So it wasn't a joke... Do you have any evidence for this "morning breathalizer giving false positives" theory you have, because the link you keep posting doesn't support that at all? I really don't get how your breath could hold lots of alcohol if your blood doesn't -- I understand the possibility right after having a drink but after several hours?
Uh, yeah. Do you really have to ask that or is there a joke I don't get? Time of day or a few hours of sleep have nothing to do with your ability to drive...
Not to mention that if you look at e.g. the kernel (and various other projects), companies like Intel and Nokia.are in the top contributors list... Let's see Oracle buy them.
Toyota sells about the same amount of cars in Europe as it does in the US so the last statement doesn't hold up. The model distribution is quite different of course.
I'm going to swallow my words half way: The CR report actually says that duct tape seems to help...
Still, the point remains: antenna design is complex and minor changes in the phone body can have effects in unforeseen places -- say the software might start using more power because some signal measure now drops below a treshold, thus shortening the battery life.
It's a slightly complicated attack but has a real chance of working: Setup a web page that uses browser geolocation features (and saves the locations somewhere), send the url as email to the thief with a good enough story, hope the thief uses a new Firefox and bingo: you have the coordinates from Google Geolocation service. This may be just IP based location but it could be wifi location as well -- it should be easy enough to test which it is.
I'm going to assume you have not worked in actual antenna design... I'm also not going to start arguing about the details (as I haven't even seen an iphone 4 yet, let alone its internals and as my experience in antenna design is second hand as well) but I'm pretty sure the field in general is quite a bit more complex than you think it is.
You are assuming that customer satisfaction in general would increase with that move. I highly doubt it: the case would just remind people every day that they have a faulty product...
I full understand the value of games as learning aids: I'm only in this discussion because I played Ultima VI at the time when I was only just capable of understanding it. It was a major boost to my english skills (as were the Sierra releases you mentioned). This isn't related to the decision game developers make however: They were not interested in what are the best ways to improve language skills and they weren't interested in it at the time.
Also, the higher skill requirement for written input was not some hypothetical scenario: it was something I personally struggled with. I remember much preferring the multiple choice solution in Black Gate when I got my hands on it a year later.
When you do switch, pick an email address based on stability and longevity, don't just take what the next email host offers you. People often fail to recognise that these to are separable things.
As an example, lots of people in Finland use iki.fi, a non-profit society that exists just to provide stable private email addresses for people living in Finland (they don't do hosting or anything it's just about the addresses). I assume this awesome invention has been made elsewhere as well... I purchased my own domain for the same purpose: At the moment I use gmail (as the standard version of Google Apps is free) but the important thing is that I know I can change providers whenever I want with no fuss.
I bet that was dropped because of the i18n problems: First, developing a parser that could handle several languages could be a huge job and the translations themselves would be lot more work -- this might not be evident if you only speak latin languages but this really isn't a trivial task. Second, while you can often sell the english version of a game to people who are not 100% fluent in english, the requirement to "form sentences" raises the bar considerably.
Referring to US statistics in a story about British application development is quite useless. Note that I'm not saying there are more Android phones in the UK or anything like that, I'm only saying the statistics you refer to are probably not useful because the American market is not representative of the rest of the world (it could be for UK, but I doubt it).
Look, it's not complicated at all: FAT is a really bad file system, there are many device categories (generic computers being just one) that would be better off using something better. So no, I don't "undoubtedly mean the 1% of Windows users who actually use [[ insert OSS filesystem here]". As I mentioned, I don't expect the users of these devices to know what a file system is.
As to your comment about ROI: I don't disagree, I even said "it's just not in their best interest", meaning that the status quo is the most profitable state for them.
Like I said, this is not hate against Microsoft. I just dislike the stagnation, this lack of progress. I think we are all to blame for letting Microsoft get to the position it did. If there had been more competition, this sort of events would never have happened.
Microsoft supporting a modern royalty free file system out of the box would make life easier for a _lot_ of people (even if most of those people have no idea that this is the case). Unfortunately Microsoft is not interested in being interoperable here, it's just not in their best interest.
Stating the above is not hate, rather a rational conclusion. On the other hand, talking about how third parties can implement file systems on Windows is a red herring if the subject is real interoperability.
as orkysoft says, this comment directly conflicts your earlier one. If you use the original "EGA" graphics files, even modified, it's a pretty clear copright violation.
You can't claim with a straight face that you didn't use the original files when your copy looks exactly like the original.
I'm willing to bet that doing what he did is extremely clearly illegal in every Scandinavian country. He used original artwork, apparently copied the game mechanics to a T and even used the same name.
The "port theory" falls flat when you think of a situation where apps are used as differentiators between platforms: What if iPhone had been hugely succesful because they included Lemmings with their OS -- would it have been ok for Palm to rip them off and do the same thing?
This isn't about "corporate America", it's about copyright and trademark law as it is applied pretty much everywhere in the world. Could you (or the people who think you are Insightful) please explain how this could be legal in Scandinavia?
The TOS definitely talks about these features totally separately: the Opt-out service is described like this "If you do not want to receive ads with this level of relevance on your mobile device, you can opt out...". It doesn't say you won't be tracked...
Your browser implements the geolocation api. It could be doing various things to do that: e.g. it might send your router (AP) MAC address to a google server that sends back a location that google has harvested with their street view cars...
Remember, Apple is no longer the underdog struggling against their evil corporate counterparts. They're now an evil corporation and thus everything they do is to be reviled. That, of course, is despite the fact that they make excellent products that are popular which are also forcing other companies to adapt and evolve....
There isn't as much hypocrisy here as one might think: at least I can respect Apple for their UX design and how the marketing is an integral part of the product and cheer them for forcing people to think about interoperability (at least in the sense that people realise Microsoft isn't the only game ion town). Yet at the same time I hope they never ever make it to the same position that Microsoft has within the desktop computing space... That could easily be worse for computing diversity than Microsoft ever was.
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Nothing to do with java really. Oracle/Sun simply owns the "javascript" trademark.
So it wasn't a joke... Do you have any evidence for this "morning breathalizer giving false positives" theory you have, because the link you keep posting doesn't support that at all? I really don't get how your breath could hold lots of alcohol if your blood doesn't -- I understand the possibility right after having a drink but after several hours?
Uh, yeah. Do you really have to ask that or is there a joke I don't get? Time of day or a few hours of sleep have nothing to do with your ability to drive...
Not to mention that if you look at e.g. the kernel (and various other projects), companies like Intel and Nokia.are in the top contributors list... Let's see Oracle buy them.
Toyota sells about the same amount of cars in Europe as it does in the US so the last statement doesn't hold up. The model distribution is quite different of course.
I'm going to swallow my words half way: The CR report actually says that duct tape seems to help...
Still, the point remains: antenna design is complex and minor changes in the phone body can have effects in unforeseen places -- say the software might start using more power because some signal measure now drops below a treshold, thus shortening the battery life.
Someone mod this up.
It's a slightly complicated attack but has a real chance of working: Setup a web page that uses browser geolocation features (and saves the locations somewhere), send the url as email to the thief with a good enough story, hope the thief uses a new Firefox and bingo: you have the coordinates from Google Geolocation service. This may be just IP based location but it could be wifi location as well -- it should be easy enough to test which it is.
That's not relevant at all. You'd need to know the mac address of the thief’s access point to use wifi positioning.
Now, if CorporalKlinger has remote access on the machine, this would be a different story, but I think he would have mentioned that...
I'm going to assume you have not worked in actual antenna design... I'm also not going to start arguing about the details (as I haven't even seen an iphone 4 yet, let alone its internals and as my experience in antenna design is second hand as well) but I'm pretty sure the field in general is quite a bit more complex than you think it is.
You are assuming that customer satisfaction in general would increase with that move. I highly doubt it: the case would just remind people every day that they have a faulty product...
I full understand the value of games as learning aids: I'm only in this discussion because I played Ultima VI at the time when I was only just capable of understanding it. It was a major boost to my english skills (as were the Sierra releases you mentioned). This isn't related to the decision game developers make however: They were not interested in what are the best ways to improve language skills and they weren't interested in it at the time.
Also, the higher skill requirement for written input was not some hypothetical scenario: it was something I personally struggled with. I remember much preferring the multiple choice solution in Black Gate when I got my hands on it a year later.
When you do switch, pick an email address based on stability and longevity, don't just take what the next email host offers you. People often fail to recognise that these to are separable things.
As an example, lots of people in Finland use iki.fi, a non-profit society that exists just to provide stable private email addresses for people living in Finland (they don't do hosting or anything it's just about the addresses). I assume this awesome invention has been made elsewhere as well... I purchased my own domain for the same purpose: At the moment I use gmail (as the standard version of Google Apps is free) but the important thing is that I know I can change providers whenever I want with no fuss.
I bet that was dropped because of the i18n problems: First, developing a parser that could handle several languages could be a huge job and the translations themselves would be lot more work -- this might not be evident if you only speak latin languages but this really isn't a trivial task. Second, while you can often sell the english version of a game to people who are not 100% fluent in english, the requirement to "form sentences" raises the bar considerably.
Why on earth would this be a troll? The estimate seems to be in the right ball park.
That nitpicking is not relevant to the discussion at all. BBC is just reporting on the government spending.
Referring to US statistics in a story about British application development is quite useless. Note that I'm not saying there are more Android phones in the UK or anything like that, I'm only saying the statistics you refer to are probably not useful because the American market is not representative of the rest of the world (it could be for UK, but I doubt it).
Look, it's not complicated at all: FAT is a really bad file system, there are many device categories (generic computers being just one) that would be better off using something better. So no, I don't "undoubtedly mean the 1% of Windows users who actually use [[ insert OSS filesystem here]". As I mentioned, I don't expect the users of these devices to know what a file system is.
As to your comment about ROI: I don't disagree, I even said "it's just not in their best interest", meaning that the status quo is the most profitable state for them.
Like I said, this is not hate against Microsoft. I just dislike the stagnation, this lack of progress. I think we are all to blame for letting Microsoft get to the position it did. If there had been more competition, this sort of events would never have happened.
It's not hate.
Microsoft supporting a modern royalty free file system out of the box would make life easier for a _lot_ of people (even if most of those people have no idea that this is the case). Unfortunately Microsoft is not interested in being interoperable here, it's just not in their best interest.
Stating the above is not hate, rather a rational conclusion. On the other hand, talking about how third parties can implement file systems on Windows is a red herring if the subject is real interoperability.
as orkysoft says, this comment directly conflicts your earlier one. If you use the original "EGA" graphics files, even modified, it's a pretty clear copright violation.
You can't claim with a straight face that you didn't use the original files when your copy looks exactly like the original.
I'm willing to bet that doing what he did is extremely clearly illegal in every Scandinavian country. He used original artwork, apparently copied the game mechanics to a T and even used the same name.
The "port theory" falls flat when you think of a situation where apps are used as differentiators between platforms: What if iPhone had been hugely succesful because they included Lemmings with their OS -- would it have been ok for Palm to rip them off and do the same thing?
This isn't about "corporate America", it's about copyright and trademark law as it is applied pretty much everywhere in the world. Could you (or the people who think you are Insightful) please explain how this could be legal in Scandinavia?
This is not a hive mind. You received a single Troll moderation, deal with it and don't whine.
If I had to guess why you got it, I'd guess the use of loaded words like "blindly spew" instead of a more neutral term did it.
The TOS definitely talks about these features totally separately: the Opt-out service is described like this "If you do not want to receive ads with this level of relevance on your mobile device, you can opt out...". It doesn't say you won't be tracked...
Your browser implements the geolocation api. It could be doing various things to do that: e.g. it might send your router (AP) MAC address to a google server that sends back a location that google has harvested with their street view cars...
That's the opt-out page for targeted iAds. What does it have to do with this story?
There isn't as much hypocrisy here as one might think: at least I can respect Apple for their UX design and how the marketing is an integral part of the product and cheer them for forcing people to think about interoperability (at least in the sense that people realise Microsoft isn't the only game ion town). Yet at the same time I hope they never ever make it to the same position that Microsoft has within the desktop computing space... That could easily be worse for computing diversity than Microsoft ever was.