That's very true. I guess when I think homebrew I'm thinking something primarily for my own use and I would have no problem just requiring an external gamepad. My wiimote works great on my Android tablet and phone for that purpose.
Opening the platform up doesn't exclude professionally developed games.
The problem here is like you said "Their model is DEAD". But that doesn't mean they won't try to hang on to it for dear life. The thing is they want a cut of every game sale and they want to keep the prices high. iOS and Android have numerous professional games but the prices are usually low. The PC has a slew of pro games but MS isn't making a dime on the purchase price for the vast majority of them. So Sony, Nintendo, et al want an iOS style cut with high AAA game on PC like prices and they think if they clamp down hard that's what they'll get. There's also the issue of the console hardware pricing being artificially low to the point of losing on each sale on the assumption that they'll make up for it in game revenues.
Bear in mind that it's just a business model and it has produced fairly predictable and profitable results for a number of decades. I don't think Nintendo and Sony want to go the app store model since even Apple says they only make a pittance off theirs. The way I see it is if I'm going to try to make a game I'm not going to try to homebrew something on a hostile platform. I'll just fire up Eclipse and work on something for Android and be done with it as at least on there if I come up with something good it's little trouble to put it on the Play Store for sale. Obviously some people don't see it that way.
Maybe it's better and I could give it another chance but it honestly seemed better suited for someone who uses their computer differently than I do I guess.
You probably still won't like it. I've been on both sides of the fence. Sometimes I want a TV to just be a media device so XBMC is good. Other times I'm looking for a workstation in the living room. If that's you then don't bother with media player apps as they'll always get in your way.
My android has multitouch, and my hp laptop has two-fingered scrolling. But they,re a disastrous implementation and thoroughly unpleasant to use.
I don't know what "your Android" is but my Galaxy Nexus and Xoom both running Jellybean have excellent multi-touch behavior easily equal to the experience on my iPad.
So the law against murder actually causes more murders and is negative for the people. Amazing what you learn on Slashdot.
The entire paragraph preceding what you quoted is focusing specifically on government interference in the market. It's reasonable to assume that the "laws" he was talking about are those specifically in that domain. I'm not saying whether I agree with him or not but I can't imagine how you misconstrued his meaning so badly.
Apple's touch is currently better. I find Android systems (including mine) as having much more trouble figuring out what my touches are supposed to do
That's strange since in my situation I've found it to be precisely opposite. When I'm using my iPad it's mostly for surfing the internet and I almost always have to tap twice on the urlbar before I hit the right spot for it to register. Dead on isn't it for some reason. Other parts of the OS have the same issue but maybe not as bad. Contrast that with my Xoom running Jellybean and the Xoom touches are always just right. My finger touches an element straight on and it hits it. Same with my Galaxy Nexus. Maybe my iPad's defective but it's always been that way since I bought it.
Wikipedia's rules actually only apply to Wikipedia itself. "The rest of the internet" does not actually need to follow them.
When the internet welcome party gets done with me, I'll have them commence immediately on the epic bash welcoming you to the planet Earth. You know, that place where citing a lawsuit filing is not and has never been a valid citation of how copyright can be interpreted or whether the terms are being obeyed by a particular party.
<idiotJuror>Those icons won't compile and run on an iPhone so it isn't prior art at all. As a matter of fact "prior art" as a concept is just too much of a burden to even think about and, wouldn't you look at the clock, it's lunchtime!</idiotJuror>
You forget that most public observations are ephemeral, and that people violate several laws every day without knowing so.
Not only that but practically any crime these days can be ratched upward in seriousness. I saw a case recently where a guy was using his phone to commit the crimes but he was only calling people in his own state so it wasn't federal. Or so you would think. The phone records were pulled and come to find out one of the calls ended up bouncing off of a satellite and was therefore "out of state". The feds picked it up.
Ever heard of the fourth amendement? Obviously not.
Ever heard of "reasonable suspicion"? I.e., where the cop says you appeared to be "staggering" and therefore he reasonably suspects that you're on drugs? Obviously not.
Also, shouldn't criminals who have served their entire sentence (including parole) be removed from this database?
Why would they want to do that? If they restored full citizenship to ex-cons and actually allowed them to lead productive lives as full-fledged members of society, drastically lowering the recidivism rate from desperate people that can't even get hired at McDonalds and see no choice but to go back to crime, then how are they going to keep all the prosecutors, judges, police, detention officers, wardens, etc. employed? I mean, for God's sake man, what about the stockholders for the private prison corporations? Who's thinking about them?
All they need to do then is get them to "confess" (aka "plea bargain").
And conveniently over 90 percent of federal cases end in plea bargaining. And if you make the mistake of not taking the offer and get found guilty at trial, you can be virtually certain to end up with a harsher sentence and at a minimum, you want receive the "downward departure" for being cooperative which is standard in federal cases.
That being said, why wait until that phase to get the confession when you can just send in the private investigators from the start. PIs aren't bound by any of that "Miranda Act" nonsense and can pretty much say anything they want to get you to incriminate yourself and it all stands up in court just as well as if an interviewing detective had gotten you to talk.
That's really cute. But judging from your vehement arguing for the indefensible in this case, I'm going to have to strike your citation on grounds of "original research". Sorry, Ms. Giberti. Welcome to the internet.
To further expand on this, Viviani who was a pupil of Torricelli and also one of the first members of The Accademia del Cimento is credited with having improved the Galileo Thermometer but he didn't actually invent it. I thought all of this was widely known though.
My understanding was that Torricelli who was a pupil of Galileo actually built the "Galileo Thermometer". It would seem to be appropriately named as even today when a grad student makes a discovery or somebody dreams up some patentable something, the credit usually goes to the professor or company the person is working under.
No, but they have to take driving lessons, their test is far harder and they are willing to remove people from driving for decades or life in some instances.
Here we let 100 year olds drive over school children.
We need better public transportation and consideration for bicyclists. There is a lot of pressure from people wanting to get licenses easier, at younger ages, and for a longer time and I personally think one thing that makes having a DL in this country a virtual necessity is the apathy towards good public transportation and the lack of consideration for bicyclists. If those two problems were addressed, many people wouldn't need to drive in the first place and wouldn't make such a huge stink about the proposition of making getting and keeping a license more difficult.
The bus sucks so bad in most cities in the US that it is a stigma just to be seen on one. Of course, this is no excuse but it wouldn't be that hard to raise the bar a little bit. Start by the drivers having nice well-fitting uniforms and a polite demeanor. Think Starbucks or Chick-fil-a. Those two things alone would attract more people and it would cost so little to implement. On a lark I took the bus about a month ago to get downtown and the driver was a complete asshole. I didn't know how much the fair was but I figured it was less than 2 dollars so I went to put my money in the machine and the driver gave me this look of contempt and spat, "we don't give change". Okay, fine, the fair was a buck and a half and I won't die if I don't get my 50 cents back but did the driver have to be such an ass about it? And you actually want my business again?
Nokia is a has been. Now they're just a commodity integrator of other people's parts. Samsung would have them for lunch. You're obviously a fan. Sorry.
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I think you accidentally something there.
you would be like a tv on mute with no volume button
That's some 4chan fabulous shit right there. Bravo!
Try this search engine. It remove the top million sites. Might be what you're looking for.
That's very true. I guess when I think homebrew I'm thinking something primarily for my own use and I would have no problem just requiring an external gamepad. My wiimote works great on my Android tablet and phone for that purpose.
Here's a suggestion.
Opening the platform up doesn't exclude professionally developed games.
The problem here is like you said "Their model is DEAD". But that doesn't mean they won't try to hang on to it for dear life. The thing is they want a cut of every game sale and they want to keep the prices high. iOS and Android have numerous professional games but the prices are usually low. The PC has a slew of pro games but MS isn't making a dime on the purchase price for the vast majority of them. So Sony, Nintendo, et al want an iOS style cut with high AAA game on PC like prices and they think if they clamp down hard that's what they'll get. There's also the issue of the console hardware pricing being artificially low to the point of losing on each sale on the assumption that they'll make up for it in game revenues.
Bear in mind that it's just a business model and it has produced fairly predictable and profitable results for a number of decades. I don't think Nintendo and Sony want to go the app store model since even Apple says they only make a pittance off theirs. The way I see it is if I'm going to try to make a game I'm not going to try to homebrew something on a hostile platform. I'll just fire up Eclipse and work on something for Android and be done with it as at least on there if I come up with something good it's little trouble to put it on the Play Store for sale. Obviously some people don't see it that way.
Maybe it's better and I could give it another chance but it honestly seemed better suited for someone who uses their computer differently than I do I guess.
You probably still won't like it. I've been on both sides of the fence. Sometimes I want a TV to just be a media device so XBMC is good. Other times I'm looking for a workstation in the living room. If that's you then don't bother with media player apps as they'll always get in your way.
My android has multitouch, and my hp laptop has two-fingered scrolling. But they,re a disastrous implementation and thoroughly unpleasant to use.
I don't know what "your Android" is but my Galaxy Nexus and Xoom both running Jellybean have excellent multi-touch behavior easily equal to the experience on my iPad.
So the law against murder actually causes more murders and is negative for the people. Amazing what you learn on Slashdot.
The entire paragraph preceding what you quoted is focusing specifically on government interference in the market. It's reasonable to assume that the "laws" he was talking about are those specifically in that domain. I'm not saying whether I agree with him or not but I can't imagine how you misconstrued his meaning so badly.
Apple's touch is currently better. I find Android systems (including mine) as having much more trouble figuring out what my touches are supposed to do
That's strange since in my situation I've found it to be precisely opposite. When I'm using my iPad it's mostly for surfing the internet and I almost always have to tap twice on the urlbar before I hit the right spot for it to register. Dead on isn't it for some reason. Other parts of the OS have the same issue but maybe not as bad. Contrast that with my Xoom running Jellybean and the Xoom touches are always just right. My finger touches an element straight on and it hits it. Same with my Galaxy Nexus. Maybe my iPad's defective but it's always been that way since I bought it.
Wikipedia's rules actually only apply to Wikipedia itself. "The rest of the internet" does not actually need to follow them.
When the internet welcome party gets done with me, I'll have them commence immediately on the epic bash welcoming you to the planet Earth. You know, that place where citing a lawsuit filing is not and has never been a valid citation of how copyright can be interpreted or whether the terms are being obeyed by a particular party.
Yeah but see...
<idiotJuror>Those icons won't compile and run on an iPhone so it isn't prior art at all. As a matter of fact "prior art" as a concept is just too much of a burden to even think about and, wouldn't you look at the clock, it's lunchtime!</idiotJuror>
You forget that most public observations are ephemeral, and that people violate several laws every day without knowing so.
Not only that but practically any crime these days can be ratched upward in seriousness. I saw a case recently where a guy was using his phone to commit the crimes but he was only calling people in his own state so it wasn't federal. Or so you would think. The phone records were pulled and come to find out one of the calls ended up bouncing off of a satellite and was therefore "out of state". The feds picked it up.
Ever heard of the fourth amendement? Obviously not.
Ever heard of "reasonable suspicion"? I.e., where the cop says you appeared to be "staggering" and therefore he reasonably suspects that you're on drugs? Obviously not.
Plan B is most likely for Microsoft to buy Nokia for pennies to the dollar
I'm pretty sure we're still talking about Plan A here.
Also, shouldn't criminals who have served their entire sentence (including parole) be removed from this database?
Why would they want to do that? If they restored full citizenship to ex-cons and actually allowed them to lead productive lives as full-fledged members of society, drastically lowering the recidivism rate from desperate people that can't even get hired at McDonalds and see no choice but to go back to crime, then how are they going to keep all the prosecutors, judges, police, detention officers, wardens, etc. employed? I mean, for God's sake man, what about the stockholders for the private prison corporations? Who's thinking about them?
All they need to do then is get them to "confess" (aka "plea bargain").
And conveniently over 90 percent of federal cases end in plea bargaining. And if you make the mistake of not taking the offer and get found guilty at trial, you can be virtually certain to end up with a harsher sentence and at a minimum, you want receive the "downward departure" for being cooperative which is standard in federal cases.
That being said, why wait until that phase to get the confession when you can just send in the private investigators from the start. PIs aren't bound by any of that "Miranda Act" nonsense and can pretty much say anything they want to get you to incriminate yourself and it all stands up in court just as well as if an interviewing detective had gotten you to talk.
That's really cute. But judging from your vehement arguing for the indefensible in this case, I'm going to have to strike your citation on grounds of "original research". Sorry, Ms. Giberti. Welcome to the internet.
I hope Internet Brands wins. Fuck the freetards.
So, um, I notice you're using words from the English language without a license, freetard. See you in court.
To further expand on this, Viviani who was a pupil of Torricelli and also one of the first members of The Accademia del Cimento is credited with having improved the Galileo Thermometer but he didn't actually invent it. I thought all of this was widely known though.
My understanding was that Torricelli who was a pupil of Galileo actually built the "Galileo Thermometer". It would seem to be appropriately named as even today when a grad student makes a discovery or somebody dreams up some patentable something, the credit usually goes to the professor or company the person is working under.
Or maybe I'm wrong.
No, but they have to take driving lessons, their test is far harder and they are willing to remove people from driving for decades or life in some instances.
Here we let 100 year olds drive over school children.
We need better public transportation and consideration for bicyclists. There is a lot of pressure from people wanting to get licenses easier, at younger ages, and for a longer time and I personally think one thing that makes having a DL in this country a virtual necessity is the apathy towards good public transportation and the lack of consideration for bicyclists. If those two problems were addressed, many people wouldn't need to drive in the first place and wouldn't make such a huge stink about the proposition of making getting and keeping a license more difficult.
The bus sucks so bad in most cities in the US that it is a stigma just to be seen on one. Of course, this is no excuse but it wouldn't be that hard to raise the bar a little bit. Start by the drivers having nice well-fitting uniforms and a polite demeanor. Think Starbucks or Chick-fil-a. Those two things alone would attract more people and it would cost so little to implement. On a lark I took the bus about a month ago to get downtown and the driver was a complete asshole. I didn't know how much the fair was but I figured it was less than 2 dollars so I went to put my money in the machine and the driver gave me this look of contempt and spat, "we don't give change". Okay, fine, the fair was a buck and a half and I won't die if I don't get my 50 cents back but did the driver have to be such an ass about it? And you actually want my business again?
Irony is better when you don't overdo it.
Nokia is a has been. Now they're just a commodity integrator of other people's parts. Samsung would have them for lunch. You're obviously a fan. Sorry.
Too bad Nokia doesn't make iPhones.