Blizzard should implement an AddonStore modelled on the iPhone's Appstore, with free and not free addons, and share revenue; and also implement an auto-update feature to keep addons up to date.
Update tool: www.curse.com
As for the addonstore, I already paid three times to play Lich King, not to mention the monthly fee. Why should I pay even more just because the UI sucks?
If you want to play with their code and platform, you need to follow their rules or not play at all.
I was going to call bullshit, but after reading TFA, I completely agree with them in every single point. Misleading summary.
This is not "software development" in the traditional sense. It's a proprietary platform, where everything you do affects many other people as well. This "unlike FOSS" crap is completely sensationalist.
Let's see the 'offending' terms:
4) Add-ons may not include advertisements.
Oh my, we won't have to get adblock for wow! Outrage!
5) Add-ons may not solicit donations. Add-ons may not include requests for donations. We recognize the immense amount of effort and resources that go into developing an add-on; however, such requests should be limited to the add-on website or distribution site and should not appear in the game.
Science can only be done by following the scientific method,
Bullshit. If that's so, why do all the breakthroughs happen by accident? Shouldn't the Holy Method itself produce the achievements?
No. It's only good for testing and improvement, not for new ideas. If Creationism can come up with something that can be tested with the scientific method, who are you to decide it's inherently wrong?
Remember how the existence of ether was widespread knowledge, up until a bored swiss patent clerk had a new idea? Did relativity come from the scientific method? No. Could it be tested? Yes. Would it have been accepted if it couldn't be tested? Hell no. In fact, in most schools they still teach Newtonian physics first. The idea that time is not constant is still weird enough to the general public that it only shows up in science fiction.
If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.
If you're in a war, and you're close enough to throw a grenade at them, you're doing it wrong. In the Land Of The Free, you sit home and bitch about the government while watching the news.
It's different because Canadians have ALREADY paid for the content, in the form of a levy on all storage media. So the media companies want to be paid twice.
They want to be paid as many times as they can. Remember DRM?
Every "choice" we make is nothing more than a cascade of logic (in the electronics/programming sense) based on running recent perceptions through a network of previously conceived notions and instinctual prewiring. It's all completely deterministic.
So, what about creativity? Ideas? Feelings as in "I have a bad feeling about this..."? Drugs?
It might be deterministic, but then the factors determining are uncountably infinite.
It's gonna be interesting when we finally move to a cashless society.
Now why would we even want to start considering that?
One, a security breach in a bank does not have a direct effect on the paper in your hand. Two, I don't want anyone to have a complete record of every fucking purchase I ever made. Three, I pay enough interest on my money via inflation. No need to add more.
Four, you might want to have a beer sometime in the future without your wife knowing it.
Think about it: if constantly expressing these enzymes was an evolutionarily viable strategy, these guys wouldn't have had to engineer the bacteria to do it.
Can we accept this as a general rule? Don't forget: evolution is not done yet. We can also view genetic engineering as evolution's way of speeding up itself.
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Blizzard should implement an AddonStore modelled on the iPhone's Appstore, with free and not free addons, and share revenue; and also implement an auto-update feature to keep addons up to date.
Update tool: www.curse.com
As for the addonstore, I already paid three times to play Lich King, not to mention the monthly fee. Why should I pay even more just because the UI sucks?
If you want to play with their code and platform, you need to follow their rules or not play at all.
I was going to call bullshit, but after reading TFA, I completely agree with them in every single point. Misleading summary.
This is not "software development" in the traditional sense. It's a proprietary platform, where everything you do affects many other people as well. This "unlike FOSS" crap is completely sensationalist.
Let's see the 'offending' terms:
4) Add-ons may not include advertisements.
Oh my, we won't have to get adblock for wow! Outrage!
5) Add-ons may not solicit donations.
Add-ons may not include requests for donations. We recognize the immense amount of effort and resources that go into developing an add-on; however, such requests should be limited to the add-on website or distribution site and should not appear in the game.
Same here.
So, what was the news again?
Science can only be done by following the scientific method,
Bullshit. If that's so, why do all the breakthroughs happen by accident? Shouldn't the Holy Method itself produce the achievements?
No. It's only good for testing and improvement, not for new ideas. If Creationism can come up with something that can be tested with the scientific method, who are you to decide it's inherently wrong?
Remember how the existence of ether was widespread knowledge, up until a bored swiss patent clerk had a new idea? Did relativity come from the scientific method? No. Could it be tested? Yes. Would it have been accepted if it couldn't be tested? Hell no. In fact, in most schools they still teach Newtonian physics first. The idea that time is not constant is still weird enough to the general public that it only shows up in science fiction.
If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.
If you're in a war, and you're close enough to throw a grenade at them, you're doing it wrong. In the Land Of The Free, you sit home and bitch about the government while watching the news.
Don't mine me, bro.
It's different because Canadians have ALREADY paid for the content, in the form of a levy on all storage media. So the media companies want to be paid twice.
They want to be paid as many times as they can. Remember DRM?
Every "choice" we make is nothing more than a cascade of logic (in the electronics/programming sense) based on running recent perceptions through a network of previously conceived notions and instinctual prewiring. It's all completely deterministic.
So, what about creativity? Ideas? Feelings as in "I have a bad feeling about this..."? Drugs?
It might be deterministic, but then the factors determining are uncountably infinite.
Seriously people, at what point do we get off the couch and take back this country?
Are you crazy? American Idol is on.
against the likes of SCOs, M$ and greedy lawyers.
And Canonical, the FSF, and everyone else.
which one is more more secure?
It's gonna be interesting when we finally move to a cashless society.
Now why would we even want to start considering that?
One, a security breach in a bank does not have a direct effect on the paper in your hand. Two, I don't want anyone to have a complete record of every fucking purchase I ever made. Three, I pay enough interest on my money via inflation. No need to add more.
Four, you might want to have a beer sometime in the future without your wife knowing it.
Is this the start of a total patent war? That would be quite entertaining. Hope when the dust settles we're in for a patent reform.
FOOD FIGHT!
FTFA:
and while 1.5 billion songs were sold digitally last year, the number of Internet users paying for digital music only increased by 8 million in 2008.
Man, I wish I had only 8 million more paying customers. Hell, I'd settle with 5 million.
I don't get the numbers. What made up the gap?
Higher profit margins? That would also explain why people stopped buying.
Nils, the other winner, was able to use three separate zero day exploits to whack IE8, Firefox, and Safari as well.
Wow.
Usable but slow.
I said noscript.
the misuse of the DMCA to attack competitors
It's only misuse if the claim's not real. TFS does say that 63% were real.
I'm sorry, which one of IE8 and Chrome run in Ubuntu?
Nevermind that. Which one has AdBlock Plus and Noscript?
Firefox sucks, but at least the extensions make it usable.
This could make the apple bricking patch look like a kindergarten party
What's even worse: I have one of these.
Genetic engineering (especially in this case) is geared around industrially and scientifically useful properties.
whatcouldpossiblygowrong
Evolution might not be done yet, but it tends to be a bit more balanced ecologically than engineering.
Hah. Survival of the human race is not guaranteed until a new balance emerges.
Think about it: if constantly expressing these enzymes was an evolutionarily viable strategy, these guys wouldn't have had to engineer the bacteria to do it.
Can we accept this as a general rule? Don't forget: evolution is not done yet. We can also view genetic engineering as evolution's way of speeding up itself.
This article needs a cleanup to remove excessive negatives.
Or a syntax cleanup. How about
"On a forum like Wikipedia I would propose that it would be (next to) !(possible) !(to have admins) that are !(!(pro-censorship))"
I think it would emphasize the tension the linux community has regarding the priority of freedom:
Yeah, let's market the fact that we can't agree on anything!
How about a big group of people, all wearing shirts of different distros, and have them yell "We're all Linux".
Do you really think that 99% of the computer users even know what x86 means?
They don't have to.
"What do you mean you're selling a computer that can't run my old games?"
We don't bother with every individual step in between and we get to the same place as the stair-climbers eventually too.
Meanwhile, Japanese are upset because they're getting throttled to 900 Gb upload a month. Awful slow elevator, that. Notice how this was 8 months ago.