And do you have some kind of magical map that shows you floor layouts of places you've never been before? No? Didn't think so. How do you find your way around? Exactly.
Eh? LiveJournal accounts already work across all LiveJournal journals and communities, plus the new photo gallery thing. It already has what EZboard has.
This is for interoperability with non-LiveJournal sites like DeadJournal (which people have been wanting for a long, long time) or whatever. It's for signing up at EZboard and using that account to comment at LiveJournal.
They're using this over TypeKey (even though LJ is owned by Six Apart) because no-one wants centralized authentication.
So much crap is tied up with patents that basic research is almost impossible without licensing. I don't know how badly it affects the electronics side of things, but the life sciences side of CSIRO is being crippled by agribusiness patents on gene technology etc.
In what must come as a relief to developers, Epic Games' Tim Sweeney was on hand to vouch for the PS3, saying it was "easy to program for" and that Epic had received its first PS3 hardware two months ago.
A lot of hosts come with webmail access included (Dreamhost gives everyone webmail.[domain].com, for example).
If you want to install your own, have a look at SquirrelMail, Open Webmail, or Horde IMP. I've only used SquirrelMail, and it's pretty good.
That said, you'll be hard pressed to find anything with an interface anywhere near as good as Gmail. Cheap hosting is also likely to be slower and less reliable.
But, being afraid of Microsoft and making up conspiracy theories is always more fun than what'll really happen. I think we should start a new marketing campaign:
"who can make up the most outrageous thing about Longhorn and get it printed in an industry magazine or pointed to by Slashdot?"
He spends part of that entry urging Mozilla coders to add functionality that ties in with XAML and Avalon, because he uses FireFox himself. And he's a Microsoft-employed Microsoft zealot.
MS Office's entire feature set is probably in use across the customer base as a whole: users all have different needs. I've never needed to use the mail merge feature, but that doesn't make it worthless.
The one feature I wanted that OO.o didn't have was enough to drive me back to Microsoft, and I suspect that many users are the same.
Note that it's not suitable for single user install, so isn't actually in direct competition with any of those.
Some of these features require a paid membership.
Post API support: also supports the Blogger API Post pings: IIRC can only ping weblogs.com Bookmarklets: no official support, but yes, it's been done. Atom: yes (full text) Comment RSS: no, but a paid user could hack up a dodgy per-post version Template storage: Proprietary Template conditionals: yes (S2) Edit templates online: yes Post by email: yes Linkroll: links list, not sure of max. size
I am aware of that; I use LiveJournal myself. I was replying to the parent poster's description of the LJ codebase as "another alternative", which, for most people, it isn't.
LiveJournal itself (and DeadJournal, Plogs, uJournal etc) is an alternative; the LiveJournal code is not.
Except that now you can add RSS feeds as friends, and your own journal is exported as RSS & Atom. You can get your friends' protected entries by having a LiveJournal account and doing authentication on their feeds.
You're only locked in if you want to easily make "friends only" posts.
I've seen that mentioned elsewhere, but it's a totally different thing. Most people use cheapish shared hosting, and it's pretty much impossible to run the LiveJournal code without your own server.
Sony is composed of various different divisions, and there's some infighting between them. Sony Music isn't happy with the hardware side of the company making devices that allow (promote?) piracy, but there's nothing they can do about it because the business is too lucrative.
This is an interesting idea, if they do it right. What irritates me about attempts at spreading gameplay over other devices -- such as the PocketStation component of Final Fantasy VIII -- is that you have a disadvantage if you don't own every piece of hardware under the sun. What if I don't want to buy a GBAXtreme256 (or whatever) to "play another, subordinate, but essential part of the game [on the train]"?
I don't want to need multiple systems just to play a game.
unless it was some sort of romantic mix I would think that giving a CD as a gift that you mixed would be cheap
More expensive than nothing.
Besides, we're not talking fiftieth-anniversary gifts here: most people burn CDs just as something nice for a friend. If I discover some new band that I think one of my friends will enjoy, I can throw a few tracks on a CD for them. I've burned CDs with odd tracks from the 365 Days Project and the like, with tracks that the person would never have otherwise heard.
Giving a CD doesn't have to mean a copy of a Top 40 album, or even anything you can by in stores. I value the ones I've been given more than I value a lot of the shit I've paid money for.
It'll be interesting to see what kind of restrictions are on the files.
Australian copyright law is fairly draconian compared to the US, and doesn't allow "backup" copies of music, videos etc, only some software.
If they provide an iTunes-esque scheme that allows the tracks to be burned to CD and played across multiple computers, consumers will actually have more legal rights with their downloaded tracks than they do with real CDs.
Don't forget +Ma's Reversing. It seems to focus more on cryptanalysis than the others I've played, but has a fair bit of reverse engineering stuff in there too.
That's a different archive.
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The book is compiled from Wordsmith.Org's "A Word A Day"; Dictionary.com's word of the day is completely different.
(But yes, both lists do have free online archives.)
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And do you have some kind of magical map that shows you floor layouts of places you've never been before? No? Didn't think so. How do you find your way around? Exactly.
Yes. It's usually on the wall of the lobby.
Eh? LiveJournal accounts already work across all LiveJournal journals and communities, plus the new photo gallery thing. It already has what EZboard has. This is for interoperability with non-LiveJournal sites like DeadJournal (which people have been wanting for a long, long time) or whatever. It's for signing up at EZboard and using that account to comment at LiveJournal. They're using this over TypeKey (even though LJ is owned by Six Apart) because no-one wants centralized authentication.
So much crap is tied up with patents that basic research is almost impossible without licensing. I don't know how badly it affects the electronics side of things, but the life sciences side of CSIRO is being crippled by agribusiness patents on gene technology etc.
According to the Gamespot coverage:
A lot of hosts come with webmail access included (Dreamhost gives everyone webmail.[domain].com, for example).
If you want to install your own, have a look at SquirrelMail, Open Webmail, or Horde IMP. I've only used SquirrelMail, and it's pretty good.
That said, you'll be hard pressed to find anything with an interface anywhere near as good as Gmail. Cheap hosting is also likely to be slower and less reliable.
Harradine might sell out again (see also: vote to sell Telstra) if the government shovels money into his electorate.
No, that's because it's free.
MS Office's entire feature set is probably in use across the customer base as a whole: users all have different needs. I've never needed to use the mail merge feature, but that doesn't make it worthless.
The one feature I wanted that OO.o didn't have was enough to drive me back to Microsoft, and I suspect that many users are the same.
Note that it's not suitable for single user install, so isn't actually in direct competition with any of those.
Some of these features require a paid membership.
Post API support: also supports the Blogger API
Post pings: IIRC can only ping weblogs.com
Bookmarklets: no official support, but yes, it's been done.
Atom: yes (full text)
Comment RSS: no, but a paid user could hack up a dodgy per-post version
Template storage: Proprietary
Template conditionals: yes (S2)
Edit templates online: yes
Post by email: yes
Linkroll: links list, not sure of max. size
I am aware of that; I use LiveJournal myself. I was replying to the parent poster's description of the LJ codebase as "another alternative", which, for most people, it isn't.
LiveJournal itself (and DeadJournal, Plogs, uJournal etc) is an alternative; the LiveJournal code is not.
Except that now you can add RSS feeds as friends, and your own journal is exported as RSS & Atom. You can get your friends' protected entries by having a LiveJournal account and doing authentication on their feeds. You're only locked in if you want to easily make "friends only" posts.
I've seen that mentioned elsewhere, but it's a totally different thing. Most people use cheapish shared hosting, and it's pretty much impossible to run the LiveJournal code without your own server.
Sony is composed of various different divisions, and there's some infighting between them. Sony Music isn't happy with the hardware side of the company making devices that allow (promote?) piracy, but there's nothing they can do about it because the business is too lucrative.
This is an interesting idea, if they do it right. What irritates me about attempts at spreading gameplay over other devices -- such as the PocketStation component of Final Fantasy VIII -- is that you have a disadvantage if you don't own every piece of hardware under the sun. What if I don't want to buy a GBAXtreme256 (or whatever) to "play another, subordinate, but essential part of the game [on the train]"?
I don't want to need multiple systems just to play a game.
You're allowed to make backup copies of some software, just not music/video/anything else.
unless it was some sort of romantic mix I would think that giving a CD as a gift that you mixed would be cheap
More expensive than nothing.
Besides, we're not talking fiftieth-anniversary gifts here: most people burn CDs just as something nice for a friend. If I discover some new band that I think one of my friends will enjoy, I can throw a few tracks on a CD for them. I've burned CDs with odd tracks from the 365 Days Project and the like, with tracks that the person would never have otherwise heard.
Giving a CD doesn't have to mean a copy of a Top 40 album, or even anything you can by in stores. I value the ones I've been given more than I value a lot of the shit I've paid money for.
In case of drive failure or whatever you can re-download tracks for free. Read the FAQ.
It'll be interesting to see what kind of restrictions are on the files.
Australian copyright law is fairly draconian compared to the US, and doesn't allow "backup" copies of music, videos etc, only some software.
If they provide an iTunes-esque scheme that allows the tracks to be burned to CD and played across multiple computers, consumers will actually have more legal rights with their downloaded tracks than they do with real CDs.
Don't forget +Ma's Reversing. It seems to focus more on cryptanalysis than the others I've played, but has a fair bit of reverse engineering stuff in there too.
The book is compiled from Wordsmith.Org's "A Word A Day"; Dictionary.com's word of the day is completely different.
(But yes, both lists do have free online archives.)
If you mean the "Warcraft III" total conversion for Starcraft at infoceptor.net, Blizzard sent them a threatening letter so they took it off the site.