Well 4, But when you go from one version to another, there are no real differences, other than some of the included features. Linux distros vary much more. The way you do things on Ubuntu and Debian are not quite the same as Red Hat. Sometimes software doesn't always run correctly on each distro.
From the 43 selectors 10 have passed, 1 are buggy and 32 are unsupported (Passed 276 out of 578 tests)
IE6 still makes up for 40-45% of the users on the site I maintain for work. Opera is less than.5%, So its cool that it will support it, but it doesn't do me any good.
I could see that if the type of service is extremely customized to the end user. But for most cases, canceling an account is just as easy as setting up the account in the first place.
True, but whats to stop a key from a hardware based player from being compromised? You could release a firmware update, but how many people would expect to install it?
If a large number of device keys become compromised, revoking all of them would be a nightmare. I don't see how its possible to keep a key secret forever. Especially in software.
Farenheit/IP was more experimental than most adventure games. Instead of giving you just cut scenes to sit there and watch, it tried to make the interactive. I don't think it was very successful, but at least they tried.
The open source community has limited resources in manpower. Most people are volunteers and are limited in how much time they can contribute. This said, it would seem logical, that in the case of a common goal, there is only one project to support it.
Take for example browsers. In the open source world, we have Mozilla, KHTML and other rendering engines, plus all the different browsers that are based on those engines. Some are created for special circumstances (mobile platforms, consoles), but many are just different ways of solving the same problem. A PC browser. The question is would we be better off pooling these resources behind one project, instead of splitting it up and fragmenting our resources into many different projects.
Having other projects are not necessarily a bad thing. It does open up development for other ideas to be tried. Look at Debian, a fork is not being created because of practical or developmental reasons, but for idealogical reasons. Now should the limited manpower resource be devoted to maintaining that fork? To what end? There is no reason that Firefox or fork of even needs to be included in the Debian distribution. Its not included with Windows or OS X.
Did google do the right thing is changing is buisness practices to do business in china?
The problem is what is the right action on googles part in this situation. If you look at the issue of ethical company practices, it is correct for a company to follow the laws of the country that its doing business in.
But in this case the law has to do with censorship and freedom of speech. Each culture has its own perspectives on freedom of speech. Even in the US, speech is not completly free (libel, slander, media gatekeepers, political correctness, hate speech).
China has its own ideas of what free speech means. Sure many people in the US and Europe dont agree with it. But at the same time, there hasnt been a revolution in China to change that. Its not Google's or any corporations job to change that. They are responsible to thier shareholders and responsible for following the law where ever they do buisness. Free speech in China will come, when the people of China want it.
Quantity is probably not the best way to look at it. Everyone puts a value for diffrent content. While I would never pay to see a film like the Break Up, I think $20 for HL2:Episode one is a good price to pay reguardless of length.
So is it worth $20, yes to some people it will be. But not for everyone.
Even though its 15 months out from the launch, the game is still in a growth phase. No other MMORPG has grown as far and as quickly and WoW has. At some point the population growth will peak and the hardware will catch up to that.
1. Fix your price at a point higher than what the market wants. 2. Find comsumers who priate your music because they dont want to pay set price. 3. Extort said persons for more than they would ever spend in a year for music. 4. ??? 5. Profit
They got it pretty good, they make money of those who acutally buy thier songs and make money of those who dont.
This is always an argument used against open source, but its a poor one.
With general software development practices as well as because of other things, both open and closed source software will have securtiy issues.
But the probability of finding them in open source software is much greater because you have access to the source. It does not mean that open source software may have more bugs.
With the benifit of having the source code, its more likely that it will be found and fixed before an exploit is developed. WIth closed source, its more likely the knowlege of the issue will be known publically with the release of an exploit.
Basically, they own the domains uk.com and several others in that form and are selling out subdomains. If someone accesses a subdomain not purchased, it would go to thier sales page.
The genre was already on its way out. Myst revitalized it for awhile, but i was killed off by all the myst style clones. There are still good adventure games being made, but they get released at about 1-2 per year.
Im looking forward to Dreamfall and Indigo Prophecy. Both expected to be relased later this year.
All though they have over 4 million subscribers, the subscription plans vary by region. North America is $15 per month, but i doubt thats the same in Korea or China.
Secondly, operations in China at least have been outsourced to another company. Blizzard still makes money on it, but probably less than they would if they ran it there as well.
No, but it is what prevents our economy from looking like Cuba (no food is available), Russia (no heating fuel is available) or Canada (9 months of waiting for a mammogram).
And we are better how?
Health Care 40 million plus cannot afford it Many more cant afford enough to cover all their expenses and are often driven into bankruptcy We spend more than any other country for our healthcare (14% of GDP), the only thing we can show for it is you will get care when you want it if you can afford it.
Work Many of us work 60+ hour work weeks. Some by choice my most not. This also drives up health care to due to stress related illnesses Skilled labor is outsourced if possible leaving low paying service jobs open to those looking for work.
Money Growing poverty rate Push to personal and private sector retirement savings while encouraging spending and spending into debt to "stimulate the economy" Most of the spending goes into what can provide short term changes (subsides to lower prices) rather than long term planning to a greater cost down the road (katrina)
Free market benefits the top 5-10 percent of the population. While the middle 60 percent MIGHT make it through alright, the rest get screwed. To have winners you need to have losers.
My bias, I'm definetly not a communist, but I'm not a free market hawk either. Some sectors should not be privatized (healthcare) and the other sectors should have legislation to keep the market in check.
If it was just that, your right, thats all they needed to do. But he took his actions outside the game world and sold the items for real money. Now you just cant give the items back as the people who purchased the items would want to be refunded.
That could border on fraud and they would need to involve outside enforcement to resolve the issue.
Google is not however using off the shelf distros. They have custimized thier own version of linux to do what they need. Not everyone wants to do that or has the resources to do so.
Although I do agree, I dont think a law is going to do much to change anything, if anything, it will make things worse.
1. Unable to buy the game, those who want to play it may end up just pirating it. 2. This doesnt do anything about parents going into the store to buy thier children inapropriate games. 3. Taxpayers are paying for what parents should be doing.
Im going to sound like a broken record, but the real issue is with parents not wanting to take responsibilty for thier kids and then turning around and blaming the games they play when they do something bad.
When my keyboards get full of crap, I ussually just toss them out and buy a new one for $10. The time it would take to clean is not worth it.
If im going to spend a couple hundred dollars on a keyboard, I want to be able to hold up whatever gets in the keys and be able to be cleaned very easily.
I dont think anyone has said that we will be completly off oil with fuel cells. After all, plastics are made from oil as well as other things. But, the idea is to decrease our oil consumption, and so we still have enough oil for its other uses and rely less on oil comming from other countries.
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Well 4, But when you go from one version to another, there are no real differences, other than some of the included features. Linux distros vary much more. The way you do things on Ubuntu and Debian are not quite the same as Red Hat. Sometimes software doesn't always run correctly on each distro.
From the 43 selectors 10 have passed, 1 are buggy and 32 are unsupported (Passed 276 out of 578 tests)
.5%, So its cool that it will support it, but it doesn't do me any good.
IE6 still makes up for 40-45% of the users on the site I maintain for work. Opera is less than
I could see that if the type of service is extremely customized to the end user. But for most cases, canceling an account is just as easy as setting up the account in the first place.
True, but whats to stop a key from a hardware based player from being compromised? You could release a firmware update, but how many people would expect to install it?
If a large number of device keys become compromised, revoking all of them would be a nightmare. I don't see how its possible to keep a key secret forever. Especially in software.
Farenheit/IP was more experimental than most adventure games. Instead of giving you just cut scenes to sit there and watch, it tried to make the interactive. I don't think it was very successful, but at least they tried.
The open source community has limited resources in manpower. Most people are volunteers and are limited in how much time they can contribute. This said, it would seem logical, that in the case of a common goal, there is only one project to support it.
Take for example browsers. In the open source world, we have Mozilla, KHTML and other rendering engines, plus all the different browsers that are based on those engines. Some are created for special circumstances (mobile platforms, consoles), but many are just different ways of solving the same problem. A PC browser. The question is would we be better off pooling these resources behind one project, instead of splitting it up and fragmenting our resources into many different projects.
Having other projects are not necessarily a bad thing. It does open up development for other ideas to be tried. Look at Debian, a fork is not being created because of practical or developmental reasons, but for idealogical reasons. Now should the limited manpower resource be devoted to maintaining that fork? To what end? There is no reason that Firefox or fork of even needs to be included in the Debian distribution. Its not included with Windows or OS X.
Did google do the right thing is changing is buisness practices to do business in china?
The problem is what is the right action on googles part in this situation. If you look at the issue of ethical company practices, it is correct for a company to follow the laws of the country that its doing business in.
But in this case the law has to do with censorship and freedom of speech. Each culture has its own perspectives on freedom of speech. Even in the US, speech is not completly free (libel, slander, media gatekeepers, political correctness, hate speech).
China has its own ideas of what free speech means. Sure many people in the US and Europe dont agree with it. But at the same time, there hasnt been a revolution in China to change that. Its not Google's or any corporations job to change that. They are responsible to thier shareholders and responsible for following the law where ever they do buisness. Free speech in China will come, when the people of China want it.
Quantity is probably not the best way to look at it. Everyone puts a value for diffrent content. While I would never pay to see a film like the Break Up, I think $20 for HL2:Episode one is a good price to pay reguardless of length.
So is it worth $20, yes to some people it will be. But not for everyone.
Even though its 15 months out from the launch, the game is still in a growth phase. No other MMORPG has grown as far and as quickly and WoW has. At some point the population growth will peak and the hardware will catch up to that.
Record Industry Buiness plan
1. Fix your price at a point higher than what the market wants.
2. Find comsumers who priate your music because they dont want to pay set price.
3. Extort said persons for more than they would ever spend in a year for music.
4. ???
5. Profit
They got it pretty good, they make money of those who acutally buy thier songs and make money of those who dont.
Also very questionable legality outside of Russia. If your going to do that, you might as well just download the music for free off your favorite P2P.
This does appear to be a tad misleading. Business Objects is not open sourcing anything, but instead are supporting thier products on Eclipse.
This is always an argument used against open source, but its a poor one.
With general software development practices as well as because of other things, both open and closed source software will have securtiy issues.
But the probability of finding them in open source software is much greater because you have access to the source. It does not mean that open source software may have more bugs.
With the benifit of having the source code, its more likely that it will be found and fixed before an exploit is developed. WIth closed source, its more likely the knowlege of the issue will be known publically with the release of an exploit.
Basically, they own the domains uk.com and several others in that form and are selling out subdomains. If someone accesses a subdomain not purchased, it would go to thier sales page.
The genre was already on its way out. Myst revitalized it for awhile, but i was killed off by all the myst style clones. There are still good adventure games being made, but they get released at about 1-2 per year.
Im looking forward to Dreamfall and Indigo Prophecy. Both expected to be relased later this year.
Its sad to see them go.
Though this wasnt entirely unexpected. They put alot of money into URU only to have it never get off the ground.
So they ended up relying on publishers to fund new projects, and most publishers won't fund a triple AAA adventure game.
Its sad to see them go, but such is life.
Thats not quite accurate.
All though they have over 4 million subscribers, the subscription plans vary by region. North America is $15 per month, but i doubt thats the same in Korea or China.
Secondly, operations in China at least have been outsourced to another company. Blizzard still makes money on it, but probably less than they would if they ran it there as well.
No, but it is what prevents our economy from looking like Cuba (no food is available), Russia (no heating fuel is available) or Canada (9 months of waiting for a mammogram).
And we are better how?
Health Care
40 million plus cannot afford it
Many more cant afford enough to cover all their expenses and are often driven into bankruptcy
We spend more than any other country for our healthcare (14% of GDP), the only thing we can show for it is you will get care when you want it if you can afford it.
Work
Many of us work 60+ hour work weeks. Some by choice my most not. This also drives up health care to due to stress related illnesses
Skilled labor is outsourced if possible leaving low paying service jobs open to those looking for work.
Money
Growing poverty rate
Push to personal and private sector retirement savings while encouraging spending and spending into debt to "stimulate the economy"
Most of the spending goes into what can provide short term changes (subsides to lower prices) rather than long term planning to a greater cost down the road (katrina)
Free market benefits the top 5-10 percent of the population. While the middle 60 percent MIGHT make it through alright, the rest get screwed. To have winners you need to have losers.
My bias, I'm definetly not a communist, but I'm not a free market hawk either. Some sectors should not be privatized (healthcare) and the other sectors should have legislation to keep the market in check.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butte%2C_Montana The history of butte Montana his a good example of capitalism gone wrong.
If it was just that, your right, thats all they needed to do. But he took his actions outside the game world and sold the items for real money. Now you just cant give the items back as the people who purchased the items would want to be refunded.
That could border on fraud and they would need to involve outside enforcement to resolve the issue.
Google is not however using off the shelf distros. They have custimized thier own version of linux to do what they need. Not everyone wants to do that or has the resources to do so.
Taxing churches for extermists who commit crimes in the name of God and Christianity?
By taxing online porn providers, it is inidicating that these providers are responsible for those perverts who traffic in child porn.
Although I do agree, I dont think a law is going to do much to change anything, if anything, it will make things worse.
1. Unable to buy the game, those who want to play it may end up just pirating it.
2. This doesnt do anything about parents going into the store to buy thier children inapropriate games.
3. Taxpayers are paying for what parents should be doing.
Im going to sound like a broken record, but the real issue is with parents not wanting to take responsibilty for thier kids and then turning around and blaming the games they play when they do something bad.
When my keyboards get full of crap, I ussually just toss them out and buy a new one for $10. The time it would take to clean is not worth it.
If im going to spend a couple hundred dollars on a keyboard, I want to be able to hold up whatever gets in the keys and be able to be cleaned very easily.
It sure is, but was good for the economy is not nessarily good for everybody.
I dont think anyone has said that we will be completly off oil with fuel cells. After all, plastics are made from oil as well as other things. But, the idea is to decrease our oil consumption, and so we still have enough oil for its other uses and rely less on oil comming from other countries.