PCs still come with a PS/2 port [...] so that I can plug my model M in (which works fine on a "modern" i7 and is a superior keyboard to 99.99% of the junk available now).
With the other 0.01 percent being Unicomp's USB keyboards that continue the model M's buckling spring tradition, correct?
I almost never plug headphones into my phone. When I do connect it to an audio system I usually do it via wifi (home) or bluetooth (car).
If someone's current car happens to support neither Bluetooth audio nor an ISO 7736 aftermarket head unit, I don't see who's willing to spend thousands of dollars for a new car or a newer used car just for Bluetooth audio. We might end up seeing Bluetooth-to-3.5 mm and Bluetooth-to-tape adapters (and Bluetooth-to-FM adapters in those countries that allow unlicensed micropower operation in the FM band).
Except one of the first things that'll come on the market is a dongle so you can plug your nice expensive Senheiser's or Bose's or whatever into the USB3 port.
And then watch the industry adopt something analogous to AACS's Image Constraint Token. A Blu-ray Disc can require all analog outputs to be downsampled to standard definition. Likewise, something like ICT for audio might require a compliant dongle to convert the analog output to mono and bandpass it to telephone bandwidth (300-3300 Hz).
Of all the pirating methods I have seen used over the years, the "analog hole" was only done by 12 year olds copying cassette tapes or straight off the radio. Not exactly a high loss area of music pirating.
Movie pirating, on the other hand, has had telesyncs for a long time. A telesync is a bootleg copy of a film recorded in a theater with an adjustable frame rate camcorder and audio from an FM microbroadcast for the hearing impaired.
You're effectively claiming that Copyright Law puts you in a 'guilty until proven innocent' which is, more precisely, claiming a violation of due process.
Because most copyright cases are torts, not crimes, the standard is preponderance of evidence, not reasonable doubt. And in cases where it's uncommon for individuals to carefully preserve evidence of title, such as retail purchase of a lawfully made copy of a computer program, preponderance of evidence behaves similarly to "guilty until proven innocent".
Can you show bank records of a purchase that's roughly the right amount?
Not likely, especially if it was on the same receipt as a bunch of other products.
let me install some WiFi cameras in your house. Let's say the bedrooms and bathrooms. They'll broadcast live stream 24/7 for anyone on the internet to see.
Then you will be the child pornographer. Between the two houses on this lot, there are a 13-year-old and a 17-year-old.
I would if I knew how "relevant industry experience" and "financial stability" are measured.
Gonna throw a "best practices" reference in there too?
I was quoting a console maker's description of developer qualifications.
You do have "some" idea what those mean, claiming you don't is just a distraction
As far as I interpret them, one needs to have already developed a game that was published on another platform. This covers the industry alumni route that you have recommended and the PC-to-console route that others have recommended. So I guess the issue is to first come up with a game concept that's as at home on a PC as it is on a Nintendo product, which the Steam Machine and Steam Link extender make somewhat easier.
be happy playing Tetris
This talking point is years out of date.
you should be learning Unity
While I go about doing so: Why didn't the Unity 3D people sue when Canonical made its similarly-named abortion the default DE for Ubuntu back in 2011?
And by the way, you probably shouldn't cite Cracked as an authoritative source on your website It's a HUMOR site.
Cracked articles cite sources as much as any news article with a more serious tone does. "Funny" doesn't rule out "Informative" and "Insightful".
I mean after all if I want to be a chef in a 5-star restaurant in a big city...I might have to MOVE to a big city.
In this analogy, what's the counterpart to platforms other than consoles? If the answer is fast food, then why is it good for users that there exist nothing between fast food and 5-star restaurants?
Or even the option to form one's OWN company right where you are.
I would if I knew how "relevant industry experience" and "financial stability" are measured.
[WarioWare DIY and Super Mario Maker] are meant for everyone to be able to pick up and use. Ease-of-use is the priority, not power.
I agree for those particular products. But there needs to be a clear path for a budding developer to graduate from ease of use to power that doesn't involve moving to another state.
I'm inclined to agree with you. The closest Nintendo has come to publishing an app to app apps are WarioWare DIY for Nintendo DS and Super Mario Maker for Wii U. These are very limited compared to the app development apps that run on an Android tablet, such as AIDE.
Indeed, it would even be an better option to have a monthly fee than to have mandatory ads.
If all the videos you watch are on YouTube, you can subscribe to YouTube Red if that's available in your country. But if you view ten different things, one on each of ten different websites, are you willing to buy ten different monthly subscriptions? Micropayments aren't quite practical yet.
Could the software vendor just lock down the features you didn't pay for? Sure, but then they wouldn't get to sue your ass off when they discover you've been using a feature you didn't pay for.
Intentionally delaying legal action is called "laches" and can limit the damages that a plaintiff can collect.
The trouble is that Redbox has new releases for $1.50 but has nothing but new releases. Unlike before, the price to rent a movie goes up after it's been out on DVD for a year.
I avoid Windows. This provides another reason why. Sometimes I forget Windows is even out there. Those are good times.:)
Not every desktop user has the money to buy a Mac and KVM switch to run your app. Nor does every desktop user have the money to buy extra RAM to run your app inside a Xubuntu virtual machine. Or perhaps you avoid developing desktop apps or offline-capable web apps.
inasmuch as I have to use Javascript in web pages to get that level of interactive capability, this is the way I choose to go about it -- write the parts that have to be Javascript in js, and the rest in Python.
But then how do you make JavaScript in the browser communicate with the Python program on the client? Or do you run Python solely on a server on the other side of the Internet from the client, which adds noticeable latency in many cases and destroys any possibility of offline use?
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PCs still come with a PS/2 port [...] so that I can plug my model M in (which works fine on a "modern" i7 and is a superior keyboard to 99.99% of the junk available now).
With the other 0.01 percent being Unicomp's USB keyboards that continue the model M's buckling spring tradition, correct?
I almost never plug headphones into my phone. When I do connect it to an audio system I usually do it via wifi (home) or bluetooth (car).
If someone's current car happens to support neither Bluetooth audio nor an ISO 7736 aftermarket head unit, I don't see who's willing to spend thousands of dollars for a new car or a newer used car just for Bluetooth audio. We might end up seeing Bluetooth-to-3.5 mm and Bluetooth-to-tape adapters (and Bluetooth-to-FM adapters in those countries that allow unlicensed micropower operation in the FM band).
Except one of the first things that'll come on the market is a dongle so you can plug your nice expensive Senheiser's or Bose's or whatever into the USB3 port.
And then watch the industry adopt something analogous to AACS's Image Constraint Token. A Blu-ray Disc can require all analog outputs to be downsampled to standard definition. Likewise, something like ICT for audio might require a compliant dongle to convert the analog output to mono and bandpass it to telephone bandwidth (300-3300 Hz).
Of all the pirating methods I have seen used over the years, the "analog hole" was only done by 12 year olds copying cassette tapes or straight off the radio. Not exactly a high loss area of music pirating.
Movie pirating, on the other hand, has had telesyncs for a long time. A telesync is a bootleg copy of a film recorded in a theater with an adjustable frame rate camcorder and audio from an FM microbroadcast for the hearing impaired.
You're effectively claiming that Copyright Law puts you in a 'guilty until proven innocent' which is, more precisely, claiming a violation of due process.
Because most copyright cases are torts, not crimes, the standard is preponderance of evidence, not reasonable doubt. And in cases where it's uncommon for individuals to carefully preserve evidence of title, such as retail purchase of a lawfully made copy of a computer program, preponderance of evidence behaves similarly to "guilty until proven innocent".
Can you show bank records of a purchase that's roughly the right amount?
Not likely, especially if it was on the same receipt as a bunch of other products.
If it's legal to own, then there is no legal recourse someone would have to remove pornographic pictures of themselves from somewhere.
If child pornography were decriminalized, the producer of the work would need to provide a model release signed by the actor's parent. Otherwise, the recourse would be revenge porn laws and trademark-like right of publicity laws.
I doubt seriously that half my country even remembers who Snowden is.
Even in my country, most don't remember that Snowden is a fictional snowman from 1997.
let me install some WiFi cameras in your house. Let's say the bedrooms and bathrooms. They'll broadcast live stream 24/7 for anyone on the internet to see.
Then you will be the child pornographer. Between the two houses on this lot, there are a 13-year-old and a 17-year-old.
I would if I knew how "relevant industry experience" and "financial stability" are measured.
Gonna throw a "best practices" reference in there too?
I was quoting a console maker's description of developer qualifications.
You do have "some" idea what those mean, claiming you don't is just a distraction
As far as I interpret them, one needs to have already developed a game that was published on another platform. This covers the industry alumni route that you have recommended and the PC-to-console route that others have recommended. So I guess the issue is to first come up with a game concept that's as at home on a PC as it is on a Nintendo product, which the Steam Machine and Steam Link extender make somewhat easier.
be happy playing Tetris
This talking point is years out of date.
you should be learning Unity
While I go about doing so: Why didn't the Unity 3D people sue when Canonical made its similarly-named abortion the default DE for Ubuntu back in 2011?
And by the way, you probably shouldn't cite Cracked as an authoritative source on your website It's a HUMOR site.
Cracked articles cite sources as much as any news article with a more serious tone does. "Funny" doesn't rule out "Informative" and "Insightful".
My landline phone does everything I need a phone to do.
Including arrange a ride home after the city buses have stopped running for the night or weekend, if you happen to be where a payphone used to be?
Even salaried employees need something to do while riding transit to and from work.
If your daughter needs a new phone, then get her a NEW PHONE
I read the claim as that a minor daughter is unlikely to need a new phone. Want perhaps, need unlikely.
I mean after all if I want to be a chef in a 5-star restaurant in a big city...I might have to MOVE to a big city.
In this analogy, what's the counterpart to platforms other than consoles? If the answer is fast food, then why is it good for users that there exist nothing between fast food and 5-star restaurants?
Or even the option to form one's OWN company right where you are.
I would if I knew how "relevant industry experience" and "financial stability" are measured.
[WarioWare DIY and Super Mario Maker] are meant for everyone to be able to pick up and use. Ease-of-use is the priority, not power.
I agree for those particular products. But there needs to be a clear path for a budding developer to graduate from ease of use to power that doesn't involve moving to another state.
I'm inclined to agree with you. The closest Nintendo has come to publishing an app to app apps are WarioWare DIY for Nintendo DS and Super Mario Maker for Wii U. These are very limited compared to the app development apps that run on an Android tablet, such as AIDE.
For the current generation of consoles, the PS4 has sold over 35 million consoles, the Xbox One is over 19 million, and the Wii U is at 12.8 million.
And PC is at 200 million.
As for handhelds, how far is PlayStation Vita behind Nintendo 3DS again?
If not ... their problem
If you planned on becoming a publisher, how would you go about trying to solve it?
Unless you assumed that end-user agreement was binding in your jurisdiction?
I thought the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act made website terms of service binding in the United States, home of Slashdot.
Indeed, it would even be an better option to have a monthly fee than to have mandatory ads.
If all the videos you watch are on YouTube, you can subscribe to YouTube Red if that's available in your country. But if you view ten different things, one on each of ten different websites, are you willing to buy ten different monthly subscriptions? Micropayments aren't quite practical yet.
Could the software vendor just lock down the features you didn't pay for? Sure, but then they wouldn't get to sue your ass off when they discover you've been using a feature you didn't pay for.
Intentionally delaying legal action is called "laches" and can limit the damages that a plaintiff can collect.
The examples where you really need special software are rare; they certainly don't include EDA or CAD.
The people I talk to online tell me KiCad is crap compared to even Eagle.
How about resurrecting the OnLive concept?
Sony bought the patents for its PlayStation Now service, and PlayStation competes with Steam.
The trouble is that Redbox has new releases for $1.50 but has nothing but new releases. Unlike before, the price to rent a movie goes up after it's been out on DVD for a year.
I avoid Windows. This provides another reason why. Sometimes I forget Windows is even out there. Those are good times. :)
Not every desktop user has the money to buy a Mac and KVM switch to run your app. Nor does every desktop user have the money to buy extra RAM to run your app inside a Xubuntu virtual machine. Or perhaps you avoid developing desktop apps or offline-capable web apps.
inasmuch as I have to use Javascript in web pages to get that level of interactive capability, this is the way I choose to go about it -- write the parts that have to be Javascript in js, and the rest in Python.
But then how do you make JavaScript in the browser communicate with the Python program on the client? Or do you run Python solely on a server on the other side of the Internet from the client, which adds noticeable latency in many cases and destroys any possibility of offline use?
Btw, if the speed is not ok, why aren't you writing in assembler?
I am. And I use Python to calculate lookup tables and convert data formats for projects written in 6502 assembly.