I'd add better handling of copy-protected titles as well. If a game wants the benefit of copyright, they need to make a version of it without DRM available in escrow (held by some entity like the Library of Congress)…
Apple has a service where you can play games, and I'd imagine a more-powerful box will come with a push for games that take advantage of it. They also bought RAC9, developers of Sneaky Sasquatch (one of the best games…
"Curing cancer" reminds me of a specific late-70s penny-stock grift, where companies promising a vaccine for cancer (but with no product or R&D) would be pumped-and-dumped. History doesn't repeat, but it tends to rhyme.
I also wonder if it's a trademark thing -- there are other world cups, but there's only one FIFA capital-W world capital-C cup. Just off the top of my head, the last decade has had cricket, rugby, basketball, and ice…
As a lapsed NY Jets fan, I disagree -- competent ownership and management is required more than good draft picks. To wit: Tom Brady was drafted at 199 overall, but the Jets' last two QB picks (Zach Williams and Sam…
You don't even need custom bindings —- library bindings are a thing, even if they cost significantly more then a typical hard cover binding.
They also either could not or would not write efficient Flash clients on Mac OS or Linux, while the Windows version was fine. I bounced around a lot between the three OSes at that time, and Flash was bad enough on the…
In general, managing a single device is always going to be easier than managing multiple -- fewer things to keep charged, fewer updates to run, less stuff to carry, etc.
The first iPhone launched without a carrier subsidy. When the iPhone 4 launched on Verizon in 2011, you could either spend $200 and get locked into a 2-year contract, $300 and get locked into a 1-year contract, or buy…
The Telecommunications Act of 1996. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996 It passed with support from both parties in both the House and Senate.
> (And if you’re left-leaning, you can’t pin this mess on the “corporation-friendly” Republican Party because it was Bill Clinton who put his signature on this mess!) I would argue Clinton's presidency moved the…
And then there was Bill Atkinson. https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html
Also, it's something of a pragmatic choice -- Valve did put major effort into native Linux games around 2013, but the effort fell flat for a number of reasons. Proton is them trying a different path towards severing or…
I'm shocked that Tops earned #1 -- they did a remodel a few years ago and started taking reservations (and turning people away during busy periods if they didn't have one), and it's much less of a diner and much more of…
> Chicken and egg problem, if no-one buys it, no-one will develop any killer apps. Disagree on this. Going back as far as VisiCalc, it's about a device making space for a killer app, and that killer app selling devices.…
More to the point: having a monopoly isn't de facto illegal (just look up natural monopolies), it's using the monopoly power in an anti-competitive way that's illegal. Microsoft wasn't charged with having a monopoly,…
The exclusivity deals they struck early on are an albatross that still drags them down. I think the audience would have been much more receptive to deals like Alan Wake 2, where that money spigot got turned into…
Two organizations that love money (Apple & F1) collaborating to make a ton more money. The tech for in-cockpit capture and presentation of the races themselves was great, but the dialogue and basically everything…
> They're even wearing fascist style uniforms and all the commercials are so over-the-top The big clue to me is when they visit the recruiter. The man is sitting at a desk and says something along the lines of "the…
More to the point, now that most productions are using intimacy coordinators, there's a degree of certainty around the consent of R-rated images. There's basically no consent with what Grok is doing.
MPD _is_ sharing and coordinating with ICE _when they're supposed to be_. MPD has already transferred ~70 people to ICE for deportation this year alone, after they completed prison sentences (which ICE claimed as their…
Not a MN resident, but both the daycare my child attended before starting school and every daycare in my area have a combination of tinted/obscured windows and strict access control, even for parents (eg: a parent isn't…
I'd believe that. I was in a situation where a bag started smoking _in the security checkpoint_ (it was a camera battery failing), and the TSA agents all abandoned the checkpoint. As a result, the FAA issued a full…
While I do agree with you (and unlike the other reply, I want to acknowledge that this bad-faith kind of thing happened with Louisiana declaring law enforcement a protected class), my hope was that this would have…
I would argue a season or episode of television is a product, and Apple TV gates them behind a subscription. I used to buy the season passes so I could return to shows later; that's not an option for ATV stuff.
I'd add better handling of copy-protected titles as well. If a game wants the benefit of copyright, they need to make a version of it without DRM available in escrow (held by some entity like the Library of Congress)…
Apple has a service where you can play games, and I'd imagine a more-powerful box will come with a push for games that take advantage of it. They also bought RAC9, developers of Sneaky Sasquatch (one of the best games…
"Curing cancer" reminds me of a specific late-70s penny-stock grift, where companies promising a vaccine for cancer (but with no product or R&D) would be pumped-and-dumped. History doesn't repeat, but it tends to rhyme.
I also wonder if it's a trademark thing -- there are other world cups, but there's only one FIFA capital-W world capital-C cup. Just off the top of my head, the last decade has had cricket, rugby, basketball, and ice…
As a lapsed NY Jets fan, I disagree -- competent ownership and management is required more than good draft picks. To wit: Tom Brady was drafted at 199 overall, but the Jets' last two QB picks (Zach Williams and Sam…
You don't even need custom bindings —- library bindings are a thing, even if they cost significantly more then a typical hard cover binding.
They also either could not or would not write efficient Flash clients on Mac OS or Linux, while the Windows version was fine. I bounced around a lot between the three OSes at that time, and Flash was bad enough on the…
In general, managing a single device is always going to be easier than managing multiple -- fewer things to keep charged, fewer updates to run, less stuff to carry, etc.
The first iPhone launched without a carrier subsidy. When the iPhone 4 launched on Verizon in 2011, you could either spend $200 and get locked into a 2-year contract, $300 and get locked into a 1-year contract, or buy…
The Telecommunications Act of 1996. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996 It passed with support from both parties in both the House and Senate.
> (And if you’re left-leaning, you can’t pin this mess on the “corporation-friendly” Republican Party because it was Bill Clinton who put his signature on this mess!) I would argue Clinton's presidency moved the…
And then there was Bill Atkinson. https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html
Also, it's something of a pragmatic choice -- Valve did put major effort into native Linux games around 2013, but the effort fell flat for a number of reasons. Proton is them trying a different path towards severing or…
I'm shocked that Tops earned #1 -- they did a remodel a few years ago and started taking reservations (and turning people away during busy periods if they didn't have one), and it's much less of a diner and much more of…
> Chicken and egg problem, if no-one buys it, no-one will develop any killer apps. Disagree on this. Going back as far as VisiCalc, it's about a device making space for a killer app, and that killer app selling devices.…
More to the point: having a monopoly isn't de facto illegal (just look up natural monopolies), it's using the monopoly power in an anti-competitive way that's illegal. Microsoft wasn't charged with having a monopoly,…
The exclusivity deals they struck early on are an albatross that still drags them down. I think the audience would have been much more receptive to deals like Alan Wake 2, where that money spigot got turned into…
Two organizations that love money (Apple & F1) collaborating to make a ton more money. The tech for in-cockpit capture and presentation of the races themselves was great, but the dialogue and basically everything…
> They're even wearing fascist style uniforms and all the commercials are so over-the-top The big clue to me is when they visit the recruiter. The man is sitting at a desk and says something along the lines of "the…
More to the point, now that most productions are using intimacy coordinators, there's a degree of certainty around the consent of R-rated images. There's basically no consent with what Grok is doing.
MPD _is_ sharing and coordinating with ICE _when they're supposed to be_. MPD has already transferred ~70 people to ICE for deportation this year alone, after they completed prison sentences (which ICE claimed as their…
Not a MN resident, but both the daycare my child attended before starting school and every daycare in my area have a combination of tinted/obscured windows and strict access control, even for parents (eg: a parent isn't…
I'd believe that. I was in a situation where a bag started smoking _in the security checkpoint_ (it was a camera battery failing), and the TSA agents all abandoned the checkpoint. As a result, the FAA issued a full…
While I do agree with you (and unlike the other reply, I want to acknowledge that this bad-faith kind of thing happened with Louisiana declaring law enforcement a protected class), my hope was that this would have…
I would argue a season or episode of television is a product, and Apple TV gates them behind a subscription. I used to buy the season passes so I could return to shows later; that's not an option for ATV stuff.