What If you don't want wireless? What if you play rpg's for hours on end and want the comfort your control won't run out of batteries,...
Wireless controllers could save your life! Don't you know that people die from playing video games for more than 36 hours? Or what if you're playing a flight simulator and you get a blood clot in your leg from sitting still for 2 hours and it travels to your brain! And you die! Oh my god your brain!
On a more serious note, the whole enchilada does seem a bit expensive to me. Given that the price per gigabyte these days is down to around $0.48USD for the largest models, I wouldn't want to pay more than $10 for a 20GB hard drive. Either way, both packages seem rather sour to me.
If you download firefox with the firefox browser you are NOT counted. Same goes for the update mechanism in the browser, you're not counted with that.
This number is simply a metric which happens to be number of downloads. This is not the number of users. No one ever says that, although people seem to misinterpret the download count to mean active users.
The download number is simply a way to guage the software's popularity. And if I may say so, 80000000 downloads is a good start!
I think a more appropriate analogy would be how "security" experts release information about software flaws, only to have the hacker community use that release to build a tool to exploit it. My nominal dysphasia might be kicking in, but I think it was the Sasser worm, or some big one, where the kid that created it learned about the flaw because Microsoft created a patch for it. If MS hadn't said anything, then the worm wouldn't have been created. Funny how that is.
Now that the cat's out of the bag for searching for private information, I can't imagine all the misuse that's going to ensue. I'm sure spammers and fraudsters are creating tools to probe google for "private" information for possible targets. Fraud would be so much easier if you know something personal about the person. That's how psychics work (see the P & T Bullshit episode). Another possibility is black mail. Old man Wilson next door is looking at midget porn, and his wife if 6'5". I wonder how much I could charge him to keep my mouth shut.
I said something very similar to this in my spreadfirefox.com blog. My idea was that since IE 7 has copied all the compelling features of FireFox that the browser neede something really usefull and necesarry to facility a wide scale deployment. The idea I propropsed, and I'm sure I'm not the first to think of this, is that someone, perhaps google, should create an word processor with XUL technology. If you've ever seen the Amazon example you'll know that the technology is ripe for this. The odd thing that caught me by surprise is that everyone that replied my blog at the spread firefox website said my idea was stupid and that firefox should only ever be a web browser. To say the least it is not very incouraging that the marketing machine of Firefox is short sighted.
Overall, pushing boundaries in technology is a good thing, and it's obvious MS is quick to copy, both for the browser (IE7 vs FF) and the content (MSFT vs GOOG).
I think it will be interesting to see who will be able to outshine MS's "embrace and extend" philosophy by doing the same with their own respective products. New ideas that push boundaries are important, otherwise MS will just assimilate, then dominate, then stagnate the technology.
NASA already has a TV channel. You can watch rocket launches, which are cool, and watch people work in mission control, which is boring. Reality TV doesn't get much more real than the NASA TV channel.
I don't see how any of you play games like that. It's not very intuitive at all. I use the following.
J: Jump
U: Up
D: Down
L: Left
R: Right
F: Forward
B: Backward
C: Crouch
Left Alt + S: Strafe Seft
Right Alt + S: Strafe Right
If this increases Mac's market share, at least in terms of software, how will it deal with an increase in viruses, worms, and trojans. Mac's will get them, that's for sure, but the deciding factor I think will be how well they respond to vulnerabilities.
From reading the responses here and from the last time this topic surfaced on slashdot, it seems as though people don't fully comprehend the crappiness of the problem.
I run a game programming website as a hobby, so my livelihood doesn't depend on google's ranks. But my page rank has descreased and I have fewer back links as reported by google. The links to my site and it's content have not decreased, but google's reporting says it has.
This is simply the effect where the cause is some casino website that does this damn 301 redirect to my website. I had a leeching problem for a while, so I analyed my web server logs to find out the culprit, in doing so I found some odd web log spam for some website in china and a casino website doing a redirect and theft of my site's content.
I don't make any money off my website, it's a very small niche, but the content is good and it had a nice page rank for a while, so it was an easy target. And there really isn't much I can do. My site got hijacked, google indexed the hijacking page as though it was mine, then they change their page after being indexed in google so that now display advertisements instead of doing the redirect.
As a hobbyist, I can't get into litigation with a damn casino website in a different country. I know a lot of complaints are from the so-called "search engine optimizing" companies, but as an honest webmaster with no comercial interest in google, it's still a pain in the butt. There is absolutely nothing honest webmasters can do to prevent this or to rectify it. The ball is in Google's court to give credit where credit is due, and that's the final target URL, not the referer.
I guess it's odd coincidence that when I viewed my "about:plugins" page earlier this morning in firefox then clicked on the "netscape" link at the top of that page I got redirected to the Netscape 8 download page.
I took the flash tour thinking it's been out a while , and I do have to say that the "security" rating accessable via the tab for each site is a nice feature. I'm sure their idea of "security" isn't what I had in mind, but it's a start. It would be so nice to toggle javascript, java, plugins, cookies, etc on a per site or per tab basis.
On another note regarding the side-by-side installation of netscape with other gecko browsers, all I can say is Mozilla needs to get it's rendering engine in order. What they need to do is remove gekco from the chrome so that gecko could be embeded im applications ala IE. It really needs to be a priority instead of having a single guy work on some COM version in his spare time.
The future is not websites but rich-websites. Maybe I'm the only one that realizes this but Firefox is not competing with IE, the real battle is XUL competing against.NET for rich web applications that can be easily integrated into the desktop environment.
I've done this sort of thing before, but inside the house. I used a simple webserver with PHP w/ CURL to use specially crafted URLs to query a secondary internal x10 server. I had a rotating disco ball and various lights controllable via the web.
And people want to put him on Letterman for faking this?
How many times are we going to be forced to buy Star Wars? Laser Disk, VHS twice (original and updated versions), DVD, and sometime in the future HD DVD. And by that time it will be a 6 movie set. Lucas sure does dig deep in the pockets.
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What If you don't want wireless? What if you play rpg's for hours on end and want the comfort your control won't run out of batteries,...
Wireless controllers could save your life! Don't you know that people die from playing video games for more than 36 hours? Or what if you're playing a flight simulator and you get a blood clot in your leg from sitting still for 2 hours and it travels to your brain! And you die! Oh my god your brain!
On a more serious note, the whole enchilada does seem a bit expensive to me. Given that the price per gigabyte these days is down to around $0.48USD for the largest models, I wouldn't want to pay more than $10 for a 20GB hard drive. Either way, both packages seem rather sour to me.
If you download firefox with the firefox browser you are NOT counted. Same goes for the update mechanism in the browser, you're not counted with that.
This number is simply a metric which happens to be number of downloads. This is not the number of users. No one ever says that, although people seem to misinterpret the download count to mean active users.
The download number is simply a way to guage the software's popularity. And if I may say so, 80000000 downloads is a good start!
I think a more appropriate analogy would be how "security" experts release information about software flaws, only to have the hacker community use that release to build a tool to exploit it. My nominal dysphasia might be kicking in, but I think it was the Sasser worm, or some big one, where the kid that created it learned about the flaw because Microsoft created a patch for it. If MS hadn't said anything, then the worm wouldn't have been created. Funny how that is.
Now that the cat's out of the bag for searching for private information, I can't imagine all the misuse that's going to ensue. I'm sure spammers and fraudsters are creating tools to probe google for "private" information for possible targets. Fraud would be so much easier if you know something personal about the person. That's how psychics work (see the P & T Bullshit episode). Another possibility is black mail. Old man Wilson next door is looking at midget porn, and his wife if 6'5". I wonder how much I could charge him to keep my mouth shut.
I said something very similar to this in my spreadfirefox.com blog. My idea was that since IE 7 has copied all the compelling features of FireFox that the browser neede something really usefull and necesarry to facility a wide scale deployment. The idea I propropsed, and I'm sure I'm not the first to think of this, is that someone, perhaps google, should create an word processor with XUL technology. If you've ever seen the Amazon example you'll know that the technology is ripe for this. The odd thing that caught me by surprise is that everyone that replied my blog at the spread firefox website said my idea was stupid and that firefox should only ever be a web browser. To say the least it is not very incouraging that the marketing machine of Firefox is short sighted.
Overall, pushing boundaries in technology is a good thing, and it's obvious MS is quick to copy, both for the browser (IE7 vs FF) and the content (MSFT vs GOOG).
I think it will be interesting to see who will be able to outshine MS's "embrace and extend" philosophy by doing the same with their own respective products. New ideas that push boundaries are important, otherwise MS will just assimilate, then dominate, then stagnate the technology.
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NASA already has a TV channel. You can watch rocket launches, which are cool, and watch people work in mission control, which is boring. Reality TV doesn't get much more real than the NASA TV channel.
I don't see how any of you play games like that. It's not very intuitive at all. I use the following.
J: Jump
U: Up
D: Down
L: Left
R: Right
F: Forward
B: Backward
C: Crouch
Left Alt + S: Strafe Seft
Right Alt + S: Strafe Right
If this increases Mac's market share, at least in terms of software, how will it deal with an increase in viruses, worms, and trojans. Mac's will get them, that's for sure, but the deciding factor I think will be how well they respond to vulnerabilities.
From reading the responses here and from the last time this topic surfaced on slashdot, it seems as though people don't fully comprehend the crappiness of the problem.
I run a game programming website as a hobby, so my livelihood doesn't depend on google's ranks. But my page rank has descreased and I have fewer back links as reported by google. The links to my site and it's content have not decreased, but google's reporting says it has.
This is simply the effect where the cause is some casino website that does this damn 301 redirect to my website. I had a leeching problem for a while, so I analyed my web server logs to find out the culprit, in doing so I found some odd web log spam for some website in china and a casino website doing a redirect and theft of my site's content.
I don't make any money off my website, it's a very small niche, but the content is good and it had a nice page rank for a while, so it was an easy target. And there really isn't much I can do. My site got hijacked, google indexed the hijacking page as though it was mine, then they change their page after being indexed in google so that now display advertisements instead of doing the redirect.
As a hobbyist, I can't get into litigation with a damn casino website in a different country. I know a lot of complaints are from the so-called "search engine optimizing" companies, but as an honest webmaster with no comercial interest in google, it's still a pain in the butt. There is absolutely nothing honest webmasters can do to prevent this or to rectify it. The ball is in Google's court to give credit where credit is due, and that's the final target URL, not the referer.
I guess it's odd coincidence that when I viewed my "about:plugins" page earlier this morning in firefox then clicked on the "netscape" link at the top of that page I got redirected to the Netscape 8 download page.
.NET for rich web applications that can be easily integrated into the desktop environment.
I took the flash tour thinking it's been out a while , and I do have to say that the "security" rating accessable via the tab for each site is a nice feature. I'm sure their idea of "security" isn't what I had in mind, but it's a start. It would be so nice to toggle javascript, java, plugins, cookies, etc on a per site or per tab basis.
On another note regarding the side-by-side installation of netscape with other gecko browsers, all I can say is Mozilla needs to get it's rendering engine in order. What they need to do is remove gekco from the chrome so that gecko could be embeded im applications ala IE. It really needs to be a priority instead of having a single guy work on some COM version in his spare time.
The future is not websites but rich-websites. Maybe I'm the only one that realizes this but Firefox is not competing with IE, the real battle is XUL competing against
I've done this sort of thing before, but inside the house. I used a simple webserver with PHP w/ CURL to use specially crafted URLs to query a secondary internal x10 server. I had a rotating disco ball and various lights controllable via the web. And people want to put him on Letterman for faking this?
How many times are we going to be forced to buy Star Wars? Laser Disk, VHS twice (original and updated versions), DVD, and sometime in the future HD DVD. And by that time it will be a 6 movie set. Lucas sure does dig deep in the pockets.