Ahh, so it's not "just" game subscriptions--they are convertible into other things. So, it's basically just stupid that he had so many PLEX at one time, rather than having converted them into game currency.
I admit I haven't played EVE, but wasn't the implication that PLEXes are in-game currency?
That's OK, I made the mistake of buying World of Goo through Steam without trying the Demo first, found within minutes of playing the game that I disliked it, and can't return it since it was a digital purchase.
In essence, I've paid for someone else's pirated copy.
Back to the topic of Machinarium, I paid for that as part of the Indie Love Bundle.
From what I understand, this game has absolutely no internet functionality and no DRM. How would they be able to get the percent piracy rate if they have absolutely no idea how many copies of the game are out there, only how many people bought the game? This story has appeared on every tech site I visit regularly. It's clear that they just pulled the 90% rate out of their @$$ so that they could generate interest and sympathy.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." -- Mark Twain, allegedly quoting Benjamin Disraeli
Point-and-Click adventure games may have dormant, but I wouldn't call them dead.
TellTale Games is starting to push them back to the fore. I would say "LucasArts and TellTale," but LucasArts reentering the Adventure game business was due to LucasArts President Darrell Rodriguez, who resigned back in May. Thus, LucasArts may leave the market again, without having produced anything new (only the 2 Monkey Island remakes).
I use Thunderbird 3.1.2 with a pair of IMAP accounts. I've noticed the following:
1. The Archive folders shouldn't have "unread" messages in them. This causes strange bugs where Thunderbird shows messages in Archives on the new message list when I receive additional email, despite me having already viewed the copy of the same message in my Inbox. 2. Since 3.1, Thunderbird randomly stops responding. It's literally unusable for 15-20 seconds chunks, sometimes longer. Sometimes when I'm switching messages in my Inbox, sometimes when I'm writing an email to someone else.
If older software didn't tend to have more security holes than older software, I'd switch back to Thunderbird 2, which didn't have either of these problems.
FTFA, on the same page as your quote no less: "The couple had recently taken out a second mortgage on their home to start a new business, which failed in the uncertain economy."
The closest Barnes & Nobel to where I live (in the Lansing, MI area) used to be located in the Meridian Mall in Okemos, MI.
As I recall, it was a nice, big store that was fairly easy to get to and had a lot of parking (because of the mall).
However, when a department store went out of business in the middle of downtown East Lansing, B&N moved there.
The newer store (which is about 10 years old now?) is even bigger than the old store (and takes up two floors of this building), but now requires you to fight downtown EL traffic to reach them and park in a city parking ramp. B&N will endorse your parking... but only if you buy something from them.
That was a huge mistake, as Schuler Books immediately bought up B&N's old location, had it renovated as part of the mall's renovation project for that wing, and moved in there.
B&N's store may be larger, but Schuler Books is much more convenient to get to and park.
Now, I don't buy expensive books from there (that's what Amazon is for), but when I just want a cheap paperback or 5, I just stop in at Schuler.
P.S. Schuler is a local chain, but their stores are still fairly large. They use all the space at their current location (B&N's old location). I understand why B&N moved; in order to be closer to Michigan State University, but Uni students aren't exactly the richest folks around while Okemos is the area's wealthiest suburb...
Mom&Pop ISP is Smalltown USA doe not engage in commerce among the states. Therefore it cannot be regulated by Congress, but instead falls under the jurisdiction of the State Legislature..... in the same way that France or Germany or Poland regulate within their own borders, and it does not fall under the jurisdiction of the EU Parliament.
Then maybe this law wouldn't affect Mom&Pop ISP. Of course, Mom&Pop ISP would most likely be a dial-up ISP, which are easily interchangeable.
It certainly would affect the DSL & Cable ISPs like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon... which are oligarchies in the areas they service, and the intended targets of any Net Neutrality laws.
The Internet was created by Congress in the mid-eighties it is federal property. It's the opposite of a taking to require net neutrality, that is the premise on which the Internet was founded. At the time we fought back a GOP effort to have an all-private internet. Can anyone honestly argue that an all private internet would have grown as fast in the last 25 years as this one has? It would be completely fragmented to begin with, there would be tolls to overcome at every step of the way (pay a toll to leave your house (which we do) then another to reach the next ISP, then another and another....; this was honestly the model the GOP was pushing for). The entire internet would be as successful as Murdoch's pay-wall lamestream media is.
Just a few nitpicks here:
The Internet didn't even allow any commercial traffic until 1992.
The National Science Foundation funded the US Internet backbone (ran by Merit Networks, a collection of universities) until 1995. So, a plan to have tolls at every stop would have, if nothing else, benefited the government the most. If that were the case, do you really think that the government would have sold the backbone off?
Incidentally, the government selling the backbone off is what caused the current situation, because several of the telcos (AT&T and Verizon) own pieces of the US Internet backbone and are using that as leverage.
You must've been using a trunk build of Firefox last time you checked, then, because Firefox has always had "Never remember history"... Where is this option on Internet Explorer? Please tell me, cause I can't find it.
Tools, Internet Options, Browsing history section's Settings button, Days to keep pages in history (set to 0 to have it not remember any).
Firefox has always had... "Permanent Private Browsing mode" so that your browser fell into private mode automatically on boot.
Firefox didn't even have Private Browsing mode until 3.5 (released June 30, 2009), so saying it always had it is a bit disingenuous at best.
Microsoft built its browser so that users must deliberately turn on privacy settings every time they start up the software.
Where are these hidden privacy settings, all I see is a `Pop-up Blocker', a `Phishing Filter' `and Manage-Addons'
Presumably they're referring to the InPrivate Filtering mode (which is in the Safety menu).
Look all is going on here is Microsoft quoting a bogus puff piece erroneously stating that IE was "industry-leading" some time in the past, presumably in some parallel universe. When did MS innovate time travel ? Slashdot why are you wasting space giving free advertising space for Microsofts` Browser.
Yes, IE was industry-leading back in late 90s. Maybe you've forgotten the travesty that was Netscape 4, but some of us haven't.
Seriously, in 1997, your (graphical) web browser choices were: Netscape 4: free but had extremely poor support for HTML4, CSS, and DOM manipulation. IE4: free and had better support for HTML4, CSS, and DOM manipulation than Netscape did. Opera: Cost money
As a developer, this is completely useful to you. Not stated is the words "including, but not limited to", words that anyone with so much as a sliver of common sense would know are implied
No, anyone with common sense would know that there is no "including, but not limited to" implied in this. The iPhone doesn't let you download and run programs from arbitrary websites. This is a well known limitation of the device.
This "app store" sells (bundled?) web applications. As such, there is no executable code.
Demonstrates Oracle's willingness to try and avoid US Governmint investigations into how they are very anticompetitive. Bottom line, if Oracle is doing it believe you mean it is because they have a motivation to make money or avoid losing it or PR.
er... so, if Oracle refuses to sell their OS (Solaris) to a HP, who makes a competing OS (HP-UX), that's anti-competitive behavior?
3 considerations: 1. My monitor for whatever reason only has HDMI and a 15-pin D-sub video connectors. In order to connect a DVI cable, I'd need an HDMI to DVI connector. 2. My video card has HDMI and DVI outputs. 3. DVI connectors have a metric ton of pins that can be bent, while HDMI doesn't.
There's a fourth reason that is mostly irrelevant, but I'll list it anyway: 4. My video card does have the capability of outputting audio on the HDMI channel and my monitor has built-in speakers, even though I don't use either capability.
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I admit I haven't played EVE, but wasn't the implication that PLEXes are in-game currency?
That's OK, I made the mistake of buying World of Goo through Steam without trying the Demo first, found within minutes of playing the game that I disliked it, and can't return it since it was a digital purchase.
In essence, I've paid for someone else's pirated copy.
Back to the topic of Machinarium, I paid for that as part of the Indie Love Bundle.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." -- Mark Twain, allegedly quoting Benjamin Disraeli
Point-and-Click adventure games may have dormant, but I wouldn't call them dead.
TellTale Games is starting to push them back to the fore. I would say "LucasArts and TellTale," but LucasArts reentering the Adventure game business was due to LucasArts President Darrell Rodriguez, who resigned back in May. Thus, LucasArts may leave the market again, without having produced anything new (only the 2 Monkey Island remakes).
And how do you know the GP didn't pay them and/or trade services?
We might actually have 10!
Too bad only 2-3 operate in any given area...
I use Thunderbird 3.1.2 with a pair of IMAP accounts. I've noticed the following:
1. The Archive folders shouldn't have "unread" messages in them. This causes strange bugs where Thunderbird shows messages in Archives on the new message list when I receive additional email, despite me having already viewed the copy of the same message in my Inbox.
2. Since 3.1, Thunderbird randomly stops responding. It's literally unusable for 15-20 seconds chunks, sometimes longer. Sometimes when I'm switching messages in my Inbox, sometimes when I'm writing an email to someone else.
If older software didn't tend to have more security holes than older software, I'd switch back to Thunderbird 2, which didn't have either of these problems.
<ramble>That reminds me of a "conversation" I had about the Java dev tool Maven on StackOverflow recently.
One person said "If you don't understand Maven, you never will."
I replied "So, the only people who understand Maven are the people who wrote it?"
I don't think he ever did understand why I said that.</ramble>
FTFA, on the same page as your quote no less: "The couple had recently taken out a second mortgage on their home to start a new business, which failed in the uncertain economy."
The closest Barnes & Nobel to where I live (in the Lansing, MI area) used to be located in the Meridian Mall in Okemos, MI.
As I recall, it was a nice, big store that was fairly easy to get to and had a lot of parking (because of the mall).
However, when a department store went out of business in the middle of downtown East Lansing, B&N moved there.
The newer store (which is about 10 years old now?) is even bigger than the old store (and takes up two floors of this building), but now requires you to fight downtown EL traffic to reach them and park in a city parking ramp. B&N will endorse your parking... but only if you buy something from them.
That was a huge mistake, as Schuler Books immediately bought up B&N's old location, had it renovated as part of the mall's renovation project for that wing, and moved in there.
B&N's store may be larger, but Schuler Books is much more convenient to get to and park.
Now, I don't buy expensive books from there (that's what Amazon is for), but when I just want a cheap paperback or 5, I just stop in at Schuler.
P.S. Schuler is a local chain, but their stores are still fairly large. They use all the space at their current location (B&N's old location). I understand why B&N moved; in order to be closer to Michigan State University, but Uni students aren't exactly the richest folks around while Okemos is the area's wealthiest suburb...
>> suraj.sun sends in word that the country's largest bookstore chain, Barnes and Noble, will put itself up for sale.
>uh, which country?
Presumably, the United States.
Then maybe this law wouldn't affect Mom&Pop ISP. Of course, Mom&Pop ISP would most likely be a dial-up ISP, which are easily interchangeable.
It certainly would affect the DSL & Cable ISPs like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon... which are oligarchies in the areas they service, and the intended targets of any Net Neutrality laws.
Just a few nitpicks here:
The Internet didn't even allow any commercial traffic until 1992.
The National Science Foundation funded the US Internet backbone (ran by Merit Networks, a collection of universities) until 1995. So, a plan to have tolls at every stop would have, if nothing else, benefited the government the most. If that were the case, do you really think that the government would have sold the backbone off?
Incidentally, the government selling the backbone off is what caused the current situation, because several of the telcos (AT&T and Verizon) own pieces of the US Internet backbone and are using that as leverage.
Of course, newer Windows versions now play most of that game for you...
Tools, Internet Options, Browsing history section's Settings button, Days to keep pages in history (set to 0 to have it not remember any).
Firefox didn't even have Private Browsing mode until 3.5 (released June 30, 2009), so saying it always had it is a bit disingenuous at best.
One word: GMail.
Oh, you want me to actually explain that?
Normal Google AdWords is based on what Google's search engine knows about the site you're visiting.
As I understand it, GMail's ads are based on what Google knows about you by searching your received, non-Spam mail.
Why would Nintendo of America mess with the Google Book Settlement?
Oh wait, you meant the other well-known company from Redmond.
That seems to be what Google did when it created Chrome.
Presumably they're referring to the InPrivate Filtering mode (which is in the Safety menu).
Yes, IE was industry-leading back in late 90s. Maybe you've forgotten the travesty that was Netscape 4, but some of us haven't.
Seriously, in 1997, your (graphical) web browser choices were:
Netscape 4: free but had extremely poor support for HTML4, CSS, and DOM manipulation.
IE4: free and had better support for HTML4, CSS, and DOM manipulation than Netscape did.
Opera: Cost money
Shuttleworth is deeply embroiled in the constant in-fighting between Canonical and Debian, so it's not a big surprise that he sees fragmentation.
And now, it sounds like Redhat has entered the ring against Canonical, too... over contributions to GNOME of all things.
I just assumed he was talking about yet another fight between the Debian and Ubuntu people.
No, anyone with common sense would know that there is no "including, but not limited to" implied in this. The iPhone doesn't let you download and run programs from arbitrary websites. This is a well known limitation of the device.
This "app store" sells (bundled?) web applications. As such, there is no executable code.
er... so, if Oracle refuses to sell their OS (Solaris) to a HP, who makes a competing OS (HP-UX), that's anti-competitive behavior?
I'm nitpicking here, but MS Multiplan (now called Excel), predates Lotus 1-2-3.
3 considerations:
1. My monitor for whatever reason only has HDMI and a 15-pin D-sub video connectors. In order to connect a DVI cable, I'd need an HDMI to DVI connector.
2. My video card has HDMI and DVI outputs.
3. DVI connectors have a metric ton of pins that can be bent, while HDMI doesn't.
There's a fourth reason that is mostly irrelevant, but I'll list it anyway:
4. My video card does have the capability of outputting audio on the HDMI channel and my monitor has built-in speakers, even though I don't use either capability.