When a company says that they're the first to provide something to a consumer, it just makes me want to wait for the 2nd or 3rd iteration. The first always has bugs, is always more expensive, and is always improved upon. Thanks for letting me know not to consider your product, guys. In the meantime I can just use USB racing pedals, they seem to work pretty well at doing the same thing, and the buttons aren't as tiny as the one in the submitted article.
It will just take a little while for users to realize the folly of the thin client, especially when the servers they rely on are externally managed by various groups each having different ideas of "reliable" and "secure".
ISPs torturing their users won't last very long because of services like Steam, the upcoming new console generation, higher resolution videos on YouTube, Netflix, etc. That's just where we're headed and the users just want and enjoy it too much for it to let up. Unless ISPs give us all blu-ray burners, a bunch of blanks, and ways of saving streamed data, they can't really do a thing about it.
The problem is if I'm not connected I can't access my apps. Unless they allow me to download and host them myself, fuck that. This is fine for companies that have their own servers and operate thin clients, but I don't want to be reliant on an infrastructure I don't control and that can fuck me over at a critical moment.
So I guess this means backward compatibility is out of the question for MS's next console? They'll probably have to do the same thing as they did with the 360, require per-game emulation that doesn't quite always work.
What made the PlayStation a success was using familiar high-performance off-the-shelf parts. Developers already knew the hardware and continued to find ways to extract performance out of the combination. There were no surprises and no new paradigms (multiple core, stream co-processors, new architecture) that had to be learned to take advantage of the power. Sony was also there to help developers and even put their own experts behind popular franchises that were being developed for their console; they started this too late in the PS3's cycle to make a difference, on top of the already relatively late launch.
IMHO, this is the best route any console developer should take. What really makes a difference for a good console (besides committed in-house/3rd party developers) is not generally a radical new architecture, but its controller, software interface (GUI, etc), developer API kit (it directly affects the software lineup), online services for those who want them (online storefront, online friend management / multiplayer game service), and secondary features such as media playback interface/formats, video/music services, etc.
Why did Radio Shack go from a hobbyist store to a glorified alarm clock store in the first place? Why do they need to make this change now, and are they only going toe deep or will they really give us what we need?
You see less when you look up their skirts than if they were wearing only bathing suits. They had no problem with the EU releases of Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball 1 & 2, which features the same girls in bathing suits.
It sounds like MA15+ and R18+ are pretty much the same, they're just trying to raise the age bracket under the guise of being more permissive. The language used makes it seem like they can actually be more restrictive.
New tabs/windows will get a URL bar, and when you finish entering the URL, the bar will disappear and the page will load. From then on, you navigate with the mouse. When you open a link in a new tab/window, the URL bar will be shown for a few seconds when you first switch to the window. If you follow a link that leads to a different server, the URL bar will be shown for a few seconds. If you want to see it again, double-click the tab.
The Super NES drew things in layers, so emulators are able to up-res each layer separately. The TV would try and up-res the entire screen all in one shot, so some of the details of the characters and backgrounds might get mixed up together. If part of the outline of the character is black and part of the background is black, then the TV upscaler might think the two are joined together. If a previous-frame(s) algorithm were implemented it might help to mitigate some of these issues, but that wouldn't stop problems with static screens.
Yes, but these low-detail originals were enough to fool the brain, in our minds we "knew" what these would look like if they were well drawn. I'm sure an algorithm could be developed to guess at these details the way our brains do.
In some crazy world where we could have known beforehand, Sony could have closed up PSN and given every user 2.5M dollars and everyone would have been perfectly happy.
What popular MP3 players accept SD cards? I think Sansa had one, but is it really that widespread? Most MP3 players can't even make use of SD cards. Due to the small size of SD cards and the popularity and permanence of write-once DVDs for backing up data, I don't even see SD cards as being a popular storage medium for MP3 files. Most don't even store MP3s, they create them when they rip the DVD, put them on their player, and delete the originals. Or they just re-download them from the place they bought them from.
That was my number one choice to grab the Pioneer One episodes (and how I even heard of it in the first place) as well as torrent archives of my favorite podcasts.
until my 8-bit Nintendo dies from plastic corrosion and age, it will continue to play any game I find just as it was supposed to
Capcom for one are releasing games on PSN that need to contact servers in order to be played. Either it's planned obsolescence, or a fucking ripoff. I think it's both. Another example is game DLC. I'll always have my game disc and be able to put it in any system and play it, but I can't really do that with any of my DLC. Sure, if Sony and MS servers are set up, I can transfer licenses, but I'm sure those will be shut down or deprecated just like Xbox Live Classic was.
I see merits to both sides, but I at least have to point out some flaws in your argument (which may allow you to strengthen it and we could both benefit, unless you want to keep any insight to yourself of course, that is your right).
First, you *assume* that your software would have become popular like the fork did. Your version, GPL'd or unforked BSD may have never caught on
No, he assumes works derived from his work would have become popular. His GPL'd work may have never caught on, but maybe someone else's GPL'd fork would have. The forked popular version benefitted from the unforked one, otherwise it would never have been based on it. But in the GPL scenario, both contributing parties benefit from the popularity. Follow the BSD path and only one would have. It's like if someone else patents an idea you developed before you had a chance to, and now you never get to benefit when the idea takes off.
You work may be the lesser replaceable part of the overall effort.
If it's not an important part, why are they using your work? On the other hand, if you realize your work wouldn't be a huge part of a larger application but you still don't want people to re-invent the wheel, you can still do the pragmatic thing and simply use the LGPL license.
For example linux works regardless of how many copies of ms windows are sold,
Linux and Windows are developed independently, which is a different argument than freebsd and OS X since they actually share a common base.
and people are free to use and contribute to freebsd regardless of how many people use mac os x
But if OS X works fine, why even bother with freebsd? If BSD was under the GPL license, or parts were LGPL, then freebsd would receive as many contributions as the part of OS X that freebsd is based on. As it is now, freebsd and OS X become fragmented, and some fixes in one aren't present in the other.
Charity is fine but if you want to help everyone, teach a man to fish instead of just giving him fish, he might even be able to improve fishing techniques and pass them on so that we can all fish better.
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When a company says that they're the first to provide something to a consumer, it just makes me want to wait for the 2nd or 3rd iteration. The first always has bugs, is always more expensive, and is always improved upon. Thanks for letting me know not to consider your product, guys. In the meantime I can just use USB racing pedals, they seem to work pretty well at doing the same thing, and the buttons aren't as tiny as the one in the submitted article.
So Obama's a blatant liar. Can't he be impeached for this?
It will just take a little while for users to realize the folly of the thin client, especially when the servers they rely on are externally managed by various groups each having different ideas of "reliable" and "secure".
ISPs torturing their users won't last very long because of services like Steam, the upcoming new console generation, higher resolution videos on YouTube, Netflix, etc. That's just where we're headed and the users just want and enjoy it too much for it to let up. Unless ISPs give us all blu-ray burners, a bunch of blanks, and ways of saving streamed data, they can't really do a thing about it.
The problem is if I'm not connected I can't access my apps. Unless they allow me to download and host them myself, fuck that. This is fine for companies that have their own servers and operate thin clients, but I don't want to be reliant on an infrastructure I don't control and that can fuck me over at a critical moment.
So I guess this means backward compatibility is out of the question for MS's next console? They'll probably have to do the same thing as they did with the 360, require per-game emulation that doesn't quite always work.
I can lend a DVD, how is this any different? While they're using the [DVD|streaming service], I can't use it.
What made the PlayStation a success was using familiar high-performance off-the-shelf parts. Developers already knew the hardware and continued to find ways to extract performance out of the combination. There were no surprises and no new paradigms (multiple core, stream co-processors, new architecture) that had to be learned to take advantage of the power. Sony was also there to help developers and even put their own experts behind popular franchises that were being developed for their console; they started this too late in the PS3's cycle to make a difference, on top of the already relatively late launch.
IMHO, this is the best route any console developer should take. What really makes a difference for a good console (besides committed in-house/3rd party developers) is not generally a radical new architecture, but its controller, software interface (GUI, etc), developer API kit (it directly affects the software lineup), online services for those who want them (online storefront, online friend management / multiplayer game service), and secondary features such as media playback interface/formats, video/music services, etc.
Why did Radio Shack go from a hobbyist store to a glorified alarm clock store in the first place? Why do they need to make this change now, and are they only going toe deep or will they really give us what we need?
You see less when you look up their skirts than if they were wearing only bathing suits. They had no problem with the EU releases of Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball 1 & 2, which features the same girls in bathing suits.
when we get rid of every last human being who hates America.
What is this, China?
It sounds like MA15+ and R18+ are pretty much the same, they're just trying to raise the age bracket under the guise of being more permissive. The language used makes it seem like they can actually be more restrictive.
New tabs/windows will get a URL bar, and when you finish entering the URL, the bar will disappear and the page will load. From then on, you navigate with the mouse. When you open a link in a new tab/window, the URL bar will be shown for a few seconds when you first switch to the window. If you follow a link that leads to a different server, the URL bar will be shown for a few seconds. If you want to see it again, double-click the tab.
The Super NES drew things in layers, so emulators are able to up-res each layer separately. The TV would try and up-res the entire screen all in one shot, so some of the details of the characters and backgrounds might get mixed up together. If part of the outline of the character is black and part of the background is black, then the TV upscaler might think the two are joined together. If a previous-frame(s) algorithm were implemented it might help to mitigate some of these issues, but that wouldn't stop problems with static screens.
Yes, but these low-detail originals were enough to fool the brain, in our minds we "knew" what these would look like if they were well drawn. I'm sure an algorithm could be developed to guess at these details the way our brains do.
In some crazy world where we could have known beforehand, Sony could have closed up PSN and given every user 2.5M dollars and everyone would have been perfectly happy.
the brain areas that have evolved to process religion.
So you're going to go with that rationalization? What a beaut!
Herd mentality implies a fear-based reaction to peer pressure which makes individuals act in order to avoid feeling "left behind" from the group.
Qualified as "fear-based" and a "reaction to peer pressure" already implies a negative force. It's always nice to have studies to back it up though.
How many Canadians do you think do business with US ISPs?
What popular MP3 players accept SD cards? I think Sansa had one, but is it really that widespread? Most MP3 players can't even make use of SD cards. Due to the small size of SD cards and the popularity and permanence of write-once DVDs for backing up data, I don't even see SD cards as being a popular storage medium for MP3 files. Most don't even store MP3s, they create them when they rip the DVD, put them on their player, and delete the originals. Or they just re-download them from the place they bought them from.
That was my number one choice to grab the Pioneer One episodes (and how I even heard of it in the first place) as well as torrent archives of my favorite podcasts.
How will Capcom compensate the people who weren't able to play its games, which refuse to boot without connectivity?
until my 8-bit Nintendo dies from plastic corrosion and age, it will continue to play any game I find just as it was supposed to
Capcom for one are releasing games on PSN that need to contact servers in order to be played. Either it's planned obsolescence, or a fucking ripoff. I think it's both. Another example is game DLC. I'll always have my game disc and be able to put it in any system and play it, but I can't really do that with any of my DLC. Sure, if Sony and MS servers are set up, I can transfer licenses, but I'm sure those will be shut down or deprecated just like Xbox Live Classic was.
First, you *assume* that your software would have become popular like the fork did. Your version, GPL'd or unforked BSD may have never caught on
No, he assumes works derived from his work would have become popular. His GPL'd work may have never caught on, but maybe someone else's GPL'd fork would have. The forked popular version benefitted from the unforked one, otherwise it would never have been based on it. But in the GPL scenario, both contributing parties benefit from the popularity. Follow the BSD path and only one would have. It's like if someone else patents an idea you developed before you had a chance to, and now you never get to benefit when the idea takes off.
You work may be the lesser replaceable part of the overall effort.
If it's not an important part, why are they using your work? On the other hand, if you realize your work wouldn't be a huge part of a larger application but you still don't want people to re-invent the wheel, you can still do the pragmatic thing and simply use the LGPL license.
For example linux works regardless of how many copies of ms windows are sold,
Linux and Windows are developed independently, which is a different argument than freebsd and OS X since they actually share a common base.
and people are free to use and contribute to freebsd regardless of how many people use mac os x
But if OS X works fine, why even bother with freebsd? If BSD was under the GPL license, or parts were LGPL, then freebsd would receive as many contributions as the part of OS X that freebsd is based on. As it is now, freebsd and OS X become fragmented, and some fixes in one aren't present in the other.
Charity is fine but if you want to help everyone, teach a man to fish instead of just giving him fish, he might even be able to improve fishing techniques and pass them on so that we can all fish better.
Good luck proving it was Anonymous. Also, Sony must share some of the blame for not preventing/dealing with security breaches effectively.
"I don't know any other way you could do it – anybody would have come up with that with the same approach."
Woz states it is an obvious method, which means the patent is invalid, right? So why were they forced to pay $5 on every Apple II again?