I didn't incorrectly quote anything, nor lied. I provided links to back up everything I said. Unlike you, I did not pull them out from where the sun doesn't shine.
Yet millions still flock here every year in the hopes of a better life. Hrmm... I haven't heard of hordes of people looking to improve their lot going to the backwards Eastern European country from which you're probably posting.
America hasn't been the promised land for a long time, and not that many people pick it out as the ideal place to live. It's just because American media doesn't cover any international news or events that Americans themselves don't realize this.
I agree. I think 80% is a low estimate. A lot of games on android are copies of existing games with changed graphics. Some companies churn out the same game several times a day with slightly altered graphics in the hope of catching more revenue. It's awful.
Opera was never a threat to IE 4/5/6. Despite being a great browser/suite it gains very little market share. If open source hadn't stepped in the browser market, Opera wouldn't have changed anything.
Are there alternatives to Java? Mandatory bounds checking, garbage collection and all that implies, and inability to break type safety combined with good execution speed are not easy to implement, especially in a multi-platform way.
I hear good things about Flash. They just released a new version so I'm certain it'll be around for a while.
[blockQUOTE]Invade Alaksa? No Sarah Palin will just shout across the water to her russian allies, which she can see from her home. No way the chinese would risk a war with Russia.[/blockquote]
Why would they risk war? Russia and China are pretty good pals, and have been for a long time. I'm sure Russia would sooner help China invade Alaska than stop them.
Maybe a real name like this will work: Chnsz Medvypa
I generated a password using Lastpass and just changed the capitalization. After all, maybe it's my family tradition to give their kids first names composed of all consonants.
It's nice to know Welsh people finally made it online as well:-)
This from the company who's officials are regularly quotes under demand of anonymity?
Let the facebook staff be first who give up all their details online.
you are right and Valve's ToS is draconian. It's new technology and no laws are in place for it yet, which I hope there will be soon. Until then I create a new account for each game that I buy, so I can easily sell or lend games to other people.
If we eventually use Bitcoin in everyday life, say, in the supermarket, how will we deal with prices in fractions of a Bitcoin? What terminology might we use for something priced at 0.00000005 Bitcoins?
IANABE but I would expect it to be called 50 nano bitcoins, or maybe 50 bitnanos.
I use the same password for all internet sites, slashdot, reddit, throwaway emails, etc. Another one for all my computers, at home and at work. A third one is for my bank account only.
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Yeah, but very strict religiously Islamic or Christians shouldn't have porn according to their respective teachings. Especially if they're in a position of leadership and example.
Saying that, I consider myself pretty devout Christian, and I watch porn even though I feel I really shouldn't.
I can't imagine Americans tolerating Euro prices or vice versa. This way, everything's priced in points and we're happy.
I'd very much tolerate USD prices since it's usually cheaper. I buy all my physical video games from the UK because the conversion rate saves me about 20-30% for new games (Portal 2 Xbox360 - German Amazon 55â - UK Amazon 42â) even after the German VAT is added. Also I don't have to deal with the terrible dubbed versions. If the points were any cheaper to set off the differences I'd be ok but that's not the case. 2000 MSP cost about 25USD (17â) as far as I know. In Germany 2000MSP cost 24â (34USD). Basically I pay 30% more for the same games on XBL and it's the same files transferred through the same pipes. If you really want to have an international "virtual" currency you'd have to adjust it across borders to make it fair. Granted there are some taxes incurred but those are not even close to justifying this discrepancy.
I very much agree. The biggest thread on the Steam forums is exactly about this issue, but Valve has said they'll keep pricing unevenly as long as some people keep buying.
It isn't as bad as it seems, and kudos for them to be upfront and open about it:
We noticed an issue yesterday and wanted to alert you to it. As a precaution, we're also forcing you to change your master password.
We take a close look at our logs and try to explain every anomaly we see. Tuesday morning we saw a network traffic anomaly for a few minutes from one of our non-critical machines. These happen occasionally, and we typically identify them as an employee or an automated script.
In this case, we couldn't find that root cause. After delving into the anomaly we found a similar but smaller matching traffic anomaly from one of our databases in the opposite direction (more traffic was sent from the database compared to what was received on the server). Because we can't account for this anomaly either, we're going to be paranoid and assume the worst: that the data we stored in the database was somehow accessed. We know roughly the amount of data transfered and that it's big enough to have transfered people's email addresses, the server salt and their salted password hashes from the database. We also know that the amount of data taken isn't remotely enough to have pulled many users encrypted data blobs.
If you have a strong, non-dictionary based password or pass phrase, this shouldn't impact you - the potential threat here is brute forcing your master password using dictionary words, then going to LastPass with that password to get your data. Unfortunately not everyone picks a master password that's immune to brute forcing.
To counter that potential threat, we're going to force everyone to change their master passwords. Additionally, we're going to want an indication that you're you, by either ensuring that you're coming from an IP block you've used before or by validating your email address. The reason is that if an attacker had your master password through a brute force method, LastPass still wouldn't give access to this theoretical attacker because they wouldn't have access to your email account or your IP.
Back in the early days of Java Beans, Sun had something similar that used this put-together-toys/plumbing&black-box model. It didn't last long. Anybody remember what it was called?
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I didn't incorrectly quote anything, nor lied. I provided links to back up everything I said. Unlike you, I did not pull them out from where the sun doesn't shine.
I think you overestimate it by a tad. There's no flocking, just over a million immigrants a year. If you look at immigrants per year per head of population, the US comes in 31st. Just above most Western European countries, but way below Australia or Canada. Europe as a whole has a lot more immigrants per year than America does, and that includes Eastern Europe.
America hasn't been the promised land for a long time, and not that many people pick it out as the ideal place to live. It's just because American media doesn't cover any international news or events that Americans themselves don't realize this.
Thanks for showing me that. If I had mod points, you'd be modded up.
There's also a good case to be made that without Newton, Einstein wouldn't have done what he did.
I agree. I think 80% is a low estimate. A lot of games on android are copies of existing games with changed graphics. Some companies churn out the same game several times a day with slightly altered graphics in the hope of catching more revenue. It's awful.
Opera was never a threat to IE 4/5/6. Despite being a great browser/suite it gains very little market share. If open source hadn't stepped in the browser market, Opera wouldn't have changed anything.
Does this mean I can record my dreams with Scarlett Johansen and Natalie Portman and view them at a later date? Or sell them on ebay?
I hear good things about Flash. They just released a new version so I'm certain it'll be around for a while.
And they make up, what, 1 percent of porn sites?
[blockQUOTE]Invade Alaksa? No Sarah Palin will just shout across the water to her russian allies, which she can see from her home. No way the chinese would risk a war with Russia.[/blockquote] Why would they risk war? Russia and China are pretty good pals, and have been for a long time. I'm sure Russia would sooner help China invade Alaska than stop them.
It's nice to know Welsh people finally made it online as well :-)
This from the company who's officials are regularly quotes under demand of anonymity? Let the facebook staff be first who give up all their details online.
This russian guy made his own voxel engine as well, which I believe is hardware accelerated and also pretty impressive: http://www.atomontage.com/
you are right and Valve's ToS is draconian. It's new technology and no laws are in place for it yet, which I hope there will be soon. Until then I create a new account for each game that I buy, so I can easily sell or lend games to other people.
There is a Euzebox for Europeans with a SCART connector.
But is this really news for slashdot? It's hardly nerd news.
IANABE but I would expect it to be called 50 nano bitcoins, or maybe 50 bitnanos.
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Or maybe it's Facebook again
You'll have more luck running Windows 1.0 on DOSbox.
Yeah, but very strict religiously Islamic or Christians shouldn't have porn according to their respective teachings. Especially if they're in a position of leadership and example.
Saying that, I consider myself pretty devout Christian, and I watch porn even though I feel I really shouldn't.
No, OpenGL only recently added support for Phong shading. But one day!
I very much agree. The biggest thread on the Steam forums is exactly about this issue, but Valve has said they'll keep pricing unevenly as long as some people keep buying.
I'm pretty confident it was called 'crap'.