Isn't DirectX and OpenGL there so that developer can write application using DirectX 10 and have it working with any card capable of DirectX and having enough memory? Are we gonna have "Works best in Internet Explorer 6" again for graphic cards? I still remember that whole 3dfx thing and I didn't like it.
Not really, since wikipedia (assuming its correct) claims, that websites need to give clear information about why information is stored as well as an option to opt-out. It doesn't say they need conenst before they can use that information. But then again, this could be incorrect and someone should really read that directive already. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Privacy_and_Electronic_Communications#Cookies
Sure, but didn't they go a "bit" overboard with it? I mean years after death of the author its still copyrighted? How much does author at that point care or earn money from it? Sure publisher could pay more if he knows he will have copyrights for it for long time and hence profit for longer... but this way we could as well make copyright don't expire at all - even more profit for the "author"! There needs to be drawn a line between ridiculous and artwork users interests. I would rather have copyright expire in no more than 5 years and get spin-offs soon - or at least make "fair use" more broad, so that you can make sequels or alternative versions to existing works without infringing on copyright. I also read that book in Polish and was very surprised its news here on slashdot that it exists. We all are loosing here on some possibly good stuff if copyright won't go back to how it was originally - "Initially copyright law only applied to the copying of books. Over time other uses such as translations and derivative works were made subject to copyright and copyright now covers a wide range of works" - give THAT back.
Yeah, maybe because they didn't spend their money on overpriced OS to being with. Mac is a bit of a surprise tho. I guess they are just as broke as Windows users after getting sucked by Apple. I was sure that those people were the first in line to throw large sums of money at anything.
Maybe a few don't know that they are downloading illegally distributed software, but I'm pretty sure most know what they do. While in Poland it might be legal to download music or movies that way, for software its not. If you need analogy, then perhaps this might be good: Someone binds another person and puts him on street. Said person got glued to him message on paper saying its okay to "do anal" to him/her, with is obviously not true. Now you can guess that what is written there is a lie put by some criminal, what only dumb/not_from_this_world people wouldn't notice, but either way it doesn't make it legal to pretty much rape said person, just cause someone wrote something. Common sense applies, I'm pretty sure thats what would be pointed out in court. Besides, there are cases where someone gets convicted to something, just cause he done harm to someone, even if unintentionally. It makes sense, cause people need to take responsibility for their actions.
Yeah. My G1 is running 2.2. Its nice to have USB tether, but apart from that there isn't anything worth it tbh. At least not for me. Also, when I playback music whole phone is laggy. But its first Android phone and hardware ain't really that good anymore... tho keyboard and trackball are just perfect.
In Poland you have to do some paper work and have 2 witnesses while resigning in person. Kinda like having marriage. They argue, that its very important decision and those requirements are fine. Its interesting, since with everything else you don't need any witnesses (like for example changing nationality). Worst part? You still get to pay tax for church (around 1-1.3%), regardless of your membership status.
Yeah, but you can always go extreme the other way round. For example Dragon Age was simply too hard for me. Perhaps I'm not cut for this kind of games, not sure... but I always had to be extra careful, always had to push to my limits and often... just load game after death. I played it until I came to place where I had to load like 10 times and still no dice. Game had pretty good story and gameplay, but was just too hard for me and I gave up. Lowering difficulty would probably just make it too easy. I don't know how easy was FF7 on PS, but perhaps for most folks it was fit right. You know, they tend to be more casual.
Yeah, I just bought TF2 (waited for special off) and I'm not bothered by it. Some people would rather spend their time grinding in game, while others prefer to spend their time grinding IRL and just convert some of those drops to the ones in game. Its fair enough for me, especially that the only advantage buying gives is that it requires less grinding IRL than it would in game. I see complaining here just by kids who are too lazy to grind in either way.
Well, if you read changelog to latest Opera snapshot (10.70) there doesn't seem to be anything about performance improvements. And they did use Chrome 6 beta, so its not exactly that they use only stable competition.
Its not like only MS and Mozilla as browser vendor released their own benchmark in with their product is doing good. Besides, whats so bad about it? Ain't it obvious they are gonna include in their benchmarks stuff that they feel is important and as a consequence - made it good during browser development? It just shows that other browsers than FF lack in some areas, with might - or might not - be important.
Yeah, I thought so as well. I have found this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VWnQHS-ffs Seems like some tutorial for the game, and it indeed looks similar to that roller-coaster demo.
Is it only in USA? I didn't R whole TFA but I think it mentions just them. For example here in Poland, if someone would do that he would be most likely getting trouble from our own kind of FCC, just that ours has huge steel balls thats used to slapstick ISP no matter they size or whatever. Everyone kinda fears them. It could be fine if for some time speed drops by say 30-50%, but if it does that regularly (like in peek time) it might mean trouble for ISP. It will definitely be trouble if some1 with "up to 2Mbit" is getting average 1Mbit all the time. Its considered more like "today there is transmission of some super important event and a lot of people will stream it and saturate our lines, so speed might drop for like 1-2 hours, but we explicitly said we can't guarantee speed all the time" safety.
I have had 2Mbit connection for 4 years and it NEVER dropped below 2Mbit for reason other than my destination. Its a standard consumer one with usual "up to" clause. I also work for a local ISP and I know they try their best to provide max speed for every customer, while business just gets higher priority in fixing stuff.
There are thousands of alternatives. For example some1 wants to make phone calls, then pretty much every phone is good enough, including iPhone with could be considered viable option if not for its cheaper alternatives in voice calls. If he wants advanced contact management, then there is just a few competing in this field. If he wants good web browser, e-mail and instant messenger client then there will be a few as well. Some or all of those might cover iPhone, so people might go for it. But they certainly have alternatives. I for one decided to go with Android G1, as it had hardware QWERTY with was a big plus for me, but iPhone and WebOS were viable alternatives (and vice versa). If someone wants all what iPhone has, ie he wants iPhone, not its features - then whats the point of looking for alternative? If its just the features, then I would say there is plenty of alternatives for individuals. Pointless search is pointless.
Title of summary is wrong, its not about web development. What is the purpose of this? Don't we want to go away from Java in web? It was slow back in the days, now its just yet another security risk that can compromise ALL browsers at once if Oracle/Sun screws up. And now some spin-off or whatever? No thanks. What we really need is some kind of consistency between output of HTML/JS engines, as well as CSS, so that GUI "just works". There is nothing wrong with those languages/markups, just with the implementation. While I'm all for competition and browsers trying to be better at something from others, it seems to me that in this area they just should cooperate more. It was IE6 back in the days, now its all over the place with vendor-specific extensions, that instead of going first thru W3C, they just are added to the browser with -moz/-webkit/-whatever thats supposed to make it okay to do this? Or perhaps they want to take approach "Hey, we implemented X and its popular, can we force this into W3C now?", with I hope won't work very well for them.
They might have sold those, but not necessary to the end user. iPads were available in - for example - Poland pretty much since release day. Some people just went to USA or had someone there that shipped it to them, and just re-sell it here. There ain't that much demand on those here, so not much supply either, but I imagine that in places like Germany or UK re-selling is at its finest. They delayed international sale, but it was going well since day 0, and then they claim that sales in USA are so much better than in EU or elsewhere. I call bull.
Yeah, that is true But only if your product is good. If its bad and pirated it still might get forum/blog attention, but not the kind you would want. Anyway, I turned from #1 to #4 now that I have a job, but sometimes I don't do #4, instead watch youtube vids, read forums and just buy it if its good enough for me. Still I was burned a few times even with such precautions, as an good example would be Bioshock 2 with its Live! requirement, that is supported only in a few selected countries... not in mine. "Demo" obviously worked fine, so I didn't notice, cause if I try those I often don't go for YT/forums since I had first hand experience and it looked good, but its a god damn trap :
Thats weird. Here in Poland you can ask company/whoever to delete your personal data and they have to comply. And I mean DELETE, not stop displaying. It means no backup, not on paper, not anywhere. If you don't comply with such request, you will be forced to stop using ALL your personal data storage, in with case if Facebook had (they do?) some data center in Poland, they couldn't use it anymore, at least not for personal data.
Seems like a common sense for me, keeping snapshots of personal data even tho that person doesn't want you to? What the shit?
In Polish version of Bad Company EA hired good actors, that did excellent job. Its one of those rare things that EA actually have well done. I guess it all depends on how important voice acting is for the game, and how much budged you spend on it. I guess there wasn't all that much voice acting in BFBC2 comparing it to some RPG game, but its obvious that this had some effect - I installed EN version and got English voices, but my friend keeps nagging me to switch to PL and check out its awesomeness! I only saw samples during production, but can agree on this.
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Isn't DirectX and OpenGL there so that developer can write application using DirectX 10 and have it working with any card capable of DirectX and having enough memory? Are we gonna have "Works best in Internet Explorer 6" again for graphic cards? I still remember that whole 3dfx thing and I didn't like it.
Not really, since wikipedia (assuming its correct) claims, that websites need to give clear information about why information is stored as well as an option to opt-out. It doesn't say they need conenst before they can use that information. But then again, this could be incorrect and someone should really read that directive already.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Privacy_and_Electronic_Communications#Cookies
Forward 25 port to SSL one - thats how we do it at company where I work. 25 port is blocked cause of spam.
Sure, but didn't they go a "bit" overboard with it? I mean years after death of the author its still copyrighted? How much does author at that point care or earn money from it? Sure publisher could pay more if he knows he will have copyrights for it for long time and hence profit for longer... but this way we could as well make copyright don't expire at all - even more profit for the "author"! There needs to be drawn a line between ridiculous and artwork users interests. I would rather have copyright expire in no more than 5 years and get spin-offs soon - or at least make "fair use" more broad, so that you can make sequels or alternative versions to existing works without infringing on copyright. I also read that book in Polish and was very surprised its news here on slashdot that it exists. We all are loosing here on some possibly good stuff if copyright won't go back to how it was originally - "Initially copyright law only applied to the copying of books. Over time other uses such as translations and derivative works were made subject to copyright and copyright now covers a wide range of works" - give THAT back.
Must be Protoss helping them.
Yeah, maybe because they didn't spend their money on overpriced OS to being with.
Mac is a bit of a surprise tho. I guess they are just as broke as Windows users after getting sucked by Apple. I was sure that those people were the first in line to throw large sums of money at anything.
Maybe a few don't know that they are downloading illegally distributed software, but I'm pretty sure most know what they do. While in Poland it might be legal to download music or movies that way, for software its not.
If you need analogy, then perhaps this might be good:
Someone binds another person and puts him on street. Said person got glued to him message on paper saying its okay to "do anal" to him/her, with is obviously not true. Now you can guess that what is written there is a lie put by some criminal, what only dumb/not_from_this_world people wouldn't notice, but either way it doesn't make it legal to pretty much rape said person, just cause someone wrote something. Common sense applies, I'm pretty sure thats what would be pointed out in court.
Besides, there are cases where someone gets convicted to something, just cause he done harm to someone, even if unintentionally. It makes sense, cause people need to take responsibility for their actions.
Yeah. My G1 is running 2.2. Its nice to have USB tether, but apart from that there isn't anything worth it tbh. At least not for me. Also, when I playback music whole phone is laggy. But its first Android phone and hardware ain't really that good anymore... tho keyboard and trackball are just perfect.
In Poland you have to do some paper work and have 2 witnesses while resigning in person. Kinda like having marriage. They argue, that its very important decision and those requirements are fine. Its interesting, since with everything else you don't need any witnesses (like for example changing nationality). Worst part? You still get to pay tax for church (around 1-1.3%), regardless of your membership status.
Yeah, but you can always go extreme the other way round. For example Dragon Age was simply too hard for me. Perhaps I'm not cut for this kind of games, not sure... but I always had to be extra careful, always had to push to my limits and often... just load game after death. I played it until I came to place where I had to load like 10 times and still no dice. Game had pretty good story and gameplay, but was just too hard for me and I gave up. Lowering difficulty would probably just make it too easy.
I don't know how easy was FF7 on PS, but perhaps for most folks it was fit right. You know, they tend to be more casual.
Yeah, I just bought TF2 (waited for special off) and I'm not bothered by it. Some people would rather spend their time grinding in game, while others prefer to spend their time grinding IRL and just convert some of those drops to the ones in game. Its fair enough for me, especially that the only advantage buying gives is that it requires less grinding IRL than it would in game. I see complaining here just by kids who are too lazy to grind in either way.
Not really. This way you could say, that it was the one who made this kitchen knife - used to stab someone - is to blame for it.
Well, if you read changelog to latest Opera snapshot (10.70) there doesn't seem to be anything about performance improvements. And they did use Chrome 6 beta, so its not exactly that they use only stable competition.
Its not like only MS and Mozilla as browser vendor released their own benchmark in with their product is doing good.
Besides, whats so bad about it? Ain't it obvious they are gonna include in their benchmarks stuff that they feel is important and as a consequence - made it good during browser development?
It just shows that other browsers than FF lack in some areas, with might - or might not - be important.
Yeah, I thought so as well. I have found this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VWnQHS-ffs
Seems like some tutorial for the game, and it indeed looks similar to that roller-coaster demo.
As for the sales... well - it works on Macs!
Well, a lot of people use copyrighted stuff internally at their home, but still - they get sued. I wonder why? This indeed needs some serious work.
By this logic SCO was also right to sue IBM or whoever. Those bastards splintered SCO's "property" after all!
Is it only in USA? I didn't R whole TFA but I think it mentions just them.
For example here in Poland, if someone would do that he would be most likely getting trouble from our own kind of FCC, just that ours has huge steel balls thats used to slapstick ISP no matter they size or whatever. Everyone kinda fears them. It could be fine if for some time speed drops by say 30-50%, but if it does that regularly (like in peek time) it might mean trouble for ISP. It will definitely be trouble if some1 with "up to 2Mbit" is getting average 1Mbit all the time.
Its considered more like "today there is transmission of some super important event and a lot of people will stream it and saturate our lines, so speed might drop for like 1-2 hours, but we explicitly said we can't guarantee speed all the time" safety.
I have had 2Mbit connection for 4 years and it NEVER dropped below 2Mbit for reason other than my destination. Its a standard consumer one with usual "up to" clause. I also work for a local ISP and I know they try their best to provide max speed for every customer, while business just gets higher priority in fixing stuff.
Wasn't rsync atomic operation, while - for example - cp wasn't? I can't find source to confirm this and all I have is this http://pl.php.net/manual/en/apc.configuration.php#ini.apc.file-update-protection entry in PHP manual, so...
There are thousands of alternatives. For example some1 wants to make phone calls, then pretty much every phone is good enough, including iPhone with could be considered viable option if not for its cheaper alternatives in voice calls. If he wants advanced contact management, then there is just a few competing in this field. If he wants good web browser, e-mail and instant messenger client then there will be a few as well. Some or all of those might cover iPhone, so people might go for it. But they certainly have alternatives. I for one decided to go with Android G1, as it had hardware QWERTY with was a big plus for me, but iPhone and WebOS were viable alternatives (and vice versa).
If someone wants all what iPhone has, ie he wants iPhone, not its features - then whats the point of looking for alternative? If its just the features, then I would say there is plenty of alternatives for individuals.
Pointless search is pointless.
Title of summary is wrong, its not about web development.
What is the purpose of this? Don't we want to go away from Java in web? It was slow back in the days, now its just yet another security risk that can compromise ALL browsers at once if Oracle/Sun screws up. And now some spin-off or whatever? No thanks.
What we really need is some kind of consistency between output of HTML/JS engines, as well as CSS, so that GUI "just works". There is nothing wrong with those languages/markups, just with the implementation. While I'm all for competition and browsers trying to be better at something from others, it seems to me that in this area they just should cooperate more. It was IE6 back in the days, now its all over the place with vendor-specific extensions, that instead of going first thru W3C, they just are added to the browser with -moz/-webkit/-whatever thats supposed to make it okay to do this? Or perhaps they want to take approach "Hey, we implemented X and its popular, can we force this into W3C now?", with I hope won't work very well for them.
They might have sold those, but not necessary to the end user. iPads were available in - for example - Poland pretty much since release day. Some people just went to USA or had someone there that shipped it to them, and just re-sell it here. There ain't that much demand on those here, so not much supply either, but I imagine that in places like Germany or UK re-selling is at its finest. They delayed international sale, but it was going well since day 0, and then they claim that sales in USA are so much better than in EU or elsewhere. I call bull.
Yeah, that is true But only if your product is good. If its bad and pirated it still might get forum/blog attention, but not the kind you would want.
Anyway, I turned from #1 to #4 now that I have a job, but sometimes I don't do #4, instead watch youtube vids, read forums and just buy it if its good enough for me. Still I was burned a few times even with such precautions, as an good example would be Bioshock 2 with its Live! requirement, that is supported only in a few selected countries... not in mine. "Demo" obviously worked fine, so I didn't notice, cause if I try those I often don't go for YT/forums since I had first hand experience and it looked good, but its a god damn trap :
Thats weird. Here in Poland you can ask company/whoever to delete your personal data and they have to comply. And I mean DELETE, not stop displaying. It means no backup, not on paper, not anywhere.
If you don't comply with such request, you will be forced to stop using ALL your personal data storage, in with case if Facebook had (they do?) some data center in Poland, they couldn't use it anymore, at least not for personal data.
Seems like a common sense for me, keeping snapshots of personal data even tho that person doesn't want you to? What the shit?
In Polish version of Bad Company EA hired good actors, that did excellent job. Its one of those rare things that EA actually have well done.
I guess it all depends on how important voice acting is for the game, and how much budged you spend on it. I guess there wasn't all that much voice acting in BFBC2 comparing it to some RPG game, but its obvious that this had some effect - I installed EN version and got English voices, but my friend keeps nagging me to switch to PL and check out its awesomeness! I only saw samples during production, but can agree on this.