At the time Netscape was more widespread and in fact Netscape users were the ones that used whatever was given to them by ISP's. Even if it changed later, IE was the one people who wanted a better browser chose.
That's because the market currently does belong to Arduino. But it can always change, just see MySpace and Facebook and also Everquest and World of Warcraft, along others.
I'm not talking about some isometric view or stuff like that. There are already tilesets available for Dwarf Fortress that make it nice to play with, while still having the same look. I'm just talking about making the game options available in simpler ways than going thru endless menus. For example, if you have a person selected a GUI can dynamically show you the options you can perform with him instead of looking endless amount of sub-menus just to do a single thing. It's an awesome game, and this shouldn't be that hard to add, so why not make it a bit more accessible for gamers.
It may be brilliant, and I enjoyed playing it too.. But it seriously need a good gui. I stopped playing because I got tired of going thru menus and trying to memorize the key combos. It's a great game, just make a good GUI into it!
Yes, but they are the underplayers too. They cannot compete with Google just because of their massive size and datamining, that they again cannot do because they do not have Google's massive size and datamining.
And Google is only expanding that. Before they "only" read your email, had your previous searches, youtube videos and statistics of pretty much every site on the internet you visited EXCEPT FACEBOOK. Now with Google+ they will also have and know all of your friend connections, interests and personal sharing. Google+ is a much larger violator to privacy than facebook. Yes, it gives you closer circles, but all of that is still going to Google and even their sign up page says they will collect the data and use it internet wide to track you and serve you better advertisement.
This has the side effect of someone working at Google to see all of your searches, your friends, your emails, your personal messages, every site you visit on the internet and pretty much everything you do online (and offline, if you have android phone). Google will and does abuse that information according to their pretty open privacy policy. After that there are still Google employees that may or may not abuse those policies secretly. This is especially true with a geeky company, and it's just human tendency.
I also was able to meet with some (middle management) people at Google and their attitude reminded me very strongly of MS's behavior 15 years ago: They don't listen to what others say and what they say often implies: "We're the smartest people on the planet, the world revolves around us, if you don't want to work with us and use our stuff, you're just an idiot." So it think I can conclude that Google sees themselves as "winning" the way that MS saw themselves winning in the late 90's.
You can see the same change with all the "privacy is not important" and the recent Google+ product. I think we are really seeing a turning point here. Google has finally passed the point where it has, after a long time, accepted it's not the small geeky company it once was and is now just driving for profits. The scary thing is, they have got in a great position to exploit that now.
It is human tendency to abuse their position. It doesn't even have to be Google as large - there are stories of their employees going thru peoples emails and histories and pasting them to when IM'ing with them. That's why you have security in your own systems, so that people can't abuse it. That's why you also don't give everything to single entity. Google is starting to be the same monopoly that Microsoft was during the 90's, but this time it's also privacy losing.
Google currently owns the largest advertising network, and it will only expand (both internet wise and datamining wise) with Google+. If others can't history steal, it will put them out of business. In practice, Googles monopoly demands others to play bad.. I'm not saying it's a good thing, it is bad. Just stating the facts.
I hope you are not being serious, but if you are.. wtf is wrong with you nuts demanding everything to completely-unbreakable, 100% safe until it's any better than the previously used systems?
The point here is not to make a perfectly safe system. The point is to make a lot more secure system than the other option is. I know slashdots value and standard has been going down for a quite while, but seriously, you people need to go out and work with real projects and understand their actual requirements before just making stupid statements.. It's like Digg.. No, it's like womens forums.
It's mostly fear of lawsuits, and that's what's stupid. I did some pretty incredibly stupid shit as kid, but I'm glad I did them and I, nor anyone else really, ever got that seriously injured. But it teaches you to be careful. If todays kids never get to experience that, how are they supposed to be responsible adults? It's the same with women. If the girl didn't have some fun when she was a teenager, she will regret it later and try it when shes 30-40 years old, and usually married. That's why you should be able to experience stupid things when it's allowed and ok, so that you can learn from it.
However, the point is somewhat valid. Vista/Win7 driver and security model changed so much that there are now lots of games that just don't work on them. Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 is a great example of that. It's even kind of painful to get to run under virtual machine, but at least possible. Kind of sad, because it's an awesome game.
Summary says it will be ran on FCO's internal servers, and Huddle is providing the software and know-how. If you think about it, I think it's a good thing. Government jobs are given out pretty much on what schools you went to, or worse, who you know. They never really look or test for the actual knowledge. Here we have a provider with actual experience with various big companies and know-how to secure the network. I would trust them more than some random persons who got their job because their father works in different positions for government.
Seriously. This is a story about games. We've heard the same old "just make the stories good, we don't need no fancy 3D!" in movie discussions several thousand times already. At least leave the gaming discussion alone in this, because games are something that really can improve your experience with it. I love the 3D effect in Left4Dead games. It makes everything really, really scary and I hope game developers use it with scary or FPS games. Strategy games, not so much.
I've traveled a lot in asia, including Cambodia (one of the poorest countries in the world) and China. Not once they have stolen anything from my backs. It's kind of funny that it happens in the US.
So you picked up the part where tux takes the cake and enjoys it in his cave. In your hatred you assumed this is MS saying linux users go hide in their cave and eat the cake in secret. Did it ever cross your mind that maybe, just maybe it means putting behind the past and getting closer to working together, helping each other and making the systems compatible.
Hell, the video starts with MS guy closing the blinds and ignoring tux. After that comes halloween 1998 reference where MS guy tries to scare tux away. It's so clear message of MS admitting that they've done things wrong in the past that even blinds could see it.
And still, from ALL OF THIS you picked up "tux takes the cake and goes to hide in cave?"
This sort of ignorance and paranoia does the work for Microsoft. They don't have to be assholes, they can be nice to you... and you'll turn around and make yourself look like an ignorant paranoid asshole for them. You are your own worst enemy, spend less time looking for them in the fields and more time looking for the enemy in the mirror. This childish BS is well past the point of being old.
I also was able to meet with some (middle management) people at Google and their attitude reminded me very strongly of MS's behavior 15 years ago: They don't listen to what others say and what they say often implies: "We're the smartest people on the planet, the world revolves around us, if you don't want to work with us and use our stuff, you're just an idiot."
So it think I can conclude that Google sees themselves as "winning" the way that MS saw themselves winning in the late 90's.
You can see the same change with all the "privacy is not important" and the recent Google+ product. I think we are really seeing a turning point here. Google has finally passed the point where it has, after a long time, accepted it's not the small geeky company it once was and is now just driving for profits. The scary thing is, they have got in a great position to exploit that now.
$500 sounds like a low end laptop. I bought myself Clevo laptop last year that cost $3000 because I was traveling a lot. But it's freaking awesome and is still working great. However, it was 17.1" and obviously a bit too large to use comfortably on flights. I could easily think about getting ThinkPad Tablet for those flights and also to use comfortably from bed and sofa. I was already thinking about getting iPad, but this really looks better and more business oriented too.
No, the Tom Tom case was just twisted to be an assault against open source. It was never about Linux specifically, it was things that Tom Tom added themself on top of linux.
Microsoft says open-source software is not the intended focal point of the action. Five of the alleged patent violations relate to proprietary software.
Microsoft says it filed the case as a last resort, after trying for more than a year to reach an agreement with TomTom.
Five of the patents in dispute relate to in-car navigation technologies, while the other three involve file-management techniques. Gutierrez said Microsoft has reached licensing agreements with with other in-car navigation vendors over the same patents, and it remains open to "quickly resolving" the TomTom dispute through licensing.
But this being Slashdot, of course Microsoft is out there trying to destroy Linux. That is why they are attacking companies like Red Hat and Canonical all the time!
And there are just as many iPhones, Nokia's devices and then those makers which are only popular in Asia. Microsoft has always had a low marketshare in mobile devices. It's not their core business.
Just because Android uses Linux underneath doesn't mean Linux will gain popular support. Just look at Mac OSX and BSD.
I know right? They're suing companies right and left, making billions of dollars and still those LK developers cannot find out what is infringing. If there just were public documents of those court cases... But nooo, Microsoft is paying directly to the Washington and the judges involved that the cases remain top secret. Microsoft won't ever admit this because then everyone would know evil they are. And if they did admit it, they just did it because they're doing something even more evil somewhere else and want to get peoples attention away from that. I'm glad we saw through it!
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At the time Netscape was more widespread and in fact Netscape users were the ones that used whatever was given to them by ISP's. Even if it changed later, IE was the one people who wanted a better browser chose.
Because it's much faster to calculate certain things with GPU than with CPU. Servers also do other stuff than just host websites, you know.
That's because the market currently does belong to Arduino. But it can always change, just see MySpace and Facebook and also Everquest and World of Warcraft, along others.
I'm not talking about some isometric view or stuff like that. There are already tilesets available for Dwarf Fortress that make it nice to play with, while still having the same look. I'm just talking about making the game options available in simpler ways than going thru endless menus. For example, if you have a person selected a GUI can dynamically show you the options you can perform with him instead of looking endless amount of sub-menus just to do a single thing. It's an awesome game, and this shouldn't be that hard to add, so why not make it a bit more accessible for gamers.
It may be brilliant, and I enjoyed playing it too.. But it seriously need a good gui. I stopped playing because I got tired of going thru menus and trying to memorize the key combos. It's a great game, just make a good GUI into it!
Yes, but they are the underplayers too. They cannot compete with Google just because of their massive size and datamining, that they again cannot do because they do not have Google's massive size and datamining.
And Google is only expanding that. Before they "only" read your email, had your previous searches, youtube videos and statistics of pretty much every site on the internet you visited EXCEPT FACEBOOK. Now with Google+ they will also have and know all of your friend connections, interests and personal sharing. Google+ is a much larger violator to privacy than facebook. Yes, it gives you closer circles, but all of that is still going to Google and even their sign up page says they will collect the data and use it internet wide to track you and serve you better advertisement.
This has the side effect of someone working at Google to see all of your searches, your friends, your emails, your personal messages, every site you visit on the internet and pretty much everything you do online (and offline, if you have android phone). Google will and does abuse that information according to their pretty open privacy policy. After that there are still Google employees that may or may not abuse those policies secretly. This is especially true with a geeky company, and it's just human tendency.
I also was able to meet with some (middle management) people at Google and their attitude reminded me very strongly of MS's behavior 15 years ago: They don't listen to what others say and what they say often implies: "We're the smartest people on the planet, the world revolves around us, if you don't want to work with us and use our stuff, you're just an idiot." So it think I can conclude that Google sees themselves as "winning" the way that MS saw themselves winning in the late 90's.
You can see the same change with all the "privacy is not important" and the recent Google+ product. I think we are really seeing a turning point here. Google has finally passed the point where it has, after a long time, accepted it's not the small geeky company it once was and is now just driving for profits. The scary thing is, they have got in a great position to exploit that now.
It is human tendency to abuse their position. It doesn't even have to be Google as large - there are stories of their employees going thru peoples emails and histories and pasting them to when IM'ing with them. That's why you have security in your own systems, so that people can't abuse it. That's why you also don't give everything to single entity. Google is starting to be the same monopoly that Microsoft was during the 90's, but this time it's also privacy losing.
Google currently owns the largest advertising network, and it will only expand (both internet wise and datamining wise) with Google+. If others can't history steal, it will put them out of business. In practice, Googles monopoly demands others to play bad.. I'm not saying it's a good thing, it is bad. Just stating the facts.
I hope you are not being serious, but if you are.. wtf is wrong with you nuts demanding everything to completely-unbreakable, 100% safe until it's any better than the previously used systems?
The point here is not to make a perfectly safe system. The point is to make a lot more secure system than the other option is. I know slashdots value and standard has been going down for a quite while, but seriously, you people need to go out and work with real projects and understand their actual requirements before just making stupid statements.. It's like Digg.. No, it's like womens forums.
Other boys? Seriously. All that same is going on inside girls heads too.
Don't worry, it's just Americans. Most of Europe and Asia will still turn out just fine, though I guess we will get it here in Europe in no time too.
It's mostly fear of lawsuits, and that's what's stupid. I did some pretty incredibly stupid shit as kid, but I'm glad I did them and I, nor anyone else really, ever got that seriously injured. But it teaches you to be careful. If todays kids never get to experience that, how are they supposed to be responsible adults? It's the same with women. If the girl didn't have some fun when she was a teenager, she will regret it later and try it when shes 30-40 years old, and usually married. That's why you should be able to experience stupid things when it's allowed and ok, so that you can learn from it.
However, the point is somewhat valid. Vista/Win7 driver and security model changed so much that there are now lots of games that just don't work on them. Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 is a great example of that. It's even kind of painful to get to run under virtual machine, but at least possible. Kind of sad, because it's an awesome game.
Summary says it will be ran on FCO's internal servers, and Huddle is providing the software and know-how. If you think about it, I think it's a good thing. Government jobs are given out pretty much on what schools you went to, or worse, who you know. They never really look or test for the actual knowledge. Here we have a provider with actual experience with various big companies and know-how to secure the network. I would trust them more than some random persons who got their job because their father works in different positions for government.
Seriously. This is a story about games. We've heard the same old "just make the stories good, we don't need no fancy 3D!" in movie discussions several thousand times already. At least leave the gaming discussion alone in this, because games are something that really can improve your experience with it. I love the 3D effect in Left4Dead games. It makes everything really, really scary and I hope game developers use it with scary or FPS games. Strategy games, not so much.
I've traveled a lot in asia, including Cambodia (one of the poorest countries in the world) and China. Not once they have stolen anything from my backs. It's kind of funny that it happens in the US.
Now people can applaud them for doing the good thing and changing the controversial scanners to better ones. I don't feel so bad anymore. Good job!
wait, didn't I still lose privacy somewhere in the process?
They have always known what works marketing wise. Just that this time it's more about luring in normal people and teens instead of geeks.
So you picked up the part where tux takes the cake and enjoys it in his cave. In your hatred you assumed this is MS saying linux users go hide in their cave and eat the cake in secret. Did it ever cross your mind that maybe, just maybe it means putting behind the past and getting closer to working together, helping each other and making the systems compatible.
Hell, the video starts with MS guy closing the blinds and ignoring tux. After that comes halloween 1998 reference where MS guy tries to scare tux away. It's so clear message of MS admitting that they've done things wrong in the past that even blinds could see it.
And still, from ALL OF THIS you picked up "tux takes the cake and goes to hide in cave?"
This sort of ignorance and paranoia does the work for Microsoft. They don't have to be assholes, they can be nice to you ... and you'll turn around and make yourself look like an ignorant paranoid asshole for them. You are your own worst enemy, spend less time looking for them in the fields and more time looking for the enemy in the mirror. This childish BS is well past the point of being old.
One of the most insightful comments on slashdot.
I also was able to meet with some (middle management) people at Google and their attitude reminded me very strongly of MS's behavior 15 years ago: They don't listen to what others say and what they say often implies: "We're the smartest people on the planet, the world revolves around us, if you don't want to work with us and use our stuff, you're just an idiot." So it think I can conclude that Google sees themselves as "winning" the way that MS saw themselves winning in the late 90's.
You can see the same change with all the "privacy is not important" and the recent Google+ product. I think we are really seeing a turning point here. Google has finally passed the point where it has, after a long time, accepted it's not the small geeky company it once was and is now just driving for profits. The scary thing is, they have got in a great position to exploit that now.
$500 sounds like a low end laptop. I bought myself Clevo laptop last year that cost $3000 because I was traveling a lot. But it's freaking awesome and is still working great. However, it was 17.1" and obviously a bit too large to use comfortably on flights. I could easily think about getting ThinkPad Tablet for those flights and also to use comfortably from bed and sofa. I was already thinking about getting iPad, but this really looks better and more business oriented too.
http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/02/Microsoft_sues_TomTom_over_patents_in_case_with_Linux_subplot_40305732.html
Microsoft says open-source software is not the intended focal point of the action. Five of the alleged patent violations relate to proprietary software.
Microsoft says it filed the case as a last resort, after trying for more than a year to reach an agreement with TomTom.
Five of the patents in dispute relate to in-car navigation technologies, while the other three involve file-management techniques. Gutierrez said Microsoft has reached licensing agreements with with other in-car navigation vendors over the same patents, and it remains open to "quickly resolving" the TomTom dispute through licensing.
But this being Slashdot, of course Microsoft is out there trying to destroy Linux. That is why they are attacking companies like Red Hat and Canonical all the time!
And there are just as many iPhones, Nokia's devices and then those makers which are only popular in Asia. Microsoft has always had a low marketshare in mobile devices. It's not their core business.
Just because Android uses Linux underneath doesn't mean Linux will gain popular support. Just look at Mac OSX and BSD.
I know right? They're suing companies right and left, making billions of dollars and still those LK developers cannot find out what is infringing. If there just were public documents of those court cases... But nooo, Microsoft is paying directly to the Washington and the judges involved that the cases remain top secret. Microsoft won't ever admit this because then everyone would know evil they are. And if they did admit it, they just did it because they're doing something even more evil somewhere else and want to get peoples attention away from that. I'm glad we saw through it!