They have about a half hour to fix it before the stock market opens. From what I've seen, they've already taken a massive hit. I wonder how much of their gain since Oct 2006 they'll lose (They jumped from around $79 to over $130 in the 4th quarter last year).
They're already down close to $3.60 in pre-market alone. Ouch.
A hundred thousand angry users plus thousands of angry investors? Someone's got a case of the, uh.. Wednesdays.
The Toxics Coalition is the group that helped enact the ban. The industry would certainly never release a statement that actively encourages other states to follow.
But they don't have to be in deep trouble. If they embraced the open standard, they could easily sell a high-priced, highly-capable office suite that uses it by default and natively. I'd gladly pay for a very stable, very fast, very efficient word processor that handled ODF and let me easily integrate tools with it. No, OpenOffice isn't quite there.
Microsoft could still maintain their massive market share if they saw it as a way to grow the market instead of simply dominate it.
Internet Explorer works decent enough for the average user. Outside of the US, I'm betting the internationalization support of Firefox is a good promoting factor. If you could have your native language be garbled based on very picky Internet Explorer language rules and parsing, or Firefox, which would you pick?
On a related note, I'd like to see a study as to how accurate translations are, too, when comparing FireFox (and others) to IE.
And it's not like there aren't many tools out there that let you bypass such draconian measures. Hell, even a few games that supposedly don't work with "virtual" disks don't do it properly. Most games work just fine to install off of your hard disk, drop in either a fixed EXE, and you can stash that $60 game disk in a cold, dark, safe place in your closet.
I came here to say the exact same thing. We have another OSS project that "integrates" with SQL-Ledger (I use that term very loosely) and I am replacing both with, uh, real programming. I am convinced that SQL-Ledger and other hobbled-together "open source" projects are merely fronts for greedy developers that hook businesses with the prospect of free, open source packages that can replace commercial packages that can run into the thousands for even the smallest of businesses. Then, when the company wants to do something more advanced, they find the code is such a steaming pile of crap that they hire the developer(s) to "fix it" for them.
I had the same opinion until retarded eBay ads started showing up everywhere. No, just because I'm browsing an article about "postfix bugs" doesn't mean I want to buy a "BUG COLLECTION GUIDE at eBay" or "POSTFIX FOR DUMMIES EBOOK at eBay", etc.
Likewise, browsing website A will often give negative opinions of it, sponsored by website B. "Toolset A buggy? Try Toolset B!" etc.
Wrong: Does NASDAQ accept reverse stock splits as a method to regain compliance with the minimum bid price requirement?
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One step further: combined with recent advances toward nearly transparent, thin solar cells for covering, well, everything. Windows and sides of buildings would be first, and given enough durability, sidewalks, cars, roofs, and the Chines could all become miniature power plants.
Damn. I was hoping they'd be launching phone-book sized printed copies of spam at the contestants, complete with blood, with each week adding a few pounds. Add some half naked chicks and dudes (cater to multiple markets) dancing around, maybe some buckets of slime and you've got yourself a show worthy of running on Fox.
No, kids! Don't look at my fake MySpace profile! I demand you don't! I'm really, really, serious!!
By over-reacting he has called far more attention on himself and, in turn, the school district and community at large. And not the good kind of attention.
He should have just gone with it, and had fun with it. And maybe, just maybe, use it as an easy-to-access tool to assess what the students think of his methodology? I know, criticism is a lost art.
Personally, I would have just created a fake profile of the kid that made it and photoshopped him to wear a frilly pink tutu and had a good laugh with the kid (whilst dodging his parents).
Violating those terms should only be legally punishable by a termination of the agreement. It's a civil agreement that likely wouldn't even stand up in court, or even get heard by a judge in the first place outside of a big case like this.
Me clicking on a little checkbox shouldn't be legally binding in any fashion. If Blizzard wants an iron clad contract with penalties outside of simple agreement cancellation, they best comply with what the rest of the business world does: signed and dated papers, with signed copies to each party (cross signed, not simply faxed copies).
The funny thing is, no one in my old guild had even heard of WoWGlider before Blizzard started this court room debacle. Way to keep it under the table, Blizzard. The Warden application is why I quit WoW, my data is more important to me than some silly game.
Yet everyone can see just how bad of a "standard" it really is. It seems like every new version costs more and comes with a brand new format. What standardized format changes every 2 years? Or better yet, what true standard doesn't allow extensible additions to it for future expansion?
There's a few key differences. First, Google is already profitable. Second, Google adds services over time, whereas many of the dot-com rushers tries to do everything at once. Google has the brand recognition and strong history to even the most novice of Internet users required that none of the dot-com guys, even with their tens of millions of marketing dollars, had.
With Google being a public company, they have more incentive to retain services than other service companies. They have far more to lose if they close a service than if, say, Webmail.us folded, since e-mail is all Webmail.us does. That reason alone will force them to keep large, successful services like Gmail alive, even if it is eventually in a reduced form.
Not at all, sorry if my post implied that. I understand that very few Islamic countries have leaderships that accurately reflect the actual citizenship and that most leaderships tend to be above and beyond the scope of other typical governments (e.g., religion as a function of government, or rather, government as a function of religion).
Then again, I'm not sure how many countries have reflective leadership anymore.
I know the US has some problems with free speech, but what the hell is wrong with Europe lately? For instance, Germany will soon be attempting to reintroduce legislation into the EU banning swastikas and Holocaust denial (Source: BBC). You can't have selective free speech!
People are getting confused. You should tolerate the idea of free speech; you don't have to like what people say, you don't even have to listen. It's the right to speak, not the right to be heard or listened to.
These laws, including the Turkish positions, would be like if the US suddenly enacted laws saying that no one can speak of the Confederacy in a positive light and made it illegal to say the Confederacy actually won. Everyone knows they didn't, but people still say it. Everyone with an IQ over 20 just laughs at them, though. I'd just laugh & ignore at anyone who denied the Holocaust -- you should too, Europe (Germany, Turkey, et all).
Surprisingly, at least in the Holocaust issue, England is one of the few countries that put up a fuss last time it came up (2005). The same England that's hell bent on monitoring every street corner. C'est bizarre.
Their terms of service explicitly forbid things that use the connection continuously, such as games. Remember, this is for their wireless, so I doubt you'll be trying to play any latency-sensitive game on it.
I just hope that Steam-like services don't have terrible interfaces.
StarDock is one such interface. It is so horribly designed. I have to update Galactic Civilizations II through it, and I loathe starting it. It takes more than a few seconds to load. All I want to do is update my game.
The nice thing is that Galactic Civilizations II has no DRM or CD verification or anything. In response to you, GC2 is mainly single player (with single player upload to the servers to have "multiplayer", e.g., your stats are updated based on your games), so not all developers are going for mutliplayer only.
Why would it need to reauthenticate with each AJAX request? You can easily just append the session token to the end of your POST (or GET) requests. It goes over the wire in cleartext anyway. All AJAX apps should be using SSL anyway.
You don't run into this specific problem if you do that. New windows with the same domain name (e.g., gmail.com) don't share the same memory as the original window, thus it won't have the authentication token, and won't have the active cookie, either.
Those same people spend $6.00 for a coffee with a fancy, nonsensical "foreign" name and a 500% markup on designer cigarettes that don't even come with designer cancer.
I doubt you will convince them that a $400 laptop == $4,000 laptop for their purpose. They are impervious to reasoning.
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They have about a half hour to fix it before the stock market opens. From what I've seen, they've already taken a massive hit. I wonder how much of their gain since Oct 2006 they'll lose (They jumped from around $79 to over $130 in the 4th quarter last year).
They're already down close to $3.60 in pre-market alone. Ouch.
A hundred thousand angry users plus thousands of angry investors? Someone's got a case of the, uh.. Wednesdays.
Maybe they can't work with decimals, ala the Verizon $0.02 vs. 0.02c debacle. (Slashdot won't let me post a real cent sign, sorry.)
The Toxics Coalition is the group that helped enact the ban. The industry would certainly never release a statement that actively encourages other states to follow.
But they don't have to be in deep trouble. If they embraced the open standard, they could easily sell a high-priced, highly-capable office suite that uses it by default and natively. I'd gladly pay for a very stable, very fast, very efficient word processor that handled ODF and let me easily integrate tools with it. No, OpenOffice isn't quite there.
Microsoft could still maintain their massive market share if they saw it as a way to grow the market instead of simply dominate it.
Internet Explorer works decent enough for the average user. Outside of the US, I'm betting the internationalization support of Firefox is a good promoting factor. If you could have your native language be garbled based on very picky Internet Explorer language rules and parsing, or Firefox, which would you pick?
On a related note, I'd like to see a study as to how accurate translations are, too, when comparing FireFox (and others) to IE.
And it's not like there aren't many tools out there that let you bypass such draconian measures. Hell, even a few games that supposedly don't work with "virtual" disks don't do it properly. Most games work just fine to install off of your hard disk, drop in either a fixed EXE, and you can stash that $60 game disk in a cold, dark, safe place in your closet.
Unfortunately, those days are probably numbered higher than you or I would like.
I came here to say the exact same thing. We have another OSS project that "integrates" with SQL-Ledger (I use that term very loosely) and I am replacing both with, uh, real programming. I am convinced that SQL-Ledger and other hobbled-together "open source" projects are merely fronts for greedy developers that hook businesses with the prospect of free, open source packages that can replace commercial packages that can run into the thousands for even the smallest of businesses. Then, when the company wants to do something more advanced, they find the code is such a steaming pile of crap that they hire the developer(s) to "fix it" for them.
I had the same opinion until retarded eBay ads started showing up everywhere. No, just because I'm browsing an article about "postfix bugs" doesn't mean I want to buy a "BUG COLLECTION GUIDE at eBay" or "POSTFIX FOR DUMMIES EBOOK at eBay", etc.
Likewise, browsing website A will often give negative opinions of it, sponsored by website B. "Toolset A buggy? Try Toolset B!" etc.
That's when they got blocked.
Bad ad-approval monkeys. No banana for you.
One step further: combined with recent advances toward nearly transparent, thin solar cells for covering, well, everything. Windows and sides of buildings would be first, and given enough durability, sidewalks, cars, roofs, and the Chines could all become miniature power plants.
Damn. I was hoping they'd be launching phone-book sized printed copies of spam at the contestants, complete with blood, with each week adding a few pounds. Add some half naked chicks and dudes (cater to multiple markets) dancing around, maybe some buckets of slime and you've got yourself a show worthy of running on Fox.
No, kids! Don't look at my fake MySpace profile! I demand you don't! I'm really, really, serious!!
By over-reacting he has called far more attention on himself and, in turn, the school district and community at large. And not the good kind of attention.
He should have just gone with it, and had fun with it. And maybe, just maybe, use it as an easy-to-access tool to assess what the students think of his methodology? I know, criticism is a lost art.
Personally, I would have just created a fake profile of the kid that made it and photoshopped him to wear a frilly pink tutu and had a good laugh with the kid (whilst dodging his parents).
Violating those terms should only be legally punishable by a termination of the agreement. It's a civil agreement that likely wouldn't even stand up in court, or even get heard by a judge in the first place outside of a big case like this.
Me clicking on a little checkbox shouldn't be legally binding in any fashion. If Blizzard wants an iron clad contract with penalties outside of simple agreement cancellation, they best comply with what the rest of the business world does: signed and dated papers, with signed copies to each party (cross signed, not simply faxed copies).
The funny thing is, no one in my old guild had even heard of WoWGlider before Blizzard started this court room debacle. Way to keep it under the table, Blizzard. The Warden application is why I quit WoW, my data is more important to me than some silly game.
That's why you can turn it on and off. :-) I know a friend that has sensitive vision can't stand it, either, he says all the letters have a blue halo.
If he's a lawyer, just put a $100 bill, a bottle of good scotch, and some crocodile tears and he'll come a' runnin'.
Just kidding, he's good people. You can catch plenty of ambulance chasers that way, though.
Yet everyone can see just how bad of a "standard" it really is. It seems like every new version costs more and comes with a brand new format. What standardized format changes every 2 years? Or better yet, what true standard doesn't allow extensible additions to it for future expansion?
There's a few key differences. First, Google is already profitable. Second, Google adds services over time, whereas many of the dot-com rushers tries to do everything at once. Google has the brand recognition and strong history to even the most novice of Internet users required that none of the dot-com guys, even with their tens of millions of marketing dollars, had.
With Google being a public company, they have more incentive to retain services than other service companies. They have far more to lose if they close a service than if, say, Webmail.us folded, since e-mail is all Webmail.us does. That reason alone will force them to keep large, successful services like Gmail alive, even if it is eventually in a reduced form.
Not at all, sorry if my post implied that. I understand that very few Islamic countries have leaderships that accurately reflect the actual citizenship and that most leaderships tend to be above and beyond the scope of other typical governments (e.g., religion as a function of government, or rather, government as a function of religion).
Then again, I'm not sure how many countries have reflective leadership anymore.
I know the US has some problems with free speech, but what the hell is wrong with Europe lately? For instance, Germany will soon be attempting to reintroduce legislation into the EU banning swastikas and Holocaust denial (Source: BBC). You can't have selective free speech!
People are getting confused. You should tolerate the idea of free speech; you don't have to like what people say, you don't even have to listen. It's the right to speak, not the right to be heard or listened to.
These laws, including the Turkish positions, would be like if the US suddenly enacted laws saying that no one can speak of the Confederacy in a positive light and made it illegal to say the Confederacy actually won. Everyone knows they didn't, but people still say it. Everyone with an IQ over 20 just laughs at them, though. I'd just laugh & ignore at anyone who denied the Holocaust -- you should too, Europe (Germany, Turkey, et all).
Surprisingly, at least in the Holocaust issue, England is one of the few countries that put up a fuss last time it came up (2005). The same England that's hell bent on monitoring every street corner. C'est bizarre.
They could be hovering wind farms.
I just hope they don't get full of eels.
Their terms of service explicitly forbid things that use the connection continuously, such as games. Remember, this is for their wireless, so I doubt you'll be trying to play any latency-sensitive game on it.
I just hope that Steam-like services don't have terrible interfaces.
StarDock is one such interface. It is so horribly designed. I have to update Galactic Civilizations II through it, and I loathe starting it. It takes more than a few seconds to load. All I want to do is update my game.
The nice thing is that Galactic Civilizations II has no DRM or CD verification or anything. In response to you, GC2 is mainly single player (with single player upload to the servers to have "multiplayer", e.g., your stats are updated based on your games), so not all developers are going for mutliplayer only.
Why would it need to reauthenticate with each AJAX request? You can easily just append the session token to the end of your POST (or GET) requests. It goes over the wire in cleartext anyway. All AJAX apps should be using SSL anyway.
You don't run into this specific problem if you do that. New windows with the same domain name (e.g., gmail.com) don't share the same memory as the original window, thus it won't have the authentication token, and won't have the active cookie, either.
Those same people spend $6.00 for a coffee with a fancy, nonsensical "foreign" name and a 500% markup on designer cigarettes that don't even come with designer cancer.
I doubt you will convince them that a $400 laptop == $4,000 laptop for their purpose. They are impervious to reasoning.