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...instead of allowing anyone using the computer to see and hear their DRM content, they can charge everyone who sits at the same person for the privilege.
AJAX and techs of it's ilk are providing corporate developers the tools to better address business requirements and do it faster. Part of the long-term stateless web-based app dev that we've been suffering through since the client/server days has been presentation and smarter data delivery between the user and the back-end.
I've never been one to jump on bandwagons, but AJAX really does make not only my job easier, but the 'richer' apps make the business-side end-user's job easier as well.
"One commentator said, "Sun should endorse PHP and go one step forward and make sure the 'P' languages run great on the JVM [Java virtual machine] by open-sourcing Java."
Explain that to comment to me, please. It makes no sense.
George B. should just shut up until he either sells the game or delivers it. He's wayyy past "hype" and moving past "pity" onto "people wishing he would just go away"
Why does 3DR bother? This game will get crapped on no matter how good it really is. The common refrain will be "It took them ten years to do this?"
They would be MUCH farther ahead to sell the game rights to someone else. 3DR gets money now, the new developer will catch all the crap when the game is launched and 3DR gets to say "Well, gee. Maybe we should have picked someone else."
In short, every triple-A game sold at retail in North America is managed start to finish, top to bottom, with the publisher's gaze fixed squarely on Wal-Mart, and no other.'"
That may be true on consoles, but I call bullshit on PC game influence.
I have no doubt about publishers being influenced by Wal*Mart, but there are a number of 'Grade A' games like GTA, Gun, that-50-cent-piece-of-crap-game-whose-name-escapes -me that don't seem vetted by Wal*Mart. The games may have sucked, but they had some serious marketing muscle behind them.
The only time I see PC games being sold at Wal*Mart is when it's the bargain bin Deer Hunter crap. Any serious PC game gets bought by gamers going somewhere else. PC game developers may want and like Wal*Mart support, but certainly don't appear to be beholden to them.
A method in which I look in the fridge on a regular basis and realize it is empty. I then get in the car and drive to the beer store to replenish my supply of beer.
What difference does a name make? 'God', 'Allah', 'King of the Potato People' would all be the same to the believers. The net effect is the same. I don't call someone delusional just because they worship 'Mother Nature' or belong to the Jedi Order.
I may not agree with their belief, I may even privately think it's dumb, but I don't disrespect a belief.
Praying for loved ones may not physically help a loved one, but certainly helps the mental state of the patient and their family. I don't think anyone ever expects a miracle, but if it helps any one, in any manner, then more power to them.
btw, I dare ANY body who's watched a loved one suffer to deny that they said a few words to God 'Just in case'. It certainly can't hurt. I'm not religious, but I've been there.
Novell had no problems doing this to Microsoft back in the early 90's when Netware was king and Microsoft was desperately trying to network their Windows 3.1 boxes. Remember the thing that was called WfW? What a mess.
Now that Novell has had the snot kicked out of it, Microsoft will continue to have no hesitation to do Novell what it has already done to Banyan Vines.
You could use Cygwin, but that made it a pain to install, so no one bothered. Then they found MySQL. It 'just worked' and they started telling their friends. People aren't going to switch unless it's worth the pain.
Hint: For 99.99999% of people using a database, it will never be worth the pain.
You read this and your blood runs cold. It makes you wonder what would happen to George Washington if he was attempting to break the colonies from Britain today.
Sometimes government becomes so complacent, the people accepting of crap, that both need a good house cleaning.
In any event, this country needs a reminder of what the founding fathers had in mind when they formed this country.
I bought WoW in last November and have not bought a game since. WoW is like crack ( and it does bother me )so I have not gone out and purchased a game every couple of months like I have historically done. Ironically, I don't believe I am spending less on gaming, it just that all the money goes to Blizzard in the form of subscription fees.
Now multiply me by the 5.5 million subscribers out there and I can undertsand why the gaming industry as a whole is slumping.
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"Steal all our good beer"
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Thanks...that was a good one.
...instead of allowing anyone using the computer to see and hear their DRM content, they can charge everyone who sits at the same person for the privilege.
Oy vey.
I was really hoping Apple would step up and try to develop one. The Win Tablet market is so inadequate.
AJAX and techs of it's ilk are providing corporate developers the tools to better address business requirements and do it faster. Part of the long-term stateless web-based app dev that we've been suffering through since the client/server days has been presentation and smarter data delivery between the user and the back-end.
I've never been one to jump on bandwagons, but AJAX really does make not only my job easier, but the 'richer' apps make the business-side end-user's job easier as well.
"have users download a client which attempts to spoof packets to the monitor"
But my monitor does not have an ethernet port! Can I send packets into my DVI port?
"One commentator said, "Sun should endorse PHP and go one step forward and make sure the 'P' languages run great on the JVM [Java virtual machine] by open-sourcing Java."
Explain that to comment to me, please. It makes no sense.
George B. should just shut up until he either sells the game or delivers it. He's wayyy past "hype" and moving past "pity" onto "people wishing he would just go away"
Why does 3DR bother? This game will get crapped on no matter how good it really is. The common refrain will be "It took them ten years to do this? "
They would be MUCH farther ahead to sell the game rights to someone else. 3DR gets money now, the new developer will catch all the crap when the game is launched and 3DR gets to say "Well, gee. Maybe we should have picked someone else."
I'm sure Elmer will say they have a patent on sticking one thing to another. Or maybe that was the Porn Industry's patent.
In short, every triple-A game sold at retail in North America is managed start to finish, top to bottom, with the publisher's gaze fixed squarely on Wal-Mart, and no other.'"
s -me that don't seem vetted by Wal*Mart. The games may have sucked, but they had some serious marketing muscle behind them.
That may be true on consoles, but I call bullshit on PC game influence.
I have no doubt about publishers being influenced by Wal*Mart, but there are a number of 'Grade A' games like GTA, Gun, that-50-cent-piece-of-crap-game-whose-name-escape
The only time I see PC games being sold at Wal*Mart is when it's the bargain bin Deer Hunter crap. Any serious PC game gets bought by gamers going somewhere else. PC game developers may want and like Wal*Mart support, but certainly don't appear to be beholden to them.
A method in which I look in the fridge on a regular basis and realize it is empty. I then get in the car and drive to the beer store to replenish my supply of beer.
You all owe me.
100 Teraflops ought to be enough for anybody.
What difference does a name make? 'God', 'Allah', 'King of the Potato People' would all be the same to the believers. The net effect is the same. I don't call someone delusional just because they worship 'Mother Nature' or belong to the Jedi Order.
I may not agree with their belief, I may even privately think it's dumb, but I don't disrespect a belief.
Praying for loved ones may not physically help a loved one, but certainly helps the mental state of the patient and their family. I don't think anyone ever expects a miracle, but if it helps any one, in any manner, then more power to them.
btw, I dare ANY body who's watched a loved one suffer to deny that they said a few words to God 'Just in case'. It certainly can't hurt. I'm not religious, but I've been there.
I guess we'll be ready when Professor Moriarty and the Countess Regina Bartholomew want to explore the galazy.
I think it's so sad that I remember that episode and even the name of a minor character.
Bingo. I've got no points but mod the parent as insightful.
Amen, brother!
Greed? No. It's called competition.
Novell had no problems doing this to Microsoft back in the early 90's when Netware was king and Microsoft was desperately trying to network their Windows 3.1 boxes. Remember the thing that was called WfW? What a mess.
Now that Novell has had the snot kicked out of it, Microsoft will continue to have no hesitation to do Novell what it has already done to Banyan Vines.
Don't hate the player, hate the game.
Loving spicy foods pays off! Finally, my wife will have to stop complaining when I aromitize the bedroom in the middle of the night.
"But honey, it's part of my health management program!"
Postgres did not have a native Win32 version.
You could use Cygwin, but that made it a pain to install, so no one bothered. Then they found MySQL. It 'just worked' and they started telling their friends. People aren't going to switch unless it's worth the pain.
Hint: For 99.99999% of people using a database, it will never be worth the pain.
P.eu !!!
Duct tape or toss it and buy another. I wouldn't waste a whole lot of time on it.
"There, he urged Americans to welcome global competition for their jobs."
Too bad we couldn't outsource Bush's job to the President of India.
Or alternatively, hire some some street urchin in Calcutta to do Bush's job. The urchin is probably smarter than what we got now.
Get caught and you fail. Make a set of files on the server progressively more difficult to hack/open/retrieve.
Easy file to hack = C, More difficult file to hack = B, Very difficult file plus leave a calling card = A
You read this and your blood runs cold. It makes you wonder what would happen to George Washington if he was attempting to break the colonies from Britain today.
Sometimes government becomes so complacent, the people accepting of crap, that both need a good house cleaning.
In any event, this country needs a reminder of what the founding fathers had in mind when they formed this country.
It's all quite sad.
I bought WoW in last November and have not bought a game since. WoW is like crack ( and it does bother me )so I have not gone out and purchased a game every couple of months like I have historically done. Ironically, I don't believe I am spending less on gaming, it just that all the money goes to Blizzard in the form of subscription fees. Now multiply me by the 5.5 million subscribers out there and I can undertsand why the gaming industry as a whole is slumping.