Yes, but most of the people who could afford a real gucci bag would buy a real one because they wouldn't want to be caught with a fake. Claiming lost sales from knock-offs (of very high-end goods) is like claiming lost sales from piracy. The people who could actually afford and would buy a knock-off couldn't afford a real gucci and likely would never buy it, much like I think a good portion of pirates probably would not buy the item in question otherwise.
Many apps these days are cross platform. Things like messengers, social apps (dating/friend finding), or games, or anything of that nature. Will this agreement allow them to port those apps so long as they're made for the Windows phone first?
Seems like it would cover this and is already used. Canadian hospitals and clinics have a translation card. The patient points to their language a call is made to the translation service and someone who speaks that language is put on the line. I'm guessing it would take a lot of those calls to justify even a single unit at 1 hospital.
How many ads were placed? I'm guessing this isn't barely even a tiny percentage of the adds placed. 330 crimines? Big whoop. millions of people use this service. I can't imagine there not being even a little crime.
Public kissing is still pretty taboo here, but they really like to run stories about Koreans doing interesting things, especially abroad, I wonder how this will get covered here.
Anyone writing fanfic could already get sued. "Parody" is not a blanket term that just let's you copy and use whatever you want because you tried to put a funny twist on it. You might do yourself a favor and actually read up on it. Parody requires you actually comment on the original work itself. That's the justification for fair use of the content. Not just put bilbo baggins in a funny hat and call it a day.
The PC version has higher res doo-dads than the console version, otherwise the games are identical. So trying to claim PC development is ruined is garbage.
Isn't this also being developed for consoles with little to no change to the game other than a few higher res doo-dads? apparently they've never searched torrent sites for any of the console names either..
all I see is a company trying to generate an excuse for what they know will be a sub-par product ahead of time. I wonder what they'd do if they had to actually be honest for even 5 minutes?
Any evidence to the contrary? Anyone remember that whole story about the "lawyers assistant" who quit through a series of photos? Turned out to be fake. I barely buy anything on the internet unless it comes with time stamps, sworn and filed affidavits and the pixels don't look shopped.
I admit this is a very, very small percentage and not what most people are talking about here when they talk about fansubs, but in some small way, it does help profits.
but extremely unlikely to remotely impact this study.
I think this needs a couple of small upgrades to really work well in a class. It should have a scanner/printer on the base.
Classes often involve handing in work, or getting hand-outs from a teacher. I suppose that they could always be e-mailed, but there might be a way to work in a real time testing situation so that he could take tests with real time interaction. e.g. write the answers on an ipad/android tablet with stylus which is then printed whole when he's finished.
are you kidding me? Harper has been bending over and taking it from American big business since he got into office. Just every once in awhile his self-preservation and what canadians want coincides.
OnLive no longer restricts signups by service area. As far as I know, this was only true during the beta. I believe the way they handle it now is they allow anyone to sign up for a free account, but will bounce you if you can't connect within a certain time period.
Which is more or less the same thing. Distance adds latency. There is no way around it. More hops, more latency, more points of failure. All they're doing is opening it up on the chance you might get a low enough ping to the server to use it, but who knows if that would be consistent from day to day.
Is this the same ISP you mentioned earlier as the one with the constant disconnects and bad latency to game servers?
No, I was speaking of ISPs in general. We have constant stories on slashdot about ISPs introducing new caps and restrictions, and filtering traffic, etc. Onlive chews a lot of bandwidth, just like Netflix does and there is already noise about ISPs pushing back against that. I then provided my specific connection information, which is a very good connection and pointed out that it doesn't work "somewhere" in the world, contradicting your claim that it worked "anywhere" in the world. Not everyone lives in the US. There is a whole big world out there.
Obviously I haven't tried everywhere, but I used the little OnLive console in a hotel on a vacation trip to Mexico and it worked fine.
You apparently got it to work once in a hotel in Mexico, so it works all over the world? You must work for Mythbusters.
The service sucks because with the technology and price point, it is just not efficient or a good value for anyone.
There is no need for ad hominem attacks because someone disagrees with your opinions by using facts.
What facts? Like the "fact" that this service works anywhere in the world?
You wouldn't know a fact if if jumped up and bit you in the ass. As for ad hominem attacks, let me redirect you to your oh so clever and mocking entry into this thread
The ubiquitous "This can nevar work unless you are In teh Servar room! IR expart on such tings!" post whenever OnLive is brought up.
I'm sure you can point me to where I claimed I was an expert in original post? It's ok, I'll wait while you go dig up some more "facts"
The fact is, the technology isn't there, you're overpaying for what you're getting, the company has no idea what it's doing or where it's going. They're lurching from one idea/pricing model to the other, like a drunken sailor desperately trying to attract customers.
This is the third or fourth story I've heard out of onlive with a new pricing "scheme" in very recent memory.
Ah, yes. The ubiquitous "This can nevar work unless you are In teh Servar room! IR expart on such tings!" post whenever OnLive is brought up. It works fine on a residential DSL connection. Would I play a tournament-level game of COD on it? No. But it works just fine for everyday use with a wide variety of games.
They simply cannot provide the quality and responsiveness of an actual machine, it just isn't physically possible on most people's home connections who aren't next door to the server.
Sounds like you need a better ISP, stat. But brief hiccups in connectivity do not "break a game" on OnLive, in this case you would just drop some frames of video and continue on. Actually a better experience than if you were playing locally with a crappy connection when you'd just get bounced from the server for latency.
There are many games where your delayed input will result in you dying. Yes, not dumbed down console shooters with recharging everything, but a genuine game, if your input is suddenly cut off, you will die/lose. Hiccup in a racing game? Maybe you crash into the wall/another player/ etc. Not everything is about multiplayer.
This service benefits anyone who wants to play an admittedly limited library of games of any genre on any Mac or PC with even an old embedded video solution - or for the price of a new console game play without any PC at all
Except you're left with nothing. You pay $10/month, $120/year and in the end you've got nothing. Buy yourself a console and you've at least got that at the end and you might even sell it second hand or keep it for posterity.
Anywhere in the world with a decent broadband connection.
Certainly not, now it's very obvious that you're a corporate shill/fanboy You have to live within designated service areas, which means being very close to the server to start with. There are people in the US who can't even get service yet, let alone "anywhere in the world". As I fire it up on my local 100 Mbps Fiber connection somewhere in the world, I'm told "We've detected a high latency connection and cannot proceed". My ping to the ISP is under 10 ms. You're so full of it your eyes are brown.
There is no way someone could pay more than the cost of a machine to play Crysis "in a few years"
At the quality level at which the game is actually delivered to you? yes, you sure could. Crysis is already aging and no longer cripples machines. They aren't delivering a maxed out high quality video feed at a high resolution. You're getting a low quality video feed at a low resolution. Running crysis on those settings does not require an expensive machine. Even a console now can be paid for in a couple years at the current price and you'll be able to play whatever you want, whenever you want, at a much better quality level with better responsiveness.
With latency continually trending downwards, it will only be a short time before it's completely unnoticeable
You don't sound like much of a network engineer. This is a physical impossibility. Any latency you notice is also likely to be doubled in a multiplayer game. You might get 50-100 on some servers, but now you've got to start off with getting that to Onlive, then you have to get that to a server doubling it. Latency is only going to go up as ISPs jerk around with traffic, oversell subscriptions, and generally don't take care of their networks as well as they should. Even if onlive limits their multiplayer to inhouse to minimize latency, you're still dealing with lowered quality at a higher price. A gaming session that could die with the slightest hiccup. It just can't compete with a console, even less with a PC.
Ask anyone who has been the first to get service in a neighbourhood vs a year later how their service is. Now multiply that company wide.
How many times has onlive changed their payment plans in the last 6 months? How about the last week? This is just another desperate attempt for them to try and drum up business for a service which really has no market. The "game reviewers who will sit next door with a 100 MB fiber connection and give you a glorifying review" segment isn't that large. With an increasing number of ISPs decreasing their caps, inconsistent service, and the slightest hiccup breaking a game, this service benefits no one beyond those who really want to play super high end turn based games and would rather pay more per month to play them over the course of a few years than it would cost them to build a machine to play the games in the first place. Everyone else is taking a massive crap shoot and basically wasting money on rentals.
All I really want out of this company is to know what they put in the water when they meet the venture capitalists.
Another added benefit of a private tracker is that it makes harder, not impossible, for the RIAA to track the activity. The ISPs can inspect all the packets of course and still see the torrents, but the RIAA can't access the trackers to get a list of all the IP addresses of the peers.
If you can get onto the private tracker, so can someone who works for the RIAA. Invites for trackers get passed around everyday and someone somewhere would be willing to sell their account for a few bucks as well.
That is hit and miss. Some IP holders will actually hire groups to mimic high seed torrents, even litter the torrent with fake comments. It would be just as trivial for the same group to "verify" a torrent on btjunkie or the like.
I remember first encountering this back in the emule days, and wondering why an obviously fake song had so many sources. The obvious answer was those people were intentionally spreading it to make it look like the real deal and make people waste their time.
they can't send two full seasons in the time the US sends one.
Absolutely they can most series are 20-24 episodes, with some being less. There are 52 weeks in a year, and there is no reason they couldn't double up like they do here for some series (human target is doing that right now)
I knew a girl who ran who a semi-adult website who once had someone purchase a vibrator for her that could be operated via sms. It was of the style that she could wear for long periods during the day. Never heard what came of it..
Try a search, there are plenty of 3rd party dialer apps on the iPhone. What is measured by this analysis is relevant to people who are interested only in those who have cellphones, not in other devices. I'm sure they have their reasons for wanting that data.
on the iPhone you also have triangulation for gps-like navigation. You can buy a kit for the iPod but it's an add on and doesn't support it natively. That might also be relevant for developers.
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Yes, but most of the people who could afford a real gucci bag would buy a real one because they wouldn't want to be caught with a fake. Claiming lost sales from knock-offs (of very high-end goods) is like claiming lost sales from piracy. The people who could actually afford and would buy a knock-off couldn't afford a real gucci and likely would never buy it, much like I think a good portion of pirates probably would not buy the item in question otherwise.
Many apps these days are cross platform. Things like messengers, social apps (dating/friend finding), or games, or anything of that nature.
Will this agreement allow them to port those apps so long as they're made for the Windows phone first?
Seems like it would cover this and is already used. Canadian hospitals and clinics have a translation card. The patient points to their language a call is made to the translation service and someone who speaks that language is put on the line. I'm guessing it would take a lot of those calls to justify even a single unit at 1 hospital.
How many ads were placed? I'm guessing this isn't barely even a tiny percentage of the adds placed. 330 crimines? Big whoop. millions of people use this service. I can't imagine there not being even a little crime.
Public kissing is still pretty taboo here, but they really like to run stories about Koreans doing interesting things, especially abroad, I wonder how this will get covered here.
Anyone writing fanfic could already get sued. "Parody" is not a blanket term that just let's you copy and use whatever you want because you tried to put a funny twist on it.
You might do yourself a favor and actually read up on it. Parody requires you actually comment on the original work itself. That's the justification for fair use of the content. Not just put bilbo baggins in a funny hat and call it a day.
The PC version has higher res doo-dads than the console version, otherwise the games are identical. So trying to claim PC development is ruined is garbage.
Isn't this also being developed for consoles with little to no change to the game other than a few higher res doo-dads?
apparently they've never searched torrent sites for any of the console names either..
all I see is a company trying to generate an excuse for what they know will be a sub-par product ahead of time. I wonder what they'd do if they had to actually be honest for even 5 minutes?
Any evidence to the contrary? Anyone remember that whole story about the "lawyers assistant" who quit through a series of photos? Turned out to be fake.
I barely buy anything on the internet unless it comes with time stamps, sworn and filed affidavits and the pixels don't look shopped.
You might try telling him you've agreed to a democractic process for choosing your breakfast and ask him to leave.
but extremely unlikely to remotely impact this study.
I think this needs a couple of small upgrades to really work well in a class.
It should have a scanner/printer on the base.
Classes often involve handing in work, or getting hand-outs from a teacher. I suppose that they could always be e-mailed, but there might be a way to work in a real time testing situation so that he could take tests with real time interaction. e.g. write the answers on an ipad/android tablet with stylus which is then printed whole when he's finished.
are you kidding me? Harper has been bending over and taking it from American big business since he got into office. Just every once in awhile his self-preservation and what canadians want coincides.
Which is more or less the same thing. Distance adds latency.
There is no way around it. More hops, more latency, more points of failure. All they're doing is opening it up on the chance you might get a low enough ping to the server to use it, but who knows if that would be consistent from day to day.
No, I was speaking of ISPs in general. We have constant stories on slashdot about ISPs introducing new caps and restrictions, and filtering traffic, etc.
Onlive chews a lot of bandwidth, just like Netflix does and there is already noise about ISPs pushing back against that. I then provided my specific connection information, which is a very good connection and pointed out that it doesn't work "somewhere" in the world, contradicting your claim that it worked "anywhere" in the world. Not everyone lives in the US. There is a whole big world out there.
You apparently got it to work once in a hotel in Mexico, so it works all over the world? You must work for Mythbusters.
The service sucks because with the technology and price point, it is just not efficient or a good value for anyone.
What facts? Like the "fact" that this service works anywhere in the world?
or the fact that you claim they haven't changed their prices in the last 6 months? October 2010:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/10/onlive-monthly-subscription-fees-are-dead/
subscriptions gone
December 2010
Subscriptions back
Then they also announced they want to get into movies
You wouldn't know a fact if if jumped up and bit you in the ass.
As for ad hominem attacks, let me redirect you to your oh so clever and mocking entry into this thread
I'm sure you can point me to where I claimed I was an expert in original post? It's ok, I'll wait while you go dig up some more "facts"
The fact is, the technology isn't there, you're overpaying for what you're getting, the company has no idea what it's doing or where it's going. They're lurching from one idea/pricing model to the other, like a drunken sailor desperately trying to attract customers.
This is the third or fourth story I've heard out of onlive with a new pricing "scheme" in very recent memory.
They simply cannot provide the quality and responsiveness of an actual machine, it just isn't physically possible on most people's home connections who aren't next door to the server.
There are many games where your delayed input will result in you dying. Yes, not dumbed down console shooters with recharging everything, but a genuine game, if your input is suddenly cut off, you will die/lose.
Hiccup in a racing game? Maybe you crash into the wall/another player/ etc.
Not everything is about multiplayer.
Except you're left with nothing. You pay $10/month, $120/year and in the end you've got nothing. Buy yourself a console and you've at least got that at the end and you might even sell it second hand or keep it for posterity.
Certainly not, now it's very obvious that you're a corporate shill/fanboy
You have to live within designated service areas, which means being very close to the server to start with. There are people in the US who can't even get service yet, let alone "anywhere in the world". As I fire it up on my local 100 Mbps Fiber connection somewhere in the world, I'm told "We've detected a high latency connection and cannot proceed". My ping to the ISP is under 10 ms. You're so full of it your eyes are brown.
At the quality level at which the game is actually delivered to you? yes, you sure could. Crysis is already aging and no longer cripples machines. They aren't delivering a maxed out high quality video feed at a high resolution. You're getting a low quality video feed at a low resolution. Running crysis on those settings does not require an expensive machine. Even a console now can be paid for in a couple years at the current price and you'll be able to play whatever you want, whenever you want, at a much better quality level with better responsiveness.
You don't sound like much of a network engineer. This is a physical impossibility. Any latency you notice is also likely to be doubled in a multiplayer game.
You might get 50-100 on some servers, but now you've got to start off with getting that to Onlive, then you have to get that to a server doubling it. Latency is only going to go up as ISPs jerk around with traffic, oversell subscriptions, and generally don't take care of their networks as well as they should. Even if onlive limits their multiplayer to inhouse to minimize latency, you're still dealing with lowered quality at a higher price. A gaming session that could die with the slightest hiccup. It just can't compete with a console, even less with a PC.
Ask anyone who has been the first to get service in a neighbourhood vs a year later how their service is. Now multiply that company wide.
How many times has onlive changed their payment plans in the last 6 months? How about the last week? This is just another desperate attempt for them to try and drum up business for a service which really has no market. The "game reviewers who will sit next door with a 100 MB fiber connection and give you a glorifying review" segment isn't that large.
With an increasing number of ISPs decreasing their caps, inconsistent service, and the slightest hiccup breaking a game, this service benefits no one beyond those who really want to play super high end turn based games and would rather pay more per month to play them over the course of a few years than it would cost them to build a machine to play the games in the first place. Everyone else is taking a massive crap shoot and basically wasting money on rentals.
All I really want out of this company is to know what they put in the water when they meet the venture capitalists.
If you can get onto the private tracker, so can someone who works for the RIAA. Invites for trackers get passed around everyday and someone somewhere would be willing to sell their account for a few bucks as well.
That is hit and miss. Some IP holders will actually hire groups to mimic high seed torrents, even litter the torrent with fake comments.
It would be just as trivial for the same group to "verify" a torrent on btjunkie or the like.
I remember first encountering this back in the emule days, and wondering why an obviously fake song had so many sources. The obvious answer was those people were intentionally spreading it to make it look like the real deal and make people waste their time.
Absolutely they can most series are 20-24 episodes, with some being less.
There are 52 weeks in a year, and there is no reason they couldn't double up like they do here for some series (human target is doing that right now)
I knew a girl who ran who a semi-adult website who once had someone purchase a vibrator for her that could be operated via sms. It was of the style that she could wear for long periods during the day. Never heard what came of it..
nearly identical characters AND the moving walls to allow you to go up?
That's far more than coincidence.
Try a search, there are plenty of 3rd party dialer apps on the iPhone. What is measured by this analysis is relevant to people who are interested only in those who have cellphones, not in other devices. I'm sure they have their reasons for wanting that data.
on the iPhone you also have triangulation for gps-like navigation. You can buy a kit for the iPod but it's an add on and doesn't support it natively. That might also be relevant for developers.
Because some apps are specifically for phones only like dialer apps. What good is a dialer app on an iPod?
Are there not more cellular phones running android than iOS in this market?