A friend twittered the following information from a news story earlier today:
“Personal disclosure..Pew Internet & American Life study ‘Digital Footprints’ 60% not worried about how much info is avail about them online.”
A few days ago, there was news reportage here about personal privacy on the Internet. According to someone’s study, an even larger percentage of people were not surprised nor distressed about the amount of information about them on the Internet. In fact, they expressed...Read Full Story
Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is called "Backward Compatibility". Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist's cap and add your own...Read Full Story
Kotaku is reporting that Sony will not be bringing its Japanese UMD Passport program to North America, removing the only method for PlayStation Vita owners to play their collection of PlayStation Portable universal media discs (UMDs) on the new handheld (PSP games downloaded from the PlayStation Network will still work on the Vita, however). While this is obviously bad news for anyone who wants to play their...
If you are testing Project Server 2010 by upgrading your Project Server 2007 databases in a test environment, then you may notice that the new 2010 feature of manual scheduling is not available. I worked with a customer today who had performed an upgrade in his test environment and noticed that the great new feature he had heard about for manual scheduling just wasn’t available. This is caused by Backward Compatibility Mode being on as a...
GameSpot survey indicates gamers keen on playing older software on new hardware, though they have little faith in companies to provide the means. Yesterday, GameSpot published the results of a reader survey that indicated the PlayStation 4 and ...
As we begin a new year, it seems appropriate that the discussion of backward compatibility has come up yet again in Drupal. It's a perennial question, and you can tell when a new Drupal core version is ready for prime time when people start complaining about lack of backward compatibility. It's like clockwork.
However, most of these discussions don't actually get at the root issue: Drupal is architecturally incapable of backward...
A place to discuss the benefits and the added complexity of technology that has backward compatibility. Product planning upfront for backward compatibility can have a dramatic impact on project success in the long term.
In technology, especially computing, a product is said to be backward compatible (or downward compatible) when it is able to take the place of an older product, by interoperating with other products .
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How to Play Xbox Games on Xbox 360; Xbox Games Playable on Xbox 360; Backward Compatibility FAQ; Technical Support ... Original Xbox Games Playable on Xbox 360. List updated April 2007. The folks at X
Information Week - Wi-Fi products carrying the alliance's certification stamp must pass testing for industry-wide interoperability, security protection, and backward compatibility with previous it