You can't force people not to develop and deploy solutions to filter out ads any more than you can force them to look at them.

You have to accept this, and if your business model can't work because of it then it simply means that it's not viable.

The article lost any credibility to me when it mentioned the "novel game mechanics" of Spore, which is nothing more a collection of boring mini-games that are all simplistic and non-challenging versions of actual games, along with a glorified avatar customization system.

You might want to look up the word "synonym" in a dictionary some day.

Issue 9 is kind of a mouthful to pronounce, plus it might be weird in some other languages (like in french where issue means exit)

That said I agree that another name than go could be good if only to make it easier to google.

1.Serialize ODF into JSON instead of XML
2.Laugh at both "office documents serialized into xml" patent trolls
3.profit

Future prospective employers are now likely to throw out her application when they google her name and find out she's a whiny bitch with an inflated sense of entitlement who can't handle the stress of not finding a job within three months of graduating.

Good work there.

I guess she'll end up suing the entire internet for this article and any reference to it to be removed.

You're not supposed to pass cars that are on your left in france, from which results that the slowest vehicles should always be in the right lane and fast ones in the left lane.
So be careful with that because someone going from the middle lane to the right lane will not always check his mirror to see if someone's coming faster than him from behind on the right lane (they're not supposed to).

For this very reason it can make it incomfortable to drive on the right lane when people are being jammed on the middle lane, especially if you get stuck behind a very slow vehicle on the right lane and can't move back to the middle lane because it's jammed.

I seem to recall that in the accolade affair, they managed to circumvent the loading code so as to avoid to include any sega material whatsoever. I believe that it's actually why sega on the dreamcast later explicitely made the firmware do a bit by bit comparison of a logo picture stored in the CD's bootstrap, although there was no cryptographic key involved yet afaik.

And the thing is that for a disc to be recognized by a game console, it usually have to include material copyrighted by the console manufacturer, usually a picture of their logo (compared against a copy located in the firmware) and sometimes some proprietary bootstrap code, so if you're pretty much forced to have a license to be legally able to make a game running on their console.

The reason atari sub contracts in the first place is that they fired all their internal developpement teams a few years back and externalized everything. They have absolutely no one working there anymore with the necessary knowledge to perform such an audit. All they can audit is the content of the game, not the code.

For this reason, I think they are to blame. They put themselves in a situation where this can happen.

Why should people have to choose between instantly on and fully functional? Can't Microsoft be ambitious enough to aim to make windows boot fast? This is like they're giving up on that as if it's just not possible, and instead offer some half-way compromise.