The problem with SEO nowdays is that is has become an all out war for rankings, in which some people have no ethics. I have recently seen people registering the.net,.biz,.us,.co.uk,.info and.name all to put pages with no real content, just optimised for spiders to take the search traffic for a dot com. That shouldn't be how it is, google should put a lot more emphasis on the quality of the site and how good it's content is before relevant keywords as they are easily abused.
I think driving with any kind of distraction will always make driving more dangerous, even hands-free kits, because you are trying to think about the conversation you are having whilst focusing on driving. Holding a phone up to your face might mean you lose the use of one your hands for driving, but it's what is going on that is taking you attention away.
Gamers are most probably more used to multitasking while doing activities, I can't count how many times I've had a conversation while play Gran Turismo 4 only to crash because of it, but as you do it more you get better.
The problem is that the SEO spammers reset the game for the rest of the people over time by flooding out the methods that people can used to get ranked with their crap, meaning everyone has to keep changing to stay ahead, and obviously the way to do this is fresh, good quality, unique content. That's not to say that SEO spammers won't eventually see this and begin stealing/outsourcing content production in order to screw this up too
Sony need to stop trying to attract the kind of people who enjoy graffiti and rebelling against the system, because they will only be seen as the enemy if they try to take their corporate marketing to an anti corporate audience.
I don't think the way they look at gaming reflects the market accurately any more, and anyone picking up violent games like GTA for their kids needs to be banned from parenting, it should be a choice whether you want violence in your game.. not enforced censorship.
From the view of a pretty avid gamer, with many friends who also game, it seems like Nintendo are focusing on a completely different market. To many people now, if you want a console that is fun for yourself.. you go Microsoft or Sony... if you want a console that is fun for when you have your friend's round, you go for Nintendo. Many people can't play a lot of Mario Kart on their own as it gets boring, but if you have many people playing with you, it is truckloads of fun. Nintendo just need to realise that not everyone always has lots of friends to play their consoles with.
It's amazing how napster and the other p2p programs have really revolutionized the internet, before home pc's were common I knew no-one who would have over maybe 50 CDs. Now when I talk to anyone, they have a full iPod and tons of songs. Instead of hounding the net, the music industry should be celebrating how it has helped people find new bands and new genres that they like.
I guess they think they can get away with "faking" HD because most countries outside of the US and Canada don't use HD much, the UK is serverly laking and has only just started selling HD ready TV's. They must think that if they dont get caught by the majority, no one will notice.
I've been running 1.5 beta 2 since it was released, and for some reason the autoupdate to 1.5RC1 got stuck in a loop where beta 2 would just keep downloading and applying the upgrader, without actually having any effect. AutoUpdate is one of the key new features in 1.5 to keep users browsers up to date (and hence, patching holes rapidly, keeping FireFox's security edge over IE).
Hopefully this is just the result of issues in beta 2 and older profiles, rather than an indicator of problems in the AutoUpdate code.
The Google Maps API is so open and easy to develop, this has caused stuff like this to develop. You have to hand it to Google for creating such an easy to use tool like that, I expect to see some great innovative sites based around different ways to use this API. Congratulations to everyone involved.
He may be defeated by the public in their mindset as it currently is, which for many is that Google are a great company who are always coming up with free stuff and more features for their users (which they do).
Many people see Microsoft as profiteering and would rather keep using Google, as would Firefox in the search box. As long as people see Google as a more customer friendly and open website for the user then they will continue to use it.
In reference to the comment saying this will be a BAD merger for second hand selection could be slightly inaccurate. If there is only one shop in each town then surely that shop will be the main place that people will go to to sell on their old games, whereas people may see both as competition in the town and think they both pay old.
This could also symbolise the slowing in growth and decline of video game sales nowdays, although I can see overall profits going up in the next few months with the Xbox360, christmas and more.
As an avid gamer, I can say that after discussing the topic with friends it is partially due to the way the games are built nowdays along with the internet. Back in the days of 'Tomb Raider', 'Goldeneye', 'Final Fantasy'.. the games kept you interested and made you want to play for long periods of time mainly due to the fact there was nothing else to do.
Now with most households having the internet, kids find better stuff to do online and would rather read about the new games consoles coming out than play games on their PS2. I think we will see more and more growth in the PC and consoles being intergrated with the internet markets
FreeBSD seemed to have some issues around the 5.0 release because of the major features that release brought (and the ensuing nervousness about upgrading). Hopefully 6.0 won't be plagued by these kinds of issues and should be taken up rapidly. I've had nothing but good experiences of FreeBSD in server environments, and the fact that increasing out of the box hardware support is being included for desktop platforms is great.
Because of the open source stack behind a lot of server platforms these days, I'm dubious that this decision boils down simply to a software cost issue. One major benefit of using clustering is that many white box, non specialized machines can be used, which are easier & cheapter to replace or obtain components for. Complex and specialized hardware with built in redundancy is often expensive and can require vendor support contracts for effective maintainance.
Kudos to the OpenBSD folks for being at the cutting edge, in terms of implementations of these security features. Where they lead, surely others will follow and we'll be seeing this feature become commonplace. As their focus is security, its understandable that they lead more incentives in these areas than more mainstream Linux distributions.
At last, a second chance for those who upgraded their original 1.0 firmware and instantly regretted doing it once the homebrew hacks were discovered. This hack comes at a much better time for enthusiasts to benefit and make use of the hack, if they desire, before Sony patch the hole (not to mention leaving a large number of PSP's out there on the available market running a hackable firmware..). Of course all this would be moot if Sony would just embrace the developer community surrounding the PSP and support it appropriately, instead of them having to go to these lengths.
The legal repercussions of Limewire giving up the fight for open p2p and enforcing explicit licence checks on files are what's most important here, the fact that the supreme court have muddied the waters enough to start working against p2p developers again. The fact that Limewire itself has these blocks in place is more of a liability reduction move than anything else, as due to Limewire's open source nature an anonymous coder or two can go through and make non-official versions of the program that do not honor these checks. Obviously Limewire themselves cannot be held accountable for versions of the code produced by unrelated users, and the arms race begins for them to track the creators of modified versions.
Its not exactly surprising that these words are coming from Sun, seeing as their motto has been "The network is the computer" for at least the last 10 years now. The web as an application platform has been making notable steps forward, but there are always going to be large enough differences in browser platforms so as to cause problems in non-homogenous environments. The web browser is increasingly becoming a new 'operating system', and as with our existing operating systems, it has all the differing configurations and incompatibilities between versions that we've come to expect from any such platform. Moving from one of these environments to the other has made sense for simple data-based applications for a long time now and we're increasingly seeing interactive applications move forward with AJAX/Flash based approaches, but its not a total replacement for the native desktop applications at the moment. Thats not even to mention the vast variations in bandwidth availability across the world, and the limitations that can place on development.
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If this step does anything to simplify the myriad of naming schemes provided by security & antivirus companies, then its more than welcome. Working out exactly what worms have which effects is hard enough without the confusion of complex names and differing schemes. However, the voluntary nature of this new naming scheme may mean it sits alongside the current identifiers and names, which would significantly lessen its effect. I guess only time will tell which way the companies decide to go..
Apple are sticking to a known formula and single function, which they've arguably perfected in the iPod. They've added photo support and the like over time, but the main focus of the device has always retained music. I think if consumer demands started switching toward video, we'd see a significantly different product (and name, most probably), it doesn't seem to be Apple's style to kludge increasing functionality into a single device.
As much as many people will ask if disclosure was a good idea in this case, it's important to remember that if one person can find this vulnerability and make it public, an unknown number of people could have found it and be making use of it in the background. The functionality of BitTorrent depends on clients seeding copies of the file back into the network after having downloaded, and a vulnerability like this in a significant amount of trackers could easily cause serious damage to the operation of many torrents.
It's good to see VW using the standard instead of going with the trend and putting ipod adaptors in, like BMW did.
There are other products out there than Apple's, and although the iPod may be the best (personally, i think yes), it does not mean it should be the only one to get car adaptors.
Attention to detail has been Apple's hallmark on hardware for quite some time now. Anyone who owns a Powerbook, for example will have noticed the ports on the right hand side are arranged in size order, and there are USB ports on both sides. They're just little touches, but they mean a lot in everyday usage. Apple brought the iPod to the mp3 player market, and its design & interface have managed to win out over technically superior players time and time again. The nano is neccessary for Apple to stay one step ahead on having this cool factor that other vendors strive for.
The arguments for pre-empting action can be made long and hard, but in the case of nuclear weapons it just seems like a bad decision. The sheer destruction of these payloads, and devastating after effects they cause are not something that (in my opinion) be used without fully justified action. There's literally just too much at stake for the world community as a whole.
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The problem with SEO nowdays is that is has become an all out war for rankings, in which some people have no ethics. I have recently seen people registering the .net, .biz, .us, .co.uk, .info and .name all to put pages with no real content, just optimised for spiders to take the search traffic for a dot com. That shouldn't be how it is, google should put a lot more emphasis on the quality of the site and how good it's content is before relevant keywords as they are easily abused.
I think driving with any kind of distraction will always make driving more dangerous, even hands-free kits, because you are trying to think about the conversation you are having whilst focusing on driving. Holding a phone up to your face might mean you lose the use of one your hands for driving, but it's what is going on that is taking you attention away.
Gamers are most probably more used to multitasking while doing activities, I can't count how many times I've had a conversation while play Gran Turismo 4 only to crash because of it, but as you do it more you get better.
The problem is that the SEO spammers reset the game for the rest of the people over time by flooding out the methods that people can used to get ranked with their crap, meaning everyone has to keep changing to stay ahead, and obviously the way to do this is fresh, good quality, unique content. That's not to say that SEO spammers won't eventually see this and begin stealing/outsourcing content production in order to screw this up too
Sony need to stop trying to attract the kind of people who enjoy graffiti and rebelling against the system, because they will only be seen as the enemy if they try to take their corporate marketing to an anti corporate audience.
I don't think the way they look at gaming reflects the market accurately any more, and anyone picking up violent games like GTA for their kids needs to be banned from parenting, it should be a choice whether you want violence in your game.. not enforced censorship.
From the view of a pretty avid gamer, with many friends who also game, it seems like Nintendo are focusing on a completely different market. To many people now, if you want a console that is fun for yourself.. you go Microsoft or Sony... if you want a console that is fun for when you have your friend's round, you go for Nintendo. Many people can't play a lot of Mario Kart on their own as it gets boring, but if you have many people playing with you, it is truckloads of fun. Nintendo just need to realise that not everyone always has lots of friends to play their consoles with.
It's amazing how napster and the other p2p programs have really revolutionized the internet, before home pc's were common I knew no-one who would have over maybe 50 CDs. Now when I talk to anyone, they have a full iPod and tons of songs. Instead of hounding the net, the music industry should be celebrating how it has helped people find new bands and new genres that they like.
I guess they think they can get away with "faking" HD because most countries outside of the US and Canada don't use HD much, the UK is serverly laking and has only just started selling HD ready TV's. They must think that if they dont get caught by the majority, no one will notice.
I've been running 1.5 beta 2 since it was released, and for some reason the autoupdate to 1.5RC1 got stuck in a loop where beta 2 would just keep downloading and applying the upgrader, without actually having any effect. AutoUpdate is one of the key new features in 1.5 to keep users browsers up to date (and hence, patching holes rapidly, keeping FireFox's security edge over IE).
Hopefully this is just the result of issues in beta 2 and older profiles, rather than an indicator of problems in the AutoUpdate code.
The Google Maps API is so open and easy to develop, this has caused stuff like this to develop. You have to hand it to Google for creating such an easy to use tool like that, I expect to see some great innovative sites based around different ways to use this API. Congratulations to everyone involved.
He may be defeated by the public in their mindset as it currently is, which for many is that Google are a great company who are always coming up with free stuff and more features for their users (which they do).
Many people see Microsoft as profiteering and would rather keep using Google, as would Firefox in the search box. As long as people see Google as a more customer friendly and open website for the user then they will continue to use it.
In reference to the comment saying this will be a BAD merger for second hand selection could be slightly inaccurate. If there is only one shop in each town then surely that shop will be the main place that people will go to to sell on their old games, whereas people may see both as competition in the town and think they both pay old.
This could also symbolise the slowing in growth and decline of video game sales nowdays, although I can see overall profits going up in the next few months with the Xbox360, christmas and more.
As an avid gamer, I can say that after discussing the topic with friends it is partially due to the way the games are built nowdays along with the internet. Back in the days of 'Tomb Raider', 'Goldeneye', 'Final Fantasy'.. the games kept you interested and made you want to play for long periods of time mainly due to the fact there was nothing else to do.
Now with most households having the internet, kids find better stuff to do online and would rather read about the new games consoles coming out than play games on their PS2. I think we will see more and more growth in the PC and consoles being intergrated with the internet markets
FreeBSD seemed to have some issues around the 5.0 release because of the major features that release brought (and the ensuing nervousness about upgrading). Hopefully 6.0 won't be plagued by these kinds of issues and should be taken up rapidly. I've had nothing but good experiences of FreeBSD in server environments, and the fact that increasing out of the box hardware support is being included for desktop platforms is great.
Because of the open source stack behind a lot of server platforms these days, I'm dubious that this decision boils down simply to a software cost issue. One major benefit of using clustering is that many white box, non specialized machines can be used, which are easier & cheapter to replace or obtain components for. Complex and specialized hardware with built in redundancy is often expensive and can require vendor support contracts for effective maintainance.
Kudos to the OpenBSD folks for being at the cutting edge, in terms of implementations of these security features. Where they lead, surely others will follow and we'll be seeing this feature become commonplace. As their focus is security, its understandable that they lead more incentives in these areas than more mainstream Linux distributions.
At last, a second chance for those who upgraded their original 1.0 firmware and instantly regretted doing it once the homebrew hacks were discovered. This hack comes at a much better time for enthusiasts to benefit and make use of the hack, if they desire, before Sony patch the hole (not to mention leaving a large number of PSP's out there on the available market running a hackable firmware..). Of course all this would be moot if Sony would just embrace the developer community surrounding the PSP and support it appropriately, instead of them having to go to these lengths.
The legal repercussions of Limewire giving up the fight for open p2p and enforcing explicit licence checks on files are what's most important here, the fact that the supreme court have muddied the waters enough to start working against p2p developers again. The fact that Limewire itself has these blocks in place is more of a liability reduction move than anything else, as due to Limewire's open source nature an anonymous coder or two can go through and make non-official versions of the program that do not honor these checks. Obviously Limewire themselves cannot be held accountable for versions of the code produced by unrelated users, and the arms race begins for them to track the creators of modified versions.
Its not exactly surprising that these words are coming from Sun, seeing as their motto has been "The network is the computer" for at least the last 10 years now. The web as an application platform has been making notable steps forward, but there are always going to be large enough differences in browser platforms so as to cause problems in non-homogenous environments. The web browser is increasingly becoming a new 'operating system', and as with our existing operating systems, it has all the differing configurations and incompatibilities between versions that we've come to expect from any such platform. Moving from one of these environments to the other has made sense for simple data-based applications for a long time now and we're increasingly seeing interactive applications move forward with AJAX/Flash based approaches, but its not a total replacement for the native desktop applications at the moment. Thats not even to mention the vast variations in bandwidth availability across the world, and the limitations that can place on development.
If this step does anything to simplify the myriad of naming schemes provided by security & antivirus companies, then its more than welcome. Working out exactly what worms have which effects is hard enough without the confusion of complex names and differing schemes. However, the voluntary nature of this new naming scheme may mean it sits alongside the current identifiers and names, which would significantly lessen its effect. I guess only time will tell which way the companies decide to go..
Apple are sticking to a known formula and single function, which they've arguably perfected in the iPod. They've added photo support and the like over time, but the main focus of the device has always retained music. I think if consumer demands started switching toward video, we'd see a significantly different product (and name, most probably), it doesn't seem to be Apple's style to kludge increasing functionality into a single device.
As much as many people will ask if disclosure was a good idea in this case, it's important to remember that if one person can find this vulnerability and make it public, an unknown number of people could have found it and be making use of it in the background. The functionality of BitTorrent depends on clients seeding copies of the file back into the network after having downloaded, and a vulnerability like this in a significant amount of trackers could easily cause serious damage to the operation of many torrents.
It's good to see VW using the standard instead of going with the trend and putting ipod adaptors in, like BMW did.
There are other products out there than Apple's, and although the iPod may be the best (personally, i think yes), it does not mean it should be the only one to get car adaptors.
Attention to detail has been Apple's hallmark on hardware for quite some time now. Anyone who owns a Powerbook, for example will have noticed the ports on the right hand side are arranged in size order, and there are USB ports on both sides. They're just little touches, but they mean a lot in everyday usage. Apple brought the iPod to the mp3 player market, and its design & interface have managed to win out over technically superior players time and time again. The nano is neccessary for Apple to stay one step ahead on having this cool factor that other vendors strive for.
The arguments for pre-empting action can be made long and hard, but in the case of nuclear weapons it just seems like a bad decision. The sheer destruction of these payloads, and devastating after effects they cause are not something that (in my opinion) be used without fully justified action. There's literally just too much at stake for the world community as a whole.