The article is measuring what OS is running on all cellphones regardless of make or model. I'm carrying on with this discussion on an iPhone and I'm not as bent out of shape or butthurt as the pair of you
Because that is not the statistic being presented here. You want to cut it a dozen ways you are free to do so what is up for discussion here is cellular phones running operating systems and not random handheld devices that have nothing to do with cellular phones. Maybe we need a remedial.slashdot.org with pictures.
It's about cellular phones that use a certain OS regardless of model or manufacturer not rocket science and if it's that hard to follow for you I might recommend getting off the Internet as you are likely to injure yourself or others.
Because they're not phones. The android devices are all phones. an iPod is not a phone. Yes, using a wifi connection an app you can make VOIP calls, but it is not a cellular phone.
Korea has been doing this forever. People use the equivalent of a social security number to register with most websites over a certain size. Most sites have you first provide your name/number and then a second verification method (bank cert generated for this purpose, cell phone registered with the same name/number, fax a copy of the card, etc) to prove you have control of that identity. The government recently allowed some private companies to create a new layer in this though where you sign-up using your name/number on their site, then use a username/pass on the new site you wish to sign-up on so that your number is no longer passed around. Only a verification comes from the security company saying yes, this is that person.
The only major issue I have is that the IDs issued to foreigners is in a different database than those issued to citizens, at least as far as I can find out, and not all sites subscribe to the database for foreigners, especially shopping sites. So foreigners here do sometimes have an issues signing up for certain sites, mainly shopping sites. However, that has been changing and more and more sites are opening up.
Overall I like the system, but then again I'm not a paranoid nutter.
if a million people did that, they wouldn't even notice. They have a ridiculous amount of customers and you'd get nowhere near that many people upset over this kind of an issue.
This has been going on a very long time. Ever since there have been indexing sites, scammers have been creating wrap-around sites. This was a huge story (that I'm sure was on Slashdot) when Supernova was around. There was a site charging people $$ for access to "unlimited downloads, etc" and all it was was loading the supernova site in a frame inside their site. If I recall there were actually several domains set up just like that all doing the same thing. People who aren't in the know google these things and these sites up end turning up high in the search results. They just don't know any better.
I'd suggest that given the errors in his writing that perhaps he is just not that smart. Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to stupidity.
The problem wasn't only in style. The problem was in content. The show wasn't about "stargate". Even if they wanted to have a whiny psychological show, it should have still focused on the stargate universe. One of the first bits of alien tech they discover (that planet with the tower/spire) is covered in a montage. A fucking montage. We finally get something interesting, and instead we get some shitty emo song played over top of a couple shots.
That was the entire problem of the show. You want to add lots of boohooing and extra character development? Fine, but do so while they're still talking about, using and learning about the mythos of the universe.
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actually Geocities was originally a network. A long time ago all the sites were set up in neighbourhoods. With numbers similar to house numbers. I was actually a community leader in the late 90s and we'd help with taking care of various neighbourhoods. Later they got rid of the hierarchy and made it all flat.
At top settings? yes. Gigabyte 1GB geforce 460 GTX hasn't had any issues and is $184 on newegg. The days of trying to blame the $1000 graphics card bogeyman are long gone.
and if you want to compare apples to apples, you aren't getting top graphics on online. As people have repeatedly reported, the graphics are not good. Especially on any kind of action game. They certainly aren't top of the line.
I'm basing their success on how schizophrenic they are with their pricing model, I have no idea what their subscriber base is. I'm also basing it on reports of performance beyond those people who are reviewing it from the room next door or who are sitting on mega connections well beyond your average consumer.
I've seen no evidence of success. They haven't gone bankrupt yet, but if that's success well it's a pretty bar to set.
the only people I've seen who even give this the time of day are reviewers who admit to reviewing it on high speed business connections set up to provide a level of service well beyond the average home user and even they admit that it still has issues.
Reading the average home user's report indicates those problems grow. Some games are blurry messes.
At one point the financial investment was gone through on this, but since they've changed their pricing model a dozen times it's hard to know exactly where it lies. Before it didn't really make much sense to invest in onlive.
What have the overcome? they've failed almost as hard as most people predicted. They've changed their prices/subscription model so many times it is obvious they are desperately trying to secure customers. Other than astroturfed reviews there doesn't seem to be a lot of significantly good press on it. Random user reviews all note lag, quality, etc as being bad. This still doesn't seem like it would serve as useful for much beyond turn based games. Games which usually don't have massive graphical requirements so they can run on cheap machines anyway.
I still have no idea what the real market is for this and who it is that will actually benefit from this service. Other than blind people who aren't good at math. If they could just tap that market..
Duh. I thought we'd already figured this out. The whole point of the species is to continue the species. It stands to reason that some people would be wired to go out and spread their DNA as much as possible to help it continue.
and in Korea. It's a surprise the iPhone has been so popular here with all the things it lacks that Koreans were crazy over, like Tmoney (the payment method), DMB receiver for TV, free english/korean dictionaries, etc. Though given that tmoney is nothing more than a thin wire in a card or dongle, it would be trivial to mount one of these in an iPhone bumper case to duplicate it.
I've been in Korea now for 2.5 years, and getting into a lot of different Korean games for awhile now. One thing I've continued to notice is that it doesn't seem that any Korean games charge "premium" content as would be described in North America. Korea games are generally free from start to finish. Some people have mentioned that when you hit a certain point in DDO or LOTR:O you have to start paying or you basically can't play. Korean games don't do that. You can play all the way along. Their micro transactions tend to cover aesthetics and time compression or if they do include items, they don't include items which are "better" than the ones you can get in game, so in reality it's just more aesthetics. A lot of major game companies just had higher than expected profits as well. They don't feel the need to claim a game is free, then block off half the game behind a pay wall.
North American companies still haven't gotten that. They seem more concerned with finding a way to "force" people to end up paying them money. Heck, I've never bought a single pay item from a shop here in Korea. I've browsed the store and looked at various things, but never done it, yet I continue to enjoy games 2 years in. Korean companies are of the mind that if you build a quality product and the money will come. Doesn't always work out, but most games have good longevity and they're constantly making new games.
I'd just caught another story about a publisher who wanted to sell half a game, then charge for the other half of the game as DLC to cut second hand sales. No need to worry about second hand sales if you're giving the way game away for free, nor do you have to worry about piracy. I guess then publishers would have to shoulder all the blame when the game fails.
They shouldn't. That's what makes this such a non-story.
If someone is using your service to attack and/or disrupt another service. You should care. Especially if you've received abuse complaints about it. There will come a point where you'll be held culpable in the act.
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Why do we do anything? It's a statistic that tells us that app makers targetting cell phone users will find a larger market in android for example.
Why is it stupid because android is ahead of iOS?
The article is measuring what OS is running on all cellphones regardless of make or model. I'm carrying on with this discussion on an iPhone and I'm not as bent out of shape or butthurt as the pair of you
Because that is not the statistic being presented here. You want to cut it a dozen ways you are free to do so what is up for discussion here is cellular phones running operating systems and not random handheld devices that have nothing to do with cellular phones. Maybe we need a remedial.slashdot.org with pictures.
It's about cellular phones that use a certain OS regardless of model or manufacturer not rocket science and if it's that hard to follow for you I might recommend getting off the Internet as you are likely to injure yourself or others.
Is it a cellular phone?
Because they're not phones.
The android devices are all phones.
an iPod is not a phone. Yes, using a wifi connection an app you can make VOIP calls, but it is not a cellular phone.
Korea has been doing this forever. People use the equivalent of a social security number to register with most websites over a certain size. Most sites have you first provide your name/number and then a second verification method (bank cert generated for this purpose, cell phone registered with the same name/number, fax a copy of the card, etc) to prove you have control of that identity. The government recently allowed some private companies to create a new layer in this though where you sign-up using your name/number on their site, then use a username/pass on the new site you wish to sign-up on so that your number is no longer passed around. Only a verification comes from the security company saying yes, this is that person.
The only major issue I have is that the IDs issued to foreigners is in a different database than those issued to citizens, at least as far as I can find out, and not all sites subscribe to the database for foreigners, especially shopping sites. So foreigners here do sometimes have an issues signing up for certain sites, mainly shopping sites. However, that has been changing and more and more sites are opening up.
Overall I like the system, but then again I'm not a paranoid nutter.
if a million people did that, they wouldn't even notice. They have a ridiculous amount of customers and you'd get nowhere near that many people upset over this kind of an issue.
This has been going on a very long time. Ever since there have been indexing sites, scammers have been creating wrap-around sites. This was a huge story (that I'm sure was on Slashdot) when Supernova was around. There was a site charging people $$ for access to "unlimited downloads, etc" and all it was was loading the supernova site in a frame inside their site. If I recall there were actually several domains set up just like that all doing the same thing. People who aren't in the know google these things and these sites up end turning up high in the search results. They just don't know any better.
I'd suggest that given the errors in his writing that perhaps he is just not that smart. Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to stupidity.
There are actual female only cars all around the world in about a dozen countries.
The problem wasn't only in style. The problem was in content. The show wasn't about "stargate". Even if they wanted to have a whiny psychological show, it should have still focused on the stargate universe. One of the first bits of alien tech they discover (that planet with the tower/spire) is covered in a montage. A fucking montage. We finally get something interesting, and instead we get some shitty emo song played over top of a couple shots.
That was the entire problem of the show. You want to add lots of boohooing and extra character development? Fine, but do so while they're still talking about, using and learning about the mythos of the universe.
actually Geocities was originally a network. A long time ago all the sites were set up in neighbourhoods. With numbers similar to house numbers. I was actually a community leader in the late 90s and we'd help with taking care of various neighbourhoods. Later they got rid of the hierarchy and made it all flat.
At top settings? yes.
Gigabyte 1GB geforce 460 GTX hasn't had any issues and is $184 on newegg.
The days of trying to blame the $1000 graphics card bogeyman are long gone.
and if you want to compare apples to apples, you aren't getting top graphics on online. As people have repeatedly reported, the graphics are not good. Especially on any kind of action game. They certainly aren't top of the line.
I'm basing their success on how schizophrenic they are with their pricing model, I have no idea what their subscriber base is. I'm also basing it on reports of performance beyond those people who are reviewing it from the room next door or who are sitting on mega connections well beyond your average consumer.
I've seen no evidence of success. They haven't gone bankrupt yet, but if that's success well it's a pretty bar to set.
the only people I've seen who even give this the time of day are reviewers who admit to reviewing it on high speed business connections set up to provide a level of service well beyond the average home user and even they admit that it still has issues.
Reading the average home user's report indicates those problems grow. Some games are blurry messes.
At one point the financial investment was gone through on this, but since they've changed their pricing model a dozen times it's hard to know exactly where it lies. Before it didn't really make much sense to invest in onlive.
What have the overcome? they've failed almost as hard as most people predicted. They've changed their prices/subscription model so many times it is obvious they are desperately trying to secure customers. Other than astroturfed reviews there doesn't seem to be a lot of significantly good press on it. Random user reviews all note lag, quality, etc as being bad. This still doesn't seem like it would serve as useful for much beyond turn based games. Games which usually don't have massive graphical requirements so they can run on cheap machines anyway.
I still have no idea what the real market is for this and who it is that will actually benefit from this service. Other than blind people who aren't good at math. If they could just tap that market..
"based on" does not mean "copied exactly".
It means it's used as inspiration, perhaps some parts of the story come directly from his life.
I realize you're apparently trying to be funny, but this kind of hyperbole usually just leads to people getting killed.
Apparently someone has been hanging out with/channeling kdawson far too much.
I remember that. it would be the first 30 seconds, then nothing but static or a screeching sound for the rest of the song.
Duh. I thought we'd already figured this out.
The whole point of the species is to continue the species. It stands to reason that some people would be wired to go out and spread their DNA as much as possible to help it continue.
It's okay. Most americans seem to think it's just a suburb in LA.
and in Korea. It's a surprise the iPhone has been so popular here with all the things it lacks that Koreans were crazy over, like Tmoney (the payment method), DMB receiver for TV, free english/korean dictionaries, etc.
Though given that tmoney is nothing more than a thin wire in a card or dongle, it would be trivial to mount one of these in an iPhone bumper case to duplicate it.
I've been in Korea now for 2.5 years, and getting into a lot of different Korean games for awhile now. One thing I've continued to notice is that it doesn't seem that any Korean games charge "premium" content as would be described in North America. Korea games are generally free from start to finish. Some people have mentioned that when you hit a certain point in DDO or LOTR:O you have to start paying or you basically can't play. Korean games don't do that. You can play all the way along. Their micro transactions tend to cover aesthetics and time compression or if they do include items, they don't include items which are "better" than the ones you can get in game, so in reality it's just more aesthetics. A lot of major game companies just had higher than expected profits as well. They don't feel the need to claim a game is free, then block off half the game behind a pay wall.
North American companies still haven't gotten that. They seem more concerned with finding a way to "force" people to end up paying them money. Heck, I've never bought a single pay item from a shop here in Korea. I've browsed the store and looked at various things, but never done it, yet I continue to enjoy games 2 years in. Korean companies are of the mind that if you build a quality product and the money will come. Doesn't always work out, but most games have good longevity and they're constantly making new games.
I'd just caught another story about a publisher who wanted to sell half a game, then charge for the other half of the game as DLC to cut second hand sales. No need to worry about second hand sales if you're giving the way game away for free, nor do you have to worry about piracy. I guess then publishers would have to shoulder all the blame when the game fails.
Maybe they understand the model the just fine.
If someone is using your service to attack and/or disrupt another service. You should care. Especially if you've received abuse complaints about it. There will come a point where you'll be held culpable in the act.