We can take, as an example, Jack Thompson. Jack Thompson was *never* a gamer, but due his, to put mildly, "acts" with games in general, he became part of it (and the "acts" themselves). Actually, the whole ordeal just shows how the "culture" was representaed: anti-social white kids living in their parents basements (Alexander even pushes this point futher in the end).
It's akin to Felicia Day post about how she felt when two guys with gaming tshirts where in her way: It was not about gamergate, it was not about anti-gamergate, it was about the whole thing.
Gradiente (the company making the phone) wants to paint themselves as the good guys, who simply got lucky of registering the name before Apple (they even have a video, in Portuguese, saying that their phone is "cheaper and have less features" while praising Steve Jobs in the process for making the "other" iPhone).
My guess is that they are doing everything that is legal around here just to hike up the price. They probably know that being assholes would burn their brand (which is almost dead for around a decade) and just make Apple put more lawyers in the process.
Sure, there are some situations where you cannot connect to internet, but it's really in minority.
The problem with "always online" DRM is not that "there are situations that you can't connect to the internet". The problem is that you rely heavily on the other site and the medium for it to work flawlessly.
Let me give you an example (there is a problem with it and I reckon right from the start): It's a matter of only 2 or 3 years that Blizzard changed the maintenance cycle of their oceanic servers in WoW to coincide with the Oceanic timezone. Before that, any WoW player in Australia (for example) would get home on Tuesday and find that the maintenance cycle had just started. And that it was later extended another another for whatever reason.
Reports of Blizzard losing connecting to whole networks (like AT&T) happened even recently.
Now imagine that you finally got a day off. It's a rainy day, there is nothing going on, so you decide to play Diablo 3. And then you get the news that the servers are down or that there is a problem with the connection of Blizzard and your provider or Anonymous got ripped off in some Real Money AH and decided to bomb Battle.net login servers. Now what?
There are too many variables to give you an 100% fun experience with it.
I have no problems if they required a Battle.net account with a registered Diablo 3 key in it to play multiplayer (i.e., the lack of LAN play). My problem is that I may want to have a quick fix and I have to go to a check list to make sure I'll have fun.
Not sure what you mean "native to the platform, like Java". Java is mostly platform-less (more or less) as most code can run unmodified in any platform, be it Linux, OS X or Windows (again, let me say "more or less". There are some differences between platforms, even in Java).
Also, most Linux home users already run Mono applications, like Banshee and Tomboy, which are part of the GNOME desktop.
That being said, in my opinion the biggest problem with Mono (apart from the whole patent debacle) is that it was always lagging behind the official.NET specification. I lost the count of the number of.NET applications, compiled in the official C# compiler, that I tried to run with it and it would simply not work.
GPL is based on copyright, dictating the rules by which the work can be transferred (or sold, or given). It's the same as breaking the Microsoft EULA when you pirate your Windows copy.
Surely, there may be not enough GPL authors going after people breaking their licenses, but it falls on the same category [I *think* the FSF sometimes offers legal help for those trying to sue companies to enforce their GPL-licensed products.]
And, in the final part, I was here, just waiting for a Tauren Paladin to jump into scene and gank the mage while the guy was explaining why it would be a good thing for kids.
You know, you could add a pen to the device, so you don't have to deal with, say, something that makes it hard to swipe your finger across the screen and reduce the grease in the screen.
Then, after that, you could make the movements more like handwritting, since people are used to that.
Then, maybe, to help people write things faster, put split areas for letters and numbers.
You know, I think I saw that somewhere else before....
nothing really innovative or useful came out of Mozilla labs.
Well, not quite. Weave is freaking awesome if you have Firefox on your mobile and your desktop: Log in in, say, Slashdot and weave will carry your session and cookies to your mobile.
[I reckon Mobile Firefox is not that spread, but it surely helps that I have the reference hardware;)]
I was wondering the same thing ("MeeGo is now on Nokia's hands")
Well, one thing, this could be Intel cheating Nokia after Nokia cheated Intel porting MeeGo to ARM processors (or so it seems, from what I read somewhere.)
I keep all my open source projects on Google Code. I had one that was marked for deletion for more than 1 year. Then I decided to reactive it when Mercurial support landed. For some reason, the repository wouldn't work no matter what format. I searched and searched and searched and finally found the Google Code project page. Submitted an issue about the repo and kept watching it for two days. On the second day, the issue disappeared. Before opening it again, I decided to check the repo: everything was working as expected.
Support for Google products exist. It's just a pain to find it.
I really don't understand why people want to settle things between Adobe and Apple. Honestly, I'm loving it.
The more Steve Jobs complains about Flash, the more focused in building a decent runtime for Flash Adobe will be (current Flash on Linux is a resource hog and OS X is not that far away either); The more Jobs says H264 is for "open web", the more people will scream about it being a patent encumbered protocol.
Unless she shows it being compiled as native code, I call it bullshit.
Hey, guess what: my little Python Twitter Client also runs unmodified on Linux, OS X, Windows and Maemo. All that due the nature of a VM running under those machines.
"Oh, but what about the iPad and the iPhone?" Adobe probably have an iPad/iPhone version of their VM running around and he installed it using the ad-hoc feature.
Honestly: bullshit. Big steaming pile of bullshit.
IMHO, that's why it can predict such thing: So far, Twitter seems "untainted" with companies false bloggers and such (let me emphasise the "seems" part), so people really take a bad word as a real, person-to-person, bad word and a good word about a movie as a real thing.
Once people realize Twitter can be tainted as blogs and as any other social network, it will stop being so accurate.
$3000 may be too low for you. It may be too low for my Australian standards. But, as a Brazilian who worked 10 years in the field there, R$ 5000 is about TWICE what a top software engineer is paid in a month.
Fromt TFA: "Nokias motivation for this move as being mostly driven through the desire for easier cross-platform-development, citing Maemo, Symbian and the desktop as examples."
One thing that sounds incredible wrong to me is the fact that they are saying that Qt was chosen to make "easier cross-platform-development". The applications that were ported directly from desktop to Maemo (Xchat is the first one the comes to my mind) have an incredible bad look in the device. Building an interface for a device that runs in a small screen (4.1 inches) with a small resolution (800x480) that also uses a large pointer (e.g., most of the screen is designed to thumb usage) is not the same as building an interface for normal computer screens and resolutions.
The move is simple political: Nokia controls Qt now, so they will use their own toolkit. It's not based on merits of the toolkit (or problems of the other.) But hey! Why tell people the truth, right?
This is bullshit. Every app I've written against Mono that doesn't use any of their extensions has run perfectly on.NET on Windows. Just so you know, Mono supports pretty much all of the important parts of.NET 3.5 so I don't know where you are pulling this shit from.
Try the other way around. Wake me up when things compiled with Microsoft C# compiler works on OS X.
Perhaps advertising simply does not support Last.FM's licensing deals
Yes, it does. One of the comments there, by the same author of the post, says that the revenue from ads in USA, UK and Germany are enough to pay for the bandwidth and licensing fees they have to pay. Everywhere else, it's not enough and that's why they are charging other countries.
Right now, the site subscription is 2.50/month. The blog mentions that the price to keep streaming songs on the radios will be 3.00/month. It seems that, what's happening is that streaming will be available only to subscribers and the subscription price will be bumped 0.50/month.
But heck, I couldn't get a answer, since they seem to be ignoring the whole discussion after a lot of people started complaining about the geographical subscription requirements.
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'games culture' != 'gamer'.
We can take, as an example, Jack Thompson. Jack Thompson was *never* a gamer, but due his, to put mildly, "acts" with games in general, he became part of it (and the "acts" themselves). Actually, the whole ordeal just shows how the "culture" was representaed: anti-social white kids living in their parents basements (Alexander even pushes this point futher in the end).
It's akin to Felicia Day post about how she felt when two guys with gaming tshirts where in her way: It was not about gamergate, it was not about anti-gamergate, it was about the whole thing.
And I wouldn't actually call the button "tiny" either: http://i.imgur.com/023wVgV.png
Gradiente (the company making the phone) wants to paint themselves as the good guys, who simply got lucky of registering the name before Apple (they even have a video, in Portuguese, saying that their phone is "cheaper and have less features" while praising Steve Jobs in the process for making the "other" iPhone).
My guess is that they are doing everything that is legal around here just to hike up the price. They probably know that being assholes would burn their brand (which is almost dead for around a decade) and just make Apple put more lawyers in the process.
Sure, there are some situations where you cannot connect to internet, but it's really in minority.
The problem with "always online" DRM is not that "there are situations that you can't connect to the internet". The problem is that you rely heavily on the other site and the medium for it to work flawlessly.
Let me give you an example (there is a problem with it and I reckon right from the start): It's a matter of only 2 or 3 years that Blizzard changed the maintenance cycle of their oceanic servers in WoW to coincide with the Oceanic timezone. Before that, any WoW player in Australia (for example) would get home on Tuesday and find that the maintenance cycle had just started. And that it was later extended another another for whatever reason.
Reports of Blizzard losing connecting to whole networks (like AT&T) happened even recently.
Now imagine that you finally got a day off. It's a rainy day, there is nothing going on, so you decide to play Diablo 3. And then you get the news that the servers are down or that there is a problem with the connection of Blizzard and your provider or Anonymous got ripped off in some Real Money AH and decided to bomb Battle.net login servers. Now what?
There are too many variables to give you an 100% fun experience with it.
I have no problems if they required a Battle.net account with a registered Diablo 3 key in it to play multiplayer (i.e., the lack of LAN play). My problem is that I may want to have a quick fix and I have to go to a check list to make sure I'll have fun.
Seems his auto-correct changed a lot of "happen" to "happy". If any editor is watching this, could you guys fix that?
Not sure what you mean "native to the platform, like Java". Java is mostly platform-less (more or less) as most code can run unmodified in any platform, be it Linux, OS X or Windows (again, let me say "more or less". There are some differences between platforms, even in Java).
Also, most Linux home users already run Mono applications, like Banshee and Tomboy, which are part of the GNOME desktop.
That being said, in my opinion the biggest problem with Mono (apart from the whole patent debacle) is that it was always lagging behind the official .NET specification. I lost the count of the number of .NET applications, compiled in the official C# compiler, that I tried to run with it and it would simply not work.
GPL is based on copyright, dictating the rules by which the work can be transferred (or sold, or given). It's the same as breaking the Microsoft EULA when you pirate your Windows copy.
Surely, there may be not enough GPL authors going after people breaking their licenses, but it falls on the same category [I *think* the FSF sometimes offers legal help for those trying to sue companies to enforce their GPL-licensed products.]
And, in the final part, I was here, just waiting for a Tauren Paladin to jump into scene and gank the mage while the guy was explaining why it would be a good thing for kids.
Yes, I'm that horrible.
You know, you could add a pen to the device, so you don't have to deal with, say, something that makes it hard to swipe your finger across the screen and reduce the grease in the screen.
Then, after that, you could make the movements more like handwritting, since people are used to that.
Then, maybe, to help people write things faster, put split areas for letters and numbers.
You know, I think I saw that somewhere else before....
"I have some bestiality on my computer, but you can see clearly that the girl is ENJOYING IT!"
And ten days ago... http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/09/16/2052244/Microsofts-Chief-Exec-For-Latin-America-Says-Open-Means-Incompetent
nothing really innovative or useful came out of Mozilla labs.
Well, not quite. Weave is freaking awesome if you have Firefox on your mobile and your desktop: Log in in, say, Slashdot and weave will carry your session and cookies to your mobile.
[I reckon Mobile Firefox is not that spread, but it surely helps that I have the reference hardware ;)]
I was wondering the same thing ("MeeGo is now on Nokia's hands")
Well, one thing, this could be Intel cheating Nokia after Nokia cheated Intel porting MeeGo to ARM processors (or so it seems, from what I read somewhere.)
I keep all my open source projects on Google Code. I had one that was marked for deletion for more than 1 year. Then I decided to reactive it when Mercurial support landed. For some reason, the repository wouldn't work no matter what format. I searched and searched and searched and finally found the Google Code project page. Submitted an issue about the repo and kept watching it for two days. On the second day, the issue disappeared. Before opening it again, I decided to check the repo: everything was working as expected.
Support for Google products exist. It's just a pain to find it.
I really don't understand why people want to settle things between Adobe and Apple. Honestly, I'm loving it.
The more Steve Jobs complains about Flash, the more focused in building a decent runtime for Flash Adobe will be (current Flash on Linux is a resource hog and OS X is not that far away either); The more Jobs says H264 is for "open web", the more people will scream about it being a patent encumbered protocol.
Unless she shows it being compiled as native code, I call it bullshit.
Hey, guess what: my little Python Twitter Client also runs unmodified on Linux, OS X, Windows and Maemo. All that due the nature of a VM running under those machines.
"Oh, but what about the iPad and the iPhone?" Adobe probably have an iPad/iPhone version of their VM running around and he installed it using the ad-hoc feature.
Honestly: bullshit. Big steaming pile of bullshit.
IMHO, that's why it can predict such thing: So far, Twitter seems "untainted" with companies false bloggers and such (let me emphasise the "seems" part), so people really take a bad word as a real, person-to-person, bad word and a good word about a movie as a real thing.
Once people realize Twitter can be tainted as blogs and as any other social network, it will stop being so accurate.
$3000 may be too low for you. It may be too low for my Australian standards. But, as a Brazilian who worked 10 years in the field there, R$ 5000 is about TWICE what a top software engineer is paid in a month.
Fromt TFA: "Nokias motivation for this move as being mostly driven through the desire for easier cross-platform-development, citing Maemo, Symbian and the desktop as examples."
One thing that sounds incredible wrong to me is the fact that they are saying that Qt was chosen to make "easier cross-platform-development". The applications that were ported directly from desktop to Maemo (Xchat is the first one the comes to my mind) have an incredible bad look in the device. Building an interface for a device that runs in a small screen (4.1 inches) with a small resolution (800x480) that also uses a large pointer (e.g., most of the screen is designed to thumb usage) is not the same as building an interface for normal computer screens and resolutions.
The move is simple political: Nokia controls Qt now, so they will use their own toolkit. It's not based on merits of the toolkit (or problems of the other.) But hey! Why tell people the truth, right?
This is bullshit. Every app I've written against Mono that doesn't use any of their extensions has run perfectly on .NET on Windows. Just so you know, Mono supports pretty much all of the important parts of .NET 3.5 so I don't know where you are pulling this shit from.
Try the other way around. Wake me up when things compiled with Microsoft C# compiler works on OS X.
Apparently, yes. I can play the radio (no warnings, no glitches, perfect playing.)
Thanks for the tip!
I was sickened when Pandora blocked non-US IPs (used to really enjoy that service).
Well, Last.fm will be available outside US, UK and Germany, you just have to pay a fee (or find a nice proxy to stream through it.)
Well, not quite. It seems Spotify is available through Europe, but not much outside it (at least, it says it's not available in Australia.)
Perhaps advertising simply does not support Last.FM's licensing deals
Yes, it does. One of the comments there, by the same author of the post, says that the revenue from ads in USA, UK and Germany are enough to pay for the bandwidth and licensing fees they have to pay. Everywhere else, it's not enough and that's why they are charging other countries.
One thing I couldn't get a straight answer:
Right now, the site subscription is 2.50/month. The blog mentions that the price to keep streaming songs on the radios will be 3.00/month. It seems that, what's happening is that streaming will be available only to subscribers and the subscription price will be bumped 0.50/month.
But heck, I couldn't get a answer, since they seem to be ignoring the whole discussion after a lot of people started complaining about the geographical subscription requirements.