Turns out a new find in Guatemala confirms what the less conspiratorial of us have long since suspected: the Mayans were not, in fact, at all proposing the end of the world in the tail end of 2012. Good news, eh? Read up the full article over at BoingBoing.
So fire up Spotify and feel just fine with a little R.E.M.
Would love to see some great 3DS games appear that will make the console worth getting but I refuse to pay top price as I’ll likely not use the 3D all that much (gimmicky and can result in headaches >_<) and the battery life is a joke.
Really hope Nintendo sort it out. Theyve been the dominant force in handheld gaming since the dawn of portable games, for good reason, but starting to feel like they’re failing to keep up in the face of casual games on Android and iOS and the quality of developments in the pipeline for the new Sony PSP.
Expect I’ll end up with a 3DS at some point as there will be just about enough games I’ll want to play to make it worthwhile but I’m very much more interested in non-Nintendo efforts now for the first time in a very very long time.
Greetings all!
After a chatter with a fine fellow currently rocking it ramen-style in Japan I have come to remember that WordPress has this groovy little QuickPost function for, well, quick posts.
That’s about the extent of this. Nothing exciting but at least it’s a little interesting to me.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again that referring to internet based service as being in “the cloud” is insulting, unhelpful, and must be stopped.
At best it over-simplifies the nature of online computing and prevents average users from improving their understanding and ability to fully utilise such services. At worst undermines the work of the developers who actually make these systems fly and makes the marketers and sales folk sound like buzz-word toting parrots who lack a full understanding of the services being sold (see the ‘at best’ point above).
So everyone, please, let’s move things forward, stop treating users like children, help them further their understanding of technology (which is good for everyone), and stop undermining the value of online services.
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As much as I would like to use Flickr to show off photo snaps like those over at ShutterCookies.co.uk however yet again unacceptable terms placed on uploaded content, i.e. your carefully crafted photos poncery, make it a no go. This is from Yahoo’s terms of service linked to from Flickr and essentially means once you’ve uploaded a photo Yahoo will forever, even after deletion (“irrevocable”), have rights to do anything they like with your works for any purpose they deem fit. Uuuum… no.
10.3. For all other User Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Yahoo! Services, the worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sub-licensable licence to use, distribute, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, publicly perform and publicly display the User Content anywhere on the Yahoo! network or in connection with any distribution or syndication arrangement with other organisations or individuals or their sites in any format or medium now known or later developed. Your User Content and any associated public user profile on the Yahoo! Services may appear on local Yahoo! sites in other countries.
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I’ve just read the Yahoo ToS. Paying particular attention to 10.2, which says “For photos, graphics … “, and 10.3, which says “For all other User Content you submit … “, which very strongly suggests to me that 10.3 is therefore not applicable to photos, and that the section relevant to pictures (10.2), is pretty much the same as the Google terms.
10.2. For photos, graphics, audio or video you submit or make available on publicly accessible areas of the Yahoo! Services, you give to Yahoo! the worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to use, distribute, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, publicly perform and publicly display the User Content on the Yahoo! Services:
a) for the purposes for which that User Content was submitted; and
b) for the purpose of promoting the Yahoo! property to which the User Content was submitted or the Yahoo! Services anywhere on the Yahoo! network or in connection with any distribution or syndication arrangement with other organisations or individuals or their sites.
This licence exists only for as long as you continue to include the User Content on the Yahoo! Services and will end at the time you remove, or Yahoo! removes, the User Content from the Yahoo! Services.
10.3. For all other User Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Yahoo! Services, the worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sub-licensable licence to use, distribute, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, publicly perform and publicly display the User Content anywhere on the Yahoo! network or in connection with any distribution or syndication arrangement with other organisations or individuals or their sites in any format or medium now known or later developed. Your User Content and any associated public user profile on the Yahoo! Services may appear on local Yahoo! sites in other countries.
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Testing ^__^