You can use gog.com's AIR based download client. But you don't have to. And in the end, all you get is an installer (raw files). this is what is nice about gog.com.
If all you can say is "Android is open," as an improvement over iOS, then it's not an improvement, because for the vast majority of people, it's just as locked down as an iPhone. For about.001% of the phone-buying market, it's "open". For the rest, it's simply a tool the carriers will use to control the customers.
Not everyone lives in the USA, well actually most people don't! I mean, lockdown by carriers seems to be pretty bad in the US if it's true what people say here on slashdot. But this doesn't apply to most other countries (our telco market over here is regulated, once you own a phone you really own that phone).
Guarding certain events and proforma data monitoring of anybody is not the same. Did you read the PDF files (well this is slashdot)? I am the original poster, I did before submitting it to slashdot.
What happened to innocent until proven guilty? A system like this makes anyone a suspect (a potential criminal), this is very 1984 like!
My government is not allowed to survey me until a judge order so. The described goals are to survey everyone. The authors of INECT are absolutely aware that they would trump human rights (and they see it more as an annoyance than an problem), this is why INECT is trying to keep this shit secret.
To some of the commenters above; this has not much to do with Germany itself but the EU. It was just the German Pirate Party which leaked the documents.
As a European I am glad to read this. However, I am no sure if this is over yet. The cynic in me says: there wasn't enough money flowing to some representatives or some representatives want to advance their own agenda a little bit more. I guess it is time to negotiate behind closed doors a little bit more until we reach an agreement.
You might be Interested in an HTML5/SVG Version of freeciv: http://freeciv.net/ It's still in development but it is playable already. Best results in in Chrome, Safari or Firefox.
Simple answer to your question: This is a test flight only. the goal is to fly around the word with this thing. Good luck ridge lift over the oceans (where they have to fly 24h or more without landing)
i've just tested https://google.com/... the query parameter is sent as GET request and therefore unencrypted. What am I missing? Isn't the query and not the response the valuable part of google search ?
Well, I just had a beer with my little brother, a BA Pilot grounded here at our home in switzerland.
BA Flight 009 was special because it is the first such incident documented in a modern jet airliner. The pilots were pretty clouless when they suddenly saw funny flares through their front windows (cause by ash particles). "Somke" was reported from the cabin and after some time they piloted a very expensive glider plane (all 4 engines failed). The 747 has a glide angle of something about 1:15 which is very good for a heavy airliner. But with failing speed indicators it is quiet a challange to restart engines midair (windmill effect is used, they need to hold a certain speed before they can inject fuel and ignite it again).
I think these pilots back then did a tremendously good job if one takes into account that they had no fucking clue what was going on (today they have procedures for such situations, my brother showed me his checklist for such cases). And they had a lot of luck. The pilots lost height due to engine failure, decided to do a 180 turn and once the engines restarted (pretty low) they got into the ash cloud again and lost some engines again before they landed with reduced sight (sandpaper effect on the front window) and reduced IFR instrumentation at night.
The focus of web development should be on the mobile platform. Data plans get affordable, connectivity gets more stable and faster (at least here in europe). On a mobile phone the web of today feels like the web of 1995 over a 16K dial-up connection.
Plattform bound hardware acceleration (windows vista/7 only*) will not help here. I guess this is the next step of locking corporate users into IE. People which work from home or remote locations will also have to run IE (=windows).
Add a bit silverlight for additional pleasure. Same old strategy.
Cheers, -S
*) No active or relevant browser development by ms on other platforms. If they still do develop IE for windows mobile, the platform is irellevant by now.
Good luck with this getting it working on your mobile phone (or any other device which lacks supported hardware).
This is really a stupid idea. Web Browsers were once meant to display textual information and not to be a platform for games. gaming/multimedia platforms are tied to specific hardware to perform well. The original idea of html was to make one document available to as many platforms as possible. Hardware accelerated websites is not in the spirit of the web and only exist to make content available to less platforms (ie. windows only) instead of more. This would certainly fit the idea of some large companies which do not really like open standards.
I'm a long time unix user. The early releases of ubuntu were just beautiful, i ran them as they came (defaults were sane).
The last releases were buggy, full of stupid changes (tomboy and mono, insane default desktop options). I have a long gconf list now which i apply on a new install. They seem to be able to break features with every release. They also change default applications with every release (im, torrent client, etc.... new default apps don't have all of the features the older ones had).
All in all, Ubuntu 9.04 was my last ubuntu. I am sick and tired of the work i have to put in to keep it running.
The fact is, the US spends twice as much per capita on health care than ANY country with a socialised system. If we got rid of private health insurance companies and socialised health care in this country we would be able to cover everyone for what we pay already on health care. Government run health care would actually improve quality and access and reduce costs.
Listen Americans, this guy is right.
I am working for a Hospital as Software engineer. Part of my software is accounting, so i have about 20 Years of data to look at (it's not a small hospital).
My country decided, after a lot of lobbying, to partially privatise our national healthcare about 15 years ago. It was insurances at first.
The result of this privatisation is, that we get less treatment for roughly double the price now. It's not the doctor who decides what treatment is appropriate, it's the insurance company. And guess what they usually say? No! Despite the fact, that we pay higher and higher insurance bills every year (ca. 15%+ this year). Insurance companies making a fat profit and we still pay more every year.
You don't know squat. I live there, I grew up in switzerland too. We have a stupid polulistic party called SVP which has made quite some noise and it gained international media presence. Not much has changed here. We have social security, universial healthcare, very low unmployment rate and a high (above EU and certainly above US) living standard. Free education for everyone and (you don't have to be richt to go to the university, its financed by the country)... well, less nazis than the US (per capita), i could go on.
I recommend, that you once in your lifetime visit another (or other) contriy(ies)... this might open your mind.
It's really about the embedded devices (like smartphones) nowadays which need hardware de/-encoding support for better battery life. h.264 is well supported, theora/vorbis is not. These are the gadgets which non-geeks buy (the masses).
On the other hand, the existence of theora/vorbis and it's good quality is a threat to commercial codecs which positively influences the licensing terms of these for the consumer/developer.
I am still waiting for ME2 but ME1 has changed my expectations on games.
The first time i was playing computer games was as little boy in the early 80ies. Offline, with more or less stupid AI. Then in the 90ies online games became popular (LAN actually). The new millenium brought us online only games, it was important to be online as often as possible to keep up with the game.
When ME1 came out, I was pretty tired of most online games, since I could not keep up with the online times of teenies, it became a bit frustrating. But ME1 changed that. An offline game quiet good AI, and it adopted to my game experience. ME1 had a very interesting story if you like RPGs, quiet some shooting was going on and exploring planets with a ground vehicle -- the mako -- was fun at first (a little boring after some time).
I warn you, because after ME1 I did not enjoy any newer games. I am spoiled -- am looking forward to ME2. Who on/. doesn't like zapping the universe, solving questions, hot women in tight suits, space ships, guns, fights and gambling?WTF!
I have just downloaded the linux version of mobile ff 1 and gave it a spin. Zoom was one of my concerns. On a desktop linux you can zoom into pages and images gradually with the mouse wheel. I guess the functionality is there the browser is just not (yet?) very well integrated in your test platform as it seems.
LiPo batteries have the best weight/power ratio at affordable (although still high) prices. This is why it is the primary energy source in electrically powered airplanes today. I don't have the numbers handy, but i know from experience (i guess wikipedia is right).
LiPo, however, are dangerous... when scrached and in contact with water (moist) they burn. Also, it's said, that the raw materials for producing LiPos is more expensive than many other comparable technologies.
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You can use gog.com's AIR based download client. But you don't have to. And in the end, all you get is an installer (raw files). this is what is nice about gog.com.
If all you can say is "Android is open," as an improvement over iOS, then it's not an improvement, because for the vast majority of people, it's just as locked down as an iPhone. For about .001% of the phone-buying market, it's "open". For the rest, it's simply a tool the carriers will use to control the customers.
Not everyone lives in the USA, well actually most people don't! I mean, lockdown by carriers seems to be pretty bad in the US if it's true what people say here on slashdot. But this doesn't apply to most other countries (our telco market over here is regulated, once you own a phone you really own that phone).
Guarding certain events and proforma data monitoring of anybody is not the same. Did you read the PDF files (well this is slashdot)? I am the original poster, I did before submitting it to slashdot.
What happened to innocent until proven guilty? A system like this makes anyone a suspect (a potential criminal), this is very 1984 like!
My government is not allowed to survey me until a judge order so. The described goals are to survey everyone. The authors of INECT are absolutely aware that they would trump human rights (and they see it more as an annoyance than an problem), this is why INECT is trying to keep this shit secret.
To some of the commenters above; this has not much to do with Germany itself but the EU. It was just the German Pirate Party which leaked the documents.
-S
As a European I am glad to read this. However, I am no sure if this is over yet. The cynic in me says: there wasn't enough money flowing to some representatives or some representatives want to advance their own agenda a little bit more. I guess it is time to negotiate behind closed doors a little bit more until we reach an agreement.
I believe the BD-5 made an appearance in a James Bond film.
Yes it did in Octopussy.
You might be Interested in an HTML5/SVG Version of freeciv: http://freeciv.net/ It's still in development but it is playable already. Best results in in Chrome, Safari or Firefox.
I have played some of these browser games. Because Parent didn't mention: none of the mentioned games have anything to do with SVG/Canvas/HTML5.
Kind regards,
-S
Did anybody hear that **WHOOOOOSH**-ing sound ?
just asking.
-S
Simple answer to your question: This is a test flight only. the goal is to fly around the word with this thing. Good luck ridge lift over the oceans (where they have to fly 24h or more without landing)
-S
i've just tested https://google.com/ ... the query parameter is sent as GET request and therefore unencrypted. What am I missing? Isn't the query and not the response the valuable part of google search ?
-S
Well, I just had a beer with my little brother, a BA Pilot grounded here at our home in switzerland.
BA Flight 009 was special because it is the first such incident documented in a modern jet airliner. The pilots were pretty clouless when they suddenly saw funny flares through their front windows (cause by ash particles). "Somke" was reported from the cabin and after some time they piloted a very expensive glider plane (all 4 engines failed). The 747 has a glide angle of something about 1:15 which is very good for a heavy airliner. But with failing speed indicators it is quiet a challange to restart engines midair (windmill effect is used, they need to hold a certain speed before they can inject fuel and ignite it again).
I think these pilots back then did a tremendously good job if one takes into account that they had no fucking clue what was going on (today they have procedures for such situations, my brother showed me his checklist for such cases). And they had a lot of luck. The pilots lost height due to engine failure, decided to do a 180 turn and once the engines restarted (pretty low) they got into the ash cloud again and lost some engines again before they landed with reduced sight (sandpaper effect on the front window) and reduced IFR instrumentation at night.
Cheers,
-S
The focus of web development should be on the mobile platform. Data plans get affordable, connectivity gets more stable and faster (at least here in europe). On a mobile phone the web of today feels like the web of 1995 over a 16K dial-up connection.
Plattform bound hardware acceleration (windows vista/7 only*) will not help here. I guess this is the next step of locking corporate users into IE. People which work from home or remote locations will also have to run IE (=windows).
Add a bit silverlight for additional pleasure. Same old strategy.
Cheers,
-S
*) No active or relevant browser development by ms on other platforms. If they still do develop IE for windows mobile, the platform is irellevant by now.
Good luck with this getting it working on your mobile phone (or any other device which lacks supported hardware).
This is really a stupid idea. Web Browsers were once meant to display textual information and not to be a platform for games. gaming/multimedia platforms are tied to specific hardware to perform well. The original idea of html was to make one document available to as many platforms as possible. Hardware accelerated websites is not in the spirit of the web and only exist to make content available to less platforms (ie. windows only) instead of more. This would certainly fit the idea of some large companies which do not really like open standards.
Cheers,
-S
I'm a long time unix user. The early releases of ubuntu were just beautiful, i ran them as they came (defaults were sane).
The last releases were buggy, full of stupid changes (tomboy and mono, insane default desktop options). I have a long gconf list now which i apply on a new install. They seem to be able to break features with every release. They also change default applications with every release (im, torrent client, etc. ... new default apps don't have all of the features the older ones had).
All in all, Ubuntu 9.04 was my last ubuntu. I am sick and tired of the work i have to put in to keep it running.
Cheers,
-S
It kind of feels like they are saying "Oh, don't look at that, we'll have something soon..."
This has been the modus operandi of microsoft since when ... the nineties, eighties? I can't remeber.
The fact is, the US spends twice as much per capita on health care than ANY country with a socialised system. If we got rid of private health insurance companies and socialised health care in this country we would be able to cover everyone for what we pay already on health care. Government run health care would actually improve quality and access and reduce costs.
Listen Americans, this guy is right.
I am working for a Hospital as Software engineer. Part of my software is accounting, so i have about 20 Years of data to look at (it's not a small hospital).
My country decided, after a lot of lobbying, to partially privatise our national healthcare about 15 years ago. It was insurances at first.
The result of this privatisation is, that we get less treatment for roughly double the price now. It's not the doctor who decides what treatment is appropriate, it's the insurance company. And guess what they usually say? No! Despite the fact, that we pay higher and higher insurance bills every year (ca. 15%+ this year). Insurance companies making a fat profit and we still pay more every year.
Cheers,
-S
Kudos for your contribution.
:P
You just forgot to mention, that you have probably also added a few bugs "along the way"
Cheers c(_),
-S
I pay roughly U$ 45/mo for 15 mbit. It's not a privilege to have broadband here, we see it as necessity like electricity, a telephone or clean water.
This is why the people decided it has to be strongly regulated by the government. It works out so far.
I miss the zune-phone tag FTW!
You don't know squat. I live there, I grew up in switzerland too. We have a stupid polulistic party called SVP which has made quite some noise and it gained international media presence. Not much has changed here. We have social security, universial healthcare, very low unmployment rate and a high (above EU and certainly above US) living standard. Free education for everyone and (you don't have to be richt to go to the university, its financed by the country) ... well, less nazis than the US (per capita), i could go on.
... this might open your mind.
I recommend, that you once in your lifetime visit another (or other) contriy(ies)
Have a nice day,
-S
Mod parent up.
It's really about the embedded devices (like smartphones) nowadays which need hardware de/-encoding support for better battery life. h.264 is well supported, theora/vorbis is not. These are the gadgets which non-geeks buy (the masses).
On the other hand, the existence of theora/vorbis and it's good quality is a threat to commercial codecs which positively influences the licensing terms of these for the consumer/developer.
I am still waiting for ME2 but ME1 has changed my expectations on games.
/. doesn't like zapping the universe, solving questions, hot women in tight suits, space ships, guns, fights and gambling?WTF!
The first time i was playing computer games was as little boy in the early 80ies. Offline, with more or less stupid AI. Then in the 90ies online games became popular (LAN actually). The new millenium brought us online only games, it was important to be online as often as possible to keep up with the game.
When ME1 came out, I was pretty tired of most online games, since I could not keep up with the online times of teenies, it became a bit frustrating. But ME1 changed that. An offline game quiet good AI, and it adopted to my game experience. ME1 had a very interesting story if you like RPGs, quiet some shooting was going on and exploring planets with a ground vehicle -- the mako -- was fun at first (a little boring after some time).
I warn you, because after ME1 I did not enjoy any newer games. I am spoiled -- am looking forward to ME2. Who on
Cheers,
-S
I have just downloaded the linux version of mobile ff 1 and gave it a spin. Zoom was one of my concerns. On a desktop linux you can zoom into pages and images gradually with the mouse wheel. I guess the functionality is there the browser is just not (yet?) very well integrated in your test platform as it seems.
LiPo batteries have the best weight/power ratio at affordable (although still high) prices. This is why it is the primary energy source in electrically powered airplanes today. I don't have the numbers handy, but i know from experience (i guess wikipedia is right).
... when scrached and in contact with water (moist) they burn. Also, it's said, that the raw materials for producing LiPos is more expensive than many other comparable technologies.
LiPo, however, are dangerous