RFID tags *could* promise a better future. But, like anything that provides potentially personal information to anyone with the right scanning device, RFID tags could be abused on a scale never seen before.
Have you seen anywhere at all that mentions anything about the ability to turn *off* an RFID switch?
Not to mention the possible side effects of having a radio transmitting from inside a human body for long periods of time.
Abuse by car insurance companies able to read your car's performance?
ChessVariants.com has a play by email system for Chess, and a whole whack of chess variants (Xiang Qi, Shogi, Shatranj, etc). So I'd say, yes, play by email is alive and kicking.
My machine is slightly inferior to yours, and the game runs great! I've been playing the Counter Strike: Source, and I gave the HL2 game a whirl before leaving for work this morning. I'm running an AMD 2200+, 512meg of pc3200 ram, and an ATI Radeon 9600 SE. I figure if I had another 512 stick of ram, it would run perfectly.
For the life of me though, I couldn't find the specs for the game at it's website.
Offering free pop3 might draw in people who normally might avoid web based email (for whatever reason). Once Google has you 'hooked', then they can offer you things like certain upgrades to your email account, or maybe something like low cost website/blogsite, domain names, etc.
Heh, why does everyone automatically assume there's an angle in everything Google does?:P Just paranoid, or is there really a conspiracy? They make scads of money as it is, why not a few more free hooks to gain a few more potentially paying customers?
Yes, Firefox is better coded than IE. As stated in a reply to my post, IE's vulnerabilities were just found sooner, and I'll bet that more will be found in IE than in Firefox as time goes by. Some of those advisories on Secunia about Mozilla and Firefox were actually WINDOWS holes.
And since Microsoft has a history of waiting *months* to fix critical flaws, and has flatout refused to fix others, I'll stick with Mozilla and Firefox, thanks.
Heh, P2P isn't anywhere close to dying. It's potential is too great. Like anything else we create, it can be used for what it was intented, and it can be misused.
It's an awesome way to quickly disseminate updates and patches, I am surprised that some of the bigger game companies haven't started using it to release the often large patches they put out.
And I think Joe User *does* know his rights, RIAA just needs to piss off a few more before they get stomped...
Until another hole in Windows/IE/MSN gets exploited, and they have to deal with viruses, trojans and spam.
Then if they can download a free distro of Linux from a name they can trust (at least, Google is more trustworthy than MS at this point), and install it hassle free *and* worry less about viruses and the like... why wouldn't they?
Not the ultimate solution to everything, heh, just the ultimate solution to Windows. Maybe it wouldn't kill Windows, definitely wouldn't kill Microsoft, but Google could put a large dent in them. And why not, it's a large enough market...
Sure, Microsoft made IE free, likely in hopes of killing Netscape. But could Microsoft make it's OS free? Not in this lifetime... Windows is where MS's money comes from.
Well, you'd have been one in the minority if you had been in the theatre I saw it in. I thought it was hilarious, and it seemed most of the people watching it thought so as well. The "sex" scene rocked!
If that were true, we'd be seeing daily accounts of Apache servers being hacked and used for malicious purposes. According to Netcraft, Apache is used by almost 70% of the webservers out there. Yet Microsofts IIS is on 20% of the webservers out there, and there have been way, way more malicious attacks on it. So being bigger does not necessarily mean being the bigger target.
IE gets more attacks because it is poorly coded, and you see less attacks on Firefox because it is coded better than IE. If it were to be come more popular, I don't foresee a huge jump in attacks.
Actually, you have a great idea there.
What's Linux's major drawback? The perception that you can't just insert a CD, and it'll install itself perfectly. Or that it's too difficult to do if you don't know everything to know about Linux.
If Google were to produce a Linux distro, that distro would have the weight of Google's name, plus anything that came bundled with the would *likely* work properly (less flaws, more filling) as they do have decent coders who know their stuff, and they have the capability to create a desktop environment with search, email, blogging (and more) right at your fingertips. Add to the fact that Google seems to be a) Less Evil Than The Other Guys(TM) and b) willing to take a steady-as-she-goes approach. We'd end up with an OS that wasn't half assed, chock full of coding holes nor equipped with stuff we couldn't uninstall (ie. IE!).
Go Google!
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RFID tags *could* promise a better future. But, like anything that provides potentially personal information to anyone with the right scanning device, RFID tags could be abused on a scale never seen before.
Have you seen anywhere at all that mentions anything about the ability to turn *off* an RFID switch?
Not to mention the possible side effects of having a radio transmitting from inside a human body for long periods of time.
Abuse by car insurance companies able to read your car's performance?
The chance of abuse is too great...
Maybe they're trying to /. Mozilla's site?
ChessVariants.com has a play by email system for Chess, and a whole whack of chess variants (Xiang Qi, Shogi, Shatranj, etc). So I'd say, yes, play by email is alive and kicking.
The dull thud-crunch sound of the Half-Life crowbar smacking someone or something on the head.
My machine is slightly inferior to yours, and the game runs great! I've been playing the Counter Strike: Source, and I gave the HL2 game a whirl before leaving for work this morning. I'm running an AMD 2200+, 512meg of pc3200 ram, and an ATI Radeon 9600 SE. I figure if I had another 512 stick of ram, it would run perfectly.
For the life of me though, I couldn't find the specs for the game at it's website.
Woohoo! 80%!!
w00t! I've been playing Counter Strike: Source for weeks now, can't wait to get home from work to play HL2. 30% completed...
Offering free pop3 might draw in people who normally might avoid web based email (for whatever reason). Once Google has you 'hooked', then they can offer you things like certain upgrades to your email account, or maybe something like low cost website/blogsite, domain names, etc.
Heh, I'll keep my free Gmail accounts thanks. :P
Why pay for something *and* get ads. :P
Heh, why does everyone automatically assume there's an angle in everything Google does? :P Just paranoid, or is there really a conspiracy? They make scads of money as it is, why not a few more free hooks to gain a few more potentially paying customers?
Heh, I do people a favour, and download Firefox/Mozilla for them. :P Most of the time they're not mad.
Ever thought about doing a movie on Slashdot, and Slashdot-like sites? You'll find the people just as rabid as the Trekkie fans. :P
Yes, Firefox is better coded than IE. As stated in a reply to my post, IE's vulnerabilities were just found sooner, and I'll bet that more will be found in IE than in Firefox as time goes by. Some of those advisories on Secunia about Mozilla and Firefox were actually WINDOWS holes.
And since Microsoft has a history of waiting *months* to fix critical flaws, and has flatout refused to fix others, I'll stick with Mozilla and Firefox, thanks.
Heh, P2P isn't anywhere close to dying. It's potential is too great. Like anything else we create, it can be used for what it was intented, and it can be misused.
It's an awesome way to quickly disseminate updates and patches, I am surprised that some of the bigger game companies haven't started using it to release the often large patches they put out.
And I think Joe User *does* know his rights, RIAA just needs to piss off a few more before they get stomped...
Until another hole in Windows/IE/MSN gets exploited, and they have to deal with viruses, trojans and spam.
Then if they can download a free distro of Linux from a name they can trust (at least, Google is more trustworthy than MS at this point), and install it hassle free *and* worry less about viruses and the like... why wouldn't they?
Not the ultimate solution to everything, heh, just the ultimate solution to Windows. Maybe it wouldn't kill Windows, definitely wouldn't kill Microsoft, but Google could put a large dent in them. And why not, it's a large enough market...
Sure, Microsoft made IE free, likely in hopes of killing Netscape. But could Microsoft make it's OS free? Not in this lifetime... Windows is where MS's money comes from.
Well, you'd have been one in the minority if you had been in the theatre I saw it in. I thought it was hilarious, and it seemed most of the people watching it thought so as well. The "sex" scene rocked!
Hopefully they'll make it modular enough, that you add/remove what you want/don't want. Hopefully they'd go with one of the *nix OS's.
Ooh, here's a scary thought, SCO vs. Google.
Ah, I think what's got people up in arms is: "Why didn't I think of that first?". For every person who's saying, "Cool!", one's saying, "It sucks!".
The only thing keeping that from being a little too "1984" is Google remaining "Less Evil".
But, it's a really cool idea.
Heh, that's a bit of a FUD.
If that were true, we'd be seeing daily accounts of Apache servers being hacked and used for malicious purposes. According to Netcraft, Apache is used by almost 70% of the webservers out there. Yet Microsofts IIS is on 20% of the webservers out there, and there have been way, way more malicious attacks on it. So being bigger does not necessarily mean being the bigger target.
IE gets more attacks because it is poorly coded, and you see less attacks on Firefox because it is coded better than IE. If it were to be come more popular, I don't foresee a huge jump in attacks.
Ah, but he didn't say, "Mozilla is doing it for us..." or "We may buy Mozilla to have them build us a browzer...".
If it's possible?
Actually, you have a great idea there. What's Linux's major drawback? The perception that you can't just insert a CD, and it'll install itself perfectly. Or that it's too difficult to do if you don't know everything to know about Linux. If Google were to produce a Linux distro, that distro would have the weight of Google's name, plus anything that came bundled with the would *likely* work properly (less flaws, more filling) as they do have decent coders who know their stuff, and they have the capability to create a desktop environment with search, email, blogging (and more) right at your fingertips. Add to the fact that Google seems to be a) Less Evil Than The Other Guys(TM) and b) willing to take a steady-as-she-goes approach. We'd end up with an OS that wasn't half assed, chock full of coding holes nor equipped with stuff we couldn't uninstall (ie. IE!). Go Google!
And they'd never do that! :P