"But at the same tine, the group also came down hard on Google, contending that it needs to give users a vehicle for stopping the company from collecting any personal data."
How about you don't use their services if you have a problem with their policy? Or don't give out (valid) personal details. How hard was that? One thing i do have to agree with is the automatic adding of contacts to my address book in GMail.
Companies like Zarafa will benefit from this if they act quickly enough. It's already a valid alternative for Exchange. If they allow you to import.pst mailarchives it'll be so much easier to make the switch. Well, not easier but surely a lot less complains from users.
There's really no risk if you do exactly (!!!) what they say in the installation guide(s). I use bannerbomb in combination with the hackmii installer and all is fine.
I can understand why Nintendo doesn't want Homebrew to be installed, but to target it specifically when releasing an update that should be fixing bugs instead of introducing ones? Anyway, i'm still running 3.2 with homebrew and don't see any reason why i should update my Wii. All the games i bought (yes, that's not a typo) are running fine and i can also play nice homebrew games. I'm not a fan of "if it aint broken, don't try to fix it" but this time i agree with it though.
I raise my children to be vegetarian, yes. I tell them that all the nutrients they need are found in a plant-based diet and meat-eating isn't necessary. In fact, studies shown that eating animal based food will increase the risk on certain diseases like cancer (read The China Study if you don't believe me). When they're old enough to live on their own, they can make their own decision if they want to be a vegetarian or not.
Read "The China Study" sometimes. My opinion (shared by the author of the book, and countless others) is that vegetarians will actually live a longer, healthier life.
Thanks. First, because it's the only serious comment (believe it or not, mine was too) and for clearing certain things up.
I could've guessed when i posted my comment that it would be moderated funny and therefor most other comments would be 'funny' as well. It's nice to see someone looked past that.
I'm a vegetarian. Let's say my children will be too, and their children as well (and so on, and so forth). Does this mean that eventually their stomach size will increase?
I'm so happy/. is back up again, i will even positively comment on microsoft articles! Now after more than an hour i can finally pretend to work again, instead of having to do the real thing.
"We crafted every single byte and would work for hours just to free up three or four bytes so we could put in a new feature or ability.
"That level of concentration on things have been lost today when you have things that are many megabytes or even gigabytes in size," he added.
I wish more developers would do this with today's games. Then perhaps i wouldn't have to upgrade my computer so often when i wanted to play a new game. I know the article only mentioned memory usage, but i'm sure this goes for cpu / video power as well.
I don't know what the outcome will be, but I doubt that the judge will be reading from the anti-MS playbook.
what anti-MS playbook? This could be any software manufacturer. The point is that the previous ruling has nothing to do with hardware manufacturers. It's like saying to an engine manufacturer they can't use one type of bolt anymore. Then car manufacturers will complain saying they already implemented the entire engine and can't replace the offending bolt without taking out the entire engine and rebuild it.
So a hardware manufacturer made a deal with a software manufacturer. That software has a problem and needs to be altered. Hardware manufacturer then says "yeah but that will cost us time, and time is money". Judge will hopefully say "Review your deal and next time make a better one to account for these kinds of things. For now, stop complaining and start re-imaging disks".
That's not necessarily true. In Central Europe, nationalism is alive and well (actually increasing due to the perceived cultural threat from the EU), and a picture with three different skin colors for three people will not be interpreted as affirmative action, but unwanted external cultural influence.
Particularly the black guy, as you don't expect to see black people every day.
In Hungary, at least, the original picture would cause outrage from the far-right and a measurable decrease in sales.
In Holland we could not care less. Outrage over a picture like this? People in Hungary should get out more often. And i don't think that sales would suddenly drop because of this. The people who are dumb enough to get offended by this usually aren't the ones that make decisions that cause companies to buy the product or not.
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Impressive post you just made, with quotes within quotes, bulleted lists, bold fonts .. wow. I'd rate it insightful on the layout alone!
"But at the same tine, the group also came down hard on Google, contending that it needs to give users a vehicle for stopping the company from collecting any personal data."
How about you don't use their services if you have a problem with their policy? Or don't give out (valid) personal details. How hard was that? One thing i do have to agree with is the automatic adding of contacts to my address book in GMail.
Bram Moolenaar (vim)
Wietse Venema (postfix)
Guido van Rossum (python)
Stephen R. van den Berg (procmail)
Not the smallest programs either. Yeah i'm proud of my country :)
Companies like Zarafa will benefit from this if they act quickly enough. It's already a valid alternative for Exchange. If they allow you to import .pst mailarchives it'll be so much easier to make the switch. Well, not easier but surely a lot less complains from users.
But then we got high.
.. we could've had colondot instead of slashdot! I like it!
Wow. He essentially made a (bit large) portable Playstation. Why didn't Sony think of that?
There's really no risk if you do exactly (!!!) what they say in the installation guide(s). I use bannerbomb in combination with the hackmii installer and all is fine.
I can understand why Nintendo doesn't want Homebrew to be installed, but to target it specifically when releasing an update that should be fixing bugs instead of introducing ones? Anyway, i'm still running 3.2 with homebrew and don't see any reason why i should update my Wii. All the games i bought (yes, that's not a typo) are running fine and i can also play nice homebrew games. I'm not a fan of "if it aint broken, don't try to fix it" but this time i agree with it though.
Antivirus protectors. So this is malware then. It protects against an anti-virus application. Malware to fight malware. I like it!
I raise my children to be vegetarian, yes. I tell them that all the nutrients they need are found in a plant-based diet and meat-eating isn't necessary. In fact, studies shown that eating animal based food will increase the risk on certain diseases like cancer (read The China Study if you don't believe me). When they're old enough to live on their own, they can make their own decision if they want to be a vegetarian or not.
Read "The China Study" sometimes. My opinion (shared by the author of the book, and countless others) is that vegetarians will actually live a longer, healthier life.
Thanks. First, because it's the only serious comment (believe it or not, mine was too) and for clearing certain things up.
I could've guessed when i posted my comment that it would be moderated funny and therefor most other comments would be 'funny' as well. It's nice to see someone looked past that.
I'm a vegetarian. Let's say my children will be too, and their children as well (and so on, and so forth). Does this mean that eventually their stomach size will increase?
I'm so happy /. is back up again, i will even positively comment on microsoft articles! Now after more than an hour i can finally pretend to work again, instead of having to do the real thing.
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I wish more developers would do this with today's games. Then perhaps i wouldn't have to upgrade my computer so often when i wanted to play a new game. I know the article only mentioned memory usage, but i'm sure this goes for cpu / video power as well.
tomorrow HURD!
Better yet, have Microsoft 'ask Slashdot'. I'm sure there'll be lots of people with ideas on how to continue/improve things.
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Sorry, was watching tv and posting a NO YOU FOOL, PASS comment at the same time
It's sole purpose is to spawn comments saying it's flawed and discuss totally off-topic matters. Sounds like your average slashdot poll to me!
But if this becomes a habit, it'll be the end of the world
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I don't know what the outcome will be, but I doubt that the judge will be reading from the anti-MS playbook.
what anti-MS playbook? This could be any software manufacturer. The point is that the previous ruling has nothing to do with hardware manufacturers. It's like saying to an engine manufacturer they can't use one type of bolt anymore. Then car manufacturers will complain saying they already implemented the entire engine and can't replace the offending bolt without taking out the entire engine and rebuild it.
So a hardware manufacturer made a deal with a software manufacturer. That software has a problem and needs to be altered. Hardware manufacturer then says "yeah but that will cost us time, and time is money". Judge will hopefully say "Review your deal and next time make a better one to account for these kinds of things. For now, stop complaining and start re-imaging disks".
That's not necessarily true. In Central Europe, nationalism is alive and well (actually increasing due to the perceived cultural threat from the EU), and a picture with three different skin colors for three people will not be interpreted as affirmative action, but unwanted external cultural influence.
Particularly the black guy, as you don't expect to see black people every day.
In Hungary, at least, the original picture would cause outrage from the far-right and a measurable decrease in sales.
In Holland we could not care less. Outrage over a picture like this? People in Hungary should get out more often. And i don't think that sales would suddenly drop because of this. The people who are dumb enough to get offended by this usually aren't the ones that make decisions that cause companies to buy the product or not.
I can see see geocities pages from years ago :P
But if that's a problem, just rent some space with a good provider and put your content there.
You can also encrypt the content and put the passphrase on the sheet of paper in the capsule.