It's actually kind of funny that Slashdotters seem to be so in love with DuckDuckGo, especially considering that it uses Bing as back-end. Guess it doesn't matter if it just doesn't clearly say Microsoft somewhere in the site. Just shows that Bing actually provides good search results.
Why do you think it's bashing? It's reporting news. Just because it's Google doesn't mean they should not be reported, just like Microsoft, Apple and other companies. Or are you saying we should give Google a pass on every time just because you love them?
Most Microsoft's products are actual products you run on your desktop, like Windows and Office. They keep working even if Microsoft "discontinues" them. With cloud and Google stuff discontinuing them means they really are dead.
In Germany and France, a study reported that approximately 113 White Nationalist, Nazi, anti-semitic, radical Islamic and other websites had been removed from the German and French versions of Google.
I've said for a long time that it's just stupid to trust Google to keep any of their services up and running and to rely on them. You get what you pay for. People who still haven't got that are just going to see more services they use dropped.
I can't understand why they didn't try to work with Opera tho. Opera Software has years of experience in embedded systems, mobile phones, Wii, hotel tv's... They have the tech and knowledge.
The browser uses, of course. But they're talking about the whole OS. WebOS is supposed to work fully using WebKit to render it. iOS doesn't render the UI and apps with web browser.
That also means that everyone loses trust in Google's services. They just seem to cancel anything anytime they want. There was an earlier discussion about Native Client. Who's to say Google won't just drop it? Even Microsoft offers very specific end-of-lifecycle dates and they're always several years in to the future. With every version, too!
I won't be trusting Google's services to stay up, and hence won't be using them either. I only use the ones I can afford to end randomly, like search and youtube.
That still doesn't change anything. Microsoft lets other browsers implement ActiveX too if they want to. But they don't. Why would other browsers suddenly start supporting everything Google does, especially non-standard stuff?
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So why make it again, and especially why bundle it with browser? There is Adobe AIR already and it works with every browser, not just Chrome. And on every platform, too.
We had that shit before with ActiveX. We need standards, not some stuff that only works in Chrome. However, I guess it's better for Google - now they have something that only works with Chrome. So when new users go to some web site it will say that they need to download and install Chrome to use it. Old users will also be locked to Chrome.
Don't do that. Only use standards like HTML5 that work in every browser.
Look what happened when there was that shooter at the kids' camp. The police did not even know how to respond.
Yes they did, but the shooter had planned it well. First bomb in city center and then go to an island to shoot kids. It would had been disaster everywhere in world.
The United States is not Norway. Norway does not have violent illegal immigrant gangbangers. If they did, they would have to create a real prison system.
Which is mostly caused by the stupid war on drugs. If you just let your people get high there wouldn't be any reason for such violent immigrant crimes that mostly come from Mexico. There was lots of crime involving bootleg alcohol when it was banned too. All that went away when alcohol was legalized.
You need to look at complete picture when fixing bugs and vulnerabilities. There wouldn't be need for any SCADA system to begin with if U.S. fixed its prison system. Currently it's only making money for those who own prisons. It's mind blowing that something like prisons would be commercially run.
The SCADA system isn't flawed, the whole prison system in U.S. is. Not only have studies shown that there is no need for such locked down prison facilities, but it's also demonstrated by real life experiences in Norway. Almost all of Norway's prisons are open. Their objective isn't locking down people but correct behaviour. The purpose is to create real life environment, complete with saunas, sunbeds and own rooms and furniture. It makes much more sense too. If you just lock down people for years they are always going to stay criminals. If you try to correct their behaviour and reintroduce them to system and proper behavior, they will learn and also stay out of prisons in future. It's very telling that U.S. has one of the highest percentages of their people in prisons. That system clearly isn't working.
I think we had a quite successful overall year. Many slashdotters started to realize that Microsoft isn't as bad as people were shoehorned to think. Google also started to show more and more of their evil side, especially regarding their "identity service" and the many failures it had, like whole real name fiasco and the platform never really catching on. It will be interesting to see what happens with the whole Nokia-Microsoft deal and if EU ever lets Google have Motorola Mobility. And also what will come out of those FDC and EU investigations into Google's practices.
XNA doesn't matter. What matters is how easy it is for the developers who have already written apps for iOS and Android to port them to WP7. Microsoft is trying to apply their usual MO to a market where they have no market power
Hey, I would you introduce you to these two small guys called Windows and Xbox360.
Frankly, it's not new here. The slashdot moderation system is clearly being abused to downmod everyone who says anything positive about MS, or in other discussions that go against/. crowd think (like saying DRM might be good in some situations, or that people like Facebook). And it's not like/. is ever going to fix that either. Reddit's system is much better.
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With Lumia falling flat in Europe Microsoft needs all the enthusiastic modding fans they can get.
Actually, Lumia is performing really well in Europe and Australia. In November it was on top of sales charts of Sweden and Australia and in December in United Kingdom, beating both Android devices and iPhone. Nokia and Microsoft did really well in Europe.
It's actually kind of funny that Slashdotters seem to be so in love with DuckDuckGo, especially considering that it uses Bing as back-end. Guess it doesn't matter if it just doesn't clearly say Microsoft somewhere in the site. Just shows that Bing actually provides good search results.
Why do you think it's bashing? It's reporting news. Just because it's Google doesn't mean they should not be reported, just like Microsoft, Apple and other companies. Or are you saying we should give Google a pass on every time just because you love them?
It's not only start page, it's across all pages.
Most Microsoft's products are actual products you run on your desktop, like Windows and Office. They keep working even if Microsoft "discontinues" them. With cloud and Google stuff discontinuing them means they really are dead.
Yet the made a big deal about Chinese government trying to censor them. But I guess that's totally different!
And showing the middle finger clearly broke laws!
"Evil" is things like crushing free speech,
Google does that too.
In Germany and France, a study reported that approximately 113 White Nationalist, Nazi, anti-semitic, radical Islamic and other websites had been removed from the German and French versions of Google.
I've said for a long time that it's just stupid to trust Google to keep any of their services up and running and to rely on them. You get what you pay for. People who still haven't got that are just going to see more services they use dropped.
I can't understand why they didn't try to work with Opera tho. Opera Software has years of experience in embedded systems, mobile phones, Wii, hotel tv's... They have the tech and knowledge.
The browser uses, of course. But they're talking about the whole OS. WebOS is supposed to work fully using WebKit to render it. iOS doesn't render the UI and apps with web browser.
That also means that everyone loses trust in Google's services. They just seem to cancel anything anytime they want. There was an earlier discussion about Native Client. Who's to say Google won't just drop it? Even Microsoft offers very specific end-of-lifecycle dates and they're always several years in to the future. With every version, too!
I won't be trusting Google's services to stay up, and hence won't be using them either. I only use the ones I can afford to end randomly, like search and youtube.
Complex software has bugs, news at eleven. NaCI will have too.
People also "had" to buy MW3 because majority of gamers want to play it online. For that you need a legit copy.
That still doesn't change anything. Microsoft lets other browsers implement ActiveX too if they want to. But they don't. Why would other browsers suddenly start supporting everything Google does, especially non-standard stuff?
I'm talking about Native Client, not MAME per se.
So why make it again, and especially why bundle it with browser? There is Adobe AIR already and it works with every browser, not just Chrome. And on every platform, too.
We had that shit before with ActiveX. We need standards, not some stuff that only works in Chrome. However, I guess it's better for Google - now they have something that only works with Chrome. So when new users go to some web site it will say that they need to download and install Chrome to use it. Old users will also be locked to Chrome.
Don't do that. Only use standards like HTML5 that work in every browser.
BSD already has jails!
Look what happened when there was that shooter at the kids' camp. The police did not even know how to respond.
Yes they did, but the shooter had planned it well. First bomb in city center and then go to an island to shoot kids. It would had been disaster everywhere in world.
The United States is not Norway. Norway does not have violent illegal immigrant gangbangers. If they did, they would have to create a real prison system.
Which is mostly caused by the stupid war on drugs. If you just let your people get high there wouldn't be any reason for such violent immigrant crimes that mostly come from Mexico. There was lots of crime involving bootleg alcohol when it was banned too. All that went away when alcohol was legalized.
You need to look at complete picture when fixing bugs and vulnerabilities. There wouldn't be need for any SCADA system to begin with if U.S. fixed its prison system. Currently it's only making money for those who own prisons. It's mind blowing that something like prisons would be commercially run.
The SCADA system isn't flawed, the whole prison system in U.S. is. Not only have studies shown that there is no need for such locked down prison facilities, but it's also demonstrated by real life experiences in Norway. Almost all of Norway's prisons are open. Their objective isn't locking down people but correct behaviour. The purpose is to create real life environment, complete with saunas, sunbeds and own rooms and furniture. It makes much more sense too. If you just lock down people for years they are always going to stay criminals. If you try to correct their behaviour and reintroduce them to system and proper behavior, they will learn and also stay out of prisons in future. It's very telling that U.S. has one of the highest percentages of their people in prisons. That system clearly isn't working.
I think we had a quite successful overall year. Many slashdotters started to realize that Microsoft isn't as bad as people were shoehorned to think. Google also started to show more and more of their evil side, especially regarding their "identity service" and the many failures it had, like whole real name fiasco and the platform never really catching on. It will be interesting to see what happens with the whole Nokia-Microsoft deal and if EU ever lets Google have Motorola Mobility. And also what will come out of those FDC and EU investigations into Google's practices.
XNA doesn't matter. What matters is how easy it is for the developers who have already written apps for iOS and Android to port them to WP7. Microsoft is trying to apply their usual MO to a market where they have no market power
Hey, I would you introduce you to these two small guys called Windows and Xbox360.
Frankly, it's not new here. The slashdot moderation system is clearly being abused to downmod everyone who says anything positive about MS, or in other discussions that go against /. crowd think (like saying DRM might be good in some situations, or that people like Facebook). And it's not like /. is ever going to fix that either. Reddit's system is much better.
Yes, all of our win server sysadmins use those in their scripts, and they're really handy.