Yes I do, it's a good service and there really isn't anything that compares. Especially since I have friends all over the world and travel a lot. When traveling and going to new place, it's extremely easy to find restaurants and other small businesses via Facebook. They don't often even have websites, and you wouldn't know about them anyway, but via your friends or other connections you stumble upon them. Google fails in that because not all places have websites and you don't know what to look for to begin with. And it's easy to add new friends you meet while traveling.
As far as I can see, the only change is how user profile is displayed. It's a cosmetic change. There is nothing visible that wasn't visible to begin with. The only change is that events and posts are grouped together based on their dates instead of that flat style that was before. But even then the dates were visible, they just weren't grouped together.
It has nothing to do with statistics. Windows Phone 7 terms mandate that manufacturers will update their phones. They are only allowed to skip one update. When the next update comes and if they have already skipped the previous update, manufacturers are required to update their previous phones. Android has no such terms and that's why manufacturers don't really like updating their phones.
North Korea knows fully well people are constantly spying their area. That's why much more interesting thing is that they're likely developing nuclear sites with Burma/Myanmar, deeply within the jungle and inside caves in mountains. They were doing business together back in 2004 too.
The North Koreans, aided by Burmese workers, are constructing a concrete-reinforced underground facility that is '500ft from the top of the cave to the top of the hill above'," reads the cable, published by the Guardian newspaper.
Some 300 North Koreans were working at the site, the authors said, although the cable suggested this number was improbably high.
The BBC's diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus says that for months there have been persistent reports in the press and specialised journals suggesting that Burma is building a nuclear facility with North Korean help.
Another cable released by the whistle-blowing site suggests that China, Burma's most powerful ally, is growing impatient with the country's leaders.
Frankly, this is what happens when powerful nations have nuclear weapons and smaller ones want them too to defend themselves. And remember that U.s. is still the only nation on planet to ever have used nuclear weapons. Against civilians, no less.
It's a cost saving issue. Having multiple plants doubles or triples the expenses and is a logistics nightmare. This would mean that laptop prices would skyrocket in no time. Paying 5-15% more for hard drives for a while is much cheaper than paying double amount for whole laptops all the time. And since someone is going to cut those prices, it means they all need to.
Stuff like this doesn't happen often either. There haven't been such catastrophic floods in Thailand for 30 years. Sometimes shit happens.
No, but ISP's are supposed to provide good broadband to everyone. Yes, sometimes it comes out of their pocket, but that is the cost of doing business here. They get good income anyway, so they can put up with providing access to people with remote locations even if it costs more. We don't leave people dieing in cold.
Well that's funny, cos my country just said it is human right for everyone to get internet access and also access to free information. U.S., what a backwards country.
China owns 8% of dollar. If they sold all their dollars, dollar would drop 8%. And they would get thousands of billions of dollars. They don't need to keep it strong - they're exactly at the fine point where they can cash it while dollar doesn't drop too much while they are selling.
companies and organizations some breathing space in the race to test and deploy new browser versions
I doubt this hardly matters to companies. The thing is, they *cant* deploy Firefox as it is. There is no group policy like with IE, and recently with Chrome. You can distribute it easily within your company. This is what Firefox has always lacked and I don't understand why they have been so ignorant about it. Yes, it does nothing to home users, but it's required for companies.
This is the reason I can't go to a foreign country to visit. I'm American and evil even though I have no control over my government. It's those assholes that are so disconnected with the population that make us all look like tools.
Yeah, this is actually funny thing. I'm European and I can travel to anywhere in the world and people will be happy to meet me and talk to me.
Then, I once met an ex-pat guy from U.S. that said he always has to tell people that he is from Canada because they would hate him otherwise, and that he rather does that than tell them he is from U.S.
It would be fun to see U.S. threaten China about blacklisting them. Oh, wait, they can't because U.S. is so dependent on China that it would hurt U.S. more than it would hurt China.
What about if you stopped following my posts and actually contributed to the discussion like I do? I have no idea why someone would upmod your off-topic post and down-mod my on-topic opinion, but oh well.
...where you bought the game and then picked up community-created addons for free.
Those community-created addons weren't free. They cost a large amount of money, but people still loved them. There's MANY large sites that cater to that market, just search in google.
And I have to say I'm really impressed with the game. The free model seems great too, especially considering that there has always been a huge market place towards Flight Simulator aircrafts, scenery etc. Maybe they will work out some deals with third party developers too. But as I'm under NDA I wont say too much, but you can sign up for beta here. I suggest you do!
Oh, another thing also, now that I think of it. It allows multiboxing your characters up to level 20 easily. Multiboxing makes WoW a lot more fun, especially if done with shamans as they can both tank and heal. I should try that again actually:)
That's absolutely correct. Zynga is taking in more money and valued higher than the whole EA and the only way MMO's have been able to battle WoW has been with free2play models.
On top of that Valve has had huge success by making Team Fortress 2 free. The best thing about TF2 is that it doesn't even feel like they're trying to cash you. You can get everything in the game, but the game is so good that I have happily spend some cash on the store too. On top of that they have created such a good in-game economy that people are spending time on trading inside it and cashing out. And just to say it again - all of this without making the game worse or anyone feeling like they need to buy something from the store, because you can get everything via game, trading or crafting too. And the vanilla weapons are often better than the unlockable ones!
Free2Play games aren't bad per se, but the companies making them need to take correct approach to it. Team Fortress 2 is one of the greatest examples of a good F2P game. The game itself is free and apart from cosmetic things (hats), you can get every item in the game by just playing or trading. But still it makes Valve money because people are also lazy and just buy the item they want for a few dollars from the store.
If you play the game more you might be interested in buying those hats too. It's a ridiculous idea, but as geeky as I am, I love it too and have spend cash a few times to buy paints for my hats and some hats too. If I'm playing the game more, it's just fun to have some fun hat. But I have never felt like I would be forced to spend cash or that spending cash would give some advantage, because it doesn't. Even the vanilla stock weapons are often much better than the ones you need to unlock!
+1 Insightful comment and seems like Google fanboys are raging with modpoints again, down-modding anything critical of Google. Way to stay classy Slashdot.
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Yes I do, it's a good service and there really isn't anything that compares. Especially since I have friends all over the world and travel a lot. When traveling and going to new place, it's extremely easy to find restaurants and other small businesses via Facebook. They don't often even have websites, and you wouldn't know about them anyway, but via your friends or other connections you stumble upon them. Google fails in that because not all places have websites and you don't know what to look for to begin with. And it's easy to add new friends you meet while traveling.
As far as I can see, the only change is how user profile is displayed. It's a cosmetic change. There is nothing visible that wasn't visible to begin with. The only change is that events and posts are grouped together based on their dates instead of that flat style that was before. But even then the dates were visible, they just weren't grouped together.
AJAX was developed initially to make that work better.
What? What does AJAX have to do with working from home?
It has nothing to do with statistics. Windows Phone 7 terms mandate that manufacturers will update their phones. They are only allowed to skip one update. When the next update comes and if they have already skipped the previous update, manufacturers are required to update their previous phones. Android has no such terms and that's why manufacturers don't really like updating their phones.
You jest, but Windows Phone is actually more popular than slashdotters think. On top of that it's predicted that with the help of Nokia, Windows Phone will have 12% market share in 2012.
The North Koreans, aided by Burmese workers, are constructing a concrete-reinforced underground facility that is '500ft from the top of the cave to the top of the hill above'," reads the cable, published by the Guardian newspaper.
Some 300 North Koreans were working at the site, the authors said, although the cable suggested this number was improbably high.
The BBC's diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus says that for months there have been persistent reports in the press and specialised journals suggesting that Burma is building a nuclear facility with North Korean help.
Another cable released by the whistle-blowing site suggests that China, Burma's most powerful ally, is growing impatient with the country's leaders.
Frankly, this is what happens when powerful nations have nuclear weapons and smaller ones want them too to defend themselves. And remember that U.s. is still the only nation on planet to ever have used nuclear weapons. Against civilians, no less.
Just like U.S., then.
Would that also include the likes of GroupOn and other sites who capture your email so they can spam you? It's the same matter, just legalized.
I doubt Google is going to do it, it would cost them too much money.
It's a cost saving issue. Having multiple plants doubles or triples the expenses and is a logistics nightmare. This would mean that laptop prices would skyrocket in no time. Paying 5-15% more for hard drives for a while is much cheaper than paying double amount for whole laptops all the time. And since someone is going to cut those prices, it means they all need to.
Stuff like this doesn't happen often either. There haven't been such catastrophic floods in Thailand for 30 years. Sometimes shit happens.
Nokia already said that they won't sell their smartphone division several hours ago. Why is this rumor still echoed on slashdot?
No, but ISP's are supposed to provide good broadband to everyone. Yes, sometimes it comes out of their pocket, but that is the cost of doing business here. They get good income anyway, so they can put up with providing access to people with remote locations even if it costs more. We don't leave people dieing in cold.
Well that's funny, cos my country just said it is human right for everyone to get internet access and also access to free information. U.S., what a backwards country.
China owns 8% of dollar. If they sold all their dollars, dollar would drop 8%. And they would get thousands of billions of dollars. They don't need to keep it strong - they're exactly at the fine point where they can cash it while dollar doesn't drop too much while they are selling.
companies and organizations some breathing space in the race to test and deploy new browser versions
I doubt this hardly matters to companies. The thing is, they *cant* deploy Firefox as it is. There is no group policy like with IE, and recently with Chrome. You can distribute it easily within your company. This is what Firefox has always lacked and I don't understand why they have been so ignorant about it. Yes, it does nothing to home users, but it's required for companies.
I'd mod you up had I the points.
This is the reason I can't go to a foreign country to visit. I'm American and evil even though I have no control over my government. It's those assholes that are so disconnected with the population that make us all look like tools.
Yeah, this is actually funny thing. I'm European and I can travel to anywhere in the world and people will be happy to meet me and talk to me.
Then, I once met an ex-pat guy from U.S. that said he always has to tell people that he is from Canada because they would hate him otherwise, and that he rather does that than tell them he is from U.S.
It would be fun to see U.S. threaten China about blacklisting them. Oh, wait, they can't because U.S. is so dependent on China that it would hurt U.S. more than it would hurt China.
What about if you stopped following my posts and actually contributed to the discussion like I do? I have no idea why someone would upmod your off-topic post and down-mod my on-topic opinion, but oh well.
...where you bought the game and then picked up community-created addons for free.
Those community-created addons weren't free. They cost a large amount of money, but people still loved them. There's MANY large sites that cater to that market, just search in google.
And I have to say I'm really impressed with the game. The free model seems great too, especially considering that there has always been a huge market place towards Flight Simulator aircrafts, scenery etc. Maybe they will work out some deals with third party developers too. But as I'm under NDA I wont say too much, but you can sign up for beta here. I suggest you do!
Oh, another thing also, now that I think of it. It allows multiboxing your characters up to level 20 easily. Multiboxing makes WoW a lot more fun, especially if done with shamans as they can both tank and heal. I should try that again actually :)
It has been for years. It's basically trial. Not sure what they name it now, but trial was always up to level 20 too.
That's absolutely correct. Zynga is taking in more money and valued higher than the whole EA and the only way MMO's have been able to battle WoW has been with free2play models.
On top of that Valve has had huge success by making Team Fortress 2 free. The best thing about TF2 is that it doesn't even feel like they're trying to cash you. You can get everything in the game, but the game is so good that I have happily spend some cash on the store too. On top of that they have created such a good in-game economy that people are spending time on trading inside it and cashing out. And just to say it again - all of this without making the game worse or anyone feeling like they need to buy something from the store, because you can get everything via game, trading or crafting too. And the vanilla weapons are often better than the unlockable ones!
Free2Play games aren't bad per se, but the companies making them need to take correct approach to it. Team Fortress 2 is one of the greatest examples of a good F2P game. The game itself is free and apart from cosmetic things (hats), you can get every item in the game by just playing or trading. But still it makes Valve money because people are also lazy and just buy the item they want for a few dollars from the store.
If you play the game more you might be interested in buying those hats too. It's a ridiculous idea, but as geeky as I am, I love it too and have spend cash a few times to buy paints for my hats and some hats too. If I'm playing the game more, it's just fun to have some fun hat. But I have never felt like I would be forced to spend cash or that spending cash would give some advantage, because it doesn't. Even the vanilla stock weapons are often much better than the ones you need to unlock!
+1 Insightful comment and seems like Google fanboys are raging with modpoints again, down-modding anything critical of Google. Way to stay classy Slashdot.