There seems to be a real lack of editorial power at Gawker Media. Gawker itself is factually wrong rather often. Gizmodo has a real bad habit of doing things they just shouldn't be doing. Paying for play with the iPhone prototype was really disgraceful, then hiding behind being "journalists" as an excuse. The remote incident. Then there's Kotaku, which seems to be run by immature 18 year olds who have yet to touch a boob in their life before. Jalopnik can't keep their mouth shut about Top Gear spoilers. It's frustrating.
I'm through with the entire Gawker Media network. Engadget and Destructoid are much better blogs than Giz and Kotaku. Really haven't had a need for celeb gossip or car news, but when I do, it's not going to be Gawker.
being a progressive jackpot, it probably had a big lighted board showing the prize. If they didn't realize it should've been reset, that's their fault. Pay the damn payout.
That being said, HTML5 is the future. CLIs for consumer OSes went away for the large part, but they're still around. Batch mode processing went away for the large part, but it's still around. Procedural programming went away for the large part, but it's still around. Java for interactive web interfaces went away for the large part, but Java for the front end is still around.
All of these things have found niches somewhere. Sometimes due to stubbornness of developers, sometimes out of sheer necessity. Some problems are entirely procedural, and really can't be object oriented. Some problems are best left to go into a batch. Java as a browser front end is still around because some developers aren't comfortable with AJAX and dynamic HTML or comfortable with Flash.
Now it's Flash's turn to go away for the large part.
An ex girlfriend of mine once wrote a tiny, minimalist OS that does even less than Chrome OS.
Then again, all it was was a special version of the bootsector that trashed my partition tables, and displayed a message, "I'm leaving you, you asshole."
You do know that Standard Oil was broken up in 1911 and the Teapot Dome Scandal didn't involve any of it's broken up parts and that Teapot Dome didn't exist as an oil reserve until 1921?
Why do Libertarians hate history? Is it because it's their greatest enemy or because they have some contempt for anything that shows that Libertarianism doesn't work and we moved away from it for a reason?
Gives me hope though, that this generation has learned to cope with defeat, and to try again in the future. Particularly when ipad supplies are more plentiful, or they get there early enough to beat the crowd.
BTW, the only people who are fucking idiots for not buying an iPad are the people calling other people who want an iPad fucking idiots. While you're decrying the lack of USB ports, I'm going to code a stupid $5.00 iPad game and make a fucking bundle.
But Satellite radio isn't. Market regulation also isn't the same as wholly propping up a firm as a monopoly. It's ensuring that say, Rupert Murdoch doesn't wind up interfering with my wifi or bluetooth connections because he wants to beam down BBC Radio 2
Disclaimer. I work for Clear, a wimax provider that sells it's servce as 4G.
I was in Chicago for ACen. I was checking work email on my data card. Someone asks me what's the big deal over 3G. I hop right over to speedtest.net and show him my speeds. 4 megs. 70ish ms latency.
He was blown away. Easy. It also depends on the coverage, YMMV, etc. But 4G is a big deal
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The real problem isn't that flash is slow, it's that it's proprietary.
The real solution is demand that Adobe submit Flash as a W3C standard. :)
Hence the difference between Apple and Adobe in this fight.
Destructoid makes me feel smart when I'm done reading it. No one on Kotaku's staff can touch Jim Sterling's commentary.
I'm waiting for Kevin Trudeau to release a book titled, "Nuclear Fusion secrets THEY don't want you to know."
There seems to be a real lack of editorial power at Gawker Media. Gawker itself is factually wrong rather often. Gizmodo has a real bad habit of doing things they just shouldn't be doing. Paying for play with the iPhone prototype was really disgraceful, then hiding behind being "journalists" as an excuse. The remote incident. Then there's Kotaku, which seems to be run by immature 18 year olds who have yet to touch a boob in their life before. Jalopnik can't keep their mouth shut about Top Gear spoilers. It's frustrating.
I'm through with the entire Gawker Media network. Engadget and Destructoid are much better blogs than Giz and Kotaku. Really haven't had a need for celeb gossip or car news, but when I do, it's not going to be Gawker.
Friend of mine picked up an HTC EVO. It has an implementation of Flash 10 running on it.
I wanted to test 4G speeds from his place, and popped over to speedtest.
The browsing experience was so slow and painful, I do not know why everyone is up in arms to get Flash on portable devices.
you clearly aren't familiar with the Nevada Gaming Commission rules then.
Smaller places cap progressive payouts, and larger places are big enough that millions in a single payout aren't going to break things.
and the gaming board.
being a progressive jackpot, it probably had a big lighted board showing the prize. If they didn't realize it should've been reset, that's their fault. Pay the damn payout.
Yes. You own the client. Not the server. You pay for access to the server. This is how Blizz makes it's cash. Why hasn't this been thrown out?
You paid to agree to certain rules. If you don't like it. Don't play on their servers.
He had a chance to really contribute something to the IT community in the 70's.
I mean yes, he did ground breaking work in supercomputing, but that's rubbish.
He had the chance to integrate furniture into first real super computer and instead of a sofa, or a four poster bed, he went with an awkward bench.
fuck that guy.
last July, I was at otakon and in the inner harbor, I'm able to get somthing obscene like 7 megs.
Great, copy and paste breaks because you turned off RFC.
What now?
Disable Apache, Samba, FTP, SSH, etc. on that 10 year old linux install.
Now attempt to exploit it.
Disable IIS, File/Print Sharing, remote desktop, et al, and you're still going to have a Windows machine that has open ports facing the internet.
or an exploit to escalate privileges to root. :)
Adobe is an *applications* vendor, which has no bearing on the OS security discussion.
If Adobe's applications render another OS vulnerable, that OS is to blame too.
The onus of insecure applications isn't just on the software vendors, it's also of the OS vendors.
Flash isn't going away anytime soon.
That being said, HTML5 is the future. CLIs for consumer OSes went away for the large part, but they're still around. Batch mode processing went away for the large part, but it's still around. Procedural programming went away for the large part, but it's still around. Java for interactive web interfaces went away for the large part, but Java for the front end is still around.
All of these things have found niches somewhere. Sometimes due to stubbornness of developers, sometimes out of sheer necessity. Some problems are entirely procedural, and really can't be object oriented. Some problems are best left to go into a batch. Java as a browser front end is still around because some developers aren't comfortable with AJAX and dynamic HTML or comfortable with Flash.
Now it's Flash's turn to go away for the large part.
An ex girlfriend of mine once wrote a tiny, minimalist OS that does even less than Chrome OS.
Then again, all it was was a special version of the bootsector that trashed my partition tables, and displayed a message, "I'm leaving you, you asshole."
You do know that Standard Oil was broken up in 1911 and the Teapot Dome Scandal didn't involve any of it's broken up parts and that Teapot Dome didn't exist as an oil reserve until 1921?
Why do Libertarians hate history? Is it because it's their greatest enemy or because they have some contempt for anything that shows that Libertarianism doesn't work and we moved away from it for a reason?
Big deal.
People queue up for Justin Bieber tickets.
Gives me hope though, that this generation has learned to cope with defeat, and to try again in the future. Particularly when ipad supplies are more plentiful, or they get there early enough to beat the crowd.
BTW, the only people who are fucking idiots for not buying an iPad are the people calling other people who want an iPad fucking idiots. While you're decrying the lack of USB ports, I'm going to code a stupid $5.00 iPad game and make a fucking bundle.
You're allowed to drink heavily in the Federation.
You're just not allowed to do it on a star ship in Starfleet.
Is it possible to lose the game if you have super short term memory loss?
I sat through all of Heroes. Voyager is only my most minor sin. Shame is my best friend.
You're all going to be pissed, I saw a picture of a guy who saw an iPad and wrote a 1,000 word essay on the topic and submitted it.
You should be ashamed you watched enough voyager to get the reference.
But Satellite radio isn't. Market regulation also isn't the same as wholly propping up a firm as a monopoly. It's ensuring that say, Rupert Murdoch doesn't wind up interfering with my wifi or bluetooth connections because he wants to beam down BBC Radio 2
Disclaimer. I work for Clear, a wimax provider that sells it's servce as 4G.
I was in Chicago for ACen. I was checking work email on my data card. Someone asks me what's the big deal over 3G. I hop right over to speedtest.net and show him my speeds. 4 megs. 70ish ms latency.
He was blown away. Easy. It also depends on the coverage, YMMV, etc. But 4G is a big deal