This kind of thing is vulnerable to liars. You think anyone is going to check in at McDonald's? Or XXX-movie mart? What about the movies when the person is supposed to be at work?
The whole thing is a sham that will promote businesses where people would want others to think they are, instead of businesses where people REALLY are.
My concern with Quake Live was related to this problem, even if WebGL was not present. To be clear, the concern had to do with browsers connecting to executable software packages, which Quake Live is, although if I remember correctly they shielded a lot of their game with technology from Adobe but it's still probably porous. Not enough people playing Quake Live for it to matter, much, however. I mean when you compare Sony Playstation Network's problems with what could happen to Quake Live's audience. Night and day audience sizes, right?
The critical point here is that the more complicated browsers try to be, the more terrible they become.
I don't see the benefit of embedding a video game in a browser, either. It's the kind of thing you'd expect to hear about during an internet bubble, with a lot of web jargon. The reality? Quake 3 was a superior product except for the advancements Id put into Quake Live. Had Id Software put the same advancements into a platform independent package that was not associated to a browser, the result would have been much superior. I am saying they changed tack down a blind alley and lost market share as a result.
I raised this concern with Quake Live, but was quickly shut down by people. Nobody wants to listen to the possible security holes in something they want to ram through at all cost. Forgive my tone if I'm a little annoyed hearing this. Sometimes you want to be wrong about something, but now I have been proven correct, I'm annoyed with myself.
Uh.. except for that part where he "accidentally" strangles a child, frames a nanny for that child's murder, and deliberately murders two other people?
The position I carefully take is that of pity for the monster for being abandoned. Had Victor Frankenstein provided love to his creation, as a good parent would, the creation would have no hatred for humanity. Had the boy William not threatened to harm the monster, and also invoked the name of Frankenstein, the monster would not have harmed the boy. This is an unfortunate case of the monster not fully grasping the true nature of the problem it faced; the monster believed the boy and therefore the monster acted out of self preservation. Remember that once the monster realized what had truly transpired he did level himself with a great deal of guilt, but it was too late.
No, it was human cruelty that caused the monster to hate. I feel he was very much justified in his actions, sadly.
Anyone party to the specific details of the Frankenstein story by Mary Shelly, will know that the supposed monster created was actually quite articulate, kind and thoughtful even. It was his creator who was the true monster.
"While the Page was pulled eventually, Klayman believes it was not done quickly enough"
I just don't think someone could win a Billion dollars because someone else was too slow at their job. Seriously. Maybe a million? But a billion? Nah that's going to be thrown out pretty quick or Facebook will settle out at a much reduced price. If Facebook settles, they will open the door to future lawsuits and also scams so they actually can't settle here. They would have to go to court over it and that will also hurt their valuation, even if they win. Good thing they are a privately company and not on the stock market.
Microsoft does some things right and other things really wrong, but never only one or the other... their forced efforts are always a sad uneven mixture of the two.
IE has always been terrible. Perhaps when Netscape was just starting out, IE may have been somewhat better from a UI standpoint only, with fancy hooks into the OS of the day... but standards trump bells and whistles and IE cannot compete against browsers coded correctly. This is typically because the philosophy of these other products available is to create something that delivers web content safely, rather than trying to control the internet by stifling web development into a proprietary lock-in scheme designed to generate wealth rather than deliver what people want.
I'm extremely patient. I could wait forever, but I suspect that once the enlightened discover matter replication technology and how to spontaneously generate unlimited energy, space travel will be affordable because there will be no economy.
I notice someone voted my other comment down. I suppose that person wants humanity stuck on this rock forever, probably for the lulz, right? Stupid troll would keep us here even when our Sun supernovas. It's only a matter of time you know.
I'm still waiting for democracy to figure out that we need control over public space flight if we really want change. The enlightened can leave capitalists to their rock while we all disperse into infinity.
There is a friendly rivalry in Hollywood going on between all TV shows to create the cheesiest computer situations in scripts. This is one example of the gloves coming off. The IT guys on the sets do this for lulz and they are all surprised that their bosses don't fucking care. No TV bosses, and film bosses typically don't give a shit about this stuff.
Jesus man you fucked yourself there. I suppose in the long run you could have called it anti-swordfish, and then soaked up all the kudos for making something that would thwart the potential of a swordfish attack. Your power point slide show would start off:
Trust no one. Except the tinfoil companies because they help us make our hats. Aliens would never corrupt the tinfoil companies to produce faulty foil hats, because that would be too easy.
Emperor Palpatine: "I felt a great disturbance in the dark side, my apprentice, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in joy and were suddenly heard by those in power. I fear something terrible has happened."
Open honesty between all humans. Truth: you are all bags of carbon and mostly water.
Reality: We need to become completely open if we hope to achieve a successful deep space program with multigenerational stability, and save our species from extinction, which will happen unless we all work together towards a multigenerational goal of continuing the species.
Governments are corrupt. Politicians lie to get votes, even good ones. That can't be allowed anywhere for the open philosophy to prevail.
We must hunt down and expose all those who wish to hide secrets. Off with their heads! (I mean: revoke their parking pass for a week).
Reminds me when Star Trek TNG started with the focus on the economy being shut down, and people going to work because they wanted to do something with their lives instead of laze around. But then it clicks in... there still is an economy and if you don't get money they start shutting off services, and you can't eat... so it's bad all around.
But we all know the invention of replicators would make any economy a thing of the past. Fucking bastards already have it somewhere and are waiting to milk it... somehow!!/tinfoilhat
then they realized that they needed money to pay those paychecks and to keep those hip corporate offices running.
I have no problem with this. They corrupted their image when they went from this grassroots company of free-thinkers to change the world, and then they started targeting the douches for money, and then Google became the great douche enabler of the internet. Sure they also enable regular folks too, but they don't make money doing that. They make money by collecting it from 85%+ of the worlds worst kinds of people.
10. Become the new search engine of choice and cruft out every offering with stupid and useless javascript misfeatures, dirty datamining tricks, and other miscellaneous trash.
Yeah but I can still dream of a world where we don't have to cater to fuckwads in power, can't I?
I suspect this bug was avoidable. The thing with Google is they are learning what it's like when you abandon the policy of doing no evil. You lose sight of the important things like minimalism, reduction of bloat, and overall user satisfaction.
They are no longer reliable.
The replacement for Google will do the following:
1. Create stable search with minimalist reliable results, perhaps P2P generated. 2. Not cater to douchebags on the internet trying to get rich quick. 3. Supply secure/reliable minimalist email service. 4. Supply secure/reliable minimalist hosting service. 5. Supply secure/reliable minimalist discussion and social networking. 6. Supply secure/reliable products and services people want without commercial interruption. (this is the financial medium, business gurus) 7. Do no evil. 8. Be very wise about it all. 9. Be aware of the dangers and circumnavigate them well in advance.
It's nice to see Dexter mentioned here. Season five was awesome and I hope they keep the pacing similar for season six. Lumen was one of the better leading ladies for Dexter... I hope she sticks around.
What any of this has to do with Apple doesn't matter. Good companies will continue to do product placement and stop doing commercials that suck, focus on commercials that are awesome, but not too strong for repeated play.
The good thing about Apple's placement in Dexter is it's so basic and it's a part of his routine. I think it adds to Apple's target market because Dexter isn't a nerdy hipster... he's nerdy but he's a fucking serial killer that doesn't care too much about fashion or stupid musical groups, or his state of social presentation. He's fucking cool and he doesn't really give a shit about that stuff. I think that helps Apple to connect with a new audience.
I think you're interpreting that too broadly. If they own the IP of the work you do for them, they own software you were ordered to create on company time. If they don't order it and you create it on your own time and it's different enough than what you're doing then it should be your property. But MSFT assumes if you do some software you got the idea from them, when in fact it could have been your own idea. They keep this water muddy intentionally, even if it appears to be spelled out properly. Watch what happens when someone codes something they want to launch... 70% of the profits? Yeah right. They would try to buy you out or create something that oversteps your prior art and merely bypass you. They have heavy feet.
This is a passive aggressive move by Microsoft and I think they are going to lose even more people to Facebook for doing this. They are essentially forcing their people who want to earn extra money to do it in a way that beneifts Microsoft, by creating the appearance of false demand on WP7. Clearly not enough people are doing apps for that, because it's probably shitty or there are issues with how Microsoft is handling it. But this isn't a good move for MSFT and it reaffirms that it's one of the companies to be in continual decline until it runs out of money or loses its titanic grip on the OS market. People in the world want democracy and this is an undemocratic company.
Seriously, is it common (in the states) to "own" your employees even when they are not at work?
You would be surprised, but yes it is very common for companies to claim IP over things created even when an employee is doing them on their own free time. Companies argue that exposure to their policies arguably enabled the person to create the product, service or technology... which is wrong in my opinion but it still happens. I think that if you work for a company and there aren't explicit agreements in place you are protected in most states but you should definitely check first before starting up something awesome.
This is bad for all of us because it slows down the invention of new things to the angular flow rate of cold molasses.
The Communist yin is the American yang and that's the whole point. We'll get to a single world government soon enough. It's required for deep space travel to become possible on a regular basis for most human beings... and it will be required for us to survive as a species.
Let's not split hairs on government. When we are capable of easily traveling space individually we will not require big government... but until then we do.
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This kind of thing is vulnerable to liars. You think anyone is going to check in at McDonald's? Or XXX-movie mart? What about the movies when the person is supposed to be at work?
The whole thing is a sham that will promote businesses where people would want others to think they are, instead of businesses where people REALLY are.
CHECKING IN AT THE WHOREHOUSE!
My concern with Quake Live was related to this problem, even if WebGL was not present. To be clear, the concern had to do with browsers connecting to executable software packages, which Quake Live is, although if I remember correctly they shielded a lot of their game with technology from Adobe but it's still probably porous. Not enough people playing Quake Live for it to matter, much, however. I mean when you compare Sony Playstation Network's problems with what could happen to Quake Live's audience. Night and day audience sizes, right?
The critical point here is that the more complicated browsers try to be, the more terrible they become.
I don't see the benefit of embedding a video game in a browser, either. It's the kind of thing you'd expect to hear about during an internet bubble, with a lot of web jargon. The reality? Quake 3 was a superior product except for the advancements Id put into Quake Live. Had Id Software put the same advancements into a platform independent package that was not associated to a browser, the result would have been much superior. I am saying they changed tack down a blind alley and lost market share as a result.
I raised this concern with Quake Live, but was quickly shut down by people. Nobody wants to listen to the possible security holes in something they want to ram through at all cost. Forgive my tone if I'm a little annoyed hearing this. Sometimes you want to be wrong about something, but now I have been proven correct, I'm annoyed with myself.
The position I carefully take is that of pity for the monster for being abandoned. Had Victor Frankenstein provided love to his creation, as a good parent would, the creation would have no hatred for humanity. Had the boy William not threatened to harm the monster, and also invoked the name of Frankenstein, the monster would not have harmed the boy. This is an unfortunate case of the monster not fully grasping the true nature of the problem it faced; the monster believed the boy and therefore the monster acted out of self preservation. Remember that once the monster realized what had truly transpired he did level himself with a great deal of guilt, but it was too late.
No, it was human cruelty that caused the monster to hate. I feel he was very much justified in his actions, sadly.
Anyone party to the specific details of the Frankenstein story by Mary Shelly, will know that the supposed monster created was actually quite articulate, kind and thoughtful even. It was his creator who was the true monster.
From the article:
I just don't think someone could win a Billion dollars because someone else was too slow at their job. Seriously. Maybe a million? But a billion? Nah that's going to be thrown out pretty quick or Facebook will settle out at a much reduced price. If Facebook settles, they will open the door to future lawsuits and also scams so they actually can't settle here. They would have to go to court over it and that will also hurt their valuation, even if they win. Good thing they are a privately company and not on the stock market.
Microsoft does some things right and other things really wrong, but never only one or the other... their forced efforts are always a sad uneven mixture of the two.
IE has always been terrible. Perhaps when Netscape was just starting out, IE may have been somewhat better from a UI standpoint only, with fancy hooks into the OS of the day... but standards trump bells and whistles and IE cannot compete against browsers coded correctly. This is typically because the philosophy of these other products available is to create something that delivers web content safely, rather than trying to control the internet by stifling web development into a proprietary lock-in scheme designed to generate wealth rather than deliver what people want.
I'm extremely patient. I could wait forever, but I suspect that once the enlightened discover matter replication technology and how to spontaneously generate unlimited energy, space travel will be affordable because there will be no economy.
I notice someone voted my other comment down. I suppose that person wants humanity stuck on this rock forever, probably for the lulz, right? Stupid troll would keep us here even when our Sun supernovas. It's only a matter of time you know.
I'm still waiting for democracy to figure out that we need control over public space flight if we really want change. The enlightened can leave capitalists to their rock while we all disperse into infinity.
We should ship humanity's data to Mars for safe-keeping and just in case Mars was ever destroyed, we could backup in a randomly attuned dimension.
There is a friendly rivalry in Hollywood going on between all TV shows to create the cheesiest computer situations in scripts. This is one example of the gloves coming off. The IT guys on the sets do this for lulz and they are all surprised that their bosses don't fucking care. No TV bosses, and film bosses typically don't give a shit about this stuff.
Jesus man you fucked yourself there. I suppose in the long run you could have called it anti-swordfish, and then soaked up all the kudos for making something that would thwart the potential of a swordfish attack. Your power point slide show would start off:
WHEN SWORDFISH ATTACK
http://i.imgur.com/wQARO.jpg
ANTI-SWORDFISH!
Trust no one. Except the tinfoil companies because they help us make our hats. Aliens would never corrupt the tinfoil companies to produce faulty foil hats, because that would be too easy.
Emperor Palpatine: "I felt a great disturbance in the dark side, my apprentice, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in joy and were suddenly heard by those in power. I fear something terrible has happened."
Construct the Open Manifesto.
Open government, open code -- open philosophy.
Open honesty between all humans. Truth: you are all bags of carbon and mostly water.
Reality: We need to become completely open if we hope to achieve a successful deep space program with multigenerational stability, and save our species from extinction, which will happen unless we all work together towards a multigenerational goal of continuing the species.
Governments are corrupt. Politicians lie to get votes, even good ones. That can't be allowed anywhere for the open philosophy to prevail.
We must hunt down and expose all those who wish to hide secrets. Off with their heads! (I mean: revoke their parking pass for a week).
Reminds me when Star Trek TNG started with the focus on the economy being shut down, and people going to work because they wanted to do something with their lives instead of laze around. But then it clicks in... there still is an economy and if you don't get money they start shutting off services, and you can't eat... so it's bad all around.
But we all know the invention of replicators would make any economy a thing of the past. Fucking bastards already have it somewhere and are waiting to milk it... somehow!! /tinfoilhat
I have no problem with this. They corrupted their image when they went from this grassroots company of free-thinkers to change the world, and then they started targeting the douches for money, and then Google became the great douche enabler of the internet. Sure they also enable regular folks too, but they don't make money doing that. They make money by collecting it from 85%+ of the worlds worst kinds of people.
Yeah but I can still dream of a world where we don't have to cater to fuckwads in power, can't I?
I suspect this bug was avoidable. The thing with Google is they are learning what it's like when you abandon the policy of doing no evil. You lose sight of the important things like minimalism, reduction of bloat, and overall user satisfaction.
They are no longer reliable.
The replacement for Google will do the following:
1. Create stable search with minimalist reliable results, perhaps P2P generated.
2. Not cater to douchebags on the internet trying to get rich quick.
3. Supply secure/reliable minimalist email service.
4. Supply secure/reliable minimalist hosting service.
5. Supply secure/reliable minimalist discussion and social networking.
6. Supply secure/reliable products and services people want without commercial interruption. (this is the financial medium, business gurus)
7. Do no evil.
8. Be very wise about it all.
9. Be aware of the dangers and circumnavigate them well in advance.
It's nice to see Dexter mentioned here. Season five was awesome and I hope they keep the pacing similar for season six. Lumen was one of the better leading ladies for Dexter... I hope she sticks around.
What any of this has to do with Apple doesn't matter. Good companies will continue to do product placement and stop doing commercials that suck, focus on commercials that are awesome, but not too strong for repeated play.
The good thing about Apple's placement in Dexter is it's so basic and it's a part of his routine. I think it adds to Apple's target market because Dexter isn't a nerdy hipster... he's nerdy but he's a fucking serial killer that doesn't care too much about fashion or stupid musical groups, or his state of social presentation. He's fucking cool and he doesn't really give a shit about that stuff. I think that helps Apple to connect with a new audience.
I think you're interpreting that too broadly. If they own the IP of the work you do for them, they own software you were ordered to create on company time. If they don't order it and you create it on your own time and it's different enough than what you're doing then it should be your property. But MSFT assumes if you do some software you got the idea from them, when in fact it could have been your own idea. They keep this water muddy intentionally, even if it appears to be spelled out properly. Watch what happens when someone codes something they want to launch... 70% of the profits? Yeah right. They would try to buy you out or create something that oversteps your prior art and merely bypass you. They have heavy feet.
They only claim things that benefit them, not hold them more accountable. Nice try though. :)
This is a passive aggressive move by Microsoft and I think they are going to lose even more people to Facebook for doing this. They are essentially forcing their people who want to earn extra money to do it in a way that beneifts Microsoft, by creating the appearance of false demand on WP7. Clearly not enough people are doing apps for that, because it's probably shitty or there are issues with how Microsoft is handling it. But this isn't a good move for MSFT and it reaffirms that it's one of the companies to be in continual decline until it runs out of money or loses its titanic grip on the OS market. People in the world want democracy and this is an undemocratic company.
You would be surprised, but yes it is very common for companies to claim IP over things created even when an employee is doing them on their own free time. Companies argue that exposure to their policies arguably enabled the person to create the product, service or technology... which is wrong in my opinion but it still happens. I think that if you work for a company and there aren't explicit agreements in place you are protected in most states but you should definitely check first before starting up something awesome.
This is bad for all of us because it slows down the invention of new things to the angular flow rate of cold molasses.
The Communist yin is the American yang and that's the whole point. We'll get to a single world government soon enough. It's required for deep space travel to become possible on a regular basis for most human beings... and it will be required for us to survive as a species.
Let's not split hairs on government. When we are capable of easily traveling space individually we will not require big government... but until then we do.