I regularly get requests for facebook to set a cookie for me. I'm not sure why most of those sites would do such a thing.
Because no other site has as many people logged into it at any one time other than facebook. So every time a site asks to set a facebook cookie, it plays all its info back to facebook which then manages to connect all the individual sites' info together, creating a fuller picture of you and your habits. Which in turn is worth a lot to advertisers.
If your wife looks at pregnancy tests, thanks to facebook you'll get junk mail at home with offers for baby food, nappies and who knows what else before she even has a chance to tell you.
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You forget Elite! One of the first and most successful hybrids of its time... Oh sweet frontier..
What is interesting though is that they claim to include video training. So, while they may not really have done anything with blender, they do have a new product here if you count what they've included. Their tutorials may not be that bad, and who knows, they might help people get into Blender. Depending on how you look at it, to some may be worth the $47 they're charging.
The videos arent their own, I believe they're the free Blender tutorial videos. I did find it amusing that they claim their 3D product requires no technical skills whatsoever, but they do have 300+ hours of tutorials for you to learn how to use the product.
> Age verification question: Do you remember the initial announcement?
February '98. I was disappointed that it didn't make the release date, but I was confident it would be released before summer. ='(.
If anyone people who make movies for the love of making good cinema might make more movies, and people who make movies just to cash in might make fewer.
I don't know... What if I would do this in my slashdot signature, trying to load a picture only available for people on the RIAA Intranet. Then I could show a different signature to the RIAA than to everyone else. Copy/Paste for FBI, your HR/employer, or even your spouse.
Except that this is a different method altogether. It's always been possible to push different contents based on different IPs, but this is about being able to tell whether or not you're logged into certain websites or not.
I think due to its vast size and rural areas the US is always going to be lagging behind smaller countries in the latest network technology.
I'd much rather see a comparison and insight into why Asian countries are so far ahead of the relatively small and well off European nations. There must be some key cultural differences.
I live in Holland, a small and well off European nation. I don't know the numbers for high speed connections here, but I don't know anyone personally who cannot get high speed internet. My father lives in a tiny village in the most rural of provinces here, and even he has a 100 mbit connection.
The Netherlands has the highest broadband penetration in the European Union. According to the OECD, in 2009 DSL was available to approximately 100 % of the population,[1] and in 2008 cable Internet access was available to 92 % of the population.[2] Statistics from the OECD also show that in 2008, 73.97 % of Dutch households had broadband access,[3] with approximately 38 subscribers out of 100 inhabitants in June 2009.[4] Several upload and download rates are available, depending on the network provider.
That means Asia isn't ahead of us - we beat South Korea (and all other Asian countries) with our figures from 2008; we probably have an even higher percentage now.
How do you make the distinction of online content, like e-books, flash games, podcasts?
All are "online content", yet reader applications are allowed to go online to fetch the content (or even sell it).
In my honest opinion, the only rule should be to exclude competing "Android markets", not content providers.
The difference, as far as I can make out, is that ebooks and podcasts aren't applications in themselves, only data files. Flash games are interpreted and can be made to do almost anything. Google doesn't mind having Flash applications or games in its store, but it doesn't want a store (or other distribution center) inside its store for applications or games.
UPDATE: Google responded with a statement standing by its decision to pull the Kongragate Arcade app. “Applications in violation of our policies are removed from Android Market,” Google said. The reasoning comes down to the fact that the Kongregate app, while it acts much like a browser, has the ability to cache games for offline play. That elevates it into a competing software distribution platform offering outside content, something the Android Market terms of service prohibits. It’s likely that a simpler app that listed Kongregate games and launched a traditional browser could get approved. Or if the games were submitted as individual apps, they would also fly. It seems a distinction is being made here between digital content like books or music and mobile apps, which is why Kindle and other services don’t appear to be in danger of being pulled.
I'm sitting this one out, and possibly 2012 as well. Voting for the guy or gal that lies the least still means I'm supporting a liar. The very nature of politics nowadays automatically means someone with enough clout to run for election is unfit to serve...
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke
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One major difference is that the website does not know why a cookie is set. This directive forces sites to explain to you why they need a cookie.
Because no other site has as many people logged into it at any one time other than facebook. So every time a site asks to set a facebook cookie, it plays all its info back to facebook which then manages to connect all the individual sites' info together, creating a fuller picture of you and your habits. Which in turn is worth a lot to advertisers.
If your wife looks at pregnancy tests, thanks to facebook you'll get junk mail at home with offers for baby food, nappies and who knows what else before she even has a chance to tell you.
You forget Elite! One of the first and most successful hybrids of its time... Oh sweet frontier..
Or, even better, check out Quake II with multiplayer support completely done in html5 and javascript.
The videos arent their own, I believe they're the free Blender tutorial videos. I did find it amusing that they claim their 3D product requires no technical skills whatsoever, but they do have 300+ hours of tutorials for you to learn how to use the product.
Shouldn't that be just "sells" ?
It looks more like Legend of the Red Dragon to me
My back - the Raboback, has required these for yeras.
And thats that. Server set up in 4 easy commands
Tsk. Gentoo only needs 3!
> Age verification question: Do you remember the initial announcement? February '98. I was disappointed that it didn't make the release date, but I was confident it would be released before summer. ='(.
I have yet to see a story about "google censors search terms when you click search".
That's because Google censors searches for those stories.
If anyone people who make movies for the love of making good cinema might make more movies, and people who make movies just to cash in might make fewer.
I don't know... What if I would do this in my slashdot signature, trying to load a picture only available for people on the RIAA Intranet. Then I could show a different signature to the RIAA than to everyone else. Copy/Paste for FBI, your HR/employer, or even your spouse.
Except that this is a different method altogether. It's always been possible to push different contents based on different IPs, but this is about being able to tell whether or not you're logged into certain websites or not.
The flat landscape helps, but it's certainly not driven by demand. We've always been ahead of demand in terms of internet access.
Even now glassfibre is reaching more and more areas when nobody really needs it yet. But when we do, it'll be there.
I think due to its vast size and rural areas the US is always going to be lagging behind smaller countries in the latest network technology.
I'd much rather see a comparison and insight into why Asian countries are so far ahead of the relatively small and well off European nations. There must be some key cultural differences.
I live in Holland, a small and well off European nation. I don't know the numbers for high speed connections here, but I don't know anyone personally who cannot get high speed internet. My father lives in a tiny village in the most rural of provinces here, and even he has a 100 mbit connection.
Looking it up on Wikipedia:
The Netherlands has the highest broadband penetration in the European Union. According to the OECD, in 2009 DSL was available to approximately 100 % of the population,[1] and in 2008 cable Internet access was available to 92 % of the population.[2] Statistics from the OECD also show that in 2008, 73.97 % of Dutch households had broadband access,[3] with approximately 38 subscribers out of 100 inhabitants in June 2009.[4] Several upload and download rates are available, depending on the network provider.
That means Asia isn't ahead of us - we beat South Korea (and all other Asian countries) with our figures from 2008; we probably have an even higher percentage now.
How do you make the distinction of online content, like e-books, flash games, podcasts? All are "online content", yet reader applications are allowed to go online to fetch the content (or even sell it). In my honest opinion, the only rule should be to exclude competing "Android markets", not content providers.
The difference, as far as I can make out, is that ebooks and podcasts aren't applications in themselves, only data files. Flash games are interpreted and can be made to do almost anything. Google doesn't mind having Flash applications or games in its store, but it doesn't want a store (or other distribution center) inside its store for applications or games.
UPDATE: Google responded with a statement standing by its decision to pull the Kongragate Arcade app. “Applications in violation of our policies are removed from Android Market,” Google said. The reasoning comes down to the fact that the Kongregate app, while it acts much like a browser, has the ability to cache games for offline play. That elevates it into a competing software distribution platform offering outside content, something the Android Market terms of service prohibits. It’s likely that a simpler app that listed Kongregate games and launched a traditional browser could get approved. Or if the games were submitted as individual apps, they would also fly. It seems a distinction is being made here between digital content like books or music and mobile apps, which is why Kindle and other services don’t appear to be in danger of being pulled.
> "generally accepted legal norms of morality."
Wat?
I'm not sure I would define DRM as divine, to be honest.
Ubuntu is doing a lot of work on multitouch right now... I'm keeping my fingers crossed
Then why do you need multitouch?
When you're all lined up in a circle, who is in the middle of the line?
No way, was that the first goatse in the logo?
Bill knew how many people he was going to shaft, even way back then..
Forgive my lack of knowledge as Delphi developer, but what is F# and does it have any advantages over, say, C#?
Yay! And thank you.
I'm sitting this one out, and possibly 2012 as well. Voting for the guy or gal that lies the least still means I'm supporting a liar. The very nature of politics nowadays automatically means someone with enough clout to run for election is unfit to serve...
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke