But if you have a game you bought and you want to let your girlfriend or someone play it in the other room on their machine, they can't, because your $60 only attaches it to your account. Imagine if other products worked that way? Sorry, before we all sit down to watch this movie on Netflix, we have to pay for it several times over.
Both are shitty. I should be able to spend $60 on a game on Steam or another service or device and let someone else in my household enjoy it, without having to shell out another $60 so they can have a copy on their account. And then another $60 for the next person in the household.
They're not fucking discontinuing service. They're stopping service on ONE day out of the week. Frankly, they did it backwards. Mail should be delivered ONCE per week. Seriously, how much mail do you get via the USPS that is worthwhile? I get junkmail. That's it. Literally, that is it. Anyone who needs to communicate with me uses modern methods. Anyone sending me a package or any company I get something from uses reliable UPS or FEDEX or DHL. Bills are all online. The USPS is a fucking *nuisance*. I have a small trash can by the front door, so that I can get the mail once per week and dump it all directly into the trash. Once per week delivery service is a fantastic way to save a ridiculous amount of money and still provides enough service to facilitate the needs of the country.
Slashdot needs to allow posters to embed images into their comments, so they can win over all the hip reddit kids who reply to 90% of posts with a shitty psuedo-"meme" image instead of composing a fucking sentence.
Giant ominous blimps overseeing the population below, drones, the "See Something; Say Something" videos everywhere, including Walmart checkouts and the "See Something; Say Something" mantra being repeated at subways and train stations. TSA VIPR teams spreading out across the country to do traffic stops, inspect you in line at the train station and football events. Pre-emptive cyber-warfare. Nope, this isn't Orwellian at all. Nope.
I have never felt that packaged forum systems were robust enough or integrateable enough to be worth it. In every situation, I have rolled my own. Including when deploying it for a community of 100k+ users. I'd also much rather roll my own functionality as a project grows into the individual application of the forum rather than go out and grab someone's plugin/module to stick into it and hope it answers my needs.
Also, what the hell ever happened to nested-threaded discussions? Why is EVERY god damn forum out there in the last decade just this obnoxious flat-thread full of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes? Is it because the developers are too lazy to add a minimal amount of recursion in their engine or . . . what?!
Doesn't impact the Ouya as a finished product, but it potentially distracted and cost developers of the hundreds of games on Kickstarter that suddenly felt they had to placate Ouya backers by promising to port to another platform that we knew/know very little about that may never even have enough of an audience to justify it, just because it was a hip thing to tout.
I always found that odd in their launch pitch on Kickstarter, too. Nobody has thought console gaming is dead or missed the "true" gaming days of sitting around the television playing games. . . . but I guess that's an invented point they thought might work to appeal to potential backers. And with almost ten million bucks pledged, I guess it didn't hurt.:/
That appeal isn't applicable broadly enough to sustain it as a viable product. Developers and geeks like us appreciate the open nature of it and the tinkerability of it but the majority of those who would potentially buy it as a consumer device likely don't care or even know that aspect of the product.
Also, don't get me wrong -- I would absolutely to be proven wrong about this device. This is just my arm-chair analysis, which is divorced entirely from my personal hopes.
I want the Ouya to prove all of the doubters wrong and offer something amazing to the world, but I think it ultimately will not have the ecosystem or longevity to make it viable for much of anything.
I withdrew my backing after the first day of hype -- and I'm pretty easy to lure into your Kickstarter (I've backed about 450 of them, so far). I think the only value in this product will, ultimately, be in its conversation value as something sitting on your shelf in fifteen years. With the PS4 and the next Xbox coming out this year as well as the various Steam Boxes and the next round of high end GPUs for PC about to drop, the Ouya's brief appeal seems even less relevant. Most of the excitement at the time had been that it was touching on this mass appeal for *some* sort of new hardware in a world of aging seven-going-on-eight year old consoles this cycle.
Worse, the whole "we will support Ouya" thing became a plague on every single game related kickstarter afterward. And if you didn't say you were going to port your game to Ouya, people would spam your comments non-stop about "hey, you should contact Ouya and consider porting your game to it". Because when you're trying to produce a game on the cheap that is iffy to begin with, the best thing to do is hitch that wagon to an unreleased piece of hardware that will probably have little success and certainly not offer you anything remotely near the existing platforms that you're already developing the application for, like the PC. Blech.
If they want to fix it, they'll stop with someone else subsidizing or otherwise footing (even shared) the ultimate bill. Of course you have hospital rooms that cost $10,000 per day and where a Tylenol is $95, because as long as you're ultimately billing an insurance company or the state, who gives a shit? Same goes for car insurance. If everyone had to pay out of pocket directly for their insurance and various expenses, the price would have to drop because you couldn't play the "inflate the costs, because no actual individual ultimately gets the bill at the end of the day for everything" game.
From what all the news articles have told me in the past two years, new graduates won't work for a pittance anymore. Young people expect and demand that they immediately be given the job of top executive and a six figure salary plus an iPhone and constant facebook and twitter access at work.
I work from home and have done so nights and weekends for the last fifteen years (no, I'm not a male hooker). I wish all government and business entities catered to more than just the 9-5 crowd, but I recognize that it simply isn't justifiable. The extra expense compared to the traffic they'd get in return (though a library would be more popular than most other services, I'm sure) just seems too much.
On the other hand, if they'd update libraries a bit -- make them open very late into the night or even all night and then open up (by contract) a cafe and coffee shop in one and encourage lounging around and reading, it would be a pretty great night spot and they could do enough business to help with the added costs of keeping them open.
It might even make me come use the library, which I haven't done since I was a kid because internet. And Amazon.
Yes, the poor, poor minority of maligned Christians. Why, with only 80% to 90% of the country being Christians, they truly are constantly on the receiving end of discrimination and intimidation. Poor persecuted intolerant bastards. *sob*
Huh? You want to fight to keep the libraries open 24x7? I mean, I agree that would be great, but it isn't financially feasible since the vast majority of people they serve are using it during the day, anyway.
Oh, you mean like all of the stop-light cameras that were timed so that they'd trigger incorrectly and catch people running red lights who weren't actually running red lights, so they could fine them by mail and build revenue through a method that most people don't have the time or patience to contest and may even be convinced to believe they were actually guilty over, because of the camera in the first place?
What do the police have to do with solutions to our social problems? Like most government agencies, they simply exist to find ways to gain revenue to fund themselves to justify their continued existence.
Actually, a better question would be "I wonder how much money we could charge people to make every light they approach turn green as they near it". After all, the only point of these is to gather revenue. Safety has nothing to do with it. They could just as well be making revenue (probably more) by charging people for a "green light influence". The more you pay, the more influence you have. If you pay $10/mo for your chip and another guy pays $100/mo and you both near a light, the $100 guy gets a green light and you don't. It makes just as much sense, in that it generates revenue.
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But if you have a game you bought and you want to let your girlfriend or someone play it in the other room on their machine, they can't, because your $60 only attaches it to your account. Imagine if other products worked that way? Sorry, before we all sit down to watch this movie on Netflix, we have to pay for it several times over.
Both are shitty. I should be able to spend $60 on a game on Steam or another service or device and let someone else in my household enjoy it, without having to shell out another $60 so they can have a copy on their account. And then another $60 for the next person in the household.
They're not fucking discontinuing service. They're stopping service on ONE day out of the week. Frankly, they did it backwards. Mail should be delivered ONCE per week. Seriously, how much mail do you get via the USPS that is worthwhile? I get junkmail. That's it. Literally, that is it. Anyone who needs to communicate with me uses modern methods. Anyone sending me a package or any company I get something from uses reliable UPS or FEDEX or DHL. Bills are all online. The USPS is a fucking *nuisance*. I have a small trash can by the front door, so that I can get the mail once per week and dump it all directly into the trash. Once per week delivery service is a fantastic way to save a ridiculous amount of money and still provides enough service to facilitate the needs of the country.
Slashdot needs to allow posters to embed images into their comments, so they can win over all the hip reddit kids who reply to 90% of posts with a shitty psuedo-"meme" image instead of composing a fucking sentence.
All I see is a blank page, too.
Chrome on iPad - blank page
Safari on iPad - blank page
Chrome on Windows 7 - blank page
IE 9 on Windows 7 - blank page
Giant ominous blimps overseeing the population below, drones, the "See Something; Say Something" videos everywhere, including Walmart checkouts and the "See Something; Say Something" mantra being repeated at subways and train stations. TSA VIPR teams spreading out across the country to do traffic stops, inspect you in line at the train station and football events. Pre-emptive cyber-warfare. Nope, this isn't Orwellian at all. Nope.
I have never felt that packaged forum systems were robust enough or integrateable enough to be worth it. In every situation, I have rolled my own. Including when deploying it for a community of 100k+ users. I'd also much rather roll my own functionality as a project grows into the individual application of the forum rather than go out and grab someone's plugin/module to stick into it and hope it answers my needs.
Also, what the hell ever happened to nested-threaded discussions? Why is EVERY god damn forum out there in the last decade just this obnoxious flat-thread full of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes? Is it because the developers are too lazy to add a minimal amount of recursion in their engine or . . . what?!
Doesn't impact the Ouya as a finished product, but it potentially distracted and cost developers of the hundreds of games on Kickstarter that suddenly felt they had to placate Ouya backers by promising to port to another platform that we knew/know very little about that may never even have enough of an audience to justify it, just because it was a hip thing to tout.
No, it's pronounced Ooh-Yuh.
They offered the device's startup stinger that you can play somewhere. It's pretty underwhelming (just sounds like some tribal guys saying OOH YUH!).
I always found that odd in their launch pitch on Kickstarter, too. Nobody has thought console gaming is dead or missed the "true" gaming days of sitting around the television playing games. . . . but I guess that's an invented point they thought might work to appeal to potential backers. And with almost ten million bucks pledged, I guess it didn't hurt. :/
That appeal isn't applicable broadly enough to sustain it as a viable product. Developers and geeks like us appreciate the open nature of it and the tinkerability of it but the majority of those who would potentially buy it as a consumer device likely don't care or even know that aspect of the product.
Also, don't get me wrong -- I would absolutely to be proven wrong about this device. This is just my arm-chair analysis, which is divorced entirely from my personal hopes.
I want the Ouya to prove all of the doubters wrong and offer something amazing to the world, but I think it ultimately will not have the ecosystem or longevity to make it viable for much of anything.
I withdrew my backing after the first day of hype -- and I'm pretty easy to lure into your Kickstarter (I've backed about 450 of them, so far). I think the only value in this product will, ultimately, be in its conversation value as something sitting on your shelf in fifteen years. With the PS4 and the next Xbox coming out this year as well as the various Steam Boxes and the next round of high end GPUs for PC about to drop, the Ouya's brief appeal seems even less relevant. Most of the excitement at the time had been that it was touching on this mass appeal for *some* sort of new hardware in a world of aging seven-going-on-eight year old consoles this cycle.
Worse, the whole "we will support Ouya" thing became a plague on every single game related kickstarter afterward. And if you didn't say you were going to port your game to Ouya, people would spam your comments non-stop about "hey, you should contact Ouya and consider porting your game to it". Because when you're trying to produce a game on the cheap that is iffy to begin with, the best thing to do is hitch that wagon to an unreleased piece of hardware that will probably have little success and certainly not offer you anything remotely near the existing platforms that you're already developing the application for, like the PC. Blech.
If they want to fix it, they'll stop with someone else subsidizing or otherwise footing (even shared) the ultimate bill. Of course you have hospital rooms that cost $10,000 per day and where a Tylenol is $95, because as long as you're ultimately billing an insurance company or the state, who gives a shit? Same goes for car insurance. If everyone had to pay out of pocket directly for their insurance and various expenses, the price would have to drop because you couldn't play the "inflate the costs, because no actual individual ultimately gets the bill at the end of the day for everything" game.
The school now owns the nude photos of children that they spy on with their school-provided laptop webcams while they're home in their bedroom.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100221/2118128243.shtml
From what all the news articles have told me in the past two years, new graduates won't work for a pittance anymore. Young people expect and demand that they immediately be given the job of top executive and a six figure salary plus an iPhone and constant facebook and twitter access at work.
I work from home and have done so nights and weekends for the last fifteen years (no, I'm not a male hooker). I wish all government and business entities catered to more than just the 9-5 crowd, but I recognize that it simply isn't justifiable. The extra expense compared to the traffic they'd get in return (though a library would be more popular than most other services, I'm sure) just seems too much.
On the other hand, if they'd update libraries a bit -- make them open very late into the night or even all night and then open up (by contract) a cafe and coffee shop in one and encourage lounging around and reading, it would be a pretty great night spot and they could do enough business to help with the added costs of keeping them open.
It might even make me come use the library, which I haven't done since I was a kid because internet. And Amazon.
No, but after these two presidents for these four terms, we're sure all working on understanding how that works.
Whoa, how do I get in on this? I make a six-figure salary and I just have a shitty feature phone that I paid $15 for after the $50 coupon.
In the US, everything comes with religion attached. Even a bowl of soup for a starving child comes with a self-righteous sermon.
Yes, the poor, poor minority of maligned Christians. Why, with only 80% to 90% of the country being Christians, they truly are constantly on the receiving end of discrimination and intimidation. Poor persecuted intolerant bastards. *sob*
Huh? You want to fight to keep the libraries open 24x7? I mean, I agree that would be great, but it isn't financially feasible since the vast majority of people they serve are using it during the day, anyway.
Oh, you mean like all of the stop-light cameras that were timed so that they'd trigger incorrectly and catch people running red lights who weren't actually running red lights, so they could fine them by mail and build revenue through a method that most people don't have the time or patience to contest and may even be convinced to believe they were actually guilty over, because of the camera in the first place?
What do the police have to do with solutions to our social problems? Like most government agencies, they simply exist to find ways to gain revenue to fund themselves to justify their continued existence.
Actually, a better question would be "I wonder how much money we could charge people to make every light they approach turn green as they near it". After all, the only point of these is to gather revenue. Safety has nothing to do with it. They could just as well be making revenue (probably more) by charging people for a "green light influence". The more you pay, the more influence you have. If you pay $10/mo for your chip and another guy pays $100/mo and you both near a light, the $100 guy gets a green light and you don't. It makes just as much sense, in that it generates revenue.