There are way bigger, monstrous sized companies who does serve to China's interests. Who did the "great firewall" to begin with? Which hardware does it run on? Can you imagine the data bandwidth, processing power required to do such "out of Internet nature" thing?
What about gigantic game companies who abides their "1 hour only" rules? What about once hippie run company shipping their "edition" for China?
Opera is like a grocery store run by family compared to those companies which are gigantic. They got bigger but they are still small. Their main income is from mobile&electronics and I don't think any mobile company on this planet dares to confront China. Their shareholders would really punish them so bad that Opera ASA as we all know would cease to exist.
You know, there is something called Linux and entire tree of BSD which is free to do anything with. I can find 10-15 elite guys and start my own BSD Distro and if it is better than FreeBSD (imaginary speaking), it can have potential to grow bigger and perhaps make a multi billion enterprise giant (Red Hat).
Why don't contribute time and resources to them and play with a giant information monopoly toy instead? Return? More 13 year old clueless kids personal info?
I think he fails to understand it because of a simple reason. Apple, with a CULT base, not a customer base couldn't get away with "web apps only" on a tiny device.
Lets see what will people say about "web apps" on a fscking 12 inch screen and a real keyboard.
Steve Jobs couldn't make people convinced about it. You know, the Reality Distortion Field guy, CEO of Century or something... Apple didn't dare to claim people's personal data too...
BTW, I wonder when will US Govt. ask Google about how far they will go?
Perhaps Google should not bother with these things doing backwards things like booting and launching browser... If they implant a "Google chip" into our brains, we will wake up and whatever we wonder will be searched in Google properties and injected into our thoughts with Google adsense mixed in middle of them.
Calling this insane? Watch people lining up for Google powered FREE netbooks next year, especially 8-13 year old kids...
Dear EFF: Remember what you are supposed to do? That "powered by Google" searchbox on your site, start with removing it.
Mobile is plain C and it uses the Mini "compressed proxy" system while being a "real" browser, nothing at middle, e.g. for AJAX etc. stuff. It is at early beta stage but IMHO you should follow its development, it can be amazing with these unique features. Especially when Adobe releases the real Desktop flash on Mobile for free.
I can't speak about Android but Nokia's Webkit based browser really shows that you can waste an excellent framework and ship one of the worst Mobile browsers shipped to date with it.
Just recently, Nokia skipped Webkit update on E71, the most sold smart phone of them in USA because E72 is on the way and they also ship 5800 touchscreen. That is Nokia for you.
Opera Mobile beta (currently) 10 could be already available for Windows Mobile. I am a Symbian owner but I can remember Opera 9.5 beta (late replaced by 10) was released only on Win Mobile and Symbian UIQ3 (touch screen).
You better keep eye on Opera.com mobile team blogs/pages. I am pretty clueless about Windows Mobile... Does it have J2ME support? If it is the case, Opera Mini would do a great job for ordinary browsing without beta hassle.
Check Wiki about "thinking machines", "transputer" and if you have more than 1 CPU/Core, launch a game and see if all cores used effectively without needing massive additional work from game publisher.
Technology is primitive, even a billion processor machine doesn't save it from being primitive. It is the software at least.
I think they knew the game wouldn't sell original copies too much in Russia so they basically trolled with that "No Russians" level, predicting this or less would happen.
Income: PR, "Reds banning American game", Slashdot YRO story etc. It is far more than the game would sell in Russia.
Most of them started with C64 basic and became gurus of today. Why C64 BASIC? Because it was so horrible that you were required to do POKE hacks, ASM code, own ASM routines, know the registers etc.
Of course, after a certain level, they asked themselves "Why the heck am I bothering with this?" and moved to mixture of pure ASM and C.
Coding for 8bit computers were so hard that one Atari 800XL (8bit) game developer could move out of gaming business (because of distributor) and could start to code entire software of B2 stealth bomber.
On real smart phones, people does it for years, installing/running their old games, showing their friends the code they wrote.
The issue here is, your device vendor and your apologists shouldn't be asking this question. It should be YOU choosing what to do with the computing platform you do. Why don't you ask why there is such a limit of "running emulated code"? Why don't you think 10 SECONDS about the reasoning behind it?
I can't wait for the "app store only" OS X 10.7 and apologists for the most closed computing platform ever came to this earth. If things go that bad, I will be running Windows junk with 100 utils to make it my way so it doesn't bother me, I will just grab a popcorn and check Slashdot.
It takes 10 secs to explain a user what GPL is and even with that 10 sec knowledge, he can understand the real idea behind it to call it "absolutely utopic".
I am speaking about a "user" without no kind of developer background and does nothing technical except running Apple software update.
I don't buy a company which has reached to a level of doing business with MS for MS OS distribution doesn't know the implications of using GPL software. At least they could go for BSD licensed software which has a perfect example in commercial OS land, OS X.
Not just that, nobody believed the guy. Everyone joked about using same API calls etc.
I don't see them apologize now, as usual. It means even if you find about it, you may stay silent not to bother with these idiots and a giant software monopoly like MS.
I still have no clue why World's largest OS vendor can't write their own damn tool. It is not Photoshop for God's sake.
MS ships a modern OS, including kernel, massive frameworks, driver infrastructure to work on billions of different configurations and it is reviewed to be a good one.
How come some developer of them doesn't write that tool in matter of hours using the APIs already built into Windows? Who really runs Microsoft these days?
They could at least license a known, legit, stable tool and if you pay them Microsoft way, they won't even bother if their name is mentioned. For example, instead of trying to code their own "download" tool, Adobe licensed Getright framework. Instead of coming up with a "zip" compressor, they licensed a massive compressor which will save them bandwidth (amazing amount).
Now that little tool will cost them millions. You know why? People accusing them of stealing open source and even making movie about it (anti-trust) have another example in hand. Or, if I was some Redhat seller, I would say "MS? They can't even code their own software without stealing from us (open source camp)"
I believe if you are a developer with SDK, you can do anything on your _own_ device but you can't distribute the application (it won't install) to Symbian scene without review (way different focus than app store) process by a Symbian signing consultant.
If you are a technical user, you can download free/open source/independent apps and sign them to your device IMEI (unique hw ID) to have features like "add to startup". It is more like OS X "super user" (Administrator) permissions, still not root.
For complete, God like permissions, you need a very special license and it is not trivial to get it. I got only a single of that kind, an over the air backup application distributed by my own cell provider and stores data on their servers.
It is hassle and complicated but, Nokia had to learn their lesson from Cabir worm which costed them millions in terms of image/service. So they had to come up with "less evil" solution, best of both Worlds... It still won't change minds of Apple apologizers though, they will still use Symbian Signed which is a security/privacy/battery life guard for App Store arguments.
It is Apple's default password, which is alpine. Also, largest threat to Apple ecosystem's security comes from Apple apologizers and conspiracy theorists popping up from nowhere every single time some story mentioning OS X security pops up.
Apple forces people to jailbreak their phones, some noobs are technically incapable to maintain a full feature UNIX server also becomes victim. Nokia/Blackberry/Windows Mobile users doesn't feel the need to hack their system security so there is no Rick wallpaper on their screens.
App Firewall does have a nice function where it scans for "listening" (server) applications and pops up when some new listening application (server) launched, asks user whether to allow and sign the binary against future modification which in that case, it will popup again.
They are absolutely stupid to code such a "mac like" app firewall and not enabling it by default. As a good side effect, it could also promote developers sign their apps.
BTW: Check your ports with nmap locally (nmap) or remotely (grc.com) after putting machine to DMZ. Some real needless ports are always open. I am not suggesting we should all run "stealth", it is just they keep that freaking port 88 open, they keep listening via SMB when you basically share a printer etc. Does everyone have to have a damn Windows machine on their networks?
"Have storm8 pulled their games as they all show in a search but they cannot be downloaded.
I get the following error message:
The item you are trying to buy is no longer available
I can download other apps but no storm8 games?"
It means app is pulled from store either by Apple, Storm8 or some court order thing. I still think we should blame the right guys for this, App store and Apple (SDK).
Sad thing is, the best companies on mobile security (telling from Symbian), Kaspersky and F-Secure won't ship any products to a target of "jailbroken" (hacked) iPhones as they want to maintain a relationship with Apple.
App Store is absolutely impossible since these things run daemons at background, including an app firewall.
So, even if you pay, you won't have any kind of extra privacy or security on iPhone.
PS: I got couple of their games, they have "recruit" feature which pulls up Address Book contacts and sends "invitation" to them without using the built in smtp. One must be real stupid not to get suspicious while REVIEWING the game. App Store approving idiot: I am talking to you.
and we have all seen what happened to that GNU created hero (!) after he went to Novell. Do you really want to raise this "proprietary" crap for sure? Even GNU Debian Linux (there is a reason for that name) got infected by his wannabe framework (!) because of some trivial note taking application.
Now multi billion mobile/services giant Nokia, who doesn't need money like poor Trolltech has made the project free/GPL. I don't see any "Qt is proprietary" trolls cheering. It was so wrong to ask for money while companies making millions/billions with your full fledged framework isn't it? For example, Google, Adobe, Last.fm doesn't need to pay?
GNU's biggest mistake was making that trojan guy a hero while he didn't deserve it. He was just another person, a MS reject who did 1000th clone of Norton Commander, that is all.
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There are way bigger, monstrous sized companies who does serve to China's interests. Who did the "great firewall" to begin with? Which hardware does it run on? Can you imagine the data bandwidth, processing power required to do such "out of Internet nature" thing?
What about gigantic game companies who abides their "1 hour only" rules? What about once hippie run company shipping their "edition" for China?
Opera is like a grocery store run by family compared to those companies which are gigantic. They got bigger but they are still small. Their main income is from mobile&electronics and I don't think any mobile company on this planet dares to confront China. Their shareholders would really punish them so bad that Opera ASA as we all know would cease to exist.
Apple can't and won't port iTunes to Chrome OS since they won't be able to run their own schemes of communicating with their devices.
iTunes.html can be done, usbmuxd.html can't.
In theory, if there is enough market, Apple can release iTunes for Linux, a closed source binary but on a WebOS, they can't even if they want to.
You know, there is something called Linux and entire tree of BSD which is free to do anything with. I can find 10-15 elite guys and start my own BSD Distro and if it is better than FreeBSD (imaginary speaking), it can have potential to grow bigger and perhaps make a multi billion enterprise giant (Red Hat).
Why don't contribute time and resources to them and play with a giant information monopoly toy instead? Return? More 13 year old clueless kids personal info?
I think he fails to understand it because of a simple reason. Apple, with a CULT base, not a customer base couldn't get away with "web apps only" on a tiny device.
Lets see what will people say about "web apps" on a fscking 12 inch screen and a real keyboard.
Steve Jobs couldn't make people convinced about it. You know, the Reality Distortion Field guy, CEO of Century or something... Apple didn't dare to claim people's personal data too...
BTW, I wonder when will US Govt. ask Google about how far they will go?
Perhaps Google should not bother with these things doing backwards things like booting and launching browser... If they implant a "Google chip" into our brains, we will wake up and whatever we wonder will be searched in Google properties and injected into our thoughts with Google adsense mixed in middle of them.
Calling this insane? Watch people lining up for Google powered FREE netbooks next year, especially 8-13 year old kids...
Dear EFF: Remember what you are supposed to do? That "powered by Google" searchbox on your site, start with removing it.
Mobile is plain C and it uses the Mini "compressed proxy" system while being a "real" browser, nothing at middle, e.g. for AJAX etc. stuff. It is at early beta stage but IMHO you should follow its development, it can be amazing with these unique features. Especially when Adobe releases the real Desktop flash on Mobile for free.
I can't speak about Android but Nokia's Webkit based browser really shows that you can waste an excellent framework and ship one of the worst Mobile browsers shipped to date with it.
Just recently, Nokia skipped Webkit update on E71, the most sold smart phone of them in USA because E72 is on the way and they also ship 5800 touchscreen. That is Nokia for you.
Opera Mobile beta (currently) 10 could be already available for Windows Mobile. I am a Symbian owner but I can remember Opera 9.5 beta (late replaced by 10) was released only on Win Mobile and Symbian UIQ3 (touch screen).
You better keep eye on Opera.com mobile team blogs/pages. I am pretty clueless about Windows Mobile... Does it have J2ME support? If it is the case, Opera Mini would do a great job for ordinary browsing without beta hassle.
Check Wiki about "thinking machines", "transputer" and if you have more than 1 CPU/Core, launch a game and see if all cores used effectively without needing massive additional work from game publisher.
Technology is primitive, even a billion processor machine doesn't save it from being primitive. It is the software at least.
I think they knew the game wouldn't sell original copies too much in Russia so they basically trolled with that "No Russians" level, predicting this or less would happen.
Income: PR, "Reds banning American game", Slashdot YRO story etc. It is far more than the game would sell in Russia.
Is there a mission where you kill American civilians as some Al Queda member? No? Why not?
I play games since 1980s and I keep "killing" Russians, "bombing" Russian towns, watching dumb Russian soldiers.
It really seems someone at "New World" better start a global political correctness fashion.
Most of them started with C64 basic and became gurus of today. Why C64 BASIC? Because it was so horrible that you were required to do POKE hacks, ASM code, own ASM routines, know the registers etc.
Of course, after a certain level, they asked themselves "Why the heck am I bothering with this?" and moved to mixture of pure ASM and C.
Coding for 8bit computers were so hard that one Atari 800XL (8bit) game developer could move out of gaming business (because of distributor) and could start to code entire software of B2 stealth bomber.
No. Pick another platform which doesn't have such stupid limitations.
http://www.symbian.org/devices
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Handset_Alliance#Members
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/devices/default.mspx
Show some kind of dignity. Stop buying devices treating you like some sort of criminal, 50 IQ idiot, 10 year old kid. Posted from Quad Core G5 btw...
On real smart phones, people does it for years, installing/running their old games, showing their friends the code they wrote.
The issue here is, your device vendor and your apologists shouldn't be asking this question. It should be YOU choosing what to do with the computing platform you do. Why don't you ask why there is such a limit of "running emulated code"? Why don't you think 10 SECONDS about the reasoning behind it?
I can't wait for the "app store only" OS X 10.7 and apologists for the most closed computing platform ever came to this earth. If things go that bad, I will be running Windows junk with 100 utils to make it my way so it doesn't bother me, I will just grab a popcorn and check Slashdot.
It takes 10 secs to explain a user what GPL is and even with that 10 sec knowledge, he can understand the real idea behind it to call it "absolutely utopic".
I am speaking about a "user" without no kind of developer background and does nothing technical except running Apple software update.
I don't buy a company which has reached to a level of doing business with MS for MS OS distribution doesn't know the implications of using GPL software. At least they could go for BSD licensed software which has a perfect example in commercial OS land, OS X.
Not just that, nobody believed the guy. Everyone joked about using same API calls etc.
I don't see them apologize now, as usual. It means even if you find about it, you may stay silent not to bother with these idiots and a giant software monopoly like MS.
I still have no clue why World's largest OS vendor can't write their own damn tool. It is not Photoshop for God's sake.
MS ships a modern OS, including kernel, massive frameworks, driver infrastructure to work on billions of different configurations and it is reviewed to be a good one.
How come some developer of them doesn't write that tool in matter of hours using the APIs already built into Windows? Who really runs Microsoft these days?
They could at least license a known, legit, stable tool and if you pay them Microsoft way, they won't even bother if their name is mentioned. For example, instead of trying to code their own "download" tool, Adobe licensed Getright framework. Instead of coming up with a "zip" compressor, they licensed a massive compressor which will save them bandwidth (amazing amount).
Now that little tool will cost them millions. You know why? People accusing them of stealing open source and even making movie about it (anti-trust) have another example in hand. Or, if I was some Redhat seller, I would say "MS? They can't even code their own software without stealing from us (open source camp)"
I believe if you are a developer with SDK, you can do anything on your _own_ device but you can't distribute the application (it won't install) to Symbian scene without review (way different focus than app store) process by a Symbian signing consultant.
If you are a technical user, you can download free/open source/independent apps and sign them to your device IMEI (unique hw ID) to have features like "add to startup". It is more like OS X "super user" (Administrator) permissions, still not root.
For complete, God like permissions, you need a very special license and it is not trivial to get it. I got only a single of that kind, an over the air backup application distributed by my own cell provider and stores data on their servers.
It is hassle and complicated but, Nokia had to learn their lesson from Cabir worm which costed them millions in terms of image/service. So they had to come up with "less evil" solution, best of both Worlds... It still won't change minds of Apple apologizers though, they will still use Symbian Signed which is a security/privacy/battery life guard for App Store arguments.
It is Apple's default password, which is alpine. Also, largest threat to Apple ecosystem's security comes from Apple apologizers and conspiracy theorists popping up from nowhere every single time some story mentioning OS X security pops up.
Apple forces people to jailbreak their phones, some noobs are technically incapable to maintain a full feature UNIX server also becomes victim. Nokia/Blackberry/Windows Mobile users doesn't feel the need to hack their system security so there is no Rick wallpaper on their screens.
App Firewall does have a nice function where it scans for "listening" (server) applications and pops up when some new listening application (server) launched, asks user whether to allow and sign the binary against future modification which in that case, it will popup again.
They are absolutely stupid to code such a "mac like" app firewall and not enabling it by default. As a good side effect, it could also promote developers sign their apps.
BTW: Check your ports with nmap locally (nmap) or remotely (grc.com) after putting machine to DMZ. Some real needless ports are always open. I am not suggesting we should all run "stealth", it is just they keep that freaking port 88 open, they keep listening via SMB when you basically share a printer etc. Does everyone have to have a damn Windows machine on their networks?
"Have storm8 pulled their games as they all show in a search but they cannot be downloaded.
I get the following error message:
The item you are trying to buy is no longer available
I can download other apps but no storm8 games?"
It means app is pulled from store either by Apple, Storm8 or some court order thing. I still think we should blame the right guys for this, App store and Apple (SDK).
Sad thing is, the best companies on mobile security (telling from Symbian), Kaspersky and F-Secure won't ship any products to a target of "jailbroken" (hacked) iPhones as they want to maintain a relationship with Apple.
App Store is absolutely impossible since these things run daemons at background, including an app firewall.
So, even if you pay, you won't have any kind of extra privacy or security on iPhone.
PS: I got couple of their games, they have "recruit" feature which pulls up Address Book contacts and sends "invitation" to them without using the built in smtp. One must be real stupid not to get suspicious while REVIEWING the game. App Store approving idiot: I am talking to you.
If you are redhat racing with ms , you can use his tool to prove that their platform can't be trusted. All you need is running it.
and we have all seen what happened to that GNU created hero (!) after he went to Novell. Do you really want to raise this "proprietary" crap for sure? Even GNU Debian Linux (there is a reason for that name) got infected by his wannabe framework (!) because of some trivial note taking application.
Now multi billion mobile/services giant Nokia, who doesn't need money like poor Trolltech has made the project free/GPL. I don't see any "Qt is proprietary" trolls cheering. It was so wrong to ask for money while companies making millions/billions with your full fledged framework isn't it? For example, Google, Adobe, Last.fm doesn't need to pay?
GNU's biggest mistake was making that trojan guy a hero while he didn't deserve it. He was just another person, a MS reject who did 1000th clone of Norton Commander, that is all.
Gnome doesn't need any more beating while that MS employee is still in the project itself.