If you misinterpret Zynga's allegations to be some sort of political or moral statement about what kinds of business models/actions are not appropriate, then yeah I guess they are being hypocritical. But since when do large wealthy corporations bother with principles?
Just off the top of my head, if Nimblebit were to sue Zynga, they could point at Zynga v. Vostu as Zynga's agreement that this kind of case is valid.
Why? Because legal systems take your past actions into account and corporations aren't exempt from that.
Learning to use your computer should *NOT* require knowledge of shell command flags. The very attitude that it should, is why its so bloody hard to hire good product people. Not coders, not sysadmins, people who actually get users and what they want. (Also explains the huge salary gap seen in the IT world)
Right, because the command line is so unimportant that Microsoft came up with an entirely new command shell called PowerShell and OSX has full-on bash
The fact that they have decent command lines is completely irrelevant to requiring the use of said command lines for end users to do basic tasks.
I can see why you didn't quote the post you were replying to, because it would have made your straw man incredibly obvious.
While the Microsoft suit was underway, the company applied for a second patent, which it received on Oct. 6, 2009. The same day, Eolas filed suit â" in East Texas â" against more than 20 big companies
No limitations here.
Yes, but a patent for things related to the interactive web granted in 2009 (and filed in the mid to late 2000s) is certainly going to have prior art.
The problem with locking writes to the database is that all the games mentioned save their save games to Ubisoft's servers. Meaning that as soon as the DB is write locked, players are (essentially) locked out of their games.
Shuttleworth described HUD as a âoestark contrastâ to Microsoftâ(TM)s ribbon interface, which festoons menus with dozens of the most frequently used commands.
Unfortunately, it's not a "stark contrast" to the Windows Vista/7 Search box, the one that appears right above the Windows (formerly Start) button which you click it. And has since Vista came out in 2007. Oh, even better, it's been backported to XP as Windows Search 4.
And it should be noted that Microsoft stole this idea from Google Desktop.
I have no idea if you can use voice commands to access the Windows or Google versions, though.
My 4-year old flat panel does 1920x1200 over VGA or HDMI. However, I switch it between my desktop and laptop.
Monitor: VGA + HDMI Desktop Computer: Mini-HDMI (with adapter to normal HDMI) + DVI [with VGA adapter] Laptop: VGA + HDMI
I wonder which port I should use!
Having said all that, using VGA with a flatscreen is a bad idea. To do so, you have to go through a digital to analog conversion (VGA output from PC) then an analog to digital conversation (VGA input on flatscreen) before finally displaying the image.
America is slowly sliding into the abyss of dictatorship. This is utterly pathetic. Granted the name may have been offensive, but shouldn't we as citizens be allowed to name property we own and use anything we choose? It's like if you had a nick name for X item in your life. And the police found out that name and some how considered it offensive and criminal. I do not think it should be criminal in nature. I feel it should be more civil related, regarding court proceedings. Yes again the American police state rearing it's ugly head!
If you RTFA, you'd know that the WAP in question either belonged to the Rec Center (if it's a private org) or the city of Teanack. The average citizen doesn't own it, and consequently doesn't have the right to rename it.
Oddly enough, GOTO does have a legitimate use in C#. Switch statements in C# don't fall through. If you want a switch statement to fall through, you have to use a goto ; to force the fall through.
Unless it's an empty switch statement. Those are allowed to fall-through.
Actually, there are two Wii models.(with no difference in price despite the second model removing GameCube compatibility).
Last time I checked, things look a lot difference if you look at the region by region breakdown... the Wii isn't the top seller in any olf the 3 major regions.
Top console seller for North America: Xbox 360 Top console seller for Europe: Xbox 360 Top console seller for Asia: PS3
The Xbox 360 is really hurting from a complete lack of sales in Asia; last I heard they had either not yet passed or just passed the 1 million mark.
The PS3 is hurting by being the #3 seller outside of Asia.
This leaves the Wii, the #2 seller in all regions, with the global crown.
I had enough of FPS games back in the Unreal Tournament/Quake 3 era, so I couldn't care less about missing out on Halo or any of the WW2 simulations du jour.
On a side note, you should give Team Fortress 2 for PC a try, It's free on Steam. At its core, it's a class-based, team-based first person shooter. However, it's essentially a somewhat-cartoony first person shooter set in a 1960s evil genius motif (think James Bond villain).
Although its free, free accounts do have limits. The most glaring is the 50 item inventory. At this moment, there are over 100 unique weapons/items in Team Fortress 2. You generally get 6-8 random weapons a week.
Buying any item from the in-game store ($0.49 is the cheapest at last check) will up the inventory size to 300, as well as enabling the rarer cosmetic drops. The catch is that Steam Wallet has a $5 minimum, but you can spend the remaining $4.51 for anything on Steam (including other games... like Skyrim if you're in to that sort of thing). Oh, and Steam accepts Paypal, too.
Disagree, I prefer the Wiimote to analog stick AND KB / mouse and all I had to do was "learn to close the drapes" when I play
Having played through Metroid Prime Trilogy on the Wii, I'm afraid I have to disagree.
The major selling point of a mouse in an FPS is that you can turn your entire view quickly. This is one of the major advantages the keyboard/mouse gives you in online games.
The mouse's second advantage is accuracy. You'd think that the Wiimote would match this, but in my experience, it doesn't.
The advantage of the Wiimote is that your targetting reticle isn't always dead center of the screen like it is with a mouse. However, in my opinion, that doesn't make up for the turning speed problem.
Yet despite the novelty of the Wii remote, I still prefer the Dual Shock.
Which quite ironically, is pretty much just a snes pad with one extra l/r button with a knee jerk reaction to the n64's analog stick.
By the way, Nintendo must like the Dualshock design, because after releasing the Wii Classic Controller with an SNES shape, they later released the Wii Classic Controller Pro which is almost identical to the Dualshock 1/2/3.
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If you misinterpret Zynga's allegations to be some sort of political or moral statement about what kinds of business models/actions are not appropriate, then yeah I guess they are being hypocritical. But since when do large wealthy corporations bother with principles?
Just off the top of my head, if Nimblebit were to sue Zynga, they could point at Zynga v. Vostu as Zynga's agreement that this kind of case is valid.
Why? Because legal systems take your past actions into account and corporations aren't exempt from that.
Learning to use your computer should *NOT* require knowledge of shell command flags. The very attitude that it should, is why its so bloody hard to hire good product people. Not coders, not sysadmins, people who actually get users and what they want. (Also explains the huge salary gap seen in the IT world)
Right, because the command line is so unimportant that Microsoft came up with an entirely new command shell called PowerShell and OSX has full-on bash
The fact that they have decent command lines is completely irrelevant to requiring the use of said command lines for end users to do basic tasks.
I can see why you didn't quote the post you were replying to, because it would have made your straw man incredibly obvious.
Given that Ron Gilbert is one of the pioneers of the point and click adventure game, why would they do that?
That reminds me, I wonder what ever happened to Gary Winnick and Aric Wilmunder, the other two guys involved in the creation of Maniac Mansion.
Since you work in IT, you should know by now that IT isn't just a single field.
Were you a... Linux admin? Perl programmer? Postgres Database admin (or [insert database here])? Network technician?
A mix of all of the above?
While the Microsoft suit was underway, the company applied for a second patent, which it received on Oct. 6, 2009. The same day, Eolas filed suit â" in East Texas â" against more than 20 big companies
No limitations here.
Yes, but a patent for things related to the interactive web granted in 2009 (and filed in the mid to late 2000s) is certainly going to have prior art.
If it's a continuation patent, see Symbol Technologies/Cognex Corporation v. Lemelson Medical, Education & Research Foundation.
Your using old data.
My "old data" is Gartner's official Q4 2011 data, published 3 weeks ago.
Yes, if you stretch the definition of PC to include phones and tablets, then yes, you may be able to claim Apple is the #1 PC seller.
However, if you limit it to actual desktops and laptops, they aren't even in the top 5 worldwide according to Gartner (although they're #3 in the US).
For that matter, who is Canalys? I've heard of Gartner (hence why I linked to them) because they're the industry standard in PC sales metrics.
What's the email/calendar/contacts(/memos) app on Mint? Is it better than Ubunutu Evolution?
Ubuntu Evolution? Do you perhaps mean Ximian or Novell Evolution?
Why wouldn't it be available on Mint? (side note: I don't use Mint)
It was so hugely overcomplicated and kludgy that *it* sent me straight back to Windows.
Whoa, how long ago was that?
Given that he said Redhat and not Fedora, I'm guessing at least a decade ago (Fedora came out in late 2003).
The problem with locking writes to the database is that all the games mentioned save their save games to Ubisoft's servers. Meaning that as soon as the DB is write locked, players are (essentially) locked out of their games.
They send you discs without any special features that are loaded with up to 15 minutes of unskippable advertisements and previews.
That's to get you to buy your own DVD of the movie from Amazon instead of renting one from Netflix.
...which are the exact same DVD with the exact same problems.
Microsoft is based on WindowsNT (which is somehow close to BSD but nevertheless it is "home-made")
I assume you mean WindowsNT is somehow close to VMS, as they were both created by Dave Cutler.
If people shared your mindest 20 years ago, we'd still be using Mosaic to access the web.
Some of the people who created Mosaic went on to found a company called "Netscape"
Mosaic was sold to Spyglass, who licensed Mosaic to a company named "Microsoft" who incorporated it into a product called "Internet Explorer"
Netscape donated its code (and employee time) to something called "Mozilla" who makes a product called "Firefox."
In other words, it'd be similar to the way things are today, but potentially without Opera, Safari, and Chrome.
AKA "You can't have your cake and eat it too."
I thought the original phrase was
"You can't eat your cake and have it too"
Shuttleworth described HUD as a âoestark contrastâ to Microsoftâ(TM)s ribbon interface, which festoons menus with dozens of the most frequently used commands.
Unfortunately, it's not a "stark contrast" to the Windows Vista/7 Search box, the one that appears right above the Windows (formerly Start) button which you click it. And has since Vista came out in 2007. Oh, even better, it's been backported to XP as Windows Search 4.
And it should be noted that Microsoft stole this idea from Google Desktop.
I have no idea if you can use voice commands to access the Windows or Google versions, though.
My 4-year old flat panel does 1920x1200 over VGA or HDMI. However, I switch it between my desktop and laptop.
Monitor: VGA + HDMI
Desktop Computer: Mini-HDMI (with adapter to normal HDMI) + DVI [with VGA adapter]
Laptop: VGA + HDMI
I wonder which port I should use!
Having said all that, using VGA with a flatscreen is a bad idea. To do so, you have to go through a digital to analog conversion (VGA output from PC) then an analog to digital conversation (VGA input on flatscreen) before finally displaying the image.
Serial is still needed and will be for a long time to come.
Yes, but is RS232?
(In case you forgot, USB is serial)
So... DVI is kind of a step backwards? What is the point of it then?
DVI came first. It's not that DVI is a step backwards as much as it was that HDMI was a step forwards.
America is slowly sliding into the abyss of dictatorship. This is utterly pathetic. Granted the name may have been offensive, but shouldn't we as citizens be allowed to name property we own and use anything we choose? It's like if you had a nick name for X item in your life. And the police found out that name and some how considered it offensive and criminal. I do not think it should be criminal in nature. I feel it should be more civil related, regarding court proceedings. Yes again the American police state rearing it's ugly head!
If you RTFA, you'd know that the WAP in question either belonged to the Rec Center (if it's a private org) or the city of Teanack. The average citizen doesn't own it, and consequently doesn't have the right to rename it.
The impression I got from the article is that someone changed the SSID on a router belonging to the city of Teaneck.
At the very least, if they catch someone, they'll be able to make Defacing Public Property charges.
Oddly enough, GOTO does have a legitimate use in C#. Switch statements in C# don't fall through. If you want a switch statement to fall through, you have to use a goto ; to force the fall through.
Unless it's an empty switch statement. Those are allowed to fall-through.
Actually, there are two Wii models.(with no difference in price despite the second model removing GameCube compatibility).
Last time I checked, things look a lot difference if you look at the region by region breakdown... the Wii isn't the top seller in any olf the 3 major regions.
Top console seller for North America: Xbox 360
Top console seller for Europe: Xbox 360
Top console seller for Asia: PS3
The Xbox 360 is really hurting from a complete lack of sales in Asia; last I heard they had either not yet passed or just passed the 1 million mark.
The PS3 is hurting by being the #3 seller outside of Asia.
This leaves the Wii, the #2 seller in all regions, with the global crown.
I had enough of FPS games back in the Unreal Tournament/Quake 3 era, so I couldn't care less about missing out on Halo or any of the WW2 simulations du jour.
On a side note, you should give Team Fortress 2 for PC a try, It's free on Steam. At its core, it's a class-based, team-based first person shooter. However, it's essentially a somewhat-cartoony first person shooter set in a 1960s evil genius motif (think James Bond villain).
Although its free, free accounts do have limits. The most glaring is the 50 item inventory. At this moment, there are over 100 unique weapons/items in Team Fortress 2. You generally get 6-8 random weapons a week.
Buying any item from the in-game store ($0.49 is the cheapest at last check) will up the inventory size to 300, as well as enabling the rarer cosmetic drops. The catch is that Steam Wallet has a $5 minimum, but you can spend the remaining $4.51 for anything on Steam (including other games... like Skyrim if you're in to that sort of thing). Oh, and Steam accepts Paypal, too.
Disagree, I prefer the Wiimote to analog stick AND KB / mouse and all I had to do was "learn to close the drapes" when I play
Having played through Metroid Prime Trilogy on the Wii, I'm afraid I have to disagree.
The major selling point of a mouse in an FPS is that you can turn your entire view quickly. This is one of the major advantages the keyboard/mouse gives you in online games.
The mouse's second advantage is accuracy. You'd think that the Wiimote would match this, but in my experience, it doesn't.
The advantage of the Wiimote is that your targetting reticle isn't always dead center of the screen like it is with a mouse. However, in my opinion, that doesn't make up for the turning speed problem.
Yet despite the novelty of the Wii remote, I still prefer the Dual Shock.
Which quite ironically, is pretty much just a snes pad with one extra l/r button with a knee jerk reaction to the n64's analog stick.
By the way, Nintendo must like the Dualshock design, because after releasing the Wii Classic Controller with an SNES shape, they later released the Wii Classic Controller Pro which is almost identical to the Dualshock 1/2/3.