If anything, I'd say the author of Noscript has proved two things: one, that he is human and makes mistakes, and two, that he has the integrity of character to appologise for his mistakes and rectify them. Neither of which makes him any less trustworthy than anyone else.
From what I hear, he only "apologized" and fixed the problem for several reasons: 1. Because the Firefox devs said that NoScript was breaking Firefox's Add-on Policy when it started monkeying around with AdBlock Plus. 2. NoScript's rating was plummeting on the Firefox Add-on site. If this rating drops too much, NoScript would no longer be considered a trusted add-on, and therefore every version would be subject to security review before it exited the Sandbox.
Oh, yes, you read that correctly. NoScript is currently not reviewed before new versions go up on the Firefox add-on site.
Incidentally, Mozilla made a new policy spelling out some restrictions for add-ons after this incident.
I don't even understand the argument for charging the ISPs.
Well, if this was done a few years ago, I'd say it was to bitchslap the ISPs that were proposing that they get paid for the traffic routed to content producers in a "You're nothing without us!" gesture.
Given that the PS3 is one of the few upgradable BD-DVD players, plus it plays games, it's not a surprise that it's also the most popular BD-DVD player.
It's the equivalent of saying "I have friends in several parts of the US and none of them eat potato chips... leaving out Frito-Lay of course."
(Frito-Lay being the largest producer of potato chips in the US)
EC wants RESULTS. not smartass escape moves what would amount to the SAME thing in the end. like the 'let pc manufacturers install the browser'. which amounts to Ie getting installed, flat.
Unfortunately, PC Manufacturers will install IE because end users expect the big, blue E.
It's a shame this didn't happen when Vista/IE7 came out, as both IE and the IE icon looked different... thus it would have been the perfect time to move users to a different browser.
Disclaimer: I'm writing this from Firefox 3.0.10 (whoops, my home computer is on 3.0.11... better upgrade this one).
"the reason XP still exists is that Vista is a piece of shit and Win7 is only Vista SP3 but certainly not free. The market works an MS is just learning that now."
The question was why nobody had complained about all the prior term extensions. Well there was nobody around to complain. But the internet changed all that.
Well, up until 1976, US Copyright law was still fairly sane... 28 years with the possibility to file for another 28 years... and you have to file for copyright on everything.
The Copyright Act of 1976 bumped that to the author's life plus 50 years, made copyrights automatic, and introduced a number of other things into US Copyright law (including Fair Use). It could be that some people thought that the latter changes were good things.
However, by the time the most recent copyright extension happened, in 1998, we had already been exposed to the modern insanity super-long copyrights introduced, and we started to fight against the insanity of increasing it even further. It also introduced nothing new in terms of how Copyrights worked (the DMCA came a year or two later). It was a pure greed move by certain corporate interests, including one mousy movie studio.
Yeah, not only is it hard to actually get into various Jobs in that game, but when you do... they're just like doing work! Not only that, but you may have to spend several years training before you're even allowed to get said Job!
Last time I checked Microsoft never documents what updates actually do.
Microsoft releases a knowledge base article for every update they push on Windows Update. As long as you don't blindly tell Windows to install them without looking at the details, you can follow the links to them and see exactly what the update does.
Getting rid of browser clients would be godsent for any admin in the world. Having all applications as a native application would be a huge step forward.
You try, getting three different web browsers working against a site using the same HTML/CSS/Javascript working properly. They all crave different versions of styles, scripts, tags or whatnot and any new version of any of the major browsers demands countless hours of testing for just about every possible combination of apps. Upgrades are pure nightmare. Couple this with locked down desktops with only Internet Explorer 6 in corporate settings, graceful degradation if scripts are disabled and usability requirement laws that need hard testing before you alter a single setting.
Getting rid of all those problems alone would be worth serious money for any company. Added benefit would be that backend services could be totally decoupled from what OS the client runs. Google will fight this for all they are worth.
Am I the only one who thought Left 4 Dead was mediocre at best?
No, and I'm not afraid to say it either. Particularly since I paid considerably more for it than I paid for Team Fortress 2, which is, hands-down, a better game.
Congratulations, you just described an 8 player game of Team Fortress or one of its sequels, the most recent of which is Fortress Forever... er... I mean Team Fortress 2. Except that people don't seem to be playing the same 4/5 maps over again on Team Fortress 2. Maybe it's because Valve's actually updating that game, unlike Left 4 Dead...
How many new players bought TF2 when new maps came out?
I personally have bought 6 copies of The Orange Box... 1 for me, and 5 more for friends. Not only that, but I've gotten at least 1 coworker and 3 more friends to buy the game.
I regularly post topics on my own forums and the forums of related communities about Team Fortress 2.
Even though the Slashdot poster did call it SDK, it is not a SDK.
An SDK will allow you do modify how the game behaves, create rules such as autokick/ban players who teamkill over a certain limit, create flying monsters etc...
I'm pretty sure you can mod L4D just like any other Source game. There's even Metamod: Source (lower level) and Sourcemod (higher level) to help you there. Both appear to work on Left 4 Dead.
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From what I hear, he only "apologized" and fixed the problem for several reasons:
1. Because the Firefox devs said that NoScript was breaking Firefox's Add-on Policy when it started monkeying around with AdBlock Plus.
2. NoScript's rating was plummeting on the Firefox Add-on site. If this rating drops too much, NoScript would no longer be considered a trusted add-on, and therefore every version would be subject to security review before it exited the Sandbox.
Oh, yes, you read that correctly. NoScript is currently not reviewed before new versions go up on the Firefox add-on site.
Incidentally, Mozilla made a new policy spelling out some restrictions for add-ons after this incident.
er... you took a copyright law class, but that class didn't point out that copyright is on fixed works and that patents are on ideas?
Out of curiosity, have you ever read the book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West?
I've been meaning to read that for a while now, but I hear it puts a whole new spin on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Well, if this was done a few years ago, I'd say it was to bitchslap the ISPs that were proposing that they get paid for the traffic routed to content producers in a "You're nothing without us!" gesture.
Given that the PS3 is one of the few upgradable BD-DVD players, plus it plays games, it's not a surprise that it's also the most popular BD-DVD player.
It's the equivalent of saying "I have friends in several parts of the US and none of them eat potato chips... leaving out Frito-Lay of course."
(Frito-Lay being the largest producer of potato chips in the US)
Disclaimer: I do NOT have a PS3.
Unfortunately, PC Manufacturers will install IE because end users expect the big, blue E.
It's a shame this didn't happen when Vista/IE7 came out, as both IE and the IE icon looked different... thus it would have been the perfect time to move users to a different browser.
Disclaimer: I'm writing this from Firefox 3.0.10 (whoops, my home computer is on 3.0.11... better upgrade this one).
"the reason XP still exists is that Vista is a piece of shit and Win7 is only Vista SP3 but certainly not free. The market works an MS is just learning that now."
Fixed that for you (Vista SP2 is already out).
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All terms in a EULA are one-sided, as US Copyright law already gives you all the rights you need to install it. Title 17 117 a 1 specifically.
Well, up until 1976, US Copyright law was still fairly sane... 28 years with the possibility to file for another 28 years... and you have to file for copyright on everything.
The Copyright Act of 1976 bumped that to the author's life plus 50 years, made copyrights automatic, and introduced a number of other things into US Copyright law (including Fair Use). It could be that some people thought that the latter changes were good things.
However, by the time the most recent copyright extension happened, in 1998, we had already been exposed to the modern insanity super-long copyrights introduced, and we started to fight against the insanity of increasing it even further. It also introduced nothing new in terms of how Copyrights worked (the DMCA came a year or two later). It was a pure greed move by certain corporate interests, including one mousy movie studio.
Maybe I should have phrased that better. The old InterNIC is still around, going by the name Network Solutions now.
Yeah, not only is it hard to actually get into various Jobs in that game, but when you do... they're just like doing work! Not only that, but you may have to spend several years training before you're even allowed to get said Job!
But if they don't believe him, what good does it do?
Microsoft releases a knowledge base article for every update they push on Windows Update. As long as you don't blindly tell Windows to install them without looking at the details, you can follow the links to them and see exactly what the update does.
Now, having said that, KB951847: List of changes and fixed issues in the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 doesn't mention a Firefox plugin at all.
Even back in the mid 90s, it was more common for Windows developers to use MFC rather than access the API directly.
Getting rid of browser clients would be godsent for any admin in the world. Having all applications as a native application would be a huge step forward.
You try, getting three different web browsers working against a site using the same HTML/CSS/Javascript working properly. They all crave different versions of styles, scripts, tags or whatnot and any new version of any of the major browsers demands countless hours of testing for just about every possible combination of apps. Upgrades are pure nightmare. Couple this with locked down desktops with only Internet Explorer 6 in corporate settings, graceful degradation if scripts are disabled and usability requirement laws that need hard testing before you alter a single setting.
Getting rid of all those problems alone would be worth serious money for any company. Added benefit would be that backend services could be totally decoupled from what OS the client runs. Google will fight this for all they are worth.
No, and I'm not afraid to say it either. Particularly since I paid considerably more for it than I paid for Team Fortress 2, which is, hands-down, a better game.
Congratulations, you just described an 8 player game of Team Fortress or one of its sequels, the most recent of which is Fortress Forever... er... I mean Team Fortress 2.
Except that people don't seem to be playing the same 4/5 maps over again on Team Fortress 2. Maybe it's because Valve's actually updating that game, unlike Left 4 Dead...
I personally have bought 6 copies of The Orange Box... 1 for me, and 5 more for friends. Not only that, but I've gotten at least 1 coworker and 3 more friends to buy the game.
I regularly post topics on my own forums and the forums of related communities about Team Fortress 2.
You'd be surprised how well word of mouth works.
I'm pretty sure you can mod L4D just like any other Source game. There's even Metamod: Source (lower level) and Sourcemod (higher level) to help you there. Both appear to work on Left 4 Dead.
Because Opera didn't invent the Reality Distortion Field. That was invented by Apple (Stever Jobs specifically).
I think Opera ditched the ads in 8.5. Now they make money the same way Firefox does: through the Google search dropdown.
Yes, in case I get lost. Google Maps isn't perfect, and I'm too cheap to buy a GPS.
I hate to break it to you Mr. Google, but they aren't a cybersquatter.
The more they tighten their grip, the more star systems will slip through their fingers.
er... I mean pirates!
Telltale isn't remaking the original Monkey Island, LucasArts is. Telltale is working on Tales of Monkey Island.