Todd Bradley, the head of HP's Personal Systems Group, announced on August 20, "You'll see us with a Microsoft product in the near future, and a WebOS-based product in early 2011."
Reading the article, that was my impression. MSFT held a conference with these people, let them air their concerns, but what remains is that they made no specific statements about fixing accessibility, and moreover, basically acknowledged intentionally leaving it out.
I'm sure from their perspective it was just a business decision. They needed to make something that (idiots would believe is) competitive with the iPhone and Android platforms and this small sliver of the market, people with visual impairments, was just not as important.
You don't think it's reasonable to say every citizen must buy a particular product from a small set of private companies, or face onerous tax penalties (and jail time, if unpaid?)
It's hypocritical to take the typical/. stance. "This is WRONG! Unless it's being done to someone I hate and then it's really ok because they deserve it."
I predict once again that the prevailing opinion of/. will turn on a dime when the target is someone they don't like.
wikileaks to politicians - "if you aren't dishonest you have nothing to worry about" = good government to citizens - "if you aren't dishonest you have nothing to worry about" = bad
I don't think Oracle is particularly concerned with anything other than its core products and profit-making from those. I think the philosophy has emerged there that it's becoming less important to do things that may have nebulous or down-the-road benefit in favor of only putting effort into things from which you can draw a straight line to profit.
The trend in MMOs, at least since EverQuest, has been to reduce idle "grinding" activities, the EMPTY timesinks (I'm thinking of camping an Ancient Cyclops in EverQuest).
However, the Final Fantasy MMOs have always felt geared more toward the Japanese player base (where the brand is more recognizable I guess, reference all servers being in Japan) and there is some cultural factor that means they don't have nearly such an intolerance for the excruciating timesinks.
When you combine the fact that FF is emphatically NOT an accessible game for all but hardcore MMOers with a broken game... you end up with a total flop.
So there's no content. Most developers wouldn't release a game until they had content. (Of course, most wouldn't release a game that was broken in every way, either)
In this case not really... the only people still playing are FF fanbois, and they're even driving off the core fans who could be expected to play no matter what
A big chunk of boxes are still using IE6, particularly businesses who are in Internet Explorer EEE version hell, dependent on applications that were developed for IE6 and don't work correctly in anything else.
On/. any attempt by the government or corporations to mine personal data is met with resistance (rightfully).
But if it's wikileaks stealing privileged information and releasing it to the public, information that could damage many people, nations, businesses, etc - deservedly or undeservedly - that is somehow not held to the same standard, that privacy should be paramount./.ers seem to feel Assange is only beating up on people they regard as "bad guys" with these cables, but the unintended consequences/downstream effects will be massive and will not be favorable.
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The fact that some or all of it might be true doesn't make posting email forwards any less lame.
forwarded emails FTL
March, supposedly. Article dated today:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/smb/mobile/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=228800597&subSection=News
Todd Bradley, the head of HP's Personal Systems Group, announced on August 20, "You'll see us with a Microsoft product in the near future, and a WebOS-based product in early 2011."
You get what you pay for, with those websites. The free ones are like leper colonies.
Reading the article, that was my impression. MSFT held a conference with these people, let them air their concerns, but what remains is that they made no specific statements about fixing accessibility, and moreover, basically acknowledged intentionally leaving it out.
I'm sure from their perspective it was just a business decision. They needed to make something that (idiots would believe is) competitive with the iPhone and Android platforms and this small sliver of the market, people with visual impairments, was just not as important.
Well, you've got me pegged. I'm on the drunken cow side.
I bet it is awesome, all the way up until you take into account the value for the dollar.
Just enough to match the people who voted on it, I suppose.
"Meaningful" means, representing a substantial change for the affected people.
This bill is by that definition, about as far from meaningful as it gets.
If anything we are worse off than before. No more people are covered, some people have less coverage, and for all it is more expensive.
Wish these bored 14 year old nerds luck? Whatever. We eat snow for breakfast. (the Dome does too)
We passed "meaningful" health care reform? Was there a replacement bill passed recently that was not publicized?
You don't think it's reasonable to say every citizen must buy a particular product from a small set of private companies, or face onerous tax penalties (and jail time, if unpaid?)
But you have to practice what you preach.
/. stance. "This is WRONG! Unless it's being done to someone I hate and then it's really ok because they deserve it."
It's hypocritical to take the typical
Too bad "unconstitutional" is only defined by which party has the bench packed at the Supreme Court, currently
I predict once again that the prevailing opinion of /. will turn on a dime when the target is someone they don't like.
wikileaks to politicians - "if you aren't dishonest you have nothing to worry about" = good
government to citizens - "if you aren't dishonest you have nothing to worry about" = bad
Ethel have no chance survive make her time
(puzzled look)
I don't think Oracle is particularly concerned with anything other than its core products and profit-making from those. I think the philosophy has emerged there that it's becoming less important to do things that may have nebulous or down-the-road benefit in favor of only putting effort into things from which you can draw a straight line to profit.
what you say ! ! !
There was EverQuest Online Adventures for the PS2, and while I think it went over decently it didn't make any bajillionaires.
The trend in MMOs, at least since EverQuest, has been to reduce idle "grinding" activities, the EMPTY timesinks (I'm thinking of camping an Ancient Cyclops in EverQuest).
However, the Final Fantasy MMOs have always felt geared more toward the Japanese player base (where the brand is more recognizable I guess, reference all servers being in Japan) and there is some cultural factor that means they don't have nearly such an intolerance for the excruciating timesinks.
When you combine the fact that FF is emphatically NOT an accessible game for all but hardcore MMOers with a broken game... you end up with a total flop.
So there's no content. Most developers wouldn't release a game until they had content. (Of course, most wouldn't release a game that was broken in every way, either)
In this case not really... the only people still playing are FF fanbois, and they're even driving off the core fans who could be expected to play no matter what
A big chunk of boxes are still using IE6, particularly businesses who are in Internet Explorer EEE version hell, dependent on applications that were developed for IE6 and don't work correctly in anything else.
I was pointing out the hypocrisy.
/. any attempt by the government or corporations to mine personal data is met with resistance (rightfully).
/.ers seem to feel Assange is only beating up on people they regard as "bad guys" with these cables, but the unintended consequences/downstream effects will be massive and will not be favorable.
On
But if it's wikileaks stealing privileged information and releasing it to the public, information that could damage many people, nations, businesses, etc - deservedly or undeservedly - that is somehow not held to the same standard, that privacy should be paramount.