I think it's great. I will have my iPhone as a mobile device, the normal big and classy iPad for coffee shops and to impress girls, and the medium size iPhone/iPad variant for things while iPhone isn't enough, but when iPad is too big. I can already think hundreds of different situations where it will fit perfectly.
I can already see how some apple-haters will come here and say "what is the purpose of this medium-sized iPhone?", but if you don't see it you're just not thinking different enough. Just continue to follow the sheep and install your Windows. At least when I see an Apple user I know he is different, intellectual person I can have a good conversation with. He is not just there to talk with me because he has malware on his computer. I am studying art currently and having the iPad makes a complete difference on how other students and professors look at me. They know I'm an artist and an intellectual person.
Eh, nowhere in the article it says it will cost something. Live is free on Windows too (though not so used besides a few titles).
Live is also a lot more than just some stupid avatars. Matchmaking, online games, friends, achievements and so on work great and the same way in every game. If something is good with Windows Mobile 7, it must be the inclusion of Live gaming.
I always use IrfanView to pre-process my pictures before uploading them anywhere. You need to do that anyway (original pictures are usually huge 4000+ pixels wide and forums usually limit you to less than 1280px). When you're saving the image, it shows check boxes to remove all extra information from the pictures (usually camera model and shooting options and so on). Easy. And yeah, it's an awesome and light image viewer and you can edit images too.
It's correct, for US at least. Europe is pretty good. I hope you aren't thinking Asian connections are shitty because they are slow to you? They obviously are fast for everyone living there and you can get up to 1 gbit connections in several countries.
However, other thing is while there are people with personal computers, most people use web cafes. It wouldn't make sense for them to buy games, nor would companies really like nor make the same amount of money if the web cafes just buy the games once. When all the items or game subscriptions are tied to individual accounts, players will spend money no matter if they play at home or web cafe.
More so, it establishes the fact that theres little to none support for specialized open source projects. OS, web browser.. sure. But when it's things like GSM stack or anything non-mainstream or something highly technical (CAD software too), it doesn't seem like open source solutions can really compare. It looks like the authors of this were thinking along the same way:
Combining both of their work together, they have been able to make a 20 minute long voice call from a baseband processor running a Free Software GSM stack. For all we know, it is the first time anything remotely like this has been done using community-developed Free Software. Five years ago I would have thought it's impossible to pull this off with a small team of volunteers.
It's great that they have done so, but what does it really do? How is it useful to me or companies?
And Microsoft are pulling back on resources for IronRuby.
That doesn't really say anything. There's still C#, Delphi.NET, Visual Basic.NET, and a ton of other languages. The headline is wrong - Microsoft isn't dropping.NET support, it's just lowering their support for dynamic languages. Static languages are better anyway.
Also remember that Windows Mobile 7 will only have.NET apps, which is actually quite good, since.NET is actually a lot better than Java.
I think the summary and story is looking at wrong aspect about it too. Spammers, whatever. You're just one in a million. This is a lot more serious about people that just know your email, but are in more personal contact with you than some spammers. Website owners, forum administrator, people you meet on the internet.. Those who know your email but don't really know your real identity. That's a lot more serious privacy violation.
>>>Just like I want great looks and and great sex from a girl.
The "great looks" part disappears around age 30. Sometimes sooner (25) if she let's herself go, or later (35) is she watches her weight but eventually the looks go-away, and your wife ends-up looking like a middle-aged grandma.
So I'd recommend just settling for the last two items. i.e. Enjoying yourself, like this article is about.
Ah, you think a person has to get married to have sex.
Why would I need to settle? If I keep myself in good shape, I can keep having 20+ girls. Settling for something is stupid if you can have it better.
Eh? I beg to differ. Especially if you're having a lot of it, quality starts to matter a lot.
But of course quality of video matters less with great movies and tv shows. I greatly enjoy watching Seinfeld even while the sound nor video quality is not up to bar with todays standards. However, I don't really like to pick up an old movie or tv show if I don't know it's great. I've always done that, even while people say the quality doesn't matter so much. But it does. While I can watch a average movie with a good video quality, I wouldn't do so with old movies.
You usually hear people saying that video quality or graphics in computer games aren't important but the story is. While certainly true, it doesn't mean you couldn't have both. After all, good video or graphics quality add to the immersion.
I certainly want both great story and good video quality. Just like I want great looks and and great sex from a girl.
You know what, before I die I will create a program that posts random predefined messages to my Facebook account after I have died. One of the morning messages could be "having a morning coffee with satan" and late night message could be "man do I appreciate cold beer right now".
You only die once. The least you can do is have some fun creeping out people about it.
What evidence was there, other than the bloggers post, that an offence had occurred? How could the police charge him without it?
He admitted it himself. Admitting your crimes on the internet are no different than admitting them in real life. There also were pictures and videos of his crime.
Same laws apply to Internet as real life. It would be pretty stupid to go tell police that. Well, they can read the internet too.
The same could be said about movie reviewers who haven't even seen such classical silent films such as Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Roundhay Garden Scene or Battle of Chemulpo Bay. I mean, can you even comment modern movies if you haven't seen those?
Internet users doesn't equal personal computers and connections. If you have ever visited any Asian country, you know most of them visit web cafes to get online or play games.
But there are also other aspects to think about. For example Paradox Interactive mostly releases full detail strategy games. People that play those are usually intelligent adults with good jobs and pay for games. It works for them because it is a niche market that is extremely profitable when done correctly. However, it just doesn't work for other type of games because people and target markets are different.
The 90% piracy rate is quite much the norm with PC games. The sad thing is that PC gamers will destroy their own gaming platform by doing so. Good example is Modern Warfare 2 which was heavily "consolised" and you have to admit, not having dedicated servers and everything else sucks.
This also shows that the usual argument that warez versions of games are good to get to know the game before you buy it or that you would rather support indie developers and "small guys" are mostly bullshit. These indie game developers also have a 80-90% piracy rate.
But you know what the next step to prevent piracy will be?
Fully online games. You can already see this with the Ubisoft's DRM, the recent Starcraft 2 and the movement to multiplayer, co-op (left4dead), and mmo games. Personally I actually enjoy playing with other people especially in a good co-op game, but there are those who prefer single player games. I prefer with games like Civilization too. But ultimately this piracy will lead to most serious developers just to publish fully online games like World of Warcraft. While you can play it freely with piracy servers, it's really far from the real experience. Game developers will also look more into console development, because for example you still can't pirate games for PS3.
Well, I don't really understand what is so interesting about this. Akamai and other CDN providers have been doing this for 15+ years already. It's nothing new.
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said that not embarrassing the US military was "doing the right thing" and he hoped Wikileaks would "honour our demands".
However, asked what the Pentagon would do next, Morrell told the AP that it was up to the FBI and Justice Department to decide how to proceed.
"If doing the right thing is not good enough for them [Wikileaks], then we will figure out what other alternatives we have to compel them to do the right thing," he added.
Of course the right thing to the US government is always whatever the US military says is the right thing, and as the Wikileaks documents that have recently been released show in brutal detail, the US military has an unusual interpretation of what is 'right'.
Nice stereotyping there. Terrorists are a completely different aspect than national defense forces. Did Iraq do so? No, nor did Vietnam or any other country that USA has attacked. North Korea and Iran haven't done anything like that either, but still US demands them to stop developing their defenses. Doesn't it kind of make sense for a country to develop same kind of defense mechanisms than what other countries have? Would you feel good if North Korea had nuclear weapons and USA didn't and they said they'll attack USA if they don't stop developing them?
Then there's games like Modern Warfare 2 where Russians are portrayed as bad guys. The entertainment industry alone is a big propaganda machine. It's quite boring how one-sided it always is.
What about the other side which is always portrayed as "bad guys" and are who the player tries to kill and ultimately to win the game you need to beat them? I think the games affect those more.
What is even more fun is that Apple users praise this as something that allows them to jailbreak their phone. The "jailbreak" is a PDF exploit that roots your whole phone. I would be a little bit worried if someone could completely take over my phone if I just visited a random website. Apple products don't have exploits or malware, huh? Of course Apple just keeps telling their users they are secure. It's a disaster waiting to happen.
How about games with obscene DRM that requires you to have an internet connection to an auth server before you're allowed to play?
You have an example of such Wii game? Besides, if it has such an obscene DRM you cannot even run it on a hacked console nor modify the game data. This whole story assumes you're running a hacked Wii so that you can run a pirated version of the game that the hackers had modified.
And how, exactly, are the "must connect to the server" games, particularly the team games, to be played without either an internet connection (which, in a competent IT setup, would be VLAN'd directly to the internet) or a pirate server?
And what are those games requiring an internet connection? I can't seem to recall any on consoles.
Besides if there are such console games, then you just have some other games in the break room. It's not that complicated.
They can't do it with PS3 or newer 360's, that's why they're explicitly talking about Nintendo's consoles which have been hacked. And even with Wii (and iPhone's and so on) the console needs to be jailbroken for it work.
You know, you could just not plug the game console into network. There is no reason why a break room and especially team-building games need an internet connection.
Microsoft Internet Explorer continues to make a comeback, gaining market share for the third month in a row, mostly to the detriment of Mozilla Firefox.
Internet Explorer increased its share of the browser market in July by 0.42%, for a total share of 60.74%. Firefox, on the other hand, took the biggest hit: a loss of 0.9%.
In addition to IE regaining some momentum, Chrome usage has also been soaring. At the short end of the stick though is Firefox, whose market share peaked in April at 24.59% and has steadily dropped since.
These stats fly in the face of the conventional wisdom that Internet Explorer is doomed to decline against the superior speed, extension capabilities and HTML5 support of FirefoxFirefox and ChromeChrome. And there’s an even bigger wrench that will soon be thrown into the mix: Internet Explorer 9, which boasts superior hardware-accelerated speed and strong support for open standards.
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I think it's great. I will have my iPhone as a mobile device, the normal big and classy iPad for coffee shops and to impress girls, and the medium size iPhone/iPad variant for things while iPhone isn't enough, but when iPad is too big. I can already think hundreds of different situations where it will fit perfectly.
I can already see how some apple-haters will come here and say "what is the purpose of this medium-sized iPhone?", but if you don't see it you're just not thinking different enough. Just continue to follow the sheep and install your Windows. At least when I see an Apple user I know he is different, intellectual person I can have a good conversation with. He is not just there to talk with me because he has malware on his computer. I am studying art currently and having the iPad makes a complete difference on how other students and professors look at me. They know I'm an artist and an intellectual person.
I can't wait to get this device on my hands.
Eh, nowhere in the article it says it will cost something. Live is free on Windows too (though not so used besides a few titles).
Live is also a lot more than just some stupid avatars. Matchmaking, online games, friends, achievements and so on work great and the same way in every game. If something is good with Windows Mobile 7, it must be the inclusion of Live gaming.
I always use IrfanView to pre-process my pictures before uploading them anywhere. You need to do that anyway (original pictures are usually huge 4000+ pixels wide and forums usually limit you to less than 1280px). When you're saving the image, it shows check boxes to remove all extra information from the pictures (usually camera model and shooting options and so on). Easy. And yeah, it's an awesome and light image viewer and you can edit images too.
It's correct, for US at least. Europe is pretty good. I hope you aren't thinking Asian connections are shitty because they are slow to you? They obviously are fast for everyone living there and you can get up to 1 gbit connections in several countries.
However, other thing is while there are people with personal computers, most people use web cafes. It wouldn't make sense for them to buy games, nor would companies really like nor make the same amount of money if the web cafes just buy the games once. When all the items or game subscriptions are tied to individual accounts, players will spend money no matter if they play at home or web cafe.
More so, it establishes the fact that theres little to none support for specialized open source projects. OS, web browser.. sure. But when it's things like GSM stack or anything non-mainstream or something highly technical (CAD software too), it doesn't seem like open source solutions can really compare. It looks like the authors of this were thinking along the same way:
Combining both of their work together, they have been able to make a 20 minute long voice call from a baseband processor running a Free Software GSM stack. For all we know, it is the first time anything remotely like this has been done using community-developed Free Software. Five years ago I would have thought it's impossible to pull this off with a small team of volunteers.
It's great that they have done so, but what does it really do? How is it useful to me or companies?
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And Microsoft are pulling back on resources for IronRuby.
That doesn't really say anything. There's still C#, Delphi .NET, Visual Basic .NET, and a ton of other languages. The headline is wrong - Microsoft isn't dropping .NET support, it's just lowering their support for dynamic languages. Static languages are better anyway.
Also remember that Windows Mobile 7 will only have .NET apps, which is actually quite good, since .NET is actually a lot better than Java.
I think the summary and story is looking at wrong aspect about it too. Spammers, whatever. You're just one in a million. This is a lot more serious about people that just know your email, but are in more personal contact with you than some spammers. Website owners, forum administrator, people you meet on the internet.. Those who know your email but don't really know your real identity. That's a lot more serious privacy violation.
>>>Just like I want great looks and and great sex from a girl.
The "great looks" part disappears around age 30. Sometimes sooner (25) if she let's herself go, or later (35) is she watches her weight but eventually the looks go-away, and your wife ends-up looking like a middle-aged grandma.
So I'd recommend just settling for the last two items.
i.e. Enjoying yourself, like this article is about.
Ah, you think a person has to get married to have sex.
Why would I need to settle? If I keep myself in good shape, I can keep having 20+ girls. Settling for something is stupid if you can have it better.
Eh? I beg to differ. Especially if you're having a lot of it, quality starts to matter a lot.
But of course quality of video matters less with great movies and tv shows. I greatly enjoy watching Seinfeld even while the sound nor video quality is not up to bar with todays standards. However, I don't really like to pick up an old movie or tv show if I don't know it's great. I've always done that, even while people say the quality doesn't matter so much. But it does. While I can watch a average movie with a good video quality, I wouldn't do so with old movies.
You usually hear people saying that video quality or graphics in computer games aren't important but the story is. While certainly true, it doesn't mean you couldn't have both. After all, good video or graphics quality add to the immersion.
I certainly want both great story and good video quality. Just like I want great looks and and great sex from a girl.
You know what, before I die I will create a program that posts random predefined messages to my Facebook account after I have died. One of the morning messages could be "having a morning coffee with satan" and late night message could be "man do I appreciate cold beer right now".
You only die once. The least you can do is have some fun creeping out people about it.
What evidence was there, other than the bloggers post, that an offence had occurred?
How could the police charge him without it?
He admitted it himself. Admitting your crimes on the internet are no different than admitting them in real life. There also were pictures and videos of his crime.
Same laws apply to Internet as real life. It would be pretty stupid to go tell police that. Well, they can read the internet too.
The same could be said about movie reviewers who haven't even seen such classical silent films such as Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Roundhay Garden Scene or Battle of Chemulpo Bay. I mean, can you even comment modern movies if you haven't seen those?
Internet users doesn't equal personal computers and connections. If you have ever visited any Asian country, you know most of them visit web cafes to get online or play games.
But there are also other aspects to think about. For example Paradox Interactive mostly releases full detail strategy games. People that play those are usually intelligent adults with good jobs and pay for games. It works for them because it is a niche market that is extremely profitable when done correctly. However, it just doesn't work for other type of games because people and target markets are different.
The 90% piracy rate is quite much the norm with PC games. The sad thing is that PC gamers will destroy their own gaming platform by doing so. Good example is Modern Warfare 2 which was heavily "consolised" and you have to admit, not having dedicated servers and everything else sucks.
This also shows that the usual argument that warez versions of games are good to get to know the game before you buy it or that you would rather support indie developers and "small guys" are mostly bullshit. These indie game developers also have a 80-90% piracy rate.
But you know what the next step to prevent piracy will be?
Fully online games. You can already see this with the Ubisoft's DRM, the recent Starcraft 2 and the movement to multiplayer, co-op (left4dead), and mmo games. Personally I actually enjoy playing with other people especially in a good co-op game, but there are those who prefer single player games. I prefer with games like Civilization too. But ultimately this piracy will lead to most serious developers just to publish fully online games like World of Warcraft. While you can play it freely with piracy servers, it's really far from the real experience. Game developers will also look more into console development, because for example you still can't pirate games for PS3.
Well, I don't really understand what is so interesting about this. Akamai and other CDN providers have been doing this for 15+ years already. It's nothing new.
It doesn't matter if Wikileaks complies, Pentagon has made it very clear they will make them comply:
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said that not embarrassing the US military was "doing the right thing" and he hoped Wikileaks would "honour our demands".
However, asked what the Pentagon would do next, Morrell told the AP that it was up to the FBI and Justice Department to decide how to proceed.
"If doing the right thing is not good enough for them [Wikileaks], then we will figure out what other alternatives we have to compel them to do the right thing," he added.
Of course the right thing to the US government is always whatever the US military says is the right thing, and as the Wikileaks documents that have recently been released show in brutal detail, the US military has an unusual interpretation of what is 'right'.
Nice stereotyping there. Terrorists are a completely different aspect than national defense forces. Did Iraq do so? No, nor did Vietnam or any other country that USA has attacked. North Korea and Iran haven't done anything like that either, but still US demands them to stop developing their defenses. Doesn't it kind of make sense for a country to develop same kind of defense mechanisms than what other countries have? Would you feel good if North Korea had nuclear weapons and USA didn't and they said they'll attack USA if they don't stop developing them?
Then there's games like Modern Warfare 2 where Russians are portrayed as bad guys. The entertainment industry alone is a big propaganda machine. It's quite boring how one-sided it always is.
What about the other side which is always portrayed as "bad guys" and are who the player tries to kill and ultimately to win the game you need to beat them? I think the games affect those more.
What is even more fun is that Apple users praise this as something that allows them to jailbreak their phone. The "jailbreak" is a PDF exploit that roots your whole phone. I would be a little bit worried if someone could completely take over my phone if I just visited a random website. Apple products don't have exploits or malware, huh? Of course Apple just keeps telling their users they are secure. It's a disaster waiting to happen.
How about games with obscene DRM that requires you to have an internet connection to an auth server before you're allowed to play?
You have an example of such Wii game? Besides, if it has such an obscene DRM you cannot even run it on a hacked console nor modify the game data. This whole story assumes you're running a hacked Wii so that you can run a pirated version of the game that the hackers had modified.
And how, exactly, are the "must connect to the server" games, particularly the team games, to be played without either an internet connection (which, in a competent IT setup, would be VLAN'd directly to the internet) or a pirate server?
And what are those games requiring an internet connection? I can't seem to recall any on consoles.
Besides if there are such console games, then you just have some other games in the break room. It's not that complicated.
They can't do it with PS3 or newer 360's, that's why they're explicitly talking about Nintendo's consoles which have been hacked. And even with Wii (and iPhone's and so on) the console needs to be jailbroken for it work.
You know, you could just not plug the game console into network. There is no reason why a break room and especially team-building games need an internet connection.
Firefox To Make History, About To Surpass IE in Europe
Firefox to make history by surpassing IE? I don't think it's really making history, considering Opera has always had up to 50% market share in CIS countries.
Also as it happens, IE is no more losing market share, but increasing it at the cost of Firefox.
Microsoft Internet Explorer continues to make a comeback, gaining market share for the third month in a row, mostly to the detriment of Mozilla Firefox.
Internet Explorer increased its share of the browser market in July by 0.42%, for a total share of 60.74%. Firefox, on the other hand, took the biggest hit: a loss of 0.9%.
In addition to IE regaining some momentum, Chrome usage has also been soaring. At the short end of the stick though is Firefox, whose market share peaked in April at 24.59% and has steadily dropped since.
These stats fly in the face of the conventional wisdom that Internet Explorer is doomed to decline against the superior speed, extension capabilities and HTML5 support of FirefoxFirefox and ChromeChrome. And there’s an even bigger wrench that will soon be thrown into the mix: Internet Explorer 9, which boasts superior hardware-accelerated speed and strong support for open standards.