You're a brave humanoid. I always have the urge to point this out as well, but it's getting to the point where any anti-Apple comment will get you modded into oblivion. Fanboy-ism is not a good thing, whether it be Apple, Sony, etc. Question any company when it has questionable behaviour.
Spam is an inconvenience. A foreign government (or disgruntled locals) hacking into military or infrastructure systems is a threat, whether or not it's actually happening to any degree. Having most of the susceptible systems attached to public networks is ridiculous.
That's an exceedingly annoying 'standard' that makes reading SQL vastly harder than it should be. I think it originally stemmed from people misunderstanding the syntax diagrams in books where the keywords were shown in all capitals.
The alternative would be actually updating the media with an activation code. If the code is not there, it will not play. I would think this is really only of value to them if they record the personal details of the person who bought the game I'm not sure I'd be willing to give them mine.
They did code signing, as does the current xbox, and the PS3 as well, I believe. Something like they're talking about would require you to have online connectivity to play a game, at least at startup.
History shows that MS may be in favour of this judging by the way they seem to have bowed to big media and crippled the Zune's wireless functionality. The device would have been awesome had that been implemented in a non-crippled way. It goes without saying that this is right up Sony's alley, and it's surprising they haven't tried it themselves. I'm not sure how Nintendo would come in on something like this. I've heard people don't even have the homebrew channel disabled when they get a Wii back from repair, and Nintendo does carry a lot of market weight these days.
Do not want to have searches, research, news exposure, etc, mainly recommended by my friends and social network contacts. It's way too limiting. And it's not just because I don't have any friends. People don't even necessarily have the same interests as their friends. Peoples opinions have value, but so does objectivity. Think about buying a camera. If you only base your decision on your friends recommendations, you would never look at anything 'new'. Somebody needs to do that.
As they should be. Moving onto a mainframe is generally a bad decision for a large number of reasons, including price, performance, and lack of options. It's getting less anti-competitive with linux running on it, but is still restricted in many ways as well. If you already have one, they can work for certain tasks, but they are not generally the best for modern systems. Yeah, if you still run COBOL systems, you're kind of stuck.
It may have something to do with all of the people that wrote to their MP's. There are also other good signs, such as a huge display of condemnation regarding a bill giving police the power to get ISP subscriber information without a warrant (this was on the CBC site, check the comments). People seem surprisingle informed and politicians may be taking note. Of course, I could be blindly optimistic.
Besides, with all that power available, we just get a whole pile of old electric fans and point them in the opposite direction of the the fans. Heck, for that matter, we can store power in batteries and point the fans at the windmills when there's no wind.
The long term plan is to let evolution take its course. Eventually we'll be left with Ninja birds that have learned how to avoid wind turbine blades. These will then be put through further training to teach how to stop crapping on my car right after I've washed it.
At the danger of angering the iPhone fans, why the outcry over Zune and Zune marketplace, and not Apple and its DRM. It's not on the music anymore, but isn't it still on the video and the apps? My apologies if they don't use DRM anymore.
While I understand the uproar about asking for passwords, even asking for usernames and websites is an huge invasion of privacy that shouldn't be tolerated. It's none of their damn business. The only exception to this is if you own business that would constitute a conflict of interest with your job, and that relates to the business whether it has a website or not.
He's more right than he probably knows. Even the design and engineering seem to be on a rapid decline, leaving copyright law and patent portfolios the only remaining American stronghold. People don't seem to grasp that it isn't sustainable. When the only thing you're left with is lawyers, you have a very serious problem.
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You're a brave humanoid. I always have the urge to point this out as well, but it's getting to the point where any anti-Apple comment will get you modded into oblivion. Fanboy-ism is not a good thing, whether it be Apple, Sony, etc. Question any company when it has questionable behaviour.
Theora is good enough. I'd rather have "good enough" than be stuck paying fees for 'IP' for what should be an open standard.
Spam is an inconvenience. A foreign government (or disgruntled locals) hacking into military or infrastructure systems is a threat, whether or not it's actually happening to any degree. Having most of the susceptible systems attached to public networks is ridiculous.
That's an exceedingly annoying 'standard' that makes reading SQL vastly harder than it should be. I think it originally stemmed from people misunderstanding the syntax diagrams in books where the keywords were shown in all capitals.
The alternative would be actually updating the media with an activation code. If the code is not there, it will not play. I would think this is really only of value to them if they record the personal details of the person who bought the game I'm not sure I'd be willing to give them mine.
They did code signing, as does the current xbox, and the PS3 as well, I believe. Something like they're talking about would require you to have online connectivity to play a game, at least at startup.
History shows that MS may be in favour of this judging by the way they seem to have bowed to big media and crippled the Zune's wireless functionality. The device would have been awesome had that been implemented in a non-crippled way. It goes without saying that this is right up Sony's alley, and it's surprising they haven't tried it themselves. I'm not sure how Nintendo would come in on something like this. I've heard people don't even have the homebrew channel disabled when they get a Wii back from repair, and Nintendo does carry a lot of market weight these days.
I'm glad they called it Google Wave. Something like 'FaceGoo' would probably attract the wrong crowd.
Do not want to have searches, research, news exposure, etc, mainly recommended by my friends and social network contacts. It's way too limiting. And it's not just because I don't have any friends. People don't even necessarily have the same interests as their friends. Peoples opinions have value, but so does objectivity. Think about buying a camera. If you only base your decision on your friends recommendations, you would never look at anything 'new'. Somebody needs to do that.
As they should be. Moving onto a mainframe is generally a bad decision for a large number of reasons, including price, performance, and lack of options. It's getting less anti-competitive with linux running on it, but is still restricted in many ways as well. If you already have one, they can work for certain tasks, but they are not generally the best for modern systems. Yeah, if you still run COBOL systems, you're kind of stuck.
No kidding. 9 hours? They're not even showing the extended editions. Talk about begging for civil unrest.
It may have something to do with all of the people that wrote to their MP's. There are also other good signs, such as a huge display of condemnation regarding a bill giving police the power to get ISP subscriber information without a warrant (this was on the CBC site, check the comments). People seem surprisingle informed and politicians may be taking note. Of course, I could be blindly optimistic.
Please excuse me, it's time for my medication.
The long term plan is to let evolution take its course. Eventually we'll be left with Ninja birds that have learned how to avoid wind turbine blades. These will then be put through further training to teach how to stop crapping on my car right after I've washed it.
Now people are whining about the noise and environmental impact.
At the danger of angering the iPhone fans, why the outcry over Zune and Zune marketplace, and not Apple and its DRM. It's not on the music anymore, but isn't it still on the video and the apps? My apologies if they don't use DRM anymore.
While I understand the uproar about asking for passwords, even asking for usernames and websites is an huge invasion of privacy that shouldn't be tolerated. It's none of their damn business. The only exception to this is if you own business that would constitute a conflict of interest with your job, and that relates to the business whether it has a website or not.
The way we protect people against their own stupidity also goes against the normal evolutionary process. I still say "Idiocracy" was a documentary.
Since Opera isn't open source, you have to trust them. I would still much prefer to be able to verify it myself.
I'm sure they'll be as innovative and customer centric in the gaming worlds as they have been in the communications industry.
I believe some of those people may also need to be reminded about standing on your lawn. Sad ... the memory is the first thing to go.
It is not redundant. You can use TDD and still have developers that write unmaintainable crap.
I'm still stuck with these ridiculous analog eyes and ears. Stupid forced upgrade path.
He's more right than he probably knows. Even the design and engineering seem to be on a rapid decline, leaving copyright law and patent portfolios the only remaining American stronghold. People don't seem to grasp that it isn't sustainable. When the only thing you're left with is lawyers, you have a very serious problem.
Replying to myself (after RTFA), Apple is actually adding the compass hardware to the new iPhones.