Disappointing, but not surprising. Marvel is shit-scared of piracy, and instead of finding ways to make their comics better/more interesting/more apt to be purchased, they spend their time and money on disgusting legislation like SOPA. Really, they’re no different than the movie or music industry. They’ll fuck you as hard as they can to eek out one little potential point of revenue.
In short, GoDaddy supports the Stop Online Piracy Act. Fuck ’em. You can transfer all of your domains to NameCheap with a discount using the code BYEBYEGD.
As you stand in endless lines this holiday season, here’s a comforting thought: all those security measures accomplish nothing, at enormous cost. That’s the conclusion of Charles C. Mann, who put the T.S.A. to the test with the help of one of America’s top security experts.
Experts like Bruce Schneier have been calling what the TSA does “security theater” for 10 years now. The mainstream press just now seem to be catching on.
TextSecure is a replacement for the standard text messaging application, allowing you to send and receive text messages as normal.
Why isn’t this built-in to Android? or iOS for that matter? or everything?
Jon Hicks makes great icons, and I look forward to learning what he has to teach. The 323-page book ships January 30th, 2012 and there’s a PDF sample.
Useful if you have a website which is trying to target 3DS users specifically. Includes the user agent string, actual screen dimensions, and some HTML5 tricks to make it behave.
His direct-download, no-DRM, concert video has sold over 100,000 copies. Louis:
I really hope people keep buying it a lot, so I can have shitloads of money, but at this point I think we can safely say that the experiment really worked. If anybody stole it, it wasn’t many of you. Pretty much everybody bought it. And so now we all get to know that about people and stuff. I’m really glad I put this out here this way and I’ll certainly do it again. If the trend continues with sales on this video, my goal is that i can reach the point where when I sell anything, be it videos, CDs or tickets to my tours, I’ll do it here and I’ll continue to follow the model of keeping my price as far down as possible, not overmarketing to you, keeping as few people between you and me as possible in the transaction.
This is news that I am very happy about.
Saved me a lot of time this afternoon. Sometime I’d really like to review all of these.
Luke Wroblewski’s notes from the An Event Apart talk “Our Best Practices Are Killing Us” by Nicole Sullivan. There’s some good horse sense here re: revisiting pixel-based layouts and overly semantic markup.
Louis C.K. is one of the best, hardest-working, comedians alive right now. His new hour-long show is a $5, DRM-free (!), download from his website. Support.
This is good news. I liked WebOS, and I’m glad to see it live on, but it’s hard to figure out where it’ll fit in the current smartphone ecosystem. My gut says either HP couldn’t find a buyer or they didn’t want to.
After much public shaming and gnashing of teeth, PayPal was cajoled into apparently doing the right thing. Previously.
A successor to the “Sweet solution,” an HTML5-based iOS app creator for Macs. Looks great in theory, looking forward to trying it out.
Promising engine which already includes collision detection, sprites, events, and entities.
The next Steve Jobs will totally be a chick, because girls are No. 2–and No. 2 always wins in America. Apple was a No. 2 company for years, and Apple embodies a lot of what have been defined as feminine traits: an emphasis on intuitive design, intellect, a strong sense of creativity, and that striving to always make the greatest version of something. Traditionally, men are more like Microsoft, where they’ll just make a fake version of what that chick made, then beat the shit out of her and try to intimidate everybody into using their product.
I agree, except she won’t be the next Steve Jobs. She’ll be the first and only whoever she is. via Daring Fireball.
HP’s TouchPad was the most popular non-iPad tablet in the first ten months of this year, according to a new study from the NPD Group. The TouchPad has the second-largest tablet market share with 204,000 units sold (17 percent of the market), trailed by Samsung at 192,000 units.
It’s a real shame that HP was/is too short-sighted to see value where it exists outside of dull logistics and consulting.
Has anyone had any success with this yet? The WineHQ AppDB has some promising info but none that I can make work on my Macintosh with the MacPorts version of Wine-devel.
UPDATE: I eventually had success with this Wineskin wrapper.
Phil Nelson