It used to be versions were about feature sets. If you added a small feature to a program you'd increment the minor version, if you added big features you'd release a major update. The idea of having versions increase on specific dates seem weird.
The problem is even OpenID 2.0 doesn't work. People don't have a clue why they should be entering a URL in a login form, what that URL comes from, etc. It's much simpler for them to enter their email address, and have the site redirect to Google Login. Of course there has to be a way for the Google version and the OpenID people to get together and improve the standard itself.
I wouldn't even consider it a netbook at that size and price. Every other netbook is around 9-10" and costs $300-$500. This is more like a smallish notebook. Certainly not what I was hoping for as I'm searching for the best netbook to get.
First, I doubt that "nationwide support" necessarily means a majority of the whole population, probably mostly some vocal men in various positions of power.
Second, even if that was true, even the most democratic, individualist society always limits freedom when it starts reducing someone else's freedoms. So while they are free to think this is good, and voice their opinion, it still isn't right to kill or imprison someone for what he said.
Video shows cost a lot to produce, especially if you want them with high production quality. They have to get a certain amount of viewers to survive. You may have to stay with another medium to get your very technical, niche content, such as text or perhaps audio.
I'm impressed, my site works in it. While my web site validates and works in every desktop browser, not a single mobile browser so far (Pocket IE, Symbian browser, Opera Mini) supports it, but Fennec does.
I do have to say I'm not a fan of the back and forward button being hidden however.
As with most recent EA games, remember that Dead Space will probably have the same Sony SecuROM DRM rootkit on it that Spore had, limiting what you can install on. Just something to keep in mind.
This is the first time I notice this phone will have 1700/2100MHz 3G. This is the European/Asia version, which means T-Mo is deploying the Euro bands in the US, quite odd. It also means this phone will not get 3G if you roam on the AT&T network, or any Canadian networks.
Comparatively, the iPhone uses 850/1900/2100MHz which means it supports both NA and Euro/Asia 3G.
Every email needs to be encrypted and every web site needs to use SSL. That's the only way we'll beat all the control attempts by the various governments.
That's why it's far better to create hidden, encrypted containers, using Truecrypt's plausible deniability. If the cops see your whole HD is encrypted, it's pretty obvious, and they will want to see what's on it because then they start suspecting you have something to hide. But if you have a file called C:\Documents and Settings\Application Data\kb2357334.dat which is in fact a hidden Truecrypt volume, first they'd have to find the file, and then think that it may be encrypted, which is a chance in a million, so you're so much safer.
DNSSEC already has provisions to use a multi-signature key, where many organizations each sign it, and these parts are used to make one global key, so that no one person or organization is owner of the root zone file. It doesn't have to go like that.
It's not new and it's not vaporware, it's also not Windows on the cloud. It's called Microsoft Mesh. It's been in used for many months, although only the first few services are available. Right now you get PC to PC and PC to Web synchronization of data. It's pretty much the best document remote access / sharing solution right now.
MS wants to add applications too, which many people compare with Google Docs but it's not that at all. It's basically a way that people will be able to use the same app from anywhere, have multiple people use the same application thru this mesh. How it will end up working is.. as of yet unknown.
The upcoming PDC conference in October will be all about Mesh, which is what Balmer is referring to.
There are such things, like CAcert. Organizations that start offering community based free certificates. The problem is if certs are not being sold for money, Mozilla will not include them. CAcert asked in 2003 to be included as a CA in Firefox. To this day, the bug is still open in bugzilla and awaiting inclusion.
SSL Certificate hijacking is a real issue so it should not be underestimated. Users should not be able to just dismiss a warning dialog like they can do with IE. However I do think self signed certs shouldn't be discriminated this way. Learn more with presentation #11 here:
This isn't an ultimate gaming rig, hell it's not even a decent gaming rig. An ATI x1300? That's very sub-par. So yes you'll end up with a super fast CPU, but using slower memory and a value graphics card you won't do much gaming. To really get something decent you need to go to their $1250 version, and that's not really cheap anymore, anyone can come up with a good configuration for that price.
I've been playing since before release, and the issues that WoW is having aren't small nor acceptable.
Queues are there because each server has a maximum capacity of 3400 players. When there's that number on the server you get to wait in line to log in. This issue first came up in open beta, and back then they said it was a temporary thing. The fact is most servers have a queue at peak time, which can range from a few people to over a thousand per server waiting to play, sometimes for hours, every day, since more than a year and a half.
Constant lag is an issue that a few servers have to deal with and is indicative to network overload. Having everyone's speed take 10secs before casting in any instance means doing raids is impossible, and doing group quests is tricky at best, and the servers that have this issue cannot play in any decent manner for weeks at a time.
8 hours a week of schedule maintenance every Tuesday, sometimes more, and random crashes, is indicative to stability problems. Everquest has run for over 5 years and, while it may have extended downtimes during content patches, can run for months without a single second of downtime. There is no valid reason a server should be brought down for 8 hours after 7 days of running.
All 3 problems are relatively simple to solve with money, mainly by increasing network pipes, getting more redundancy, opening more new servers. And after over a year and a half of the same problems occuring, it isn't too much to ask Blizzard to get their act together.
I don't think that's what they do. Their business is ads, all their money comes from them, so they do have a strategy, and it's to find as many ways as possible to get their ads out there. It makes perfect sense to give people free blog accounts, free mail, and now free web pages, so that they can probe what people write about and get ads to them.
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It used to be versions were about feature sets. If you added a small feature to a program you'd increment the minor version, if you added big features you'd release a major update. The idea of having versions increase on specific dates seem weird.
The problem is even OpenID 2.0 doesn't work. People don't have a clue why they should be entering a URL in a login form, what that URL comes from, etc. It's much simpler for them to enter their email address, and have the site redirect to Google Login. Of course there has to be a way for the Google version and the OpenID people to get together and improve the standard itself.
I wouldn't even consider it a netbook at that size and price. Every other netbook is around 9-10" and costs $300-$500. This is more like a smallish notebook. Certainly not what I was hoping for as I'm searching for the best netbook to get.
First, I doubt that "nationwide support" necessarily means a majority of the whole population, probably mostly some vocal men in various positions of power.
Second, even if that was true, even the most democratic, individualist society always limits freedom when it starts reducing someone else's freedoms. So while they are free to think this is good, and voice their opinion, it still isn't right to kill or imprison someone for what he said.
We had the same silly stories when he did that Cult of the Amateur thing, now he's at it again with more flamebait. Why even post stories like this?
Video shows cost a lot to produce, especially if you want them with high production quality. They have to get a certain amount of viewers to survive. You may have to stay with another medium to get your very technical, niche content, such as text or perhaps audio.
You know you have problems when even pirates don't want your software!
Liberals introduced a very similar bill just before they got thrown out. It would not have made a difference. It was inevitable.
I'm impressed, my site works in it. While my web site validates and works in every desktop browser, not a single mobile browser so far (Pocket IE, Symbian browser, Opera Mini) supports it, but Fennec does.
I do have to say I'm not a fan of the back and forward button being hidden however.
As with most recent EA games, remember that Dead Space will probably have the same Sony SecuROM DRM rootkit on it that Spore had, limiting what you can install on. Just something to keep in mind.
This is the first time I notice this phone will have 1700/2100MHz 3G. This is the European/Asia version, which means T-Mo is deploying the Euro bands in the US, quite odd. It also means this phone will not get 3G if you roam on the AT&T network, or any Canadian networks.
Comparatively, the iPhone uses 850/1900/2100MHz which means it supports both NA and Euro/Asia 3G.
Every email needs to be encrypted and every web site needs to use SSL. That's the only way we'll beat all the control attempts by the various governments.
That's why it's far better to create hidden, encrypted containers, using Truecrypt's plausible deniability. If the cops see your whole HD is encrypted, it's pretty obvious, and they will want to see what's on it because then they start suspecting you have something to hide. But if you have a file called C:\Documents and Settings\Application Data\kb2357334.dat which is in fact a hidden Truecrypt volume, first they'd have to find the file, and then think that it may be encrypted, which is a chance in a million, so you're so much safer.
DNSSEC already has provisions to use a multi-signature key, where many organizations each sign it, and these parts are used to make one global key, so that no one person or organization is owner of the root zone file. It doesn't have to go like that.
It's not new and it's not vaporware, it's also not Windows on the cloud. It's called Microsoft Mesh. It's been in used for many months, although only the first few services are available. Right now you get PC to PC and PC to Web synchronization of data. It's pretty much the best document remote access / sharing solution right now.
MS wants to add applications too, which many people compare with Google Docs but it's not that at all. It's basically a way that people will be able to use the same app from anywhere, have multiple people use the same application thru this mesh. How it will end up working is.. as of yet unknown.
The upcoming PDC conference in October will be all about Mesh, which is what Balmer is referring to.
No need, NoScript blocks most of these attacks, according to a follow up post.
This is not new and has even been filmed before:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyzIau5dBao
I for one was planning to buy the game.
Now that I hear all the bad reviews, I've decided not to buy it. My money will wait for the next worthwhile game instead.
There's a comparison between IE8 beta 2 and Firefox 3.1 alpha 2 on SearchSiren:
http://www.searchsiren.com/?p=49
There are such things, like CAcert. Organizations that start offering community based free certificates. The problem is if certs are not being sold for money, Mozilla will not include them. CAcert asked in 2003 to be included as a CA in Firefox. To this day, the bug is still open in bugzilla and awaiting inclusion.
SSL Certificate hijacking is a real issue so it should not be underestimated. Users should not be able to just dismiss a warning dialog like they can do with IE. However I do think self signed certs shouldn't be discriminated this way. Learn more with presentation #11 here:
http://www.securitypresentations.com/#11
This isn't an ultimate gaming rig, hell it's not even a decent gaming rig. An ATI x1300? That's very sub-par. So yes you'll end up with a super fast CPU, but using slower memory and a value graphics card you won't do much gaming. To really get something decent you need to go to their $1250 version, and that's not really cheap anymore, anyone can come up with a good configuration for that price.
I've been playing since before release, and the issues that WoW is having aren't small nor acceptable.
Queues are there because each server has a maximum capacity of 3400 players. When there's that number on the server you get to wait in line to log in. This issue first came up in open beta, and back then they said it was a temporary thing. The fact is most servers have a queue at peak time, which can range from a few people to over a thousand per server waiting to play, sometimes for hours, every day, since more than a year and a half.
Constant lag is an issue that a few servers have to deal with and is indicative to network overload. Having everyone's speed take 10secs before casting in any instance means doing raids is impossible, and doing group quests is tricky at best, and the servers that have this issue cannot play in any decent manner for weeks at a time.
8 hours a week of schedule maintenance every Tuesday, sometimes more, and random crashes, is indicative to stability problems. Everquest has run for over 5 years and, while it may have extended downtimes during content patches, can run for months without a single second of downtime. There is no valid reason a server should be brought down for 8 hours after 7 days of running.
All 3 problems are relatively simple to solve with money, mainly by increasing network pipes, getting more redundancy, opening more new servers. And after over a year and a half of the same problems occuring, it isn't too much to ask Blizzard to get their act together.
Those are the 2
An article saying that people are jerks in digg replies is hardly worth any kind of conclusion.
I don't think that's what they do. Their business is ads, all their money comes from them, so they do have a strategy, and it's to find as many ways as possible to get their ads out there. It makes perfect sense to give people free blog accounts, free mail, and now free web pages, so that they can probe what people write about and get ads to them.