I really don't think Stardock is that much to blame.
The situation started because "Ford and Reiche" sold the rights to the Star Control trademark(name). And after they had sold that, they announced that that they were creating a successor to Star Control. And they are obviously not allowed to do that.
The ip situation is odd. Star Dock agree that they don't own the ip itself, but they claim they don't use it(And thus don't need it), because Star Control: Origin contains their own ip, set in the Star Control universe.
Personally I don't really care that much. Newer been a big fan of Star Control. But I don't understand how anyone could ever imagine that buying/selling the trademark, but not the right to the ip itself was ever going to be anything but a big mess.
Somehow unrelated: Star Dock had the right to sell the old Star Control games.
What exactly is the bad actor thing they did? I did read the article but found nothing. Let's start with the stupid thing:
1: "Adding an empty div element does not count as evil". And I don't understand why Microsoft would really write to Youtube, instead of just fixing their browser.
2: SPDY or HTTP/2. Google made SPDY which was then used as a base for HTTP/2. What was so evil about that?. Both SPDY and even more HTTP/2 are open published standards* that anyone can implement. And Google newer requried any browsers to use either of these standards. They still support HTTP 1.1
3: "HTML imports". Yes google use HTML imports which is a part of the html5 standard which is not that well supported by other browsers. So they implemented a fallback solution in Javascript so the site would still work in other browsers. again: I don't see the evil. What is the alternative? To use the fallback javascript on all browsers even if they support HTML imports??
*that crap in IE6, which not even microsoft know exactly how worked.
Yes, but that quote is wrong, because it compares apples software+hardware with Android hardware only. To get a true comparison you need to add all the profit which google get from the Android OS and bundled software in order to compare with apple. And then the numbers will change, and the true conclusion is:
The really big money is in software, not hardware. Which is true for almost all electronic commodities. With Intel as the odd thing out.
"If there are tech giant employees in your country, then you likely tax their income."
Nope that is exactly the problem this suggestion tries to solve*. The company only pay income tax in the country of origin. So even if a company from Ireland(Google for example) sell stuff in other eu countries, all their income tax is paid in Ireland.
*It's still a horrible solution, but I do at least understand why the current system is problematic.
Now I don't know what kind of games YOU want to play. I guess there might be an issue with missing games if you like 3d shooters since a lot of these seems to be missing.
But all the games I personally want to play, such as XCOM2, Civilization 5 and 6, Darkest dungeon, Thea, Total war: Warhammer, Cities: Skylies and rim world and Factorio are available.
Only game I sometimes miss are "Endless space 2" and there are repports that it does run perfectly on Wine but i have not tested that.
Do something about it yes, but not start a trade war with the entire world at the same time.
In order to win a trade war with China, USA need allies to help them put presure on China. Instead he said fuck you, to all the countries which would have been natural allies in such a trade war.
Let's take the case of Adobe porting Photoshop to linux.
1: ext4/btrfs - This does not matter at all. There is no case where photoshop cares about the filesystem it runs from.
Ubuntu/Fedora - Not really a problem. I personally run Fedora, but fedora don't have any problems running binary software developed for Ubuntu. Case in point: Most of the games I have in my Steam library are developed for Ubuntu, and have newer been tested on Fedora by the devoper at all. But they still run fine on Fedora.
Gnome vs Mate vs KDE - Again: Why should Photoshop care? None of my other apps really care so why should Photoshop? Case in point: Even if I replace Kde which I currently use with a version of Enlightenment which I have compiled my self, none of my software will stop working. Apps don't care.
systemd: If Photoshop cares about my init system, something have gone really really wrong. No issue at all.
The problem is not so much that Google demand that all the apps are installed.
The problem is that Google demand that the phones ship with their apps as the default app. So a vendor can't install Firefox and set it as the default browser. Neither can they install "Here Map" as default mapping application.
You should blame your self for not even linking to your website, where you describe the languages you know, and how to contact you.
I know several companies looking for software developers, which are desperate enough to even accept a remote worker, if you have any experience with either Android development(Or just java), or Php/Sql*.
*Yes Php is the true wft, but even legacy systems need to be maintained sometimes.
You forgot to explain how "The whole premise that "one bitcoin transaction uses more power than your house" is blatantly wrong" wrong?
It seems simply enough to calculate the energy requirements for mining a block. This block contains a fixed number of transactions, and if you divide the number of transactions with the energy requirements to mine the block, then you get the energy requirements for each transaction, which currently is about what a house uses in a week.
Because on a fully effective bitcoin network, there is a fixed(constant) ration between the number of transaction that can happen on the network, and the number of blocks which are mined.
No it's not. Pulse audio is far better then what we had before. The ability to control audio volumes per application, and the viewer which shows all input and output is really really good.
It is pretty safe under heavy workload. Ryzen only crashed when creating many many many processes were created each second and the only workload which does that is a c/c++ compiler.
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I really don't think Stardock is that much to blame.
The situation started because "Ford and Reiche" sold the rights to the Star Control trademark(name). And after they had sold that, they announced that that they were creating a successor to Star Control. And they are obviously not allowed to do that.
The ip situation is odd. Star Dock agree that they don't own the ip itself, but they claim they don't use it(And thus don't need it), because Star Control: Origin contains their own ip, set in the Star Control universe.
Personally I don't really care that much. Newer been a big fan of Star Control. But I don't understand how anyone could ever imagine that buying/selling the trademark, but not the right to the ip itself was ever going to be anything but a big mess.
Somehow unrelated: Star Dock had the right to sell the old Star Control games.
What exactly is the bad actor thing they did? I did read the article but found nothing. Let's start with the stupid thing:
1: "Adding an empty div element does not count as evil". And I don't understand why Microsoft would really write to Youtube, instead of just fixing their browser.
2: SPDY or HTTP/2. Google made SPDY which was then used as a base for HTTP/2. What was so evil about that?. Both SPDY and even more HTTP/2 are open published standards* that anyone can implement. And Google newer requried any browsers to use either of these standards. They still support HTTP 1.1
3: "HTML imports". Yes google use HTML imports which is a part of the html5 standard which is not that well supported by other browsers. So they implemented a fallback solution in Javascript so the site would still work in other browsers. again: I don't see the evil. What is the alternative? To use the fallback javascript on all browsers even if they support HTML imports??
*that crap in IE6, which not even microsoft know exactly how worked.
Yes, and if an empty div changes anything of that, Edge got far bigger problems then I can imagine.
But the number of websites which works in Firefox and Chrome but not Edge, is so big, that I really think the issue is with Edge, and not Google.
Yes, but that quote is wrong, because it compares apples software+hardware with Android hardware only. To get a true comparison you need to add all the profit which google get from the Android OS and bundled software in order to compare with apple. And then the numbers will change, and the true conclusion is:
The really big money is in software, not hardware. Which is true for almost all electronic commodities. With Intel as the odd thing out.
"If there are tech giant employees in your country, then you likely tax their income."
Nope that is exactly the problem this suggestion tries to solve*. The company only pay income tax in the country of origin. So even if a company from Ireland(Google for example) sell stuff in other eu countries, all their income tax is paid in Ireland.
*It's still a horrible solution, but I do at least understand why the current system is problematic.
Now I don't know what kind of games YOU want to play. I guess there might be an issue with missing games if you like 3d shooters since a lot of these seems to be missing.
But all the games I personally want to play, such as XCOM2, Civilization 5 and 6, Darkest dungeon, Thea, Total war: Warhammer, Cities: Skylies and rim world and Factorio are available.
Only game I sometimes miss are "Endless space 2" and there are repports that it does run perfectly on Wine but i have not tested that.
Do something about it yes, but not start a trade war with the entire world at the same time.
In order to win a trade war with China, USA need allies to help them put presure on China. Instead he said fuck you, to all the countries which would have been natural allies in such a trade war.
Let's take the case of Adobe porting Photoshop to linux.
1: ext4/btrfs - This does not matter at all. There is no case where photoshop cares about the filesystem it runs from.
Ubuntu/Fedora - Not really a problem. I personally run Fedora, but fedora don't have any problems running binary software developed for Ubuntu. Case in point: Most of the games I have in my Steam library are developed for Ubuntu, and have newer been tested on Fedora by the devoper at all. But they still run fine on Fedora.
Gnome vs Mate vs KDE - Again: Why should Photoshop care? None of my other apps really care so why should Photoshop?
Case in point: Even if I replace Kde which I currently use with a version of Enlightenment which I have compiled my self, none of my software will stop working. Apps don't care.
systemd: If Photoshop cares about my init system, something have gone really really wrong. No issue at all.
Because you can sell the artwork to get money, so the artwork may in some way be though of as a proxy for cash.
No Android does not.
Hint: There is a big difference between what the os does, and what the applications does. Even if they are made by the same vendor(Google).
The problem is not so much that Google demand that all the apps are installed.
The problem is that Google demand that the phones ship with their apps as the default app. So a vendor can't install Firefox and set it as the default browser. Neither can they install "Here Map" as default mapping application.
You should blame your self for not even linking to your website, where you describe the languages you know, and how to contact you.
I know several companies looking for software developers, which are desperate enough to even accept a remote worker, if you have any experience with either Android development(Or just java), or Php/Sql*.
*Yes Php is the true wft, but even legacy systems need to be maintained sometimes.
Not really. Because to get any kind of usefull javascript performance you need to write a jit compiler, and that is not allowed to iOS.
Unbanked? How do you receive your payment without a bank where it can be deposited?
You forgot to explain how "The whole premise that "one bitcoin transaction uses more power than your house" is blatantly wrong" wrong?
It seems simply enough to calculate the energy requirements for mining a block. This block contains a fixed number of transactions, and if you divide the number of transactions with the energy requirements to mine the block, then you get the energy requirements for each transaction, which currently is about what a house uses in a week.
Because on a fully effective bitcoin network, there is a fixed(constant) ration between the number of transaction that can happen on the network, and the number of blocks which are mined.
No it's not. Pulse audio is far better then what we had before. The ability to control audio volumes per application, and the viewer which shows all input and output is really really good.
Some features have been merged in. But firebug is still far better then what is build in to firefox. So no more firefox upgrades for me -(
So US need better banks with reasonable prices. What else is new.
But when that it said, The cost of handling cash for a business is around 2% when you include handling, storage and security.
According to the rfc (http://www.robotstxt.org/norobots-rfc.txt) That would be something like
Disallow: *.png
Disallow: *.jpg
which google does support last time i checked. (Which is more then a year ago, but still).
Hey, language please.
But they point is: Why did they not put their formal request where you put that kind of things: robots.txt
But where is the request not to do it? I don't see it in their robots.txt file (That is where you put that kind of requests).
Hu? I see nothing in the yelp.com/robots.txt file which prevent google from accessing the site. Did I miss something someware?
If anyone are being attacked on the street, why the hell would you hide your location?
Hello 911, someone is being attacked, but I don't want to tell you where???
It is pretty safe under heavy workload. Ryzen only crashed when creating many many many processes were created each second and the only workload which does that is a c/c++ compiler.
And that bug have been fixed.