Smalltalk with James Robertson http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView Smalltalk Evangelist, Industry Watcher jarober@gmail.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:05:31 GMT http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/images/cst_small.jpg Smalltalk with James Robertson http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView 50 81 en-us James A. Robertson Copyright 2011 James Robertson 2013-06-19T18:05:31-04:00 39.214103 -76.878807 MS Does a 180 on the XBox One http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=MS_Does_a_180_on_the_XBox_One&entry=3549117772 games Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:02:52 GMT

Wow:

Microsoft has announced an almost full reversal of the controversial digital rights management features built into the Xbox One. The console, launching later this year, will no longer require an online connection, or need to ping the Microsoft servers every 24 hours to hang on to life. It will also now play discs like any regular console and no longer place restrictions on trading games. There will also be no regional restrictions.

I guess Microsoft got tired of getting a PR beat down from all directions

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Update: Microsoft must have gotten tired of the constant beat down on this. They've done a 180 on the whole thing.

The "must connect regularly" part is bad enough - the new XBox One consoles are also region locked. So imagine you're a gamer who serves in the military:

"There are multiple problems with Microsoft’s new strategy. You can only play an Xbox One in an approved country. Writing for the Navy Times, Jon Anderson notes: “if you’re based in Japan, Kuwait or Afghanistan, you’re out of luck.” Games are region-locked and region-activated — you can’t buy a game in the US and activate it in Japan. That means no spouses sending games as part of a care package."

The most awesome part of that - MS' response when questioned:

“Fortunately we have a product for people who aren’t able to get some form of connectivity, it’s called Xbox 360. If you have zero access to internet, that is an offline device.” He then independently raised the issue of whether or not Microsoft would support soldiers on deployment with the Xbox One — and stated that they wouldn’t.

You have to ask yourself - for this kind of PR crap storm, what win is Microsoft getting out the other end of this?

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]]> 3549096075 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3549096075 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3549096075 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3549096075 ST 4U 405: Stephen Travis Pope at STIC 2013 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=ST_4U_405:_Stephen_Travis_Pope_at_STIC_2013&entry=3549089322 st4u Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:08:42 GMT

Today's Smalltalk 4 You is a video from STIC 2013 - Stephen Travis Pope delivering the second keynote address: "Why I Still use Smalltalk". If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:

Stephen Travis Pope

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]]> 3549089322 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3549089322 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3549089322 no Stephen Travis Pope ST 4U 405: Stephen Travis Pope at STIC 2013 Stephen Travis Pope explains why he still uses Smalltalk - and calls for vendors and open source developers to add some of the features he thinks the system is missing. 1:21:00 smalltalk, stic13 nonadult Stephen Travis Pope ST 4U 405: Stephen Travis Pope at STIC 2013 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3549089322 The More Things Change.... http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=The_More_Things_Change....&entry=3549086305 humor Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:18:25 GMT

The "no one has time anymore" meme isn't new.

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Today's Smalltalk 4 You is a video from STIC 2013 - Dan Ingall's keynote address from the first day of the conference: "A Few of my Favorite Things". If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:

Dan Ingalls

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]]> 3549000737 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3549000737 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3549000737 no Dan Ingalls ST 4U 404: Dan Ingalls at STIC 2013 Dan Ingall's keynote address at STIC 2013 - "A few of my favorite things" 1:25:40 smalltalk, stic13, dan ingalls nonadult Dan Ingalls ST 4U 404: Dan Ingalls at STIC 2013 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3549000737 Presentations in Smalltalk http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Presentations_in_Smalltalk&entry=3549000322 smalltalk Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:25:22 GMT

If you want to go "all in", using Smalltalk for your presentation itself, then have a look at Presenty for Pharo

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]]> 3549000322 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3549000322 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3549000322 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Presentations_in_Smalltalk&entry=3549000322 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Presentations_in_Smalltalk&entry=3549000322 Patrick Logan 2013-06-18T17:33:13-04:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>My hopes and dreams are based on us running out of cute names for projects, forcing everyone to revisit the Greek pantheon for inspiration.</p><p>"presenty"...</p><p>I may be j/k but I am unsure as of now.</p> </div> Re: Presentations in Smalltalk http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Presentations_in_Smalltalk&entry=3549000322 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Presentations_in_Smalltalk&entry=3549000322 Denis 2013-06-19T00:09:41-04:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Presenty is not about building presentations. It is general purpouse UI framework, which is try to achieve great simplification and flexibility for UI programming. Name Presenty was born from Presenter item from MVP pattern. Sorry for confusion. But blog and squeaksource has clean description about it.</p> </div> Re: Presentations in Smalltalk http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3549000322 ST 4U 403: Dart at STIC 2013 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=ST_4U_403:_Dart_at_STIC_2013&entry=3548915066 st4u Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:44:26 GMT

Today's Smalltalk 4 You is a video from STIC 2013 - Alan Knight talking about the Dart language, which has many Smalltalk-ish features to it. Alan has made the slides for this talk available here. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:

Dart at STIC 13

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]]> 3548915066 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3548915066 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?guid=3548915066 no Alan Knight ST 4U 403: Dart at STIC 2013 Alan Knight talks about the Dart language, and how it can be used with Smalltalk, at STIC 2013 51:38 smalltalk, dart stic13, google nonadult Alan Knight ST 4U 403: Dart at STIC 2013 http://www.jarober.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3548915066 IM 130: STIC 2013 Wrap Up (AAC) http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_130:_STIC_2013_Wrap_Up_(AAC)&entry=3548872623 podcastAAC Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:57:03 GMT

Welcome to episode 130 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week David and I spoke just after the end of the STIC 2013 conference in Phoenix, Arizona. We discussed each of the talks we saw briefly, then wrapped the whole thing up. The videos from STIC 2013 are appearing on this site, and the audio only from the talks will be appearing periodically in this feed..

You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one.

To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition. The AAC edition comes with chapter markers. You can subscribe to either edition of the podcast directly in iTunes; just search for Smalltalk and look in the Podcast results. You can subscribe to the mp3 edition directly using this feed, or the AAC edition using this feed using any podcatching software. You can also download the podcast in ogg format.

If you like the music we use, please visit Josh Woodward's site. We use the song Troublemaker for our intro/outro music. I'm sure he'd appreciate your support!

If you have feedback, send it to jarober@gmail.com - or visit us on Facebook - you can subscribe in iTunes using this iTunes enabled feed.. If you enjoy the podcast, pass the word - we would love to have more people hear about Smalltalk!

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Welcome to episode 130 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.

This week David and I spoke just after the end of the STIC 2013 conference in Phoenix, Arizona. We discussed each of the talks we saw briefly, then wrapped the whole thing up. The videos from STIC 2013 are appearing on this site, and the audio only from the talks will be appearing periodically in this feed..

You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one.

To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition. The AAC edition comes with chapter markers. You can subscribe to either edition of the podcast directly in iTunes; just search for Smalltalk and look in the Podcast results. You can subscribe to the mp3 edition directly using this feed, or the AAC edition using this feed using any podcatching software. You can also download the podcast in ogg format.

If you like the music we use, please visit Josh Woodward's site. We use the song Troublemaker for our intro/outro music. I'm sure he'd appreciate your support!

If you have feedback, send it to jarober@gmail.com - or visit us on Facebook - you can subscribe in iTunes using this iTunes enabled feed.. If you enjoy the podcast, pass the word - we would love to have more people hear about Smalltalk!

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