That's just great! Not only will our cinemas be infested by annoying ringtones and loud talkers, but now we'll get pictures of Justin Timberlake projected all over the screen, on the walls and the ceiling.
And I used to think innovation was a good thing...
If a backdoor exists, how can you guarantee that the government is the only party that can use it? (let's for a minute ignore the discussion whether the government has the right to have a backdoor installed.)
Encryption with a backdoor is as secure as using no encryption at all.
What I find distressing about all the anti-Google stuff going on is that people seem to have so little faith in Google.
Newsflash: Google != God ; faith is highly inappropriate here.
Why should anyone have faith in a company that has as its sole purpose to make money for its shareholders? (They may have had high ideals in the past, but those went out the window with the IPO, such is the nature of publicly owned companies. Any loyalty toward their users, which by the way are NOT their customers just "eyeballs" to sell to the advertisers, has gotten transferred to the shareholders.)
The correct attitude towards big companies, even the cool ones, is a healthy skepicism, not blind faith, for they will screw you over the moment you turn your back.
GNUStep is already being used to port programs from OSX to Linux.
One example that springs to mind is Oolite, an OpenGL Elite clone, written in Objective C and Cocoa for OSX and ported to Linux using the GNUStep libraries. It's a fun game too.
Of course, when you've strayed far enough away from the people chasing you that they need GPS to track you, you probably have time to stop the car on the side of the road, knock the tag off with the jack or any convenient rock and throw it in a ditch, or in the back of a passing pickup truck.
Industry executives obviously missed the memo spelling out the fact that you can't have everyone playing every MMORPG out there - it just isn't gonna happen.
We got the memo alright, but the GREAT NEWS is that EVERYONE is going to play OUR GAME. Dave in marketing told me so himself.
Yup I remember that thing. Thankfully after 15 minutes of playing Decathlon it would invariably break, saving your hands further injury and forcing you to buy a decent joystick. David Crane saved a generation by writing that game.
I wonder, do you do you perform your own appendectomies too?
If you want to mess with your computers internals that's fine by me, but don't go crying that IT'S TOO HARD!!! Get the expertise, it's freely available on teh intarweb, and do a proper job. If you can't do it, that proves that it's a valuable skill and you should pay someone else to do it for you.
(I know, responding to an AC is a sign of madness, like talking to trees)
think you have to look at it pragmatically. If Google don't do what the Chinese Government asks then the whole of Google will be blocked/filtered so what Google is doing doesn't have an "evil" effect that wouldn't be happening anyway.
That's why I sell crack to twelve year olds. If I don't do it, someone else will, and with me at least they get the good shit.
This is interesting, but not quite new. I remember hearing about Soviet surgeons cooling down and effectively shutting down patients' bodies to perform open heart surgery without having to use a heart lung machine. (which were very hard to come by in the Soviet Union)
Could you repeat that in English please? I think I disagree with you, but I can't make out what you're saying.
Clearly you are mr.Gervais' target audience, as people who can string a coherent sentence together find his whining annoying beyond belief. The guy has made one decent series (extras was horrible IMNSHO) and he thinks he is god. He isn't.
(And no, I'm not the AC who commented above, I haven't heard the podcast, but I have heard plenty of interviews with RG, so I really don't feel the need to expose myself to any more to his hugely inflated ego)
What's even weirder is that FF usage appears to go down in the Netherlands instead of up. (but it's probably within the margin of error)
In any case, a message to Dutch IE users is in order: Hee kaaskoppen, gebruik de Vos en dwing je familie en baas om hetzelfde te doen! Je wilt toch niet achterblijven?
From your description I imagined someone actually sticking pieces of corroding metal into their body, which aroused a morbid curiosity which will remain, at least for the moment, unsatisfied.
I'm launching "cleaning@home" where users get the thrilling opportunity to keep my house clean. Users only have to show up at my door where they can aquire the "bucket-n-mop" application which effectively harnesses their spare "work-cycles".
This morning I was quoted as saying "This is a great new field for distributed applications. - careful the floor is still wet!"
Of course it will be a success! I for one rushed out of my Dymaxion house wearing a disposable paper coat, jumped on my Segway and rushed to the store to get one.
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That's just great! Not only will our cinemas be infested by annoying ringtones and loud talkers, but now we'll get pictures of Justin Timberlake projected all over the screen, on the walls and the ceiling.
And I used to think innovation was a good thing...
If a backdoor exists, how can you guarantee that the government is the only party that can use it? (let's for a minute ignore the discussion whether the government has the right to have a backdoor installed.)
Encryption with a backdoor is as secure as using no encryption at all.
What I find distressing about all the anti-Google stuff going on is that people seem to have so little faith in Google.
Newsflash: Google != God ; faith is highly inappropriate here.
Why should anyone have faith in a company that has as its sole purpose to make money for its shareholders? (They may have had high ideals in the past, but those went out the window with the IPO, such is the nature of publicly owned companies. Any loyalty toward their users, which by the way are NOT their customers just "eyeballs" to sell to the advertisers, has gotten transferred to the shareholders.)
The correct attitude towards big companies, even the cool ones, is a healthy skepicism, not blind faith, for they will screw you over the moment you turn your back.
Oops messed up the link: Oolite
GNUStep is already being used to port programs from OSX to Linux.
One example that springs to mind is Oolite, an OpenGL Elite clone, written in Objective C and Cocoa for OSX and ported to Linux using the GNUStep libraries.
It's a fun game too.
Of course, when you've strayed far enough away from the people chasing you that they need GPS to track you, you probably have time to stop the car on the side of the road, knock the tag off with the jack or any convenient rock and throw it in a ditch, or in the back of a passing pickup truck.
Industry executives obviously missed the memo spelling out the fact that you can't have everyone playing every MMORPG out there - it just isn't gonna happen.
We got the memo alright, but the GREAT NEWS is that EVERYONE is going to play OUR GAME. Dave in marketing told me so himself.
Yup I remember that thing. Thankfully after 15 minutes of playing Decathlon it would invariably break, saving your hands further injury and forcing you to buy a decent joystick. David Crane saved a generation by writing that game.
Google search results for: "falung kong" 0
did you mean: "Please report me to the authorities" ?
Good idea, ruined by humanity once again.
There you go again confusing politicians with human beings...
I wonder, do you do you perform your own appendectomies too?
If you want to mess with your computers internals that's fine by me, but don't go crying that IT'S TOO HARD!!! Get the expertise, it's freely available on teh intarweb, and do a proper job. If you can't do it, that proves that it's a valuable skill and you should pay someone else to do it for you.
(I know, responding to an AC is a sign of madness, like talking to trees)
..because DNA doesn't come with an EULA. This kind of reverse-engineering is allowed!
A T-ALL-YOUR-BASEPAIRS-ARE-BELONG-TO-...
You don't know that until you decode it:
codon 776a: TTAAC-AACTC-BY-DECODING-THIS-MESSAGE-YOU-AGREE-TH
(of course this is just an example... apparantly an example that the lameness filter objects to, unless accompanied by this useless sentence.)
The average non-technical home user shouldn't be messing around with the BIOS in the first place.
think you have to look at it pragmatically. If Google don't do what the Chinese Government asks then the whole of Google will be blocked/filtered so what Google is doing doesn't have an "evil" effect that wouldn't be happening anyway.
That's why I sell crack to twelve year olds. If I don't do it, someone else will, and with me at least they get the good shit.
Actually, the economic center of gravity of the world had been steadily moving west.
It started in China, moved to India, then to Sumeria, Greece, Rome, Western Europe, US East Coast, US West Coast.
These days it is crossing the Pacific and is moving towards Japan (it may be already there) and back to China.
(This is not my idea, but I forgot who first discovered it)
This is interesting, but not quite new. I remember hearing about Soviet surgeons cooling down and effectively shutting down patients' bodies to perform open heart surgery without having to use a heart lung machine. (which were very hard to come by in the Soviet Union)
Could you repeat that in English please? I think I disagree with you, but I can't make out what you're saying.
Clearly you are mr.Gervais' target audience, as people who can string a coherent sentence together find his whining annoying beyond belief. The guy has made one decent series (extras was horrible IMNSHO) and he thinks he is god. He isn't.
(And no, I'm not the AC who commented above, I haven't heard the podcast, but I have heard plenty of interviews with RG, so I really don't feel the need to expose myself to any more to his hugely inflated ego)
What's even weirder is that FF usage appears to go down in the Netherlands instead of up. (but it's probably within the margin of error)
In any case, a message to Dutch IE users is in order:
Hee kaaskoppen, gebruik de Vos en dwing je familie en baas om hetzelfde te doen! Je wilt toch niet achterblijven?
Thanks for you attention.
I for one welcome our story duping overlords.
please ask your teacher to explain to you the difference between a unit and a quantity.
If your teacher can't explain it to you, go to your school board and demand a full refund of your tuition fees.
Area equals volume divided by radius?
Seriously, I thought that current was denoted by I (from the French intensite) Is it different in other parts of the world?
The article was a minor disappointment for me.
From your description I imagined someone actually sticking pieces of corroding metal into their body, which aroused a morbid curiosity which will remain, at least for the moment, unsatisfied.
I'm launching "cleaning@home" where users get the thrilling opportunity to keep my house clean. Users only have to show up at my door where they can aquire the "bucket-n-mop" application which effectively harnesses their spare "work-cycles".
This morning I was quoted as saying "This is a great new field for distributed applications. - careful the floor is still wet!"
Of course it will be a success! I for one rushed out of my Dymaxion house wearing a disposable paper coat, jumped on my Segway and rushed to the store to get one.
Who said pedantry was dead?