That would depend upon where you were purchasing it from and whether or not the shop informed you of such at the time of purchase, I'd think. There is some degree of culpability that lies upon the retailer of a product.
"Business wants you to RENT everything- no ownership."
Well, not entirely true, but pretty true in the gaming industry. I'd much rather you own my equipment, as the longer you use it, the better it looks (I haven't had to replace this thing in a decade!) at least for my business.
"Don't know of many (if any) console games that have had that much online support made for them"
Phantasy Star Online is still rolling for both DC and PS2. Just finished playing a bit of it on the PS2 this morning. The official GC and XBox servers have been long gone, but the others plus a few private servers are still rolling.
"No, it's not a general-purpose computer. You're making the engineering/geek mistake of confusing the underlying raw specs of a device with its actual designed/marketed/sold-for purpose"
You're making the mistake of confusing marketing for fact. Fact: iPad has an ARM processor. Fact: despite what MARKETING says, it's a general-purpose computer in the fact it's made for a variety of everyday tasks. Period. MARKETING'S PURPOSE IS TO SELL YOU A LIE.
Hi, learn what the fuck a CPU is before saying it's not a computer. Does it compute? Then it is a computer.
Goddamn the fools are out in force today. In the Apple vs PC crowd, looks like I'm the only one with a brain to simply look at the silicon configuration and capability and go "Yep, that's a computer."
Fuck all you ignorant tools. Can the thing give you 1+1=2? Then it's a goddamned computer no matter how else you look at it.
"*Grrr*- look, there's thousands of games available for the Xbox, does that make it a general-purpose computer too?"
Are we talking about the original XBox? FUCK YES IT'S A GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER, given it had a goddamned x86 core and ran a modified version of Windows, or even Linux if you felt like doing some hacking. Shit you modify the firmware and you could use the original XBox for TONs of applications.
The new 360? Not so much. The PS3? Most certainly (if it's the old fat version.)
Go do some actual programming for the devices before you run off at the mouth about something that is painfully obvious you know nothing about.
Whooooooo I don't know where to begin, as this is wrong on so many levels.
E-mail? Check. Games? Check. Chat? Check. Presentations? Check. Sync with other devices? Check. You can even use the iPad for some minor music stuff! It's even got a webcam.
Smells like a general-purpose computer to me. Works like a general-purpose computer.
"Paper is notoriously difficult to manage, easy to lose, easy to destroy and comparatively speaking, difficult to produce and search so there's less of it."
Tell that to my fire-resistant file cabinet. nothing short of an acetyline torch will dent it. Everything is nice and tidy and it takes me less than three seconds to find anything with my categorization system. I'm a product of the DOS age - you learned quickly to keep things organized and structured or you'd lose things rapidly in the mess of directories. If companies can't do that, that's their problem, and they have monkeys for staff.
"Additionally, paper is expensive to retain and well run organizations have scheduled document destruction dates."
Paper requires as much energy to store as an unplugged hard drive full of data, and has fairly similar storage requirements. As far as destruction goes, I have longer data retention periods than most companies, because my products will actually last for ten years or more, and I offer product-life advice, so it helps to be able to verify if the caller/questioner is a client, and if they are not, try to interest them in my product.
"Almost nothing is kept more than 7 years."
Because most products aren't designed to last that long, sadly, ignoring the matters of law.
"Watching someone go into a dusty basement and pull out some useful shred from 30 years ago is mostly just movie fiction."
Or slashdot geek reality. I still have documents from the '70s that I like to reference every now and then. hell I have hardware older than that which gets dragged out now and then and turned on to see if it still works.
"Setting up a web site, email server, etc. is non-trivial."
Yea, if you have the money to pay for others to do it for you or you're a geek. Otherwise, most decent free sites with a semi-decent WYSIWYG editor have become few and far between, and unless you can set up your own apache server, expose it to the net, run your own DynDNS, set up MySQL or other similar thing, you're pretty much SOL.
You can't do it right the first time, there are multiple calcium deposits in your inner ear that act as balance weights. Almost all of mine are loose and it takes about 45 minutes to get them back into the right position (outside of the semicircular canals.)
This is considered an organic semiconductor, and thus an organic transistor.
Moore's law still holds, if not just got smashed by this possible computational breakthrough. Instead of roughly doubling every 18 months, try three orders of magnitude every 6 months. The amount of calculating power this could allow would speed up technology development immensely.
I suffer from BPPV (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo) and I'd probably have to' win the game' about thirty times before I actually managed to get the calcium inner ear weights to get back into their proper positions.
I don't need a device to tell me my vertigo is cured, as the device can't understand what I'm feeling at the exact moment. Also, a cure implies it should never occur ever again. Guess what I have to do nearly on a weekly basis?
I'm old enough to remember 300 baud, Z, Q, Y, X modem, and much more. Wanna see a $1,000 ISDN setup? My dad's on here, I bet he still has that huge box lying around somewhere in storage. He's about as bad as I am in pack-ratting old stuff.
That's what you think. I don't know about you but I was in direct contact with MPEG-LA lawyers recently about their licensing terms (confusion over what constituted commercial use,) and given the terms of their licensing as stated and clarified directly to me, I'll not be surprised to see many, many sites ditching H.264 in favor of something free. You may think theora's a non-starter but you know what, you're all focused on technical limitations and other bullshit when you should worry about "DOES IT FUCKING WORK OR NOT?" That answer is yes, and since it does work, it's viable enough.
Most game designers don't ever program a thing, (according to my pal taking game design in college) so I'd honestly expect this guy to not have a valid opinion.
If I can write a piece of software for the damned thing, I should be able to, no restrictions.
The fact he fails to understand this means he's no programmer and is just flapping off at the mouth without a clue.
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That would depend upon where you were purchasing it from and whether or not the shop informed you of such at the time of purchase, I'd think. There is some degree of culpability that lies upon the retailer of a product.
I think we have a warranty act that would precede that. Maybe it's time it was tested in court.
DOSBox it with a Win3.1 install
Works perfectly fine.
"Sony would never sign a Linux install."
Yellow Dog Linux for the PS3? How about the official Linux Kit Sony had for the PS2?
They'll never sign a Linux install, yea, right.
"because all these things have insanely complicated contracts that the banks can change willy-nilly if they please."
I see someone's never heard of the cash-in-hand transaction. Banks can't change shit if you've paid them in full upfront.
"Business wants you to RENT everything- no ownership."
Well, not entirely true, but pretty true in the gaming industry. I'd much rather you own my equipment, as the longer you use it, the better it looks (I haven't had to replace this thing in a decade!) at least for my business.
"Don't know of many (if any) console games that have had that much online support made for them"
Phantasy Star Online is still rolling for both DC and PS2. Just finished playing a bit of it on the PS2 this morning. The official GC and XBox servers have been long gone, but the others plus a few private servers are still rolling.
Umm, microcontroller != CPU.
"Also Windows XP was horrible for Tablets, I know, I had one."
Works just fine for my HP tc4200.
"No, it's not a general-purpose computer. You're making the engineering/geek mistake of confusing the underlying raw specs of a device with its actual designed/marketed/sold-for purpose"
You're making the mistake of confusing marketing for fact. Fact: iPad has an ARM processor. Fact: despite what MARKETING says, it's a general-purpose computer in the fact it's made for a variety of everyday tasks. Period. MARKETING'S PURPOSE IS TO SELL YOU A LIE.
Looks like you bought it hook, line, and sinker.
Hi, learn what the fuck a CPU is before saying it's not a computer. Does it compute? Then it is a computer.
Goddamn the fools are out in force today. In the Apple vs PC crowd, looks like I'm the only one with a brain to simply look at the silicon configuration and capability and go "Yep, that's a computer."
Fuck all you ignorant tools. Can the thing give you 1+1=2? Then it's a goddamned computer no matter how else you look at it.
"*Grrr*- look, there's thousands of games available for the Xbox, does that make it a general-purpose computer too?"
Are we talking about the original XBox? FUCK YES IT'S A GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER, given it had a goddamned x86 core and ran a modified version of Windows, or even Linux if you felt like doing some hacking. Shit you modify the firmware and you could use the original XBox for TONs of applications.
The new 360? Not so much. The PS3? Most certainly (if it's the old fat version.)
Go do some actual programming for the devices before you run off at the mouth about something that is painfully obvious you know nothing about.
"NOT A GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER"
Whooooooo I don't know where to begin, as this is wrong on so many levels.
E-mail? Check.
Games? Check.
Chat? Check.
Presentations? Check.
Sync with other devices? Check.
You can even use the iPad for some minor music stuff!
It's even got a webcam.
Smells like a general-purpose computer to me. Works like a general-purpose computer.
"Paper is notoriously difficult to manage, easy to lose, easy to destroy and comparatively speaking, difficult to produce and search so there's less of it."
Tell that to my fire-resistant file cabinet. nothing short of an acetyline torch will dent it. Everything is nice and tidy and it takes me less than three seconds to find anything with my categorization system. I'm a product of the DOS age - you learned quickly to keep things organized and structured or you'd lose things rapidly in the mess of directories. If companies can't do that, that's their problem, and they have monkeys for staff.
"Additionally, paper is expensive to retain and well run organizations have scheduled document destruction dates."
Paper requires as much energy to store as an unplugged hard drive full of data, and has fairly similar storage requirements. As far as destruction goes, I have longer data retention periods than most companies, because my products will actually last for ten years or more, and I offer product-life advice, so it helps to be able to verify if the caller/questioner is a client, and if they are not, try to interest them in my product.
"Almost nothing is kept more than 7 years."
Because most products aren't designed to last that long, sadly, ignoring the matters of law.
"Watching someone go into a dusty basement and pull out some useful shred from 30 years ago is mostly just movie fiction."
Or slashdot geek reality. I still have documents from the '70s that I like to reference every now and then. hell I have hardware older than that which gets dragged out now and then and turned on to see if it still works.
We have these things called paper archives, I bet I can still find you.
"epileptic orbit"
I'd love to see an orbit do that!
"If something is private, keep it off the net."
Yea, right. Didn't take long for those people trying to disappear off the grid to get found.
Nothing is private in the current political climate.
If you want something kept private, DEFEND IT WITH LIVE AMMUNITION.
That's the *ONLY* way you're going to keep something private by any means.
"Setting up a web site, email server, etc. is non-trivial."
Yea, if you have the money to pay for others to do it for you or you're a geek. Otherwise, most decent free sites with a semi-decent WYSIWYG editor have become few and far between, and unless you can set up your own apache server, expose it to the net, run your own DynDNS, set up MySQL or other similar thing, you're pretty much SOL.
You can't do it right the first time, there are multiple calcium deposits in your inner ear that act as balance weights. Almost all of mine are loose and it takes about 45 minutes to get them back into the right position (outside of the semicircular canals.)
Actually, this is a very simple OFET.
This is considered an organic semiconductor, and thus an organic transistor.
Moore's law still holds, if not just got smashed by this possible computational breakthrough. Instead of roughly doubling every 18 months, try three orders of magnitude every 6 months. The amount of calculating power this could allow would speed up technology development immensely.
I suffer from BPPV (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo) and I'd probably have to' win the game' about thirty times before I actually managed to get the calcium inner ear weights to get back into their proper positions.
I don't need a device to tell me my vertigo is cured, as the device can't understand what I'm feeling at the exact moment. Also, a cure implies it should never occur ever again. Guess what I have to do nearly on a weekly basis?
I'm old enough to remember 300 baud, Z, Q, Y, X modem, and much more. Wanna see a $1,000 ISDN setup? My dad's on here, I bet he still has that huge box lying around somewhere in storage. He's about as bad as I am in pack-ratting old stuff.
That's the point. He'll think I'm totally serious.
"H.264 is where web video is going."
That's what you think. I don't know about you but I was in direct contact with MPEG-LA lawyers recently about their licensing terms (confusion over what constituted commercial use,) and given the terms of their licensing as stated and clarified directly to me, I'll not be surprised to see many, many sites ditching H.264 in favor of something free. You may think theora's a non-starter but you know what, you're all focused on technical limitations and other bullshit when you should worry about "DOES IT FUCKING WORK OR NOT?" That answer is yes, and since it does work, it's viable enough.
Most game designers don't ever program a thing, (according to my pal taking game design in college) so I'd honestly expect this guy to not have a valid opinion.
If I can write a piece of software for the damned thing, I should be able to, no restrictions.
The fact he fails to understand this means he's no programmer and is just flapping off at the mouth without a clue.