1. Wha? There's no upgrade program you have to run? You just call a partition "ext4", and it'll be treated as such? Doesn't ext4 have different info stored in directories? The limits are certainly different.
2. What about that problem with config files going missing that was a big topic of discussion on Slashdot a year or so ago?
I.e., where the filesystem deletes a file before it writes the new version of it?
It seems like Google's taken it upon itself to wage war against Apple, M$, Facebook et alia on a lot of fronts.
As a little guy, I appreciate what Google's doing because it reduces the would-be monopoly power of the others. Google's thinking, insofar as I can ascertain, is: A closed monopolized tech environment will make it difficult for Google's open Internet approach of serving up free stuff and putting ads on it. Which is great.
But the question is: Can they succeed in holding the line on all these fronts?
Consider: * A huge% of people want to buy the iPhone5 sight unseen * No Android tablets are a match for * No one seems to be able to come up with hardware better than last year's iPhone * The Nortel patents were lost to an Apple-funded cartel, and they may be used to beat up on Android makers * Facebook competes for being the #1 website, and wins in the amount of time people spend on it * Nokia was lost to the dark $ide. * The anti-WebM patents cartel, announced yesterday. * Apple has scary amounts of money, only a little bit less than Ben Bernanke
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Don't people watch TV to escape reality?
As in entertainment?
So what's with increasing resolution even beyond 1080p?
Funnily enough, it's said in some movies, they actually digitally blurred an actresses forehead.
Oopsies, it's been a while since I've had to deal with that. Just for the record, Windows XP came with my HP, and I'm now using Ubuntu.
Anyway, I still do think the more that games have moved from something a programmer would come up with to something a scriptwriter and other assorted creatives would come up with has something to do with the increasing affinity of game developers for MAFIAA thinking.
While most software development companies (Microsoft as the biggest example) had long ago given up copy-protection for software, game development companies seemed to be a strange exception to the rule.
But it's no anomaly: As games have drifted more toward the category of movies and away from the category of software, it's only natural that they've begun to see things the MAFIAA way.
It's like this: would your trust driving a car on software you wrote yourself?
Yeah, ok, so the guys who write embedded are a different breed of programmer, never make mistakes, etc.
The problem is, we're losing all concept of fail-safe.
And with the new push for touch-screen games on windows (!), and in-dash either entertainment or navigation plus the inevitable iPhone and Android integration, we're setting ourselves up for car viruses. The funny this, most people will just shrug and say you should've updated your automobile anti-virus.
>The advantage isn't so much in being able to start the car, but to unlock the doors without even having to touch your key
Yeah, the thing that keeps popping into my head is car jackings:
A guy's waiting somewhere in the 5-acre Walmart parking lot. When you get near your car, he opens the door and hustles you inside, too. He can open the door because the car so helpfully just unlocked everything when you walked by.
Scenario #2: You've got your laptop (or something else) on the passenger seat. You so much as walk near your car, and the guy opens the door and grabs your stuff and runs.
If you want lambdas and such, why wouldn't you just use LISP or Scheme instead of trying to hack it into a C-syntax family language.
Not only that, but tacking lambdas on to Java is going to be some crazy reuse of syntax instead of having a well-designed syntax for it.
So then, you're neither here nor there. Neither do you have a powerful, but possibly tricky language, nor do you have a dead simple language for programming corporate CRUD apps.
1. Anybody still using the same username at multiple websites?
2. Anybody work at a place that has been affected? Citibank, whatever? Or their webdev firm? Are there wholesale firings? Of development, IT, or the business side?
3. Anybody work at a company that actually has some kind of decent security and cares about protecting customer data?
Plimus (http://plimus.com) is an alternative for vendors that I've had generally good experience with over the years.
Unlike 2checkout, there's no setup fee (so you pay nothing to open or maintain an account).
Also 2co requires a different $49 account for every different domain you sell from. Unlike them, and also unlike PayPal, you can open as many Plimus accounts as you need.
Your customers can pay with credit card, bank transfer, check, PayPal, even purchase order. They pay you via check, PayPal, or bank transfer.
Finally, they also offer subscription management, file hosting and delivery, software license management, localization of currency, subdomains (you.plimus.com) and customization of templates.
Cons: I believe they are oriented towards services and digital goods, as opposed to hard goods.
AlertPay is your basic PayPal-style alternative. Covers most countries. Transfer to your bank account, etc. I'm hoping they get a little bigger just to prevent PayPal from becoming a monopoly.
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1. Wha? There's no upgrade program you have to run? You just call a partition "ext4", and it'll be treated as such? Doesn't ext4 have different info stored in directories? The limits are certainly different.
2. What about that problem with config files going missing that was a big topic of discussion on Slashdot a year or so ago?
I.e., where the filesystem deletes a file before it writes the new version of it?
Doesn't the military use metric (klicks = km), along with every other industry that needs a sane measurement system?
On the one hand you have the possible utopia of unlimited "free" stuff.
And on the other, the distopia of companies locking this technology up, and firing (almost all) the workers.
It would be great to believe the former. But a whole lot of people seem to be afraid of the latter.
Is there any unwavering indicator one way or the other?
Woah, is that right? Now that's a scam. Talk about a business model. And people say Yelp is an extortionist.
$700 x 8 = $56000 ?
Maybe there's something wrong with my calculator, but I'm getting $5600 (fifty-six hundred), a little bit less than either $120K or $56K.
It seems like Google's taken it upon itself to wage war against Apple, M$, Facebook et alia on a lot of fronts.
As a little guy, I appreciate what Google's doing because it reduces the would-be monopoly power of the others. Google's thinking, insofar as I can ascertain, is: A closed monopolized tech environment will make it difficult for Google's open Internet approach of serving up free stuff and putting ads on it. Which is great.
But the question is: Can they succeed in holding the line on all these fronts?
Consider:
* A huge% of people want to buy the iPhone5 sight unseen
* No Android tablets are a match for
* No one seems to be able to come up with hardware better than last year's iPhone
* The Nortel patents were lost to an Apple-funded cartel, and they may be used to beat up on Android makers
* Facebook competes for being the #1 website, and wins in the amount of time people spend on it
* Nokia was lost to the dark $ide.
* The anti-WebM patents cartel, announced yesterday.
* Apple has scary amounts of money, only a little bit less than Ben Bernanke
Don't people watch TV to escape reality?
As in entertainment?
So what's with increasing resolution even beyond 1080p?
Funnily enough, it's said in some movies, they actually digitally blurred an actresses forehead.
Oopsies, it's been a while since I've had to deal with that. Just for the record, Windows XP came with my HP, and I'm now using Ubuntu.
Anyway, I still do think the more that games have moved from something a programmer would come up with to something a scriptwriter and other assorted creatives would come up with has something to do with the increasing affinity of game developers for MAFIAA thinking.
Is there a harakiri tradition in China?
While most software development companies (Microsoft as the biggest example) had long ago given up copy-protection for software, game development companies seemed to be a strange exception to the rule.
But it's no anomaly: As games have drifted more toward the category of movies and away from the category of software, it's only natural that they've begun to see things the MAFIAA way.
Where's Rand Paul when you need him?
It's like this: would your trust driving a car on software you wrote yourself?
Yeah, ok, so the guys who write embedded are a different breed of programmer, never make mistakes, etc.
The problem is, we're losing all concept of fail-safe.
And with the new push for touch-screen games on windows (!), and in-dash either entertainment or navigation plus the inevitable iPhone and Android integration, we're setting ourselves up for car viruses. The funny this, most people will just shrug and say you should've updated your automobile anti-virus.
>The advantage isn't so much in being able to start the car, but to unlock the doors without even having to touch your key
Yeah, the thing that keeps popping into my head is car jackings:
A guy's waiting somewhere in the 5-acre Walmart parking lot. When you get near your car, he opens the door and hustles you inside, too. He can open the door because the car so helpfully just unlocked everything when you walked by.
Scenario #2: You've got your laptop (or something else) on the passenger seat. You so much as walk near your car, and the guy opens the door and grabs your stuff and runs.
The thing I've always wondered is:
If you want lambdas and such, why wouldn't you just use LISP or Scheme instead of trying to hack it into a C-syntax family language.
Not only that, but tacking lambdas on to Java is going to be some crazy reuse of syntax instead of having a well-designed syntax for it.
So then, you're neither here nor there. Neither do you have a powerful, but possibly tricky language, nor do you have a dead simple language for programming corporate CRUD apps.
If someone has installed this on Ubuntu, could you post your experiences? Also, anything in the repos yet?
apt-get command lines, please.
Some questions:
1. Anybody still using the same username at multiple websites?
2. Anybody work at a place that has been affected? Citibank, whatever? Or their webdev firm? Are there wholesale firings? Of development, IT, or the business side?
3. Anybody work at a company that actually has some kind of decent security and cares about protecting customer data?
Speaking of KISS, it's hard to understand what the need for the new press a button thing on cars was supposed to be. (Fulfill a nonexistent need?)
Were there people crying out they were unable to start their cars with keys?
And the dead simple and foolproof way of turning the engine off if you need to? Now it's hold for 3 seconds to turn off?
Only if you change a few things around and name it after a fishing village in Iceland to try to get out of paying royalties for mobile Java.
Plimus (http://plimus.com) is an alternative for vendors that I've had generally good experience with over the years.
Unlike 2checkout, there's no setup fee (so you pay nothing to open or maintain an account).
Also 2co requires a different $49 account for every different domain you sell from. Unlike them, and also unlike PayPal, you can open as many Plimus accounts as you need.
Your customers can pay with credit card, bank transfer, check, PayPal, even purchase order. They pay you via check, PayPal, or bank transfer.
Finally, they also offer subscription management, file hosting and delivery, software license management, localization of currency, subdomains (you.plimus.com) and customization of templates.
Cons: I believe they are oriented towards services and digital goods, as opposed to hard goods.
When you have to pay a vendor who has a PayPal account, you don't have to log in with a PayPal account as the buyer.
Instead, you can just pay with your credit card (unless they just changed it).
Since you're protected if you pay with your credit card, was there any other problem?
AlertPay is your basic PayPal-style alternative. Covers most countries. Transfer to your bank account, etc. I'm hoping they get a little bigger just to prevent PayPal from becoming a monopoly.
http://alertpay.com/
GunPal, now known as GPal, is only available in the US, so it's probably not so good for digital goods. But it allows transactions PayPal doesn't.
https://www.gpal.net/
(Btw, it's hilarious how they rebranded GunPal to "GPal - friendly payments".)
May I ask:
1. Is your 3GS still working?
2. If your provider didn't subsidize your phone, would you still buy it at full price?
I'm assuming you're doing pretty well financially.
Genuine question.
"Don't do dumb things."
Speaking of which, is there a .deb or something that you can install in order to be able to run Android on, say, desktop Ubuntu?
Who modded this flamebait?
Even though I like webOS, the fact is they don't have as many apps in their store as either iOS or Android.
How about posting a link to the missing 100K apps instead of modding "flamebait"?