The fact that not enough other people connect PS3 controllers to their phones is enough to discourage game developers from targeting Android phones with PS3 controllers. If I were to develop a game targeting Android phones with PS3 controllers...
You don't need to "target" people with controllers... a controller in Android is just another input device. You can use a controller in Android with ANY game that supports keyboard input.
And only one Android phone has ever been bundled with one: the Xperia Play by Sony.
Which is what I am saying. All that is needed is a seamless foolproof controller solution, and good marketing, and partnering with publishers. You don't need to make a ground-up console with crappy CPU and GPU specs. Consoles are yesterday's news. They went about this totally wrong.
But to be honest, in 6-12 months HDMI out will be obsolete. Miracast mirroing is going to mean no one will bother with wires anymore. My phone supports it, waiting for my TV firmware to be updated. Supported by default in JellyBean 4.1.2
I already have a phone in my hands that has more CPU power than the Ooya, it has an HDMI port, and I play games on it all the time using my PS3 controller. Why would I buy this device? It seems like it would be LESS convenient than what I already have, which is a powerful game console that follows me everywhere and can be plugged into ANY TV in about 3 seconds.... this is a less-powerful console tethered to my house that would mean something else I have to carry around?
I don't understand who the target market for this thing is or who is going to buy it. I am a geek, a gamer, and an Android fanatic. You would think I would be the ideal target market for this device. But if I don't see any use for it, then I don't think there is much hope in the broader marketplace. To me it is a solution looking for a problem.
They got two things right... that mobile is the future of gaming, and that Android is going to rule the market. But what they got wrong is the assumption that standalone consoles are going to stay around. Who need a standalone console when your phone is more powerful? All you need is a CONTROLLER. They should have put their project into making a seamless bluetooth controller experience that worked for any phone (the PS3 controller solution is great when you have it working but is a bit convoluted for a newbie to set up).
"Expert" reviewers are usually horrible at reviewing anything. Just look at "expert" film reviewers which more often than not review a movie very different than the general public.
I would rather have the crowd-sourced opinion of 100 non-experts than of 1 "expert" review anything.
My company requires full disk encryption on all laptops from the low levels up to the CEO... would be pretty difficult to get around this and install a trojan.
Frankly I don't understand why all companies don't require laptops to have FDE drives in them. It would help bring FDE onto more drives and bring the price premium down.
But the issue is not brute forcing over the network. The issue is hackers stealing a database of passwords, then bruteforcing the lot of them locally.
If anyone with motivations beyond that of a script kiddie is doing this, then you are already totally screwed - they can already steal all your transaction information or make their own transactions or transfer funds or do whatever they want to do as ANY UID in that system - WHY would they ruin that and post them on the web?
And if it *IS* a script kiddie, only interested in "cred" and he leaks the password hash DB on the net, then AGAIN so what, because like the GP said you are using different passwords for different sites.
I first was exposed to Splashtop when it came with my Asus Transformer 101 as a free app. Like a lot of people posting here I was skeptical, not seeing why I need this over XRDP or VNC or any number of other already-existing remote desktop apps.
Then, I shut up and tried the damn thing. And my jaw hit the floor.
Full screen streaming video (aka Netflix), WITH sound, WITHOUT stutter, over a 10mbps connection. Try doing that over VNC.
Splashtop is slick. You need to see it to believe it. They have some neat tech.
I was just using that as an example. The whole point is, the only way 99% of people using them get bitcoins today is they buy them on an exchange. These changes take in $USD from some mechanism and exchange it to bitcoins.
As such, these exchanges can all be regulated and closed whenever the government wants to. Same can be said if bitcoin started trading in EUR or any other currency. The idea that bitcoin is some unregulatealbe panecea is total nonsense. Until my employer and everyone else's starts paying them in Bitcoin, it is pretty irrelevant.
The reality is that all these sites are using Bitcoin for is a transaction mechanism. They are not keeping their rake in bitcoins, they are exchanging it for cash because that is what the real world operates in. Similarly, the people making the wagers are exchanging their cash for bitcoins in order to play the game. In essence bitcoins are just being used as a payment processor for these sites.
Also, people who think bitcoins are not under government control are woefully mistaken. Aside from the pittance of coins one can mine, how do you propose to get any substantial amount? You need to go to an exchange. How do you purchase using that exchange? Using your credit card. Which is easily regulated.
IE - government can force Visa and Mastercard to shut down all bitcoin exchanges whenever they want to, effectively killing the currency for all intents and purposes. They only reason they don't do this is because it is not relevant enough to care.
I can't believe MalCon is letting this guy present based on the other examples posted in this story of how clueless this guy is. If I was running MalCon I would DEMAND evidence of an actual exploit before agreeing that he be allowed to present anything this stupid and discredit the whole conference.
Silicon Valley is not the one enforcing these prudish rules. It is Washington and conservative interest groups.
Silicon Valley is not responsible for Facebook's porno filters any more than NBC is responsible for SNL being on a tape delay... it's because of fear of the FTC, not NBC.
Maybe now that they have their own warchest, Google's gambit is to flood the system with as many of these kinds of patent lawsuits as possible, hoping to spark some change in Congress?
As someone who works on a product where support people routinely have to use remote-desktop with a customer and get them to SSH into systems, this seems like it might be a huge boon, since not all customers have SSH clients pre-installed.
On more modern / powerful phones with larger screens, it is not the radio that is the dominant problem anymore. It is the screen.
If you are "Streaming video" for any length of time with a 4.5" screen phone, it is the screen using most of the battery, not the radio. Screen battery use is also bad because it even affects you in airplane mode.
This seems to be solving yesterday's battery problem - but any gain is good I guess.
Parking lots are normally plowed to be clear of snow. If the space was not plowed than how would the car park there to charge anyway? Your post does not make a lot of sense when you think about it.
FWIW Anyone using X over a network for any kind of serious remote management has rocks in their head. It is a horribly inefficient protocol because of it's age, compared to modern protocols such as VNC and NX.
If you RTFA, you would see that this is the exact set this guy is trying to save.. it's the one from Vegas. When they shut the ride down in 2010, they threw it all out, and this guy saved it.
The "replica set" that Paramount created for the Las Vegas show was an exact 1:1 duplicate of the original, even down to the too-small-for-the-camera inside jokes printed on the LCARS screens. I was on this set about 1 year before it was taken down (got my picture taken in the captain's chair!) It was quite large and you could walk around the whole thing, and everything was very accurate from what I could tell.
Opt out of the policy and don't use any of Google's services. Problem solved? Google is not a monopoly, there are a plethora of alternatives for any of their services. If you don't like their terms then they might as well take their ball and go home.
I WANT Google sharing data between services, because that is what makes using all the products under the Google umbrella a unified experience. I LIKE that my Google+ and GMail and Drive and Calendar and Picasa YouTube accounts are all linked and I don't have to manually cross-post things all the time.
If you don't like it, then don't use Google's services. I don't see what business the EU has in this, it is not like there are not plenty of free alternatives to all of Google's services.
Canada is exempt because if every Canadian had to be fingerprinted at the land crossings the border (and hundreds of billions in commerce) would screech to a halt.
The GP is correct. On entering the US, only Americans and Canadians can skip the fingerprints. It's been this way for at least a few years. You need to get out of your bubble.
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The fact that not enough other people connect PS3 controllers to their phones is enough to discourage game developers from targeting Android phones with PS3 controllers. If I were to develop a game targeting Android phones with PS3 controllers...
You don't need to "target" people with controllers... a controller in Android is just another input device. You can use a controller in Android with ANY game that supports keyboard input.
And only one Android phone has ever been bundled with one: the Xperia Play by Sony.
Which is what I am saying. All that is needed is a seamless foolproof controller solution, and good marketing, and partnering with publishers. You don't need to make a ground-up console with crappy CPU and GPU specs. Consoles are yesterday's news. They went about this totally wrong.
Mine is MHL, so it's just part of the USB jack.
But to be honest, in 6-12 months HDMI out will be obsolete. Miracast mirroing is going to mean no one will bother with wires anymore. My phone supports it, waiting for my TV firmware to be updated. Supported by default in JellyBean 4.1.2
I already have a phone in my hands that has more CPU power than the Ooya, it has an HDMI port, and I play games on it all the time using my PS3 controller. Why would I buy this device? It seems like it would be LESS convenient than what I already have, which is a powerful game console that follows me everywhere and can be plugged into ANY TV in about 3 seconds.... this is a less-powerful console tethered to my house that would mean something else I have to carry around?
I don't understand who the target market for this thing is or who is going to buy it. I am a geek, a gamer, and an Android fanatic. You would think I would be the ideal target market for this device. But if I don't see any use for it, then I don't think there is much hope in the broader marketplace. To me it is a solution looking for a problem.
They got two things right... that mobile is the future of gaming, and that Android is going to rule the market. But what they got wrong is the assumption that standalone consoles are going to stay around. Who need a standalone console when your phone is more powerful? All you need is a CONTROLLER. They should have put their project into making a seamless bluetooth controller experience that worked for any phone (the PS3 controller solution is great when you have it working but is a bit convoluted for a newbie to set up).
"Expert" reviewers are usually horrible at reviewing anything. Just look at "expert" film reviewers which more often than not review a movie very different than the general public.
I would rather have the crowd-sourced opinion of 100 non-experts than of 1 "expert" review anything.
My company requires full disk encryption on all laptops from the low levels up to the CEO... would be pretty difficult to get around this and install a trojan.
Frankly I don't understand why all companies don't require laptops to have FDE drives in them. It would help bring FDE onto more drives and bring the price premium down.
If anyone with motivations beyond that of a script kiddie is doing this, then you are already totally screwed - they can already steal all your transaction information or make their own transactions or transfer funds or do whatever they want to do as ANY UID in that system - WHY would they ruin that and post them on the web?
And if it *IS* a script kiddie, only interested in "cred" and he leaks the password hash DB on the net, then AGAIN so what, because like the GP said you are using different passwords for different sites.
I first was exposed to Splashtop when it came with my Asus Transformer 101 as a free app. Like a lot of people posting here I was skeptical, not seeing why I need this over XRDP or VNC or any number of other already-existing remote desktop apps.
Then, I shut up and tried the damn thing. And my jaw hit the floor.
Full screen streaming video (aka Netflix), WITH sound, WITHOUT stutter, over a 10mbps connection. Try doing that over VNC.
Splashtop is slick. You need to see it to believe it. They have some neat tech.
I was just using that as an example. The whole point is, the only way 99% of people using them get bitcoins today is they buy them on an exchange. These changes take in $USD from some mechanism and exchange it to bitcoins.
As such, these exchanges can all be regulated and closed whenever the government wants to. Same can be said if bitcoin started trading in EUR or any other currency. The idea that bitcoin is some unregulatealbe panecea is total nonsense. Until my employer and everyone else's starts paying them in Bitcoin, it is pretty irrelevant.
Then how do you buy them? At some point there is a CC involved somewhere.
The reality is that all these sites are using Bitcoin for is a transaction mechanism. They are not keeping their rake in bitcoins, they are exchanging it for cash because that is what the real world operates in. Similarly, the people making the wagers are exchanging their cash for bitcoins in order to play the game. In essence bitcoins are just being used as a payment processor for these sites.
Also, people who think bitcoins are not under government control are woefully mistaken. Aside from the pittance of coins one can mine, how do you propose to get any substantial amount? You need to go to an exchange. How do you purchase using that exchange? Using your credit card. Which is easily regulated.
IE - government can force Visa and Mastercard to shut down all bitcoin exchanges whenever they want to, effectively killing the currency for all intents and purposes. They only reason they don't do this is because it is not relevant enough to care.
I can't believe MalCon is letting this guy present based on the other examples posted in this story of how clueless this guy is. If I was running MalCon I would DEMAND evidence of an actual exploit before agreeing that he be allowed to present anything this stupid and discredit the whole conference.
It's still a stupid naming convention. By that logic all 3D films are actually 4D films since they are not static pictures.
Silicon Valley is not the one enforcing these prudish rules. It is Washington and conservative interest groups.
Silicon Valley is not responsible for Facebook's porno filters any more than NBC is responsible for SNL being on a tape delay... it's because of fear of the FTC, not NBC.
Maybe now that they have their own warchest, Google's gambit is to flood the system with as many of these kinds of patent lawsuits as possible, hoping to spark some change in Congress?
As someone who works on a product where support people routinely have to use remote-desktop with a customer and get them to SSH into systems, this seems like it might be a huge boon, since not all customers have SSH clients pre-installed.
On more modern / powerful phones with larger screens, it is not the radio that is the dominant problem anymore. It is the screen.
If you are "Streaming video" for any length of time with a 4.5" screen phone, it is the screen using most of the battery, not the radio. Screen battery use is also bad because it even affects you in airplane mode.
This seems to be solving yesterday's battery problem - but any gain is good I guess.
Parking lots are normally plowed to be clear of snow. If the space was not plowed than how would the car park there to charge anyway? Your post does not make a lot of sense when you think about it.
FWIW Anyone using X over a network for any kind of serious remote management has rocks in their head. It is a horribly inefficient protocol because of it's age, compared to modern protocols such as VNC and NX.
If you RTFA, you would see that this is the exact set this guy is trying to save.. it's the one from Vegas. When they shut the ride down in 2010, they threw it all out, and this guy saved it.
The "replica set" that Paramount created for the Las Vegas show was an exact 1:1 duplicate of the original, even down to the too-small-for-the-camera inside jokes printed on the LCARS screens. I was on this set about 1 year before it was taken down (got my picture taken in the captain's chair!) It was quite large and you could walk around the whole thing, and everything was very accurate from what I could tell.
Opt out of the policy and don't use any of Google's services. Problem solved? Google is not a monopoly, there are a plethora of alternatives for any of their services. If you don't like their terms then they might as well take their ball and go home.
I WANT Google sharing data between services, because that is what makes using all the products under the Google umbrella a unified experience. I LIKE that my Google+ and GMail and Drive and Calendar and Picasa YouTube accounts are all linked and I don't have to manually cross-post things all the time.
If you don't like it, then don't use Google's services. I don't see what business the EU has in this, it is not like there are not plenty of free alternatives to all of Google's services.
Canada is exempt because if every Canadian had to be fingerprinted at the land crossings the border (and hundreds of billions in commerce) would screech to a halt.
Not sure about Mexicans.
The GP is correct. On entering the US, only Americans and Canadians can skip the fingerprints. It's been this way for at least a few years. You need to get out of your bubble.
16oz is not "huge". It's not even 500ml. 500ml to 600ml is what I expect in a drink if I want it to wash down my food.