Seriously dude, it's even right in the summary. Learn to fucking read.
It's even in the summary? The summary isn't some hard truth. It's comment part of the article and part from the submitter. This was my comment. Slashdot summaries aren't some exact truth. Sometimes they're actually pretty far from it.
Sony, who is known to pay millions towards Rockstar (with GTA series) and other developers to make PlayStation exclusives and offering them special deals, is saying Microsoft's policies are wrong when they try to fight against this old stupid shit with consoles?
I guess all the old OtherOS, PSN network hacking and other fiasco wasn't enough for Sony.
The recent developments within Google and their moving to identity servi.. social networking with demands for ID scans if someone reports you for "fake" name, and other general evil stuff just shows Google has matured as a company and is now just like everyone else. It's not a recent development either, it has been going on for several years, but now everyone else is starting to notice it too. They cut down the amount of geeky stuff like work-on-your-own-projects, they go aggressively into markets and they use every evil marketing tactic in the book.
That is fine. Every company is like that. But slashdotters should stop giving them free passes because they're "google".
Quite many. GroupOn and their multiple daily emails about new offers is perfect example of this. Spammers have just wisen up from the 90's (or, adjusted to laws, as spamming wasn't illegal back then)
It's not just governments - it's people in general. Same goes for relationships, business and since government is made of people, that too. There's nothing you can do about it. Well, except put computer algorithms to handle it, but even then the algorithm designers would try to cheat and get some advantage towards them. People in general are full of shit.
Google probably has their hands in it too. Galaxy Tab is the only widely known Android tablet and they need to push the idea that someone is actually using Android in tablets. They are a marketing company after all, so they play tricks. This says more about Google and Android than about Samsung, actually.
Google actually worked with those developers to make those games to Google+. No one else can sign up as develop yet. I would say Google played their role in it.
The circles won't do much if Google+ doesn't offer anything new or can't get people to move. Gaining popularity for new social networks is extremely hard because of the established user bases. Circles alone won't cut it. Besides, Facebook added those features too. Google+ succeeded in one thing - it made Facebook to improve their site a little bit.
It's bene out for a few months now and nothing that interesting has come out of it. People aren't moving there from Facebook, nothing interesting is happening there (compared to Facebook), and like the article states they missed some really great opportunities. I mean, Google is pushing for HTML5 and all kinds of nice new technologies. They used to innovate. They did nothing this.
I was actually interested to see what they have for offer. I saw Angry Birds and some mention about playing with your friends, so I asked my friend to join me, thinking "oh this should be fun together". But when we actually tried to see how to make a game, the great oh-so innovative multiplayer aspect was that the more friends you invite to play the game, the more levels you unlock. So fun! Not.
I see Google+ becoming just an another niche product within Google. Just like Orkut is mostly used by Brazilians. Google+ caters to the technical people and if you have those kind of friends or want to interact with them in some other way than the IRC, email, IM, forums and newsgroups, sure (though I'm not so sure that group wants to move on from the established places). There are technical people and some artful people, but that's pretty much it. It's a niche, and it's a niche that already mostly uses other mediums like forums, slashdot and newsgroups.
And donating massive amounts of money to Mozilla foundation.
Wait, what? They aren't donating anything. They're paying Mozilla to include Google as the default search in Firefox and paying commissions on ad clicks made from said search box. Donations.. sheesh Google really has made nerds completely blind to truth.
It's good people are finally starting to see how abusive Google's practices are. Both intentional and unintentional, like this one. This should show that Google shouldn't even try to do datamining like this as it can be used maliciously. Either by a rogue Google employee or other people.
And you could say exactly the same about US. It's always the students who oppose government and as people grow older they understand the issues. It's the same in China, it's the same in US, and it's the same pretty much everywhere in the world.
Yes, they are. Have you actually lived there? It's the same thing here on slashdot always when talking about countries little bit different than US. I've lived many times and many years in Thailand, yet every time there's some slashdot news about internet censorship in there, whole slashdot goes on a knee-jerk reaction telling how the government is being abusive. The truth is that the people want it. Same thing when talking about how it's unlawful to talk badly about the Thai King. Somehow in slashdot it's viewed somehow as that he made the law. It was the people who wanted it.
Do whatever you want in your own country, but don't go telling other countries how they should be. Let their people choose. If you want to comment about it, do get some actual own experience.
It's a matter of preference. Most Chinese want that the government controls those that oppose it or try to cause trouble. Same thing as the whole thing with terrorism in the US. China had a troublesome 1900's. Now there's finally peace, and Chinese want to maintain it. They support government with that. Why does US think they can dictate what other people choose?
The women joined the party and my god, the guy had the nerves to flirt with them. I mean come on, where is the world heading to when we see misconduct like that. Maybe any of us shouldn't even talk to each other so people don't get wrong ideas. At the same time the women of course weared sexy short skirts and shirts that highlights their boobs. I wonder why it's allowed for women to do that and show some leg too while if a man would show around part of his penis like that all women would label him as a pervert.
Do women hate sex? They do, but do you know why? Is it because of some kind of woman-guilt from an outdated puritan societal dogma? Or perhaps a stigma of guilt or a fear of abandonment? No. None of these things are it. Women hate sex simply because they are lousy at it.
This can be proved in a quick stroll down the checkout aisle at your local market of groceries — a place thick to the rafters with women. Take a look at some of their magazines and you will no doubt see a running theme: ‘Ten Ways to not suck in bed’, ‘Six Things to do to Your Man that aren’t Lay There Like a Futon’, and ‘Honestly who gives half a fuck about socks being on or off? Jesus Christ that’s pathetic’.
Also, much in the same way that a wall probably doesn’t like or doesn’t care about playing tennis with you, it’s definitely not your fault. Don’t let your sympathetic male compassion get the better of you. You could be dancing around like a maniac and pulling stunts out of your figurative ass like Johnny Magic the Wicked Awesome — maybe some whirl-arounds and in your face spikes from across the court — it’s really up to you as the man — but no matter what, the wall will remain unfazed. It just sits there doing nothing like a lump on a log probably thinking that it wants a new expensive coat of paint.
This same theory can be applied to many other things as well. For example: that women hate problems.
In Chinese, the symbol for crisis is the same as opportunity. I haven’t looked that up, but I heard it from a man so it’s probably true because us men have something called integrity. This means that in a time of crisis, we men are at our show stopping best. Take a flat tire on a moonless night for instance. While a man is out changing nuts and bolts and doing all manner of screwing on the side of the road, will a woman so much as think to grab a flashlight and help? No.
That’s because women hate holding flashlights, because they are complete rubbish at it. Force a woman to hold a flashlight when it matters and you’re likely to catch her aiming it into the sky for absolutely no goddamn reason. You’re better off just duct taping it to a mailbox and catapulting it into space.
Contributing back takes money and can be counter-productive for the community too - especially if it's introduces lots of buggy or bad code. Someone has to go through all of that. This is especially true because whatever you say, making actual contributions takes time and isn't really high in the list of companies priorities. You can say all you want about short-term thinking, but it's just a fact of life. Companies can't really do anything with it - unlike most people seem to think, many companies are working with really strict budgets too. They don't have unlimited access to cash or resources.
If you truly believe in open source, you should let anyone to decide what they do with the code. Some will contribute back, and those will be good contributions. Then some won't, nothing is lost. The same is why I think BSD license is much better GPL - if you truly believe in freedom, you let everyone to decide themselves. After all, open source was created to free people from proprietary code and people telling them what they can't do.
You are doing business. You need to look up the rules governing it. I understand that reading EULA's and other requirements are too much hassle for games and other personal things, but when you do business you need to read it. They are things that matter, so I do too. Same goes for proper handling of your business - be that documents (and dockets) governing your business, the filing of taxes or for example in medical industry making sure you have the correct certificates and that you are allowed to do what you do. Pure ignorance is not a valid reason.
BSA is a good organization. It generally doesn't go against private persons, but only companies. If you're profiting, you need to pay for the tools and software you use in your work. BSA going after those who pirate and profit off of others work is just the correct thing to do.
While ignoring things like ip or geo-based filtering, it's not like the person will somehow immediately find out about it. Most likely he would only come across it when someone points it out to him.
It's still just a tool. You can use tools for both good and bad. Just because it's Facebook I'm sure most of slashdot will attack it, as that's common thing here. But people should be consistent about their sayings - if you say "but it's just a tool" for one thing, you should hold the same line when it's something you don't like about.
Well ok. I can also put up a password-protected website that I only give access to certain people. I post shit about some person on there. Is it Apache Software Foundations fault, or my fault?
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Seriously dude, it's even right in the summary. Learn to fucking read.
It's even in the summary? The summary isn't some hard truth. It's comment part of the article and part from the submitter. This was my comment. Slashdot summaries aren't some exact truth. Sometimes they're actually pretty far from it.
Sony, who is known to pay millions towards Rockstar (with GTA series) and other developers to make PlayStation exclusives and offering them special deals, is saying Microsoft's policies are wrong when they try to fight against this old stupid shit with consoles?
I guess all the old OtherOS, PSN network hacking and other fiasco wasn't enough for Sony.
And why do you think Microsoft didn't either incorporate those into other products or didn't learn something valuable out of them?
The recent developments within Google and their moving to identity servi.. social networking with demands for ID scans if someone reports you for "fake" name, and other general evil stuff just shows Google has matured as a company and is now just like everyone else. It's not a recent development either, it has been going on for several years, but now everyone else is starting to notice it too. They cut down the amount of geeky stuff like work-on-your-own-projects, they go aggressively into markets and they use every evil marketing tactic in the book.
That is fine. Every company is like that. But slashdotters should stop giving them free passes because they're "google".
Quite many. GroupOn and their multiple daily emails about new offers is perfect example of this. Spammers have just wisen up from the 90's (or, adjusted to laws, as spamming wasn't illegal back then)
It's not just governments - it's people in general. Same goes for relationships, business and since government is made of people, that too. There's nothing you can do about it. Well, except put computer algorithms to handle it, but even then the algorithm designers would try to cheat and get some advantage towards them. People in general are full of shit.
Google probably has their hands in it too. Galaxy Tab is the only widely known Android tablet and they need to push the idea that someone is actually using Android in tablets. They are a marketing company after all, so they play tricks. This says more about Google and Android than about Samsung, actually.
There's no AJAX involved. It's pure JavaScript.
Why would they need to do AJAX call? Normal Javascript works just fine and saves requests and server resources.
Google actually worked with those developers to make those games to Google+. No one else can sign up as develop yet. I would say Google played their role in it.
The circles won't do much if Google+ doesn't offer anything new or can't get people to move. Gaining popularity for new social networks is extremely hard because of the established user bases. Circles alone won't cut it. Besides, Facebook added those features too. Google+ succeeded in one thing - it made Facebook to improve their site a little bit.
It's bene out for a few months now and nothing that interesting has come out of it. People aren't moving there from Facebook, nothing interesting is happening there (compared to Facebook), and like the article states they missed some really great opportunities. I mean, Google is pushing for HTML5 and all kinds of nice new technologies. They used to innovate. They did nothing this.
I was actually interested to see what they have for offer. I saw Angry Birds and some mention about playing with your friends, so I asked my friend to join me, thinking "oh this should be fun together". But when we actually tried to see how to make a game, the great oh-so innovative multiplayer aspect was that the more friends you invite to play the game, the more levels you unlock. So fun! Not.
I see Google+ becoming just an another niche product within Google. Just like Orkut is mostly used by Brazilians. Google+ caters to the technical people and if you have those kind of friends or want to interact with them in some other way than the IRC, email, IM, forums and newsgroups, sure (though I'm not so sure that group wants to move on from the established places). There are technical people and some artful people, but that's pretty much it. It's a niche, and it's a niche that already mostly uses other mediums like forums, slashdot and newsgroups.
And donating massive amounts of money to Mozilla foundation.
Wait, what? They aren't donating anything. They're paying Mozilla to include Google as the default search in Firefox and paying commissions on ad clicks made from said search box. Donations.. sheesh Google really has made nerds completely blind to truth.
It's good people are finally starting to see how abusive Google's practices are. Both intentional and unintentional, like this one. This should show that Google shouldn't even try to do datamining like this as it can be used maliciously. Either by a rogue Google employee or other people.
And you could say exactly the same about US. It's always the students who oppose government and as people grow older they understand the issues. It's the same in China, it's the same in US, and it's the same pretty much everywhere in the world.
Yes, they are. Have you actually lived there? It's the same thing here on slashdot always when talking about countries little bit different than US. I've lived many times and many years in Thailand, yet every time there's some slashdot news about internet censorship in there, whole slashdot goes on a knee-jerk reaction telling how the government is being abusive. The truth is that the people want it. Same thing when talking about how it's unlawful to talk badly about the Thai King. Somehow in slashdot it's viewed somehow as that he made the law. It was the people who wanted it.
Do whatever you want in your own country, but don't go telling other countries how they should be. Let their people choose. If you want to comment about it, do get some actual own experience.
It's a matter of preference. Most Chinese want that the government controls those that oppose it or try to cause trouble. Same thing as the whole thing with terrorism in the US. China had a troublesome 1900's. Now there's finally peace, and Chinese want to maintain it. They support government with that. Why does US think they can dictate what other people choose?
The women joined the party and my god, the guy had the nerves to flirt with them. I mean come on, where is the world heading to when we see misconduct like that. Maybe any of us shouldn't even talk to each other so people don't get wrong ideas. At the same time the women of course weared sexy short skirts and shirts that highlights their boobs. I wonder why it's allowed for women to do that and show some leg too while if a man would show around part of his penis like that all women would label him as a pervert.
Do women hate sex? They do, but do you know why? Is it because of some kind of woman-guilt from an outdated puritan societal dogma? Or perhaps a stigma of guilt or a fear of abandonment? No. None of these things are it. Women hate sex simply because they are lousy at it.
This can be proved in a quick stroll down the checkout aisle at your local market of groceries — a place thick to the rafters with women. Take a look at some of their magazines and you will no doubt see a running theme: ‘Ten Ways to not suck in bed’, ‘Six Things to do to Your Man that aren’t Lay There Like a Futon’, and ‘Honestly who gives half a fuck about socks being on or off? Jesus Christ that’s pathetic’.
Also, much in the same way that a wall probably doesn’t like or doesn’t care about playing tennis with you, it’s definitely not your fault. Don’t let your sympathetic male compassion get the better of you. You could be dancing around like a maniac and pulling stunts out of your figurative ass like Johnny Magic the Wicked Awesome — maybe some whirl-arounds and in your face spikes from across the court — it’s really up to you as the man — but no matter what, the wall will remain unfazed. It just sits there doing nothing like a lump on a log probably thinking that it wants a new expensive coat of paint.
This same theory can be applied to many other things as well. For example: that women hate problems.
In Chinese, the symbol for crisis is the same as opportunity. I haven’t looked that up, but I heard it from a man so it’s probably true because us men have something called integrity. This means that in a time of crisis, we men are at our show stopping best. Take a flat tire on a moonless night for instance. While a man is out changing nuts and bolts and doing all manner of screwing on the side of the road, will a woman so much as think to grab a flashlight and help? No.
That’s because women hate holding flashlights, because they are complete rubbish at it. Force a woman to hold a flashlight when it matters and you’re likely to catch her aiming it into the sky for absolutely no goddamn reason. You’re better off just duct taping it to a mailbox and catapulting it into space.
It was the allies, including Americans, that put those bans in place. So much for "the American way".
Contributing back takes money and can be counter-productive for the community too - especially if it's introduces lots of buggy or bad code. Someone has to go through all of that. This is especially true because whatever you say, making actual contributions takes time and isn't really high in the list of companies priorities. You can say all you want about short-term thinking, but it's just a fact of life. Companies can't really do anything with it - unlike most people seem to think, many companies are working with really strict budgets too. They don't have unlimited access to cash or resources.
If you truly believe in open source, you should let anyone to decide what they do with the code. Some will contribute back, and those will be good contributions. Then some won't, nothing is lost. The same is why I think BSD license is much better GPL - if you truly believe in freedom, you let everyone to decide themselves. After all, open source was created to free people from proprietary code and people telling them what they can't do.
It is. It's how every legit business is run there too. And in America.
That's the server version, not desktop one.
You are doing business. You need to look up the rules governing it. I understand that reading EULA's and other requirements are too much hassle for games and other personal things, but when you do business you need to read it. They are things that matter, so I do too. Same goes for proper handling of your business - be that documents (and dockets) governing your business, the filing of taxes or for example in medical industry making sure you have the correct certificates and that you are allowed to do what you do. Pure ignorance is not a valid reason.
BSA is a good organization. It generally doesn't go against private persons, but only companies. If you're profiting, you need to pay for the tools and software you use in your work. BSA going after those who pirate and profit off of others work is just the correct thing to do.
While ignoring things like ip or geo-based filtering, it's not like the person will somehow immediately find out about it. Most likely he would only come across it when someone points it out to him.
It's still just a tool. You can use tools for both good and bad. Just because it's Facebook I'm sure most of slashdot will attack it, as that's common thing here. But people should be consistent about their sayings - if you say "but it's just a tool" for one thing, you should hold the same line when it's something you don't like about.
Well ok. I can also put up a password-protected website that I only give access to certain people. I post shit about some person on there. Is it Apache Software Foundations fault, or my fault?