Comment Re:USB? Excellent! (Score 1) 169
Looks like they added Ethernet. Doesn't say what speed, though.
Looks like they added Ethernet. Doesn't say what speed, though.
You still can. Just use proper cable hiding tools and techniques. Like whatever they use to make power cables running across floors OSHA-safe.
My chief complaint was that in the original announcement, they were only going to support wifi for networking, yet it was supposed to be useful for gaming and streaming video.
The problem is that wifi is terrible for both of those use cases. It's bad on its own for latency purposes, and then there's spectrum contention. I raised these points in response to their Kickstarter drive, and it looks like they turned around and added those features. If I'd known they would, I would have donated on the Kickstarter.
Then they added both my suggestions. Rock on!
I'll definitely have to get one, now.
When their Kickstarter began, I sent them a message (along with many other folks, I'm sure) that it needed _some_ means of getting a wired internet connection and/or access to by-wire accessories. USB was one of the possibilities I offered.
Now devs for Ouya can turn around and leverage that USB port to allow the Ouya device to latch on to a PC's network connection. Excellent.
(Page doesn't seem to show if it's USB2 or 3. At this point, I sure hope it's USB 3...)
And now we're back to a familiar analogy: "The door was open, so anything inside should have been mine to take!"
In other markets (including software), activities like that were called "anticompetitive."
Not that I really see a problem with it. Just making an observation that amuses me.
If I understand what you're saying, you're expressing the same ignorance about downloadable material that people downloading warez and mp3s in the 90s had. "It's free, so it's probably legal, right?"
I had one of those. Boiled it down to the smallest possible test case (AFAICT), even.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35664
Couldn't tell you why it's still marked 'new', though.
Before the first car, no one had ever made a car with 4 wheels!
After the first car though, 4 wheeled cars everywhere!!!
Besides, that is just BS to start with. Every phone I have ever owned has had rounded corners (I'm talking cells before smartphones came on the scene). And I'm on my 3rd smart phone, none of which have been iPhones, and only one of which could even remotely be considered to have corners rounded even similarly to an iPhone. Even that one could not be confused with an iPhone.
But that's all beside the point anyways. It's a freaking Phone. It has a screen and maybe some buttons. They all look very similar. Just like every tv I've ever had has looked similar to the rest. And every laptop. And every car. And every
If it's not at least a technically novel patent, it's a fucking retarded patent. Period. Fuck ALL of the patent trolls, may they sue each other into oblivion!
Fast, cheap, good: pick two.