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Comment Re:potential of Air ? (Score 1) 231

by oliderid (#26172063) Attached to: iPlayer Released for Mac, Linux; Adobe Announces AIR for Linux

I did install their JavaFX plugin, first I watched a video from the marketing department. A popup appeared telling me that an application was about to be downloaded Ok or cancel, it was signed and verified, I click OK.

Then I moved to the demo site...I click on one of their demo, again a popup appeared with the same warning and OK or Cancel.

My question is, does this popup message appears every single time you browse a new javaFx app?

Looks like JavaFX plans to make money with certified signatures. (not the first time I see this business model with SUN, I remember J2ME and their certified mobile application). Sorry guys even if your technology is interesting, I won't enter into such a business model...It is a total no go for end user (quite disturbing) and pretty scary for developers like me who are supposed to pay their roylaties each time they dare to release a new web app. Find another way to make money.

Comment Re:The keyword, however, is "quality" (Score 4, Insightful) 165

by oliderid (#26143151) Attached to: Is JavaScript Ready For Creating Quality Games?
Javascript can't. The biggest problem imho is animation and vectors. You can't really use formats like SVG which is poorly supported by most browsers (if not all). So if you plan a 100% javascript+html+css, you have to stick to bitmap sprites and even there, there are some issues (slow, browser compatibility, etc.).
Robotics

Submission + - Robot becomes one of the kids in classroom study

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An anonymous reader writes: Researchers have found that toddlers treat a small robot as a peer rather than a toy. A team from the University of California, San Diego, placed Sony's QRIO in a classroom of kids aged 18 months to 2 years and watched them interact. Over time the children grew to treat the robot as one of them — playing games with the robot, hugging it, and covering it up with a blanket when its batteries ran down. AWww..
Censorship

Submission + - Courageous Blogger Wins 1.5 Year Legal Battle! (fixyourthinking.com)

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FixYourThinking
FixYourThinking writes: "After nearly one and a half years of harassment from a relentless attorney, it seems that quietly a blogger in South Carolina has won a monumental ruling in favor of bloggers. In a summary judgement requested by the Defendant Philip Smith was able to obtain a special sanction after the Plaintiff attorney put a "notice of lien" (called lis pendens) on Smith's residence. The judge also reprimanded the Plaintiff attorney for abusive deposition and court procedure. The case set forth the following; "It's not the format; it's the content and intention that make text journalism / reporting""
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft loses anti-Trust EU case (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by CPUsInHotPlaces
CPUsInHotPlaces writes: The BBC is reporting that the European Union's "Court of First Instance" has ruled against Microsoft in the ongoing anti-trust case. As a result of this ruling, they must pay abide by the original ruling from 2004 (including a 497m euro fine), and also pay 80% of the EU commission's legal costs.

The only section of the original ruling that was not upheld was the comission's attempt to impose an independent monitoring trustee
Power

Submission + - Scotland Building Wave Power Farms

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eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "Scottish engineers are taking advantage of the huge ocean coast that Scotland enjoys by building a 'wave farm' to harvest electricity from the ocean's powerful waves. These big red tubes have been named the Pelamis System after a sea snake. From the article, '"A bit like a ship at anchor or a flag on a flagpole, it self orientates into the waves," said Mr Carcas. "Waves then travel down the length of the machine and in doing so each of the sections, each of these train carriages, moves up and down and side to side." These snake-like movements push hydraulic fluid through generators to produce electricity. '"
Television

Submission + - BBC strikes YouTube deal

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An anonymous reader writes: BBC News reports on a deal it has struck with YouTube to show clips of BBC shows in exchange for a portion of ad revenue. Three special BBC channels will contain clips of popular Beeb shows like Doctor Who, as well as segments from archived shows and news videos. Of particular note is the attitude of the BBC director for Future Media and Technology with regards to the copyrighted material that already exists on YouTube: it won't be hunted down. "We don't want to be overzealous," he says. "A lot of the material on YouTube is good promotional content for us."
Spam

Submission + - Alleged spammer tries to take Spamhaus.org, foiled

Submitted by norml
norml writes: Last year, electronic marketing firm e360insight sued the anti-spam blocklist Spamhaus in U.S. District Court over being included on the Spamhaus website as an alleged spammer. Since Spamhaus is a UK company, the jurisdiction of a U.S. Court may be questionable, but Spamhaus found (the hard way) that the court was still willing to enter a default judgment. e360insight then attempted to take Spamhaus.org by using the US Marshall service to try to seize it from its domain registrar, Tucows, but failed on a technicality.

Sadly, the latest development is that the US Federal Court in Illinois has granted e360's motion to enter its judgment against Spamhaus in the U.S. District Court of Northern Mississippi, allowing the seizure from Tucows, which maintains offices there for one of its products.

This would be bad news. However, Spamhaus hasn't been sitting around idly waiting to be crushed by the U.S. legal system. When Tucows was served, e360 had the nasty shock of discovering that Tucows was no longer the registrar for Spamhaus. Spamhaus.org has now been registered through Gandi in France. We're pretty sure that the French aren't about to hand over a UK company's domain registration due to a U.S. judgment.

The Spamhaus guys can be found to be going "neener, neener, neener!" in news:news.admin.net-abuse.email in response to e360's posting there.

http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/statement.las so?ref=3 http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=2006 102700261694 http://www.e360insight.com/news.php
PlayStation (Games)

Submission + - Euro Playstation 3 to have inferior ps2 emulation

Submitted by Tetsuochris
Tetsuochris writes: Euro Playstation 3 to have software emulation of ps2 games. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070223/tc_nm/sony_pla ystation_europe_dc;_ylt=AjDbmlPU326p52vsCHQ.Qye9Ix IF "The backwards compatibility is not going to be as good as the U.S. and Japan models," a Sony spokesman said. Amazing, so not only will European customers pay more for the ps3 exchange wise, they will also get an inferior model.

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