The only reason you can play new games on your old hardware is that the big boys have quit pushing the limits of the hardware, as it shrinks their potential market. This is rational behavior on their part, but very annoying to us enthusiasts.
Check out my FPS in my sig. Made by myself, to please myself, and takes full advantage of your hardware--not for looks and bling, but for gameplay. It's free, too.
I'm appalled in recent years at people who refuse to even *listen* to directions from me, a competent human who knows how to tell you how to get where you need to go--because they have a TomTom. I've actually, multiple times given people directions to my home over the phone, step by step and very simple, but then they end up calling me for help because they weren't listening and now they're lost. Even when I tell them that my street name exists for several streets in the Houston area, and that I know their TomTom can't be trusted, they still blithely follow it.
This wouldn't surprise me so much accept some of these folks are supposed to be computer geeks, who have no illusions about the magical powers of computers and software. Are people lazy or what?;-/
You make some valid points, but I can assure you that a real 4 year BS in CS has it's place. For example in software development, having a deep understanding of the nuts and bolts can *often* be more important than practical experience when you're talking about more than a simple app.
See, this is the most basic problem with all these schemes--it assumes the ISP has the right to monitor what you're doing with your internet connection.
You know, the big irony here is that the issues are essentially the same as those with the news websites who don't want to like being aggregated by Google. Sure, it feels a little like a violation, but on the other hand, without it, Google isn't giving you all those free hits.
Ultimately this is simply the case where book publishers have apparently *not noticed at all* what the music and movie industries have been going through for the last decade.
I can always tell how clever an idea is by the amount of instant envy I feel for not having thought of it first.;-) But seriously, for somebody like me with *large* handwriting, writing in the air would be way easier than scrawling along on a little phone screen.
I can't wait to try it out. Sure seems obvious in restrospect (another sign of a brilliant idea).
We all bemoan how the non-moneyed are at the mercy of the wealthy in the legal system. Perhaps "angel investors" in a legitimate case are not such a bad idea?
Who would have thought that routers might not allow for large numbers of listening sockets on its client machines? You know, my real feeling is why is this on Slashdot, when these devs apparently didn't consider these obvious questions. Do they even have a QA department?
While you're right about it's destructive powers, I think you're missing the point. If it was legal, it would be dirt cheap, and meth-heads could afford to actually buy food and shelter instead of just meth.
I would agree except for the US Gov't becoming so embedded with the RIAA & co. Those people mean to end free speech on the internet, in the form of verifying that you aren't violating their copyrights. Could get ugly.
If he were to magically appoint Larry Lessig or one of our other friends, it would actually be pretty cool.
I actually find a kernel of hope in this particular deal, however. I'm hopeful that maybe the Obamas have realized that this is a sleeping dog issue, and maybe they're trying to figure it out now. That could take some time. I would like them to take their time to really understand the issues. They certainly haven't explored these issues too deepy in the past--but that was before they were in power. Most Americans are still very ignorant about it anyway so it wasn't important for the campaign.
The biggest issue I've had with a lot of novel game controllers (and I've tried many of them) is that while they may technically work very well, they just aren't practical. For example, I remember trying out a gyroscopic mouse several years ago, and it worked fine--except I had to hold the mouse up in the air...somewhere. Not only was it very tiring, but I found that without a nice steady table to slide it around on, it was impossibly to hold *steady* in the air. In the end it was useless.
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This isn't anything like pwning you but just showing that the data you shared is...shared.
Hopefully this time they won't give in to pressure from the U.S.
Legalize drugs, give me my freedom back, and watch every drug cartel implode overnight--as well as ending the civil wars in Columbia and Afghanistan.
Just sayin'.
Thanks is so *fucking* amazing. It's becoming clearer every day that quantum computing is in the state silicon computing was back in the 50's.
Things are going to get very weird!
The only reason you can play new games on your old hardware is that the big boys have quit pushing the limits of the hardware, as it shrinks their potential market. This is rational behavior on their part, but very annoying to us enthusiasts.
Check out my FPS in my sig. Made by myself, to please myself, and takes full advantage of your hardware--not for looks and bling, but for gameplay. It's free, too.
The biggest problem is people--especially techs--growing up thinking that this is the natural order of things. Madness.
I'm appalled in recent years at people who refuse to even *listen* to directions from me, a competent human who knows how to tell you how to get where you need to go--because they have a TomTom. I've actually, multiple times given people directions to my home over the phone, step by step and very simple, but then they end up calling me for help because they weren't listening and now they're lost. Even when I tell them that my street name exists for several streets in the Houston area, and that I know their TomTom can't be trusted, they still blithely follow it.
;-/
This wouldn't surprise me so much accept some of these folks are supposed to be computer geeks, who have no illusions about the magical powers of computers and software. Are people lazy or what?
Who else should they be working for?
You?
I trust the OSS guys to protect my interests a thousand times more than any random corp.
You make some valid points, but I can assure you that a real 4 year BS in CS has it's place. For example in software development, having a deep understanding of the nuts and bolts can *often* be more important than practical experience when you're talking about more than a simple app.
If my country ever got invaded, I'd sure hope we didn't have a central database of citizens the bad guys could get ahold of.
IF you have a consistent remote backup plan that you follow religiously.
Even very few geeks I know do this properly, let alone the normals.
I can't believe no one has brought up polyurethane condoms (Avanti is the only brand I know of in the US).
They are much thinner than latex or any other material.
They feel damn close to like nothing at all.
Stick a pencil in a latex condom until it breaks.
Do the same with a polyurethane. 'nuff said. Shit is the bomb.
That is fine, except for the existence of nincompoops who are liable to rm -rf *you* or *me* while their texting or watching tv while driving.
Some people should not be allowed to have root access sometimes.
It's only a matter of time before anybody, anywhere in the world can be picked off by a robot without any warning.
It's modern technology, Bobby!
See, this is the most basic problem with all these schemes--it assumes the ISP has the right to monitor what you're doing with your internet connection.
Can the phone company do that?
You know, the big irony here is that the issues are essentially the same as those with the news websites who don't want to like being aggregated by Google. Sure, it feels a little like a violation, but on the other hand, without it, Google isn't giving you all those free hits.
Ultimately this is simply the case where book publishers have apparently *not noticed at all* what the music and movie industries have been going through for the last decade.
I can always tell how clever an idea is by the amount of instant envy I feel for not having thought of it first. ;-) But seriously, for somebody like me with *large* handwriting, writing in the air would be way easier than scrawling along on a little phone screen.
I can't wait to try it out. Sure seems obvious in restrospect (another sign of a brilliant idea).
We all bemoan how the non-moneyed are at the mercy of the wealthy in the legal system. Perhaps "angel investors" in a legitimate case are not such a bad idea?
Who would have thought that routers might not allow for large numbers of listening sockets on its client machines?
You know, my real feeling is why is this on Slashdot, when these devs apparently didn't consider these obvious questions. Do they even have a QA department?
Battlefield situations where all non-combatants have already fled do not exist.
This is why war is bad, mmkay?
While you're right about it's destructive powers, I think you're missing the point. If it was legal, it would be dirt cheap, and meth-heads could afford to actually buy food and shelter instead of just meth.
You know, for all the vitriol on this board, it seems surprising to me that money isn't overflowing this nice lady's coffers for lawyers.
I would agree except for the US Gov't becoming so embedded with the RIAA & co. Those people mean to end free speech on the internet, in the form of verifying that you aren't violating their copyrights. Could get ugly.
And no, we haven't seen ugly, yet.
If he were to magically appoint Larry Lessig or one of our other friends, it would actually be pretty cool.
I actually find a kernel of hope in this particular deal, however. I'm hopeful that maybe the Obamas have realized that this is a sleeping dog issue, and maybe they're trying to figure it out now. That could take some time. I would like them to take their time to really understand the issues. They certainly haven't explored these issues too deepy in the past--but that was before they were in power. Most Americans are still very ignorant about it anyway so it wasn't important for the campaign.
If it had to be done, this was a good way to do it. Maybe it should be done more.
The biggest issue I've had with a lot of novel game controllers (and I've tried many of them) is that while they may technically work very well, they just aren't practical. For example, I remember trying out a gyroscopic mouse several years ago, and it worked fine--except I had to hold the mouse up in the air...somewhere. Not only was it very tiring, but I found that without a nice steady table to slide it around on, it was impossibly to hold *steady* in the air. In the end it was useless.
So I wonder if they've solved that.