Now it's available to 13 year old script kiddies living in their mothers basement, before it was only available to script kiddies with thousands of dollars to invest.
I do believe the point is they are trying to make their changes as something plausible for the competition to follow. Google's goal is to ensure that they can do what they want to do on their web pages, they couldn't care less if the user is looking through chrome, Firefox or even IE, that is if they can make their software work in that format. The difference between active X and C++, is Google WANTS Microsoft and IE to follow suit and add C++, while active X was designed as something that Netscape couldn't do if they wanted to.
Depends largely on the quality of the OSS software, when you are talking specialized applications for specific jobs, they are all grab bags of varying quality, whether FOSS or proprietary. Last 3 different jobs in a row I've worked at have had some major application necessary that was unstable, randomly crashed, slow or all of the above. Neither FOSS nor Proprietary applications inherently have a good interface, documentation nor stability.
But there is a key difference to how google allows the high scores etc to be posted. Google posts it to an entirely different feed, and still allows you to limit what circles can see it within that feed. To put it in comparison the way Facebook handles games is like a water balloon fight at a picnic, where the rule is, if someone hits you with a water balloon, you can ask him/her not to hit you again, a new kid shows up you need to ask that one too. G+ on the other hand is more like, "We have an area for water balloon fighting over there, go on over if you want to join in.
First of all, killed more people then terrorism? Are you from the US government because I'm pretty certain terrorism is a pretty low bar for deaths, On a national scale america had one big one, and next to nothing for almost all of it's history, on a global scale there's probably 15 different illnesses that can surpass terrorism. Secondly we already are risking our lives due to poorly tested and poorly manufactured systems driving our cars. Humans, we give each new human 30 hours in a classroom, 15 minutes with an instructor, and if they pass that test, good to go. No consent from every driver on the road needed. The high death rate of automobiles is exactly why figuring out something better is a goal. 2 fender benders vs 140,000k miles of drive time is far better then the average human being clocks in when it first learns to drive, and unlike humans as the computer based cars gain experience and intelligence, what they learn is automatically implanted into their next of kin. While humans have to re-learn from scratch every generation.
On top of emotions, a lack of almost every other weakness of humans, in addition to emotions that vary our abilities widely, our skill also varies greatly on sleep, food, blood alcohol level, drugs, who's in the car. I'd have to say it is a miracle we make it to work every day.
I believe gaming itself has gone way out of the way of "only for kids" and into full fledged socially acceptable for adults, but there are still protocols. Bringing a device that is exclusively for gaming into public view, is a grey area that is usually frowned upon. PC gaming is always acceptable, consoles are accepted in social get together situations. I think the big nerd stigma however comes mainly to bringing something that's only purpose is gaming to a bus stop or anything. It basically implies you are carrying around a toy all day long, while your phone, is a phone when it isn't being used for games.
There are alot of low tech games I have respect for, world of goo sucked weeks from my life. Angry birds, maybe 15 minutes before I got bored with it. Mainly because I had just finished playing more or less the same game a few months earlier when I was playing crush the castle 2, and the 2 at the end pretty much shows that crush the castle wasn't an original game either, nor was the first. Calling something inovative and brilliant when it was just a clone of a good game that happened to be the first in it's genre to port to the platform (phones/tablets) that they are perfect for, does not make the game unique, it makes it lucky in timing and platform choice.
What confirms it was intended to disrupt their service. From what I can see it wasn't 1 person sending 1,000 e-mails, it was 1,000 people sending 1 e-mail. By this logic every campaign that has said "Write a letter to your congressman to say you oppose or support ______" is an attempt to disrupt government business. Unless the campaign itself said something like "send as many e-mails as you possibly can to this address" then the campaigns intent was to show how many people were upset.
Indeed, I'm not quite sure if it was any tweaking I had done to my system, but when natty came out, my linux mint system was on meercat, and I got a prompt basically saying "do you want to upgrade from meerkat to natty. I accepted that just before I went to bed, and when I woke up I was running natty with all of my old programs working (well I had to tweak the repositories for programs I had specially installed with custom repositories to keep them current (XBMC and Deluge). But for all sane purposes it was kept up to date. Secondly though you do also have to factor in, at least until the "Year of the linux desktop" that everyone always talks about actually happens, there is still little reason to care about security updates on a linux system. I'm pretty certain if I booted up my mandrake system that I haven't touched since 2001, and ran it for a month, I would be completely incapable of getting the system infected unless I custom wrote the virus myself, or went specifically looking for a linux virus.
I'm confused, VHS copying was impossible/unheard of in the days of VHS? Nobody ever found a way to chain to VCRs to copy a movie during their rental time? I mean admitted there was quality reduction between copies with VHS vs digital where it is 100% carried across between copies, but still more then enough for successful copies.
There's also a difference between due process and illegal wiretapping. I'm not sure about london vs united states law, but there is something wrong with just having the information given to the government at will. I don't care if they are alleged rioters, looters, child molesters, terrorists, pirates or murderers. The bottom line is once you give them the power once, they own it indefinitely, if you declare it OK but only during an emergency, there will always be something that can be declared an emergency.
Well it protects from the definition of counter-suing, but apple would know what it is and file a suit out of spite anyway. In addition every patent google sold to be used offensively, is a patent they can't use defensively. So Troll Inc sues apple for multitouch idea X, apple sues google for multitouch idea X, apple blocks lawsuit from troll inc with their patent, then attacks google, google is defenseless because they don't have the patent.
Good for you, but unfortunately that only means you are more sane then a lawmaker, the lobbyists etc... The problem is if there is a single fatality, or even minor accidents, a large group will rise up screaming about how unsafe the cars are, and they will be disallowed from driving on public roads. Even if the average rate of accidents and fatalities is 1/16th of human rates. Most laws can be stopped by focusing on the 1% of the time something is worse and completely ignoring the 99% of the time they were better.
Perhaps due to the threat level of the companies history, Nortel as far as I know wasn't known for looking for any and every possible way any of their hundreds of patents could have a chance in court of lining up with something their competitors had. Apple and Microsoft on the other hand, are going to look at every way they can possibly use these patents to find one that overlaps, and then get the best judge they can to sink android into the ground.
I mean correct me if I'm wrong but it sounds like rather then actually plugging the holes that cause problems, they are looking for another antivirus equivalent to try and stop things once they fall into the holes? It sounds like a bug bounty system that doesn't want to actually involve fixing bugs.
I'd think defcon as a more logical place, IE a mix of grey hats etc... Black hats are good and all, but if you want an organization, you want people who know to play by YOUR rules at least.
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Indeed, usually the best UI is one where everything is where you expect it to be, where do I expect things to be? The same damn place it was yesterday. Even if it is going from an oddball place to a better one, it still isn't helpful if it changes every other week. First we go crazy with version numbers, now we're going crazy with UI changes just for the heck of it. What on earth is the open source community smoking these days.
While I agree it is a stupid law to try and use to stop gold sellers (IMO all MMO developers should be able to do is ban them via TOS violation, actually bringing authorities into it is stupid). The idea of this though is flat out dumb, it is a guaranteed way to draw in every gold bot etc across the world
why does it matter? Not everyone has 3G everywhere they go, not everyone has a 100% of the time always on connection that has no hiccups or lag ever. Not everyone is OK with the idea that in 5 years if they feel like replaying an old game that they paid $60 for, they may or may not depending on if blizzard felt the game was still profitable enough to keep supporting.
They did it slightly differently then others (IE the elimination of need for glasses), but it's hard to say 3D is a seperate direction from the current big bandwagon that everyone is jumping on. Before the wii how many people thought motion control was where everything was about to go, almost none. Dual screens and touchscreen on a pure game-console, not an anticipated trend. 3D when every manufacturer, every movie, every darn thing in the planet is playing around with 3D, that would probably not fall into the obvious direction. Nintendo is normally known for creating fads, this time they appear to be attempting to follow one, and failing.
I disagree so far Google hasn't been placing lawsuits at all, every time they come up with an idea they wind up infringing on 5+ patents because that is the way patents currently work. Innovation is irrelevant, some patent somewhere is broad enough to encompass your idea, whether or not anyone has done or even thought about doing what you have done before or not. The only protection from that is to stand back and say "oh yeah well I already have a patent for it as well". Correct me if I'm wrong but can you point to a situation where Google used it's patents offensively? Googling the phrase Google sues over patents gets a response "Did you mean "google sued over patents", and the only results that aren't google getting sued by someone, are Google suing the us govt over them not granting apps a fair shot. Now to avoid bias I also did the same search on bing and got the same results. The fact is in the current tech world, if you don't have the patents, then you will not be allowed to innovate. Patent trolls win 40% of the time with completely bogus claims, Large companies with heavy patent offense capabilities (Apple, Microsoft, the entire cellphone industry etc...) win most of the time.
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Now it's available to 13 year old script kiddies living in their mothers basement, before it was only available to script kiddies with thousands of dollars to invest.
Well every machine has some point at which it will fail. If ours were indestructible/undetectable, it wouldn't be laying in the middle of Pakistan
What exactly is a water fight anyway? Just a protest involving water guns + balloons or what?
I do believe the point is they are trying to make their changes as something plausible for the competition to follow. Google's goal is to ensure that they can do what they want to do on their web pages, they couldn't care less if the user is looking through chrome, Firefox or even IE, that is if they can make their software work in that format. The difference between active X and C++, is Google WANTS Microsoft and IE to follow suit and add C++, while active X was designed as something that Netscape couldn't do if they wanted to.
Depends largely on the quality of the OSS software, when you are talking specialized applications for specific jobs, they are all grab bags of varying quality, whether FOSS or proprietary. Last 3 different jobs in a row I've worked at have had some major application necessary that was unstable, randomly crashed, slow or all of the above. Neither FOSS nor Proprietary applications inherently have a good interface, documentation nor stability.
But there is a key difference to how google allows the high scores etc to be posted. Google posts it to an entirely different feed, and still allows you to limit what circles can see it within that feed. To put it in comparison the way Facebook handles games is like a water balloon fight at a picnic, where the rule is, if someone hits you with a water balloon, you can ask him/her not to hit you again, a new kid shows up you need to ask that one too. G+ on the other hand is more like, "We have an area for water balloon fighting over there, go on over if you want to join in.
First of all, killed more people then terrorism? Are you from the US government because I'm pretty certain terrorism is a pretty low bar for deaths, On a national scale america had one big one, and next to nothing for almost all of it's history, on a global scale there's probably 15 different illnesses that can surpass terrorism. Secondly we already are risking our lives due to poorly tested and poorly manufactured systems driving our cars. Humans, we give each new human 30 hours in a classroom, 15 minutes with an instructor, and if they pass that test, good to go. No consent from every driver on the road needed. The high death rate of automobiles is exactly why figuring out something better is a goal. 2 fender benders vs 140,000k miles of drive time is far better then the average human being clocks in when it first learns to drive, and unlike humans as the computer based cars gain experience and intelligence, what they learn is automatically implanted into their next of kin. While humans have to re-learn from scratch every generation.
On top of emotions, a lack of almost every other weakness of humans, in addition to emotions that vary our abilities widely, our skill also varies greatly on sleep, food, blood alcohol level, drugs, who's in the car. I'd have to say it is a miracle we make it to work every day.
I believe gaming itself has gone way out of the way of "only for kids" and into full fledged socially acceptable for adults, but there are still protocols. Bringing a device that is exclusively for gaming into public view, is a grey area that is usually frowned upon. PC gaming is always acceptable, consoles are accepted in social get together situations. I think the big nerd stigma however comes mainly to bringing something that's only purpose is gaming to a bus stop or anything. It basically implies you are carrying around a toy all day long, while your phone, is a phone when it isn't being used for games.
There are alot of low tech games I have respect for, world of goo sucked weeks from my life. Angry birds, maybe 15 minutes before I got bored with it. Mainly because I had just finished playing more or less the same game a few months earlier when I was playing crush the castle 2, and the 2 at the end pretty much shows that crush the castle wasn't an original game either, nor was the first. Calling something inovative and brilliant when it was just a clone of a good game that happened to be the first in it's genre to port to the platform (phones/tablets) that they are perfect for, does not make the game unique, it makes it lucky in timing and platform choice.
What confirms it was intended to disrupt their service. From what I can see it wasn't 1 person sending 1,000 e-mails, it was 1,000 people sending 1 e-mail. By this logic every campaign that has said "Write a letter to your congressman to say you oppose or support ______" is an attempt to disrupt government business. Unless the campaign itself said something like "send as many e-mails as you possibly can to this address" then the campaigns intent was to show how many people were upset.
Indeed, I'm not quite sure if it was any tweaking I had done to my system, but when natty came out, my linux mint system was on meercat, and I got a prompt basically saying "do you want to upgrade from meerkat to natty. I accepted that just before I went to bed, and when I woke up I was running natty with all of my old programs working (well I had to tweak the repositories for programs I had specially installed with custom repositories to keep them current (XBMC and Deluge). But for all sane purposes it was kept up to date. Secondly though you do also have to factor in, at least until the "Year of the linux desktop" that everyone always talks about actually happens, there is still little reason to care about security updates on a linux system. I'm pretty certain if I booted up my mandrake system that I haven't touched since 2001, and ran it for a month, I would be completely incapable of getting the system infected unless I custom wrote the virus myself, or went specifically looking for a linux virus.
I'm confused, VHS copying was impossible/unheard of in the days of VHS? Nobody ever found a way to chain to VCRs to copy a movie during their rental time? I mean admitted there was quality reduction between copies with VHS vs digital where it is 100% carried across between copies, but still more then enough for successful copies.
There's also a difference between due process and illegal wiretapping. I'm not sure about london vs united states law, but there is something wrong with just having the information given to the government at will. I don't care if they are alleged rioters, looters, child molesters, terrorists, pirates or murderers. The bottom line is once you give them the power once, they own it indefinitely, if you declare it OK but only during an emergency, there will always be something that can be declared an emergency.
Well it protects from the definition of counter-suing, but apple would know what it is and file a suit out of spite anyway. In addition every patent google sold to be used offensively, is a patent they can't use defensively. So Troll Inc sues apple for multitouch idea X, apple sues google for multitouch idea X, apple blocks lawsuit from troll inc with their patent, then attacks google, google is defenseless because they don't have the patent.
Good for you, but unfortunately that only means you are more sane then a lawmaker, the lobbyists etc... The problem is if there is a single fatality, or even minor accidents, a large group will rise up screaming about how unsafe the cars are, and they will be disallowed from driving on public roads. Even if the average rate of accidents and fatalities is 1/16th of human rates. Most laws can be stopped by focusing on the 1% of the time something is worse and completely ignoring the 99% of the time they were better.
Indeed also from the placement I've seen, Duke Nukem forever seems to be selling far better then it deserves to.
Perhaps due to the threat level of the companies history, Nortel as far as I know wasn't known for looking for any and every possible way any of their hundreds of patents could have a chance in court of lining up with something their competitors had. Apple and Microsoft on the other hand, are going to look at every way they can possibly use these patents to find one that overlaps, and then get the best judge they can to sink android into the ground.
I mean correct me if I'm wrong but it sounds like rather then actually plugging the holes that cause problems, they are looking for another antivirus equivalent to try and stop things once they fall into the holes? It sounds like a bug bounty system that doesn't want to actually involve fixing bugs.
I'd think defcon as a more logical place, IE a mix of grey hats etc... Black hats are good and all, but if you want an organization, you want people who know to play by YOUR rules at least.
Indeed, usually the best UI is one where everything is where you expect it to be, where do I expect things to be? The same damn place it was yesterday. Even if it is going from an oddball place to a better one, it still isn't helpful if it changes every other week. First we go crazy with version numbers, now we're going crazy with UI changes just for the heck of it. What on earth is the open source community smoking these days.
While I agree it is a stupid law to try and use to stop gold sellers (IMO all MMO developers should be able to do is ban them via TOS violation, actually bringing authorities into it is stupid). The idea of this though is flat out dumb, it is a guaranteed way to draw in every gold bot etc across the world
why does it matter? Not everyone has 3G everywhere they go, not everyone has a 100% of the time always on connection that has no hiccups or lag ever. Not everyone is OK with the idea that in 5 years if they feel like replaying an old game that they paid $60 for, they may or may not depending on if blizzard felt the game was still profitable enough to keep supporting.
They did it slightly differently then others (IE the elimination of need for glasses), but it's hard to say 3D is a seperate direction from the current big bandwagon that everyone is jumping on. Before the wii how many people thought motion control was where everything was about to go, almost none. Dual screens and touchscreen on a pure game-console, not an anticipated trend. 3D when every manufacturer, every movie, every darn thing in the planet is playing around with 3D, that would probably not fall into the obvious direction. Nintendo is normally known for creating fads, this time they appear to be attempting to follow one, and failing.
I disagree so far Google hasn't been placing lawsuits at all, every time they come up with an idea they wind up infringing on 5+ patents because that is the way patents currently work. Innovation is irrelevant, some patent somewhere is broad enough to encompass your idea, whether or not anyone has done or even thought about doing what you have done before or not. The only protection from that is to stand back and say "oh yeah well I already have a patent for it as well". Correct me if I'm wrong but can you point to a situation where Google used it's patents offensively? Googling the phrase Google sues over patents gets a response "Did you mean "google sued over patents", and the only results that aren't google getting sued by someone, are Google suing the us govt over them not granting apps a fair shot. Now to avoid bias I also did the same search on bing and got the same results. The fact is in the current tech world, if you don't have the patents, then you will not be allowed to innovate. Patent trolls win 40% of the time with completely bogus claims, Large companies with heavy patent offense capabilities (Apple, Microsoft, the entire cellphone industry etc...) win most of the time.