d00d, at least spell it correctly, it's, "w00t". oh=zero. I'd also like to add they we shouldn't fight this decision. Imagine what would happend if the work F#@k was never conceived?
why do you leave the other consortium partners out of your post? Like Sony, RIM, EMC and Ericsson? I think Google is in way over their head in the mobile space. They charged into a legal minefield with no plan and now they're grasping for straws. Spending 12.5 billion to cover a mistake isn't exactly smart.
consumers do not win if Android wins. They only one who would benefit from such an outcome would be Google's shareholders. Consumers win when competition stays healthy. FYI, Apple has already proven that it's really hard to make phones cheaper (and better) than they do. This just smacks of Android fanboyism.
Wow, just wow. "Apple has kept their overpriced"... Really? They seem to be pwning tablet makers ATM. No tablet maker can match their price. I can get a refurb 3GS for $49 from ATT. The one thing Apple does right is make sure that any customer (not just some uber nerb SD reader) that plays with the device, decides to buy it and takes it home can actually use it without help. My dad calls me all the time to ask PC questions. He's never called me to ask how to use his iPhone that his company provided him and he sends me emails from it, plays games on it, sends text etc etc.
The security gate really is useless. If terrorists wanted to do any damage at all they'd simply walk to the security line and detonate their bomb. You could probably kill just as many innocent people on a busy day as bringing down a jet liner.
Brute force security will never work. Israel got this right years ago. As an example, (I'm not an American) I travelled to Amsterdam, (Schiphol airport, one of the most secure airports in the world). Even before checking my bag in I was confronted by airport security and asked for my password etc. He never asked to touch my junk, he simply ask me some straightforward questions. Like, why are you here, where are you going etc. Based on my responses he was able to make an intelligent decision that I didn't need further screening (no doubt I had remote eyes on me too). The gist of it is that less intrusive, more elite force security will get you MUCH greater results. TSA != intelligence and intelligence is exactly what we need but we're too damn cheap.
Every single country that has dealt with terrorism knows that brute force is exactly how the enemy wants you to waste your resources.
Terror has won when we are kept captive by ourselves.
what the hell are you talking about? The only apps that have ads are those that you didn't pay for (try buy an app you like some time). If you're using Safari then it's not different that browsing the web with your desktop browser (although on desktop it's easier to block ads with plugins).
There is no such thing as ad injection capabilities on iOS. You better get back under the bridge before you get hit by a car.
why would you want to use Wine for make a game based on Microsoft tech and products? Why not just get a damn windows license then and dev on that. If you ever complete the game who plays it will likely be running windows anyway. Would you really want to release a game you haven't tested on the target platform?
Just use SDL / OpenGL / C++ or something other than XNA if you're gung-ho on not using Windows.
Some poor sap will buy it for more than it's worth. The mafia might even purchase it as a concrete shoes replacement. The handles make it easier to lug around.
I don't think that what it says at all. "Through the Twitter API" means you can't post promoted tweets using their public API, you could still build an app that displays tweets and server ads within the app.
simply really. My wife was playing one xbox and we wanted to play the other. Let me quest, next you are going to ask why we didn't just kick my wife off the xbox and take the HD?
I have 2 xbox 360's in the house (one is my brothers). You cannot have your gamer tag on 2 machines at once so each time you move from console to console (this is the first time I ever did this and have not invested in a memory card) you have to "recover" your gamer tag. The problem is the recovery failed partially through the process so now my profile is invalid on both machines. What I've noticed is just how tied in to XBox Live your profile and hardware is.
I am far from amused with a service that I pay for. It's been over a week now and I am not able to recover my gamer tag. What does that mean? Well not being able to recover my gamer tag means I cannot play any of my saved games or any have any achievements count (yeah big deal). Basically my XBox is rendered useless (I only play games on it). The worst part is that Microsoft has made no attempt to fully explain to its customers why and when Live is going to be working properly again. The support page says that it's "up and running", yet when recovering my gamer tag I get "signup to not available". I guess my biggest question is how can something be so damn broken that it takes over 3 weeks to fix??? Someone really screwed something up really badly over there.
I don't give a rats ass about a free arcade game, I just want my gamer tag back! If Sony can make their online experience more compelling I'd actually start playing my PS3 (got it for free as a gift). XBox gaming is nothing without XBox Live.
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So if I duct tape a cheap ass flip phone to the back of a Vita it'll be just as good as an iPhone 4/5?
unless of course hitting the astroid send it on a direct trajectory towards earth :(
d00d, at least spell it correctly, it's, "w00t". oh=zero. I'd also like to add they we shouldn't fight this decision. Imagine what would happend if the work F#@k was never conceived?
why do you leave the other consortium partners out of your post? Like Sony, RIM, EMC and Ericsson? I think Google is in way over their head in the mobile space. They charged into a legal minefield with no plan and now they're grasping for straws. Spending 12.5 billion to cover a mistake isn't exactly smart.
consumers do not win if Android wins. They only one who would benefit from such an outcome would be Google's shareholders. Consumers win when competition stays healthy. FYI, Apple has already proven that it's really hard to make phones cheaper (and better) than they do. This just smacks of Android fanboyism.
Git is the QWERTY of DVCS, I couldn't imagine using a keyboard any other way :)
I read the headline and thought I was coming here to read about how Charlie Sheen got drunk off his ass and fell in a manhole or something.
Are Slashdot writers asleep at the pen? This has been all over the internet for days now.
by "high bar" do they mean #dickbar?
Wow, just wow. "Apple has kept their overpriced"... Really? They seem to be pwning tablet makers ATM. No tablet maker can match their price. I can get a refurb 3GS for $49 from ATT. The one thing Apple does right is make sure that any customer (not just some uber nerb SD reader) that plays with the device, decides to buy it and takes it home can actually use it without help. My dad calls me all the time to ask PC questions. He's never called me to ask how to use his iPhone that his company provided him and he sends me emails from it, plays games on it, sends text etc etc.
*sound of crickets*
The security gate really is useless. If terrorists wanted to do any damage at all they'd simply walk to the security line and detonate their bomb. You could probably kill just as many innocent people on a busy day as bringing down a jet liner. Brute force security will never work. Israel got this right years ago. As an example, (I'm not an American) I travelled to Amsterdam, (Schiphol airport, one of the most secure airports in the world). Even before checking my bag in I was confronted by airport security and asked for my password etc. He never asked to touch my junk, he simply ask me some straightforward questions. Like, why are you here, where are you going etc. Based on my responses he was able to make an intelligent decision that I didn't need further screening (no doubt I had remote eyes on me too). The gist of it is that less intrusive, more elite force security will get you MUCH greater results. TSA != intelligence and intelligence is exactly what we need but we're too damn cheap. Every single country that has dealt with terrorism knows that brute force is exactly how the enemy wants you to waste your resources. Terror has won when we are kept captive by ourselves.
what the hell are you talking about? The only apps that have ads are those that you didn't pay for (try buy an app you like some time). If you're using Safari then it's not different that browsing the web with your desktop browser (although on desktop it's easier to block ads with plugins). There is no such thing as ad injection capabilities on iOS. You better get back under the bridge before you get hit by a car.
"builds security into a program as its written". Doesn't Perl already do this? Security by obscurity.
why would you want to use Wine for make a game based on Microsoft tech and products? Why not just get a damn windows license then and dev on that. If you ever complete the game who plays it will likely be running windows anyway. Would you really want to release a game you haven't tested on the target platform? Just use SDL / OpenGL / C++ or something other than XNA if you're gung-ho on not using Windows.
Some poor sap will buy it for more than it's worth. The mafia might even purchase it as a concrete shoes replacement. The handles make it easier to lug around.
I don't think that what it says at all. "Through the Twitter API" means you can't post promoted tweets using their public API, you could still build an app that displays tweets and server ads within the app.
by your definition of update Vista must then be an update of XP?
Would be cool when they start bundling iLife with iTunes/Safari etc, basically eat windows from the inside out.
Is the day they allow mouse and keyboard input on xbox360 and ps3 FPS's period.
simply really. My wife was playing one xbox and we wanted to play the other. Let me quest, next you are going to ask why we didn't just kick my wife off the xbox and take the HD?
I have 2 xbox 360's in the house (one is my brothers). You cannot have your gamer tag on 2 machines at once so each time you move from console to console (this is the first time I ever did this and have not invested in a memory card) you have to "recover" your gamer tag. The problem is the recovery failed partially through the process so now my profile is invalid on both machines. What I've noticed is just how tied in to XBox Live your profile and hardware is.
I am far from amused with a service that I pay for. It's been over a week now and I am not able to recover my gamer tag. What does that mean? Well not being able to recover my gamer tag means I cannot play any of my saved games or any have any achievements count (yeah big deal). Basically my XBox is rendered useless (I only play games on it). The worst part is that Microsoft has made no attempt to fully explain to its customers why and when Live is going to be working properly again. The support page says that it's "up and running", yet when recovering my gamer tag I get "signup to not available". I guess my biggest question is how can something be so damn broken that it takes over 3 weeks to fix??? Someone really screwed something up really badly over there. I don't give a rats ass about a free arcade game, I just want my gamer tag back! If Sony can make their online experience more compelling I'd actually start playing my PS3 (got it for free as a gift). XBox gaming is nothing without XBox Live.
damn, it's late and I thought it was the beer so I brushed it off and continued reading.