When a new major version comes out, phone companies use it as an excuse to stop supporting the old one, and you have to buy new hardware to get new software (or use a third party rom, which disproves claims of "the old hardware can't handle it"...)
This may be interesting, but it seems to me more like normal news than news for nerds -- but then, it seems slashdot as a whole has forgotten about technology (as I speak, the entire front page is politics -- mostly politics of IT companies, sure, but there's nothing about the details of cool hardware or software:-( )
Taken to the logical extreme, it sounds like you just want a game where you don't have to micro your units.
Actually, I think the extreme is a game where you write the script then you don't manage your units at all -- and it turns out that games like that are pretty awesome even when you only have one unit to manage, so I can only imagine managing a whole army would be much more fun (presuming the complexity wasn't overwhelming)
The Eyetracker also has applications in computer games where players could look around themselves without requiring a joystick to change their viewing direction
1) Player wants to move the in game camera left 45 degrees
2) Player moves eyes left 45 degrees
3) The camera moves successfully, but the player doesn't see that because their eyes were pointing at their desk lamp to the side of the monitor 4) Not profit!
in which local crimestoppers and FBI tip lines are flooded with anonymous terrorism and pedophile suspicions of random citizens, or perhaps the families of law enforcement
Bonus points: get the FBI and the local cops chasing eachother
It can only be incompatible if they actually claim to be java compatible. They don't
IIRC they kind of do, by using the trademarked Java name in their class heirachy, and that trademark is only allowed to be used by test-suite-passing implementations
Ok, having read the article I see that his statement was a generic "mandating that users of our software must do certain things is bad" statement, and not *directly* targeted at this; so he's only against it in spirit not in writing. Still doesn't make it google's fault that a third party chose to write a function for the third party's phone though:P
I think that would be really hard to pull off, as the plot wasn't designed for a sequel (thank god -- plots that deliberately don't end are enough to make me boycott a series); A high-def, bug-fixed, otherwise unaltered rerelease however, I'd preorder 10 just to help it happen:-P
many long-time fans of the series must now be wondering whether the magic hasn't departed.
There is nothing to wonder about; the magic left when Square merged with Enix and many of the key staff resigned, and they started putting out sequels, expansions, MMOs and totally linear games rather than anything like FF1-9:(
For anyone under misapprehsion that Google does not have the propensity for evil, or is not already evil, this should remove any remaining doubt.
Because a third party added a nasty feature to the third party's phone, without Google's knowledge or consent, and once public the Google CEO makes a statement of being against it? Yeah, proof of being evil right there
I thought the entire appeal of Android was that it was your phone
The appeal is that you get to control part of the software, which is a lot more than most phones give you -- I'm pretty sure that the "feature" in the article isn't part of the vanilla android open source package though, so I'm not sure how you can hold them responsible
What tool / settings did you use to create that? I tried graphviz (dot) with default settings and it didn't look so nice:( (It came out tree shaped, wide at the bottom, with a crossed line, rather than evenly spread)
If you're going to generalise all of slashdot as a single entity with a single opinion, why not ask yourself? You are part of it:P
rally against closed and proprietary data formats like MS Word documents, but not closed and proprietary VoIP protocols?
Personally I'm not so much anti-closed as anti-suck. Closedness sucks politically, so I generally prefer open; but in this case all the other VoIP products suck technically and to a much larger degree
Do those offer route planning at all, let alone taking things like hills or noise levels into account? I have actually been looking for a cycle route planner with those features, and this seems to be perfect, except for being (AFAICS) iphone only:(
A MMO based on abusing drugs, molesting little kids and buying white babies to claim they are your own? Just doesn't seen right.
Drinking potions to gain temporary stat bonuses, hunting down little people for fun, and hiring minions to go forth into dangerous situations? Seems like every other MMO to me...
is it possible to prove there is encrypted data where you claim there's not?
prove 100%, no; prove beyond reasonable doubt, sure -- unless you happen to be really good at convincing juries that carrying around a hard drive full of noise is common practice
If somewhere halfway it does not have four tires, has something gone wrong or were they just actively working on it.
While they're/actively/ working on it (ie, it's still on the developer's desktop), ok; but they don't go for a test drive while it still has three
If you tell me you've ever started a software project that DIDN'T have any security issues halfway, then you lie.
There have been issues in my local branches, and occasional bugs I didn't know about; but I've never committed any code to a repository where I knew it was broken (especially not with "eh, it's beta, it's ok to fix it later" as an excuse)
This was not intend to be a secure release or a complete release
An empty project has no features, and the desired result is lots of features, so having half features at the half way point is expected; but an empty project has no security holes, and the desired result is no security holes, so if there is a hole at the half way point then something has gone wrong.
notorious "if you want privacy, you have something to hide" remark.
Citation needed? The only similar quote I remember was more along the lines of "if you have something to hide, don't put it on google's servers (or anyone else's servers) because the government can force us to give it up"
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Screw celebrations, I want to know what's new in the API...
How does this impact our quality of life?
When a new major version comes out, phone companies use it as an excuse to stop supporting the old one, and you have to buy new hardware to get new software (or use a third party rom, which disproves claims of "the old hardware can't handle it"...)
This may be interesting, but it seems to me more like normal news than news for nerds -- but then, it seems slashdot as a whole has forgotten about technology (as I speak, the entire front page is politics -- mostly politics of IT companies, sure, but there's nothing about the details of cool hardware or software :-( )
And then if you're going to build a structure where the end of the pipe is outside the atmosphere, why not just build an elevator?
Yes, everyone knows you need python for that.
Indeed, you just need to import wife
... wait, that's actually possible o_O
Taken to the logical extreme, it sounds like you just want a game where you don't have to micro your units.
Actually, I think the extreme is a game where you write the script then you don't manage your units at all -- and it turns out that games like that are pretty awesome even when you only have one unit to manage, so I can only imagine managing a whole army would be much more fun (presuming the complexity wasn't overwhelming)
The Eyetracker also has applications in computer games where players could look around themselves without requiring a joystick to change their viewing direction
1) Player wants to move the in game camera left 45 degrees
2) Player moves eyes left 45 degrees
3) The camera moves successfully, but the player doesn't see that because their eyes were pointing at their desk lamp to the side of the monitor
4) Not profit!
in which local crimestoppers and FBI tip lines are flooded with anonymous terrorism and pedophile suspicions of random citizens, or perhaps the families of law enforcement
Bonus points: get the FBI and the local cops chasing eachother
It can only be incompatible if they actually claim to be java compatible. They don't
IIRC they kind of do, by using the trademarked Java name in their class heirachy, and that trademark is only allowed to be used by test-suite-passing implementations
May I have a link to Eric's statement please?
Ok, having read the article I see that his statement was a generic "mandating that users of our software must do certain things is bad" statement, and not *directly* targeted at this; so he's only against it in spirit not in writing. Still doesn't make it google's fault that a third party chose to write a function for the third party's phone though :P
VII deserved a true sequel
I think that would be really hard to pull off, as the plot wasn't designed for a sequel (thank god -- plots that deliberately don't end are enough to make me boycott a series); A high-def, bug-fixed, otherwise unaltered rerelease however, I'd preorder 10 just to help it happen :-P
(And ditto for FFVI)
many long-time fans of the series must now be wondering whether the magic hasn't departed.
There is nothing to wonder about; the magic left when Square merged with Enix and many of the key staff resigned, and they started putting out sequels, expansions, MMOs and totally linear games rather than anything like FF1-9 :(
-- a long time fan of the series
Aren't military vehicles generally measured in tens of millions of dollars each? If so, 100x cheaper still sounds like a six-digit number...
For anyone under misapprehsion that Google does not have the propensity for evil, or is not already evil, this should remove any remaining doubt.
Because a third party added a nasty feature to the third party's phone, without Google's knowledge or consent, and once public the Google CEO makes a statement of being against it? Yeah, proof of being evil right there
I thought the entire appeal of Android was that it was your phone
The appeal is that you get to control part of the software, which is a lot more than most phones give you -- I'm pretty sure that the "feature" in the article isn't part of the vanilla android open source package though, so I'm not sure how you can hold them responsible
HTML5 will be great, but it is not there yet
You've described wonderfully what's wrong with HTML5 video, but what about the other 99% of the spec?
What tool / settings did you use to create that? I tried graphviz (dot) with default settings and it didn't look so nice :( (It came out tree shaped, wide at the bottom, with a crossed line, rather than evenly spread)
Why do the slashdot crowd
If you're going to generalise all of slashdot as a single entity with a single opinion, why not ask yourself? You are part of it :P
rally against closed and proprietary data formats like MS Word documents, but not closed and proprietary VoIP protocols?
Personally I'm not so much anti-closed as anti-suck. Closedness sucks politically, so I generally prefer open; but in this case all the other VoIP products suck technically and to a much larger degree
Do those offer route planning at all, let alone taking things like hills or noise levels into account? I have actually been looking for a cycle route planner with those features, and this seems to be perfect, except for being (AFAICS) iphone only :(
A MMO based on abusing drugs, molesting little kids and buying white babies to claim they are your own? Just doesn't seen right.
Drinking potions to gain temporary stat bonuses, hunting down little people for fun, and hiring minions to go forth into dangerous situations? Seems like every other MMO to me...
The source code for Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Enemy Territory was released under the GNU GPL on August 12, 2010.
Slashdot reported it on August 12th too o_O
is it possible to prove there is encrypted data where you claim there's not?
prove 100%, no; prove beyond reasonable doubt, sure -- unless you happen to be really good at convincing juries that carrying around a hard drive full of noise is common practice
If somewhere halfway it does not have four tires, has something gone wrong or were they just actively working on it.
While they're /actively/ working on it (ie, it's still on the developer's desktop), ok; but they don't go for a test drive while it still has three
If you tell me you've ever started a software project that DIDN'T have any security issues halfway, then you lie.
There have been issues in my local branches, and occasional bugs I didn't know about; but I've never committed any code to a repository where I knew it was broken (especially not with "eh, it's beta, it's ok to fix it later" as an excuse)
This was not intend to be a secure release or a complete release
An empty project has no features, and the desired result is lots of features, so having half features at the half way point is expected; but an empty project has no security holes, and the desired result is no security holes, so if there is a hole at the half way point then something has gone wrong.
notorious "if you want privacy, you have something to hide" remark.
Citation needed? The only similar quote I remember was more along the lines of "if you have something to hide, don't put it on google's servers (or anyone else's servers) because the government can force us to give it up"