a lawyer / politician who is looking out for preserving our culture???
> The attack on game ownership began with ultima series back in the 90's as all PC rpg's in development were relabelled mmo's and moved over to server locked pieces of software
While I agree with 90% of what you wrote you are omitting a key critical bit of information:
Ultima 1 - 9 were all single player.
Ultima Online was the first Ultima to offer a multiplayer experience in 1999 using Client-Server networking. While Origin could have offered a 4 - 16 player RPG they wanted to support 1,000's of players on the same server. There is no way ANY consumer hardware could have supported the SCALE of UO's networking. No consumer could afford the "Blade Servers" to host the game. Yes, there were a few different UO server emulators. But supporting 50 people is a completely different experience then supporting thousands of people on the same server.
Yes, not ALL the game data files were on the client, and yes the MMO's led the way to F2P gaming and ultimately (pardon the pun) "getting rid of game ownership." But this is a SYMPTOM of Bad Law (TM).
If copyright would stop being hijacked and only lasted 25 years since first commercial sale then we could legally preserve old games.
> What experience is sub par?
Gee, soldering the RAM and SSD to the MBP mobo ISN'T a dick move???
Stockholm Syndrome much?
I love my MBP and iPhone 7+ too but let's cut the bullshit of Apple's anti-right-to-repair shenanigans.
Their gimping of the Mac Mini also isn't winning any fans.
Instead of embracing Vulkan (or OpenGL) they have NIH syndrome with Metal.
HTF am I supposed to charge AND listen to my wired headphones on the iPhone now? Oh that's right buy your shitty overpriced Beats headphone garbage. NOT. Fuck this "courage" nonsense.
Apple has lost their way. All they care about is branding and making money. The _also_ used to care about technology at one time.
Indeed, Avatar is basically a remake of:
* Dances with Wolves
* Pocahontas
If we look at highest grossing movies of all time as any indicator:
* Avatar
* Titantic
* Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Sadly, I think I have to agree with you. :-/
Yup, it's almost comical that every 20 years the cycle is:
* Fat Clients
* Thin Clients
Rinse. Repeat. Profit. False Promises.
Basically rampant Feminism and Stupid Juvenile Whiners such as Sweden's Feminizing Boys with Genderless Schools
--
"When you don't stand for something, you'll fall for everything."
Scientist !== Science
Engineer !== Science
A good engineer ALSO has morals. A bad one doesn't.
Or, https://www.merriam-webster.co...
1. the state of knowing : knowledge as distinguished from ignorance or misunderstanding
2. a) department of systematized knowledge as an object of study
2. b) something (such as a sport or technique) that may be studied or learned like systematized knowledge
3. a) knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific method
3. b) such knowledge or such a system of knowledge concerned with the physical world and its phenomena
4. a system or method reconciling practical ends with scientific laws
Or, https://sciencecouncil.org/abo...
Morals are mentioned WHERE again ???
Hint: They AREN'T.