Strange that Escapist is being singled out when the same policy can be found in several other forums. http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/faq.php?faq=rules [incgamers.com] is one: You use DIII.Net and its affiliates in the full knowledge that advertising in the form of banner adverts, interstitials and embedded adverts appear on all pages. You agree to not interfere with the display of these adverts through banner blocking software or browser features.
Two things in the current story is that there were no guidelines in this regards and that the members were banned without warning. If the moderators had simply responded in a better fashion, I don't think there would be a story here. By better fashion, I mean they could have replied with a simple answer regarding the site's view on ad-blockers and two provided some constructive feedback to the original poster.
Myself I don't ad-block, but I do Flash-block. I don't intentionally block adverts, it just they find themselves as collateral damage in my defending against crippling Flash content.
geonames is quite a mess licence/copyright-wise - people are adding data there from basically anything, so some if it might be just lifted from any of the online maps, which would be a copyright violation in some countries.
Openstreetmap already contains plenty of points of interest and businesses (not sure about homes yet), its editable by anyone. Lets use it as a framework for adding to this data.
There are other projects such as Geonames and Gisgraphy. Between the three of them you have a good starting point.
The other problem with sexting, is that it is somehow a sex crime to send a photo of yourself to someone who may already have seen you naked. To get labelled a sex offender is rediculous. It almost as bad attempted suicide being warrant for being charged with attempted murder!? Is there no sense of perpective or context in the justice system?
The problem with I have are some of the rediculous sentences that are given to people caught sexting. The punishments are often life damaging, since they tend to be exessive, especially at an age when the kids depend so much on their education. Sexting is usually done by teenagers socialising with each other. Their notion of social interaction may be different from their parents and the first punishment, if any should be a warning and not jail time. The problem we have is not sexting teens, but adults who are so bent on destroying lives to make a point. If anyone these are the people who should be jailed for damaging actions in society and for supporting the jail system, instead of the education system.
I don't know, but when I discovered that the iPad can't print, even to a printer plugged right in to their "AirPort" hub, which supports printer sharing, I decided to pass on getting any of the iWork apps.
Thanks, though in my mind the drop was from a certain point down to zero in one shot. A bell curve decreases in the same way it increases. If there is a name for that type of 'curve', then I don't know it.
There is one thing worse than a bad password, and that is one that needs to be written down on a post-it note.
I see password security as an exponential curve, on a graph, reaching a certain peak and then dropping to zero. That dropping point is where the password rules become so complicated that most people would rather write the password down than try to remember it. That piece of paper suddenly became your weak point in the security model. For this reason you password policies need to focus on something that is sufficiently secure, but not so secure that it is in effect insecure.
Microsoft didn't succeed with tablet PC's because of the ergonomics of using a tablet PC.
While, in terms of ergonomics, the hardware may be a factor, so is the software. If you don't make the GUI part of the ergonomic solution then you will be doomed to failure. Anyhow we will see in two years what the market decided on.
Apple revives a ten year old niche that no one really liked for reasons that are still entirely relevant, and now it is speculated that Google will compete with a Google-style "open" alternative. It was interesting when their battle was over smartphones, but when it is over shoveling out pointless generic consumer electronics, it is not.
Just because a 'niche' is old, it doesn't mean it is pointless. Sometimes old technology can be reshaped and innovated upon, providing a solution that finds a market today when it didn't in the past. There are reasons that technologies fail, including lack of maturity, market not being ready or lack of supporting technologies. The Wii Remote was laughed at for being a modern light pointer, now Microsoft and Sony are doing their best to emulate it. You can't simply right off technology as being old and thus irrelevant.
Microsoft didn't succeed with tablet PCs, partly because like Windows CE, they were trying to shoe-horn a desktop UI into something that would benefit from an adapted UI. To use the automobile analogy: you don't design a car by starting with boat that uses an outboard motor. Computers are the same.
I am already using a "Mac mini" for my HTPC solution and it is pretty much silent. While I don't claim this to be the yard stick to measure by, I would be interested in seeing how quiet this computer is in comparison and how other HTPC oriented solutions compare, especially ones with non-netbook processors. I did look at buying the Shuttle X27D a while back, but it ended up being about the same price as the mini for the same, or reduced, features. I also looked at putting my own together with a mini-itx motherboard and a case designed for fanless computing, but I often found the cases were out of my budget.
Next we will see support for "copied and pasted" text, where the main content of one site is the same as another. I can imagine now in my results "likelihood of matching text as previous result: x%". This should help work out which pages are simply copied and pasted blogs, news or press releases.
...if a driver is using a hands-free phone? Watch for lip motion?
Hey I take offence there. Now as a person with a split personality, I feel this is going to discriminate against me while I speak to my other personality.;)
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You are thinking of Ubisoft, who pulled this stunt last time.
So now I am going to look stupid telling people to RTFM. I don't know, but RTFCH (read the F. contextual help) just doesn't feel as catchy.
Or in the case of certain ISPs (Bell Sympatico), the cap will be hit even faster, since they lower the cap every time they up the speed offering!?
Strange that Escapist is being singled out when the same policy can be found in several other forums. http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/faq.php?faq=rules [incgamers.com] is one: You use DIII.Net and its affiliates in the full knowledge that advertising in the form of banner adverts, interstitials and embedded adverts appear on all pages. You agree to not interfere with the display of these adverts through banner blocking software or browser features.
Two things in the current story is that there were no guidelines in this regards and that the members were banned without warning. If the moderators had simply responded in a better fashion, I don't think there would be a story here. By better fashion, I mean they could have replied with a simple answer regarding the site's view on ad-blockers and two provided some constructive feedback to the original poster.
Myself I don't ad-block, but I do Flash-block. I don't intentionally block adverts, it just they find themselves as collateral damage in my defending against crippling Flash content.
geonames is quite a mess licence/copyright-wise - people are adding data there from basically anything, so some if it might be just lifted from any of the online maps, which would be a copyright violation in some countries.
Is a location copyrightable?
Openstreetmap already contains plenty of points of interest and businesses (not sure about homes yet), its editable by anyone. Lets use it as a framework for adding to this data.
There are other projects such as Geonames and Gisgraphy. Between the three of them you have a good starting point.
The other problem with sexting, is that it is somehow a sex crime to send a photo of yourself to someone who may already have seen you naked. To get labelled a sex offender is rediculous. It almost as bad attempted suicide being warrant for being charged with attempted murder!? Is there no sense of perpective or context in the justice system?
The problem with I have are some of the rediculous sentences that are given to people caught sexting. The punishments are often life damaging, since they tend to be exessive, especially at an age when the kids depend so much on their education. Sexting is usually done by teenagers socialising with each other. Their notion of social interaction may be different from their parents and the first punishment, if any should be a warning and not jail time. The problem we have is not sexting teens, but adults who are so bent on destroying lives to make a point. If anyone these are the people who should be jailed for damaging actions in society and for supporting the jail system, instead of the education system.
sense when did IBM care so much about Linux?
The way I see it, the core businesses for IBM are hardware and services. Anything that helps feed the two is a good investment for IBM.
I don't know, but when I discovered that the iPad can't print, even to a printer plugged right in to their "AirPort" hub, which supports printer sharing, I decided to pass on getting any of the iWork apps.
Just use a photocopier ;)
No that would be called a zero sum game, nothing lost for trying.
Except for Nintendo, where is would a very positive sum game.
I'm sure that Apple, MS and various others will get on board.
And now for what the iPad can do... ;)
Do you know whether this server can be avoided with the current version?
That makes no sense because they are pushing HTML5 which allows the same thing
And Apple advertises web applications for the iPhone: http://www.apple.com/webapps/
Thanks, though in my mind the drop was from a certain point down to zero in one shot. A bell curve decreases in the same way it increases. If there is a name for that type of 'curve', then I don't know it.
There is one thing worse than a bad password, and that is one that needs to be written down on a post-it note.
I see password security as an exponential curve, on a graph, reaching a certain peak and then dropping to zero. That dropping point is where the password rules become so complicated that most people would rather write the password down than try to remember it. That piece of paper suddenly became your weak point in the security model. For this reason you password policies need to focus on something that is sufficiently secure, but not so secure that it is in effect insecure.
Microsoft didn't succeed with tablet PC's because of the ergonomics of using a tablet PC.
While, in terms of ergonomics, the hardware may be a factor, so is the software. If you don't make the GUI part of the ergonomic solution then you will be doomed to failure. Anyhow we will see in two years what the market decided on.
I read the same. Looks like the article went through the /. logic filter ;)
There is also the obligatory Facebook group (Act On ACTA): http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16582417478&v=info
Apple revives a ten year old niche that no one really liked for reasons that are still entirely relevant, and now it is speculated that Google will compete with a Google-style "open" alternative. It was interesting when their battle was over smartphones, but when it is over shoveling out pointless generic consumer electronics, it is not.
Just because a 'niche' is old, it doesn't mean it is pointless. Sometimes old technology can be reshaped and innovated upon, providing a solution that finds a market today when it didn't in the past. There are reasons that technologies fail, including lack of maturity, market not being ready or lack of supporting technologies. The Wii Remote was laughed at for being a modern light pointer, now Microsoft and Sony are doing their best to emulate it. You can't simply right off technology as being old and thus irrelevant.
Microsoft didn't succeed with tablet PCs, partly because like Windows CE, they were trying to shoe-horn a desktop UI into something that would benefit from an adapted UI. To use the automobile analogy: you don't design a car by starting with boat that uses an outboard motor. Computers are the same.
Next step: Apple bans HTML Canvas except for animations approved personally by Steve Jobs.
Why leave it there: Steve bans Javascript and HTML from Adobe, except for those personally approved by Steve Jobs ;)
I am already using a "Mac mini" for my HTPC solution and it is pretty much silent. While I don't claim this to be the yard stick to measure by, I would be interested in seeing how quiet this computer is in comparison and how other HTPC oriented solutions compare, especially ones with non-netbook processors. I did look at buying the Shuttle X27D a while back, but it ended up being about the same price as the mini for the same, or reduced, features. I also looked at putting my own together with a mini-itx motherboard and a case designed for fanless computing, but I often found the cases were out of my budget.
Next we will see support for "copied and pasted" text, where the main content of one site is the same as another. I can imagine now in my results "likelihood of matching text as previous result: x%". This should help work out which pages are simply copied and pasted blogs, news or press releases.
...if a driver is using a hands-free phone? Watch for lip motion?
Hey I take offence there. Now as a person with a split personality, I feel this is going to discriminate against me while I speak to my other personality. ;)
This is unlikely to be the last this will happen. What can be done to protect against this sort of issue?