built virtual commerce into their game infrastructure
So you can go to work in a virtual world, selling virtual services for virtual gold.
You can then sell that gold to a 12 year old idiot who got his mom's credit card.
Thats kinda funny.
I have a roommate who is adicted to FarmTown on Facebook. He is constantly farming other people's crops to get money to buy stuff for his own farm.
Imagine a farmer in China getting a computer, and farming in a virtual world, selling his virtual income for actual income and that being more than he made farming in real life.
Crazy!
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The iPhone is winning on the basis of having a much superior interface. Open source development has always been notably bad at user interfaces, and more generally, at design; it is no accident that the most successful open source projects are all clones of some other software, or implementations of back-end protocols like HTTP. Very often superior clones, mind you, but it's still derivative.
XBMC has the best user interface of any application I have ever used.
I was actually thinking about this the other day.
Http has absolutely no security at all built into the protocol. It is all hacked together with cookies and the server remembering sessions etc.
The protocol itself is dumb. Make a request... get a response, thats it. Any security is on top of that.
If there was a standard for secure HTTP, all of these gimmicks and schemes could be removed from the hundreds of web frameworks and implemented in the browser / http server.
I have a single fileserver (soon to be replaced with a plug computer whenever mine ships).
Everything pulls from there.
Every once in a while I plug in my 1TB external USB driver and sync from the main server, then unplug and put back in the safe.
When I retire my fileserver and move to the plug computer, I will use my 1TB external for the server and buy another one for backups. It will be formatted with a different filesystem.
And it's encumbered in ways that affect how people can use it. For example, LAME (and various other MP3 stuff) isn't included in Debian or Ubuntu; people have to go out of their way and use non-standard, often unsupported repositories.
emerge lame
How did I go out of my way?
Did I break the law?
Fine, then they should have two packages. One where you get a wand and a disc, and one where you just get the wand.
I'm not against paying for the R&D, but if I want 2 wands I shouldn't have to pay twice as much R&D. The second wand should be just the price of the parts plus some markup.
With this it is painfully obvious that the true "product" is the software running on the PS3. Why should you have to pay for that software twice just to be able to use two wands at the same time?
This looks like it is all done with software which runs on the PS3.
The cost of the controller should be no more than $5 but Sony will find a way to charge you $60 or $100 for it.
Also, expect it to be full of DRM so you can't make your own. Afterall, its probably just a specially shaped object with some IR or something, easy to duplicate.... so pack it full of DRM and pass the cost onto the customers.
A lot of reasons mentioned in there could also be said of OSX.
5.3 Incomplete or unstable drivers for some hardware. Problems setting up some hardware (like sound cards or TV tuners/Web Cameras).
5.3.2 A lot of web cameras still do not work at all in Linux.
5.4 It's impossible to watch Blue-Ray movies.
5.2 No games. Full stop. Cedega and Wine offer very incomplete support.
I did my research and found a TV tuner that would work under Linux so that I could run MythTV. How many tuner cards work with OSX? Linux is not Windows, but it doesn't mean it's not ready for the desktop.
Apple puts together hardware that works with their OS and now Dell and other OEM's are doing the same with Linux. If you want to run either Linux or OSX on older hardware you have lying around be prepared to hack (although much less with Linux). If you want to build a system from scratch, do your homework first and buy compatible parts.
I stopped reading halfway through. Its a troll. I could say Windows isn't ready for the desktop because there are no CLI utilities or scripting languages built in.
If you want to do something in batch like resize and auto-rotate a bunch of digital camera pictures you need to search for and download a program that does exactly what you want and hopefully not get a virus.
With linux, you whip up a little script that runs jhead -autorot and convert -resize.
A lot of times you need to do something specialized each time. Having a full blown GUI for each occasion doesn't make sense and neither does having something that is so extremely configurable because it would ultimately be complicated and confusing and still wouldn't handle the 5% of the corner cases.
I stopped using Azureus once it disappeared from portage and I could only get Vuze. Since then I switched to rTorrent. Its awesome and command line based which means you can ssh into another machine and kick it off.
I've been meaning, but have yet to try out wTorrent which is a web interface to the same libtorrent that rTorrent uses.
This way you could just use safari to control your torrent downloads.
iPhone is Obj-C. Thats a show stopper for me.
If I didn't know either Java or Obj-C and had to choose, I'd choose one that I could use on more than one operating system.
I use OWA with FireFox on Linux.
Its not all that rich but it works just fine. Don't know what this is all about.
Are they going to make the experience the same for both IE and FireFox?
I just flew AA and they charged me $40 for two suitcases. $15 for the first and $25 for the second. I understand what they're trying to do here but the problem is that their flights show up as cheaper on search results. You can think of it as a $40 discount if you don't have any checked baggage or a $25 discount if you only have one checked bag....but the searches should reflect that.
Can't wait for viruses to start inserting that gravity JS code into random pages. Highjacking computers. Popping up messages saying "Pay us $20 and your pages will stop falling to the floor".
For the bottom two that seems to be true, but the 3rd one can upload through hotspots that are not your home. I'm sure the hardware on all 3 are the same but the firmware on the 3rd might be different.
I could also see where they might all be the same except for a serial number. In that case the bottom two while in another hotspot would have to try to contact the master server which would reject it based on serial number. But if it had different firmware on the bottom two it might not try to contact at all (which is what I believe).
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built virtual commerce into their game infrastructure
So you can go to work in a virtual world, selling virtual services for virtual gold.
You can then sell that gold to a 12 year old idiot who got his mom's credit card.
Thats kinda funny.
I have a roommate who is adicted to FarmTown on Facebook. He is constantly farming other people's crops to get money to buy stuff for his own farm.
Imagine a farmer in China getting a computer, and farming in a virtual world, selling his virtual income for actual income and that being more than he made farming in real life.
Crazy!
The iPhone is winning on the basis of having a much superior interface. Open source development has always been notably bad at user interfaces, and more generally, at design; it is no accident that the most successful open source projects are all clones of some other software, or implementations of back-end protocols like HTTP. Very often superior clones, mind you, but it's still derivative.
XBMC has the best user interface of any application I have ever used.
I was actually thinking about this the other day.
Http has absolutely no security at all built into the protocol. It is all hacked together with cookies and the server remembering sessions etc.
The protocol itself is dumb. Make a request... get a response, thats it. Any security is on top of that.
If there was a standard for secure HTTP, all of these gimmicks and schemes could be removed from the hundreds of web frameworks and implemented in the browser / http server.
I have a single fileserver (soon to be replaced with a plug computer whenever mine ships).
Everything pulls from there.
Every once in a while I plug in my 1TB external USB driver and sync from the main server, then unplug and put back in the safe.
When I retire my fileserver and move to the plug computer, I will use my 1TB external for the server and buy another one for backups. It will be formatted with a different filesystem.
When I compile mplayer with H.264 support who is paying the license. Am I in violation of this license?
And it's encumbered in ways that affect how people can use it. For example, LAME (and various other MP3 stuff) isn't included in Debian or Ubuntu; people have to go out of their way and use non-standard, often unsupported repositories.
emerge lame
How did I go out of my way?
Did I break the law?
Fine, then they should have two packages. One where you get a wand and a disc, and one where you just get the wand.
I'm not against paying for the R&D, but if I want 2 wands I shouldn't have to pay twice as much R&D. The second wand should be just the price of the parts plus some markup.
With this it is painfully obvious that the true "product" is the software running on the PS3. Why should you have to pay for that software twice just to be able to use two wands at the same time?
This looks like it is all done with software which runs on the PS3. The cost of the controller should be no more than $5 but Sony will find a way to charge you $60 or $100 for it.
Also, expect it to be full of DRM so you can't make your own. Afterall, its probably just a specially shaped object with some IR or something, easy to duplicate.... so pack it full of DRM and pass the cost onto the customers.
Screw Sony... where is my NetFlix on PS3?
I could care less about a motion controller. The Wii is absolutely aweful. I think its almost random at times. I want NetFlix on the PS3.
lol registry, lol windows.
lol gconf, lol gnome
I did my research and found a TV tuner that would work under Linux so that I could run MythTV. How many tuner cards work with OSX? Linux is not Windows, but it doesn't mean it's not ready for the desktop.
Apple puts together hardware that works with their OS and now Dell and other OEM's are doing the same with Linux. If you want to run either Linux or OSX on older hardware you have lying around be prepared to hack (although much less with Linux). If you want to build a system from scratch, do your homework first and buy compatible parts.
I stopped reading halfway through. Its a troll. I could say Windows isn't ready for the desktop because there are no CLI utilities or scripting languages built in.
If you want to do something in batch like resize and auto-rotate a bunch of digital camera pictures you need to search for and download a program that does exactly what you want and hopefully not get a virus.
With linux, you whip up a little script that runs jhead -autorot and convert -resize.
A lot of times you need to do something specialized each time. Having a full blown GUI for each occasion doesn't make sense and neither does having something that is so extremely configurable because it would ultimately be complicated and confusing and still wouldn't handle the 5% of the corner cases.
How do they know both weren't named after the Roman god?
Try wtorrent
I stopped using Azureus once it disappeared from portage and I could only get Vuze. Since then I switched to rTorrent. Its awesome and command line based which means you can ssh into another machine and kick it off.
I've been meaning, but have yet to try out wTorrent which is a web interface to the same libtorrent that rTorrent uses.
This way you could just use safari to control your torrent downloads.
Some company with a lot of money should buy the rights to it and have it ship on Windows last.
Either OSX, Linux, Windows, or Linux, OSX, Windows.
iPhone is Obj-C. Thats a show stopper for me.
If I didn't know either Java or Obj-C and had to choose, I'd choose one that I could use on more than one operating system.
No, that would be DeCSS. Duh!
Mouse clicks go through so many layers of checks that response time is ridiculous.
Its written in Java so mentioning this is redundant.
btrfs is an attempt to recreate the features of ZFS.
Yes, but btrfs also uses the Linux kernel's various layers and plays well with them. From what I understand ZFS is a giant monolithic mess.
I use OWA with FireFox on Linux.
Its not all that rich but it works just fine. Don't know what this is all about.
Are they going to make the experience the same for both IE and FireFox?
I just flew AA and they charged me $40 for two suitcases. $15 for the first and $25 for the second. I understand what they're trying to do here but the problem is that their flights show up as cheaper on search results. You can think of it as a $40 discount if you don't have any checked baggage or a $25 discount if you only have one checked bag....but the searches should reflect that.
Take a piece of paper and fold it 20 times... it will be 1,048,576 times as thick.
20 fold is 2^20
so.. (2 ** 20) * $1800 == 1.887436800 Billion Dollars
So..somebody is wrong. Didn't read TFA to tell whether it is you or the article.
Can't wait for viruses to start inserting that gravity JS code into random pages. Highjacking computers. Popping up messages saying "Pay us $20 and your pages will stop falling to the floor".
Hurry up and get the languages that target it up on http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
For the bottom two that seems to be true, but the 3rd one can upload through hotspots that are not your home. I'm sure the hardware on all 3 are the same but the firmware on the 3rd might be different.
I could also see where they might all be the same except for a serial number. In that case the bottom two while in another hotspot would have to try to contact the master server which would reject it based on serial number. But if it had different firmware on the bottom two it might not try to contact at all (which is what I believe).