There are still 'pirate' servers of the discontinued Starwars Galaxies MMO. Unlike the present 'The Old Republic' MMO which is entirely combat and story focused, the old one was totally free form, i.e. you could choose professions and create and trade items without getting into any PvP/PvE. Now that The Mouse is in charge, expect them to also get shut down like this.
Could be those 800k users choose to stick with a decade out of date version of the game by choice. It's not as though they're going to say 'gee, what I was doing was wrong, I should totally ditch my toons that I spent months building up and just buy a new subscription for the new game as run by Blizzard even if I don't like it'. Same fallacy as thinking that every pirated song equals a lost sale.
The Beast stumbled in the dark for it could no longer see the path. It started to fracture and weaken, trying to reshape itself into the form of metal. Even the witches would no longer lay eyes upon it, for it had become hideous and twisted.
The soul of the Beast seemed lost forever.
Then, by the full moon's light, a child was born; a child with the unbridled soul of the Beast that would make all others pale in comparison.
from the Chronicles of the Pale Moon, 24:2
If you miss the old Firefox before they fucked up with the Australis UI, give Palemoon a try. It's a modern browser optimized for traditional desktop usage, built with a modern compiler and forked off from Firefox (i.e. it is not just a rebuild of the same source code as some others like Waterfox are) with a few unique features and extensions of its own.
Please consider making it available for Pale Moon, an independently developed fork of Firefox that plans to retain XUL and everything else that made proper extensions possible. I'm not affiliated with them in any way, but I use it regularly and it is quite fast, provides a native 64-bit build and is less of a memory hog than FF.
There was a time when you could make it impossible for anyone to send you a 'friend' request. Thereby shutting off the network after having added all the people you cared about connecting with. At some point they changed the permission level to a minimum of 'friends of friends' so that when you add one school classmate, you'll open yourself to friend requests from everyone else that s/he was friends with.
For several years now, one has had to provide government issued ID (Driving license, or income tax account card) to purchase a mobile connection. The handset doesn't matter as much as the SIM card (and is an issue in the US probably because operator provided & subsidized handsets are the norm) Not that it has deterred terrorists much.
Mozilla seamonkey sucks, so lets gut most of it and make Phoenix (now known as Firefox)
You've got that wrong. Seamonkey is the successor to the Mozilla suite (which was the successor to the Netscape Communicator suite), and it had browser + mail/news client + HTML editor and a bunch of other stuff. Firefox is the successor to just the browser component.
Plus they haven't gutted anything. They chose to stick with the v 24 codebase and forked it from there because of how Firefox is slowly morphing into a pale imitation of Chrome by shedding all the customizability and user choice that made it great in the first place.
Remember RSS feeds? Back in the day when Feedburner wasn't owned by Facebook, you could install a desktop client or the sorely missed Google Reader to stay in touch with the sites and blogs that you felt were important. You had total control over what you wanted to read or subscribe to. If you ran a website, you put up an orange RSS icon, or let Firefox auto detect the feed and let the user decide what they wanted. RSS was (is) an open standard for publishing updates to a web site. I would've said that Twitter & Facebook have killed it completely, but let's face it, RSS never really went mainstream. Google did not do enough to popularize Reader - just a core bunch of users wailed when they decided to shut down the service. Even Facebook had an RSS feed of the wall back in 2008 before they changed it to the 'news' feed format. Probably not the first time an open technology standard was thwarted by a large company, and won't be the last.
First and foremost, all consumer 32-bit windows versions are licensed to top out at 4GB.
They're not 'licensed' to top out, it's a physical limitation of 32 bit architecture and makes no difference whether you use 32 bit Windows or 32 bit Linux. A 32 bit CPU can address 2^32 memory addresses, which translates to 4 GB. In practice, a 32 bit Windows installation with 4 GB RAM will report 2.91 or 2.92 GB as usable. So if you plan on using 4 GB RAM or more, you'll have to have a 64 bit operating system.
Frankly, enough already about Vader and Solo. Talented authors like Timothy Zahn have taken the series in new directions, with new characters (Mara Jade, Luke's future wife and their son Ben Skywalker), but will we get to see these characters play out?
The Thrawn Trilogy, set a decade after ROTJ ought to have been made. But no, the movies get to go in an entirely different direction, so how do you reconcile the expanded universe fiction that's been written so far - the entire New Jedi Order series for example? Oh well, it's only a bunch of old time Star Wars fans that are gonna grumble.
..HTC phones come with an added Apple Tax? The article doesn't mention what the patents in question were. I have a One X, and I'll say this - If I had to choose a manufacturer skin I'd go with Sense anyday over Samsung's Touchwiz. Can't imagine what HTC might have copied off Apple if it's UI related. They have a fully customizable home screen, themes, skins, extra widgets...none of which you'll find on any iPhone.
I run Windows 8 and I've tried both the built in support for VMs by running an XP virtual machine, and Virtualbox. I prefer the latter, I use it now to run Linux Mint, and also successfully tested Haiku alpha 3.
...back when they introduced chat within Gmail. Suddenly people who could not install chat clients at work due to IT policies were perfectly able to chat with other Gmail users. I used to be a big user of Yahoo messenger, ever since web based chat started hardly anyone I know uses it anymore. As for MSN/Live, the less said the better - old accounts seem to have been taken over for spam. It took several years for Yahoo to play catch up and offer chat within their webmail, but it's too late. (This of course excludes IRC users and those who have their own Jabber setups). I now use the open source Windows client Miranda IM - fully featured, has a 64bit version, supports all popular networks including Jabber and extensible via plugins.
I don't get it, does this refer to Metro apps? I upgraded Win 7 Ultimate to Win 8 Pro on my desktop, and it hasn't affected my ability to install regular windows applications at all. In fact, I use Classic Shell to bring back the old start menu and I don't use the Metro UI at all.
The Valles Marineres too, and doubtless other sites yet to be discovered. Yet another Martian plain, however, does not warrant UNESCO galactic heritage status, and even if it did I would still dispute your assertion that a little remote-controlled buggy driving over it is somehow ruining it forever.
Interesting you mentioned this, as it is depicted as a constant point of conflict in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy - where one group of settlers is violently opposed to the ongoing terraforming of Mars and argue that humans have no right to change its pristine state.
Speaking of the Drake equation, I think we have to content ourselves with exploring whatever prospect of life there is in our solar system only. If not Mars then Europa holds the next big hope of finding life in its ice locked sea. All the breathless announcements of yet another Earth like exoplanet are of no use unless someone invents warp drive or FTL propulsion so that one can get there(forget about radio communications at that range) in a time period that's not measured in centuries. For some perspective, the farthest man made object Voyager 1 is just around 17 light hours away after 35 years of travel. In stellar terms it's barely gotten up from the couch, much less left home!
If you ignore for a moment that Android was bought over by Google whose raison d'etre is advertising, it's ironic that adware has become so acceptable on Android when it's synonymous with spyware on Windows and is flagged as such by decent antivirus programs.
Most of the ad supported Android apps ask for internet access in order to display ads. The problem is you have no idea what else they're doing with that internet access. I would be very leery of something like a task manager that's ad supported..something with sufficient privileges to kill processes and yet be able to do who knows what with its internet permission. Rooting and installing an adblocking hosts file, (or using AdAway which automates the process) is one solution, but then it deprives the app devleoper of ad revenue (for something that's otherwise free).
Seems like Google ought to separate the permission for displaying ads from that for internet access - so if your app wants to show ads, it should only be allowed to connect to Google's ad servers and do nothing else. At least that way one has peace of mind that one's ad supported contact list manager isn't surreptitiously transmitting one's phonebook somewhere.
You want to root your phone and install LBE Privacy Guard.. This will alert you the moment an app tries to access private data (contacts, SMSes, GPS location, network location etc) and you can allow or deny the action permanently or temporarily.
I root my phone just for this and AdAway, which puts an adblocking hosts file.
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There are still 'pirate' servers of the discontinued Starwars Galaxies MMO. Unlike the present 'The Old Republic' MMO which is entirely combat and story focused, the old one was totally free form, i.e. you could choose professions and create and trade items without getting into any PvP/PvE.
Now that The Mouse is in charge, expect them to also get shut down like this.
Could be those 800k users choose to stick with a decade out of date version of the game by choice. It's not as though they're going to say 'gee, what I was doing was wrong, I should totally ditch my toons that I spent months building up and just buy a new subscription for the new game as run by Blizzard even if I don't like it'.
Same fallacy as thinking that every pirated song equals a lost sale.
If you miss the old Firefox before they fucked up with the Australis UI, give Palemoon a try. It's a modern browser optimized for traditional desktop usage, built with a modern compiler and forked off from Firefox (i.e. it is not just a rebuild of the same source code as some others like Waterfox are) with a few unique features and extensions of its own.
Please consider making it available for Pale Moon, an independently developed fork of Firefox that plans to retain XUL and everything else that made proper extensions possible. I'm not affiliated with them in any way, but I use it regularly and it is quite fast, provides a native 64-bit build and is less of a memory hog than FF.
There was a time when you could make it impossible for anyone to send you a 'friend' request. Thereby shutting off the network after having added all the people you cared about connecting with. At some point they changed the permission level to a minimum of 'friends of friends' so that when you add one school classmate, you'll open yourself to friend requests from everyone else that s/he was friends with.
For several years now, one has had to provide government issued ID (Driving license, or income tax account card) to purchase a mobile connection. The handset doesn't matter as much as the SIM card (and is an issue in the US probably because operator provided & subsidized handsets are the norm) Not that it has deterred terrorists much.
You've got that wrong. Seamonkey is the successor to the Mozilla suite (which was the successor to the Netscape Communicator suite), and it had browser + mail/news client + HTML editor and a bunch of other stuff. Firefox is the successor to just the browser component.
Plus they haven't gutted anything. They chose to stick with the v 24 codebase and forked it from there because of how Firefox is slowly morphing into a pale imitation of Chrome by shedding all the customizability and user choice that made it great in the first place.
Remember RSS feeds? Back in the day when Feedburner wasn't owned by Facebook, you could install a desktop client or the sorely missed Google Reader to stay in touch with the sites and blogs that you felt were important. You had total control over what you wanted to read or subscribe to. If you ran a website, you put up an orange RSS icon, or let Firefox auto detect the feed and let the user decide what they wanted. RSS was (is) an open standard for publishing updates to a web site.
I would've said that Twitter & Facebook have killed it completely, but let's face it, RSS never really went mainstream. Google did not do enough to popularize Reader - just a core bunch of users wailed when they decided to shut down the service. Even Facebook had an RSS feed of the wall back in 2008 before they changed it to the 'news' feed format. Probably not the first time an open technology standard was thwarted by a large company, and won't be the last.
Yup, that got clarified now :)
hmm-sounds similar to the DOS extenders that allowed 16 bit DOS to access more than 1 MB of RAM..
First and foremost, all consumer 32-bit windows versions are licensed to top out at 4GB.
They're not 'licensed' to top out, it's a physical limitation of 32 bit architecture and makes no difference whether you use 32 bit Windows or 32 bit Linux. A 32 bit CPU can address 2^32 memory addresses, which translates to 4 GB. In practice, a 32 bit Windows installation with 4 GB RAM will report 2.91 or 2.92 GB as usable. So if you plan on using 4 GB RAM or more, you'll have to have a 64 bit operating system.
Frankly, enough already about Vader and Solo. Talented authors like Timothy Zahn have taken the series in new directions, with new characters (Mara Jade, Luke's future wife and their son Ben Skywalker), but will we get to see these characters play out?
The Thrawn Trilogy, set a decade after ROTJ ought to have been made. But no, the movies get to go in an entirely different direction, so how do you reconcile the expanded universe fiction that's been written so far - the entire New Jedi Order series for example?
Oh well, it's only a bunch of old time Star Wars fans that are gonna grumble.
Wow, ask a question and get modded flame bait. Fucking fan boys.
..HTC phones come with an added Apple Tax? The article doesn't mention what the patents in question were. I have a One X, and I'll say this - If I had to choose a manufacturer skin I'd go with Sense anyday over Samsung's Touchwiz. Can't imagine what HTC might have copied off Apple if it's UI related. They have a fully customizable home screen, themes, skins, extra widgets...none of which you'll find on any iPhone.
I run Windows 8 and I've tried both the built in support for VMs by running an XP virtual machine, and Virtualbox. I prefer the latter, I use it now to run Linux Mint, and also successfully tested Haiku alpha 3.
since I use a desktop and have no use for Metro. I use Classic shell which returns a fully customizable 'normal' start menu to Windows 8.
...back when they introduced chat within Gmail. Suddenly people who could not install chat clients at work due to IT policies were perfectly able to chat with other Gmail users. I used to be a big user of Yahoo messenger, ever since web based chat started hardly anyone I know uses it anymore. As for MSN/Live, the less said the better - old accounts seem to have been taken over for spam. It took several years for Yahoo to play catch up and offer chat within their webmail, but it's too late.
(This of course excludes IRC users and those who have their own Jabber setups).
I now use the open source Windows client Miranda IM - fully featured, has a 64bit version, supports all popular networks including Jabber and extensible via plugins.
Was it a portion of Noah's freakin Circle?
I don't get it, does this refer to Metro apps? I upgraded Win 7 Ultimate to Win 8 Pro on my desktop, and it hasn't affected my ability to install regular windows applications at all. In fact, I use Classic Shell to bring back the old start menu and I don't use the Metro UI at all.
It has a firewall component, probably for that. Phone state and identity, not sure.
The Valles Marineres too, and doubtless other sites yet to be discovered. Yet another Martian plain, however, does not warrant UNESCO galactic heritage status, and even if it did I would still dispute your assertion that a little remote-controlled buggy driving over it is somehow ruining it forever.
Interesting you mentioned this, as it is depicted as a constant point of conflict in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy - where one group of settlers is violently opposed to the ongoing terraforming of Mars and argue that humans have no right to change its pristine state.
Speaking of the Drake equation, I think we have to content ourselves with exploring whatever prospect of life there is in our solar system only. If not Mars then Europa holds the next big hope of finding life in its ice locked sea. All the breathless announcements of yet another Earth like exoplanet are of no use unless someone invents warp drive or FTL propulsion so that one can get there(forget about radio communications at that range) in a time period that's not measured in centuries.
For some perspective, the farthest man made object Voyager 1 is just around 17 light hours away after 35 years of travel. In stellar terms it's barely gotten up from the couch, much less left home!
If you ignore for a moment that Android was bought over by Google whose raison d'etre is advertising, it's ironic that adware has become so acceptable on Android when it's synonymous with spyware on Windows and is flagged as such by decent antivirus programs.
Most of the ad supported Android apps ask for internet access in order to display ads. The problem is you have no idea what else they're doing with that internet access. I would be very leery of something like a task manager that's ad supported..something with sufficient privileges to kill processes and yet be able to do who knows what with its internet permission.
Rooting and installing an adblocking hosts file, (or using AdAway which automates the process) is one solution, but then it deprives the app devleoper of ad revenue (for something that's otherwise free).
Seems like Google ought to separate the permission for displaying ads from that for internet access - so if your app wants to show ads, it should only be allowed to connect to Google's ad servers and do nothing else. At least that way one has peace of mind that one's ad supported contact list manager isn't surreptitiously transmitting one's phonebook somewhere.
You want to root your phone and install LBE Privacy Guard.. This will alert you the moment an app tries to access private data (contacts, SMSes, GPS location, network location etc) and you can allow or deny the action permanently or temporarily.
I root my phone just for this and AdAway, which puts an adblocking hosts file.
..I'm guessing that 'The rise and fall of Apple' will make for a compelling Harvard Business Review case study.
So how does a system that respects entrepreneurship still get to be labelled socialist?