He was also involved with debugging Super Smash Bros. Melee, when he wasn't an engineer anymore.

He prided himself on being 'CEO of a listed company in Japan with the most knowledge of programming.'

Source.

He will be missed.

It's morbid as hell, but for anyone who works with, or hell RELIES, any of the packages at the TF1 level, if any freak accident happens, you could be fucked bad.

It's morbid, but it's something we all need to consider with any software project.

Apple TV can accept any video stream coming at it using iTunes and transcoding or using airplay mirroring

Chromecast can mirror anything you want. Android TV sticks can run a variety of player apps that take some of the most common video sources(not to mention more obscure ones!).

Amazon FireTV can also use Plex and other playback apps.

These systems *can* play anything. AppleTV and Chromecast both need an external device, but they can play anything once they're set up.

There are good reasons not to use AppleTV or a Chromecast, but not being able to view your content isn't one of them.

Given that Maemo had been in active development for 6 years at that point, I think it's incredibly clear and obvious that Maemo/Meego was DOA. Nokia's internal dysfunction was the biggest stumbling block they had and if they really wanted to stay healthy and in business, a lot of people would've had to have given up their infighting and start working as a coherent company again.

The technical merits of Maemo/Meego are immaterial, Nokia was toast. If they could've had the operational capacity to release a competent Maemo/Meego device, they wouldn't have been in that situation in the first place.

Don't blame Elop for OPK's problem.

When Elop got on board at Nokia, Symbian was dead in the water. Sure, the Android was gobbling up most of the market, and by that time even the Finnish didn't care.

They sat on the smart phone and didn't push it because ... ? Reasons? I mean, the Symbian developer program was a huge mess too.

The iPhone shouldn't have upturned the market the way it did, if Nokia was capable of executing from an engineering point of view.

Not to say that they didn't have capable engineers, there are a lot of things that can hamstring engineering teams. In this case, I think it was managerial dysfunction that kept Nokia from being acquired.

Not only that but Nokia's profitability was on the downswing since 2002.

So, I think Nokia was doomed before the smartphone revolution hit.

Because really, I need the skinny on bourbon and James Bond. I mean occasionally he writes about Apple and tech, but let's be honest. We're all there for the booze news.

My first thought was, "oh holy crap, MIPS is still a thing?"

Awesome to see non ARM, non Intel ISAs get some support from large Linux institutions.

That's a distinction with out meaning.

Yes, the popular vote usually matters for something. Unless you live in one of the few states that do not bind the electors to the popular vote.

Because there's clearly no state interest in denying a citizen's right to consensually enter a union with another citizen.

There's clearly state interest in keeping majority populations from being able to coopt minority property.

Electors in the electoral college are often bound to popular election results as a matter of state law.

How is that not winning?

You're enabling awful business practices by publishers to push shit out the door.

The only two games I'm seriously looking forward to are Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain and Street Fighter V.

Both of which I'm guessing won't have these problems. I don't know why Japanese devs aren't having these problems but western ones are.

You're already at +5. I wish there was +6, Jesus I Need a Drink

That's where Beats 1 radio and Connect come in. The music on Beats 1 is specifically curated to stop this problem and Connect is meant to allow up and coming artists to upload music and interact with fans.

I don't think Connect is going to be a success by any measure but I think that Eddy Cue's team cares a lot about that particular problem.

If you look at the business model, selling 10 dollar a month subscriptions is going to run dry if you're just going to play the same songs over and over again from the same artists. If you can convince people to listen for new music and curated playlists from DJs with incredibly good taste, then they keep subscribing. This was the Beats Radio business model and I'm not shocked Apple bought them.

The record industry needs Apple more than Apple needs the record industry. It's clear the recording industry is full of idiots who couldn't sell a popsicle to a man in hell. Meanwhile, new acts are showing up all the time and they're not monetizing this huge sea of amazing music because they're all stuck in the Top 40's mindset where they promote a few acts. It has become easier than ever to put together something that sounds amazing in your own home.

I was looking at this and Hololens and was kind of excited. I'm not a fan of Microsoft, but hey, they're putting out some cool stuff.

Then I found out for your $150, they're not giving you a play and charge battery.

Bollocks. What the fuck Microsoft? At least it's controllable over USB now.