There is a lot of active work on extension support for Chrome, so I'm pretty sure Google realise how important this is to people. Despite SO many (still ongoing) claims that Google would make it technically impossible for an adblocking extension to work, one already exists, along with mouse gestures, and a start at integrating with delicious.
Yes, they're all still very rough around the edges, but that's what I'd expect from an extension system in development. Of course, their existence isn't enough to stop people from all kinds of speculative bullshit about Google's plans and motives, but hey, being a geek is all about ego-driven opinion and nada about facts, it seems.
I _totally_ give up on trying to get/. to consistently space out text. It would help if the preview was even somewhat of an approximation of the end result...
Or in the words of Roger Waters:
And when they found our shadows
Grouped around the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data on their lists
And then the alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason
For our sad demise
They logged the only explanation left
This species has amused itself to death
But I only work for a university, and as professional staff at that, so there is no hope that my opinion carries the slightest weight whatsoever.
I'm in a similar position, also working for one of the larger Aus. universities, and from everything I'm hearing the focus on trade skills is only going to increase over the next few years.
What's frustrating me personally at the moment are the academics here who are scathing in their criticism of Wikipedia because it increases the distance between students & primary sources, mostly because a lot of them personally profit from the text books they require their students to buy, and which they will accept as the basis for every assignment afterwards. So it's not the lack of referencing primary sources that bothers them, it's their inability to profit from students utilising Wikipedia that appears to be the issue.
If the lecturers themselves are undermining the basis of education for their own profit, can we really expect anything more than a similar sense of entitlement from the students?
Ah, but the problem with this instance is that consumers aren't being warned that installing this new DLC will add, uh, ads to their game. I guess people know now and most are unwilling to upgrade.
I haven't had a chance to confirm this personally but there are claims that this is happening in the background, that there's no manual update which can be refused by the user.
I think you might just have a case here for the ultimate retroactive boycott: the credit card issuer chargeback.
I've just spoken to American Express Australia and have been told that I have no grounds to dispute this. Apparently, digitally distributed content is considered a service and not a product, so the same protections don't apply.
Moreover, I was told that unless I had - in writing - something that stated that no advertising would be introduced, I can't raise a complaint. Incredulous, I asked the support person if that mean that unless I had written evidence they wouldn't include hard core pornography in my game, I'd have no grounds for complaining about them introducing it. She replied that with services, this was indeed the case.
Well, in Orwell's book the cities were literally crumbling, and the political elite surpressed the masses just for the hell of it. Scary though it it, the government thinks what it's doing is best for the people - which is a marked difference from the novel.
But that isn't necessarily any better, which is something we've known as a society for centuries:
"Hell is full of good intentions or desires." (Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, 1091-1153)
If I understand correctly, it's actually Jabber underneath, so there's no need to restrict it to a web interface at all.
I believe that in the developer preview video it was mentioned that Waves is more the set of protocols than any specific implementation. I expect the first wave (ahaha no pun intended) of client apps will be platform-specific desktop variants of the browser-based original.
People are animals. Train them a certain way and they respond to your command.
I keep hearing this claim here, and I'm going to call it out as elitist bullshit.
The idea that [insert your favourite derogatory term here for everyone who isn't you] are unable to come to terms with a new operating system just isn't born out by the mobile phone market, which is incredibly fragmented in terms of OSes and interfaces. And yet, somehow, it's an incredibly successful market to which consumers seem to have no trouble adapting.
I think most people misinterpret what Cringely is saying, or plain did not read the article.
Nice argument technique there, great way to invalidate any opposing position. It must be both a terrible burden and an amazing gift to have such intimate access to the inner states of everyone else around you. You should become a tech pundit with the sterling insight into human behaviour & market forces that you've displayed.
I'm surprised to see slashdoters' knee jerk reactions to this story.
Once you realise that most/.er's implicitly prefix their response to every story with "I'm a genius and everyone else is a fucking moron, and here's why...", then it makes perfect sense.
Between this and trying to sucker people into buying the same game three times for single player (one version for each race campaign, though this might have been changed since I last looked), I'll just pass out on Starcraft 2 entirely.
I hadn't heard about this until now and it looks like it's still the case.
Are they deliberately trying to kill the franchise?
Slashdot Mirror
But yes, my bad for assuming Microsoft would do things in a logical fashion.
s/do things in a logical fashion/acknowledge that any other operating system even exist/
I think the term you meant was "jailbaited".
OR better yet, get rid of the real Patent trolls that put major companies on the defensive patent claim train.
You mean like all the patent licensing firms started by ex-MS employees?
I wonder where they got the idea from that that was a viable business model...
Yes, they're all still very rough around the edges, but that's what I'd expect from an extension system in development. Of course, their existence isn't enough to stop people from all kinds of speculative bullshit about Google's plans and motives, but hey, being a geek is all about ego-driven opinion and nada about facts, it seems.
(I had assumed a liberal dosage of paragraph tags would take care of it, but half the time something just seems to eat them...)
I _totally_ give up on trying to get /. to consistently space out text. It would help if the preview was even somewhat of an approximation of the end result...
Or in the words of Roger Waters: And when they found our shadows Grouped around the TV sets They ran down every lead They repeated every test They checked out all the data on their lists And then the alien anthropologists Admitted they were still perplexed But on eliminating every other reason For our sad demise They logged the only explanation left This species has amused itself to death
I am suspecting that this is one of the informal goals of this expedition of enthusiasts...
That and all the hawt sex on the cruise out there.
(Would that I had mod points to waste them frivolously on your referencing Bey....)
But I only work for a university, and as professional staff at that, so there is no hope that my opinion carries the slightest weight whatsoever.
I'm in a similar position, also working for one of the larger Aus. universities, and from everything I'm hearing the focus on trade skills is only going to increase over the next few years.
What's frustrating me personally at the moment are the academics here who are scathing in their criticism of Wikipedia because it increases the distance between students & primary sources, mostly because a lot of them personally profit from the text books they require their students to buy, and which they will accept as the basis for every assignment afterwards. So it's not the lack of referencing primary sources that bothers them, it's their inability to profit from students utilising Wikipedia that appears to be the issue.
If the lecturers themselves are undermining the basis of education for their own profit, can we really expect anything more than a similar sense of entitlement from the students?
Her family/school are likely very much to blame though, for not teaching her how the world works.
At what age, then, does a person stop blaming others for who they are and take personal responsibility for themselves?
Ah, but the problem with this instance is that consumers aren't being warned that installing this new DLC will add, uh, ads to their game. I guess people know now and most are unwilling to upgrade.
I haven't had a chance to confirm this personally but there are claims that this is happening in the background, that there's no manual update which can be refused by the user.
Anyone know for sure if this is the case?
I think you might just have a case here for the ultimate retroactive boycott: the credit card issuer chargeback.
I've just spoken to American Express Australia and have been told that I have no grounds to dispute this. Apparently, digitally distributed content is considered a service and not a product, so the same protections don't apply.
Moreover, I was told that unless I had - in writing - something that stated that no advertising would be introduced, I can't raise a complaint. Incredulous, I asked the support person if that mean that unless I had written evidence they wouldn't include hard core pornography in my game, I'd have no grounds for complaining about them introducing it. She replied that with services, this was indeed the case.
Next call: Sony!
Don't even think about stealing this idea. I have it patent pending on it!
You might have to fight Wolfram Research over that idea...
According to Slashdot in every piracy article, this isn't "theft," because you're not taking anything physical. So I'm confused about the headline.
Did you notice it was based on the headline of TFA? And is the actual verdict laid out by the judge? It's not like slashdot tried him.
You need to work on your straw-men, this one was pitiful.
Yes, it tells us that copyright is taking pretty seriously by most people.
Yes, but so is Jesus. Popularity doesn't make IP any less of a fictitious belief.
Well, in Orwell's book the cities were literally crumbling, and the political elite surpressed the masses just for the hell of it. Scary though it it, the government thinks what it's doing is best for the people - which is a marked difference from the novel.
But that isn't necessarily any better, which is something we've known as a society for centuries: "Hell is full of good intentions or desires." (Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, 1091-1153)
If I understand correctly, it's actually Jabber underneath, so there's no need to restrict it to a web interface at all.
I believe that in the developer preview video it was mentioned that Waves is more the set of protocols than any specific implementation. I expect the first wave (ahaha no pun intended) of client apps will be platform-specific desktop variants of the browser-based original.
People are animals. Train them a certain way and they respond to your command.
I keep hearing this claim here, and I'm going to call it out as elitist bullshit.
The idea that [insert your favourite derogatory term here for everyone who isn't you] are unable to come to terms with a new operating system just isn't born out by the mobile phone market, which is incredibly fragmented in terms of OSes and interfaces. And yet, somehow, it's an incredibly successful market to which consumers seem to have no trouble adapting.
I think most people misinterpret what Cringely is saying, or plain did not read the article.
Nice argument technique there, great way to invalidate any opposing position. It must be both a terrible burden and an amazing gift to have such intimate access to the inner states of everyone else around you. You should become a tech pundit with the sterling insight into human behaviour & market forces that you've displayed.
I don't know about the UK but here in the US we acknowledge that actions committed in other countries fall under the laws of that country.
Oh, really?
So the US would never extradite a British citizen from their legal residence in Australia for criminal acts that weren't performed on American soil?
And I'm guessing you believe the US would never declare that it could kidnap foreign citizens if they were unable to extradite them because the country in which they resided didn't view their actions as extraditable offences?
Unfortunately, those of us who live outside the US can't afford to be so delusional.
I'm surprised to see slashdoters' knee jerk reactions to this story.
Once you realise that most /.er's implicitly prefix their response to every story with "I'm a genius and everyone else is a fucking moron, and here's why...", then it makes perfect sense.
Look, there's a lot of technology that could be used to kill a lot of people if the wrong hands get access to it.
From the perspective of someone outside of the US, it looks like a lot of that technology has been and is being used to kill a lot of people.
Thank god it's in the right hands, yeah? We couldn't have just anyone burning the living shit out of others with white phosphorus now, could we?
Keep fighting that good fight!
You mean something like what this article outlines? Yes, You Can Use HTML 5 Today!
And your reasoning behind this claim is...?
Between this and trying to sucker people into buying the same game three times for single player (one version for each race campaign, though this might have been changed since I last looked), I'll just pass out on Starcraft 2 entirely.
I hadn't heard about this until now and it looks like it's still the case.
Are they deliberately trying to kill the franchise?