Not everybody lives in the society you do, has insurance, and access to 'cheaper' electronics.
So? Not everybody runs around being a thug, either.
While our republic is being taken over by Gang Stars of all races and nationalities, the good citizens are asleep.
Crime has been going down and the reasons that it was a hanging offense don't apply anymore. What has sharply risen in recent years is media sensationalism.
Come on, every anti-Apple story has a legion of screeching fanboys coming on to defend the company (though not directly, it's usually couched in phrases like "ohh, you're just hating out of hatred"). There's faulty thinking on both sides.
Screeching fanboys or just people who are dubious after so much wolf-crying?
Not sure how much this will be considered Flamebait on Slashdot:)
If the general public likes the movie, then what you say will be Insightful. If people generally hate it, then your post will be modded as flamebait so everybody here can show off how sophisticated their taste in movies is.
Higher development costs don't matter until the profit is counted. If you give it away and don't charge, then your development costs are actually higher with Open Source.
Stuff is easily replacable thanks to cheaper costs and insurance. That's why people are 'meh', why it's no longer a hanging offense, and not related at all to 'society going to hell'. If you have proven anything, it's that society is way better today than it used to be.
There. If I predict it, it will be less likely.;-)
This is exactly why you don't want places like theaters implementing phone jamming devices. Once it becomes 'acceptable', doing it at a place like Best Buy gets lots easier.
That wasn't the confusing bit. It was the random reference iOS that threw me. He could have mentioned his Casio watch and it'd have been just as funny.
Q: Has anyone actually *used* this. I'm as skeptical as the next guy, but it does seem they have a product that kind of works.
Yes. There was a little (but not unbearable) latency but otherwise you wouldn't know that you weren't hooked directly up to a machine playing the game.
I wish VNC worked like this (including audio) and it was cool to not have to 'install' any games. You weren't just limited to PC games, either, the games I played were on XBOX.
Oh so many years ago, I played Quake 1 over remote X on four IRIX boxes connecting to a single beefy Linux server. It required a pretty small window to be playable, but beside that, it worked surprisingly well. The server was two network hops away, in the same building, next to some big-ass clusters.
Except for using a wired network rather than wifi -- which is immaterial to the issue at hand -- tell me, how exactly did that differ from this cherished patent?
You mean besides the greater distance, the bigger window, and that they're obviously doing a video encoding to make it possible in a way you wish you had when doing remote desktop?
Okay, so the F'n A says that they've been set back two years. The main reason cited is that they ahve to wipe all their machines etc to ensure the malware is gone.
This is where my ignorance on the topic begins... So they have malware that attacks the Iran nuclear facility. It targets them without really hurting anybody else. How can this realistically take two years to clean up? Again, I'm being dense here, but the target is so specific I don't see how they can't just change a couple of things and avoid any more damage. Am I being really dumb or only just kind of dumb?
Well, in a way it is. Okay, I don't know if anybody's stealing Netflix streams and storing them, but the chief complaint about DRM is that it renders software inoperable after a period. In the case of rentals, like Netflix is offering, that's exactly what's called for!
You're right that the results are questionable, absolutely 100% no dispute about that, but the nitpickery over the term 'independent' is overzealous, especially in the context that the same summary pointed out it was funded by Microsoft.
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Not everybody lives in the society you do, has insurance, and access to 'cheaper' electronics.
So? Not everybody runs around being a thug, either.
While our republic is being taken over by Gang Stars of all races and nationalities, the good citizens are asleep.
Crime has been going down and the reasons that it was a hanging offense don't apply anymore. What has sharply risen in recent years is media sensationalism.
Come on, every anti-Apple story has a legion of screeching fanboys coming on to defend the company (though not directly, it's usually couched in phrases like "ohh, you're just hating out of hatred"). There's faulty thinking on both sides.
Screeching fanboys or just people who are dubious after so much wolf-crying?
Not sure how much this will be considered Flamebait on Slashdot :)
If the general public likes the movie, then what you say will be Insightful. If people generally hate it, then your post will be modded as flamebait so everybody here can show off how sophisticated their taste in movies is.
It's a sensationalized problem. Funny is trying to hypocritically justify it.
Didn't they just ban all portable mass storage devices as security risks? I mean what do they think these smart phones are?
Well.. that really doesn't rule out the iPhone...
...+ higher development cost...
Higher development costs don't matter until the profit is counted. If you give it away and don't charge, then your development costs are actually higher with Open Source.
Basically you shot your own argument in the foot.
This is tech news?
Well it does give you a chance to make a "would you like to play a game?" reference.
Stuff is easily replacable thanks to cheaper costs and insurance. That's why people are 'meh', why it's no longer a hanging offense, and not related at all to 'society going to hell'. If you have proven anything, it's that society is way better today than it used to be.
this store is now a cell-phone free environment."
There. If I predict it, it will be less likely. ;-)
This is exactly why you don't want places like theaters implementing phone jamming devices. Once it becomes 'acceptable', doing it at a place like Best Buy gets lots easier.
Physicists Improve Spin Information Storage
Does that mean we'll be able to fit Rush's broadcasts from 2001 to 2009 on a floppy?
That wasn't the confusing bit. It was the random reference iOS that threw me. He could have mentioned his Casio watch and it'd have been just as funny.
Convenient or practical?
How would you suggest they go about it?
Apple has the ultimate Flash sandbox. You have to run it on a completely different machine.
Why?
They will end up with editorial control....
Isn't that an easily solvable problem?
That's a big part of why our modern news media is so awful.
You sure that's because of advertising bias and not because modern media is chasing the almighty dollar to the point that they sensationalize?
... with audio?
Q: Has anyone actually *used* this. I'm as skeptical as the next guy, but it does seem they have a product that kind of works.
Yes. There was a little (but not unbearable) latency but otherwise you wouldn't know that you weren't hooked directly up to a machine playing the game.
I wish VNC worked like this (including audio) and it was cool to not have to 'install' any games. You weren't just limited to PC games, either, the games I played were on XBOX.
Oh so many years ago, I played Quake 1 over remote X on four IRIX boxes connecting to a single beefy Linux server. It required a pretty small window to be playable, but beside that, it worked surprisingly well. The server was two network hops away, in the same building, next to some big-ass clusters.
Except for using a wired network rather than wifi -- which is immaterial to the issue at hand -- tell me, how exactly did that differ from this cherished patent?
You mean besides the greater distance, the bigger window, and that they're obviously doing a video encoding to make it possible in a way you wish you had when doing remote desktop?
Afraid there is prior art for some of this.. remote desktop while playing a game. I know some of us have done it.
"FTL has prior art, I got in the truck and went on a highway once."
Okay, so the F'n A says that they've been set back two years. The main reason cited is that they ahve to wipe all their machines etc to ensure the malware is gone.
This is where my ignorance on the topic begins... So they have malware that attacks the Iran nuclear facility. It targets them without really hurting anybody else. How can this realistically take two years to clean up? Again, I'm being dense here, but the target is so specific I don't see how they can't just change a couple of things and avoid any more damage. Am I being really dumb or only just kind of dumb?
For the record, that AC isn't me.
(Yes, DRM doesn't work and blah blah blah...
Well, in a way it is. Okay, I don't know if anybody's stealing Netflix streams and storing them, but the chief complaint about DRM is that it renders software inoperable after a period. In the case of rentals, like Netflix is offering, that's exactly what's called for!
You're using a niche OS and not getting support, boo hoo.
Yep. That is, however, distinctly different from "paying to make the results what we want them to be".
I'm only nitpicking the semantics here, not the questionable'ness of the data.
That rationale is pretty weak.
You're right that the results are questionable, absolutely 100% no dispute about that, but the nitpickery over the term 'independent' is overzealous, especially in the context that the same summary pointed out it was funded by Microsoft.
Exactly. I find this tale hard to believe. Until the back door is found in the code, I'm very, very skeptical.
If discussions about Microsoft or Apple have taught me anything, it's that the proper term here is 'apologist'.