Many a PHB was made that way.
Also, it is one of the reasons that USSR crumbled [citation needed?].
For me great MMO was Underlight.
For me also a great MMO was Discworld MUD.
Does this case have much wider implications (as summary hints at) for the software licensing at large?
I haven't read the article yet, but it seems so.
Oh, right. On Linux, you just recompile your soft against security enhanced libraries et al. You have the source for most apps, and large percentage of it has patches that allow it to run in locked down environment.
Still, for some things you'll have to write your own patches, I guess quite a bit of FOSS also won't run 'off the shelf' for such an environment (but does it have to? Such environments are more common in *nix, and most anything that is supposed to run on very secure boxes does).
Still, if you do have something that noone else to execute in such an environment, you have much easier time doing that. In contrast on windows, you have to contact the developers of the software in question and hope the patches it will be in next release (yeah, right).
Thats Japanese we're talking about. There was a joke about ships around WW2 (and earlier) era. Where American ship has extra lavatory, Russian has an extra gun. Japanese? Two guns.
They were culturally indoctrinated for years for stuff like this (random link to random giant robot anime ommited). I am not surprised.
I use a really cheap Philips phone (~$30 equivalent), because I need my phone just to have conversations, and sometimes write an odd sms. And it has a huge battery life.
No camera on this one. There is an FM radio (that I haven't used for about a year).
I don't know what the people there are thinking, if there are no mobile PHONES, and not Camera+MP3player+blah-blah-blah-blah-blah+'oh, it also allows you to make phonecalls!' monstrocities.
Speak about bloatware.
They need some user interface insight into sorting those symbols then.
It would improve the situation, but I have to point out that Chinese and Japanese use IME for their systems of iconographic characters.
In my experience end users always end up as guinea pigs in real world testing, one way or ther other...
While it is bad, it is mostly inevitable.
I am about half way through the article in the second link, and it is really interesting, and informative.
Maybe not news, but it is worth your time (or at least mine).
Good for them. Renewable energy. Lower cooling bills.
I wonder how large the datacenter needs to be to have a significant ecological impact?
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