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by halo 17y ago
They've also sent in a legal complaint to The Guardian over their article from earlier this year ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2009/jul/15/g... ).
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Controversial MMO developer Evony sends in lawyers to attack blogger(rllmukforum.com)
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by halo 17y ago
The quote comes from Charlie Brooker's Newswipe, which is a British TV show made by the BBC for BBC4.
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by halo 17y ago
I think after a long time in the wilderness, the people who are in charge of Yahoo! have finally figured out exactly what their strategy is and where they're taking the company. Instead of investing their time, effort, and money trying to c
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by halo 17y ago
The "flagged revisions" UI was utterly horrendous the last time I used it, way beyond the knowledge of the average user. I hope they've tidied it up since then.
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by halo 17y ago
By my calculations, that means that the Icelandic developers of Eve Online will represent ~0.5% of Iceland's GDP this year, which is quite impressive.
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by halo 17y ago
I think a 'law' could be made out of that principle. Any proprietary language has to be significantly better than its rivals to gain traction, and if it does gain traction a free implementation or alternative will eventually appear.
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by halo 17y ago
Valve hired a PhD in Psychology to figure out how to make their games more fun? Wow.
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by halo 17y ago
I think he's wrong. The problem is that he only sees a single market, and that's the high-end market that competes with Apple. Competing with Apple sounds good, but it's hard. The Pre when announced had a huge advantage over the iPhone whic
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by halo 17y ago
I'm usually quite critical of trademark law as I generally think giving exclusive rights to a single company over common English words is wrong. I do, however, think in this instance Twitter actually have a point - "Tweet" has long been ass
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by halo 17y ago
I doubt Nintendo will release a phone, but I do have long thought that they will add Kindle-like functionality for online gaming in the future.
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by halo 17y ago
It's not a war, and they will live side-by-side. Desktop applications will still be necessary for the foreseeable future. Developers will want to do what the web is bad at - whether they need speed, high resource size, high complexity, acce
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by halo 17y ago
I believe the choice of C isn't really about "how computers work" as much as "how algorithms work", with C only providing a minimal toolkit of architecture-independent efficient high-level functions that allow for a simple mental model of h
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by halo 17y ago
If there's no reliable sources, what happens when somebody adds lies (whether intentionally or not)?
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by halo 17y ago
Netflix made $1.36 billion in revenue last year yet is still only in the US market. Why?
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by halo 17y ago
Your argument is flawed because you're making it seem like Facebook competing with Twitter is a technical problem, when it isn't, it's a social, branding and marketing problem. People use the products in different ways. Twitter is associa
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by halo 17y ago
Using the same logic, think of how many potential computers that Apple have 'crushed' by not allowing OS X on non-Apple hardware.
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by halo 17y ago
If you're being pedantic, since New Scientist is a British publication, European roulette would be played which only has a single zero on the wheel, therefore making the odds of hitting Red or Black 18/37 or ~48.65%. In addition, some onlin
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by halo 17y ago
'Flag' on the web is usually used as a synonym to mean 'report to admin'. For example, Hacker News or MetaFilter both use a flag with this meaning. 'Star' is frequently used for bookmarks - Chrome, Firefox and IE all use a star icon to deno
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by halo 17y ago
Orkut is the 125th most popular site in the world according to Alexa (yes, I know that's an unreliable metric). This is fantastic news... if you're in Brazil.
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by halo 17y ago
People writing tired, repetitive, biased articles ad-nauseum while over-emphasising the negative qualities of the company while under-emphasising the positives? Apple really are the new Microsoft.
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by halo 17y ago
I dislike those feedback tabs with a passion. I find them incredibly distracting.
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by halo 17y ago
For some definition of "insecure", when you happen to use OpenSSH for a relatively uncommon use-case, with the end result of disabling functionality which is useful for many legitimate users in the common use-case.
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by halo 17y ago
I bet a large proportion of purchasers buy the Roadster Sport model which costs an extra $19,500 which would be worth up to an extra $2m in revenue. I agree that they're probably counting deposits to some degree - they have a 500+ strong wa
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by halo 17y ago
If you're going into plugin route, then Java applets can already do OpenGL without any hacks, and will blow away anything that Flash can do. Quake 2 has already been ported, for example ( http://download.java.net/javadesktop/plugin2/jake2/
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by halo 17y ago
Microsoft already did almost the opposite when they did the switch from .ini files of old to the registry, by translating the .ini file API into equivalent registry calls. There's no compelling reason why they couldn't do it, although it's
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by halo 17y ago
Why does one side have to "win"? I think it was quite obviously mutually beneficial. Microsoft got out of some potentially costly lawsuits extremely cheaply and got some additional defence for the then-upcoming antitrust litigation. Apple g
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by halo 17y ago
I agree, although I'm not a patent lawyer either. The first claims of each of those patents states that there must be "user selected priority information that indicates a contact order for the user contact device" and that there should be "
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by halo 17y ago
I'm not sure I agree with the criticism of Pepsi over their changing brand. I think changing their brand to be distinct and more modern to contrast against Coca-Cola's is a reasonable decision, and through the early years Pepsi looked like
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by halo 17y ago
One of On2's codecs, VP6, is already supported out of the box by Flash, potentially allowing them to provide the same video encoding to both HTML5 and Flash visitors.

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