It grabs all the available updates and creates an up-to-date image that can be written to an external media for automated updates. In the end, it's just like an offline Service Pack, only that you don't need to wait for the guys in Redmond to finally get their asses moving.
In the meantime, there are always tools like http://www.wsusoffline.net/ to roll one's own Service Pack 2 in case a new install becomes necessary (English introduction is below the German one).
I actually wouldn't trust him farther than I can throw him.
You might want to look up some sources on the connection between Schmitz and a lawyer (more like the copyright equivalent of an ambulance chaser) called Gravenreuth (most sources on the topic are only in German). Back in the BBS days Kim Schmitz more than happily weaseled his way into various groups and when he got bored he simply sold out the data and contacts to said lawyer (one whose "good" conduct over the years eventually led to him being convicted of fraud and killing himself before he had to begin his prison sentence).
The project is creating a common IT infrastructure, with client administration, helpdesk ticketing, centralized solutions instead of every department doing its own thing,...
Depends. The Maemo-powered Nokia N900 was the first device to receive Angry Birds and yet Nokia treated the device as its red-headed step child and ran the Maemo platform into the ground.
On one hand there's the chance to let Microsoft swallow some of its own medicine (especially after MS has pissed off web developers for years) and on the other hand there's the data that Google could use to its advantage.
Even a great job in the CG sector isn't worth shit when the business side of the industry runs the companies into the ground: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/life-pi-house-rhythm-hues-422482
Like an Oscar winner that earned almost 19 times its budget? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slumdog_millionaire
Now, why does this remind me of stories like these?
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/life-pi-house-rhythm-hues-422482
It grabs all the available updates and creates an up-to-date image that can be written to an external media for automated updates.
In the end, it's just like an offline Service Pack, only that you don't need to wait for the guys in Redmond to finally get their asses moving.
Mentioned it above, but just use http://www.wsusoffline.net/ to roll your own WP2.
In the meantime, there are always tools like http://www.wsusoffline.net/ to roll one's own Service Pack 2 in case a new install becomes necessary (English introduction is below the German one).
They're already way ahead of you
Victim 1: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-torrance-shooting-20130209,0,4414028.story
Victim 2: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-torrance-shooting-20130210,0,3955268.story
I'd rather have Holi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi
Now, now, we don't even know if he's from New Jersey.
Take that stick out of your ass and get yourself a sense of humor.
Saving a shitload of money wasn't enough of a reason?
I actually wouldn't trust him farther than I can throw him.
You might want to look up some sources on the connection between Schmitz and a lawyer (more like the copyright equivalent of an ambulance chaser) called Gravenreuth (most sources on the topic are only in German).
Back in the BBS days Kim Schmitz more than happily weaseled his way into various groups and when he got bored he simply sold out the data and contacts to said lawyer (one whose "good" conduct over the years eventually led to him being convicted of fraud and killing himself before he had to begin his prison sentence).
Might as well store your information in China. ;)
The lengths people will go to in order to finally get a working alternative to the SDK's goddamn piece of shit of an emulator.
Good riddance!
It would be great to see some sequels along the lines of the novels, but they'd most likely find a way to screw it up anyway.
And the OS is just the tip of the iceberg.
The project is creating a common IT infrastructure, with client administration, helpdesk ticketing, centralized solutions instead of every department doing its own thing, ...
I'd be more interested in finding out how many of those are even legit.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57562905-94/blackberry-app-world-said-to-hawk-pirated-android-apps/
Depends. The Maemo-powered Nokia N900 was the first device to receive Angry Birds and yet Nokia treated the device as its red-headed step child and ran the Maemo platform into the ground.
Same here. Yet another example of how useless the patent system has become.
Not that different from a kind of stupidity that's currently going rampant in the corporate sector.
Why?
With the state of the US national debt they already own the remaining rest anyway.
That's pretty much what it boils down to.
On one hand there's the chance to let Microsoft swallow some of its own medicine (especially after MS has pissed off web developers for years) and on the other hand there's the data that Google could use to its advantage.
It'll take a lot more than that for Google to give up on Double Irish.
It's the future of Gamemaker!