Genuine question, no sarcasm tag required: How do those who berate Apple's walled-garden approach feel about games consoles?
When I talk about Apple and use words like 'walled-garden' and 'open' my post has the word 'Insightful' appear next to it. That doesnt work as well in console threads, so I use words like "defective-by-design' and 'RROD' to make it appear.
If everyone in my neighborhood had a better swimming pool than me, my home's value would suffer.
In the mean time you can enjoy the fact that your neighbors are not taking out the power and gas to your home because they randomly decided to start digging a mud-pit in their yard.
I'd actually be interested in your critique of other competing solitaire games. That is unless it's pure, blind, Microsoft fanboy talk.
Microsoft 'fanboy'? Really? Outside of the 360, do those really exist or is that just what you call people that don't blindly light their torches and wave their pitchforks? I wouldn't mind, but it's not like you replied with "what, even compared to this particular game?" Like you don't sound like a fanboy yourself.
Anyhoo, yes, I've played a few Solitaire games mainly on the iPhone and the Palm Treo. What they all have in common is they lack Microsoft's dirt-simple click and drag gesture to move the cards into the piles. The others either required extra taps or actually getting to the 'game' part took too long to get to. Even the PocketPC version of Solitaire was quick to get running, play, and finish. Sometimes the differences are caused by input limitations (i.e. stylus), sometimes it's because... well gee-golly-gosh, Microsoft actually got the human input part of it right. Oh no!! I must be a fanboy!! I couldn't possibly be satisfied with anything they've done! Slashdot headlines tell me so!!!!1!
Steve is already readying his police cronies to kick down some doors to stop this. And don't think some hippie court ruling is going to stand in Steve's way! He'll say this is malicious hacking.
Then Steve'll go home and stomp on newborn kittens! Then he'll set an orphanage on fire!! After he's done pointing and laughing at that, he'll go down into the Apple Labs and roll up their cure for cancer and smoke it!!!
If you just need some shaking data to unblur very nicely, why can't one just (offline, with a hour or two to crank on it) just figure out what the motion was by unblurring as hypothesis testing, perhaps on a small section of the picture. Then you unblur the whole thing on the most likely candidates?
There may not be a reason. It could simply be they needed the actual data first to perfect the technique before trying an algorithm like that.
They will just discontinue support for the game rather soon.
Sure. But they've still spent a lot more than they would have on supporting the game during its run. It doesn't matter how short of period they use, they're still eating into their own profits when they use a system like this.
In reality, costs go down significantly over time for ongoing software development...
I dunno if you were being serious or not, but I would like to point out something: DRM creates on-going costs for software. EA, for example, will continue paying lots of people money to handle the servers and the customer service needed for their Spore customers to play their game for as long as they decide to support it. That means that for every product they sell, as they years go by, the actual profit they made from that sale will continue to decline.
I'm amazed that content industries are actually trying to use this model. It's great for rental, it's lousy for one-time sales.
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Online chat = talking to a person?
Online chat == I don't want to hear your voice?
I thought people used Facebook because they did NOT want to talk in person, but rather receive information in an asynchronous....
That's an odd assumption to make about millions of people on a service with a popular chat service and mobile phone apps.
I sure feel great about my Nook purchase this week.
There's safety in numbers.
Genuine question, no sarcasm tag required: How do those who berate Apple's walled-garden approach feel about games consoles?
When I talk about Apple and use words like 'walled-garden' and 'open' my post has the word 'Insightful' appear next to it. That doesnt work as well in console threads, so I use words like "defective-by-design' and 'RROD' to make it appear.
Where they don't belong without a phone call and probably a permit...
Heh. Boy I love pointless debates.
Seriously? You live somewhere where the neighbor's power and gas lines go through YOUR yard?
No but I've heard stories of neighbors doing things like cutting into sewer lines.
Wiring (or plumbing) two properties in parallel through one property seems like the kind of thing only an idiot would do.
*Smirk*
If everyone in my neighborhood had a better swimming pool than me, my home's value would suffer.
In the mean time you can enjoy the fact that your neighbors are not taking out the power and gas to your home because they randomly decided to start digging a mud-pit in their yard.
Sorry man, I'm not following your point. Could I trouble you for some clarification?
I'd actually be interested in your critique of other competing solitaire games. That is unless it's pure, blind, Microsoft fanboy talk.
Microsoft 'fanboy'? Really? Outside of the 360, do those really exist or is that just what you call people that don't blindly light their torches and wave their pitchforks? I wouldn't mind, but it's not like you replied with "what, even compared to this particular game?" Like you don't sound like a fanboy yourself.
Anyhoo, yes, I've played a few Solitaire games mainly on the iPhone and the Palm Treo. What they all have in common is they lack Microsoft's dirt-simple click and drag gesture to move the cards into the piles. The others either required extra taps or actually getting to the 'game' part took too long to get to. Even the PocketPC version of Solitaire was quick to get running, play, and finish. Sometimes the differences are caused by input limitations (i.e. stylus), sometimes it's because ... well gee-golly-gosh, Microsoft actually got the human input part of it right. Oh no!! I must be a fanboy!! I couldn't possibly be satisfied with anything they've done! Slashdot headlines tell me so!!!!1!
It is NOT 3d, you CANNOT get 3d from a 2d screen
Go to a play, then.
I don't think you can really accuse people of cloning Microsoft Solitaire.
That's true, nobody's managed to make one as good.
Anyone know why exactly "Buddy Holly" was put on the disk? Seems like kind of a random video to toss on there.
One of the Windows 95 buzzwords was "Multi-Media".
Steve is already readying his police cronies to kick down some doors to stop this. And don't think some hippie court ruling is going to stand in Steve's way! He'll say this is malicious hacking.
Then Steve'll go home and stomp on newborn kittens! Then he'll set an orphanage on fire!! After he's done pointing and laughing at that, he'll go down into the Apple Labs and roll up their cure for cancer and smoke it!!!
Try doing a hard reset to the 3G phone x2. My wife's phone was unusable after the iOS4 update. This did the trick. It's worth a try.
Count me in as somebody who had this work. It was still a little slower than 3.x, but it was usable again.
If that were the case /. would be full of retards...
You should visit a cell phone thread.
When I first got Red Hat I spent many hours playing 'make-sound-work-in-KDE' :)
Am I really the first to point this out? The proper word there is "cum", not "come". Come on, people! Latin!
*smirk*
That's why most people let context correctly disambiguate instead of assuming the least likely option.
Unless we're talking about a typo, then we sit here and bitch and whine about how we're too smart to read it.
If you just need some shaking data to unblur very nicely, why can't one just (offline, with a hour or two to crank on it) just figure out what the motion was by unblurring as hypothesis testing, perhaps on a small section of the picture. Then you unblur the whole thing on the most likely candidates?
There may not be a reason. It could simply be they needed the actual data first to perfect the technique before trying an algorithm like that.
Now they just need to attach this to Ballmer's head to deblur the company vision a little.
This is the first time in five years I've seen a +5 Ballmer joke that did not contain the word 'chair'.
Probably only half-working coming from microsoft, plus if you use black light in the room you can get brick you're phone/camera.
And then, four years later, we get an Open Source carbon-copy of it that works a little better but is much harder to use.
Tee hee giggle snort. Ignorant stereotypes about an organization are funny.
They will just discontinue support for the game rather soon.
Sure. But they've still spent a lot more than they would have on supporting the game during its run. It doesn't matter how short of period they use, they're still eating into their own profits when they use a system like this.
Only an idiot doesn't keep backups. Likewise, only an idiot doesn't sync his iPod/iPhone/iPad to a computer and blames Apple when he loses everything.
iTunes lets you re-download apps. You can also buy apps on your iPhone and install and run them on your iPod.
The guy you were replying to is talking out of his ass.
In reality, costs go down significantly over time for ongoing software development...
I dunno if you were being serious or not, but I would like to point out something: DRM creates on-going costs for software. EA, for example, will continue paying lots of people money to handle the servers and the customer service needed for their Spore customers to play their game for as long as they decide to support it. That means that for every product they sell, as they years go by, the actual profit they made from that sale will continue to decline.
I'm amazed that content industries are actually trying to use this model. It's great for rental, it's lousy for one-time sales.
Yeah... that's a bit expensive.
I remember when things like that were as cheap as a shave and a hair cut.