The increasing tendency for languages to use their own script on the internet not only on websites, but also in TLDs does lead to people who have no knowledge of that script being less and less able to access it, as they can't even input the characters for the domain any more. That said, how many people were looking at foreign websites in any case? Non-English speaking people were used to accessing English websites, as the biggest majority of the web was in English, but English speakers, who are notoriously bad in foreign languages weren't doing that so much.
English was more or less an internet common language and that is now changing again, so yes, I do think the web is currently being segregated by language again.
IMO the best bets for enhanced international web understanding lie with things like Google's translate, which will hopefully improve over the years. This because I don't see people being able to cope with all the myriad languages on the web.
I like the new Win 7 phones, especially the HTC and Samsung ones and Win Phone 7 looks fairly comfortable with nice big UI buttons. Will definitely be looking into one next year when my contract is up.
However, the ZunePass, currently, is probably not going to be much of a crowd pleaser. iTunes Music Store has the music market pretty much sown up at the moment. That might change however, because a lot of people like Steve Jobs even less than they do Ballmer, which takes some doing.
I also think Xbox live integration will be interesting for some but probably not be much of a deciding factor either. There aren't enough Xbox gamers who use Live to make a dent in the phone market.
Similarly, Windows Live is not Facebook or Twitter.
And finally the Office integration is a good deal for business people, but it won't make that much of a difference in the consumer market.
No, what will decide the market is apps and word of mouth popularity. Android got off to a slow start but has now overtaken the iPhone. WinPhone 7 can do this as well if the phones are good value for money and perform well without too many bugs. Consumers don't care who the phone comes from, but they do care if it's popullar with others and works well enough for them.
As the article states, these would be ideal for processors that operated on the surfaces of Mercury and Venus. While a probe on the surface of Mercury could probably get away with good (but very large and heavy) heat shielding, Venus especially has always been a problem for probes and the Soviet Venera probes that delivered images of Venus' surface lasted only somehwere around 57 minutes before failing. A probe based on this technology, i.e. a working high temperature design, could last much longer.
Living in Europe, I think most European Taxpayers would dearly love to know what the fuck the European Patent Office is doing making presentations at a computer conference on the other side of the world.
You mean a jet, burning fuel that was transported over tens of thousands of kilometres, carrying fat americans is more efficient than a cyclist pedalling his way through the air?
The charges against him were suddenly withdrawn. It makes it highly obvious that someone paid someone else to smear him. I wonder if Assange will be bright enough to press charges against the women who pressed charges against him. Would be interesting to see what trial discovery unveiled.
PLEX was introduced by CCP to counter macro farmers funding large RMT organisations, the ones you can find by googling "eve isk". PLEX is legal within the game, whereas ISK bought from the many, many dubious webites that offer cheap ISK is not. However, the return on a PLEX is significantly lower than buying the ISK off the internet. For example, 2x 30 day PLEX costs you around $35. This will give you around 560 million in game ISK. Buying ISK online, however, will get you around 1 billion in game ISK for around $30 according to google. The larger RMT organisations are also pretty good about keeping the entire real transaction out of the game (no in game communication), and legal within the game - you "sell" them junk items for enormously inflated prices in game, which is next to impossible to tell apart from the regular, legal in game scamming that goes on all the time. They also apparently have numerous in game methods of laundering in game farmed ISK, so as to make it difficult to track back to the original RMT'er.
Of course, if you do get caught by CCP, they'll ban you from their game, but there's not much else they can do.
Additionally, Eve and CCP have the source of some pretty big scandals recently, with many of the older players quitting the game because CCP refuses to commit to fixing any of the large number of bugs and imbalances. The biggest bug is extreme lag in systems where many of the older players in big alliances play, and the player rage has made a large number of player feel that CCP is wasting their subscription money to develop new features (a la SWG:NGE) that the players do not want at the cost of ignoring more pressing problems.
If you have to find fault with BP, find fault with things they really messed up, of which there are many, but not a photo retouched for aesthetic reasons.
I'm a Mac user and I have an older iPhone, and I have to say that the denial that Apple supporters have in suppressing any negative comments or reports on Apple is simply amazing. It seem to be almost pathological.
I don't give a flying fuck about Microsoft and most of their business failures over the past few years have been their own fault, but I do like the fact that they are also, under great pressure of becoming irrelevant, moving towards a standards compliant browser.
Back in 2003, the company I was working for bought 20 Dell Optiplexes. Of those 3 were DoA. It took Unisys, the company that Dell outsources support to here in Switzerland, 3 months to finally get the last one working. If Switzerland had laws like in the states where law suits can be the number 2 in 1)Buy Dell, 2)???, 3)Profit, we would have made a killing. The quality of the machines was truly terrible and even the German speaking support (Dell had/has a German speaking support center in Ireland) were just the usual read-the-support-script kind of people. Never again.
OMG Apple fanboi fire brigade to the rescue!!!!! Thank God you got here in time before people could realise that Apple is just as prone to making shoddy products and lying about it as anyone else.
Problem is that an alien occupation would probably be incredibly devastating for us, somewhere along the lines of the Spanish conquest of South America, I think.
Honestly, the only person who could write a post like that is a frustrated Adobe Coder who's worried about his job because Flash is such a giant heap of fail that no one wants it.
Have you seen just how much shit does get approved by Apple? Apple only filters out algorithmically badly coded apps, apps that use private APIs and a whole bunch of other stuff for mainly political reasons. Allowing ads in apps might very lead to all the GP states; "free" apps that are crippled by ads, paid aps gowing up in price etc.
Is a significant degree of retardation a prerequisite to use Apple's devices? If the user, as most will surely do, just clicks or press the update all button and finds out his app is now adfilled crapware, how exactly is he suppoed to go back to the previous version?
Man, I know you guys really love Steve Jobs 'n all, but really, just think for yourself, just for once, ok?
Please tell me who is preventing you from doing the following with your "iOS device":
1. Wiping the device and writing your own OS from scratch. Apple did it. Why can't you?
2. Forking Android to run on iOS hardware (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad). C'mon, what're you waiting for?
So, it seems like it is only your own limitations, not the device's, that is making you BELIEVE that you are "stuck" with iOS on your iPhone (assuming you had one).
I think the market for mobile advertising is vastly overrated. If there's anything that will rapidly kill off user enthusiasm for Apple's apps, it is ads irritating the fuck out of you when you start up an app. Not only that, but developers who use the iAds API will most likely find their apps falling to the bottom of the popularity stakes and from there on stop using it.
Apple is trying to be king bitch by now allowing users to search using yahoo or bing, but please, who on earth would bother? Steve Jobs in his pathetic foaming at the mouth hatred of Google ("They betrayed me!!!!1111") might be dumb enough to use bing, but no one else is going to if they have a choice. Google will still rake in the cash with mobile advertising and I'm pretty sure that iAds will end up on Apple's small but growing pile of has-beens.
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The increasing tendency for languages to use their own script on the internet not only on websites, but also in TLDs does lead to people who have no knowledge of that script being less and less able to access it, as they can't even input the characters for the domain any more. That said, how many people were looking at foreign websites in any case? Non-English speaking people were used to accessing English websites, as the biggest majority of the web was in English, but English speakers, who are notoriously bad in foreign languages weren't doing that so much.
English was more or less an internet common language and that is now changing again, so yes, I do think the web is currently being segregated by language again.
IMO the best bets for enhanced international web understanding lie with things like Google's translate, which will hopefully improve over the years. This because I don't see people being able to cope with all the myriad languages on the web.
Is 0.888888888888888.... = 0.999999999999999999999999....?
If so, does 0.1111111111111..... = 0? or 0.1?
Or does 0.8888888888.... + 0.1111111111111.......... = 0.999999999999999999.........?
You know, not everyone who posts something that isn't mindlessly, absolutely pro-Apple/Steve Jobs/iPhone/iPad etc works for Microsoft.
Some of them work for Google.
I like the new Win 7 phones, especially the HTC and Samsung ones and Win Phone 7 looks fairly comfortable with nice big UI buttons. Will definitely be looking into one next year when my contract is up.
However, the ZunePass, currently, is probably not going to be much of a crowd pleaser. iTunes Music Store has the music market pretty much sown up at the moment. That might change however, because a lot of people like Steve Jobs even less than they do Ballmer, which takes some doing.
I also think Xbox live integration will be interesting for some but probably not be much of a deciding factor either. There aren't enough Xbox gamers who use Live to make a dent in the phone market.
Similarly, Windows Live is not Facebook or Twitter.
And finally the Office integration is a good deal for business people, but it won't make that much of a difference in the consumer market.
No, what will decide the market is apps and word of mouth popularity. Android got off to a slow start but has now overtaken the iPhone. WinPhone 7 can do this as well if the phones are good value for money and perform well without too many bugs. Consumers don't care who the phone comes from, but they do care if it's popullar with others and works well enough for them.
As the article states, these would be ideal for processors that operated on the surfaces of Mercury and Venus. While a probe on the surface of Mercury could probably get away with good (but very large and heavy) heat shielding, Venus especially has always been a problem for probes and the Soviet Venera probes that delivered images of Venus' surface lasted only somehwere around 57 minutes before failing. A probe based on this technology, i.e. a working high temperature design, could last much longer.
Living in Europe, I think most European Taxpayers would dearly love to know what the fuck the European Patent Office is doing making presentations at a computer conference on the other side of the world.
Walk up mountain, unfold backpack, run off mountain, fly using thermals, land a good distance away. You mean something like that?
You mean a jet, burning fuel that was transported over tens of thousands of kilometres, carrying fat americans is more efficient than a cyclist pedalling his way through the air?
The charges against him were suddenly withdrawn. It makes it highly obvious that someone paid someone else to smear him. I wonder if Assange will be bright enough to press charges against the women who pressed charges against him. Would be interesting to see what trial discovery unveiled.
PLEX was introduced by CCP to counter macro farmers funding large RMT organisations, the ones you can find by googling "eve isk". PLEX is legal within the game, whereas ISK bought from the many, many dubious webites that offer cheap ISK is not. However, the return on a PLEX is significantly lower than buying the ISK off the internet. For example, 2x 30 day PLEX costs you around $35. This will give you around 560 million in game ISK. Buying ISK online, however, will get you around 1 billion in game ISK for around $30 according to google. The larger RMT organisations are also pretty good about keeping the entire real transaction out of the game (no in game communication), and legal within the game - you "sell" them junk items for enormously inflated prices in game, which is next to impossible to tell apart from the regular, legal in game scamming that goes on all the time. They also apparently have numerous in game methods of laundering in game farmed ISK, so as to make it difficult to track back to the original RMT'er.
Of course, if you do get caught by CCP, they'll ban you from their game, but there's not much else they can do.
Additionally, Eve and CCP have the source of some pretty big scandals recently, with many of the older players quitting the game because CCP refuses to commit to fixing any of the large number of bugs and imbalances. The biggest bug is extreme lag in systems where many of the older players in big alliances play, and the player rage has made a large number of player feel that CCP is wasting their subscription money to develop new features (a la SWG:NGE) that the players do not want at the cost of ignoring more pressing problems.
If you have to find fault with BP, find fault with things they really messed up, of which there are many, but not a photo retouched for aesthetic reasons.
I'm a Mac user and I have an older iPhone, and I have to say that the denial that Apple supporters have in suppressing any negative comments or reports on Apple is simply amazing. It seem to be almost pathological.
I don't give a flying fuck about Microsoft and most of their business failures over the past few years have been their own fault, but I do like the fact that they are also, under great pressure of becoming irrelevant, moving towards a standards compliant browser.
Back in 2003, the company I was working for bought 20 Dell Optiplexes. Of those 3 were DoA. It took Unisys, the company that Dell outsources support to here in Switzerland, 3 months to finally get the last one working. If Switzerland had laws like in the states where law suits can be the number 2 in 1)Buy Dell, 2)???, 3)Profit, we would have made a killing. The quality of the machines was truly terrible and even the German speaking support (Dell had/has a German speaking support center in Ireland) were just the usual read-the-support-script kind of people. Never again.
OMG Apple fanboi fire brigade to the rescue!!!!! Thank God you got here in time before people could realise that Apple is just as prone to making shoddy products and lying about it as anyone else.
Even if you could negate inertia, your aircraft carrier would still be attracted to the earth.
I would like to post my new app "Steve's Johnson" to the app store. Please tell me where I should put it.
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Theolein
Problem is that an alien occupation would probably be incredibly devastating for us, somewhere along the lines of the Spanish conquest of South America, I think.
When you guys at Adobe do get it right, be sure to let us know, ok?
Honestly, the only person who could write a post like that is a frustrated Adobe Coder who's worried about his job because Flash is such a giant heap of fail that no one wants it.
Why, do you think it smelled bad?
Have you seen just how much shit does get approved by Apple? Apple only filters out algorithmically badly coded apps, apps that use private APIs and a whole bunch of other stuff for mainly political reasons. Allowing ads in apps might very lead to all the GP states; "free" apps that are crippled by ads, paid aps gowing up in price etc.
I don't know, but we'll see.
Is a significant degree of retardation a prerequisite to use Apple's devices? If the user, as most will surely do, just clicks or press the update all button and finds out his app is now adfilled crapware, how exactly is he suppoed to go back to the previous version?
Man, I know you guys really love Steve Jobs 'n all, but really, just think for yourself, just for once, ok?
Please tell me who is preventing you from doing the following with your "iOS device":
1. Wiping the device and writing your own OS from scratch. Apple did it. Why can't you?
2. Forking Android to run on iOS hardware (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad). C'mon, what're you waiting for?
So, it seems like it is only your own limitations, not the device's, that is making you BELIEVE that you are "stuck" with iOS on your iPhone (assuming you had one).
Pssst, Android has been ported to the iPhone.
I think the market for mobile advertising is vastly overrated. If there's anything that will rapidly kill off user enthusiasm for Apple's apps, it is ads irritating the fuck out of you when you start up an app. Not only that, but developers who use the iAds API will most likely find their apps falling to the bottom of the popularity stakes and from there on stop using it.
Apple is trying to be king bitch by now allowing users to search using yahoo or bing, but please, who on earth would bother? Steve Jobs in his pathetic foaming at the mouth hatred of Google ("They betrayed me!!!!1111") might be dumb enough to use bing, but no one else is going to if they have a choice. Google will still rake in the cash with mobile advertising and I'm pretty sure that iAds will end up on Apple's small but growing pile of has-beens.