Only in Russia, they don't care about the US legal system except for any International agreements that they can not ignore.
You seriously think Russia can't ignore international agreements if they want to? US does all the time, Russia can too. Even if just to show off to USA. What will the rest of the world do if Russia ignores the agreements? Stops buying energy from them? People in Europe better get used to having no electricity, and prepare for a cold winter.
Yes it does, and Microsoft has fully published the details so people can make their own implementations. If Mono is lacking behind on something, well, that's Mono's developers fault.
On the other hand, Google App Engine is competely closed. No published docs, no information about the API's, no open source code. Fully proprietary platform, from Google.
Now I know you're either utterly fucking retarded, or really just shilling for one of Google's major competitors. You don't need to know the backend to port your project. All you need to know is the APIs of the new system, and do some work. Just like for every other platform project. Don't like it? Write your own platform.
And would you say this same thing about Microsoft and their Office file formats? "Don't like MS Office file formats? Write your own and don't support them!"
Google has seriously brainwashed you. They do all the same bad things Microsoft, Facebook and many other "bad" companies do but you're too clueless to see it.
It wasn't free from the beginning either, you know. Now they just seriously limited the resources and raised prices. Since slashdotters think Google is so much about open source and free software, why is App Engine backend proprietary. I'm not even asking something like their search engine code, just the App Engine backend so that people can move to other service providers with their projects if Google charges too much. Oh yeah, but Google doesn't want that. They won't open source it because then they couldn't lock down developers.
And that is exactly why it's insanely stupid idea to start relying on something Google makes. For all you know they will just shut it down the next day.
CoffeeScript has a better probability in succeeding too. No one in their sane minds would start using some test project from Google after all the canceled and abandoned projects. At least JavaScript has actual support and standards behind it, and it's widely supported. Google will probably just kill off this project a little after you've spent good amount of time learning and getting used to it and implementing it in your projects. With JavaScript (and CoffeeScript) you won't just some day come to slashdot and see Google's announcement how they've decided to discontinue the project to spend time on something better and newer.
Yep, pretty much like they did with Google App Engine. Lock the developers down first, then raise prices significantly. Oh, and since it's unique platform and the backend is closed, you either have to accept whatever price Google is asking or abandon the project and code it again from the beginning. So much for Google's openness. Their new business motto seems to be borrowed from Microsoft - "Embrace, extend and extinguish".
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I really doubt Microsoft is that interested in Slashdot. Facebook, Twitter and other sites are the largest ones. Slashdot is just some site where they get dissed at no matter what they do.
As it stands Windows 8 is still in its infancy. The build in Microsoftâ(TM)s demos is 1802, a pre-beta and not feature complete version of the OS. Microsoft needs to balance the need to show off Windows 8 to developers with a need to keep it under wraps until itâ(TM)s done as to not spook end-users. The result of that is the situation at BUILD, where Microsoft is focusing on finished features while unfinished features are either not in the OS or are going unmentioned. For comparison, at PDC 2008 the Windows 7 interface was not done yet, and Microsoft was using the Windows Vista interface in its place.
You shouldn't assume anything based on that beta preview. It's not complete and it's missing complete features, the ones being start menu. This beta is mostly for tablet manufacturers and app developers so they can start experiencing with the new Windows. When Windows 8 will be released, and most likely in the upcoming betas, it will have all the usual things in desktop too. Do you honestly think that Microsoft would abandon their largest market area, ie. business users for something that only works with tablets?
It already has the normal desktop UI... You can login to either one, which is great as your programs will work for both tablets and desktops..NET apps should work directly, and native apps are just a recompile away.
I tested it earlier today and I think it looks great. The boot time is insanely fast, the metro UI is better than I thought and you can still easily change to the normal Windows shell. On top of that developers can target both Windows PC and the upcoming Windows tablet markets with their apps. Overall I got a very good impression of Windows 8.
Most countries have criminalized commercial copyright infringement, which the sites in question are doing as they profit from warez. It's true it's not often enforced in countries like China, but we're talking about UK here.
Google already removes illegal things like child porn. Copyright violating sites are just as illegal, so what's the problem? Like the article states, court order would be required for it. I think it would also only apply to google.co.uk.
If EA only cared about numbers they wouldn't release games like Mass Effect or Mirrors Edge. EA is a large publisher - they release all kinds of games. They release strategy games too, but boohoo this wasn't one of them.
I think you mean Ubisoft or Activision. EA has been playing really nicely the recent years. In fact they've published many innovative and great games too, perfect example being Mirror's Edge. Then there's games like Mass Effect, Battlefield 3, Create, The Saboteur and so on.. EA has really improved from what they were in 2005 or so. Maybe you should get up with times too.
Sorry, but phone screen is way too small for gaming. It's okayish in a bus or so, but there's no way I would consider it fun time to take my phone to sofa or bed to play some games. And on top of that, laptop isn't really ideal for that either. I have a great gaming laptop, but it just doesn't allow relaxing like that on sofa or bed, while tablets do. And quite frankly, I would like to do something else than just read too. On top of that, I spend quite much time sitting down at the pool and having a few beers. Tablet would give me ideal entertainment for that. There's no way I'm going to take my laptop there, though.
Are Ubuntu and Mac OSX "trash OSes" too because they have app stores?
Besides, Vista was a good OS, but it changed the Windows fundamentals so much that many apps broke. But to advance, improve security and to use better driver model Microsoft had to do it at some point. There was nothing wrong with Vista but the old badly designed programs that stopped working with it when MS had to take the step forward.
Windows 7: 2009
Windows Vista: 2006
Seems they've taken three years release cycle, which is a really long time compared to Linux distros and Mac OS X. It's better than the time after XP anyway, which really started to feel like an outdated OS, by security standards and features too.
I don't think Microsoft is that late for tablets. Quite frankly, I think the current Android tablets still aren't worth using. That leaves you with iPad, so there's definitely some market open for tablets and what Microsoft has shown about Windows 8 for tablets it looks quite nice. On top of that you get the support for Windows apps, which is a huge deal.
But even on normal computer side, Windows 8 seems to improve many things over 7, which already is really good OS.
Not only that, but entertainment is US most profitable industry, and it's huge export to other countries too. So not only gaming industry (and movies and music industry for that matter) create jobs, they bring in lots of money to US. All immaterial too. If someone deserves tax breaks, it's those industries as they bring so much value to the US (even if you disagree with some of their business practices)
You can see the Norway shootings for example. The guy didn't commit suicide in the end, but killed ~90 people and he might just as well have suicided himself after that. It wasn't related to religion in any way, it was politics - right vs. left, and more capitalism ideas against socialism. He took it to extremes, but religion wasn't part of that. I suspect this also was much more about politics than anything religion related.
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Only in Russia, they don't care about the US legal system except for any International agreements that they can not ignore.
You seriously think Russia can't ignore international agreements if they want to? US does all the time, Russia can too. Even if just to show off to USA. What will the rest of the world do if Russia ignores the agreements? Stops buying energy from them? People in Europe better get used to having no electricity, and prepare for a cold winter.
Or does your .NET code run as is on Linux?
Yes it does, and Microsoft has fully published the details so people can make their own implementations. If Mono is lacking behind on something, well, that's Mono's developers fault.
On the other hand, Google App Engine is competely closed. No published docs, no information about the API's, no open source code. Fully proprietary platform, from Google.
Now I know you're either utterly fucking retarded, or really just shilling for one of Google's major competitors. You don't need to know the backend to port your project. All you need to know is the APIs of the new system, and do some work. Just like for every other platform project. Don't like it? Write your own platform.
And would you say this same thing about Microsoft and their Office file formats? "Don't like MS Office file formats? Write your own and don't support them!" Google has seriously brainwashed you. They do all the same bad things Microsoft, Facebook and many other "bad" companies do but you're too clueless to see it.
It wasn't free from the beginning either, you know. Now they just seriously limited the resources and raised prices. Since slashdotters think Google is so much about open source and free software, why is App Engine backend proprietary. I'm not even asking something like their search engine code, just the App Engine backend so that people can move to other service providers with their projects if Google charges too much. Oh yeah, but Google doesn't want that. They won't open source it because then they couldn't lock down developers.
And that is exactly why it's insanely stupid idea to start relying on something Google makes. For all you know they will just shut it down the next day.
CoffeeScript has a better probability in succeeding too. No one in their sane minds would start using some test project from Google after all the canceled and abandoned projects. At least JavaScript has actual support and standards behind it, and it's widely supported. Google will probably just kill off this project a little after you've spent good amount of time learning and getting used to it and implementing it in your projects. With JavaScript (and CoffeeScript) you won't just some day come to slashdot and see Google's announcement how they've decided to discontinue the project to spend time on something better and newer.
Yep, pretty much like they did with Google App Engine. Lock the developers down first, then raise prices significantly. Oh, and since it's unique platform and the backend is closed, you either have to accept whatever price Google is asking or abandon the project and code it again from the beginning. So much for Google's openness. Their new business motto seems to be borrowed from Microsoft - "Embrace, extend and extinguish".
in social platforms and must be experienced in leveraging Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, location-based-marketing, YouTube
I really doubt Microsoft is that interested in Slashdot. Facebook, Twitter and other sites are the largest ones. Slashdot is just some site where they get dissed at no matter what they do.
As it stands Windows 8 is still in its infancy. The build in Microsoftâ(TM)s demos is 1802, a pre-beta and not feature complete version of the OS. Microsoft needs to balance the need to show off Windows 8 to developers with a need to keep it under wraps until itâ(TM)s done as to not spook end-users. The result of that is the situation at BUILD, where Microsoft is focusing on finished features while unfinished features are either not in the OS or are going unmentioned. For comparison, at PDC 2008 the Windows 7 interface was not done yet, and Microsoft was using the Windows Vista interface in its place.
You shouldn't assume anything based on that beta preview. It's not complete and it's missing complete features, the ones being start menu. This beta is mostly for tablet manufacturers and app developers so they can start experiencing with the new Windows. When Windows 8 will be released, and most likely in the upcoming betas, it will have all the usual things in desktop too. Do you honestly think that Microsoft would abandon their largest market area, ie. business users for something that only works with tablets?
Ah, slashdot, where giving a honest opinion about Microsoft's product will get you modded down for troll if you say anything good about it.
It already has the normal desktop UI... You can login to either one, which is great as your programs will work for both tablets and desktops. .NET apps should work directly, and native apps are just a recompile away.
I tested it earlier today and I think it looks great. The boot time is insanely fast, the metro UI is better than I thought and you can still easily change to the normal Windows shell. On top of that developers can target both Windows PC and the upcoming Windows tablet markets with their apps. Overall I got a very good impression of Windows 8.
Most countries have criminalized commercial copyright infringement, which the sites in question are doing as they profit from warez. It's true it's not often enforced in countries like China, but we're talking about UK here.
Do you honestly think that Google would just abandon their second largest market area?
Google already removes illegal things like child porn. Copyright violating sites are just as illegal, so what's the problem? Like the article states, court order would be required for it. I think it would also only apply to google.co.uk.
If EA only cared about numbers they wouldn't release games like Mass Effect or Mirrors Edge. EA is a large publisher - they release all kinds of games. They release strategy games too, but boohoo this wasn't one of them.
I think you mean Ubisoft or Activision. EA has been playing really nicely the recent years. In fact they've published many innovative and great games too, perfect example being Mirror's Edge. Then there's games like Mass Effect, Battlefield 3, Create, The Saboteur and so on.. EA has really improved from what they were in 2005 or so. Maybe you should get up with times too.
Doesn't this kind of "DRM" question also apply to Google's apps? Like you know, Google C&Ding CyanogenMod for including their apps.
Sorry, but phone screen is way too small for gaming. It's okayish in a bus or so, but there's no way I would consider it fun time to take my phone to sofa or bed to play some games. And on top of that, laptop isn't really ideal for that either. I have a great gaming laptop, but it just doesn't allow relaxing like that on sofa or bed, while tablets do. And quite frankly, I would like to do something else than just read too. On top of that, I spend quite much time sitting down at the pool and having a few beers. Tablet would give me ideal entertainment for that. There's no way I'm going to take my laptop there, though.
Are Ubuntu and Mac OSX "trash OSes" too because they have app stores?
Besides, Vista was a good OS, but it changed the Windows fundamentals so much that many apps broke. But to advance, improve security and to use better driver model Microsoft had to do it at some point. There was nothing wrong with Vista but the old badly designed programs that stopped working with it when MS had to take the step forward.
Windows 7: 2009 Windows Vista: 2006 Seems they've taken three years release cycle, which is a really long time compared to Linux distros and Mac OS X. It's better than the time after XP anyway, which really started to feel like an outdated OS, by security standards and features too.
I don't think Microsoft is that late for tablets. Quite frankly, I think the current Android tablets still aren't worth using. That leaves you with iPad, so there's definitely some market open for tablets and what Microsoft has shown about Windows 8 for tablets it looks quite nice. On top of that you get the support for Windows apps, which is a huge deal.
But even on normal computer side, Windows 8 seems to improve many things over 7, which already is really good OS.
Not only that, but entertainment is US most profitable industry, and it's huge export to other countries too. So not only gaming industry (and movies and music industry for that matter) create jobs, they bring in lots of money to US. All immaterial too. If someone deserves tax breaks, it's those industries as they bring so much value to the US (even if you disagree with some of their business practices)
Well North Korea isn't going to start anything.
You can see the Norway shootings for example. The guy didn't commit suicide in the end, but killed ~90 people and he might just as well have suicided himself after that. It wasn't related to religion in any way, it was politics - right vs. left, and more capitalism ideas against socialism. He took it to extremes, but religion wasn't part of that. I suspect this also was much more about politics than anything religion related.