The device described just runs out a leader line and you then come out in a boat on that line hand over hand.
This is a device that lets you shoot a life preserver out and the person saves himself.
In addition, this is designed to be shot to a person, not to the deck of a ship.
So they're in the same family I guess, but this is not the same. I doubt this one is really the first of its kind either, but the most important thing is that it work well and become available. Let's hope for the best.
Once a movie is released, it's pretty easy it on from the "has been downloaded a large number of times from a site" criteria. This is surely how the funnyordie stuff got up there.
But the movie in question hasn't been released yet. So it can't meet those criteria. So it must wait a little bit longer.
If the technology wasn't developed for the US, it would have been developed for the other countries. Greece, UAE, Iran, Saudi Arabia, whatever.
This technology was put into the systems because the companies wanted to sell systems in these countries and they wouldn't have been allowed to do so if they didn't put it in.
Iran's tapping of phones in their country can be placed squarely on the shoulders of Iran's government, not on the US.
Google Voice was a good example. At the time it was developed, it offered unlimited texting, which duplicated core functionality, which of course is listed in black in white the agreement.
You state this as if this is a defense.
The agreement is the problem. It is what gives them the opportunity to reject your app in the first place.
The agreement is what makes the platform hostile to developers. Apple reserves the right to own a piece of functionality. Even if you do it first, they can reject updates to your app after they put in the functionality themselves.
Given that 95% percent are accepted without any issue at all, leaving only 5% of questionable apps, the argument that Apple is rejecting apps willy nilly is not exactly a good reflection of reality.
This is a pretty strong argument for Android in and of itself. If Apple is only rejecting 5% of apps, then I don't have much to lose by going to a platform where no apps are rejected, right?
No. I'm stating that even with no actual lag on the button, the description as given in TFA regarding "button lag" may be correct.
At the time, I never said there couldn't be lag in the game. I said it wouldn't be due to Move, but due to game programming.
So I attempted to get you to understand that there could be a case where Move caused perceived (and even detectable and annoying) button lag without any actual button lag.
Okay, now I understand what you're trying to say. How does saying that "there's button lag in frisbee" can be true if also "there's no button lag" is true help me understand this?
Can you possibly give an explanation that actually explains how this could be instead of just saying "you're wrong" over and over? I'd really like to understand what's up.
Sony get a licensing fee per game sold for PS3. They don't make money when you buy a PS3.
If you could use all the hardware from OtherOS, then developers would just ship their games to run under OtherOS and not pay any licensing fees to Sony.
So Sony crippled OtherOS, same as they crippled NetYaroze and PS2 Linux. But even uncrippled, OtherOS still sucked. By the time Sony yanked it, PS3 was $400 and vastly inferior to any Linux machine you could build for $400 (and took twice the electricity to run!).
UMD was stupid. Selecting spinning media right at the time when solid state storage became very cheap was a huge mistake. But that is not why people hacked PSP. People hacked PSP because they wanted to get games for free. This is the same reason they hacked GBA and DS, neither of which had spinning media.
Europe created GSM after the US already had digital cell phones and created it to intentionally be incompatible with analog and US digital cellular phones and towers. And then you blame the US for not switching to a system that required all their customers replace their equipment or stop working? Analog cell phones weren't completely phased out for over a decade after GSM became available in the US.
GSM was Europe's NIH. They created it to be incompatible and then many countries made it illegal to use anything else. They even went to the trouble of avoiding American technology (CDMA) which offered more efficient bandwidth utilization.
It's unfortunate that there was a GSM divide, but it's the fault of the GSM creators, not the fault of the US or US operators.
Buttons on Move controllers are not different than buttons on other controllers on the PS3, they are all Bluetooth. Non-responsive buttons in games cannot be caused by Move.
I'm having a lot of problems understanding your point.
Is your point that all controllers have some lag? Indeed they all do. That's why I was careful to say that the button lag will be no worse than a DualShock 3.
For one, you haven't addressed the issue in question.
I did actually, I said that if there is lag, it's not due to Move. That's what this whole subthread you are responding to is about. My assertion (well it wasn't at the time) is not that the game cannot have lag, but that if it does, it cannot be attributable to Move, but to the game itself, because the buttons on Move have no reason to be more laggy than the buttons on a DS3.
What I said:
If this lag on button release is real, it's surely due to bad programming and not Move itself.
I don't know why you're trying to turn my statement from the time into "there is no lag".
I don't see where Sony said the USB changes were to block cloned joypads. I don't see where they indicated what the USB changes were for or even acknowledge their presence at all!
At least that's my understanding, that those MadCatz controllers are not officially Sony licensed and never were.
As to what broke and what didn't, I suspect that any USB device that changes its descriptor size on the fly has been disabled, so even the unlicensed controllers that were disabled were disabled as a side-effect, not intentionally. This is similar to what you state, just not a bug but done intentionally (for bad or for good).
If you replace the CPU with another, you're not really hacking the controller itself, just using it as a power supply.
It specifically breaks the argument implied in the/. post (next stop no controllers department) which is that Sony couldn't stop this without breaking their own controllers, because this device wouldn't be presenting itself as a Dualshock 3, but as something else and thus disabling this hack wouldn't disable Dual Shock 3s.
At current processes (44nm, 32nm, etc.), switching power isn't critical at low speeds, it's leakage that is the issue. So a fast (big) processor takes a fair amount of power even if you run it slow.
Whereas a slow core is smaller, so that means fewer transistors to leak. You also can make the gates out of lower-leakage cells, so that even when on they leak less. This limits top speed which would be a problem for the main core but isn't a problem for this non-main core.
Having additional low-power cores isn't that strange, many current phone SOCs do this. What is unusual is most of those have one main core and many slower ones and this one has two main cores and one slower one.
A millisecond delay? I'm sure there's more than a millisecond, given that it only draws a frame every 16ms at best.
As mentioned below, I'd love to know what TV IGN used, as other reviewers didn't mention this and your TV can add a lot of delay.
If this lag on button release is real, it's surely due to bad programming and not Move itself. Move is a bluetooth controller, same as a DualShock 3 (or a Wiimote for that matter). If DualShock 3 can detect and signal to the host a button release with no detectable lag (and it does), then there's no reason Move can't do the same thing.
I do agree that people wanted to hear that people were "fighting back", and the Boy Wizard in this case was allegedly making it possible. In the Boy Wizard world, evil government is an old person problem, Haystack was the young wizard solving it.
I disagree it is the media's job to repeat incorrect info. Good journalism has fact checking and such. Take that away and you're just a blogger repeating "common knowledge" regardless of truth.
Actually a very boring article. The author spends most of this time just telling you that he's smarter than the press. Including a mea culpa for "letting" the Guardian get away with misreporting without falling under his wrathful hammer.
The sole piece of information here that isn't self-aggrandizement is a nice little whiff of info explaining what the metaphor of "The Boy Wizard" means. This part is nice, but it gets drowned out in the "I told you so" parts.
You have made up a situation where the response indicated is not appropriate. Did you stop and think that since you don't know what the email actually said that perhaps the response was appropriate and the mistake is your own for making up a situation where the email is assumed to be innocuous?
It's bizarre that the less information people have, the more convinced they are that they are right and the people who were handling the situation and had the actual information as to what happened are wrong.
Why? Why do people do this? I just can't understand it. Are people somehow deriving pleasure from calling other people wrong and thus have to find more ways to do it?
This is one aspect of human behavior that drives me crazy. Why are more people more quick to condemn than to understand?
"The individual sent an email to the White House full of abusive and threatening language. We were informed by the Metropolitan Police and went to see him. He said, 'Oh dear, it was me'." - from the article
If you threaten the US President, you may find yourself on the US threat list.
It's simple, logical and not any kind of abridgment of free speech.
It is pathetic slashdot runs a yellow headline, saying the letter was only 'obscene' when the authorities involved say it was more than obscene, but threatening.
Slashdot, next time you decide to run a story from a tabloid known for its garbage stories, remember that when you run the story you are also making yourself into a tabloid.
As an additional note, The Sun is owned by News Corp, owners of Fox News. Congratulations on being a mouthpiece for them.
I do agree with that. There are many that are designed for indoor or light duty work. Others, like the ones that light roads are designed to turn on even when very cold, but they take 60 seconds to do so! This is obviously unacceptable.
But the "Xenon" headlamps in cars are metal halides too, and those turn on in under a second and do it in all the same temperatures that incandescent headlamps in cars work. So now you just need to find someone who offers a similar one for home use and at a reasonable price. This may not be easy, it'll obviously be easier to stick with incandescent for now. But once you start to become unable to buy replacement incandescents (as you fear), you hopefully can find a metal halide that works for you.
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The device described just runs out a leader line and you then come out in a boat on that line hand over hand.
This is a device that lets you shoot a life preserver out and the person saves himself.
In addition, this is designed to be shot to a person, not to the deck of a ship.
So they're in the same family I guess, but this is not the same. I doubt this one is really the first of its kind either, but the most important thing is that it work well and become available. Let's hope for the best.
If you're so committed to the truth, then you should give them the password and the truth shall set you free.
But if for some reason you aren't interested in that, this is your next option.
You say you never had it.
The self-incrimination issue is that if you give the password, it indicates you had the password and thus you knew what was in there.
If you admit you have the password but won't give it, the self-incrimination issue is moot.
So you say you don't have the password. Not that you forgot it, but that you never had it.
The source of the info that this app was declared an aid to terrorists is the Daily Mail.
The Daily Mail is not a very good source of info.
In fact, there is no indication that the program has been labelled a threat to security by the US. Not in this article at least.
There merely were concerned (expressed years before this app existed) that ADS-B could be used by terrorists.
Also, this app doesn't work by intercepting ADS-B, it just gets information from the internet that was collected using ADS-B.
This hasn't.
http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?titleeligibility
Once a movie is released, it's pretty easy it on from the "has been downloaded a large number of times from a site" criteria. This is surely how the funnyordie stuff got up there.
But the movie in question hasn't been released yet. So it can't meet those criteria. So it must wait a little bit longer.
IMDB requires indie films be released before they are listed.
http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?titleeligibility
This movie isn't out yet. He can submit the movie for inclusion once it comes out.
Is there no website that won't fall for a fake outrage story like this one? Is it really this easy to manipulate "new media"?
If the technology wasn't developed for the US, it would have been developed for the other countries. Greece, UAE, Iran, Saudi Arabia, whatever.
This technology was put into the systems because the companies wanted to sell systems in these countries and they wouldn't have been allowed to do so if they didn't put it in.
Iran's tapping of phones in their country can be placed squarely on the shoulders of Iran's government, not on the US.
Google Voice was a good example. At the time it was developed, it offered unlimited texting, which duplicated core functionality, which of course is listed in black in white the agreement.
You state this as if this is a defense.
The agreement is the problem. It is what gives them the opportunity to reject your app in the first place.
The agreement is what makes the platform hostile to developers. Apple reserves the right to own a piece of functionality. Even if you do it first, they can reject updates to your app after they put in the functionality themselves.
Given that 95% percent are accepted without any issue at all, leaving only 5% of questionable apps, the argument that Apple is rejecting apps willy nilly is not exactly a good reflection of reality.
This is a pretty strong argument for Android in and of itself. If Apple is only rejecting 5% of apps, then I don't have much to lose by going to a platform where no apps are rejected, right?
No. I'm stating that even with no actual lag on the button, the description as given in TFA regarding "button lag" may be correct.
At the time, I never said there couldn't be lag in the game. I said it wouldn't be due to Move, but due to game programming.
So I attempted to get you to understand that there could be a case where Move caused perceived (and even detectable and annoying) button lag without any actual button lag.
Okay, now I understand what you're trying to say. How does saying that "there's button lag in frisbee" can be true if also "there's no button lag" is true help me understand this?
Can you possibly give an explanation that actually explains how this could be instead of just saying "you're wrong" over and over? I'd really like to understand what's up.
Sony get a licensing fee per game sold for PS3. They don't make money when you buy a PS3.
If you could use all the hardware from OtherOS, then developers would just ship their games to run under OtherOS and not pay any licensing fees to Sony.
So Sony crippled OtherOS, same as they crippled NetYaroze and PS2 Linux. But even uncrippled, OtherOS still sucked. By the time Sony yanked it, PS3 was $400 and vastly inferior to any Linux machine you could build for $400 (and took twice the electricity to run!).
UMD was stupid. Selecting spinning media right at the time when solid state storage became very cheap was a huge mistake. But that is not why people hacked PSP. People hacked PSP because they wanted to get games for free. This is the same reason they hacked GBA and DS, neither of which had spinning media.
Europe created GSM after the US already had digital cell phones and created it to intentionally be incompatible with analog and US digital cellular phones and towers. And then you blame the US for not switching to a system that required all their customers replace their equipment or stop working? Analog cell phones weren't completely phased out for over a decade after GSM became available in the US.
GSM was Europe's NIH. They created it to be incompatible and then many countries made it illegal to use anything else. They even went to the trouble of avoiding American technology (CDMA) which offered more efficient bandwidth utilization.
It's unfortunate that there was a GSM divide, but it's the fault of the GSM creators, not the fault of the US or US operators.
Buttons on Move controllers are not different than buttons on other controllers on the PS3, they are all Bluetooth. Non-responsive buttons in games cannot be caused by Move.
I'm having a lot of problems understanding your point.
Is your point that all controllers have some lag? Indeed they all do. That's why I was careful to say that the button lag will be no worse than a DualShock 3.
And thus I can assert there isn't button lag.
For one, you haven't addressed the issue in question.
I did actually, I said that if there is lag, it's not due to Move. That's what this whole subthread you are responding to is about. My assertion (well it wasn't at the time) is not that the game cannot have lag, but that if it does, it cannot be attributable to Move, but to the game itself, because the buttons on Move have no reason to be more laggy than the buttons on a DS3.
What I said:
If this lag on button release is real, it's surely due to bad programming and not Move itself.
I don't know why you're trying to turn my statement from the time into "there is no lag".
Where did Sony issue a statement saying this?
I don't see where Sony said the USB changes were to block cloned joypads. I don't see where they indicated what the USB changes were for or even acknowledge their presence at all!
At least that's my understanding, that those MadCatz controllers are not officially Sony licensed and never were.
As to what broke and what didn't, I suspect that any USB device that changes its descriptor size on the fly has been disabled, so even the unlicensed controllers that were disabled were disabled as a side-effect, not intentionally. This is similar to what you state, just not a bug but done intentionally (for bad or for good).
If you replace the CPU with another, you're not really hacking the controller itself, just using it as a power supply.
It specifically breaks the argument implied in the /. post (next stop no controllers department) which is that Sony couldn't stop this without breaking their own controllers, because this device wouldn't be presenting itself as a Dualshock 3, but as something else and thus disabling this hack wouldn't disable Dual Shock 3s.
At current processes (44nm, 32nm, etc.), switching power isn't critical at low speeds, it's leakage that is the issue. So a fast (big) processor takes a fair amount of power even if you run it slow.
Whereas a slow core is smaller, so that means fewer transistors to leak. You also can make the gates out of lower-leakage cells, so that even when on they leak less. This limits top speed which would be a problem for the main core but isn't a problem for this non-main core.
Having additional low-power cores isn't that strange, many current phone SOCs do this. What is unusual is most of those have one main core and many slower ones and this one has two main cores and one slower one.
He speaks of the lag of the release of the frisbee, which takes place when you release a button.
Buttons aren't motion control, there's no technical reason the buttons on this device should have any more lag than on a DualShock 3.
A millisecond delay? I'm sure there's more than a millisecond, given that it only draws a frame every 16ms at best.
As mentioned below, I'd love to know what TV IGN used, as other reviewers didn't mention this and your TV can add a lot of delay.
If this lag on button release is real, it's surely due to bad programming and not Move itself. Move is a bluetooth controller, same as a DualShock 3 (or a Wiimote for that matter). If DualShock 3 can detect and signal to the host a button release with no detectable lag (and it does), then there's no reason Move can't do the same thing.
I do agree that people wanted to hear that people were "fighting back", and the Boy Wizard in this case was allegedly making it possible. In the Boy Wizard world, evil government is an old person problem, Haystack was the young wizard solving it.
I disagree it is the media's job to repeat incorrect info. Good journalism has fact checking and such. Take that away and you're just a blogger repeating "common knowledge" regardless of truth.
Actually a very boring article. The author spends most of this time just telling you that he's smarter than the press. Including a mea culpa for "letting" the Guardian get away with misreporting without falling under his wrathful hammer.
The sole piece of information here that isn't self-aggrandizement is a nice little whiff of info explaining what the metaphor of "The Boy Wizard" means. This part is nice, but it gets drowned out in the "I told you so" parts.
Do you have the statement?
You have made up a situation where the response indicated is not appropriate. Did you stop and think that since you don't know what the email actually said that perhaps the response was appropriate and the mistake is your own for making up a situation where the email is assumed to be innocuous?
It's bizarre that the less information people have, the more convinced they are that they are right and the people who were handling the situation and had the actual information as to what happened are wrong.
Why? Why do people do this? I just can't understand it. Are people somehow deriving pleasure from calling other people wrong and thus have to find more ways to do it?
This is one aspect of human behavior that drives me crazy. Why are more people more quick to condemn than to understand?
"The individual sent an email to the White House full of abusive and threatening language. We were informed by the Metropolitan Police and went to see him. He said, 'Oh dear, it was me'." - from the article
If you threaten the US President, you may find yourself on the US threat list.
It's simple, logical and not any kind of abridgment of free speech.
It is pathetic slashdot runs a yellow headline, saying the letter was only 'obscene' when the authorities involved say it was more than obscene, but threatening.
Slashdot, next time you decide to run a story from a tabloid known for its garbage stories, remember that when you run the story you are also making yourself into a tabloid.
As an additional note, The Sun is owned by News Corp, owners of Fox News. Congratulations on being a mouthpiece for them.
SGX is a 3D accelerator only. I'm sure there is something in that system that is doing video acceleration, but the SGX isn't it.
I do agree with that. There are many that are designed for indoor or light duty work. Others, like the ones that light roads are designed to turn on even when very cold, but they take 60 seconds to do so! This is obviously unacceptable.
But the "Xenon" headlamps in cars are metal halides too, and those turn on in under a second and do it in all the same temperatures that incandescent headlamps in cars work. So now you just need to find someone who offers a similar one for home use and at a reasonable price. This may not be easy, it'll obviously be easier to stick with incandescent for now. But once you start to become unable to buy replacement incandescents (as you fear), you hopefully can find a metal halide that works for you.