Comment Re:Devil's advocate (Score 1) 291
Because it's just as ridiculous as you having to pay royalties for a clothing design every day you go to work smartly dressed
Comment Alternative (Score 1) 311
Alternative: http://www.diigo.com/
you can import your delicious bookmarks, iphone/android apps etc
Comment Will they also release games on the iPad? (Score 2, Interesting) 541
Since the iPad is also marketed as a gaming device I wouldn't be surprised if this is the first step towards releasing games on the ipad.
Comment IPv6 + multicast (Score 1) 119
Getting IPv6 and multicasting work would massively stimulate the creation of new tech/apps, but I assume these two are not considered 'technical innovations' anymore because most of us already know, for at least 10 years, this needs to happen
Over 160 Tutorial Videos Created For Unreal Dev Kit 48
As a follow-up to Epic Games' release of a free version of the Unreal Engine last month, the company has now posted over 160 video tutorials which demonstrate the various uses of the Unreal Development Kit. Roughly 20 hours of footage were created by technical education company 3D Buzz, with topics ranging from user interface to game physics to cinematics.
Nintendo Upset Over Nokia Game Emulation Video 189
An anonymous reader writes "Nintendo is investigating potential copyright infringement by Nokia during some video demos of their N900 phone, which can be seen emulating Nintendo games. Nintendo spokesman Robert Saunders says: 'We take rigorous steps to protect our IP and our legal team will examine this to determine if any infringement has taken place.' In the video, Nokia says, 'Most publishers allow individual title usage, provided that the user is in possession of the original title.'"
Comment Re:EU has a limited view on data store competition (Score 1) 183
Lots depend on what you want to do with your data of course and relational databases will always have their place but two technologies which spring to mind are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadoop
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapReduce
Also the fact that it is hard to merge the relational database world with the object oriented world will (imho) be tackled at some point. In a lot of project I've been working on a considerable amount of development/sys admin time is spent on 'storing and retrieving data'. It seems only logical to me that people will look for or develop cheaper and easier to implement and maintain alternatives so they can concentrate on more exciting problems
Comment EU has a limited view on data store competition (Score 1, Interesting) 183
IMHO the EU has a fairly limited view on data storage, the biggest challenge Oracle will face in the next 10 years is answering the question: why do we need a relational database to store our data? I find developing with Java / Hibernate against a relational database very time consuming and was it not that I invested so much time and effort in learning these technologies I would drop them straight away and explore alternatives. The fact that Oracle will add another SQL database to their product range doesn't change this fact that much at all. What I'm trying to say here is that the European Commission doesn't seem to understand that the competition will come from a completely different direction. And keeping the different database brands separate doesn't matter that much.
