Given the fact that the use of a web-browser is the main source of income for Google combined with the fact that IE6 still has a 10% market-share.. I'd be willing to bet that a shitload of people working at google simply need IE6 in one form or another to get their job done.
Not me, with China I know exactly what I'm dealing with. A giant who doesn't pretend to be nice but is quite open about it's policies and it's agenda.
This opposed to google who tries really REALLY hard to be seen as the world's nicest and biggest friend but of which I have no idea of the hidden agenda behind it.
I generally don't trust people who always smile at me and try their utter most best to convince me they are to be trusted. Don't say it, prove it......
In google's case. Put your money where your mouth is and gtfo of China, then we'll talk again.
My girlfriend and me started playing WoW on launchday. We both had a stretch of time that we played pretty "hardcore". I'm a recovering wow-a-holic for almost two years now. She still plays the damn game (though a lot less time is involved now) but, still..
I was thinking more in the lines of asking this very same question on a few tech sites with your real name.
It's basicaly the same as mentioning it on your cv. Only it will show that you regret the action, are not afraid to deal with the consquences and are actively trying to solve your problem without hiding it. Being honest goes a long way
If nothing else at least they could take control of their own destiny for a change.
With 75.000 dollars in their pockets on payday I'd say they have a pretty firm grip on their future. I imagine that's the Somalian equivalent of being a millionaire in Europe or the U.S.
Apart from the fact that it's a very unstable environment to develop in, both in a end-user as technical way.
*If* a company like AV would choose to sell a app purely targeted at jailbroken phones and distribute that app via other sources than the Apple Appstore.
Would apple have any legal ground to stop that distribution?
I can only speak for myself but sampling is the main reason I download cracked apps.
Most apps and games are so dirt cheap even a cheap bastard like me has no problem with paying up a few dollars.
The main problem is the app-store itself. There are what? 100.000 apps? 99.99% of those apps are either crap, useless or a combination of both. Not even worth the 99c.
The 3GS is my first iPhone and also my last. I love the little device more than any other gadget.
But the way apple treats it's customers. The insane policies in the appstore. Basic functionality you can only get after jailbreaking the thing (damn, I said it. Now Steve will hunt me down and hang me) The way they are hellbent on disabling jailbreaking.. God forbid I do something on a device I own that Uncle Steve doesn't approve of..
No, I love the iPhone but my next phone will be something with a platform that's usable in the way I want to, not in the way apple thinks is good for me.
All flights are done with cheap Chinese copies of NASA rockets
Actually I think that is one of the main problems of today's space programs. Especially NASA's.
They are so hung op on the quadrupal redundant, 99.9999999999% safe and fail-proof flights that the costs to achieve such goals are way out of balance with the goal that needs to be achieved.
Fuck the almost 100% guarantee that nothing can go wrong I'll settle for 90% if that means 10x more exploration. Yes, rockets will explode, astronauts will die. So what? All in the day's job...
"there is a small chance you might die on your next mission, sign here please" Not much difference compared to joining the army or something alike.
But can someone enlighten me why it would be "problematic" if such a service would go out of business?
All they do is redirect to the original url. So where is the loss? The original url is still there. If no one is able to find it without using the shortened url chances are pretty big it isn't much interresting anyway.
A while ago I decided I needed a new password system. I had 9 or 10 different passwords I used for basicly everything. It became increasingly anoying to remember which password I used where. And with the increasing number of password protected sites and apps I also started using the same passwords over and over.So I needed a new scheme.
My requirements were that: it had to be long (14 chars minimum), had to contain letters and digits, should not be guessable, or at least parts of it (duh!), must be unique for every application or website, so it wouldnt create a domino effect if compromised must be easy to remember or memorize
I decided that the key was to categorise everything.
So I came up with about 10 or 12 different categories. (e.g. forums, social networks, design, workrelated, etc) Then I started to fidle arround to get 2 combinations of keys, 5 chars long, that were very fast to type and random (as in, not a existing word) For the numbers I took 3 chars of the app or site. You could take the first or last three, of make a offset (start + 2 (so char 3, 4 & 5) whatever works.. and translated those 3 chars in digits.. for example a = 11, b = 22 etc.. or make a scheme for that a = 26, b = 25, a = 2., b = 3. etc.. whatever works again:)
Then I threw all of that in a mix. So I ended up with something like <random fasttypechars><category acronym><random fasttypechars> <coded app/sitename> Of course you can think of several other options to make such a scheme.
It's certainly not flawless but I think it's good enough for everything non-mission critical. Every pass is unique and can easily remember them as long as I recognise the right category
I got a better solution, get a wife that loves porn just as much as you do..
I never honestly understood why you need to hide stuff from your partner. A clear sign something is very wrong in my opinion.
And if you're hiding your porn stuff from your kids......
Then A: They already know where to get it. They don't need your tiny 250gig of movies.
Or B: What the hell are they doing on your computer on your account anyway?
I skipped Vista entirely. Tried it a few days and went back to XP until recently.
When Win 7RC came out I decided to give it a shot and quite frankly, I'm hooked.....
It's a damn fine OS for a average to power user. If you're still running XP this is a upgrade to consider. If you're running Vista.. hmm, might aswell wait until pricing dropped a bit.
But.. this is the first time I'm actually considering to buy Windows. It runs smooth, behaves as one would expect from a OS.. In the end Win7 might end up as their best OS till now.
The color in which Google posts are presented is related to the current status of Google's "do no evil" motto.
Red implifies that the google software is now on the verge of becoming self-aware and we should be getting very afraid.
Apparently this new database was the final drop. When it gets out of beta the world as we know it will seize to exist.
Frankly, I think the fact that Steve Jobs is more interested in getting his name on patents means that he is the more business and marketing-oriented of the two, not Gates. Gates could have his name on several thousand patents, but apparently he didn't think that was important.
Personally I think it's more of a ego thing.
Steve Jobs is a excellent businessman, no doubt, but he's also a showman with a huge ego.. Apple == Steve Jobs == Apple. If there is a apple product, he wants his name attached to it somehow. Therefore all the patents apple claims should be in his name.
On the contrary to Bill Gates who doesnt care about his ego that much. (and why should he after all....) Bill Gates wanted the name Microsoft attached to everything, not his personal name. Everything he does is "Microsoft" not "GatesSoft" and therefore the patents belong to the company, not the person. He simply doesnt care about it.
Or maybe they simply don't want to be compared to Google and their goal was simply not to create a Google killer.
From the few test queries I just did it looks to me like a app that one can use next to google. Instead of just blindly go to google to search for something you now can make a choice. What kind of information am I looking for? Which engine do I expect to handle my question the best?
As far as I can tell now it's a cross-over between wikipedia and google at best.
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Given the fact that the use of a web-browser is the main source of income for Google combined with the fact that IE6 still has a 10% market-share..
I'd be willing to bet that a shitload of people working at google simply need IE6 in one form or another to get their job done.
Not me, with China I know exactly what I'm dealing with. A giant who doesn't pretend to be nice but is quite open about it's policies and it's agenda.
This opposed to google who tries really REALLY hard to be seen as the world's nicest and biggest friend but of which I have no idea of the hidden agenda behind it.
I generally don't trust people who always smile at me and try their utter most best to convince me they are to be trusted. Don't say it, prove it......
In google's case. Put your money where your mouth is and gtfo of China, then we'll talk again.
But true :-)
My girlfriend and me started playing WoW on launchday. We both had a stretch of time that we played pretty "hardcore".
I'm a recovering wow-a-holic for almost two years now. She still plays the damn game (though a lot less time is involved now) but, still..
the window between detection and action (when it's possible) will be huge
Erm, no.. It doesn't have to be.
There are still loads of asteroids which are unknown to us and possibly with earth in their trajectory.
A few months ago we also had a "near" miss of a asteroid that came out of the blue (black?). And we only knew a few days in advance.
I was thinking more in the lines of asking this very same question on a few tech sites with your real name.
It's basicaly the same as mentioning it on your cv.
Only it will show that you regret the action, are not afraid to deal with the consquences and are actively trying to solve your problem without hiding it. Being honest goes a long way
Not necessarily, I'm pretty sure his account is worth big bucks.. 4 figure numbers in dollars.
If he's smart he sells that account before the next expansion hits. That way he at least gained something useful out of it.
If nothing else at least they could take control of their own destiny for a change.
With 75.000 dollars in their pockets on payday I'd say they have a pretty firm grip on their future.
I imagine that's the Somalian equivalent of being a millionaire in Europe or the U.S.
Apart from the fact that it's a very unstable environment to develop in, both in a end-user as technical way.
*If* a company like AV would choose to sell a app purely targeted at jailbroken phones and distribute that app via other sources than the Apple Appstore.
Would apple have any legal ground to stop that distribution?
I can only speak for myself but sampling is the main reason I download cracked apps.
Most apps and games are so dirt cheap even a cheap bastard like me has no problem with paying up a few dollars.
The main problem is the app-store itself. There are what? 100.000 apps? 99.99% of those apps are either crap, useless or a combination of both. Not even worth the 99c.
The 3GS is my first iPhone and also my last. I love the little device more than any other gadget.
But the way apple treats it's customers. The insane policies in the appstore.
Basic functionality you can only get after jailbreaking the thing (damn, I said it. Now Steve will hunt me down and hang me)
The way they are hellbent on disabling jailbreaking.. God forbid I do something on a device I own that Uncle Steve doesn't approve of..
No, I love the iPhone but my next phone will be something with a platform that's usable in the way I want to, not in the way apple thinks is good for me.
Actually I think that is one of the main problems of today's space programs. Especially NASA's.
They are so hung op on the quadrupal redundant, 99.9999999999% safe and fail-proof flights that the costs to achieve such goals are way out of balance with the goal that needs to be achieved.
Fuck the almost 100% guarantee that nothing can go wrong
I'll settle for 90% if that means 10x more exploration.
Yes, rockets will explode, astronauts will die. So what? All in the day's job...
"there is a small chance you might die on your next mission, sign here please"
Not much difference compared to joining the army or something alike.
Great idea! :-)
Except change "NASA" to "CHINA" in that case.
Give the Chinese one trillion dollars for space research and we'll all have a second house on Mars in a few years (mortgage to be paid in Yen btw)
Giving NASA a trillion dollars is the same as burning it or dumping it in a bottomless pit.
Now, I may be missing something here...
But can someone enlighten me why it would be "problematic" if such a service would go out of business?
All they do is redirect to the original url. So where is the loss?
The original url is still there. If no one is able to find it without using the shortened url chances are pretty big it isn't much interresting anyway.
A while ago I decided I needed a new password system. I had 9 or 10 different passwords I used for basicly everything.
:)
It became increasingly anoying to remember which password I used where. And with the increasing number of password protected sites and apps I also started using the same passwords over and over.So I needed a new scheme.
My requirements were that:
it had to be long (14 chars minimum),
had to contain letters and digits,
should not be guessable, or at least parts of it (duh!),
must be unique for every application or website, so it wouldnt create a domino effect if compromised
must be easy to remember or memorize
I decided that the key was to categorise everything.
So I came up with about 10 or 12 different categories. (e.g. forums, social networks, design, workrelated, etc)
Then I started to fidle arround to get 2 combinations of keys, 5 chars long, that were very fast to type and random (as in, not a existing word)
For the numbers I took 3 chars of the app or site. You could take the first or last three, of make a offset (start + 2 (so char 3, 4 & 5) whatever works.. and translated those 3 chars in digits.. for example a = 11, b = 22 etc.. or make a scheme for that a = 26, b = 25, a = 2., b = 3. etc.. whatever works again
Then I threw all of that in a mix. So I ended up with something like <random fasttypechars><category acronym><random fasttypechars> <coded app/sitename>
Of course you can think of several other options to make such a scheme.
It's certainly not flawless but I think it's good enough for everything non-mission critical.
Every pass is unique and can easily remember them as long as I recognise the right category
Besides, COD6 is approaching photo-realism while GTA is clearly very cartoony.
So, the number of pixels on your screen and the precision in which the colors are calculated determines if a game is ok or not ok?
I got a better solution, get a wife that loves porn just as much as you do..
I never honestly understood why you need to hide stuff from your partner. A clear sign something is very wrong in my opinion.
And if you're hiding your porn stuff from your kids......
Then A: They already know where to get it. They don't need your tiny 250gig of movies.
Or B: What the hell are they doing on your computer on your account anyway?
Where is the whatcouldpossiblygowrong tag when you need it?
I don't think there has ever been a more appropriate reason to use it....
sure....
They're gonna give away those millions just like that. After that they will cough up the millions to pay the fines out of their own pockets
If you believe that stuff I'd love to do some business with you..
I skipped Vista entirely. Tried it a few days and went back to XP until recently.
When Win 7RC came out I decided to give it a shot and quite frankly, I'm hooked.....
It's a damn fine OS for a average to power user. If you're still running XP this is a upgrade to consider. If you're running Vista.. hmm, might aswell wait until pricing dropped a bit.
But.. this is the first time I'm actually considering to buy Windows.
It runs smooth, behaves as one would expect from a OS.. In the end Win7 might end up as their best OS till now.
"Slashdot is, as usual, behind the times"
Actually, I'm shocked. News on Slashdot that is less then 24 hrs old.
What went wrong?
The only ones that have way to much time on their hands are the people who read and then go discuss these non-trivial items.
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And a thorough job they did...
The color in which Google posts are presented is related to the current status of Google's "do no evil" motto.
Red implifies that the google software is now on the verge of becoming self-aware and we should be getting very afraid.
Apparently this new database was the final drop. When it gets out of beta the world as we know it will seize to exist.
Have a nice day.
Frankly, I think the fact that Steve Jobs is more interested in getting his name on patents means that he is the more business and marketing-oriented of the two, not Gates. Gates could have his name on several thousand patents, but apparently he didn't think that was important.
Personally I think it's more of a ego thing.
Steve Jobs is a excellent businessman, no doubt, but he's also a showman with a huge ego.. Apple == Steve Jobs == Apple. If there is a apple product, he wants his name attached to it somehow. Therefore all the patents apple claims should be in his name.
On the contrary to Bill Gates who doesnt care about his ego that much. (and why should he after all....) Bill Gates wanted the name Microsoft attached to everything, not his personal name. Everything he does is "Microsoft" not "GatesSoft" and therefore the patents belong to the company, not the person. He simply doesnt care about it.
Or maybe they simply don't want to be compared to Google and their goal was simply not to create a Google killer.
From the few test queries I just did it looks to me like a app that one can use next to google. Instead of just blindly go to google to search for something you now can make a choice.
What kind of information am I looking for? Which engine do I expect to handle my question the best?
As far as I can tell now it's a cross-over between wikipedia and google at best.