That's utter bullshit. Finding security holes makes little difference if it's open source or not. If you'd subscribed to any of the bug/security mailing lists you'd notice that predominantly it's closed source software popping up with vulnerabilities.
It's not hard to find holes in a leaking boat if you look hard enough, it's just whether the holes are big enough to warrant fixing them.
They hacked mobile phone voicemail. Was a pretty simple "hack" for most, some was social engineered afaik.
They broke the law. If it was a teenager their life would be ruined, Murdoch seems to think that apologising gets them out of it. Far from it, seeing as some were cabinet ministers.
The whole thing boils down to an endemic problem within (at least) News of the World, so far it hasn't been seen that the rest of News Corp conducts themselves in this way.
The key is that Valve have always focused on releasing quality products rather than masses of them.
Not every game company wants to be a cash grab house, sometimes they actually want to produce products that keep customers. I can't say that I've ever felt a Stardock game was of any quality, so maybe they're just cracking this shits that they can't churn out crap while trying to keep their horrible store online.
I don't think Gabe Newell is worried at all by these comments, they'll keep making money off other people's games to fund quality games of their own.
You probably wouldn't know about it seeing as you'd more than likely die from the eruption itself rather than the ash. It's people on the other side of the globe that will die slowly from famine and disease. Consider yourself lucky.
Look at what's happened here in Australia with Telstra. Cities have great service (ADSL2+, Cable, FiOS), anything outside the major centres, well, good luck. You might be able to get dialup. I stress might, as the pair gains systems out there can play havoc with dialup, and Telstra (the guys who own the cables) refuse to upgrade anything outside a CBD of a capital city.
Having worked for Telstra in the plant assignment/activations area (cable records & line programming) I've seen 100 pair cables with maybe 10 pairs usable on it. Telstra refused to replace them as it's not economically viable for them.
This is why I'm all for the National Broadband Network that's being developed over here. Government monopoly on wholesale to ensure equal service delivery across all communities.
Wow, you are deluded. Considering most major games these days use techniques that are used in film for cinematic sequences, stories that have much more depth than the hollywood reeltrash, and actors that are also big names in hollywood, well, maybe they are more deserving than films these days.
Aside from this, it's not the Grammys that need to respect games... it would be gamers needing to respect the grammys - which I doubt will happen.
I'm not sure what games you play that make them "choppy by nature", but they aren't the games that I am playing.
There have been ex-engineers interviewed about with regard to the meltdown. TEPCO have concealed incidents, installed shoddy protections and go with lowest bidder rather than safest product.
In about 5 seconds of googling "TEPCO incidents" or "TEPCO unethical" you can see a myriad of articles with quotes from engineers and monitoring groups about how TEPCO has deceived the Japanese government.
Just because you don't keep up with the news doesn't mean others don't.
Not that the BBC's reporting is any good these days. I stopped reading it after they echoed the Israeli military's line on the boat raid last year. Hell, they were pretty much printing word for word the press release given by Knesset.
I wouldn't trust this article either, it reads like a press release from Tokyo Electric Co. TEC have proven to be untrustworthy as they refuse to have best practice at the centre of their company doctrine - it's now known that they did everything on the cheap and thus why the reactors weren't decommissioned 10 years ago like they should have been.
Angry herbivores. I remember camping in high school and watching one headbutt a classmate who got too close to it's burrow. He's lucky it didn't decide to maul him as their claws are like pineapple cutters.
My father is a leading authority on education & training in Asia but does not have a teaching degree. Just because you are unable to think outside what you have pigeon holed yourself in doesn't mean others cant.
Aside from this, advances in teaching tend to come from people outside teaching. Unfortunately people use teaching as a fall back if they can't figure out what they want to do after university. I've watched this happen to a lot of friends and family. They get a degree, can't figure out what they want to do, then do a dip. ed.
I think you want to read up more on who has changed teaching methods, because you'll find very few teachers in there.
Batch files are easy. The only people I've found to have trouble with any sort of scripting are people who grew up only using GUIs.
That being said, I grew up on old Macs and only started using windows at 15 when I got my first job in a computer shop. Not having used a CLI previously I dove straight into it and learnt all I could.
The problem with the whole user/CLI disconnection is that there is a perception among certification/uni degree holders that once you finish your qualification you don't need to learn anything further. I saw this happen to many people who graduated with my fiance, they learnt Windows, learnt how to use the GUIs for admin, and nothing more.
To be honest, I blame complacency and the fear of intellectualism for the decline in the CLI. It seems to be "cool" to be stupid in developed nations, intellectualism and learning are almost feared. Maybe it's due to editorials damming intellectualism, maybe it's to do with politicians damming intellectualism. I'm not quite sure, whatever the cause it's one of the worst things to happen to humanity.
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How is not liking features that can be added via plug-ins and not liking that actual useful features are removed not seeing tomorrow?
The whole article reads like a press release from RockMelt. I know I won't be downloading this, I'll stick with Chrome.
That's utter bullshit. Finding security holes makes little difference if it's open source or not. If you'd subscribed to any of the bug/security mailing lists you'd notice that predominantly it's closed source software popping up with vulnerabilities.
It's not hard to find holes in a leaking boat if you look hard enough, it's just whether the holes are big enough to warrant fixing them.
No idea why you were marked troll. If you're going to claim to be an authority on datacentres, maybe actually host your site on a decent one.
I wasn't sure whether to mod you insightful or funny, so I posted instead.
They hacked mobile phone voicemail. Was a pretty simple "hack" for most, some was social engineered afaik.
They broke the law. If it was a teenager their life would be ruined, Murdoch seems to think that apologising gets them out of it. Far from it, seeing as some were cabinet ministers.
The whole thing boils down to an endemic problem within (at least) News of the World, so far it hasn't been seen that the rest of News Corp conducts themselves in this way.
I for one welcome our radioactive crab overlords!
The key is that Valve have always focused on releasing quality products rather than masses of them.
Not every game company wants to be a cash grab house, sometimes they actually want to produce products that keep customers. I can't say that I've ever felt a Stardock game was of any quality, so maybe they're just cracking this shits that they can't churn out crap while trying to keep their horrible store online.
I don't think Gabe Newell is worried at all by these comments, they'll keep making money off other people's games to fund quality games of their own.
You probably wouldn't know about it seeing as you'd more than likely die from the eruption itself rather than the ash. It's people on the other side of the globe that will die slowly from famine and disease. Consider yourself lucky.
Look at what's happened here in Australia with Telstra. Cities have great service (ADSL2+, Cable, FiOS), anything outside the major centres, well, good luck. You might be able to get dialup. I stress might, as the pair gains systems out there can play havoc with dialup, and Telstra (the guys who own the cables) refuse to upgrade anything outside a CBD of a capital city.
Having worked for Telstra in the plant assignment/activations area (cable records & line programming) I've seen 100 pair cables with maybe 10 pairs usable on it. Telstra refused to replace them as it's not economically viable for them.
This is why I'm all for the National Broadband Network that's being developed over here. Government monopoly on wholesale to ensure equal service delivery across all communities.
Wow, you are deluded. Considering most major games these days use techniques that are used in film for cinematic sequences, stories that have much more depth than the hollywood reeltrash, and actors that are also big names in hollywood, well, maybe they are more deserving than films these days.
Aside from this, it's not the Grammys that need to respect games... it would be gamers needing to respect the grammys - which I doubt will happen.
I'm not sure what games you play that make them "choppy by nature", but they aren't the games that I am playing.
There have been ex-engineers interviewed about with regard to the meltdown. TEPCO have concealed incidents, installed shoddy protections and go with lowest bidder rather than safest product.
In about 5 seconds of googling "TEPCO incidents" or "TEPCO unethical" you can see a myriad of articles with quotes from engineers and monitoring groups about how TEPCO has deceived the Japanese government.
Just because you don't keep up with the news doesn't mean others don't.
While this is true, I know I'd rather suffer at the hands of a criminal than at the hands of my government.
Not that the BBC's reporting is any good these days. I stopped reading it after they echoed the Israeli military's line on the boat raid last year. Hell, they were pretty much printing word for word the press release given by Knesset.
I wouldn't trust this article either, it reads like a press release from Tokyo Electric Co. TEC have proven to be untrustworthy as they refuse to have best practice at the centre of their company doctrine - it's now known that they did everything on the cheap and thus why the reactors weren't decommissioned 10 years ago like they should have been.
Forgot the last step "sell off company to NewsCorp".
Angry herbivores. I remember camping in high school and watching one headbutt a classmate who got too close to it's burrow. He's lucky it didn't decide to maul him as their claws are like pineapple cutters.
It's not us that are strange, it's the rest of the world that's strange!
So you're saying you use Mac OS?
Maybe not, but my NAS sure streams what I want when I want. Every series on it, no problems streaming. Not sure what netflix has over my NAS.
Please, enlighten me.
TOS is great, as good as TNG.
Enterprise is better than DS9, by far.
Enterprise is shit though, DS9 went from good to worse than shit.
Pretty much it.
The joys of a metrics driven "business". Run the cops like a business, get substandard policing where the rich get justice and the poor get screwed.
My father is a leading authority on education & training in Asia but does not have a teaching degree. Just because you are unable to think outside what you have pigeon holed yourself in doesn't mean others cant.
Aside from this, advances in teaching tend to come from people outside teaching. Unfortunately people use teaching as a fall back if they can't figure out what they want to do after university. I've watched this happen to a lot of friends and family. They get a degree, can't figure out what they want to do, then do a dip. ed.
I think you want to read up more on who has changed teaching methods, because you'll find very few teachers in there.
Chrome is fine with the new scheme. A few graphical bugs but everything functions.
Concepts were great, Orson Scott Card just writes like a 3 year old.
Mayonnaise is fat. Oil & eggs (normally yolks).
I suppose not quite as bad as Hollandaise. Butter & egg yolks.
Batch files are easy. The only people I've found to have trouble with any sort of scripting are people who grew up only using GUIs.
That being said, I grew up on old Macs and only started using windows at 15 when I got my first job in a computer shop. Not having used a CLI previously I dove straight into it and learnt all I could.
The problem with the whole user/CLI disconnection is that there is a perception among certification/uni degree holders that once you finish your qualification you don't need to learn anything further. I saw this happen to many people who graduated with my fiance, they learnt Windows, learnt how to use the GUIs for admin, and nothing more.
To be honest, I blame complacency and the fear of intellectualism for the decline in the CLI. It seems to be "cool" to be stupid in developed nations, intellectualism and learning are almost feared. Maybe it's due to editorials damming intellectualism, maybe it's to do with politicians damming intellectualism. I'm not quite sure, whatever the cause it's one of the worst things to happen to humanity.