I'm quite sure it took longer time to create that product than 2-3 weeks. That was when Apple announced the change. Adobe didn't know anything about it either, since they just before released their new Flash suite that allowed you to cross-compile to iPhone. Those who bought Adobe's product for that reason must love it now, and theres nothing Adobe can do about it.
Just imagine the outcry if Microsoft banned all other development environments than Visual Studio and.NET from Windows. It would be hit with lawsuits and there would be tons of stories and tens of thousands of comments dissing MS on slashdot.
People also always cry about how consoles are locked down. Slashdotters cry about DRM, restrictions and not giving them control of the devices they buy.
But suddenly when it's Apple it's all ok. Why the hell?
"So, what do Slashdotters do to get a good night's rest?"
If you get a girlfriend she will put all those computer things away at night. You also get to have sex and cuddle and spoon her, making it really easy to fall a sleep. It's the easiest and simplest fix.
And besides, historical shooters kind of lose to modern ones now. I would love this for new modern warfare, but since new Medal of Honor that is based on modern times is coming out too, I don't think I will be buying this one. And I'm one that still plays MW2 multiplayer about 20 hours a week (sabotage)
Now first of all to the Wild Fox project maintainers, this is the right move. Fight to win the whole war, not one battle. Don't die as a martyr and lose it all just by demanding something to happen right now.
Additionally, it looks like Firefox is actually starting to lose support even from the Open Source front. Even Ubuntu is probably changing to Chronium and dropping Firefox. It kind of looks like Firefox lost the track of what they were doing a long time ago.
Apparently Ubuntu, the most popular Linux distribution, is considering dropping Firefox for Chrome.... it could be a sign that people are starting to feel less, um, “loyalty” to Firefox.
Not that I'm anymore happier Google's products taking over everything...
The company that can really utilize it is HTC. They have done wonders with Windows Mobile too. I always kept reading how much WM sucks, but then I learned that HTC did extreme modifications to it and made it good.
Google isn't a cellphone company. Just leave it to the guys with experience in it.
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I'm quite sure banks are really friendly to you if you have enough money.
If you can access it with a browser, you can script it too.
Unfortunately businesses always ask more for not-so-common and premium features. This is also quite close access to their internal systems and since it's probably 0.01% of customers who need such access, they have to ask more from those who actually need it. Banks have to develop, secure and maintain the system too and it costs.
FREE software shouldn't be like that. FREE sfotware is about giving back your changes to the community, to the centralized repository. Git is dangerous for free software.
Where is it defined that free software is about giving back your changes?
If you want truly free software, then you have to take the both worlds and accept that people aren't required to contribute back. Even less so if they just keep those modifications private and to themself, which even GPL allows. It isn't really any better than proprietary software if you also want to make restrictions and demands on how you can use free and/or open source software.
I think 1 TB disks are more realistic. Price/Size ratio is a lot better with 1 TB disks. On the other hand I'm sure he can fill more than three bays per machine, so I think he means >10 TB too.
There's a difference between using an open Wi-Fi hotspot and doing a man-in-the-middle attack to collect data about what sites other people using the hotspot are visiting.
Besides the fact that HTML5 isn't really finished yet nor implemented in the most used browsers (and not fully in others), they mentioned where HTML5 video fails too, like securing the content. Now slashdot crowd probably says this is a good thing, but theres not much to do if TV networks require it. Another case in point is determining how long to buffer and what bitrate to use (change dynamically). Does HTML5 video offer these options?
So Rockstar needed crackers help to release an old game in a digital download version? Maybe now it makes companies think that games without DRM are superior to DRM-laden versions, if even they need cracked versions to re-release the games whose developers are already gone.
On top of that they're using someones elses work and profiting from it.
It's a single point of failure for the "distributed" internet. Just imagine if this happens to ICANN. Yeah you can still access the IP addresses, but that doesn't really help casual people.
You're completely missing the point. It's distributed network and even you could host a node. You would own your own data.
So basically like WWW? Then it has even more problems. Normal people don't keep their computers on all the time, and if its distributed via other computers they have access to the private data or its slow like Freenet. A good goal, but people will not put up with it, or otherwise Slashdot would be hosted on freenet too.
John Carmack posts here. I think he might actually get a lot of slashdotters and other people to follow him, even if he only created a social network for developers or gamers.
And once they have grown, they will use the project to make money. Not only because they'd like it, but they would need to employ 1000+ employees, pay them every month and get the money for that. Actually this is exactly the same way how Facebook started.
They will make humble promises now so that they actually have even some change in creating their social network, but once it becomes large social network it will work just the same way like every other social network out there.
I think you missed the point. Even if it is aGPL, how do you convince everyone, your friends, sisters, parents, relatives and so on to use it? Social network isn't good if you can't use it for, well socializing. For that you need everyone else to use it too.
Unfortunately Facebook's power is in that everyone uses it, and that is what they use to get new users too. Alternative projects are a humble goal, but especially with social networks you are quite much locked in to a single existing network just because everyone else you know uses it, and they in turn use it because you use it too.
Interestingly creating a network like this means you have convince everyone to forget about Facebook and move to this platform. Even if it would become successful, once these four students have millions of people in their social network, they most likely will change it the same way that Facebook did. Remember that Facebook also was a hobby project made by students.
European Privacy Seal On July 14th 2008 Ixquick received the first European Privacy Seal from European Data Protection Supervisor Mr. Peter Hustinx. The Seal officially confirms the privacy promises we make to our users. It makes Ixquick the first and only EU-approved search engine. Both EU Commissioner Viviane Reding and Dr.Thilo Weichert, German Privacy Commissioner complemented Ixquick on its privacy achievements. You can find the press release here.
Since I am in EU, it also means US can't just randomly get data that doesn't belong to them, ie. for people from other countries. Frankly, EU and European countries take privacy a lot more seriously, for historical reasons too.
While I would love to see a good rant towards Google and while I also myself use Scroogle, the summary isn't really being truthful. Google hasn't blocked anything, they just changed the page that Scroogle scrapes and they're throwing a hissy fit about it.
From the Scroogle announcement:
We regret to announce that our Google scraper may have to be permanently retired, thanks to a change at Google.
That interface was at www.google.com/ie but on May 10, 2010 they took it down and inserted a redirect to/toolbar/ie8/sidebar.html. It used to have a search box, and the results it showed were generic during that entire time.
Now that interface is gone. It is not possible to continue Scroogle unless we have a simple interface that is stable. Google's main consumer-oriented interface that they want everyone to use is too complex, and changes too frequently, to make our scraping operation possible.
Google changing something isn't exactly "blocking" a third party service. Even more so, it's just a few lines of code to get the results from main Google search too. All the search results and links have approciate html ID's associated to them and it's been the same for years already.
I have no idea why Scroogle is bitching about this.
Oh well. I changed to use ixquick, which also has the added benefit of being located in the Germany rather than US and a lot better and useful interface.
And even less worldwide with mobile phone sales - where the original innovators like Nokia dominate and Apple is far away from dominating the market. It's good to see theres some sense in the US too.
I think this same thing will happen to iPad too. It will sell good at first, Jobs will make the claims that they cannot manufacture enough products for everyone to build up the hype, and then it will quickly fall down and die.
That is how quick marketing works. Microsoft wouldn't had built the Windows brand if they just went for quick sales without thinking long term. There's a reason why Windows is still 95% desktop share, while Mac OSX is only 4%
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I'm quite sure it took longer time to create that product than 2-3 weeks. That was when Apple announced the change. Adobe didn't know anything about it either, since they just before released their new Flash suite that allowed you to cross-compile to iPhone. Those who bought Adobe's product for that reason must love it now, and theres nothing Adobe can do about it.
Just imagine the outcry if Microsoft banned all other development environments than Visual Studio and .NET from Windows. It would be hit with lawsuits and there would be tons of stories and tens of thousands of comments dissing MS on slashdot.
People also always cry about how consoles are locked down. Slashdotters cry about DRM, restrictions and not giving them control of the devices they buy.
But suddenly when it's Apple it's all ok. Why the hell?
Did everyone suddenly skip over the line where it says it will be cancelled?
While it was returned 15 minutes later, Assange said he was told it would be cancelled.
"So, what do Slashdotters do to get a good night's rest?"
If you get a girlfriend she will put all those computer things away at night. You also get to have sex and cuddle and spoon her, making it really easy to fall a sleep. It's the easiest and simplest fix.
And besides, historical shooters kind of lose to modern ones now. I would love this for new modern warfare, but since new Medal of Honor that is based on modern times is coming out too, I don't think I will be buying this one. And I'm one that still plays MW2 multiplayer about 20 hours a week (sabotage)
Now first of all to the Wild Fox project maintainers, this is the right move. Fight to win the whole war, not one battle. Don't die as a martyr and lose it all just by demanding something to happen right now.
Additionally, it looks like Firefox is actually starting to lose support even from the Open Source front. Even Ubuntu is probably changing to Chronium and dropping Firefox. It kind of looks like Firefox lost the track of what they were doing a long time ago.
Apparently Ubuntu, the most popular Linux distribution, is considering dropping Firefox for Chrome. ...
it could be a sign that people are starting to feel less, um, “loyalty” to Firefox.
Not that I'm anymore happier Google's products taking over everything...
Well, it's from a person who said porn and sex is a bad thing. It's no wonder he had nothing more fun to do on a friday night.
The company that can really utilize it is HTC. They have done wonders with Windows Mobile too. I always kept reading how much WM sucks, but then I learned that HTC did extreme modifications to it and made it good.
Google isn't a cellphone company. Just leave it to the guys with experience in it.
I'm quite sure banks are really friendly to you if you have enough money.
If you can access it with a browser, you can script it too.
Unfortunately businesses always ask more for not-so-common and premium features. This is also quite close access to their internal systems and since it's probably 0.01% of customers who need such access, they have to ask more from those who actually need it. Banks have to develop, secure and maintain the system too and it costs.
FREE software shouldn't be like that. FREE sfotware is about giving back your changes to the community, to the centralized repository. Git is dangerous for free software.
Where is it defined that free software is about giving back your changes?
If you want truly free software, then you have to take the both worlds and accept that people aren't required to contribute back. Even less so if they just keep those modifications private and to themself, which even GPL allows. It isn't really any better than proprietary software if you also want to make restrictions and demands on how you can use free and/or open source software.
I think 1 TB disks are more realistic. Price/Size ratio is a lot better with 1 TB disks. On the other hand I'm sure he can fill more than three bays per machine, so I think he means >10 TB too.
There's a difference between using an open Wi-Fi hotspot and doing a man-in-the-middle attack to collect data about what sites other people using the hotspot are visiting.
Besides the fact that HTML5 isn't really finished yet nor implemented in the most used browsers (and not fully in others), they mentioned where HTML5 video fails too, like securing the content. Now slashdot crowd probably says this is a good thing, but theres not much to do if TV networks require it. Another case in point is determining how long to buffer and what bitrate to use (change dynamically). Does HTML5 video offer these options?
So Rockstar needed crackers help to release an old game in a digital download version? Maybe now it makes companies think that games without DRM are superior to DRM-laden versions, if even they need cracked versions to re-release the games whose developers are already gone.
On top of that they're using someones elses work and profiting from it.
Someone at kotaku's comments also noticed they're using cracked executables for the original Max Payne.
It's a single point of failure for the "distributed" internet. Just imagine if this happens to ICANN. Yeah you can still access the IP addresses, but that doesn't really help casual people.
You're completely missing the point. It's distributed network and even you could host a node.
You would own your own data.
So basically like WWW? Then it has even more problems. Normal people don't keep their computers on all the time, and if its distributed via other computers they have access to the private data or its slow like Freenet. A good goal, but people will not put up with it, or otherwise Slashdot would be hosted on freenet too.
John Carmack posts here. I think he might actually get a lot of slashdotters and other people to follow him, even if he only created a social network for developers or gamers.
And once they have grown, they will use the project to make money. Not only because they'd like it, but they would need to employ 1000+ employees, pay them every month and get the money for that. Actually this is exactly the same way how Facebook started.
They will make humble promises now so that they actually have even some change in creating their social network, but once it becomes large social network it will work just the same way like every other social network out there.
I think you missed the point. Even if it is aGPL, how do you convince everyone, your friends, sisters, parents, relatives and so on to use it? Social network isn't good if you can't use it for, well socializing. For that you need everyone else to use it too.
Unfortunately Facebook's power is in that everyone uses it, and that is what they use to get new users too. Alternative projects are a humble goal, but especially with social networks you are quite much locked in to a single existing network just because everyone else you know uses it, and they in turn use it because you use it too.
Interestingly creating a network like this means you have convince everyone to forget about Facebook and move to this platform. Even if it would become successful, once these four students have millions of people in their social network, they most likely will change it the same way that Facebook did. Remember that Facebook also was a hobby project made by students.
From the FAQ:
European Privacy Seal
On July 14th 2008 Ixquick received the first European Privacy Seal from European Data Protection Supervisor Mr. Peter Hustinx. The Seal officially confirms the privacy promises we make to our users. It makes Ixquick the first and only EU-approved search engine. Both EU Commissioner Viviane Reding and Dr.Thilo Weichert, German Privacy Commissioner complemented Ixquick on its privacy achievements.
You can find the press release here.
Since I am in EU, it also means US can't just randomly get data that doesn't belong to them, ie. for people from other countries. Frankly, EU and European countries take privacy a lot more seriously, for historical reasons too.
While I would love to see a good rant towards Google and while I also myself use Scroogle, the summary isn't really being truthful. Google hasn't blocked anything, they just changed the page that Scroogle scrapes and they're throwing a hissy fit about it.
From the Scroogle announcement:
We regret to announce that our Google scraper may have to be permanently retired, thanks to a change at Google.
That interface was at www.google.com/ie but on May 10, 2010 they took it down and inserted a redirect to /toolbar/ie8/sidebar.html. It used to have a search box, and the results it showed were generic during that entire time.
Now that interface is gone. It is not possible to continue Scroogle unless we have a simple interface that is stable. Google's main consumer-oriented interface that they want everyone to use is too complex, and changes too frequently, to make our scraping operation possible.
Google changing something isn't exactly "blocking" a third party service. Even more so, it's just a few lines of code to get the results from main Google search too. All the search results and links have approciate html ID's associated to them and it's been the same for years already.
I have no idea why Scroogle is bitching about this.
Oh well. I changed to use ixquick, which also has the added benefit of being located in the Germany rather than US and a lot better and useful interface.
-sopssa
How much does proprietary software/hardware make? It's hard to examine, but it's probably more than $50 millions.
Apple now sits in third place with 21 percent.
And even less worldwide with mobile phone sales - where the original innovators like Nokia dominate and Apple is far away from dominating the market. It's good to see theres some sense in the US too.
I think this same thing will happen to iPad too. It will sell good at first, Jobs will make the claims that they cannot manufacture enough products for everyone to build up the hype, and then it will quickly fall down and die.
That is how quick marketing works. Microsoft wouldn't had built the Windows brand if they just went for quick sales without thinking long term. There's a reason why Windows is still 95% desktop share, while Mac OSX is only 4%