China needs to give North Korea the spanking they so dearly need and tell them to start playing nice with others in the neighborhood.
I also find it hilarious that the US went after Iraq for supposed WMD that never existed, but when North Korea actually has and flaunts them the US does nothing. I guess its just easier to bomb the shit out of an impotent nation then one that can actually raise their missiles.
6 years ago Samsung was barely a competitor in the non-smartphone market, now Samsung is outselling Apple in smartphones.
Samsung is probably their own biggest customers for their NAND flash. Companies often "buy" within their own divisions, so Samsung's phone division is Samsung's component division's best customer.
Now also consider that Samsung has become the largest manufacture for smart TV's and AV components, all requiring NAND flash, even some of their refrigerators have web services built into them. Samsung is creating an empire significantly larger than Apple.
ANY Samsung shareholder should be thrilled with the direction Samsung has taken and turning it into a household name that exceeds Apple's mindshare around the world.
You could be a stupid investor and dump Samsung shares because you don't like how they are treating Apple, but realize Apple is becoming a small drop in Samsung's profits and business strategy. Considering how vocal Apple has been about moving away from Samsung, Samsung is taking the right steps to sever ties and move towards more lucrative and profitable industries, namely, themselves.
Samsung makes phones, tablets, computers, the parts that goes into those devices AND TV's, appliances, and so much more. Samsung is so friggen diversified that Apple probably NEVER made a significant impact on their profits, so if I ran Samsung, I would say good riddance and cripple one of their pissy competitors in only one of their many many divisions.
But really, we can't find some better form of energy? We can soon instantly transmit data faster than light across hundreds of miles yet still need to explode dinosaur juice to make our mechanical wagons move?
There was not one game from that era that could install without spending a day trying to tweak config.sys files and autoexec.bat, no reason to single out Lucasarts. Its just that they made some of the better games in that era.
I remember the same headaches with the Wing Commander series responsible for causing me to have to spend hundreds of dollars to find the right combo of video and sound card just to get the opening cutscene to play without stuttering.
Its a shame that George forced his entire empire to eat, breath and shit out Star Wars franchise IP which is why the empire collapsed and got absorbed by an even bigger evil empire. But the few original IP created by Lucasarts were actually quite good and original.
I'm not saying we need to revisit them or have remakes of any of them, but it shows there were actually some creative and inventive original thinkers in the Lucasarts company and hopefully now they are free of the oppression of only doing Star Wars IP, we might see some new and novel games come from them again.
I hide my vast wealth in a box buried under the tree in the North West corner of my backyard at 124 Main St. Podunk USA. No online data breach will ever release that information into the public...
You need to justify the added cost each pound adds to the cost of flying the airplane. I don't think a few pounds will make a huge difference in the fuel cost.
Also any airline doing this kind of thing is going to also have to justify that the airline themselves have done everything possible to minimize the weight of the equipment and content on the plane before passing the buck to heavy customers. I would be outraged if the airline had several thousand pounds of redundant content on an airline (such as empty meal carts or trays, unused cabin accessories, even non-passenger cargo) before passing the buck to me to charge for my added weight to the plane.
I don't care if I am charged by weight, but I'm not going to subsidize the airline running itself inefficiently.
No, I think one can extrapolate some assumptions about how Glass will be used.
1) It will be used to spy on women. 2) It will be used to spy on children 3) It will be used in other creepy ways where one expects some level of privacy or respect.
Consider how easy it will be to modify this thing from a pair of glasses to a wearable spy camera with built in internet connectivity.
Sure not everyone will use it this way, but there WILL be some people that will use it in this way.
To say, "Hey, lets debate the merits of a device after its released" just speaks to a highly naive view of society and reality. I think one can apply rationality and reason to something that has not hit the market and identify the areas of its abuse.
Imagine if only people applied some rationality and reasoning when they invented nuclear fission rather than dealing with the aftermath.
Just like society fails to (thankfully) live up to expectations set 2000 years ago in the bible.
I mean really, we are supposed to adhere to a 40 year old vision of the future? I mean, where is they Dynabook today? Yes, that's right, its back in history where it belongs.
Also Apple nearly went bankrupt several times back in the day. Obviously the original vision failed to sustain both Xerox (as an innovative company today) AND Apple until Steve Jobs had another vision for the future.
If you have a vision that fails, then you failed to deliver your vision, it's nobody else's fault.
Unless there is program to clone me and then take over my life, I really don't care who owns my "genes". I am sure there are people shaking with rage hearing about this, but get over it, its a non-issue for 99.9999% of the population. People just like to fight for something without caring about what its about other then "the injustice of it all".
First, I am getting really tired of websites that don't work on mobile platforms. How hard is it to pick up a tablet or phone and test your website on it before releasing it to the masses. It's the 21st century more people are likely to browser your website on a mobile device then a desktop so stop only creating websites for desktop browsers. More phones ad tablets don't need the mobile version either, most people do not test full desktop sites on a tablet which is why most of them don't work. My Nexus 10 has more pixels then MOST desktop workstations, fucking deal with it properly and stop formatting a website like I am using a VGA phone.
Second, as mentioned, any web developer worth their salt will not target a specific platform or browser. You want to piss off and make your site unusable by a large percentage of the market, go right ahead, but you are not going to be successful in the long run. It doesn't take that much effort to do cross browser support, often it just means that instead of doing some stupid little web animation or div magic you found an example of somewhere you just have to make your website a little more "standard" and stop with the stupid little tricks that might only work on Chrome or IE or something.
If you get paid to develop a website then get rid of your prejudice and do your damn job properly. Realize that there will always be different browser and platforms and focus on making a great website that works for everybody rather then building a site out of prejudice and ignorance.
The only reason why Apple is making iWatch is because Google came out with Glass. Now Google is making a watch too, which means Apple will follow up with some socially connected set of support underwear.
Seems like 2013 is all about companies out dumbing themselves creating something nobody wants.
Except instead take "cookbooks" and replace it with Open Source documentation and you have the same exact dilemma. A bunch of idyllic elite snobs writing instructions they find painfully obvious and unimportant but missing the 400 steps and details required to do set up something correctly so that it actually works.
The entire list is irrelevant and has no influence.
Aside from that the real question is, does the Internet need to be open?
I believe most people are falsely lulled into accepting that the moment you put open in front of something it must, by rights, be better then the alternative. Open Web is obviously better then the un-Open Web (really, what do you call the alternative), but who exactly is crippled by the current state of the Internet? Is there someone or some organization out there fundamentally unable to use the Internet because its not "open".
It can't be about expense because its is ridiculously inexpensive to host a website these days. Yes maybe running something like Wikipedia is arguably expensive, but then again, if Wikipedia had any influence on web standards and innovation they would have invented a cheaper way to run a massive web services.
It also can't be about access because while I agree there is a huge layer of telecom interfering with web access, fundamentally it is easy and relatively inexpensive to find and access web services. You may not always have blistering fast speeds or unlimited downloads, but there are internet service providers offering internet for as little as a few dollars a month making it virtually affordable by anybody that cares to go online.
So I don't exactly know how the current un-Open Web is interfering with people's ability to access, communicate, socialize, and even, shudder, profit from the Internet?
The fact is that the Internet as we know it is slowly dying, instead morphing into a services platform to back native applications. Argue all you like about native apps vs web app, but a considerable amount of internet traffic these days is through an app running on a device. Netflix accounts for a huge portion of internet traffic and a significant portion of that is through a device, NOT a browser. Our TVs, phones, tablets, refrigerators, thermostats, even light bulbs will account for more internet traffic in the near future then people hopping onto a web page through a web browser on a "computer". And again, has the un-Open Web interfered with our ability to webify devices? I can buy Raspberry Pi or Arduino and have a device online in minutes, open devices using un-Open Web.
I think it comes down to nothing more then senseless idealism that something so fundamentally ubiquitous as the Internet should also be fundamentally "open". But sometimes advocates of a cause can't see past the cause, and thus don't realize how pointless it is. Put on your orange bracelet and lets all support the Scause!
Maybe Google stopped championing open web because they have come to the conclusion that it is a completely irrelevant concept.
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China needs to give North Korea the spanking they so dearly need and tell them to start playing nice with others in the neighborhood.
I also find it hilarious that the US went after Iraq for supposed WMD that never existed, but when North Korea actually has and flaunts them the US does nothing. I guess its just easier to bomb the shit out of an impotent nation then one that can actually raise their missiles.
6 years ago Samsung was barely a competitor in the non-smartphone market, now Samsung is outselling Apple in smartphones.
Samsung is probably their own biggest customers for their NAND flash. Companies often "buy" within their own divisions, so Samsung's phone division is Samsung's component division's best customer.
Now also consider that Samsung has become the largest manufacture for smart TV's and AV components, all requiring NAND flash, even some of their refrigerators have web services built into them. Samsung is creating an empire significantly larger than Apple.
ANY Samsung shareholder should be thrilled with the direction Samsung has taken and turning it into a household name that exceeds Apple's mindshare around the world.
You could be a stupid investor and dump Samsung shares because you don't like how they are treating Apple, but realize Apple is becoming a small drop in Samsung's profits and business strategy. Considering how vocal Apple has been about moving away from Samsung, Samsung is taking the right steps to sever ties and move towards more lucrative and profitable industries, namely, themselves.
Samsung makes phones, tablets, computers, the parts that goes into those devices AND TV's, appliances, and so much more. Samsung is so friggen diversified that Apple probably NEVER made a significant impact on their profits, so if I ran Samsung, I would say good riddance and cripple one of their pissy competitors in only one of their many many divisions.
But really, we can't find some better form of energy? We can soon instantly transmit data faster than light across hundreds of miles yet still need to explode dinosaur juice to make our mechanical wagons move?
Why, most of the exploits these days are on OS X anyways.
bool DidBrainBotOperateSuccessfullyOn(Patient patient)
{
if ( patient != null && patient.IsVegetable && !patient.WasVegetable )
throw new PendingLawsuitException(patient.Lawyer, Doctor.Lawyers, Hospital.Lawyers, University.Lawyers, Manufacturer.Lawyers);
return true;
}
There was not one game from that era that could install without spending a day trying to tweak config.sys files and autoexec.bat, no reason to single out Lucasarts. Its just that they made some of the better games in that era.
I remember the same headaches with the Wing Commander series responsible for causing me to have to spend hundreds of dollars to find the right combo of video and sound card just to get the opening cutscene to play without stuttering.
DOS was the dark days of PC gaming for sure.
Its a shame that George forced his entire empire to eat, breath and shit out Star Wars franchise IP which is why the empire collapsed and got absorbed by an even bigger evil empire. But the few original IP created by Lucasarts were actually quite good and original.
I'm not saying we need to revisit them or have remakes of any of them, but it shows there were actually some creative and inventive original thinkers in the Lucasarts company and hopefully now they are free of the oppression of only doing Star Wars IP, we might see some new and novel games come from them again.
I put all my money in an offshore account in Cyprus. I am pretty sure it is all tucked away and safe there.
I hide my vast wealth in a box buried under the tree in the North West corner of my backyard at 124 Main St. Podunk USA. No online data breach will ever release that information into the public...
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You need to justify the added cost each pound adds to the cost of flying the airplane. I don't think a few pounds will make a huge difference in the fuel cost.
Also any airline doing this kind of thing is going to also have to justify that the airline themselves have done everything possible to minimize the weight of the equipment and content on the plane before passing the buck to heavy customers. I would be outraged if the airline had several thousand pounds of redundant content on an airline (such as empty meal carts or trays, unused cabin accessories, even non-passenger cargo) before passing the buck to me to charge for my added weight to the plane.
I don't care if I am charged by weight, but I'm not going to subsidize the airline running itself inefficiently.
No, I think one can extrapolate some assumptions about how Glass will be used.
1) It will be used to spy on women.
2) It will be used to spy on children
3) It will be used in other creepy ways where one expects some level of privacy or respect.
Consider how easy it will be to modify this thing from a pair of glasses to a wearable spy camera with built in internet connectivity.
Sure not everyone will use it this way, but there WILL be some people that will use it in this way.
To say, "Hey, lets debate the merits of a device after its released" just speaks to a highly naive view of society and reality. I think one can apply rationality and reason to something that has not hit the market and identify the areas of its abuse.
Imagine if only people applied some rationality and reasoning when they invented nuclear fission rather than dealing with the aftermath.
Just like society fails to (thankfully) live up to expectations set 2000 years ago in the bible.
I mean really, we are supposed to adhere to a 40 year old vision of the future? I mean, where is they Dynabook today? Yes, that's right, its back in history where it belongs.
Also Apple nearly went bankrupt several times back in the day. Obviously the original vision failed to sustain both Xerox (as an innovative company today) AND Apple until Steve Jobs had another vision for the future.
If you have a vision that fails, then you failed to deliver your vision, it's nobody else's fault.
Unless there is program to clone me and then take over my life, I really don't care who owns my "genes". I am sure there are people shaking with rage hearing about this, but get over it, its a non-issue for 99.9999% of the population. People just like to fight for something without caring about what its about other then "the injustice of it all".
Lastly, God owns our genes, so there.
He reinvented Slashdot? I don't know because I didn't RTFA which is apparently what this app is all about.
Because on the other side nobody is putting any heat on the gun industry because they seem to be making record profits.
I hate web developers like you.
First, I am getting really tired of websites that don't work on mobile platforms. How hard is it to pick up a tablet or phone and test your website on it before releasing it to the masses. It's the 21st century more people are likely to browser your website on a mobile device then a desktop so stop only creating websites for desktop browsers. More phones ad tablets don't need the mobile version either, most people do not test full desktop sites on a tablet which is why most of them don't work. My Nexus 10 has more pixels then MOST desktop workstations, fucking deal with it properly and stop formatting a website like I am using a VGA phone.
Second, as mentioned, any web developer worth their salt will not target a specific platform or browser. You want to piss off and make your site unusable by a large percentage of the market, go right ahead, but you are not going to be successful in the long run. It doesn't take that much effort to do cross browser support, often it just means that instead of doing some stupid little web animation or div magic you found an example of somewhere you just have to make your website a little more "standard" and stop with the stupid little tricks that might only work on Chrome or IE or something.
If you get paid to develop a website then get rid of your prejudice and do your damn job properly. Realize that there will always be different browser and platforms and focus on making a great website that works for everybody rather then building a site out of prejudice and ignorance.
Firefox has been doing a pretty good job of impersonating bloated IE for the last few years.
Can be used to make the hardest or lightest stuff on the planet.
Carbon's reputation is however spoiled by a couple of Oxygen a-holes that like to latch on to it, stupid no good Oxygen.
The only reason why Apple is making iWatch is because Google came out with Glass. Now Google is making a watch too, which means Apple will follow up with some socially connected set of support underwear.
Seems like 2013 is all about companies out dumbing themselves creating something nobody wants.
Except instead take "cookbooks" and replace it with Open Source documentation and you have the same exact dilemma. A bunch of idyllic elite snobs writing instructions they find painfully obvious and unimportant but missing the 400 steps and details required to do set up something correctly so that it actually works.
If you have to learn code through a textbook, you already failed.
Of taking forever to develop a game and then ruining it with always-on DRM?
Yes, that is a dramatic departure from the usual.
I guess you can't blame a company for learning from their mistakes and trying something new. Personally I think the game is a cop-out though.
The entire list is irrelevant and has no influence.
Aside from that the real question is, does the Internet need to be open?
I believe most people are falsely lulled into accepting that the moment you put open in front of something it must, by rights, be better then the alternative. Open Web is obviously better then the un-Open Web (really, what do you call the alternative), but who exactly is crippled by the current state of the Internet? Is there someone or some organization out there fundamentally unable to use the Internet because its not "open".
It can't be about expense because its is ridiculously inexpensive to host a website these days. Yes maybe running something like Wikipedia is arguably expensive, but then again, if Wikipedia had any influence on web standards and innovation they would have invented a cheaper way to run a massive web services.
It also can't be about access because while I agree there is a huge layer of telecom interfering with web access, fundamentally it is easy and relatively inexpensive to find and access web services. You may not always have blistering fast speeds or unlimited downloads, but there are internet service providers offering internet for as little as a few dollars a month making it virtually affordable by anybody that cares to go online.
So I don't exactly know how the current un-Open Web is interfering with people's ability to access, communicate, socialize, and even, shudder, profit from the Internet?
The fact is that the Internet as we know it is slowly dying, instead morphing into a services platform to back native applications. Argue all you like about native apps vs web app, but a considerable amount of internet traffic these days is through an app running on a device. Netflix accounts for a huge portion of internet traffic and a significant portion of that is through a device, NOT a browser. Our TVs, phones, tablets, refrigerators, thermostats, even light bulbs will account for more internet traffic in the near future then people hopping onto a web page through a web browser on a "computer". And again, has the un-Open Web interfered with our ability to webify devices? I can buy Raspberry Pi or Arduino and have a device online in minutes, open devices using un-Open Web.
I think it comes down to nothing more then senseless idealism that something so fundamentally ubiquitous as the Internet should also be fundamentally "open". But sometimes advocates of a cause can't see past the cause, and thus don't realize how pointless it is. Put on your orange bracelet and lets all support the Scause!
Maybe Google stopped championing open web because they have come to the conclusion that it is a completely irrelevant concept.
Half the passwords are "godsavethequeen" and the other half are "wanker".
Just to let the Syrian Electronic Army know,
Huffington Post passwords are usually "iheartzlolcatz" and "password"
Fox News passwords are ALL "nra4ever"
CNN passwords are usually "imarriedlarryking"
yes, you are a moron. Wiki Sweden vs USA and realize Sweden is 21 times smaller then the US by landmass.