Why doesn't Adobe tell Jobs to stick it and simply refuse to sell or support adobe products on Apple OSes anymore? There are a hell of a lot more Windows users than OSX users, and losing Photoshop and Dreamweaver would hurt Apple a hell of a lot more than it would hurt Adobe.
Well, OS X is a pretty huge market for Adobe's Creative Suite and Apple has already eaten Adobe's lunch once before with Final Cut Pro. I'm guessing Adobe suspects pulling out of the OS X market would just motivate Apple to come up with a few more apps (they already have fairly successful competitors to Premiere (FCP) and Lightroom (Aperture)).
There's also the matter of the PR nightmare this would create for Adobe, even if Apple's "Photoshop killer" wasn't quite as good as Photoshop a lot of users would probably jump ship just because they were pissed with Adobe. Also, Dreamweaver? really? People still use Dreamweaver? (No, not teenage boys or the "webmaster" for small websites, real web developers and designers, do they really still use Dreamweaver? I haven't even heard anyone in the business mention Dreamweaver in years)
So I honestly don't get it, if Steve wants to be a jerk (which when he blocked cross compilation I believe it crossed from being about performance and into jerkhood) why doesn't adobe do the same? as Jack Tramiel said years ago "business is war" and if someone takes a shot at you you shoot back. so why hasn't Adobe?
Well, Apple has a bit of a hardon when it comes to open standards, even if it's their own open standard they do like open standards (despite the Apple haters claiming otherwise) and Flash is about as closed as a standard can be. Remember that part about PR? Yeah, trying to force your own closed and despised standard on the world while the guys who are known for being good when it comes to usability say it sucks is probably not a good idea, Adobe caught a lot of flack for their anti-Apple statements during their last squabble with Apple (not their first, they threw a majro hissyfit when Apple announced that they would stop supporting Carbon applications, just as they had stated all along).
Also, Adobe has more to lose than Apple (well technically I think Apple has more to lose, it's just that Adobe's executives most likely know they'd be the ones who lost out in the end), they'd be the bad guys and lose a huge chunk of their customers.
You didn't, for just a second, consider that maybe the hunters shooting at the insulators are hunters who are done for the day? and on their way back they decide to take a couple of shots at the insulators. I know it used to happen a lot here in northern Sweden, and unlike hunters in the US getting a hunting license here isn't just a matter of signing your name on a piece of paper, waiting a couple of weeks and then getting your brand new rifle.
Also, there are plenty of hunters who prefer target practice out in the woods to hanging out at a range, there are plenty of old sandpits around here where you can find cartridge cases strewn about from various hunters either getting some target practice in or simply trying out a new rifle.
In my experience most caricatures of atheists and evolution created by creationists seem to revolve around satanic influence, "lulz they think they're monkeymen!1" comments and that those who think evolution or atheism make more sense than creationism are simply raging nutjobs who hate everyone and everything. Oh, and the "I'm atheist because it's cool to hate on Jeebuz" caricature which is followed by a rant about how when He(tm) returns he will send all that pesky atheist straight to a very literal lake of fire for not believing in a god (or the right god for that matter).
"Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving lord, for all those options." -- Bill Hicks
Actually it demonstrates that most swedish media ignored the pirate party for the last few weeks before the election and instead focused on the "standard" election questions of jobs, healthcare and similar issues. Also, there's been a lot of anti-PP hollering from people claiming that anyone voting for the pirate party would be helping the sweden democrats into parliament. Essentially the pirate party and their issues have been completely ignored lately.
Well, for some strange reason the media has been almost completely ignoring both the Pirate Party and any and all organizations with any connections to them in the weeks leading up to the election, and they dropped the Assange rape charge thing pretty quickly. Even though these issues were in the press all the time earlier this year it seems the media has collectively decided that no one wants to hear about the Pirate Party as the election draws closer.
You should keep in mind that it is also quite likely that the "stupid gene" was favorable back when a high IQ meant you would overthink potentially life-threatening actions which are not present today and that not having the gene is actually an advantage. Or perhaps there simply hasn't been any advantage to having a high IQ throughout most of history so far which means that the mutation has spread slowly and is very rare (statistically speaking).
I can agree that you can't be a technophobe if you want to be a game artist but I've met quite a few game artists who were by no means geeks in the sense that the average slashdotter would describe a geek. Sure, they had weird hobbies and interests and slightly above-average tech know-how but their main strength was on the artistic side of things. A lot of times what is really needed is that these individuals get a solid and comprehensive education on how all the parts fit together, both in terms of the basic steps required to create a character or environment for a game as well as the concepts and mechanics of a typical game, what the limitations of the technology are and what is a good workflow.
Hell, there are plenty of geeks who can code circles around me who don't know that the "normal" way to create a game character is concept sketch -> model -> map -> texture -> rig -> animate, not to mention that they often have no idea how to perform even one or two of these steps. Maybe I'm just bitter because I've seen a few too many geeks who have written neat software to generate "pretty pictures" for them which is technically impressive but they get upset when I (and others) point out that the pictures aren't particularly aesthetically appealing (for some reason a lot of geeks seem to be obsessed with a stereotypical "sci-fi look", colored glow, otherworldly-looking shiny metal and a general H.R. Giger feel which I have a tendency to associate with teenage gamers).
Why do most slashdot geeks always think "3D" when thinking game development these days? Most of the fun casual games available today are in 2d.
It's not just "slashdot geeks", in general the world of game development is focused on 3d, even when doing 2d it is often just 3d with the camera looking at everything from a specific angle with orthographic projection.
On a side note, as someone who actually took a few art courses targeting game development in college, just teaching the most basic concepts of how to create interaction isn't very useful. A lot of what the "artsy" types should be learning (IMO) is using the right tools with the right workflow. As an example, the courses I took (which had 500 applicants for a course that accepted 30 students per year and that saw industry people flying in to show off their latest projects and try to get students to drop out and come work for them instead) started out with a highly compressed Maya introduction followed by lots of time spent on various gameplay concepts, common gotchas (things to avoid when modelling, texturing, UVW-mapping, rigging, animating and such things) and finished the whole thing off with a five week project where teams of students had to cooperate to create the first level of a game.
Now, this course is clearly a lot shorter and apparently not divided into artists, designers and programmers which complicates things a lot but I do think it's important to try to cover as many parts of the game development process as possible, preferably with practical examples constrained to a single toolchain (a 3D example of how not to do it would be to teach modelling in 3dsmax, mapping and texturing using Maya, rigging and animating in Blender and finally exporting everything using a 3rd-party tool that only works with cinema4d, you will end up with students who haven't got a clue when it comes to actually producing something that works).
I don't really know anyone who uses AOL's IM software/service, I do occasionally hear people in the US mention it though.
Here in Sweden ICQ was king of the hill until MS started pushing MSN Messenger more seriously (and bundling it with their desktop OS) at which point those who weren't already using ICQ started using MSN Messenger, after a couple of years of this ICQ was pretty much dead with everyone migrated over to MSN.
Well, if the linked article has its guesses and quotes correct then it seems this guy was just trying to show off with his neat GEP (Google Employee Powers) and overstepped privacy boundaries doing so. Now, IMHO this is generally worse than just being curious or "nosey[sic]" but probably not creepier (I worked tech support just after college and I saw more than one "curious" co-worker search the customer database for members of the opposite sex who happened to live in the same city as we were in and who had a date of birth within a few years of their own. Sure, I'm guessing none of them actually used this info to their advantage (by say, looking up phone numbers and email addresses to people they had met at a club or something) but that's still a lot more creepy than trying to show off in front of others).
Oh, and in case someone missed it, I didn't say this guy shouldn't have been fired or that what he did was ok, simply that I'm not sure "creepy" is the best word to describe it (since that word tends to lead the minds of readers into "OMGZ SEX OFFENDARS PERVART!!" territory which apparently doesn't apply in this case).
It is mostly a general feeling of sluggishness compared to Safari (on OS X) and high memory use compared to Opera (on Windows). As an example, I had to restart it earlier today after it topped 1 GiB of RAM, since then I've had 3-4 tabs open, all containing internal web service function listings and current memory usage for firefox.exe is supposedly just short of 300 MiB (though this is with Web Developer, Firebug, YSlow, Adblock+ and Screengrab installed). As a comparison, my current Opera session has been active for several days and has 10 tabs open, including the horrible aftonbladet.se news site and several other sites that over-use JavaScript, it's sitting at ~370 MiB right now.
Now, when comparing it to Safari on OS X the memory usage is pretty similar but OTOH Firefox on OS X seems like it's a lot slower than Firefox on Windows. Starting Firefox takes a lot longer than starting Safari and the UI has a strange sluggish feeling to it although I think this feeling may be worsened by the Firefox UI not really behaving like a typical OS X app so I have to change my workflow slightly when using Firefox.
Then there's an unrelated issue, if I open an image or other natively supported file in Firefox and then choose to save it Firefox tries to re-download it, one obvious downside to this being that if I'm on a slow connection for some reason I end up having to re-download data that's already in RAM (and it wasn't always this way either, can't remember when it started happening but I do remember being very annoyed by it, if the file is already in RAM or the cache, which it will be if it's in an open tab, there's no reason to download it again).
Well, the memory usage definitely gets worse if I have Web Developer, Firebug, Screengrab and YSlow installed. But even without these add-ons it still feels like memory usage could be lowered, if performance reflected the amount of RAM being used then I wouldn't mind it most of the time but when the browser as a whole still feels sluggish compared to Safari, Opera and Chrome it kind of annoys me.
Well... Mozilla _has_ concentrated on low RAM usage in the past. The actual memory usage of Gecko is significantly lower than its competitors if you load some pages and measure it.
Not that I want to complain but comparing memory usage for Firefox and Opera on my work laptop (running Windows Vista Business 64-bit, C2D) and Firefox and Safari 5 on my home system (fully patched OS X, Core i7) I have to say that Firefox is disappointing when it comes to memory usage. Compared to Opera it's a resource hog on my work laptop, if I start Opera and Firefox at the same time and use Opera over the day with only some minor Firefox usage it will still use 50% more RAM than Opera at the end of the day, and that's without any add-ons activated. On OS X it seems that memory usage for Safari is a bit closer to Firefox but OTOH Firefox on OS X has always been quite sluggish in so many ways, even startup seems to take a very long time compared to Safari (or the Windows/Linux/FreeBSD versions of Firefox), and this is something I've experienced on a number of Macs with different hardware configurations and versions of OS X (from 10.4.x through 10.6.4), both "old" OS installs and completely fresh installs where there is no "cruft" that might cause slowdowns.
Also, Firefox and IE are the only browsers I've used on modern operating systems that have actually crashed the OS hard (in both cases it was runaway memory leaks on Windows, before I could kill the process all physical RAM had been allocated making the machine in question grind to a halt as it attempted to expand the swap file to a previously unseen size).
True. However, if the person performing the scam was doing this as just another scam rather than a targeted attack then this wouldn't be much of an issue, it could probably even be automated to a certain degree. In that case it doesn't really matter if the scam websites go down after a few days or weeks, by then they've made some money from it and they can just create a few new websites for other companies (or even the same company).
I was thinking in the same direction. Why/How would someone out there know to use a particular trademarked name and to also use a particular person's name who is associated with the company as an IT person to register a domain name?!
Well now, let's say I wanted to run a scam involving infringement of Acme Incorporated's website, www.acmeinc.com. My first step would be to pick a similar-sounding domain name, then I would open up a terminal and type in "whois www.acmeinc.com". Boom. Now I just use the information in the whois record when registering my own domain name, anyone who wonders why there is both a "www.acmeinc.com" website (the legit one) and a "www.acmeincfreestuffinexchangeforyourcreditcardnumber.com" (my fake website) and decides to do a little digging will find that the websites seem to have identical whois records. Now of course, if the actual Acme Inc. was to discover this and the people who discover it don't quite understand how easy it is to make up fake whois records (no effort at all) they may just think their sysadmin (who is in the contact info) is trying to scam their customers...
Really, it is a fairly plausible scenario if you consider that most people outside of a company's IT department know absolutely nothing about how domain names are managed, most likely they just got a report from the outside company they hired which said "the fake website is registered by $NAME", $NAME being pulled straight from the whois info of course.
You're comparing apples and oranges. Microsoft Windows is by far the most common operating system on desktop computers (I'm including laptops and such in "desktops" here) while iOS is just one of several platforms for cellphones and other mobile devices. There's also the issue that Windows is a general purpose operating system for general purpose computing devices while iOS and the hardware it runs on is intended to be a fair bit more specialized. Now, if Apple held 90% of the desktop OS market and banned 3rd party dev tools and languages from OS X development you might have a case (hint: they haven't, you are free to install anything you want on your OS X machine, you can also download the source for a large part of the system from Apple's website).
A lot of times the national google pages lag behind the.com version.
Another little "quirk" seems to be that, as an example, images.google.se doesn't have the new single-page search result view yet while images.google.com does (this can be circumvented most of the time by changing the search preferences, something I tend to do since a lot of times letting it decide on its own that I want to give priority to swedish search results means that tech-related searches I make which give me the right page at the top on the english version of the site instead give me some random fashion blog, apparently what I searched for isn't as important as the language google chose for me).
No champagne baths? Oh man, you're really missing out.
And if you're worried about the cost there's a secret to it, the difference between water and cheap champagne or sparkling wine is a lot bigger than the difference between the latter and expensive champagne.
These raids were apparently not about TPB or other torrent sites but rather aimed at scene topsites.
I've read some media industry "information" about the scene lately where they've compared it to organized crime (in the "making money from illegal activities" sense, not the "being organized" sense). Of course, approx 99% of those involved in the scene don't make money from their involvement but I guess it's a bit harder to make them out to be evil mafioso types if they're not actually making any money...
True, but its predecessor, the BLU-82 was used in both Vietnam and Afghanistan (retired and replaced by the MOAB in 2008), in Afghanistan one of the reasons for using it was actually to demoralize enemy troops.
Yeah, and the newspaper/tabloid that first broke the news about the Assange case currently has the following items on their website (on the front page): "Does size matter?", a multitude of stories about reality TV shows, a multitude of stories about reality TV show "celebrities" and their personal lives, a bunch of dieting tips and tricks, fashion show photo galleries, travel guides...
And a lot of other media outlets are barely better, they'll run any story they think will get the attention of the public so it's not exactly a good metric.
Anyway, it was fairly long and the gist of it was "a woman who lies about a rape may get some nasty looks but the rape rumor will stick around a lot longer and travel faster so the victim of the accusation can still get himself beaten to a pulp by random vigilantes weeks or months later, also I have seen this happen".
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Why doesn't Adobe tell Jobs to stick it and simply refuse to sell or support adobe products on Apple OSes anymore? There are a hell of a lot more Windows users than OSX users, and losing Photoshop and Dreamweaver would hurt Apple a hell of a lot more than it would hurt Adobe.
Well, OS X is a pretty huge market for Adobe's Creative Suite and Apple has already eaten Adobe's lunch once before with Final Cut Pro. I'm guessing Adobe suspects pulling out of the OS X market would just motivate Apple to come up with a few more apps (they already have fairly successful competitors to Premiere (FCP) and Lightroom (Aperture)).
There's also the matter of the PR nightmare this would create for Adobe, even if Apple's "Photoshop killer" wasn't quite as good as Photoshop a lot of users would probably jump ship just because they were pissed with Adobe. Also, Dreamweaver? really? People still use Dreamweaver? (No, not teenage boys or the "webmaster" for small websites, real web developers and designers, do they really still use Dreamweaver? I haven't even heard anyone in the business mention Dreamweaver in years)
So I honestly don't get it, if Steve wants to be a jerk (which when he blocked cross compilation I believe it crossed from being about performance and into jerkhood) why doesn't adobe do the same? as Jack Tramiel said years ago "business is war" and if someone takes a shot at you you shoot back. so why hasn't Adobe?
Well, Apple has a bit of a hardon when it comes to open standards, even if it's their own open standard they do like open standards (despite the Apple haters claiming otherwise) and Flash is about as closed as a standard can be. Remember that part about PR? Yeah, trying to force your own closed and despised standard on the world while the guys who are known for being good when it comes to usability say it sucks is probably not a good idea, Adobe caught a lot of flack for their anti-Apple statements during their last squabble with Apple (not their first, they threw a majro hissyfit when Apple announced that they would stop supporting Carbon applications, just as they had stated all along).
Also, Adobe has more to lose than Apple (well technically I think Apple has more to lose, it's just that Adobe's executives most likely know they'd be the ones who lost out in the end), they'd be the bad guys and lose a huge chunk of their customers.
Why does the summary not link the actual blog post at canonical.com instead of some ad-encumbered summary?
You didn't, for just a second, consider that maybe the hunters shooting at the insulators are hunters who are done for the day? and on their way back they decide to take a couple of shots at the insulators. I know it used to happen a lot here in northern Sweden, and unlike hunters in the US getting a hunting license here isn't just a matter of signing your name on a piece of paper, waiting a couple of weeks and then getting your brand new rifle.
Also, there are plenty of hunters who prefer target practice out in the woods to hanging out at a range, there are plenty of old sandpits around here where you can find cartridge cases strewn about from various hunters either getting some target practice in or simply trying out a new rifle.
In my experience most caricatures of atheists and evolution created by creationists seem to revolve around satanic influence, "lulz they think they're monkeymen!1" comments and that those who think evolution or atheism make more sense than creationism are simply raging nutjobs who hate everyone and everything. Oh, and the "I'm atheist because it's cool to hate on Jeebuz" caricature which is followed by a rant about how when He(tm) returns he will send all that pesky atheist straight to a very literal lake of fire for not believing in a god (or the right god for that matter).
"Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving lord, for all those options." -- Bill Hicks
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Actually it demonstrates that most swedish media ignored the pirate party for the last few weeks before the election and instead focused on the "standard" election questions of jobs, healthcare and similar issues. Also, there's been a lot of anti-PP hollering from people claiming that anyone voting for the pirate party would be helping the sweden democrats into parliament. Essentially the pirate party and their issues have been completely ignored lately.
Well, for some strange reason the media has been almost completely ignoring both the Pirate Party and any and all organizations with any connections to them in the weeks leading up to the election, and they dropped the Assange rape charge thing pretty quickly. Even though these issues were in the press all the time earlier this year it seems the media has collectively decided that no one wants to hear about the Pirate Party as the election draws closer.
You should keep in mind that it is also quite likely that the "stupid gene" was favorable back when a high IQ meant you would overthink potentially life-threatening actions which are not present today and that not having the gene is actually an advantage. Or perhaps there simply hasn't been any advantage to having a high IQ throughout most of history so far which means that the mutation has spread slowly and is very rare (statistically speaking).
I can agree that you can't be a technophobe if you want to be a game artist but I've met quite a few game artists who were by no means geeks in the sense that the average slashdotter would describe a geek. Sure, they had weird hobbies and interests and slightly above-average tech know-how but their main strength was on the artistic side of things. A lot of times what is really needed is that these individuals get a solid and comprehensive education on how all the parts fit together, both in terms of the basic steps required to create a character or environment for a game as well as the concepts and mechanics of a typical game, what the limitations of the technology are and what is a good workflow.
Hell, there are plenty of geeks who can code circles around me who don't know that the "normal" way to create a game character is concept sketch -> model -> map -> texture -> rig -> animate, not to mention that they often have no idea how to perform even one or two of these steps. Maybe I'm just bitter because I've seen a few too many geeks who have written neat software to generate "pretty pictures" for them which is technically impressive but they get upset when I (and others) point out that the pictures aren't particularly aesthetically appealing (for some reason a lot of geeks seem to be obsessed with a stereotypical "sci-fi look", colored glow, otherworldly-looking shiny metal and a general H.R. Giger feel which I have a tendency to associate with teenage gamers).
Why do most slashdot geeks always think "3D" when thinking game development these days? Most of the fun casual games available today are in 2d.
It's not just "slashdot geeks", in general the world of game development is focused on 3d, even when doing 2d it is often just 3d with the camera looking at everything from a specific angle with orthographic projection.
On a side note, as someone who actually took a few art courses targeting game development in college, just teaching the most basic concepts of how to create interaction isn't very useful. A lot of what the "artsy" types should be learning (IMO) is using the right tools with the right workflow. As an example, the courses I took (which had 500 applicants for a course that accepted 30 students per year and that saw industry people flying in to show off their latest projects and try to get students to drop out and come work for them instead) started out with a highly compressed Maya introduction followed by lots of time spent on various gameplay concepts, common gotchas (things to avoid when modelling, texturing, UVW-mapping, rigging, animating and such things) and finished the whole thing off with a five week project where teams of students had to cooperate to create the first level of a game.
Now, this course is clearly a lot shorter and apparently not divided into artists, designers and programmers which complicates things a lot but I do think it's important to try to cover as many parts of the game development process as possible, preferably with practical examples constrained to a single toolchain (a 3D example of how not to do it would be to teach modelling in 3dsmax, mapping and texturing using Maya, rigging and animating in Blender and finally exporting everything using a 3rd-party tool that only works with cinema4d, you will end up with students who haven't got a clue when it comes to actually producing something that works).
I don't really know anyone who uses AOL's IM software/service, I do occasionally hear people in the US mention it though.
Here in Sweden ICQ was king of the hill until MS started pushing MSN Messenger more seriously (and bundling it with their desktop OS) at which point those who weren't already using ICQ started using MSN Messenger, after a couple of years of this ICQ was pretty much dead with everyone migrated over to MSN.
In this case the motivation is a bit creepier...
Well, if the linked article has its guesses and quotes correct then it seems this guy was just trying to show off with his neat GEP (Google Employee Powers) and overstepped privacy boundaries doing so. Now, IMHO this is generally worse than just being curious or "nosey[sic]" but probably not creepier (I worked tech support just after college and I saw more than one "curious" co-worker search the customer database for members of the opposite sex who happened to live in the same city as we were in and who had a date of birth within a few years of their own. Sure, I'm guessing none of them actually used this info to their advantage (by say, looking up phone numbers and email addresses to people they had met at a club or something) but that's still a lot more creepy than trying to show off in front of others).
Oh, and in case someone missed it, I didn't say this guy shouldn't have been fired or that what he did was ok, simply that I'm not sure "creepy" is the best word to describe it (since that word tends to lead the minds of readers into "OMGZ SEX OFFENDARS PERVART!!" territory which apparently doesn't apply in this case).
It is mostly a general feeling of sluggishness compared to Safari (on OS X) and high memory use compared to Opera (on Windows). As an example, I had to restart it earlier today after it topped 1 GiB of RAM, since then I've had 3-4 tabs open, all containing internal web service function listings and current memory usage for firefox.exe is supposedly just short of 300 MiB (though this is with Web Developer, Firebug, YSlow, Adblock+ and Screengrab installed). As a comparison, my current Opera session has been active for several days and has 10 tabs open, including the horrible aftonbladet.se news site and several other sites that over-use JavaScript, it's sitting at ~370 MiB right now.
Now, when comparing it to Safari on OS X the memory usage is pretty similar but OTOH Firefox on OS X seems like it's a lot slower than Firefox on Windows. Starting Firefox takes a lot longer than starting Safari and the UI has a strange sluggish feeling to it although I think this feeling may be worsened by the Firefox UI not really behaving like a typical OS X app so I have to change my workflow slightly when using Firefox.
Then there's an unrelated issue, if I open an image or other natively supported file in Firefox and then choose to save it Firefox tries to re-download it, one obvious downside to this being that if I'm on a slow connection for some reason I end up having to re-download data that's already in RAM (and it wasn't always this way either, can't remember when it started happening but I do remember being very annoyed by it, if the file is already in RAM or the cache, which it will be if it's in an open tab, there's no reason to download it again).
Well, the memory usage definitely gets worse if I have Web Developer, Firebug, Screengrab and YSlow installed. But even without these add-ons it still feels like memory usage could be lowered, if performance reflected the amount of RAM being used then I wouldn't mind it most of the time but when the browser as a whole still feels sluggish compared to Safari, Opera and Chrome it kind of annoys me.
Well... Mozilla _has_ concentrated on low RAM usage in the past. The actual memory usage of Gecko is significantly lower than its competitors if you load some pages and measure it.
Not that I want to complain but comparing memory usage for Firefox and Opera on my work laptop (running Windows Vista Business 64-bit, C2D) and Firefox and Safari 5 on my home system (fully patched OS X, Core i7) I have to say that Firefox is disappointing when it comes to memory usage. Compared to Opera it's a resource hog on my work laptop, if I start Opera and Firefox at the same time and use Opera over the day with only some minor Firefox usage it will still use 50% more RAM than Opera at the end of the day, and that's without any add-ons activated. On OS X it seems that memory usage for Safari is a bit closer to Firefox but OTOH Firefox on OS X has always been quite sluggish in so many ways, even startup seems to take a very long time compared to Safari (or the Windows/Linux/FreeBSD versions of Firefox), and this is something I've experienced on a number of Macs with different hardware configurations and versions of OS X (from 10.4.x through 10.6.4), both "old" OS installs and completely fresh installs where there is no "cruft" that might cause slowdowns.
Also, Firefox and IE are the only browsers I've used on modern operating systems that have actually crashed the OS hard (in both cases it was runaway memory leaks on Windows, before I could kill the process all physical RAM had been allocated making the machine in question grind to a halt as it attempted to expand the swap file to a previously unseen size).
True. However, if the person performing the scam was doing this as just another scam rather than a targeted attack then this wouldn't be much of an issue, it could probably even be automated to a certain degree. In that case it doesn't really matter if the scam websites go down after a few days or weeks, by then they've made some money from it and they can just create a few new websites for other companies (or even the same company).
I was thinking in the same direction. Why/How would someone out there know to use a particular trademarked name and to also use a particular person's name who is associated with the company as an IT person to register a domain name?!
Well now, let's say I wanted to run a scam involving infringement of Acme Incorporated's website, www.acmeinc.com. My first step would be to pick a similar-sounding domain name, then I would open up a terminal and type in "whois www.acmeinc.com". Boom. Now I just use the information in the whois record when registering my own domain name, anyone who wonders why there is both a "www.acmeinc.com" website (the legit one) and a "www.acmeincfreestuffinexchangeforyourcreditcardnumber.com" (my fake website) and decides to do a little digging will find that the websites seem to have identical whois records. Now of course, if the actual Acme Inc. was to discover this and the people who discover it don't quite understand how easy it is to make up fake whois records (no effort at all) they may just think their sysadmin (who is in the contact info) is trying to scam their customers...
Really, it is a fairly plausible scenario if you consider that most people outside of a company's IT department know absolutely nothing about how domain names are managed, most likely they just got a report from the outside company they hired which said "the fake website is registered by $NAME", $NAME being pulled straight from the whois info of course.
You're comparing apples and oranges. Microsoft Windows is by far the most common operating system on desktop computers (I'm including laptops and such in "desktops" here) while iOS is just one of several platforms for cellphones and other mobile devices. There's also the issue that Windows is a general purpose operating system for general purpose computing devices while iOS and the hardware it runs on is intended to be a fair bit more specialized. Now, if Apple held 90% of the desktop OS market and banned 3rd party dev tools and languages from OS X development you might have a case (hint: they haven't, you are free to install anything you want on your OS X machine, you can also download the source for a large part of the system from Apple's website).
To most software engineers who aren't living in NYC or Silly Valley $110k/year is a bit more than "a decent wage".
A lot of times the national google pages lag behind the .com version.
Another little "quirk" seems to be that, as an example, images.google.se doesn't have the new single-page search result view yet while images.google.com does (this can be circumvented most of the time by changing the search preferences, something I tend to do since a lot of times letting it decide on its own that I want to give priority to swedish search results means that tech-related searches I make which give me the right page at the top on the english version of the site instead give me some random fashion blog, apparently what I searched for isn't as important as the language google chose for me).
No champagne baths? Oh man, you're really missing out.
And if you're worried about the cost there's a secret to it, the difference between water and cheap champagne or sparkling wine is a lot bigger than the difference between the latter and expensive champagne.
These raids were apparently not about TPB or other torrent sites but rather aimed at scene topsites.
I've read some media industry "information" about the scene lately where they've compared it to organized crime (in the "making money from illegal activities" sense, not the "being organized" sense). Of course, approx 99% of those involved in the scene don't make money from their involvement but I guess it's a bit harder to make them out to be evil mafioso types if they're not actually making any money...
True, but its predecessor, the BLU-82 was used in both Vietnam and Afghanistan (retired and replaced by the MOAB in 2008), in Afghanistan one of the reasons for using it was actually to demoralize enemy troops.
(and about half the worlds journalistic corps)
Yeah, and the newspaper/tabloid that first broke the news about the Assange case currently has the following items on their website (on the front page): "Does size matter?", a multitude of stories about reality TV shows, a multitude of stories about reality TV show "celebrities" and their personal lives, a bunch of dieting tips and tricks, fashion show photo galleries, travel guides...
And a lot of other media outlets are barely better, they'll run any story they think will get the attention of the public so it's not exactly a good metric.
How fun, /. ate the second half of my comment...
Anyway, it was fairly long and the gist of it was "a woman who lies about a rape may get some nasty looks but the rape rumor will stick around a lot longer and travel faster so the victim of the accusation can still get himself beaten to a pulp by random vigilantes weeks or months later, also I have seen this happen".