They may be trading using a brand name owned by France Telecom but that doesn't change the fact that if you are using Orange in Australia then it's H.T. that's running the show.
Particularly when crossing Vodafone/Optus networks . I used to have "message confirmation" turned on but Vodafone decided to start charging me extra for that last year so I had to turn it off.
We'll leave a load of copies floating in orbit around the planet before we nuke each other out of existence.
When the next dominant species emerges from the sludge and reaches a stage where spaceflight is possible then they can just pick one up.
Then all the archaologists in the new species can down tools and start working on more forward looking matters, such as working out new ways to kill each other en-mass.
I bought a PS (one) and only really played Metal Gear Solid on it and eventually gave it away. I'd have been better off renting it from a video store for a weekend. On the other hand I don't think that GTA VC is likely to be the sort of game you can knock over in a weekend, so perhaps it wouldn't work in the same way.
The fuller quote you posted doesn't change anything. They are still rewarding exclusivity, all other thing being equal.
All things being equal, I'd prefer them to reward people for making games available to more people (which means more platforms. I prefer choice to restriction, what's stupid about that?
A good game deserves to win over a worse one, no question about that.
These guys are saying that if two games are "equal" they'll prefer the one which is more restricted in terms of availability.
You obviously really don't want to play those games if you haven't bought the consoles that will play those games
What cretinously ridiculous bollocks. These things cost money.
Personally I ended up buying an Xbox for myself a few weeks ago, it was a reasonably good deal, came with Halo which I've heard is excellent (as well as a couple of other games) and seems to be a bit more "state of the art" than the PS2. And of course I can play Buffy on it (which I'd previously played on a demo box in a store and liked). I still want to play GTA Vice City, but there's no way I can justify buying a PS2 just for that.
All other things being equal, we preferred to honor those games that were released exclusively for a particular platform
Dickheads. Exclusivity is a pain in the arse to gamers. I want to play Buffy The Vampire Slayer and GTA Vice City. Rewarding exclusivity in your reviews isn't exactly pro-user, it's pro-marketing bullshit.
Is that if MS make such a policy change they are dictating to everyone as no-one else has the rights required to forge another route, it's their way or the highway
No one is in such a forced dependancy relationship with the Kernel developers. We may depend upon them by choice, but if what they do really is seen as unacceptable then the rights given to us all by the kernel licence protect us from being completely at their whim.
If (and when) Microsoft do this it's significantly worse because they have total control of their operating system.
If the changes the Linux folk are making are indeed heinous then any one of us is permitted to fork if we so desire. With MS it would be all or nothing. With Linux if you don't like what you're being offered you can change it if you want to.
but it still functions perfectly. The outer case is scratched to buggery and a lot of the silver paint has gone. Countless times I've dropped it and had it go in five different directions at once (face plate, buttons, battery cover, battery, core) but it remains problem free.
I think in part it's because it is so small. Under the covers the internals are in such a tight little package there just isn't enough room for them to wiggle about. Also that internal package is held together by screws, rather than being held together by the plastic casing as appeared to be the case in earlier phones I've had.
But there are better, more convenient options that are becoming close to universal.
For small (ie floppy disk sized) bits of information e-mail is usually sufficient and easiest, you typically don't have to carry anything around to use email to store/transfer files.
For bigger things CD-R or CD-RW are usually quite convenient and accessible these days.
For their own use I guess a lot of people might have more proprietary technologies at their disposal. I use Memory Sticks for moving things up to 128meg back and forwards from work.
A month or so ago my video started chewing up tapes. Time for a new one I thought, nothing too fancy, I have a DVD player for movies so for time-shifting TV all I wanted was something simple, 2 heads, easy to program.
Oh, and I wanted something black. I have a black TV, a black DVD player and black speakers. It would be nice if the video would at least vaguely fit in with the rest of my equipment.
But no one makes a black VCR, it's unbelievable, every single one is silver. All they need to do is offer the same VCR in two different coloured cases, there can't be much added expense there. I checked online and visited over 10 physical stores. Most of the staff at the stores said it was far from the first time they'd heard someone asking them if they had any black VCRs
In the end I got a "last years model" Sony which wasn't black, but was at least a dark grey matt.
between Sony choosing to bundle Star Office with their PCs and offer them for sale and MS _requiring_ other MS software be installed on other peoples products.
When I bought my Vaio in the UK a few months ago I was surprised to find it didn't come with an office suite at all (which is no big deal to me, I didn't check because an Office Suite wasn't on my list of requirements. I've since installed OpenOffice just in case I need one, but I've not used it yet).
They may as well just wire all their money directly to MS, Apple and their lawyers.
Unless of course you're talking about distributing it without the codecs, in which case it's useless anyway. If people have to hunt down the codecs they may as well grab the most recent version of the software while their at it.
Which has those security problems fixed.
If your opera:about says build 2349 you've got the newer one. If it's a lower build than that you should consider downloading "Opera for Windows Beta 1 v.2" from their website
You could do the same thing with any one of images, iframes, objects, javascript etc etc etc.
There is nothing new to fear from prefetching.
Will be interesting to see if that remains true
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Opera 7 beta on Windows now seems to use it's own widgets rather than windows ones. The current exceptions to this seem to be scroll bars, menus and legacy dialogues (like the preferences, which should be replaced by the time it finishes beta).
According to one of the Operafolk there should be less lag between Windows and other platforms in the 7 series because even more of the code is cross platform. It'll be interesting to see if the custom widgets are part of that.
Would be to have the code open but have the 'threat' to shut down public access to the code and new releases on a certain date if a certain amount of money isn't raised.
Ideally this could be automated, ie the core developers could set how much they want a month and let it run itself.
In this case there is incentive for users to pay to keep the development open so that external contributors can help and so the software they use gets better faster.
Regardless of what Daniel thinks this is revolutionary simply because they did it first.
How they do it is an implementation detail of little relevance to anyone. This is exciting because they are doing it and on a browser that fits in a mobile phone.
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They may be trading using a brand name owned by France Telecom but that doesn't change the fact that if you are using Orange in Australia then it's H.T. that's running the show.
Particularly when crossing Vodafone/Optus networks . I used to have "message confirmation" turned on but Vodafone decided to start charging me extra for that last year so I had to turn it off.
We'll leave a load of copies floating in orbit around the planet before we nuke each other out of existence.
When the next dominant species emerges from the sludge and reaches a stage where spaceflight is possible then they can just pick one up.
Then all the archaologists in the new species can down tools and start working on more forward looking matters, such as working out new ways to kill each other en-mass.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
Not that's necessarily of much use to you either.
I bought a PS (one) and only really played Metal Gear Solid on it and eventually gave it away. I'd have been better off renting it from a video store for a weekend. On the other hand I don't think that GTA VC is likely to be the sort of game you can knock over in a weekend, so perhaps it wouldn't work in the same way.
The fuller quote you posted doesn't change anything. They are still rewarding exclusivity, all other thing being equal.
All things being equal, I'd prefer them to reward people for making games available to more people (which means more platforms. I prefer choice to restriction, what's stupid about that?
These guys are saying that if two games are "equal" they'll prefer the one which is more restricted in terms of availability. What cretinously ridiculous bollocks. These things cost money.
Personally I ended up buying an Xbox for myself a few weeks ago, it was a reasonably good deal, came with Halo which I've heard is excellent (as well as a couple of other games) and seems to be a bit more "state of the art" than the PS2. And of course I can play Buffy on it (which I'd previously played on a demo box in a store and liked). I still want to play GTA Vice City, but there's no way I can justify buying a PS2 just for that.
They don't like the idea at all.
One party choosing one leader=wrong. 2*(one party choosing one leader)=right.
That it is easy to implement is irrelevant. The fact is it's an innovative and intelligent idea.
Is that if MS make such a policy change they are dictating to everyone as no-one else has the rights required to forge another route, it's their way or the highway
No one is in such a forced dependancy relationship with the Kernel developers. We may depend upon them by choice, but if what they do really is seen as unacceptable then the rights given to us all by the kernel licence protect us from being completely at their whim.
If (and when) Microsoft do this it's significantly worse because they have total control of their operating system.
If the changes the Linux folk are making are indeed heinous then any one of us is permitted to fork if we so desire. With MS it would be all or nothing. With Linux if you don't like what you're being offered you can change it if you want to.
but it still functions perfectly. The outer case is scratched to buggery and a lot of the silver paint has gone. Countless times I've dropped it and had it go in five different directions at once (face plate, buttons, battery cover, battery, core) but it remains problem free.
I think in part it's because it is so small. Under the covers the internals are in such a tight little package there just isn't enough room for them to wiggle about. Also that internal package is held together by screws, rather than being held together by the plastic casing as appeared to be the case in earlier phones I've had.
But there are better, more convenient options that are becoming close to universal.
For small (ie floppy disk sized) bits of information e-mail is usually sufficient and easiest, you typically don't have to carry anything around to use email to store/transfer files.
For bigger things CD-R or CD-RW are usually quite convenient and accessible these days.
For their own use I guess a lot of people might have more proprietary technologies at their disposal. I use Memory Sticks for moving things up to 128meg back and forwards from work.
A month or so ago my video started chewing up tapes. Time for a new one I thought, nothing too fancy, I have a DVD player for movies so for time-shifting TV all I wanted was something simple, 2 heads, easy to program.
Oh, and I wanted something black. I have a black TV, a black DVD player and black speakers. It would be nice if the video would at least vaguely fit in with the rest of my equipment.
But no one makes a black VCR, it's unbelievable, every single one is silver. All they need to do is offer the same VCR in two different coloured cases, there can't be much added expense there. I checked online and visited over 10 physical stores. Most of the staff at the stores said it was far from the first time they'd heard someone asking them if they had any black VCRs
In the end I got a "last years model" Sony which wasn't black, but was at least a dark grey matt.
The laws violate YOU!
between Sony choosing to bundle Star Office with their PCs and offer them for sale and MS _requiring_ other MS software be installed on other peoples products.
When I bought my Vaio in the UK a few months ago I was surprised to find it didn't come with an office suite at all (which is no big deal to me, I didn't check because an Office Suite wasn't on my list of requirements. I've since installed OpenOffice just in case I need one, but I've not used it yet).
They may as well just wire all their money directly to MS, Apple and their lawyers.
Unless of course you're talking about distributing it without the codecs, in which case it's useless anyway. If people have to hunt down the codecs they may as well grab the most recent version of the software while their at it.
I'm always surprised at how much people seem to dislike it.
Which has those security problems fixed. If your opera:about says build 2349 you've got the newer one. If it's a lower build than that you should consider downloading "Opera for Windows Beta 1 v.2" from their website
You could do the same thing with any one of images, iframes, objects, javascript etc etc etc.
There is nothing new to fear from prefetching.
Opera 7 beta on Windows now seems to use it's own widgets rather than windows ones. The current exceptions to this seem to be scroll bars, menus and legacy dialogues (like the preferences, which should be replaced by the time it finishes beta).
According to one of the Operafolk there should be less lag between Windows and other platforms in the 7 series because even more of the code is cross platform. It'll be interesting to see if the custom widgets are part of that.
Would be to have the code open but have the 'threat' to shut down public access to the code and new releases on a certain date if a certain amount of money isn't raised.
Ideally this could be automated, ie the core developers could set how much they want a month and let it run itself.
In this case there is incentive for users to pay to keep the development open so that external contributors can help and so the software they use gets better faster.
Regardless of what Daniel thinks this is revolutionary simply because they did it first.
How they do it is an implementation detail of little relevance to anyone. This is exciting because they are doing it and on a browser that fits in a mobile phone.