Kudos to Intel for doing something right (even though it is also in their best interest).
I wish the U.S. government would specify exactly the same condition. Today, taxpayers fund research, but then resulting discoveries are locked behind patents and used to extract more money (sometimes, as with pharmaceuticals, at staggeringly hyperinflated prices) from the people who paid for them.
I updated to Firefox 5 (I think) on my Mac, and found scrolling to be annoyingly stuttery, even on apparently simple pages. After much searching on the web, I finally found the installer for Firefox 3, and upon downgrading, everything worked perfectly again. I've learned my lesson about trusting Mozilla to provide correct, working code in the latest versions.
If they do move to an era where Firefox automagically always updates to the latest version, I'll stop using it.
If Google cuts off one account and you have to create another to get back the functionality of your Android phone, what happens to the apps? Do you still have full access? Can you re-download them from the marketplace?
I would expect that you'd lose a lot if you had to change your Google identity to work your Android phone, but I don't have experience with them, so I honestly don't know
A few months ago, I tried uploading a Word document to Google Docs and shared it with some friends. Then I discovered that the import process had damaged the doc, so I deleted it.
I guess because my doc was shared and its removal took it away from my friends, my account was immediately suspended "for suspicious activity." I was locked out of my email and my blog disappeared. The only way back in was to "prove" I'm me by giving Google a telephone number (!), which a hacker (if there had really been one) could have done to take over my identity.
I like the sound of Google+, but I am afraid to try it because there is no telling what minor misstep may get a user locked out of everything at once.
Step 1: Apple patents the tech. Step 2: Others implement it, and have to pay Apple. Step 3: Apple DOES NOT implement it in their phones, giving them an advantage over other, now-crippled brands.
Ever since the death of Superman woke up an audience for DC, every couple of years they kill or maim someone iconic just for the publicity. Ho hum. Whatever the news, even if it's only a costume change, you know everything will be put back the "old way" in a year.
Marvel sacrificed their rich continuity by getting in on the "reboot" fad with the Ultimate line, and at DC, lots of epic stuff happens, but after you read for a couple years, you realize that none of it really matters to the DC universe's history.
I want canon, with changes that "stick" as it develops over time.
What is anti-competitive? This article indicates that Adobe wants to be handed the right to put its proprietary, lock-in web video platform on Apple's phone. They are both closed systems. Should FOX News be forced to run Logo Channel programs (or vice-versa) in the name of viewer "choice"? Or should cable companies be forced to carry every channel that exists, regardless of what they have revenue to pay for? If Adobe feels they need a phone to promote their crappy, proprietary, lock-in platform, they can develop their own damn phone. Just like Apple did to promote its technologies and media store.
If somebody puts a keylogger on your Windows box, they'll get what they need no matter how many passwords you are required to type. Adding another password to the stack adds zero security; it just makes it easier for the credit card company to claim you are truly responsible for the transaction. "It can't possibly be fraudulent--it was Verified by Visa(TM)!"
I try to avoid doing business with anyone who requires me to go through VbV. I know it's not there to protect me.
ShadowMan! The New Orleans / Voodoo theme is fantastic! I'd make ShadowMan more human-looking, like in the first game, and I'd make Deadside more visually interesting. And I would not make the challenges impossibly difficult or have a ridiculously hard control scheme, as in the awful ShadowMan 2. Basically, if the people who did HalfLife 2 were to do the same thing for ShadowMan, it would be frickin awesome!
I used to report certificate problems to my banks. Invariably the person in the data center would ask, "What browser are you using?" And when I told them Firefox or Safari, they would say, "well, you need to switch to Internet Explorer." They do not care about IE's lack of security. I click right thru bank security certificate warnings now, because I know it is pointless to report when certificates go out of date or have other problems.
...we oughtta try it in other areas where copyright holders have overstepped their bounds.
For instance, I'm thinking about BNETD. People who own Blizzard games should think about suing Blizzard/Vivendi, to get a court to establish that Blizzard don't own exclusive copyright on game status information.
Think about it: The game status develops through interaction with the player, so the player should have at least a partial copyright interest in the game status (not the game itself, of course--I'm not arguing for piracy here). Although the player shouldn't be able to sell a recorded performance, he should be able to do any other damn thing with it he pleases--including exchanging it in realtime with other players over any server he wants, whether Blizzard likes it or not.
You have no idea how relevant this is to me. I'm in the process of setting up a new home computer system and I need to buy anti-virus software. I have to thank Eric Chien for warning me that Symantec would happily accept my money WITHOUT really working to secure my system on my behalf. Not that I have anything to hide...except my passwords and credit card numbers.
Now, my problem is finding someone else to buy AV software from.
DIAMOND AGE was terrific. Also check out ARISTOI by Walter Jon Williams (hope I spelled everything correctly).
In ARISTOI, the great, forbidden danger was "mataglap nano", which apparently served to break everything down into component molecules for later use as raw material. An inattentive nano designer who didn't put adequate controls on the bugs' self-replication capacity could accidentally create mataglap, so therefore all new nano designs were to be reviewed closely by computer programs and more-experienced superiors.
They don't mind letting other servers become part of their network--but they do want to make sure we all use *their* crappy AIM client, so that we view the ads they want us to see in those little ad windows you can't get rid of.
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Kudos to Intel for doing something right (even though it is also in their best interest).
I wish the U.S. government would specify exactly the same condition. Today, taxpayers fund research, but then resulting discoveries are locked behind patents and used to extract more money (sometimes, as with pharmaceuticals, at staggeringly hyperinflated prices) from the people who paid for them.
I updated to Firefox 5 (I think) on my Mac, and found scrolling to be annoyingly stuttery, even on apparently simple pages. After much searching on the web, I finally found the installer for Firefox 3, and upon downgrading, everything worked perfectly again. I've learned my lesson about trusting Mozilla to provide correct, working code in the latest versions.
If they do move to an era where Firefox automagically always updates to the latest version, I'll stop using it.
Instead of calling it "Google execution," how about simply "excommunication"?
Not arguing with you, but I'm just curious.
If Google cuts off one account and you have to create another to get back the functionality of your Android phone, what happens to the apps? Do you still have full access? Can you re-download them from the marketplace?
I would expect that you'd lose a lot if you had to change your Google identity to work your Android phone, but I don't have experience with them, so I honestly don't know
A few months ago, I tried uploading a Word document to Google Docs and shared it with some friends. Then I discovered that the import process had damaged the doc, so I deleted it.
I guess because my doc was shared and its removal took it away from my friends, my account was immediately suspended "for suspicious activity." I was locked out of my email and my blog disappeared. The only way back in was to "prove" I'm me by giving Google a telephone number (!), which a hacker (if there had really been one) could have done to take over my identity.
I like the sound of Google+, but I am afraid to try it because there is no telling what minor misstep may get a user locked out of everything at once.
Step 1: Apple patents the tech.
Step 2: Others implement it, and have to pay Apple.
Step 3: Apple DOES NOT implement it in their phones, giving them an advantage over other, now-crippled brands.
Ever since the death of Superman woke up an audience for DC, every couple of years they kill or maim someone iconic just for the publicity. Ho hum. Whatever the news, even if it's only a costume change, you know everything will be put back the "old way" in a year.
Marvel sacrificed their rich continuity by getting in on the "reboot" fad with the Ultimate line, and at DC, lots of epic stuff happens, but after you read for a couple years, you realize that none of it really matters to the DC universe's history.
I want canon, with changes that "stick" as it develops over time.
What is anti-competitive? This article indicates that Adobe wants to be handed the right to put its proprietary, lock-in web video platform on Apple's phone. They are both closed systems. Should FOX News be forced to run Logo Channel programs (or vice-versa) in the name of viewer "choice"? Or should cable companies be forced to carry every channel that exists, regardless of what they have revenue to pay for? If Adobe feels they need a phone to promote their crappy, proprietary, lock-in platform, they can develop their own damn phone. Just like Apple did to promote its technologies and media store.
Yeah, the guy who wants to destroy legitimate, objective reporting thinks the iPad is a great way to save newspapers?!?
If somebody puts a keylogger on your Windows box, they'll get what they need no matter how many passwords you are required to type. Adding another password to the stack adds zero security; it just makes it easier for the credit card company to claim you are truly responsible for the transaction. "It can't possibly be fraudulent--it was Verified by Visa(TM)!"
I try to avoid doing business with anyone who requires me to go through VbV. I know it's not there to protect me.
Essentially, the judge is saying he won't allow a defense because the defendant would obviously win!
ShadowMan! The New Orleans / Voodoo theme is fantastic! I'd make ShadowMan more human-looking, like in the first game, and I'd make Deadside more visually interesting. And I would not make the challenges impossibly difficult or have a ridiculously hard control scheme, as in the awful ShadowMan 2. Basically, if the people who did HalfLife 2 were to do the same thing for ShadowMan, it would be frickin awesome!
I used to report certificate problems to my banks. Invariably the person in the data center would ask, "What browser are you using?" And when I told them Firefox or Safari, they would say, "well, you need to switch to Internet Explorer." They do not care about IE's lack of security. I click right thru bank security certificate warnings now, because I know it is pointless to report when certificates go out of date or have other problems.
Now that BugMeNot will block logins for web sites that request it, what good are they? Why mention them at all?
...we oughtta try it in other areas where copyright holders have overstepped their bounds.
For instance, I'm thinking about BNETD. People who own Blizzard games should think about suing Blizzard/Vivendi, to get a court to establish that Blizzard don't own exclusive copyright on game status information.
Think about it: The game status develops through interaction with the player, so the player should have at least a partial copyright interest in the game status (not the game itself, of course--I'm not arguing for piracy here). Although the player shouldn't be able to sell a recorded performance, he should be able to do any other damn thing with it he pleases--including exchanging it in realtime with other players over any server he wants, whether Blizzard likes it or not.
You have no idea how relevant this is to me. I'm in the process of setting up a new home computer system and I need to buy anti-virus software. I have to thank Eric Chien for warning me that Symantec would happily accept my money WITHOUT really working to secure my system on my behalf. Not that I have anything to hide...except my passwords and credit card numbers.
Now, my problem is finding someone else to buy AV software from.
DIAMOND AGE was terrific. Also check out ARISTOI by Walter Jon Williams (hope I spelled everything correctly).
In ARISTOI, the great, forbidden danger was "mataglap nano", which apparently served to break everything down into component molecules for later use as raw material. An inattentive nano designer who didn't put adequate controls on the bugs' self-replication capacity could accidentally create mataglap, so therefore all new nano designs were to be reviewed closely by computer programs and more-experienced superiors.
They don't mind letting other servers become part of their network--but they do want to make sure we all use *their* crappy AIM client, so that we view the ads they want us to see in those little ad windows you can't get rid of.