Does it not seem a little odd that your company is moving into a industry that is designed to protect against flaws in your software? It is almost like you are making us pay you to supply software to protect against flaws in another, so why not just fix the software that has the flaws?
Microsoft won the first browser war or BW 1. They won it by saturating the public with their free browser while the other side was requiring people to pay to join their side. MS also made backroom agreements with the computer makers by holding Windows OS over them.
This new war that they are talking about is BW2. In it MS cannot use the first tactic because the competition is also free. The second tactic will not work either because in this new age because people are getting fed up with being sold bad products (security flaws, missing features that are sold later for a fee, forced upgrades to get new versions of "free" software).
I do not see Firefox taking MS off of the throne of most used browser, but I do see them taking a large chunk of the market. MS has been too slow to fix major problems and most people do not want to pay large sums of money to have the latest and greatest every three years. Unlike most of us on Slashdot, the average person will just use what they have.
Apple did away with most legacy ports a long time ago. My iBook is over two years old and all it has on it is Firewire and USB, and all the machines made back then only came with USB and Firewire.
So you believe that you are entitled to extra features when a company is already spending tons of money on localization for 12+ countries? I think the fact that the game is in your native language should be extra enough for you. American gamers deal with the same thing in that games are released in Japan before the states, it is a fact of the industry. Localization takes time if it is done correctly.
Or perhaps you would perfer everything to be written and sound like...
Mature adults realize that you do not have to have sex, nudity and gore to make a good game. In fact, most of the great games have had very little of those in them.
Metroid Prime, The Final Fantasy Series, Mario Series, Prince of Persia (..well at least until this new one), the Quest Series from Sierra (Kings, Space, and Quest for Glory) are just some of the ones that come to mind.
Actually, a part of Japanese culture is based on honor and respect. Just as there is a part of America that is based on arrogance and violence.
If you really want to be honest, the Japanese culture has honor, respect, arrogance and violence in it. Try watching some Japanese gameshows and the painful stuff they do to people, or get the Japanese opinion of people who live in other Asian countries.
As for America, do not look to Hollywood to get an impression of the average American. There is a reason that there was that most of the country was Red instead of Blue, most of it is that we are sick of having Hollywood's view of how things should work shoved down our throats. Likewise, most of the violence would be part of ghetto culture that is being glorified in music and video. The average American does not drive down the street and bust caps in people.
No culture is perfect and they all have their dark sides.
You do realize that English is not a dead language. That means that words are still evolving and as hard as it is to imagine we moved past the late 80's, early 90's (Thank God).
I really wish you would update your dictionary to at least a edition made this decade. Hacker has been the accepted term for someone who tries to break into a system illegally for all of this decade and most of the last.
I mean at least try to get out of your mom's basement once every 10 years or so.
Not entirely true. I used my old 8088 for roughly 11 years until the HDD decided that it had enough and collapsed on itself. Granted for the last 4 years I had to open the HDD casing and give the drive a light spin to help it get started, but that thing just kept on tickin'.
It was great for doing word processing and playing classics like the original Prince of Persia and Quest for Glory (although it was Hero's Quest back then).
It was not an article, it was an OP-ED peice. Which means it is this one guy's opinion. What makes his opinion so interesting (as opposed to yours or mine) is the fact that he was involved in the Anti-Trust trial and until today he was unable to voice his opinion on this subject.
As for his mentioning security flaws 5 times to your single mention of Firefox/Opera problems, it appears the balance between here and reality is maintained. Generally speaking, flaws in IE tend to appear 5 times (if not more) frequently than Firefox or Opera ones.
Geez, don't you watch TV anymore. Next Season there will be new Uber Levels that will be able to stomp the snot out of last years' weakling normal level PCs.
Then there will be the Combiner Level machines that start out as just normal level machines until you hook them together with the super secret password, then they can kick the snot out of even a Uber Level Machine. So instead of one type of computer, you will want to buy them all.
Meanwhile, back at the PC manufacturing headquarters the will have the secret Super Uber Level 10 Computer so he can rule the world, and group of evil madmen headed by this guy called Gates will.... er....
Ok, maybe I've been forced to watch Power Rangers, Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh one too many times.
The firewall extention was a correction to a feature included in XP not IE. IE still does not have a firewall component, although because they have IE so embedded into XP I could see where you were making this mistake.
What this does mean is that they are not going to provide much needed improvements to a browser that is still used on a massive scale. Leaving a large number of the Computers on the net open to all the things that were fixed in SP2.
While given the choice of the two I would take Bush, I do not personally believe he is the greatest choice either. To clarify:
I do not care that he has crushed my civil liberties with laws like the PATRIOT ACT. I personally believe government should be smaller and what government there is should have working checks and balances.
I do not care that he has not protected our borders and prevented illegal immigrantion, but done the oppostie and embraced it. I have no problem with someone entering the country properly, but someone who illegally enters is an invader and should be treated accordingly.
I do believe he is right in giving a parent the right to pick the school they want their kid in. If the local school sucks, the parent should be able to have their kid go elsewhere.
I believe he is right in going after the terrorists before they strike, however it is a dangerous line to walk because one man's revolutionary is another's terrorist.
I believe he is right in cutting back taxes, the more money in my pocket the better. However, he might want to put two and two togther and see that less taxes means less federal budget.
I believe that Bush actually has a vision of where he wants to go while Kerry appears to be stuck with the demons of his past.
I probably will vote for Bush, but it is because I generally know what his views are and I can weigh the choice accordingly. With John Kerry, I do not know where he stands and thus can not evaluate where his views and mine might meet. I think Kerry is just trying to be the guy who is not Bush because so many people hate Bush and will vote for him without even really knowing anything about him other than he is not Bush.
"We could argue all day about whether Bush or Kerry is the 'lesser evil'. The fact is that Bush supports the war and Kerry supports whatever is popular at the moment."
The "greater evil" is the man that will not make a stand. A man can change his mind, but he had best be able to explain what made him do so. It also needs to be better than, "I told them what they wanted to hear so I can get more votes."
As the saying goes, stand for nothing and you will fall for anything.
I think the real news here is the incredible spin that is ran at the end of the article. It is written to make an uneducated reader assume that eventually Linux and Handhelds will see a 400% climb in virus. It fails to mention the security differences between Linux and Windows or even a Handheld and Windows. On both is is much harder to exploit in the way that Windows is exploited because they generally require user participation in installing such malware.
I believe we will see more problems with Linux and such as they get popular, but not at the extreme rates that Microsoft products move at.
I believe that the correct term for what Cringely does is actually "Yellow Journalism". Unfortunately, it seems to be the trend in most news/media organizations today.
Yeah but then they will just strip the computers down and you will end up with a bargain PC, and the music will be stripped down to be just mono tracks running at 16k. All in the effort to bring you low, low prices.
If the creator of something decides that he has not perfected his creation, who are we to complain that he goes back to work on it. No one whines when a program is upgraded to a new release, but because Lucas wants to make his films look more as he originally intended them you get up in arms.
I don't agree with the new Catina scene, but the other changes sound like good ones. It makes sense to make the six movies link together musically and to have the actor that played Anakin Skywalker appear and not some old geezer that looks nothing like Anakin was like in the first three movies.
For all we know Lucas was going to make three more, but because of people like you that whine about his movies he will not. I wouldn't want to make any more movies after putting up with the audience complaining about every decision I made about my creation.
It's simple, if you do not like the changes don't buy the product. But either way, please shut your collective mouths.
I think corporations need to get their eyes off the stock holders and bottom lines. If they do not pay attention to the needs of the customers there will eventually be no company for said stock holders to invest in.
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Does it not seem a little odd that your company is moving into a industry that is designed to protect against flaws in your software? It is almost like you are making us pay you to supply software to protect against flaws in another, so why not just fix the software that has the flaws?
Microsoft won the first browser war or BW 1. They won it by saturating the public with their free browser while the other side was requiring people to pay to join their side. MS also made backroom agreements with the computer makers by holding Windows OS over them.
This new war that they are talking about is BW2. In it MS cannot use the first tactic because the competition is also free. The second tactic will not work either because in this new age because people are getting fed up with being sold bad products (security flaws, missing features that are sold later for a fee, forced upgrades to get new versions of "free" software).
I do not see Firefox taking MS off of the throne of most used browser, but I do see them taking a large chunk of the market. MS has been too slow to fix major problems and most people do not want to pay large sums of money to have the latest and greatest every three years. Unlike most of us on Slashdot, the average person will just use what they have.
Actually, many countries have used them. It is just that the US was the only country to use them in a heavily populated area.
Apple did away with most legacy ports a long time ago. My iBook is over two years old and all it has on it is Firewire and USB, and all the machines made back then only came with USB and Firewire.
Yes that is true, they get TrackBacked and corrected or edited until they fit the view of those reading.
I believe Slashdot covered the problems that happen in Wikis, and I think I can safely say that to some extent this also happens in blogs.
So you believe that you are entitled to extra features when a company is already spending tons of money on localization for 12+ countries? I think the fact that the game is in your native language should be extra enough for you. American gamers deal with the same thing in that games are released in Japan before the states, it is a fact of the industry. Localization takes time if it is done correctly.
Or perhaps you would perfer everything to be written and sound like...
"All your base are belong to us"
To answer your question: Yes
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The odds at 10000 years (n=100) diminish to about one in five that we'll all have been wiped out - that is, four in five that we're still here.
If we are still around in 10,000 years we think we will all be far to senile to care whether or not we are killed in a planet-ending event.
Mature adults realize that you do not have to have sex, nudity and gore to make a good game. In fact, most of the great games have had very little of those in them.
Metroid Prime, The Final Fantasy Series, Mario Series, Prince of Persia (..well at least until this new one), the Quest Series from Sierra (Kings, Space, and Quest for Glory) are just some of the ones that come to mind.
Actually, a part of Japanese culture is based on honor and respect. Just as there is a part of America that is based on arrogance and violence.
If you really want to be honest, the Japanese culture has honor, respect, arrogance and violence in it. Try watching some Japanese gameshows and the painful stuff they do to people, or get the Japanese opinion of people who live in other Asian countries.
As for America, do not look to Hollywood to get an impression of the average American. There is a reason that there was that most of the country was Red instead of Blue, most of it is that we are sick of having Hollywood's view of how things should work shoved down our throats. Likewise, most of the violence would be part of ghetto culture that is being glorified in music and video. The average American does not drive down the street and bust caps in people.
No culture is perfect and they all have their dark sides.
You do realize that English is not a dead language. That means that words are still evolving and as hard as it is to imagine we moved past the late 80's, early 90's (Thank God).
I really wish you would update your dictionary to at least a edition made this decade. Hacker has been the accepted term for someone who tries to break into a system illegally for all of this decade and most of the last.
I mean at least try to get out of your mom's basement once every 10 years or so.
Not entirely true. I used my old 8088 for roughly 11 years until the HDD decided that it had enough and collapsed on itself. Granted for the last 4 years I had to open the HDD casing and give the drive a light spin to help it get started, but that thing just kept on tickin'.
It was great for doing word processing and playing classics like the original Prince of Persia and Quest for Glory (although it was Hero's Quest back then).
It was not an article, it was an OP-ED peice. Which means it is this one guy's opinion. What makes his opinion so interesting (as opposed to yours or mine) is the fact that he was involved in the Anti-Trust trial and until today he was unable to voice his opinion on this subject.
As for his mentioning security flaws 5 times to your single mention of Firefox/Opera problems, it appears the balance between here and reality is maintained. Generally speaking, flaws in IE tend to appear 5 times (if not more) frequently than Firefox or Opera ones.
Geez, don't you watch TV anymore. Next Season there will be new Uber Levels that will be able to stomp the snot out of last years' weakling normal level PCs.
Then there will be the Combiner Level machines that start out as just normal level machines until you hook them together with the super secret password, then they can kick the snot out of even a Uber Level Machine. So instead of one type of computer, you will want to buy them all.
Meanwhile, back at the PC manufacturing headquarters the will have the secret Super Uber Level 10 Computer so he can rule the world, and group of evil madmen headed by this guy called Gates will.... er....
Ok, maybe I've been forced to watch Power Rangers, Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh one too many times.
The firewall extention was a correction to a feature included in XP not IE. IE still does not have a firewall component, although because they have IE so embedded into XP I could see where you were making this mistake.
What this does mean is that they are not going to provide much needed improvements to a browser that is still used on a massive scale. Leaving a large number of the Computers on the net open to all the things that were fixed in SP2.
While given the choice of the two I would take Bush, I do not personally believe he is the greatest choice either. To clarify:
I do not care that he has crushed my civil liberties with laws like the PATRIOT ACT. I personally believe government should be smaller and what government there is should have working checks and balances.
I do not care that he has not protected our borders and prevented illegal immigrantion, but done the oppostie and embraced it. I have no problem with someone entering the country properly, but someone who illegally enters is an invader and should be treated accordingly.
I do believe he is right in giving a parent the right to pick the school they want their kid in. If the local school sucks, the parent should be able to have their kid go elsewhere.
I believe he is right in going after the terrorists before they strike, however it is a dangerous line to walk because one man's revolutionary is another's terrorist.
I believe he is right in cutting back taxes, the more money in my pocket the better. However, he might want to put two and two togther and see that less taxes means less federal budget.
I believe that Bush actually has a vision of where he wants to go while Kerry appears to be stuck with the demons of his past.
I probably will vote for Bush, but it is because I generally know what his views are and I can weigh the choice accordingly. With John Kerry, I do not know where he stands and thus can not evaluate where his views and mine might meet. I think Kerry is just trying to be the guy who is not Bush because so many people hate Bush and will vote for him without even really knowing anything about him other than he is not Bush.
Oh, I guess his response should of been.
"We could argue all day about whether Bush or Kerry is the 'lesser evil'. The fact is that Bush supports the war and Kerry supports whatever is popular at the moment."
The "greater evil" is the man that will not make a stand. A man can change his mind, but he had best be able to explain what made him do so. It also needs to be better than, "I told them what they wanted to hear so I can get more votes."
As the saying goes, stand for nothing and you will fall for anything.
I think the real news here is the incredible spin that is ran at the end of the article. It is written to make an uneducated reader assume that eventually Linux and Handhelds will see a 400% climb in virus. It fails to mention the security differences between Linux and Windows or even a Handheld and Windows. On both is is much harder to exploit in the way that Windows is exploited because they generally require user participation in installing such malware.
I believe we will see more problems with Linux and such as they get popular, but not at the extreme rates that Microsoft products move at.
And don't forget Slashdot readers will nitpick.
I believe that the correct term for what Cringely does is actually "Yellow Journalism". Unfortunately, it seems to be the trend in most news/media organizations today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
"Buy or Buy not, there is no original versions." -- Lucas
And you forget the new shade of blue for the blue screen of death. It is so much more attractive than last years.
Yeah but then they will just strip the computers down and you will end up with a bargain PC, and the music will be stripped down to be just mono tracks running at 16k. All in the effort to bring you low, low prices.
If the creator of something decides that he has not perfected his creation, who are we to complain that he goes back to work on it. No one whines when a program is upgraded to a new release, but because Lucas wants to make his films look more as he originally intended them you get up in arms.
I don't agree with the new Catina scene, but the other changes sound like good ones. It makes sense to make the six movies link together musically and to have the actor that played Anakin Skywalker appear and not some old geezer that looks nothing like Anakin was like in the first three movies.
For all we know Lucas was going to make three more, but because of people like you that whine about his movies he will not. I wouldn't want to make any more movies after putting up with the audience complaining about every decision I made about my creation.
It's simple, if you do not like the changes don't buy the product. But either way, please shut your collective mouths.
I think corporations need to get their eyes off the stock holders and bottom lines. If they do not pay attention to the needs of the customers there will eventually be no company for said stock holders to invest in.