Comment Re:Yo (Score 1) 72
The other meme, of course, is starception.
Pretty much any independent computer shop will toss together an OS-less machine upon request
I'm aware of independent computer shops that build desktops, but none that build laptops. And the problem with mail-ordering a laptop is the risk of having to deal with a screen and keyboard that look and feel unergonomic.
I don't understand why anyone would play an online game, especially on a console.
It's better than having to travel from one city to another to find players with whom to play multiplayer in person.
I end up losing horribly in every multiplayer game against some kid who most likely laughs at me on the other end of the fibre optic cable.
Then try playing games that support multiplayer in the same room, be it on the same screen or on a LAN.
Multiplayer, on the other hand, is a spastic experience which seems to be dominated by obsessive players with endless time to practice. The reward for the average player is not mastery, but rather learning to die a little less often.
Then your game's matchmaking is poorly designed. Tetris DS, at least, used to use something similar to Elo rating to separate the casuals from the hardcores.
Fortunately, the "indie" game developer is reinvigorating the market, and these days there seems to be more excitement about the indie games than big-name titles like Destiny or Call of Duty XXIV.
But without some well-known studios, where are developers going to earn their experience and "pay their dues," to to speak, so that they can start a competent indie studio?
Why would Netflix voluntarily give up its customers to a competitor?
Because it's the easy way, compared to the hard way of QF pressuring the movie studios to withdraw NF's streaming licenses altogether if NF doesn't improve enforcement of territory limits in the existing contracts with the movie studios.
Why would a content provider care about geography?
Mostly decades-long exclusive distribution contracts that predate the Internet.
Who would have thought getting free music would have caused such an uproar?
Major label music is not free music.
Would that be a tool removal tool?
Only if U2, Cher, and Tool start touring together.
I will not be satisfied until Apple provides a tool to remove Bono entirely.
Given historic ties between Apple Inc. and the Pixar Animation Studios division of The Walt Disney Company through the Jobs estate, I find it unlikely that Apple would support repeal of the Bono Act.
They can't simply trust users to appropriately mark packets - you'd have some who simply marked everything as high priority.
Then run the meter only for packets marked high priority. "You get 50 GB/mo for high priority, after which point we start demoting all your packets to bulk." That's similar to the shaping that cellular ISPs perform on "unlimited" data plans: the first few GB at "blazing 4G speed" (actually LTE which is 4G-Lite) and the rest at near dial-up speed.
This might require rearchitecting applications to split their communication into interactive and bulk streams. For example, Netflix could encrypt each shot* in a movie with a separate key, send the entire encrypted movie in large chunks over a high-throughput, high-latency connection, and stream the decryption keys over a high-priority connection.
* Actually each MPEG group of pictures.
Make sure your code does nothing gracefully.
