The browser on a LiveCD may be out of date. How about a USB flash drive that can save your ISP settings and can update the browser? Banks could distribute them for the price of the flash drive as a safer option for online banking.
If I am better at the game, I want to be able to see the results, I don't want the game to ramp up, that would just be frustrating. Here is an example: In Oblivion and Fallout, the more you level up, the enemies do so as well. I don't want enemies to get harder the better I do! Normally the point of an experience system is so that your character can get better to overcome the enemy, not to bring the entire game to a more advanced level.
All we need is difficulty settings at the title screen. Some games even let you change the difficulty level in the pause menu on the fly, so you don't have to restart your game if you want to change difficulty and lose all your progress.
CERN officials said the man, whose name has not been revealed, was working under contract with an outside institute and said he had no contact with anything that could have been used for terrorism.
So we're looking for a guy who doesn't use shampoo or lighters?
One part of the cloud can go down and affect many other services that rely on it. Unless we can freely interchange services - which conflicts with the notion of proprietary services in general - cloud computing will only work when the stars are aligned. Feature sets can change, and services that depend on these will need to be updated to reflect that, but it's hard to cooperate even within the same company, much less within such a chaotic system.
Much like blogs that link to each other (or URL forwarding services for that matter), if one part of the chain goes down, you can't get to what you need. You just can't base a reliable business on that type of architecture.
Yes, Yahoo! is now a Bing! portal, along with the other services they used to provide. They no longer provide search themselves, so they are basically a Bing! portal and entertainment site, I guess.
Actually, that last sentence was meant to read "Through all the people I know that quote it, who also tend to watch it while I am around, I got regular enough exposure to have experienced a lot of it"
Sometimes I enjoy it, sometimes I find it stupid because a lot of the time it just boils down to the actors presenting a blatantly absurd situation that the characters take seriously. It can only be recycled so many times before I get bored of it. And with all the people quoting it, Monty Python kinda grates on my nerves, actually. I've actually only seen the Holy Grail twice, but I have seen the other movies and most of the series. With all the people quoting it, I got regular enough exposure to have experienced a lot of it.
It's just like file formats. They used to provide the capability to store certain data that can be read back and used. Now file formats are only editable by certain applications and cannot be interpreted by others so they cannot be converted. Applications that have perfect support for these formats place restrictions on how they can be manipulated. So in the end, the user cannot do what they want with their data, on the web, but on the desktop too.
Standard hard disk too, and you can view standard web sites on its web browser even with Flash content instead of being confined to a certain selection of internet features. You used to be able to load a 3rd party OS on the machine, and I have one and enjoy this feature.
If they're going to arrest you for doing something out of the ordinary, don't you want to find out so you can either: a) get the hell out of here, or b) make an example out of it so more people pay attention to this absurdity?
This was back when people believed the hype about the Emotion Engine. Squaresoft hyped a possible FF7 remake, and the possibility of viewing scenes rendered in realtime from Final Fantasy: Spirits Within. The hype killed desire for the Dreamcast.
The rest was because people were pirating games on the Dreamcast left and right.
For some reason when I opened the link and the trailer started loading up, I started feeling sick to my stomach and just closed that tab. I'll just wait to see it when it comes out. I don't want this to be drawn out any longer than it has to. Yes, it does sound too good to be true. I just don't have any strength left to hold out hope for another good Sonic game. Please make it as good as Sonic CD.
Are they going to pay for any of my party, or do they expect me to do this out of my own pocket? I'm not that stupid, and there are much better geeky things to celebrate. Besides that, I'd rather throw parties for people, not inanimate consumer products.
Will it cost a lot more to run, since they will be drawing extra power, compared to maintaining books (re-binding, protecting covers, etc)? Will they allow the loaning of digital books, and will the amount of copies be artificially limited? Will this cost less than buying books? Will they be sponsored by any groups that will have an exclusive deal on what encyclopedias, atlases, and other reference books are available, or will they be unbiased and allow access to all "brands"? They say they will only have 18 book reading devices, and everyone else will be expected to use laptops. Will they require special software, or will there be a web interface? They will have 3 large TVs to display information from the internet on. Will this really be useful, or disruptive?
I guess I have a lot of questions, but hopefully this will be a good test case and give us all insight on the possible advantages.
You're just making the case that OSS has survived despite software patents, and not because of software patents. OSS was thriving before software patents and IP were an issue.
Actually programs will still migrate towards GPL, because of the fear that the program to end up closed and out of their control again like it was in the first place. Releasing stuff as BSD/libpng/zlib is kind of pointless, because modifying closed versions will not help the open ones that people want in the first place. LGPL is actually the midpoint, and GPL is the endpoint.
If you play online, you have to deal with fees, cheaters, bigots, ass-cams, and now up-to-date ads. Unless it's with MMOs, you can get along fine without online gaming. I'd rather just have friends over or direct connect with them (i.e. over VPN, etc).
Uncle Sam can't even secure his own data/servers/connection, how does he think he can go around telling others how to do it? This type of thing is the duty of system administrators, not the gubbmint. Not only that, disconnecting servers from the internet may have an unintended/unwanted effect on the operations those machines are trying to perform. It just makes no sense.
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I doubt the screen will be 1080p, but perhaps it can output to a TV. This way, the system could be a living room system as well as a handheld.
The browser on a LiveCD may be out of date. How about a USB flash drive that can save your ISP settings and can update the browser? Banks could distribute them for the price of the flash drive as a safer option for online banking.
If I am better at the game, I want to be able to see the results, I don't want the game to ramp up, that would just be frustrating. Here is an example: In Oblivion and Fallout, the more you level up, the enemies do so as well. I don't want enemies to get harder the better I do! Normally the point of an experience system is so that your character can get better to overcome the enemy, not to bring the entire game to a more advanced level.
All we need is difficulty settings at the title screen. Some games even let you change the difficulty level in the pause menu on the fly, so you don't have to restart your game if you want to change difficulty and lose all your progress.
CERN officials said the man, whose name has not been revealed, was working under contract with an outside institute and said he had no contact with anything that could have been used for terrorism.
So we're looking for a guy who doesn't use shampoo or lighters?
One part of the cloud can go down and affect many other services that rely on it. Unless we can freely interchange services - which conflicts with the notion of proprietary services in general - cloud computing will only work when the stars are aligned. Feature sets can change, and services that depend on these will need to be updated to reflect that, but it's hard to cooperate even within the same company, much less within such a chaotic system.
Much like blogs that link to each other (or URL forwarding services for that matter), if one part of the chain goes down, you can't get to what you need. You just can't base a reliable business on that type of architecture.
Yes, Yahoo! is now a Bing! portal, along with the other services they used to provide. They no longer provide search themselves, so they are basically a Bing! portal and entertainment site, I guess.
If you want to restrict the use of your program, I don't want to use it, so I guess we're even.
When you call them, just let them know that your conversation will be recorded for legal purposes.
Actually, that last sentence was meant to read "Through all the people I know that quote it, who also tend to watch it while I am around, I got regular enough exposure to have experienced a lot of it"
Sorry for the confusion.
Sometimes I enjoy it, sometimes I find it stupid because a lot of the time it just boils down to the actors presenting a blatantly absurd situation that the characters take seriously. It can only be recycled so many times before I get bored of it. And with all the people quoting it, Monty Python kinda grates on my nerves, actually. I've actually only seen the Holy Grail twice, but I have seen the other movies and most of the series. With all the people quoting it, I got regular enough exposure to have experienced a lot of it.
It's just like file formats. They used to provide the capability to store certain data that can be read back and used. Now file formats are only editable by certain applications and cannot be interpreted by others so they cannot be converted. Applications that have perfect support for these formats place restrictions on how they can be manipulated. So in the end, the user cannot do what they want with their data, on the web, but on the desktop too.
Standard hard disk too, and you can view standard web sites on its web browser even with Flash content instead of being confined to a certain selection of internet features. You used to be able to load a 3rd party OS on the machine, and I have one and enjoy this feature.
If they're going to arrest you for doing something out of the ordinary, don't you want to find out so you can either: a) get the hell out of here, or b) make an example out of it so more people pay attention to this absurdity?
Do something out of the ordinary, once or twice a day. Deviate from your normal routine in very absurd and unusual ways for no apparent reason.
This was back when people believed the hype about the Emotion Engine. Squaresoft hyped a possible FF7 remake, and the possibility of viewing scenes rendered in realtime from Final Fantasy: Spirits Within. The hype killed desire for the Dreamcast.
The rest was because people were pirating games on the Dreamcast left and right.
So some guy somewhere said: "Yeah, it's possible." But even if someone started planning such a thing, why would they use 4 year old technology?
For some reason when I opened the link and the trailer started loading up, I started feeling sick to my stomach and just closed that tab. I'll just wait to see it when it comes out. I don't want this to be drawn out any longer than it has to. Yes, it does sound too good to be true. I just don't have any strength left to hold out hope for another good Sonic game. Please make it as good as Sonic CD.
Are they going to pay for any of my party, or do they expect me to do this out of my own pocket? I'm not that stupid, and there are much better geeky things to celebrate. Besides that, I'd rather throw parties for people, not inanimate consumer products.
Will it cost a lot more to run, since they will be drawing extra power, compared to maintaining books (re-binding, protecting covers, etc)? Will they allow the loaning of digital books, and will the amount of copies be artificially limited? Will this cost less than buying books? Will they be sponsored by any groups that will have an exclusive deal on what encyclopedias, atlases, and other reference books are available, or will they be unbiased and allow access to all "brands"? They say they will only have 18 book reading devices, and everyone else will be expected to use laptops. Will they require special software, or will there be a web interface? They will have 3 large TVs to display information from the internet on. Will this really be useful, or disruptive?
I guess I have a lot of questions, but hopefully this will be a good test case and give us all insight on the possible advantages.
You're just making the case that OSS has survived despite software patents, and not because of software patents. OSS was thriving before software patents and IP were an issue.
Now you don't even have to write your own blog, you just do stuff and something online records it! Oh well, I guess it puts the "log" back in blog.
Maybe so where the hard core are concerned, but their properties can still be processed for mass consumption.
Actually programs will still migrate towards GPL, because of the fear that the program to end up closed and out of their control again like it was in the first place. Releasing stuff as BSD/libpng/zlib is kind of pointless, because modifying closed versions will not help the open ones that people want in the first place. LGPL is actually the midpoint, and GPL is the endpoint.
If you play online, you have to deal with fees, cheaters, bigots, ass-cams, and now up-to-date ads. Unless it's with MMOs, you can get along fine without online gaming. I'd rather just have friends over or direct connect with them (i.e. over VPN, etc).
Uncle Sam can't even secure his own data/servers/connection, how does he think he can go around telling others how to do it? This type of thing is the duty of system administrators, not the gubbmint. Not only that, disconnecting servers from the internet may have an unintended/unwanted effect on the operations those machines are trying to perform. It just makes no sense.