10 Years After It Was Pulled Offline, Viral Mobile Game Flappy Bird Is Coming Back (ign.com) 27
Now, Flappy Bird is set to return, with an expanded version aiming for launch by the end of October across multiple platforms including web browsers, and an iOS and Android version planned for release in 2025. But this new Flappy Bird isn't from Nguyen, it's from 'The Flappy Bird Foundation,' which is described as "a new team of passionate fans committed to sharing the game with the world."
UPDATE (9/15/2024): The original creator of Flappy Bird returned to social media after a seven-year silence just to disavow the resurrected game -- and its possible ties to cryptocurrency. PC Gamer also digs into exactly how the Flappy Bird trademark was acquired.
Comment Text of the Bill (Score 3, Informative) 161
Here's the text of the bill in question, S. 945:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/...
Comment Re:Who Passed the Law allowing this? (Score 5, Informative) 161
The text of the bill is straightforward enough, and it does not reference any country by name. Just "is located in a foreign jurisdiction." Text of the bill is very short and can be found here:
Comment I'll miss XMarks's "Open remote tabs" feature (Score 1) 51
The killer feature for me from XMarks was the ability to browse the list of open tabs on my various browsers, especially from my phone. That made it easy for me to be reading something, then later continue reading it from my phone.
If anyone knows of another service that does this, please let me know. I use Chrome at home and am forced to use Firefox at work, so I do need a cross-platform solution.
Comment Re:Anyone else picture (Score 1) 40
Comment Re: Hello Wine (Score 2) 585
I've done native code on Windows in industrial safety and automation. You'd think that's an oxymoron, but it can be made sufficiently robust.
I've dealt with bugs in Microsoft's SDKs, and dealt with multiple generations of drawing APIs. Played WoW and other games on WINE on Gentoo. Watched the incessant scrolling of FIXMEs on the console.
I'd love it if I could get paid to hack on WINE...
Comment Re: HTML is still better than Flash (Score 5, Informative) 108
You could build the browser without video support. Actually trivial to do on Gentoo...
Gentoo. Not just for ricers.
Comment Re:Is that you Lewis Caroll? (Score 1) 44
Comment Re:BSD is more threatening than proprietary (Score 1) 551
Some of us prefer others to voluntarily give back rather than be forced to.
This statement has always confused me. Nothing in the GPL requires anyone to "give back" anything. What it requires is that if you give a GPL-ed program to somebody, you must give them (and only them) the source code to that program. Modifications to the source code must be distributed with the original code under the same license. So if you modify a GPL program and give it to a somebody, they get that code and all the rights to it that are protected by the GPL. You need not give it to the entity that originally wrote the GPL-ed code.
Comment Re:But Android is open (Score 1) 535
If he was in a coma, I'd think that'd be the part he missed.
Comment Re:USB? Excellent! (Score 1) 169
Looks like they added Ethernet. Doesn't say what speed, though.
Comment Re:USB? Excellent! (Score 1) 169
You still can. Just use proper cable hiding tools and techniques. Like whatever they use to make power cables running across floors OSHA-safe.
Comment Re:USB? Excellent! (Score 1) 169
My chief complaint was that in the original announcement, they were only going to support wifi for networking, yet it was supposed to be useful for gaming and streaming video.
The problem is that wifi is terrible for both of those use cases. It's bad on its own for latency purposes, and then there's spectrum contention. I raised these points in response to their Kickstarter drive, and it looks like they turned around and added those features. If I'd known they would, I would have donated on the Kickstarter.
Comment Re:USB? Excellent! (Score 1) 169
Then they added both my suggestions. Rock on!
I'll definitely have to get one, now.