...or does the game look very much Warcraft like? Not that I am complaining , I loved the first two and the third looks much much better. Just that I hope I don't have to upgrade my grphics card to play this. Diablo 1 & 2 were not graphics intensive even though it had pretty nice stuff.
FTA:
"Nokia will contribute Symbian and its S60 software assets to the foundation, while other members will put in their UIQ and MOAP software to create a new joint Symbian platform in 2009." So, basically Sony Erricson will submit their UIQ code base to Symbian foundation, Nokia will sumbit S60 code base and NTTDoCoMo will give MOAP. Anyone in the Symbian foundation can use each others' UI framework on top of Symbian!
This is an amazing move by the mobile giant(at least in Europe and Asia) and it again shows that they can and will react to what is going on around them. They accepted that they got their ass kicked by Apple/Google and they accepted the challenge which made them buy Trolltech(Qt) and now Symbian. And this buyout is understandable from Nokia's point of view as just last year they paid close to $250million to Symbian in licensing fees.
Now the market is really heating up. After the whole Symbian OS and S60 goes open source Microsoft/Apple will be under lot of pressure to react to this. Even though lot of consumers will not bother if the platform is open or not, once touch devices are unveiled by Nokia, the number of applications that will be developed will be huge. Not to mention the contributions will be from all the major handset vendors (LG, Samsung, Motorola etc). For once I think we have all the evil corporates agree on something whcih looks like will make the consumers life easy.
From TFA: It(Opera) surely has enough power and features to make it my favorite browser. If only it were free software and open source!
IT IS FREE!!1
and WTF is with "if it was open source", how does this make any difference unless you are a hardcode programmer and are dieing to contribute to the codebase? I for one can rarely find time to contribute to open source projects because it takes hell lot of time to understand the codebase. So I do not care if it is open source or not, and so do 90% of the population.
As long as it is free, I will rate all s/w equally, be it open source or closed!
After I buy something, it is _mine_ ! Case closed. I can do whatever I want to do with it. If I had stolen it then I am guilty. I don't see a case otherwise.
The best way is to just burn the whole body up! That is what is done for people of the Hindu religion. That is much better than rotting carcasses underground with worms and what not. Well, the dumping of the bones and ashes into the rivers might be that good an idea, but still it is better.
Apple's submission to the patent office was first filed late August of last year, two months after the iPhone's US release and several months after the company first demonstrated its SMS chat interface for the iPhone at Macworld San Francisco.
The Board wishes it to be known that:
1. Mr. Vidal has, in the parlance of second-rate spy movies, "gone rogue," and
has posted on behalf of the Board without the required routing through several
committees, endless cross-posted discussion, and explicit approval, and
therefore his pay will be docked accordingly.
2. He is clearly an enormous Rick Astley fan, although he attempts to disguisse
this fact through paraphrase.
3. We love you, Linus! *scream*
4. We wish for Mrs. Torvalds not to visit pain upon us, and thus thank our
community for stepping in and helping Linus get this bug handled.
5. Because it's Friday, things may get a little silly around here. Oh, and mind
the gap.
Paul W. Frields
Fedora Project Leader
During a tenth of a femtosecond this laser is... brighter than sunlight on the surface of the Sun
That is 10 to the power of -16 of a second. Such comparisons are ridiculous because even I can say my torch is brighter than the sunlight on the surface of the sun for 1 gazillionth of a second.:P
....shooting themselves in the foot. WIth Vista they screwed up half of the drivers and now with Windows 7 they screw up the entire lineup of software? WTF?!
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I want to avoid using a site that requires you to use non-free software for it to work properly.
Ummm, flash browser plug-in is free!
CAke is Definitely a lIE.
Heh, are you implying that if I manufacture a gun I am responsible if my cat kills someone with it? :)
YOU IDIOT! Haven't you heard about BLACK HOLE?! :)
For those who don't have Media player plugin - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CNLM7XPCCU
His first few test subjects : Larry King, McCain.
...or does the game look very much Warcraft like? Not that I am complaining , I loved the first two and the third looks much much better. Just that I hope I don't have to upgrade my grphics card to play this. Diablo 1 & 2 were not graphics intensive even though it had pretty nice stuff.
Selected components will be made available as open source immediately. The rest will be open source by two years.
FTA: "Nokia will contribute Symbian and its S60 software assets to the foundation, while other members will put in their UIQ and MOAP software to create a new joint Symbian platform in 2009."
So, basically Sony Erricson will submit their UIQ code base to Symbian foundation, Nokia will sumbit S60 code base and NTTDoCoMo will give MOAP. Anyone in the Symbian foundation can use each others' UI framework on top of Symbian!
This is an amazing move by the mobile giant(at least in Europe and Asia) and it again shows that they can and will react to what is going on around them. They accepted that they got their ass kicked by Apple/Google and they accepted the challenge which made them buy Trolltech(Qt) and now Symbian. And this buyout is understandable from Nokia's point of view as just last year they paid close to $250million to Symbian in licensing fees.
Now the market is really heating up. After the whole Symbian OS and S60 goes open source Microsoft/Apple will be under lot of pressure to react to this. Even though lot of consumers will not bother if the platform is open or not, once touch devices are unveiled by Nokia, the number of applications that will be developed will be huge. Not to mention the contributions will be from all the major handset vendors (LG, Samsung, Motorola etc). For once I think we have all the evil corporates agree on something whcih looks like will make the consumers life easy.
The one in Opera rocks! and FYI, Opera betas had the same feature much before Firefox announced the "awesome bar".
From TFA:
It(Opera) surely has enough power and features to make it my favorite browser. If only it were free software and open source!
IT IS FREE!!1
and WTF is with "if it was open source", how does this make any difference unless you are a hardcode programmer and are dieing to contribute to the codebase? I for one can rarely find time to contribute to open source projects because it takes hell lot of time to understand the codebase. So I do not care if it is open source or not, and so do 90% of the population.
As long as it is free, I will rate all s/w equally, be it open source or closed!
After I buy something, it is _mine_ ! Case closed. I can do whatever I want to do with it. If I had stolen it then I am guilty. I don't see a case otherwise.
Smartphone Battle Is Shaping Up As RIM Vs. Apple in USA
The best way is to just burn the whole body up! That is what is done for people of the Hindu religion. That is much better than rotting carcasses underground with worms and what not. Well, the dumping of the bones and ashes into the rivers might be that good an idea, but still it is better.
Apple's submission to the patent office was first filed late August of last year, two months after the iPhone's US release and several months after the company first demonstrated its SMS chat interface for the iPhone at Macworld San Francisco.
Not a problem for bender! (... kiss my shiny metal ass :)
...they are just waiting for us to formulate the ultimate question for which the answer is 42!
...do not say something that will awaken the chair throwing monster! Let it sleeeeeep.
The Board wishes it to be known that:
1. Mr. Vidal has, in the parlance of second-rate spy movies, "gone rogue," and has posted on behalf of the Board without the required routing through several committees, endless cross-posted discussion, and explicit approval, and therefore his pay will be docked accordingly.
2. He is clearly an enormous Rick Astley fan, although he attempts to disguisse this fact through paraphrase.
3. We love you, Linus! *scream*
4. We wish for Mrs. Torvalds not to visit pain upon us, and thus thank our community for stepping in and helping Linus get this bug handled.
5. Because it's Friday, things may get a little silly around here. Oh, and mind the gap.
Paul W. Frields Fedora Project Leader
Indian officer held for undersea cable damage
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/indian-officer-held-for-undersea-cable-damage/63234-3.html
During a tenth of a femtosecond this laser is ... brighter than sunlight on the surface of the Sun
That is 10 to the power of -16 of a second. Such comparisons are ridiculous because even I can say my torch is brighter than the sunlight on the surface of the sun for 1 gazillionth of a second. :P
More info : http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/07/2052251
....shooting themselves in the foot. WIth Vista they screwed up half of the drivers and now with Windows 7 they screw up the entire lineup of software? WTF?!
More appropriate - "Eat your own dog food" :)