Comment Nobody hates your game? (Score 5, Insightful) 181
If I were a game developer and nobody hated my game, I might be worried about that. If all the public does is collectively shrug its shoulders at your work, you might be in trouble.
Comment Detection is cheaper (Score 5, Insightful) 686
I've run across a few sites here and there that won't display any content unless I disable ad-blocking. I'm surprised this isn't more prevalent. Surely it's cheaper to pay a programmer to write some code than paying lawyers to do their thing.
Comment Re:There was no misuse (Score 1) 115
Yeah, one guy cracks a key and sends two emails with it. Where is the "massive misuse"?
Comment Three reasons (Score 4, Insightful) 299
I can think of three reasons why nobody WTFM:
1. It's hard. Would you want to write a manual for Excel or 3ds Max? I wouldn't. Where to begin and how to organize it?
2. It's time consuming. Software is bigger than ever, at least on the desktop.
3. It's not sexy.
Comment Re:SOCIALIZE! (Score 1) 351
I'd move to the boonies in a heartbeat if I could find a job close by and if a decent internet connection were available.
Comment Re:This is dubious at best (Score 1) 272
No, you have to be at 10, the highest quality to avoid watermarking. Setting quality to 9 (and presumably lower, but that's not indicated in the post) enables watermarking. What's important is what the default is, which I haven't seen mentioned anywhere.
Comment Re:Universal Installer (Score 1) 1154
Well, I know which language I'm choosing the next time I need a "Hello, World!" application.
Comment Re:Add Support for Visual Studio (Score 1) 1154
I know! That damned radio constantly blares rap music every time I use my car! How annoying!
Comment Allergies (Score 1) 818
I'm allergic to cashews.
Comment But what about the memory leaks?! (Score 0) 364
Can't have a Firefox thread without some bleating & yammering about memory leaks...
Comment Next to go--the window! (Score 1) 591
Unity wants to hide scrollbars, GNOME does away with minimize and maximize buttons, and now browsers are hiding the URL bar. Next up--the window! This overly complicated UI element must be hidden from users, it does nothing but confuse them!
Comment Re:Me too! (Score 1) 258
> Why does shit like this "article" even get posted?
To serve as a warning to others.
Comment Re:Comparing total memory usage is stupid (Score 1) 258
If all you're running is one application, then you don't need a desktop. If you're multitasking, then of course you want your desktop to be fast, it should be up there in priority at all times. So caching stuff for the desktop is a good idea. Besides, it takes way longer to load stuff from the hard drive than to free some memory so an application can allocate some for its own use.
New Malware Overwrites Software Updaters 78
itwbennett writes "Researchers at Bach Khoa Internetwork Security (BKIS), a Vietnamese security company, have found a new type of malware that 'masks itself as an updater for Adobe Systems' products and other software such as Java,' wrote BKIS analyst Nguyen Cong Cuong in a post on the company's blog. BKIS showed screenshots of a variant of the malware that imitates Adobe Reader version 9 and overwrites the AdobeUpdater.exe, which regularly checks in with Adobe to see if a new version of the software is available."
Startup Claims Google Copied Web-Annotation Product 167
An anonymous reader writes "Web annotation startup ReframeIt claim Google copied their web annotation product when releasing Google Sidewiki. At first glance, the products do look quite similar, and this eWeek article has some interesting evidence, including suspicious user registrations by Google employees and an attempt by Google to hire off ReframeIt's lead engineer."
