With respect to hardware, cost is a big factor. Compare the price of the OUYA ($99, Tegra 3) to the Madcatz MOJO ($250, Tegra 4). And it's not fair to point at a subsidized phone either, since their true prices are in the many hundreds of dollars.
Disclosure: I work at OUYA.
The pinball heyday was the same as the arcade heyday! Remember The Addams Family pinball? It came out in 92, and was the best selling pinball machine of all time. The 90's was fantastic for pinball! All the best machines (IMHO) are from that era. Unfortunately, as arcades got less popular, so did pinball. As time got tough for arcades, pinball unfortunately was the first to go since they were so expensive and difficult to maintain.
Small correction: As you stated, he didn't invent pinball (he wasn't THAT old), but he also didn't invent the flippers. What he did was put the two flippers at the bottom of the machine, and crank up the juice, so the ball can be flipped across the playfield to the top. Sounds insignificant, but it turned pinball from a pachinko style gambling device into a legitimate competitive game of skill.
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The Xbox 360 has not been jailbroken (on current firmware). It's had its DVD firmware hacked to allow booting of pirated discs, but you cannot jailbreak the 360 to run unsigned code.
How's that any different than a video game console? You can only run "approved" software on the PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii. Does that mean these systems are also crippled? As long as they do what they say they'll do, then I don't have a problem. Sony removing "other OS" from the PS3 is a violation of that, and they should be severely spanked.
You can install both Windows and Linux on Apple hardware. All they prevent you from doing is running their software on other's hardware, I don't see the big deal there.
By Apple not licensing their DRM, they forced the music industry to sell mp3s so that other online stores could compete with iTunes (since iPods could only play non-DRM files and Fairplay DRM files). Once this became common place, Apple was able to (forced to?) remove the DRM from their own store.
Scholars have known of the letter’s existence for more than 300 years, but not its contents. Apparently the only person who had really studied it was a Haverford undergraduate who spent a semester writing a paper about the letter in 1979. (Mr. Bos called the paper “a truly fine piece of work.”)
So did they know it existed or not? Is the news just that the letter is being returned to France? Big deal.
No glass? Are you crazy? It's one of the defining features that makes that phone such a joy to use. I say that even though the screen on my first iphone spontaneously cracked while just sitting in my pocket. My 3G replacement has lasted for a couple years though.
If I go to a store and hand over some money to buy a product, at that point I stopped being a customer and now a cost center until I am given the product I paid for (a few seconds later). How is this example different other than timing?
Notice that in movie trailers whenever the death of an animal is implied (@ 1:34), they specifically show that it turns out the animal is alive, of course, in the same trailer they can kill oodles of humans. They go out of their way to show the animal is alive despite the fact that it can take away from the joke and waste precious 'trailer' time.
And there's also a Columbine RPG that can be downloaded, but your examples (mods) and that are user generated, and will likely not be seen by many people.
And here I thought the effective way to counter speech you don't like is with your own speech, not your money (though, with businesses that doesn't hurt).
So far I've seen a lot of gamers upset by this (myself included) but none have said it should be 'banned'. We've just said that it was a bad move on IW's part. I'm allowed to 'say' that, right? Free speech?
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With respect to hardware, cost is a big factor. Compare the price of the OUYA ($99, Tegra 3) to the Madcatz MOJO ($250, Tegra 4). And it's not fair to point at a subsidized phone either, since their true prices are in the many hundreds of dollars. Disclosure: I work at OUYA.
The pinball heyday was the same as the arcade heyday! Remember The Addams Family pinball? It came out in 92, and was the best selling pinball machine of all time. The 90's was fantastic for pinball! All the best machines (IMHO) are from that era. Unfortunately, as arcades got less popular, so did pinball. As time got tough for arcades, pinball unfortunately was the first to go since they were so expensive and difficult to maintain.
Small correction: As you stated, he didn't invent pinball (he wasn't THAT old), but he also didn't invent the flippers. What he did was put the two flippers at the bottom of the machine, and crank up the juice, so the ball can be flipped across the playfield to the top. Sounds insignificant, but it turned pinball from a pachinko style gambling device into a legitimate competitive game of skill.
The Xbox 360 has not been jailbroken (on current firmware). It's had its DVD firmware hacked to allow booting of pirated discs, but you cannot jailbreak the 360 to run unsigned code.
Linux is free. I can't believe I needed to state that on Slashdot.
Brian Dunning of the podcast Skeptoid debunked this ages ago: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4147
How's that any different than a video game console? You can only run "approved" software on the PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii. Does that mean these systems are also crippled? As long as they do what they say they'll do, then I don't have a problem. Sony removing "other OS" from the PS3 is a violation of that, and they should be severely spanked.
You can install both Windows and Linux on Apple hardware. All they prevent you from doing is running their software on other's hardware, I don't see the big deal there.
By Apple not licensing their DRM, they forced the music industry to sell mp3s so that other online stores could compete with iTunes (since iPods could only play non-DRM files and Fairplay DRM files). Once this became common place, Apple was able to (forced to?) remove the DRM from their own store.
Isn't there also a medium that a resume can be put on that doesn't even require a computer to read? I can't recall what it is at the moment...
That was the Apple III, and I think it was heat.
Why not have both manual locks and an iKey lock? iKey for the convenience and manual as a backup. Or have a keypad as a backup, etc.
So did they know it existed or not? Is the news just that the letter is being returned to France? Big deal.
No glass? Are you crazy? It's one of the defining features that makes that phone such a joy to use. I say that even though the screen on my first iphone spontaneously cracked while just sitting in my pocket. My 3G replacement has lasted for a couple years though.
If I go to a store and hand over some money to buy a product, at that point I stopped being a customer and now a cost center until I am given the product I paid for (a few seconds later). How is this example different other than timing?
They just rebooted the Punisher last year.
They could make him emo, oh wait...
The red sun drains his powers?
Read the article. That's the whole point of it.
Notice that in movie trailers whenever the death of an animal is implied (@ 1:34), they specifically show that it turns out the animal is alive, of course, in the same trailer they can kill oodles of humans. They go out of their way to show the animal is alive despite the fact that it can take away from the joke and waste precious 'trailer' time.
And where would I, a Canadian, get a US IP?
And there's also a Columbine RPG that can be downloaded, but your examples (mods) and that are user generated, and will likely not be seen by many people.
And here I thought the effective way to counter speech you don't like is with your own speech, not your money (though, with businesses that doesn't hurt). So far I've seen a lot of gamers upset by this (myself included) but none have said it should be 'banned'. We've just said that it was a bad move on IW's part. I'm allowed to 'say' that, right? Free speech?
Give this man (and his colleagues) the Nobel prize already! This is some freaking impressive science.
When did being a market leader mean being a monopoly?