Modern consoles put an end to that. They're just the thing for when you have some friends over; you don't want to play games sitting in the den crowded around a keyboard
The hardware exists, but what about software? Do any PC FPS's even support non-network multiplyer? In my experience, the only real use-cases for local multiplayer with USB game pads are MAME and... console emulators.
it will be flexed a lot more often than people move their laptop screens.
You mean more often than people close the lid of their laptop to put it in their bag and carry with them? Suffice it to say, running video signals through a regularly exercised hinge is a solved problem.
For one, being only able to see my old emails, you couldn't complete an email-based password reset from whatever sites I have accounts on. If you could do that, you would be effectively stealing my account on that site until I do another password-reset to steal it back. While bank websites usually have a little more security than this, getting in to e.g. a PayPal, eBay, or Amazon account would be enough to do some damage before the account owner figures out whats going on.
I don't think you understand how consumer technology works. Right now maybe one of these screens cost ~$1.00 each for advertisers, and $0.10 for the manufacturers. If the popularity of these screens grows, advertisers will press on manufacturers to lower their cost (to allow themselves greater profit) and manufacturers will invest in lowering their own costs to lure business away from their competitors. As volumes increase, manufacturers will also be able to bring costs closer to the actual per-unit cost, since they can still have sufficient profit to recoup the sizable upfront R&D costs.
No, the advertisers will not magnanimously decide to decrease their profits in order to make the technology cheaper. But the nature of technology is that more widgets == lower cost per widget. If it gets cheap enough it may become affordable for less profitable ventures than advertising. How else do you think libraries, one of the most underfunded and neglected public institutions around, will be able to afford this? Or universities, whose endowments/funding are getting slashed in the current economic meltdown?
Lastly, despite your smug use of "capitalistic" as a pejorative term, the fact is without "capitalistic" folks investing in technology none of us would be here on this website having this discussion.
There is a bit of precedent in the technology world for this (IMO, annoying) kind of acronym construction: W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), I2C (Inter-Integrated Circuit), L2CAP (Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol), to name a few from memory.
If returns are allowed, Good apps will get returned almost as often as poor apps.
Um, why? Because people are satisfied with good apps and want to continue using them? And they are unsatisfied with poor apps and have no reason for them to be on their phone?
What's more likely is some people buy an app, 'back it up', return it for a refund, and find some hack or backdoor that permits them to still use the app.
How is this at all likely? If you can afford a $200 phone + $70-$90/month contract, why would you waste your time "stealing" a $1-$5 app in this way? Sure, some people will do this, but I can't imagine this being common enough for Apple or 3rd party developers to care very much.
Yes, but Netflix's competitors all offer a large percentage of recent popular/blockbuster movies. Netflix online library, on the other hand, gives you random foreign, indie, and old films with a smattering of contemporary Hollywood B-list fare. No e.g. Dark Knight or Harry Potter.
Don't get me wrong, I certainly enjoy Netflix's hodgepodge assortment of online content. But for Joe Sixpack, they've got a ways to go to replace DVDs.
Lets take take a rational approach to this issue. Forget about the space taken by the latching and mounting mechanisms, and just consider the casing in the battery compartment. Lets say that the case is 1mm thick, which probably isn't too far off from the actual thickness. There is a casing around the battery that we will also estimate to be 1mm thick. The (removable) battery in my 15" MacBook Pro is roughly 110x140mm.
So the total area used by the battery is
W * H = 110mm * 140mm = 15400 mm^2
The total area used by casing is
(compartment casing thickness + battery casing thickness) * (2*W + 2*H) = (1mm + 1mm) * (220mm + 280mm) = 1000mm^2
1000 / 15400 = 0.065 = 6.5%
So not even counting the extra mechanical structures needed to hold the battery in place and to allow the battery to be released, there is a 6.5% increase in available surface area, which can accommodate that much more battery life. If the case is a little thicker - 1.5mm - the casing turns out to be 10%.
IUTWIMCED (I used to work in mobile consumer electronics design). The first thing I learned is that every aberration from a simple box case and every moving part has significant effect on available internal space. The MacBook Pro is no different.
I would guess that in the hypothetical future in which these farms are practical, we will have progressed beyond burning hydrocarbons as the prevailing automotive fuel source. Its not hard to imagine, with the existing movement towards hybrid/electric/fuel cell/etc. vehicles.
You are mistaken. OS X's kernel is a hybrid of Mach and FreeBSD (uses FreeBSD's VFS, processes, sockets, etc), with some significant additions developed by Apple as well. Also much of OS X's POSIX-y userland is FreeBSD-derived.
But it does. Apple's DRM is such that Apple's servers must be contacted at least once before playing back DRMed content, for a given iTunes installation. Sounds like ongoing Apple involvement to me.
9. iTMS content continues to play when one has no connection to the internet.
Only if your computer has pre-authenticated with iTunes servers. If I buy a new computer and copy my iTMS content to it, it will not play on the new computer without first checking in with iTMS servers.
Note I'm not picky about the technical details of threads vs processes, I just want the browser to not completely hang (or worse, crash) based on one tab's misbehavior.
The details are important. If a crash occurs in one thread, the whole process (i.e. application) will go down. IE8's one thread per tab model will not improve resilience against crashes.
Not possible. While e-ink is sometimes used for general purpose displays (Amazon Kindle), for specialized applications its much cheaper if the e-ink can only represent compositions of static images in fixed positions, toggled on or off. Kind of like the difference between a modern LCD monitor and the LCD on a Nintendo Game & Watch-type game.
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Of course, with modern virtual memory systems anything in memory could be written to the hard drive at any time...
Do the math; graduate with the same degree debt-free from a state university like I will, or owe hundreds of thousands of dollars as soon as the ceremony ends?
I can't speak for other Ivy league schools, but Princeton has been offering grant-only financial aid for years now, in the same dollar amounts that other schools offer as loans. Seems like a good deal to me. In fact, in my case, I would have paid more and incurred more debt going to a state school (UC).
The purpose of copyright as originally defined, in line with the purpose of the constitution itself, is to protect the weak from the strong. It is easy for a person or entity of means to steal a creative work.
When copyright was originally conceived, the cost of producing a copy was high. The strong could easily steal from the weak, because only the strong could afford to make copies in large quantities.
The Napster revolution is that the cost of copies has come so close to zero that this advantage of the strong has been dealt a fatal blow. In the case of music and video, zero-cost digital reproductions have sufficient fidelity for the overwhelming majority of consumer use. Books are likely to go that way as things like Kindle mature and become a commodity, and as future youths become accustomed to staring at screens all day (or screens are replaced by something better). When both the weak and the strong have access to zero-cost copying of works of art, whom does it serve to restrict free copying?
Imagine a large record company taking your newly written song, giving it to a singer the company endorses, and then making loads of money off of it as the new hit single of that singer. While this is what's happening now despite copyright, here's the most important part: they credit the singer as the creator of the song, completely taking you out of the picture.
Take this one step further. Given zero-cost copying, what is to stop you from taking that exact same recording, distributing it as your own, and claiming yourself as the singer? 1000 people doing just that will kill the large record company in a very short time.
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Modern consoles put an end to that. They're just the thing for when you have some friends over; you don't want to play games sitting in the den crowded around a keyboard
That hasn't been the case since about 2000. By that time, every new PC came with a port for a multitap that takes four controllers.
The hardware exists, but what about software? Do any PC FPS's even support non-network multiplyer? In my experience, the only real use-cases for local multiplayer with USB game pads are MAME and... console emulators.
it will be flexed a lot more often than people move their laptop screens.
You mean more often than people close the lid of their laptop to put it in their bag and carry with them? Suffice it to say, running video signals through a regularly exercised hinge is a solved problem.
For one, being only able to see my old emails, you couldn't complete an email-based password reset from whatever sites I have accounts on. If you could do that, you would be effectively stealing my account on that site until I do another password-reset to steal it back. While bank websites usually have a little more security than this, getting in to e.g. a PayPal, eBay, or Amazon account would be enough to do some damage before the account owner figures out whats going on.
I don't think you understand how consumer technology works. Right now maybe one of these screens cost ~$1.00 each for advertisers, and $0.10 for the manufacturers. If the popularity of these screens grows, advertisers will press on manufacturers to lower their cost (to allow themselves greater profit) and manufacturers will invest in lowering their own costs to lure business away from their competitors. As volumes increase, manufacturers will also be able to bring costs closer to the actual per-unit cost, since they can still have sufficient profit to recoup the sizable upfront R&D costs.
No, the advertisers will not magnanimously decide to decrease their profits in order to make the technology cheaper. But the nature of technology is that more widgets == lower cost per widget. If it gets cheap enough it may become affordable for less profitable ventures than advertising. How else do you think libraries, one of the most underfunded and neglected public institutions around, will be able to afford this? Or universities, whose endowments/funding are getting slashed in the current economic meltdown?
Lastly, despite your smug use of "capitalistic" as a pejorative term, the fact is without "capitalistic" folks investing in technology none of us would be here on this website having this discussion.
Oh the irony. Super Mario Bros. copying Braid?
The difference is that someone (or more likely a team of people) was paid to come up with "Bing". Not so for the majority of what you've mentioned.
Right, there's no way AdBlock Plus could have a setting to permanently disable the dialog (and automatically leave ads out).
1920x1080 (1080p) < 2560x1600 (30" Apple cinema display)
Dual link DVI does not take up two ports. Dual link DVI uses both logical data links available in a single physical DVI connection.
Has anybody managed to get flash video to play on ARM yet?
Yes, the N800, released in 2007. Thats just off the top of my head, Im sure it isn't the first such device and there have definitely been more since.
There is a bit of precedent in the technology world for this (IMO, annoying) kind of acronym construction: W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), I2C (Inter-Integrated Circuit), L2CAP (Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol), to name a few from memory.
Um, why? Because people are satisfied with good apps and want to continue using them? And they are unsatisfied with poor apps and have no reason for them to be on their phone?
What's more likely is some people buy an app, 'back it up', return it for a refund, and find some hack or backdoor that permits them to still use the app.
How is this at all likely? If you can afford a $200 phone + $70-$90/month contract, why would you waste your time "stealing" a $1-$5 app in this way? Sure, some people will do this, but I can't imagine this being common enough for Apple or 3rd party developers to care very much.
Yes, but Netflix's competitors all offer a large percentage of recent popular/blockbuster movies. Netflix online library, on the other hand, gives you random foreign, indie, and old films with a smattering of contemporary Hollywood B-list fare. No e.g. Dark Knight or Harry Potter.
Don't get me wrong, I certainly enjoy Netflix's hodgepodge assortment of online content. But for Joe Sixpack, they've got a ways to go to replace DVDs.
Lets take take a rational approach to this issue. Forget about the space taken by the latching and mounting mechanisms, and just consider the casing in the battery compartment. Lets say that the case is 1mm thick, which probably isn't too far off from the actual thickness. There is a casing around the battery that we will also estimate to be 1mm thick. The (removable) battery in my 15" MacBook Pro is roughly 110x140mm.
So the total area used by the battery is
W * H = 110mm * 140mm = 15400 mm^2
The total area used by casing is
(compartment casing thickness + battery casing thickness) * (2*W + 2*H) = (1mm + 1mm) * (220mm + 280mm) = 1000mm^2
1000 / 15400 = 0.065 = 6.5%
So not even counting the extra mechanical structures needed to hold the battery in place and to allow the battery to be released, there is a 6.5% increase in available surface area, which can accommodate that much more battery life. If the case is a little thicker - 1.5mm - the casing turns out to be 10%.
IUTWIMCED (I used to work in mobile consumer electronics design). The first thing I learned is that every aberration from a simple box case and every moving part has significant effect on available internal space. The MacBook Pro is no different.
In SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Cloud,...
Cloud? He should just bust out Knights of the Round + W-Summon on their ass.
I would guess that in the hypothetical future in which these farms are practical, we will have progressed beyond burning hydrocarbons as the prevailing automotive fuel source. Its not hard to imagine, with the existing movement towards hybrid/electric/fuel cell/etc. vehicles.
Cigarettes are another matter, I suppose.
Java applets are the only cross-platform technology that can do full 3D rendering in the browser.
You are mistaken. OS X's kernel is a hybrid of Mach and FreeBSD (uses FreeBSD's VFS, processes, sockets, etc), with some significant additions developed by Apple as well. Also much of OS X's POSIX-y userland is FreeBSD-derived.
But it does. Apple's DRM is such that Apple's servers must be contacted at least once before playing back DRMed content, for a given iTunes installation. Sounds like ongoing Apple involvement to me.
9. iTMS content continues to play when one has no connection to the internet.
Only if your computer has pre-authenticated with iTunes servers. If I buy a new computer and copy my iTMS content to it, it will not play on the new computer without first checking in with iTMS servers.
Note I'm not picky about the technical details of threads vs processes, I just want the browser to not completely hang (or worse, crash) based on one tab's misbehavior.
The details are important. If a crash occurs in one thread, the whole process (i.e. application) will go down. IE8's one thread per tab model will not improve resilience against crashes.
Not possible. While e-ink is sometimes used for general purpose displays (Amazon Kindle), for specialized applications its much cheaper if the e-ink can only represent compositions of static images in fixed positions, toggled on or off. Kind of like the difference between a modern LCD monitor and the LCD on a Nintendo Game & Watch-type game.
Of course, with modern virtual memory systems anything in memory could be written to the hard drive at any time...
Do the math; graduate with the same degree debt-free from a state university like I will, or owe hundreds of thousands of dollars as soon as the ceremony ends?
I can't speak for other Ivy league schools, but Princeton has been offering grant-only financial aid for years now, in the same dollar amounts that other schools offer as loans. Seems like a good deal to me. In fact, in my case, I would have paid more and incurred more debt going to a state school (UC).
The purpose of copyright as originally defined, in line with the purpose of the constitution itself, is to protect the weak from the strong. It is easy for a person or entity of means to steal a creative work.
When copyright was originally conceived, the cost of producing a copy was high. The strong could easily steal from the weak, because only the strong could afford to make copies in large quantities.
The Napster revolution is that the cost of copies has come so close to zero that this advantage of the strong has been dealt a fatal blow. In the case of music and video, zero-cost digital reproductions have sufficient fidelity for the overwhelming majority of consumer use. Books are likely to go that way as things like Kindle mature and become a commodity, and as future youths become accustomed to staring at screens all day (or screens are replaced by something better). When both the weak and the strong have access to zero-cost copying of works of art, whom does it serve to restrict free copying?
Imagine a large record company taking your newly written song, giving it to a singer the company endorses, and then making loads of money off of it as the new hit single of that singer. While this is what's happening now despite copyright, here's the most important part: they credit the singer as the creator of the song, completely taking you out of the picture.
Take this one step further. Given zero-cost copying, what is to stop you from taking that exact same recording, distributing it as your own, and claiming yourself as the singer? 1000 people doing just that will kill the large record company in a very short time.
ok, so, why do I have to reach to the very farthest point on the screen to get my window back?
Actually, its particularly easy to navigate the cursor to objects on the edge of the screen (see Fitts' Law).