2 billion seems like a lot of money to sink into a gaming headset....Think more about where you could go from where the product is now, and think that other companies are doing that is similar.
What I don't understand is why they don't just develop a better product from scratch for $2B. They could also easily poach Carmack if they wanted.
don't think anyone cares if they drop this. People aren't going to hear about this platform for the first time and say "wait, I have a sneaking suspicion that previously I'd have been able to play a free sample of all games, not just some games, and that makes me less likely to want to play games on it".
I don't think anyone really cares about the Ouya. The one person I know who owns one got it from the kickstarter and hasn't unpacked it from the shipping box yet.
If they have to compete with Google Play, they need to drop anything that developers might not like.
That is really the problem, they will never be able to compete with Google Play as far as installed base goes, the smartphones alone will be a bigger draw for developers, who will at most support the Ouya platform in parallel, if a market still exists.
And they are about to put a hole into their own market and start taking on water.
this is the best possible move for the platform. customers win when they can play great games that they feel are a reasonable price. OUYA is giving devs freedom to experiment with different ways to pay. the best games and ways to pay will float to the top. As somebody who invested a couple hundred $$ into onlive, I'm a big fan of online gaming.
That is the theory, the reality is that the kickstarters are already feeling screwed over from the launch, and they are the ones that "believe" the most in the platform.
Without this feature there is nothing to differentiate themselves from the market, and they'll end up as a low cost, obsolete platform inside of a year.
My bet is no government wants to out their level of sophistication in the surveillance world... It's a massive tactical advantage.
This is likely the reason that it took Thailand so long to share it's radar data. And why no other SE Asian nations have stepped forward with their input, it's a potential breach of OpSec.
There are no manual overrides for a fly by wire system, and you cant reboot it mid flight.
That is what multiple redundancies are for. Unless this "glitch" not only shut down the radio and transponder, but took the aircraft on a new flightpath by itself, what you're suggesting is not at all likely.
Anything beyond, any assumption on the plane having been taken over completely in its navigational and communication abilities by some yet unknown force or forces, is too much of a conspiratorial theory to me. Into which I refuse to engage at this moment in time. And then, sorry to say, almost everything except of a clear motive, point to some deliberate action of the crew or parts thereof.
I wholeheartedly agree, judging by the series of events leading up to radio silence and switching transponders off and the path and flight time time beyond those events, this was very likely an intentional crash by some party with flight experience and access to the cockpit.
We can only guess at the motive until we have more data, but all the current evidence strongly suggests that this was not an accident.
You are making a PRESUMPTION that the transponders were turned off by hand. There is still the possibility of a fire or some other case. This is why recovery of the FDR's is so important. The pilots may not have been on the radio, but the FDR's record everything they say. The conversations between flight crew is crucial, along with all the airplane data.
It is a reasonable assumption that the transponders were intentionally switched off, given the chain of events following the transponders being turned off and the cessation of radio communication, especially the flight path after those events occurred.
This is a good graphical summary of the events leading up to the crash.
If your kids do not know the consequences of their actions, you do _NOT_ hand them any devices capable of generating credit card charges, it's not rocket science.
The problem is unregulated exchanges, and the regulation of exchanges as well. That seems like it will be a key weakness in the Cryptocurrency system until there are more avenues of directly spending them for physical goods and essential services than currently exists.
I do not see any reason why the BTC protocol itself could not be adapted and adopted with some kind of backing. It really does open up some really good options when it comes to moving tokens around and the push oriented payments could do wonder for combating CC fraud.
Because anyone with that level of resources and authority would not be amenable to spreading of the wealth and letting the dirty unwashed masses mine it at the ground level.
Because no black market is a bad thing, of course. If the market has demand for hired killers, for example, obviously they should exist.
(The is/should fallacy of free marketism is legitimately scary to me)
Governments and the elites have long had access to and will always have access to professional killers, the only difference is the volume of transactions that will be conducted and their targets.
We pay same price for digital downloads as we do physical copies. Its a lot of BS cause digital ones are cheaper since they don't need to give you a box and dvd.
They don't need to pay any distributors, middlemen or retailers a cut either.
In fairness social psychology at least seems to be becoming a real science - it's apparently not nearly so difficult to model the behavior of groups of people as individuals. Just our luck that the only branch of psychology to be an actual science is the one that's really good for manipulating us (as a group) into buying shit we wouldn't otherwise want, and predicting just how far they can push a population before something snaps. Coincidence?
Sociology / Social Psychology is largely statistics though, they can't do much experimentation due to ethical reasons.
Corporations don't have these same constraints as they generally have the ample resources and lack of ethics in equal measure.
This is what happens when Sociologists go to the dark side.
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What I don't understand is why they don't just develop a better product from scratch for $2B. They could also easily poach Carmack if they wanted.
I don't think anyone really cares about the Ouya. The one person I know who owns one got it from the kickstarter and hasn't unpacked it from the shipping box yet.
That is really the problem, they will never be able to compete with Google Play as far as installed base goes, the smartphones alone will be a bigger draw for developers, who will at most support the Ouya platform in parallel, if a market still exists.
And they are about to put a hole into their own market and start taking on water.
That is the theory, the reality is that the kickstarters are already feeling screwed over from the launch, and they are the ones that "believe" the most in the platform.
Without this feature there is nothing to differentiate themselves from the market, and they'll end up as a low cost, obsolete platform inside of a year.
The console version is a different game now essentially, with different mechanics and different content.
So if you take payments in bitcoin, they will be taxed as property, and not as currency?
Interesting, and messy.
Except that when you do this, you make a beeline for the nearest runway and enter the holding pattern.
This is likely the reason that it took Thailand so long to share it's radar data. And why no other SE Asian nations have stepped forward with their input, it's a potential breach of OpSec.
That is what multiple redundancies are for. Unless this "glitch" not only shut down the radio and transponder, but took the aircraft on a new flightpath by itself, what you're suggesting is not at all likely.
I wholeheartedly agree, judging by the series of events leading up to radio silence and switching transponders off and the path and flight time time beyond those events, this was very likely an intentional crash by some party with flight experience and access to the cockpit.
We can only guess at the motive until we have more data, but all the current evidence strongly suggests that this was not an accident.
It is a reasonable assumption that the transponders were intentionally switched off, given the chain of events following the transponders being turned off and the cessation of radio communication, especially the flight path after those events occurred.
This is a good graphical summary of the events leading up to the crash.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
It failed for many more serious reasons than engine performance.
There were no quests in version 1.0, it was pure grind. Most of the players were so bored out of their minds they took to crafting.
Cute game, when's will be be seeing the Kickstarter? ;D
Except that the flaw was with Human Nature, and not so much the code.
If your kids do not know the consequences of their actions, you do _NOT_ hand them any devices capable of generating credit card charges, it's not rocket science.
The problem is unregulated exchanges, and the regulation of exchanges as well. That seems like it will be a key weakness in the Cryptocurrency system until there are more avenues of directly spending them for physical goods and essential services than currently exists.
Because anyone with that level of resources and authority would not be amenable to spreading of the wealth and letting the dirty unwashed masses mine it at the ground level.
Governments and the elites have long had access to and will always have access to professional killers, the only difference is the volume of transactions that will be conducted and their targets.
This would never fly. The last 10% of the coal mines would just be laughing their way to the bank with this unexpected windfall.
They don't need to pay any distributors, middlemen or retailers a cut either.
http://hackingdistributed.com/...
That was my initial reaction as well, underwriters are going to love this one.
I'm surprised that they even release these crabs instead of just bleeding them dry.
Big pharma is really not a shining beacon of ethics and compassion.
I posit that this is just another smash and grab.
Do I "trust" Bitcoin, yes, probably as much as any Fiat currency.
Do I "trust" unregulated exchanges? No, how could anyone?
Sociology / Social Psychology is largely statistics though, they can't do much experimentation due to ethical reasons.
Corporations don't have these same constraints as they generally have the ample resources and lack of ethics in equal measure.
This is what happens when Sociologists go to the dark side.