I actually do happen to have a clue, Anonymous Coward.
And as I suspected might happen following GoDaddy's cowardly (and patently false) statement, today the "hacker" (who obviously also has no clue?) released some more data he obtained during his attack, to prove that it wasn't a GoDaddy "Glitch". I suspect with their level of incompetence, he probably still has access!
I don't buy this for a nickel, and I doubt they are even capable of detecting that a problem was caused by "external influences". Laughably feeble attempt to save face in front of countless customers who should have known better than to use GoDaddy services.
Exactly, and thankfully the gTLDs are not controlled by these people. Funny how they are ok with.xxx but.gay is totally wrong!?
Here's the thing tough: This is hitting a nerve with them because they know they have a large gay population that they can't uncover and can't do anything about.
I don't hold much hope fot the Saudis to see the light and butt out (pun not intended) of people's individual choices.
You would think they would be all for it because once it's in effect they can simply block by TLD. Right? Wrong. With this request they are simply advertising to the world: "We are serious about remaining unintelligent, primitive bigots".
Yes that's true, but I actually owned Steam when I was 100% Linux based, and I ran games under CrossOver for a long while. But I would gladly re-buy Steam just for the chance of running it natively.
Wha..??! DLL hell vanished from Microsoft OS's? Ha! HA HA HA! *HA HA HA HA HA HA HA*!!! Thank you, I didn't laugh like this for a while...
But I agree with you on the grafting part, and that's what I meant. Once it works on Ubuntu, it will be very easy to port it to any other Linux distro. Whether or not Steam will officially support it is another issue (they may choose not to). What I also meant, is that Steam will be able to target Linux based gaming consoles. Heck, the OS is already there, and doesn't cost a damn thing. Why wouldn't they create their own dream console? Building it in China will cost peanuts and they will then have their own walled garden, with total control over the OS and what comes in and out of it. Total predictability. Gaming studios will love that. And Steam really does grok gamers, gaming and game distribution (and the whole business behind it). They will be in a position to completely replace the old style gaming distribution channels. It makes sense strategically.
I agree with you 100%. I think id Software and Epic did not have enough "weight" to bring studios into their product. Plus, it's been many, many years that Steam have been waiting quietly for the right moment. Now they are diving in, and this is going signal others that Linux has finally matured enough for Steam to enter in a major way. And we all know how VC's are like cattle, they need a leader they can follow like a herd (no offense intended to cattle).
Valve have a golden opportunity here, in several ways:
1. Ubuntu is a first stepping stone. Once they have the Linux experience, they can target all kinds of Linux based platforms & set top boxes, as they become popular. It's just like UbuntuTV in a sense - It takes a stable operating system and tailors it to a niche market, adds the back-office sauce into the soup, and you suddenly have a serious iTunes/Netflix contender (technologically anyway).
2. I believe game producers are going to see this as a blessing: Valve becoming the major conduit through which serious games flow into the Linux world, paving the road for those producers into user's desktops, while providing billing, game discovery, content distribution, and community tools. Nobody else is doing this at the moment with Linux, except for Canonical who have created their own "App Store" application (which by the way is pretty good!). So imaging Canonical's "App store" on steroids, for games! Once enough games are built for Linux, why would anyone use Microsoft Windows for gaming?
3. When you are first to capture a market, you become the dominant player. The longer you're the dominant player, the more difficult it becomes to unseat you from your throne.
Actually the GUI-fication of Windows Server was one of the many reasons Windows based networks are so insecure and poorly configured. It creates this notion that any "kid" can configure a Windows Active Directory Domain, and small to medium sized (and sometimes larger) companies hired amateurs to save a buck. I met some pretty bad sysadmins in the last 20 years of my life, who left a horrible mess wherever they lay their hands.
Not to mention that the GUI kept changing every year, because that's just how Microsoft does stuff; anything you learn becomes obsolete a year later. They are very volatile like that. This is not so in the Unix world, where API's and tools are kept minimalistic, are cleverly crafted, slowly improved upon, with stable releases coming out every few years instead of betas coming out every month. Indeed, history shows that a Unix person retains his knowledge for decades. Show me one Windows person who can say that what he learned about Windows 2000 Server is still useful?
Enough with the Microsoft Bashing, here's one product I actually liked that took the CLI forward: Splunk. They took the CLI and put it in a Web browser! Splunk is basically a data collection tool that pipes everything through whatever you type into the web based "CLI" prompt, with the basic function being a combination of "grep", sed, awk, with powerful regular expressions, etc.
The beauty of it is that you can take your piped processes, and save them as a "View", and you can even create charts based on the resulting data. The result is a Unix admin's dream dashboard into the depths of his IT environment. I seriously recommend any Unix head look into that technology, especially considering the product has a free version (the free edition removes some "enterprise" features, but for many applications you won't miss those features at all).
I also like the combined approach: UI tools that produce either scripts or configuration files that you can read and understand and modify manually if you wish. Make a change in the configuration file? It will register in the UI. Made a change through the UI? It will register in the files and scripts. You get the best of both worlds this way.
It seems people are too harsh on Flash, for no reason really.
Personally I see it as a failure of the tech world to understand why some people were stubbornly holding on to Flash.
Flash was a very easy way for product designers to develop some pretty advanced client side technologies, with a plugin that had more than 90% adoption rates. iOS changed that, much to adobe's chagrin.
But like some commenters said, this technology is now being killed without proper replacements. You still can't do socket communications directly from within a browser without using plugins. Definitely not with UDP. This was one of the reasons Flash was awesome. It filled the gap of all those features missing in a browser (or available only in some and not in others).
And let's not even start with the authoring tool - I have yet to see a tool that was as friendly and intuitive as Adobe's for producing Flash apps.
Tell you what, I can understand their motives... people allow unsigned code to run, don't they? I am guessing they understood human nature is susceptible to social engineering, and wanted to avoid it all.
Too bad for them, human nature is more powerful than DRM, and the Dark Side shall prevail;-)
And about that Bluetooth thing, watch for BlueSn0w which have only just recently released a demonstration of a working hack. This is going to open many exciting capabilities to iPhone users, such as Stereo Audio, sending contacts via BT, and many others.
I wish people would stop saying "unnaturally" all the time. We are humans, we are part of nature, and whatever we make is nature's result. This includes bombs, world wars, vaccines, new genetically microbes and medications, and what not.
We ARE nature! Whatever we create, is natural for us to create. Get in the game already, or go back to wearing skins.
You are indeed NOT an eBay person. I personally bought stuff on eBay before. I purchased books (they were fine). I purchased 4 digium cards for my Asterisk VOIP gateway, they worked. So--Maybe I got lucky, if to judge by the overall negative opinions here!
But I think you are missing the point completely - some people LIKE to haggle. They enjoy the act of buying in an auction, and the fun factor is important. In some cultures the sellers would be offended if you did not haggle. For example if you go to a persian market, here are some possible outcomes:
1. You buy the item no questions asked? The guy will think you are: a) stupid b) rich c) have no time 2. You haggle, the merchant has some fun, maybe he lowers the price a bit, but since the price was artificially boosted a bit in advance, it's ok, everybody wins. 3. You haggle too much, the merchant enjoys it a bit at first, but at some point he loses his patience and decides not to sell to you at all! (No Kafia for you, come back 1 year!)
Just try to have fun, we live once!
Skaag
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Ballmer, you are full of shit. You know why?
Anyone who says IBM and Oracle did not innovate is full of shit.
It is a person who did not dirty his hands with actual technology. Ballmer, show me your MSSQL Engine and let's compare it with the work of art & genious that is the Oracle SQL engine. It is like comparing "Made in Taiwan" and "Made in Switzerland" with Microsoft being the cheap taiwanese crap.
You guys managed to push your Windows SHIT over IBM's amazing OS/2 not because it was better. Far from it. You guys just had better marketing! You made dirty deals with intel and retail channels. You forced your crap upon us for too long, and now it's backlashing against you. I don't care that Microsoft is one of the richest companies on this planet - I don't use ANY of your products. Your BSA thugs are no use against me! They can visit my company offices and find NOTHING BUT LINUX & BSD!
Microsoft, wake up, you guys are crap! All those opensource people, they are not doing it because they hate you, not really, they are doing it because the alternative is simply shit! So what if some opensource solutions were not comparable to certain microsoft products? Bullshit walks, and money talks, and soon enough your money source will be no more as the opensource products out there better your products. I use OpenOffice and I love it, and I did not pay a dime for it.
Anyone who says IBM did not innovate, does not understand that the number one company today is IBM, holding the MOST patents! You don't know the kind of research facilities IBM runs, you don't know the kind of genious researchers working for IBM, and how they do not have to suffer draconian internal cultures such as the people in Microsoft.
Ballmer, WAKE UP! You like Google? No you don't! You hate their guts because they represent "Good" while MSFT represents "Evil". They are just so good there's nothing you can say against them. For example, They are not the ones removing spyware from their anti-spyware programs as part of a strategic move (hint!). They are not the ones buying young technology companies, in order to stiffle them and kill the competition before it reaches wide markets. They don't steal technology and try to make it better, like microsoft does (Never mind that Microsoft ends up making it worse yet, AND proprietary! Which is ridiculous!)
I strongly suggest you guys do things right while you have the money & the power. The chances are slipping under your feet. You guys have the chance to make it right, still - don't lose it! Such interviews do not impress people like myself - they do the opposite. Think about THAT.
It looks like while approved registrar are looking to enlarge their market share by providing APIs and fake front-ends to "resellers", they can not or will not take responsibility for their reseller's customers when said resellers go away or "die" misteriously. I had the same problem with dodora.net and with directi.com. It looked like dodora.net disappeared and was then sued or perhaps just went chapter 11, directi.com tried to take over but trashed many, MANY domains in the process (I lost almost 10 domains for customers due to their negligence). At some point a year later dodora.net came back like superman in the last moment, trying to save the day, but it was too little too late, and i've already managed to move most of my domains to namecheap.com which i'm very happy with! (overall BEST features i've seen with ANY registrar yet!)
So my advice to you is to not get anywhere near either dodora.net or directi.com, don't say I didn't warn you. It is most unfortunate that some companies / people are just not stable and reliable enough to do business with.
In my opinion, any bacteria that managed to make it through the space travel to Mars probably deserves to be the first to infect a new planet;-)
(As opposed to having humans infect that planet first, with dirty politics, AOL cd-roms, mcdonalds and taco bell franchises, and microsoft based operating systems...).
I want an Apple Newton, with a color screen, a faster processor (400Mhz+), 16bit Stereo Audio, a 3.3MP camera, flatter design and just a TAD smaller than the 2100. It should keep its two PCMCIA slots (VERY convenient), or at least keep one, and swap the second one for SDIO. Should have WIFI and Bluetooth, and also a GSM or CDMA phone module built-in, with a retractable antenna. Should also lose the interconnect port, in favor of a USB 2.0 port. Lots of RAM. I mean LOTS.
THIS, My frinds, is THE perfect mobile computing device which I would GLADLY pay $1000 to get. I'm serious. If it existed now, I would RUN to the store screaming, waving the dollar bills in my hand, heart pumping at 200bps.
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I actually do happen to have a clue, Anonymous Coward.
And as I suspected might happen following GoDaddy's cowardly (and patently false) statement, today the "hacker" (who obviously also has no clue?) released some more data he obtained during his attack, to prove that it wasn't a GoDaddy "Glitch". I suspect with their level of incompetence, he probably still has access!
I don't buy this for a nickel, and I doubt they are even capable of detecting that a problem was caused by "external influences".
Laughably feeble attempt to save face in front of countless customers who should have known better than to use GoDaddy services.
Ok it seems that Dimdim was acquired by SalesForce...
Sorry but Mikogo is not OSS...!
Look at Dimdim instead.
Exactly, and thankfully the gTLDs are not controlled by these people. Funny how they are ok with .xxx but .gay is totally wrong!?
Here's the thing tough: This is hitting a nerve with them because they know they have a large gay population that they can't uncover and can't do anything about.
I don't hold much hope fot the Saudis to see the light and butt out (pun not intended) of people's individual choices.
You would think they would be all for it because once it's in effect they can simply block by TLD. Right? Wrong.
With this request they are simply advertising to the world: "We are serious about remaining unintelligent, primitive bigots".
I know. It was a sad sarcastic joke. I agree with you 100%.
PC era gone? but wait... Steam is coming to Linux! We're saved!
Yes that's true, but I actually owned Steam when I was 100% Linux based, and I ran games under CrossOver for a long while. But I would gladly re-buy Steam just for the chance of running it natively.
Excellent argument. Probably 100% valid, too.
Wha..??! DLL hell vanished from Microsoft OS's? Ha! HA HA HA! *HA HA HA HA HA HA HA*!!!
Thank you, I didn't laugh like this for a while...
But I agree with you on the grafting part, and that's what I meant. Once it works on Ubuntu, it will be very easy to port it to any other Linux distro. Whether or not Steam will officially support it is another issue (they may choose not to). What I also meant, is that Steam will be able to target Linux based gaming consoles. Heck, the OS is already there, and doesn't cost a damn thing. Why wouldn't they create their own dream console? Building it in China will cost peanuts and they will then have their own walled garden, with total control over the OS and what comes in and out of it. Total predictability. Gaming studios will love that. And Steam really does grok gamers, gaming and game distribution (and the whole business behind it). They will be in a position to completely replace the old style gaming distribution channels. It makes sense strategically.
I agree with you 100%. I think id Software and Epic did not have enough "weight" to bring studios into their product. Plus, it's been many, many years that Steam have been waiting quietly for the right moment. Now they are diving in, and this is going signal others that Linux has finally matured enough for Steam to enter in a major way. And we all know how VC's are like cattle, they need a leader they can follow like a herd (no offense intended to cattle).
Valve have a golden opportunity here, in several ways:
1. Ubuntu is a first stepping stone. Once they have the Linux experience, they can target all kinds of Linux based platforms & set top boxes, as they become popular. It's just like UbuntuTV in a sense - It takes a stable operating system and tailors it to a niche market, adds the back-office sauce into the soup, and you suddenly have a serious iTunes/Netflix contender (technologically anyway).
2. I believe game producers are going to see this as a blessing: Valve becoming the major conduit through which serious games flow into the Linux world, paving the road for those producers into user's desktops, while providing billing, game discovery, content distribution, and community tools. Nobody else is doing this at the moment with Linux, except for Canonical who have created their own "App Store" application (which by the way is pretty good!). So imaging Canonical's "App store" on steroids, for games! Once enough games are built for Linux, why would anyone use Microsoft Windows for gaming?
3. When you are first to capture a market, you become the dominant player. The longer you're the dominant player, the more difficult it becomes to unseat you from your throne.
Actually the GUI-fication of Windows Server was one of the many reasons Windows based networks are so insecure and poorly configured. It creates this notion that any "kid" can configure a Windows Active Directory Domain, and small to medium sized (and sometimes larger) companies hired amateurs to save a buck. I met some pretty bad sysadmins in the last 20 years of my life, who left a horrible mess wherever they lay their hands.
Not to mention that the GUI kept changing every year, because that's just how Microsoft does stuff; anything you learn becomes obsolete a year later. They are very volatile like that. This is not so in the Unix world, where API's and tools are kept minimalistic, are cleverly crafted, slowly improved upon, with stable releases coming out every few years instead of betas coming out every month. Indeed, history shows that a Unix person retains his knowledge for decades. Show me one Windows person who can say that what he learned about Windows 2000 Server is still useful?
Enough with the Microsoft Bashing, here's one product I actually liked that took the CLI forward: Splunk. They took the CLI and put it in a Web browser! Splunk is basically a data collection tool that pipes everything through whatever you type into the web based "CLI" prompt, with the basic function being a combination of "grep", sed, awk, with powerful regular expressions, etc.
The beauty of it is that you can take your piped processes, and save them as a "View", and you can even create charts based on the resulting data. The result is a Unix admin's dream dashboard into the depths of his IT environment. I seriously recommend any Unix head look into that technology, especially considering the product has a free version (the free edition removes some "enterprise" features, but for many applications you won't miss those features at all).
I also like the combined approach: UI tools that produce either scripts or configuration files that you can read and understand and modify manually if you wish. Make a change in the configuration file? It will register in the UI. Made a change through the UI? It will register in the files and scripts. You get the best of both worlds this way.
It seems people are too harsh on Flash, for no reason really.
Personally I see it as a failure of the tech world to understand why some people were stubbornly holding on to Flash.
Flash was a very easy way for product designers to develop some pretty advanced client side technologies, with a plugin that had more than 90% adoption rates. iOS changed that, much to adobe's chagrin.
But like some commenters said, this technology is now being killed without proper replacements. You still can't do socket communications directly from within a browser without using plugins. Definitely not with UDP. This was one of the reasons Flash was awesome. It filled the gap of all those features missing in a browser (or available only in some and not in others).
And let's not even start with the authoring tool - I have yet to see a tool that was as friendly and intuitive as Adobe's for producing Flash apps.
Tell you what, I can understand their motives... people allow unsigned code to run, don't they? I am guessing they understood human nature is susceptible to social engineering, and wanted to avoid it all.
Too bad for them, human nature is more powerful than DRM, and the Dark Side shall prevail ;-)
And about that Bluetooth thing, watch for BlueSn0w which have only just recently released a demonstration of a working hack. This is going to open many exciting capabilities to iPhone users, such as Stereo Audio, sending contacts via BT, and many others.
I wish people would stop saying "unnaturally" all the time. We are humans, we are part of nature, and whatever we make is nature's result. This includes bombs, world wars, vaccines, new genetically microbes and medications, and what not.
We ARE nature! Whatever we create, is natural for us to create. Get in the game already, or go back to wearing skins.
You are indeed NOT an eBay person. I personally bought stuff on eBay before. I purchased books (they were fine). I purchased 4 digium cards for my Asterisk VOIP gateway, they worked. So--Maybe I got lucky, if to judge by the overall negative opinions here!
But I think you are missing the point completely - some people LIKE to haggle. They enjoy the act of buying in an auction, and the fun factor is important. In some cultures the sellers would be offended if you did not haggle. For example if you go to a persian market, here are some possible outcomes:
1. You buy the item no questions asked? The guy will think you are: a) stupid b) rich c) have no time
2. You haggle, the merchant has some fun, maybe he lowers the price a bit, but since the price was artificially boosted a bit in advance, it's ok, everybody wins.
3. You haggle too much, the merchant enjoys it a bit at first, but at some point he loses his patience and decides not to sell to you at all! (No Kafia for you, come back 1 year!)
Just try to have fun, we live once!
Skaag
Ballmer, you are full of shit. You know why?
Anyone who says IBM and Oracle did not innovate is full of shit.
It is a person who did not dirty his hands with actual technology. Ballmer, show me your MSSQL Engine and let's compare it with the work of art & genious that is the Oracle SQL engine. It is like comparing "Made in Taiwan" and "Made in Switzerland" with Microsoft being the cheap taiwanese crap.
You guys managed to push your Windows SHIT over IBM's amazing OS/2 not because it was better. Far from it. You guys just had better marketing! You made dirty deals with intel and retail channels. You forced your crap upon us for too long, and now it's backlashing against you. I don't care that Microsoft is one of the richest companies on this planet - I don't use ANY of your products. Your BSA thugs are no use against me! They can visit my company offices and find NOTHING BUT LINUX & BSD!
Microsoft, wake up, you guys are crap! All those opensource people, they are not doing it because they hate you, not really, they are doing it because the alternative is simply shit! So what if some opensource solutions were not comparable to certain microsoft products? Bullshit walks, and money talks, and soon enough your money source will be no more as the opensource products out there better your products. I use OpenOffice and I love it, and I did not pay a dime for it.
Anyone who says IBM did not innovate, does not understand that the number one company today is IBM, holding the MOST patents! You don't know the kind of research facilities IBM runs, you don't know the kind of genious researchers working for IBM, and how they do not have to suffer draconian internal cultures such as the people in Microsoft.
Ballmer, WAKE UP! You like Google? No you don't! You hate their guts because they represent "Good" while MSFT represents "Evil". They are just so good there's nothing you can say against them. For example, They are not the ones removing spyware from their anti-spyware programs as part of a strategic move (hint!). They are not the ones buying young technology companies, in order to stiffle them and kill the competition before it reaches wide markets. They don't steal technology and try to make it better, like microsoft does (Never mind that Microsoft ends up making it worse yet, AND proprietary! Which is ridiculous!)
I strongly suggest you guys do things right while you have the money & the power. The chances are slipping under your feet. You guys have the chance to make it right, still - don't lose it! Such interviews do not impress people like myself - they do the opposite. Think about THAT.
Skaag
It looks like while approved registrar are looking to enlarge their market share by providing APIs and fake front-ends to "resellers", they can not or will not take responsibility for their reseller's customers when said resellers go away or "die" misteriously. I had the same problem with dodora.net and with directi.com. It looked like dodora.net disappeared and was then sued or perhaps just went chapter 11, directi.com tried to take over but trashed many, MANY domains in the process (I lost almost 10 domains for customers due to their negligence). At some point a year later dodora.net came back like superman in the last moment, trying to save the day, but it was too little too late, and i've already managed to move most of my domains to namecheap.com which i'm very happy with! (overall BEST features i've seen with ANY registrar yet!)
So my advice to you is to not get anywhere near either dodora.net or directi.com, don't say I didn't warn you. It is most unfortunate that some companies / people are just not stable and reliable enough to do business with.
Skaag
Aren't we supposed to hit a point of no return with the planet's condition, in around 10 years? Isn't everything we do until then kinda pointless? :-)
In my opinion, any bacteria that managed to make it through the space travel to Mars probably deserves to be the first to infect a new planet ;-)
(As opposed to having humans infect that planet first, with dirty politics, AOL cd-roms, mcdonalds and taco bell franchises, and microsoft based operating systems...).
Skaag
It's funny how we can land something on mars, that has a robotic vehicle inside, but we can't land a simple capsule on earth, with no vehicles inside.
I think that for $264M this is a pretty silly mistake...
Just my two grams of desert sand..
Skaag
I want an Apple Newton, with a color screen, a faster processor (400Mhz+), 16bit Stereo Audio, a 3.3MP camera, flatter design and just a TAD smaller than the 2100. It should keep its two PCMCIA slots (VERY convenient), or at least keep one, and swap the second one for SDIO. Should have WIFI and Bluetooth, and also a GSM or CDMA phone module built-in, with a retractable antenna. Should also lose the interconnect port, in favor of a USB 2.0 port. Lots of RAM. I mean LOTS.
THIS, My frinds, is THE perfect mobile computing device which I would GLADLY pay $1000 to get. I'm serious. If it existed now, I would RUN to the store screaming, waving the dollar bills in my hand, heart pumping at 200bps.
Skaag