Posting to ruin my mod rights for this story because I meant to mod you up but my wrist slipped.
Seriously. I believe the US is guilty of many things, but this story is just brain dead hogwash.
Hey Europe: If you have better alternatives to US-based Internet tools, uh, fucking use them? Are you seriously enduring cross-Atlantic lag and sending money for subscriptions, services, and ad exposures/clicks to another country, and then bitching that we accept that money you voluntarily dished our way?
You... you want us to apologize for how awesome our ONE and ONLY area of...not even dominance, just competitive viability... is?
Dude, as a Linux user speaking to a region which is so very FOSS-friendly as Europe... nobody's forcing you to use US websites. Ehrmegerd.
I guess even Europe grows village idiots who become politicians... lest we Yanks think we had a monopoly on that.
I think it's hilarious every time people pretend Nintendo is down for the count and out of the fight.
As an outside observer (who watches journalistic sources like Gametrailers and Angry Joe, but not shills like Kotaku) I've noticed (and welcomed) how Nintendo is finally open to criticism. It's understandable that they were so beloved for so long that it took a while before anyone would deign honest reviews or criticisms.
But there we have it - the big N has finally hit a point where it's not viewed as being made of pure Holy Materia. That transition is huge and it might FEEL like a fall from grace, but it's more of a fall into grace.
Hmm, desperate North Americans having burned their global rep until their global rep burned them back... too defeated by destitution and low education that they eventually turn feral... their only higher brain function being the ability to barely maintain a shotgun empire founded on racism and paranoia...
More users with Linux boxen of any flavor, means the margin of geeky tinkerers will rise accordingly (perhaps higher than before, since gamers tend to be notoriously savvy). Add to that the urge toward fame and you have a recipe for new blood in the open source world.
It's impossible for a UI framework to stay relevant for more than a few years, unless it's based around a slow-moving standard too big for corporate interests or bottom-lines to affect.
Your choice to use something other than HTML5 because HTML5 wasn't ready yet, was good. However, you probably should have used something HTML4 related at that time.
As someone who's been predicting Qt's demise ever since he learned Nokia had bought it, I can only shrug and wish I'd been there to tell you so.
Do not rely on corporate frameworks, ESPECIALLY open source ones. Corporations treat open source projects as hot potatoes the second money gets tight. They only keep them on board to reduce costs and gain a little PR magic with the less-cynical geeks. As soon as it starts costing resources to improve and especially if the non-paying user base gets uppity (which, as a monied stakeholder, you can't control), out the window it goes.
Since corporations get their fingers into everything they rely on, your rule of thumb should be the ratio of unattached volunteers (those working on the project in their spare time regardless of who they work for -- meaning their employer had no influence on their choice to volunteer with that project). If total project brain drain is just one cost-cutting decision away, that framework is dead code walking.
Seems to me that Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox has always tried to position itself as the enterprise alternative. From that POV, this move makes sense to me.
But then again, I disable Java in my browsers manually.
This still won't make me update past Firefox 14 or use it for more than a very limited utility... someone wake me up when they restore plaintext+links dragdrop of tabular data.
Force editors to follow their own rules about notability. Sanction editors very, very harshly when they let their content preferences get in the way.
If one editor's personal views prevent 200 other editors from choosing to contribute, the importance of one embedded editor falls into proper perspective.
Until then, they can have my clicks and $5 every couple years, and that's it.
If I go through these comments and find anybody is surprised by this, I will spend the ENTIRE DAY LAUGHING.
College education is a complete waste of time for most IT jobs. You come out of it with zero relevant training and typically no more skilled in the fundamentals than when you went in.
Unless, that is, you grew up lacking a passion for tech. If you weren't into tech growing up, you might need oh wait nevermind, there are internets and libraries. And they don't waste your time forcing you to drive for 90 minutes of lowest-common-denominator pacing.
The real question: if you have a problem with wearable computers, are you automatically a luddite with an irrelevant opinion?
Yes. Yes, those people will soon be living in the past. Congrats, everyone who has the word "glasshole" in their vocabulary, you are now old, crotchety, and a problem in the eyes of progress.
I recommend everyone just use their devices to find better people to be around. If a harmless worn object (whether it's a computer or a mullet) causes you to be ostracized, you live in the presence of harmful heels who should be relegated to their own fire-fearing circles.
I got picked on for being a nerd in school too, and I still hold grudges about it and always will, but I'm not going to take it out on people just because I'm envious that I can't afford a Glass. And I'm certainly not going to disguise choking-on-my-twisted-panties as some kind of argument against progress.
Speaking of FUD, I point a finger at everyone who's gone around trashing the ASF's reputation in order to keep Libre from losing programmers. Or whatever boneheaded reason they thought they had for doing M$'s job for them.
That's precisely why so little outrage. We're all having the reaction of knowing the kid stole the entire cookie jar but is now bald-faced telling us he stole one cookie.
I'm suddenly very worried about the fact that YouTube stopped working in Chrome yesterday (for both Windows and Linux) and so I accepted a Flash update.
It's not like every website on the internet needs to compete with YouTube for rankings on keywords like "[expletive]" "[expletive]" "[expletive]" and "[expletive]."
Besides, pick one of the following: are we running out of bandwidth capacity, or is it still time to increase the size of every URL on the internet by 400% via irrelevant conversations people are forced to download in order to read an article?
> how do we deal with government entities, now and in the future, who operate under secret laws not open to public knowledge? Tempted to start talking about the 2nd amendment and watering the tree of liberty on this one. Perhaps ultimately it needs to become illegal to treat the voters as a lesser class of government agent. We just have different functions, and we need to be in on the facts or we're useless. Probably a case could be made on that track if a group was to run with it all the way down Washington's throat.
> are we to disregard the constitution and it's amendments now if the we allow the NSA and related bodies to walk on this one? Is there any truth to what people say, about the Constitution being perpetually suspended so long as we are in a perpetual state of national emergency?
> what are the laws we want regarding privatized corporations who conduct "business" with government security agencies? Beyond my pay grade and I haven't had coffee.
> do we want to create new laws to protect whistleblowers when organizations (private, public, military, etc) have clearly broken the law? Definitely yes. Interesting how leakers are turning into this wild case of history playing out immediately and the populace choosing sides in a weird civil cyberwar.
> how to we determine (alexander) when the line has been crossed with people who are required to lie under oath about the facts? He was required to shoot himself in the brain, but he took off the whole skull. He was required to bomb the church, but he also took out the orphanage. He was required to waste untold amounts of money by lying to the public and the rest of government making it so all our out-in-the-open decision-making efforts (and costs that go with them) are pointless, worthless, and potentially both evil and unproductive... but he also endorsed Crystal Pepsi? Problem's in the acceptable subterfuge, IMO. Why even have an above-board government or voters if they're going to base all their decisions on lies?
The bigger challenge, how do you convince people who say "meh, I'm not doing anything I need to hide" ? Because, by and large, it seems U.S. citizens are on the same page as Zuckerberg when it comes to the era of personal privacy - which is to say, it's a quaint old concept, but dangerous, and over.
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Posting to ruin my mod rights for this story because I meant to mod you up but my wrist slipped.
Seriously. I believe the US is guilty of many things, but this story is just brain dead hogwash.
Hey Europe: If you have better alternatives to US-based Internet tools, uh, fucking use them? Are you seriously enduring cross-Atlantic lag and sending money for subscriptions, services, and ad exposures/clicks to another country, and then bitching that we accept that money you voluntarily dished our way?
You... you want us to apologize for how awesome our ONE and ONLY area of ...not even dominance, just competitive viability... is?
Dude, as a Linux user speaking to a region which is so very FOSS-friendly as Europe... nobody's forcing you to use US websites. Ehrmegerd.
I guess even Europe grows village idiots who become politicians... lest we Yanks think we had a monopoly on that.
I think it's hilarious every time people pretend Nintendo is down for the count and out of the fight.
As an outside observer (who watches journalistic sources like Gametrailers and Angry Joe, but not shills like Kotaku) I've noticed (and welcomed) how Nintendo is finally open to criticism. It's understandable that they were so beloved for so long that it took a while before anyone would deign honest reviews or criticisms.
But there we have it - the big N has finally hit a point where it's not viewed as being made of pure Holy Materia. That transition is huge and it might FEEL like a fall from grace, but it's more of a fall into grace.
In related news, the PC is still not dead ;)
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. A step in the right direction shows people that that's the new direction.
Hmm, desperate North Americans having burned their global rep until their global rep burned them back... too defeated by destitution and low education that they eventually turn feral... their only higher brain function being the ability to barely maintain a shotgun empire founded on racism and paranoia...
Legit comment is SO legit.
I personally like ST:Phase 2 quite a lot. It's jarring seeing the cast change every episode, though...
All's I can say is, if JJ can make an alternate timeline, the floodgates are open. Send forth the Kirk clones.
Better yet, send forth the Picard clones. If any part of Trek canon needs to be forked from Last Known Good, it's TNG.
-1 Ew (Janeway)
Except that marketers are already calling an iPhone with good sensor apps, a tricorder.
More users with Linux boxen of any flavor, means the margin of geeky tinkerers will rise accordingly (perhaps higher than before, since gamers tend to be notoriously savvy). Add to that the urge toward fame and you have a recipe for new blood in the open source world.
You meant to say during.
It's impossible for a UI framework to stay relevant for more than a few years, unless it's based around a slow-moving standard too big for corporate interests or bottom-lines to affect.
Your choice to use something other than HTML5 because HTML5 wasn't ready yet, was good. However, you probably should have used something HTML4 related at that time.
As someone who's been predicting Qt's demise ever since he learned Nokia had bought it, I can only shrug and wish I'd been there to tell you so.
Do not rely on corporate frameworks, ESPECIALLY open source ones. Corporations treat open source projects as hot potatoes the second money gets tight. They only keep them on board to reduce costs and gain a little PR magic with the less-cynical geeks. As soon as it starts costing resources to improve and especially if the non-paying user base gets uppity (which, as a monied stakeholder, you can't control), out the window it goes.
Since corporations get their fingers into everything they rely on, your rule of thumb should be the ratio of unattached volunteers (those working on the project in their spare time regardless of who they work for -- meaning their employer had no influence on their choice to volunteer with that project). If total project brain drain is just one cost-cutting decision away, that framework is dead code walking.
Seems to me that Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox has always tried to position itself as the enterprise alternative. From that POV, this move makes sense to me.
But then again, I disable Java in my browsers manually.
This still won't make me update past Firefox 14 or use it for more than a very limited utility... someone wake me up when they restore plaintext+links dragdrop of tabular data.
This.
Force editors to follow their own rules about notability. Sanction editors very, very harshly when they let their content preferences get in the way.
If one editor's personal views prevent 200 other editors from choosing to contribute, the importance of one embedded editor falls into proper perspective.
Until then, they can have my clicks and $5 every couple years, and that's it.
If I go through these comments and find anybody is surprised by this, I will spend the ENTIRE DAY LAUGHING.
College education is a complete waste of time for most IT jobs. You come out of it with zero relevant training and typically no more skilled in the fundamentals than when you went in.
Unless, that is, you grew up lacking a passion for tech. If you weren't into tech growing up, you might need oh wait nevermind, there are internets and libraries. And they don't waste your time forcing you to drive for 90 minutes of lowest-common-denominator pacing.
College - it's going the way of paper news.
The real question: if you have a problem with wearable computers, are you automatically a luddite with an irrelevant opinion?
Yes. Yes, those people will soon be living in the past. Congrats, everyone who has the word "glasshole" in their vocabulary, you are now old, crotchety, and a problem in the eyes of progress.
I recommend everyone just use their devices to find better people to be around. If a harmless worn object (whether it's a computer or a mullet) causes you to be ostracized, you live in the presence of harmful heels who should be relegated to their own fire-fearing circles.
I got picked on for being a nerd in school too, and I still hold grudges about it and always will, but I'm not going to take it out on people just because I'm envious that I can't afford a Glass. And I'm certainly not going to disguise choking-on-my-twisted-panties as some kind of argument against progress.
Insert exasperated, immature language here.
Speaking of FUD, I point a finger at everyone who's gone around trashing the ASF's reputation in order to keep Libre from losing programmers. Or whatever boneheaded reason they thought they had for doing M$'s job for them.
Yeah, posted almost immediately before this story, no less.
At least since the Java API case which was ...not all that long ago.
As a freelance tech, I deal with losers who attack other providers as their primary marketing tactic, every day.
Oracle - you're just another moronic, failed bully with an internet account. But keep providing the comedy :)
That's precisely why so little outrage. We're all having the reaction of knowing the kid stole the entire cookie jar but is now bald-faced telling us he stole one cookie.
Why in the thirty-eight squarish fucks did this get +'d?
Debian 6.
I'm suddenly very worried about the fact that YouTube stopped working in Chrome yesterday (for both Windows and Linux) and so I accepted a Flash update.
Which fixed nothing. Naturally.
It's not like every website on the internet needs to compete with YouTube for rankings on keywords like "[expletive]" "[expletive]" "[expletive]" and "[expletive]."
Besides, pick one of the following: are we running out of bandwidth capacity, or is it still time to increase the size of every URL on the internet by 400% via irrelevant conversations people are forced to download in order to read an article?
> how do we deal with government entities, now and in the future, who operate under secret laws not open to public knowledge?
Tempted to start talking about the 2nd amendment and watering the tree of liberty on this one. Perhaps ultimately it needs to become illegal to treat the voters as a lesser class of government agent. We just have different functions, and we need to be in on the facts or we're useless. Probably a case could be made on that track if a group was to run with it all the way down Washington's throat.
> are we to disregard the constitution and it's amendments now if the we allow the NSA and related bodies to walk on this one?
Is there any truth to what people say, about the Constitution being perpetually suspended so long as we are in a perpetual state of national emergency?
> what are the laws we want regarding privatized corporations who conduct "business" with government security agencies?
Beyond my pay grade and I haven't had coffee.
> do we want to create new laws to protect whistleblowers when organizations (private, public, military, etc) have clearly broken the law?
Definitely yes. Interesting how leakers are turning into this wild case of history playing out immediately and the populace choosing sides in a weird civil cyberwar.
> how to we determine (alexander) when the line has been crossed with people who are required to lie under oath about the facts?
He was required to shoot himself in the brain, but he took off the whole skull. He was required to bomb the church, but he also took out the orphanage. He was required to waste untold amounts of money by lying to the public and the rest of government making it so all our out-in-the-open decision-making efforts (and costs that go with them) are pointless, worthless, and potentially both evil and unproductive... but he also endorsed Crystal Pepsi? Problem's in the acceptable subterfuge, IMO. Why even have an above-board government or voters if they're going to base all their decisions on lies?
The bigger challenge, how do you convince people who say "meh, I'm not doing anything I need to hide" ? Because, by and large, it seems U.S. citizens are on the same page as Zuckerberg when it comes to the era of personal privacy - which is to say, it's a quaint old concept, but dangerous, and over.
Somebody +1 dat shiz.