I thought Microsoft endorsed their embraced and extended and renamed RSS. Seems like it's now not Atom vs RSS, but "Web Feeds" vs RSS.
Err...
This just seem to be a rebranding like Firefox and "Live Bookmarks".
Numerous hints at it in the article too:
Because of this, its renaming of RSS is not a sign the company is trying to remake the technology for its own purposes but rather a way to make a distinction between RSS and a feature of IE.
Microsoft is adding RSS functionality to the next version of Windows, Windows Vista, primarily through the IE 7 version of its Web browser.
Of course, there's an RSS zealot saying this too:
"Like it or not Microsoft, the technology is called RSS. If you try to change that, for whatever reason, you will get routed around," wrote Winer, a software guru who is credited with pioneering RSS and other Web standards.
Did he complain as loudly when competing web browsers introduced RSS support under other names? Or is it a Microsoft thing... again? I must ask myself if he visits HTML pages or websites as well.
Second, I don't see why this story didn't get on just the Games section. A game is "pretty good" but not "excellent" and it's big time news? Keep in mind that ~80% is nowhere near "bad" especially for a fan of the genre.
So, what are the players to do?
If I were a fan of this genre, I'd pirate this game to see if it was worth the money (unless they release a demo). If it wasn't, I'd just play the former / my current favorite NFL game...?
I can't really see a good reason to why Google has that new word verification feature off by default, and like an option... Why would a blogger not want to know it's a human behind a keyboard... by default?
"Publishers, in typical copyright-holder paranoia fashion worried that perhaps the two line snippets Google would be providing of their books would spell the end of the world for their entire industry. They wrote articles attacking Google for their cruelty and finally, today, Google announced it would back down.
That's right: Google won't even scan any book copyright holders ask them not to, even though doing so is perfectly legal. It's as if copyright holders got to dictate what books get placed in libraries. Their short-sighted selfishness will cost us all, depriving us of our heritage in our online Library of Alexandria."
* Why to air forces the world round rely on C130 Hercules aircraft for transport?
* Why do we communicate with a 30 year old communication protocol?
* Why do I drive a car which is 10 years old but for which the basic design is more than 20 years old?
You're comparing apples and oranges, and even doing the dreaded car analogies... A space shuttle is a vehicle for a part of science that has evolved tremendously since it was built. The same changes can't be said about the requirements of a basic IP protocol. It's doing its job perfectly, but are the space shuttles of today still suited welll to perform modern space science? What about the cost problems? Can we get something more efficient, so we don't depend on a single shuttle crash to stall a huge part of a space program?
Console games, handheld games, then MMORPG's and card games to bind them together...
The things that made Blizzard great wasn't these things, but quality PC games. I wish they'd revisit the platform in brand new titles, but the rumor has it that the next thing on their schedule is a WoW expansion.:-/
Not sure if it's just me getting the feeling they finally grew too big and is just concerned about milking the cash cow, inventing any kind of products to tie into their past successes, and being too feared of starting something new.
Oh well, at least a lot of Blizzard people moved to ArenaNet for Guild Wars, such as Battle.net and Starcraft lead designers, and the key people behind the Diablo series went to form Flagship Studios to be Diablo II's spiritual successor in Hellgate: London.
As for me, the exciting Blizzard related stuff lies in other companies.
Yes, he should've picked another more sparsely populated country to compare with. It's not like there aren't any -- I live about 100 miles from any large city, and I'm happily browsing at 10 Mbps both at home and work, in both places via an optic fiber jack in the wall for a cost comparable to the cost of the food I purchase.
The Net is a great informational tool, but are that many people unhappy with their bandwidth?
Meanwhile, I'm occasionally seeing happy people even in the poorest of countries. I'm seeing homeless people with no future not commiting suicide. What you're talking about is purely because many people don't have anything better to compare with.
Someone compared us to South Korea. If you can't see the problem with that comparison, I mean, geez... (hint: population density)
There are countries with far lower density still with very affordable 10 Mbps+ broadband, so that's no argument against it.
and having a fraction of the land area and higher population densities had nothing to do with it. Honestly, I don't get otherwise rational people even making the comparison.
OK, take the sparsely populated Sweden then, with 10 MBps up/down for $45/month.
The Bush administration is objecting to the creation of a.xxx domain, saying it has concerns about a virtual red-light district reserved exclusively for Internet pornography.
Yes! Yes, you understand it perfectly!
It's to separate porn sites from the rest of the internet to not stumble upon stuff seemingly innocently named under a.com domain.
But the Bush administration obviously want to maintain a blurred line between non-porn sites and regular ones.
I like the.xxx domain, but of course obviously only if the other freely registerable domains.com/net/org get regulated to now allow porn sites, and.xxx to only permit those. It'll probably not happen though, and in that case I think the.xxx domain is totally pointless.
Yeah... The same worry-free experience while still allowing cookies where you want them can be set up in Firefox like this:
To allow new cookies (when visiting new forums, etc)
- Allow sites to set cookies = on - Keep cookies = ask me every time (when asked, obviously don't accept the ad cookies, to 99% easily identifiable)
To allow modifications to cookies earlier allowed to be set, and block the rest (the by far most common and dialog-free setting)
- Allow sites to set cookies = off
^--- This configuration works, because that setting does not disable cookie usage to 100%, but still keep cookies you've allowed before to be both read and modified. You can review which those are later via "View Cookies". I always thought Firefox documented this behavior poorly in the dialog.:-/
If something slipped in by you allowing too much, simply remove the cookies from the whitelist at "View Cookies" in Firefox. Cookies either not listed, or listed as "block" will be blocked by Firefox with "allow sites to set cookies = off", and the others listed as "allow" will always be allowed despite this setting.
They can know my interests, my taste, my foibles, probably what I'm working on, and the only thing standing between potential knowledge and actual mining of it is a non-binding, pretty vacuous "Don't be evil" statement.
How are they "evil" if this is what their users want them to do? Google's popularity has still a base on free choice, and I doubt this would changet that. They aren't forcing services on people by special hardware manufacturer deals, and so on. If the majority wants them to make these services, it's only the minority who thing it's "evil".
Over here in Sweden, we have for a rather long time now had satellite ISP's for the more remote areas where people can't get DSL and want something better than modem speed. However, it was always very costly and totally not worth the money when put against any other common broadband technology, and I doubt this new Japanese satellite will have very low subscription costs.
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So it's not a Jabber client, then? Jabber clients don't fuck around with a bajillion different protocols, that's the server's job to sort out.
This Jabber client does, to still let its users connect to non-Jabber servers as well.
That doesn't change that a new Google IM would be Yet Another IM at all.
Their service may be treated as one if you have really dirty friends though. ;-)
I thought Microsoft endorsed their embraced and extended and renamed RSS. Seems like it's now not Atom vs RSS, but "Web Feeds" vs RSS.
Err...
This just seem to be a rebranding like Firefox and "Live Bookmarks".
Numerous hints at it in the article too:
Because of this, its renaming of RSS is not a sign the company is trying to remake the technology for its own purposes but rather a way to make a distinction between RSS and a feature of IE.
Microsoft is adding RSS functionality to the next version of Windows, Windows Vista, primarily through the IE 7 version of its Web browser.
Of course, there's an RSS zealot saying this too:
"Like it or not Microsoft, the technology is called RSS. If you try to change that, for whatever reason, you will get routed around," wrote Winer, a software guru who is credited with pioneering RSS and other Web standards.
Did he complain as loudly when competing web browsers introduced RSS support under other names? Or is it a Microsoft thing... again? I must ask myself if he visits HTML pages or websites as well.
First...
Avg Ratio: 79%
Based On 2 Media Outlets
I.e. this may change wildly later on.
Second, I don't see why this story didn't get on just the Games section. A game is "pretty good" but not "excellent" and it's big time news? Keep in mind that ~80% is nowhere near "bad" especially for a fan of the genre.
So, what are the players to do?
If I were a fan of this genre, I'd pirate this game to see if it was worth the money (unless they release a demo).
If it wasn't, I'd just play the former / my current favorite NFL game...?
I can't really see a good reason to why Google has that new word verification feature off by default, and like an option...
Why would a blogger not want to know it's a human behind a keyboard... by default?
Google Weblog said it best IMO.
"Publishers, in typical copyright-holder paranoia fashion worried that perhaps the two line snippets Google would be providing of their books would spell the end of the world for their entire industry. They wrote articles attacking Google for their cruelty and finally, today, Google announced it would back down.
That's right: Google won't even scan any book copyright holders ask them not to, even though doing so is perfectly legal. It's as if copyright holders got to dictate what books get placed in libraries. Their short-sighted selfishness will cost us all, depriving us of our heritage in our online Library of Alexandria."
[I'm not knocking the French- but it is history.]
And off-topic.
Here's a clue: just because another country has made mistakes at some point in the history, doesn't mean Bush is making a better job now.
* Why to air forces the world round rely on C130 Hercules aircraft for transport?
* Why do we communicate with a 30 year old communication protocol?
* Why do I drive a car which is 10 years old but for which the basic design is more than 20 years old?
You're comparing apples and oranges, and even doing the dreaded car analogies... A space shuttle is a vehicle for a part of science that has evolved tremendously since it was built. The same changes can't be said about the requirements of a basic IP protocol. It's doing its job perfectly, but are the space shuttles of today still suited welll to perform modern space science? What about the cost problems? Can we get something more efficient, so we don't depend on a single shuttle crash to stall a huge part of a space program?
Console games, handheld games, then MMORPG's and card games to bind them together...
:-/
The things that made Blizzard great wasn't these things, but quality PC games. I wish they'd revisit the platform in brand new titles, but the rumor has it that the next thing on their schedule is a WoW expansion.
Not sure if it's just me getting the feeling they finally grew too big and is just concerned about milking the cash cow, inventing any kind of products to tie into their past successes, and being too feared of starting something new.
Oh well, at least a lot of Blizzard people moved to ArenaNet for Guild Wars, such as Battle.net and Starcraft lead designers, and the key people behind the Diablo series went to form Flagship Studios to be Diablo II's spiritual successor in Hellgate: London.
As for me, the exciting Blizzard related stuff lies in other companies.
I have alot of friends struggling with properly secureing their pirated version of XP.
Security updates are still downloaded to pirated copies.
This report is comparing apples to oranges.
Yes, he should've picked another more sparsely populated country to compare with. It's not like there aren't any -- I live about 100 miles from any large city, and I'm happily browsing at 10 Mbps both at home and work, in both places via an optic fiber jack in the wall for a cost comparable to the cost of the food I purchase.
The Net is a great informational tool, but are that many people unhappy with their bandwidth?
Meanwhile, I'm occasionally seeing happy people even in the poorest of countries. I'm seeing homeless people with no future not commiting suicide. What you're talking about is purely because many people don't have anything better to compare with.
Someone compared us to South Korea. If you can't see the problem with that comparison, I mean, geez... (hint: population density)
There are countries with far lower density still with very affordable 10 Mbps+ broadband, so that's no argument against it.
Or is it just more fucking plastic gadgets?
Probably, like radios and TV's.
and having a fraction of the land area and higher population densities had nothing to do with it. Honestly, I don't get otherwise rational people even making the comparison.
OK, take the sparsely populated Sweden then, with 10 MBps up/down for $45/month.
Reproducing it in a lab won't create the same thing.
Because they're "complicated"?
I've seen labs do "complicated" things before, why would this be any different?
What exactly is impossible to achieve?
Not anymore if you don't need the food from the animals.
Did you miss the point of the parent?
regulated to now allow
:(
regulated to not allow
stupid typo
The Bush administration is objecting to the creation of a .xxx domain, saying it has concerns about a virtual red-light district reserved exclusively for Internet pornography.
.com domain.
.xxx domain, but of course obviously only if the other freely registerable domains .com/net/org get regulated to now allow porn sites, and .xxx to only permit those. It'll probably not happen though, and in that case I think the .xxx domain is totally pointless.
Yes! Yes, you understand it perfectly!
It's to separate porn sites from the rest of the internet to not stumble upon stuff seemingly innocently named under a
But the Bush administration obviously want to maintain a blurred line between non-porn sites and regular ones.
I like the
Yeah... The same worry-free experience while still allowing cookies where you want them can be set up in Firefox like this:
:-/
To allow new cookies
(when visiting new forums, etc)
- Allow sites to set cookies = on
- Keep cookies = ask me every time (when asked, obviously don't accept the ad cookies, to 99% easily identifiable)
To allow modifications to cookies earlier allowed to be set, and block the rest
(the by far most common and dialog-free setting)
- Allow sites to set cookies = off
^--- This configuration works, because that setting does not disable cookie usage to 100%, but still keep cookies you've allowed before to be both read and modified. You can review which those are later via "View Cookies". I always thought Firefox documented this behavior poorly in the dialog.
If something slipped in by you allowing too much, simply remove the cookies from the whitelist at "View Cookies" in Firefox. Cookies either not listed, or listed as "block" will be blocked by Firefox with "allow sites to set cookies = off", and the others listed as "allow" will always be allowed despite this setting.
Pr0n had a lot to do with pushing the massive webserver throughput / broadband increases we've seen in the past several years.
True, and piracy as well. I know a number of people who wouldn't be on their current lines if it wasn't for P2P.
They can know my interests, my taste, my foibles, probably what I'm working on, and the only thing standing between potential knowledge and actual mining of it is a non-binding, pretty vacuous "Don't be evil" statement.
How are they "evil" if this is what their users want them to do? Google's popularity has still a base on free choice, and I doubt this would changet that. They aren't forcing services on people by special hardware manufacturer deals, and so on. If the majority wants them to make these services, it's only the minority who thing it's "evil".
It's easy to use, light-weight, and I never have to doubt wether the author made a mistake or not. :-)
;-)
Well, actually...
It'll run great in Windows Vista though! :-p
Over here in Sweden, we have for a rather long time now had satellite ISP's for the more remote areas where people can't get DSL and want something better than modem speed. However, it was always very costly and totally not worth the money when put against any other common broadband technology, and I doubt this new Japanese satellite will have very low subscription costs.
What's wrong with Mp3 and WMA?
;-)
They can be played on too many devices.