That sounds like a much more plausible reason then rolling out some new transponder with a camera in it that the manufacturer does not appear to actually make.
I suspect some other motive too. Doing a quick bit of googling, it looks like in 1998 they recalled the first generation tags due to voltage problems causing silent failures, though I am not sure if those are the same 'first generation' units the OP is referring to.
I doubt the judge cares all that much. As long as the relevant parties follow the order most judges are pretty content, if someone else finds a work around that is not a slap as far as most are concerned.
The lawyers might be pissy though.
The other responder summed it up pretty well. There are some indirect costs, but I have a feeling that defending against the suit was mostly about reputation and mean-spiritedness. As others have pointed out, companies can hire and fire at will with no fault, but if you fire someone they get unemployment... so this guy was basically just trying to make sure that someone who didn't appreciate his game (and probably disrupted the store due to critical people leaving) did not get their unemployment benefits.
Heh. Check your history.... tieing the dollar to 'real world resources' had its own massive problems and did not actually help in any of the mythical ways people think it did. It was quite unstable and easily manipulated.
*nods* this fits my understanding of our history better then a simple direction. We have been through many cycles of this stuff before, and to be honest, the crackdowns we are seeing today are NOTHING compared to the ones, say, 100 years ago. Turn of the century these protesters would have been in body bags, or at least their leaders would be.
As others have said, there is no 'post-PC world', and this alarmist black and white thinking is getting a bit irritating.
Yes tablets and ultrathin laptops are gaining popularity. They are popular for uses where user-serviceable desktops were a sub optimal solution to whatever the user was using them for.. so yes, we will see some adjustment in the market as people who were using desktop due to lack of other options move away from them, but there are many domains where desktops are still the right tool for the job and that market will continue to be served. In fact I would wager that said market, after maybe a dip, will go back to growing as the population increases.
This is not to say that newegg is immortal or shouldn't check how it does things now and then.. the industry is littered with companies that could not find a good balance between servicing a niche vs a broader market.
Actually, yes, you probably could, but it would be huge. People have built pieces of the engine with things like legos, but the whole machine is pretty large and complicated.
Genius no, but someone who has worked in particle physics in the past and has seen stories like this come up multiple times over the years. Sometimes even respectable physists get caught up in it, esp if they have only been reading summaries or have not looked into the data much yet, which is quite possible for someone who is a 'head' of a department.
Eh, this happens every few years... what tends to be the case is someone gets a hold of one of the charts where velocities were recorded and due to measurement issues there is a probability curve rather then a simple line... normally you use the curve to determine what the actual velocity was, but you always get at least a couple yahoos that look at the curve, notice that one of the tails goes above C and get all excited that something is going faster then light.
I think by the time we have some type of unified platform that all games will be developed for regardless of OS or hardware.. HTML5 will have already been relegated to the dustbin of history as an obsolete standard. I am not saying this to knock HTML5, but to highlight just how far off such a unification probably is.
Personally, this interview, to me reads like developers who see only their own domain and are forgetting to take into account all the other domains within gaming... ones where writing to the specific hardware is important, where multiplayer and network access are not important at all, etc etc.
And it is short sighted fighting like that which makes piracy so attractive. I think with a lot of consumers, it is not about the cost, but about getting a consistant service with the content they want and the knowledge that said content will still be there tomorrow. All of this 'well, maybe you will be able to finish watching that series IF someone we don't control says it is ok' just drives people away.
To be fair, while this particular instance seems a bit out there, the CIA does have a long and pretty unpleasant history of getting rid of officials that do not meet US economic interests. So while I doubt this particular case, there is a pretty well established history of these kinds of operations that are well accepted and documented at this point by non-crackpots. Esp when powerful corporations encounter trouble with regulations in weak countries. The things the CIA did just to get us cheap bananans is truly chilling.
I guess in that case a false flag attack would be someone who does not agree with the idea and is using the title anonymous to attack the idea. Not that far of a stretch to see a government entity doing such a thing.
Well, when you are connecting to a shared network like the cell phone one... while not impossible they take some pretty serious risks when they open up, risks their insurance carriers might not like... or companies they purchase hardware components from. There are all sorts of legal, contractual, and liability reasons they might want (or need) to lock down their platform since what people do on their own phone CAN screw things up for others.
Embedded developers were not very happy with GPLv3... it didn't offend the web people (who make up a larger community) since they can still hide their stuff behind the server's wall of legal protection, but for embedded people it was a real bum deal and really felt like their needs were being trampled by the web groups.
What a bunch of babies... dealing with protests by first cutting off people's ability to communicate, then when people get annoyed by THAT, they just shut stations completely?
Then again this is an organization that looks out for its own and is not comfortable being questioned.. so not too surprising.
Yeah, but in each new version they bake more and more add-ons into the browser, so they kinda do force you to install them. That is actually why I ended up dropping firefox... they moved from being a lightweight pluggable browser into a 'developer's common use-case' one.
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That sounds like a much more plausible reason then rolling out some new transponder with a camera in it that the manufacturer does not appear to actually make.
How much 'main stream attention' does it require to say it got 'main stream attention'? It has been front page of CNN for weeks now.
I suspect some other motive too. Doing a quick bit of googling, it looks like in 1998 they recalled the first generation tags due to voltage problems causing silent failures, though I am not sure if those are the same 'first generation' units the OP is referring to.
I doubt the judge cares all that much. As long as the relevant parties follow the order most judges are pretty content, if someone else finds a work around that is not a slap as far as most are concerned. The lawyers might be pissy though.
The other responder summed it up pretty well. There are some indirect costs, but I have a feeling that defending against the suit was mostly about reputation and mean-spiritedness. As others have pointed out, companies can hire and fire at will with no fault, but if you fire someone they get unemployment... so this guy was basically just trying to make sure that someone who didn't appreciate his game (and probably disrupted the store due to critical people leaving) did not get their unemployment benefits.
Heh. Check your history.... tieing the dollar to 'real world resources' had its own massive problems and did not actually help in any of the mythical ways people think it did. It was quite unstable and easily manipulated.
*nods* this fits my understanding of our history better then a simple direction. We have been through many cycles of this stuff before, and to be honest, the crackdowns we are seeing today are NOTHING compared to the ones, say, 100 years ago. Turn of the century these protesters would have been in body bags, or at least their leaders would be.
As others have said, there is no 'post-PC world', and this alarmist black and white thinking is getting a bit irritating.
Yes tablets and ultrathin laptops are gaining popularity. They are popular for uses where user-serviceable desktops were a sub optimal solution to whatever the user was using them for.. so yes, we will see some adjustment in the market as people who were using desktop due to lack of other options move away from them, but there are many domains where desktops are still the right tool for the job and that market will continue to be served. In fact I would wager that said market, after maybe a dip, will go back to growing as the population increases.
This is not to say that newegg is immortal or shouldn't check how it does things now and then.. the industry is littered with companies that could not find a good balance between servicing a niche vs a broader market.
Actually, yes, you probably could, but it would be huge. People have built pieces of the engine with things like legos, but the whole machine is pretty large and complicated.
Genius no, but someone who has worked in particle physics in the past and has seen stories like this come up multiple times over the years. Sometimes even respectable physists get caught up in it, esp if they have only been reading summaries or have not looked into the data much yet, which is quite possible for someone who is a 'head' of a department.
Why not? The gates in your computer are faster then that.
Eh, this happens every few years... what tends to be the case is someone gets a hold of one of the charts where velocities were recorded and due to measurement issues there is a probability curve rather then a simple line... normally you use the curve to determine what the actual velocity was, but you always get at least a couple yahoos that look at the curve, notice that one of the tails goes above C and get all excited that something is going faster then light.
I think by the time we have some type of unified platform that all games will be developed for regardless of OS or hardware.. HTML5 will have already been relegated to the dustbin of history as an obsolete standard. I am not saying this to knock HTML5, but to highlight just how far off such a unification probably is.
Personally, this interview, to me reads like developers who see only their own domain and are forgetting to take into account all the other domains within gaming... ones where writing to the specific hardware is important, where multiplayer and network access are not important at all, etc etc.
Euthanize? Try eradicate... part of PETA's mission is the complete destruction of species that have made the mistake of getting along with humans.
Well, PETA has always been more about getting laid then actually helping animals.. so this fits their pattern quite nicely.
And it is short sighted fighting like that which makes piracy so attractive. I think with a lot of consumers, it is not about the cost, but about getting a consistant service with the content they want and the knowledge that said content will still be there tomorrow. All of this 'well, maybe you will be able to finish watching that series IF someone we don't control says it is ok' just drives people away.
To be fair, while this particular instance seems a bit out there, the CIA does have a long and pretty unpleasant history of getting rid of officials that do not meet US economic interests. So while I doubt this particular case, there is a pretty well established history of these kinds of operations that are well accepted and documented at this point by non-crackpots. Esp when powerful corporations encounter trouble with regulations in weak countries. The things the CIA did just to get us cheap bananans is truly chilling.
Beyond that... lots of officals have questioned the value of the dollar.... I can not see the CIA bothering with such a plot for something so simple.
I guess in that case a false flag attack would be someone who does not agree with the idea and is using the title anonymous to attack the idea. Not that far of a stretch to see a government entity doing such a thing.
I think one of the fascinating steps in the media hype ecology.. the post media hype hyping by bloggers and posters overstating the media reaction.
Well, when you are connecting to a shared network like the cell phone one... while not impossible they take some pretty serious risks when they open up, risks their insurance carriers might not like... or companies they purchase hardware components from. There are all sorts of legal, contractual, and liability reasons they might want (or need) to lock down their platform since what people do on their own phone CAN screw things up for others. Embedded developers were not very happy with GPLv3... it didn't offend the web people (who make up a larger community) since they can still hide their stuff behind the server's wall of legal protection, but for embedded people it was a real bum deal and really felt like their needs were being trampled by the web groups.
What a bunch of babies... dealing with protests by first cutting off people's ability to communicate, then when people get annoyed by THAT, they just shut stations completely? Then again this is an organization that looks out for its own and is not comfortable being questioned.. so not too surprising.
If a job is just a means to an ends to make money, then that is a depressing job.
To be fair, Opera is still a major player in the embedded market.
Yeah, but in each new version they bake more and more add-ons into the browser, so they kinda do force you to install them. That is actually why I ended up dropping firefox... they moved from being a lightweight pluggable browser into a 'developer's common use-case' one.