Try Google Reader.
All the fun of live bookmarks, and they organize themselves based on time (Most recent, older, etc) and allow you to view "Only unread items".
That was what made me upgrade from Live Bookmarks.
//User points out to ATMAvatar that almost all products are produced by two or three companies, and that almost all those companies have the same horrible practices.
//User points out that your choice tends to be "I will support this asshole or that asshole", not "I will support this asshole or this great guy!".
Good point, of COURSE Americans are not obsessed with Vigilante justice.
Now excuse me, I must go watch Thor and Priest (And we have reruns of Ironman 1 and 2, and I must check my tivo for Chuck and 24 to see if those are ready, and how long has it been since Batman, etc etc etc).
So what you are saying is that the old school programers worked for a few hours and waited for the rest of the day to see if they have an error.
^_^ I would say we are more productive than that even WITH those "lazy and dumb" practices of ours.
Besides, most projects I cover tend to be linear in nature. In fact, the output of one script may negate the whole purpose of a second script or tool.
I would also suggest to you that most unproductive workers are workers who lack good communication with the clients. Many a script turned out to be unneeded or useless once the client gets what they asked for, as the client tends to be really saying "Figure out what I am thinking, stop asking me questions what do I pay you for!"
Remember that time Google promised to hand out 10 million dollars, based on poorly conceptualized public participation, and then ran the participation part of it, got huge press for it, and then...
Oh that is right, they actually gave 50,000,000 dollars ($10 mil each for 5 projects).
So you are saying they will roll out Fiber to 5 times as many places as they promise?
With more and more Android Tablets being scheduled for release next year (At lower and lower price points thanks to lower *nix hardware needs) I feel we will see SOMETHING from MS this year.
Mind you, they will likely have xp or a stripped version of win 7 since the hardware will have to be cut down to compete with the bare min specifications the opponents will have.
^_^ I envision tablet PC's filling a gap between laptops and phones/book readers. Dirt cheap, multiple purpose, used the way netbooks were meant to be used.
Not sure high end tablets will take off though... I think if the hardware is good laptops with reversible screens are a better idea.
"And yet the apologists will still give Sony a pass on this instead blaming the hackers for having "forced" Sony to do this."
O.o Well they didn't care when we ran emulators, or homebrew. It was when we had one guy bragging about copying $60 games and playing them (In a way that was easy for everyone else to do with a simple burned CD) that they got concerned. Am I supposed to pretend that he DIDN'T brag specifically about stealing the games, which is how console makers make up the loss in hardware costs?
"Blame the person pulling the trigger"
I thought you said DON'T blame the hacker?
"If I tell somebody that I'm going to smack them if they don't stop whistling, and they continue to whistle, who is the person at fault?"
You are. Just like how Sony kept disabling our hacks to gain hardware access, but we kept 'Whistling' till they scrapped the whole thing.
And you know what? If you bought the PS3 ONLY for homebrew and emulators and so forth, removing otherOS doesn't affect you. Only when you try to play the newest games, newest movies, or on their private network do they require that you keep your system updated.
Sorry, feel free to go back to sony bashing. I know how popular that particular bus is.
Instead of rubber stamping it, it has to be brought up again (With far more people paying attention, making it more likely that protests will have effect).
There are certain terms and service companies have to agree to, if they wish to use Android Market.
O.o And are you implying that restricting Google services to companies who violate Google terms is equivalent to restricting ALL access to the phone unless you suckle Apple?
Last I checked if you didn't like the way Google ran their market, you can create 30+ markets of your own, or manually install, or whatever without any effort.
If you don't like how Apple runs their market, you have to hack the OS.
(This, by the way, is part of the reason why Google's phone is "open" and Apple's phone is "I dont wanna you can't make me Oh wait, can I make profit all right then but only for now")
I believe the founding fathers set up the checks and balances specifically because they knew that power corrupts, and that no man could ever be "wise" or "virtuous" enough to prevent this.
In fact, I would claim that the Founding Fathers set up the democracy EXPECTING corrupt people would gain power from time to time.
So you claim that there is nothing we can do to fix this?
Fine.
Can you also claim that things will not be worse if we ignore both major political parties?
The party that lowered taxes so far, that allowed unlimited spending by corporations on politics as "Freedom of Speech" has come out on camera promising that they have not changed.
I just don't understand how people could support them, even indirectly, by leaving the process and allowing only the extremists to participate in the voting process.
"Oh well, if I was being honest, they only restricted it if I wanted to use newer games and or online services, and my brother agreed to those terms and upgraded, but everyone was ranting on Sony and I thought hey, it is THEIR fault that I let my brother do that!"
Slashdot is so willing to bash Sony, it is ridiculous. Sony is the ONLY CONSOLE MAKER to EVER allow install your own OS, and they let you do anything on that... until a hacker started bragging about how he was going to make it easy to copy $60 video games, video games that are the ONLY REASON the console is being sold at such a loss.
Does Microsoft allow custom OS installation? No. Would Microsoft delete features that allow you to copy games? Yes. Would Microsoft lie to customers for years as their consoles die at 33% or higher rates until forced to fix it? Yes. Yet I don't hear the same outrage at "I sold you shit in a box and tried to keep the money" as I do with "I am trying to keep you from stealing my only source of profit on this damn box.".
Seriously, some of you guys need to get your priorities back in check. Remember the PSP? Hacked 99 ways to Sunday? Since then games being released for it have plummeted because of how easy it is for non-techies to hack. If hackers make game backup easy and simple, EVERYONE loses EXCEPT for hackers and home-brewers.
So yeah, sorry that your brother upgraded your console and you are pissed at Sony for it.
"It's better than the Sony Move, because you don't need a stupid looking controller to play it. It's very accurate at reading your motions in a 3d space."
*Sigh*, I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but here I go anyway:
The PS3 Move can detect me rotating my wrist by less than a few degrees, and is accurate down to sub millimeter.
It works sitting down, sideways, on the ground, in high and low light (Even worked with light off when I played archery).
It handles multiple players, and multiple controllers on screen at once... and I suck JUST as bad at Frisbee in the game as I do in real life.
This blows the Natal out of the water. Add in that I can use buttons to do multiple actions (Triggers, shield, etc), it is head and shoulders above the whole "Wave your arms until Natal sees you... and change clothing, get more light, etc.".
"...But would this open a whole new denial of service attack vector?"
Yes.
But to continue the metaphor:
Just because a new virus / disease will come out at some point does not mean that time spent treating the existing problems is a waste.
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Try Google Reader. All the fun of live bookmarks, and they organize themselves based on time (Most recent, older, etc) and allow you to view "Only unread items". That was what made me upgrade from Live Bookmarks.
"And the password security questions can't be user-defined"
^_^ Sure they can.
"Who was your first teacher?"
"2011 Honda".
Or did you answer those questions honestly?
//User points out to ATMAvatar that almost all products are produced by two or three companies, and that almost all those companies have the same horrible practices.
Good point, of COURSE Americans are not obsessed with Vigilante justice.
Now excuse me, I must go watch Thor and Priest (And we have reruns of Ironman 1 and 2, and I must check my tivo for Chuck and 24 to see if those are ready, and how long has it been since Batman, etc etc etc).
So what you are saying is that the old school programers worked for a few hours and waited for the rest of the day to see if they have an error.
^_^ I would say we are more productive than that even WITH those "lazy and dumb" practices of ours.
Besides, most projects I cover tend to be linear in nature. In fact, the output of one script may negate the whole purpose of a second script or tool.
I would also suggest to you that most unproductive workers are workers who lack good communication with the clients. Many a script turned out to be unneeded or useless once the client gets what they asked for, as the client tends to be really saying "Figure out what I am thinking, stop asking me questions what do I pay you for!"
I would not be surprised if over 50% of all searches in bing are "Google.com".
1) There is about to be a ton of dirt cheap tablets. We are talking less than $50 cheap. It will be EVERYWHERE.
2) I think it was just to refute Steve Jobs who jabbed that Honeycomb was just "A phone os".
Why yes, it does sound logical.
"How do we make a good paper?"
"Take other people's papers, say we wrote it, and then say our papers are better than theirs."
BRILLIANT!
It may be easier to do now, but building classified information out of non has always been an issue.
Well I feel like a retard. It was only $10,000,000 dollars spread between 5 projects.
I also found out that Slashdot is proud of the fact that you can't edit or fix your comments. Nice to know.
Remember that time Google promised to hand out 10 million dollars, based on poorly conceptualized public participation, and then ran the participation part of it, got huge press for it, and then...
Oh that is right, they actually gave 50,000,000 dollars ($10 mil each for 5 projects).
So you are saying they will roll out Fiber to 5 times as many places as they promise?
I think Linux advancement in virtual machines has been advanced fairly recently.
The Android operating system is a linux based OS that runs java virtual machines, every application in a separate machine with their own database.
You have to manually allow interaction between programs... it is quite stable.
With more and more Android Tablets being scheduled for release next year (At lower and lower price points thanks to lower *nix hardware needs) I feel we will see SOMETHING from MS this year.
Mind you, they will likely have xp or a stripped version of win 7 since the hardware will have to be cut down to compete with the bare min specifications the opponents will have.
^_^ I envision tablet PC's filling a gap between laptops and phones/book readers. Dirt cheap, multiple purpose, used the way netbooks were meant to be used.
Not sure high end tablets will take off though... I think if the hardware is good laptops with reversible screens are a better idea.
I disagree with your premise, the one that implies that Justin Biber (or any singer) is important enough to shut down a website.
//Steal a cd of music, costs $30-$200 fine maybe.
////Copy a cd of musc, costs $222,000. Fuck off world, that is messed up.
I feel the overly powerful media rights are WAY beyond reasonable, and raising ANYTHING to that level is absurd.
"And yet the apologists will still give Sony a pass on this instead blaming the hackers for having "forced" Sony to do this."
O.o Well they didn't care when we ran emulators, or homebrew. It was when we had one guy bragging about copying $60 games and playing them (In a way that was easy for everyone else to do with a simple burned CD) that they got concerned. Am I supposed to pretend that he DIDN'T brag specifically about stealing the games, which is how console makers make up the loss in hardware costs?
"Blame the person pulling the trigger"
I thought you said DON'T blame the hacker?
"If I tell somebody that I'm going to smack them if they don't stop whistling, and they continue to whistle, who is the person at fault?"
You are. Just like how Sony kept disabling our hacks to gain hardware access, but we kept 'Whistling' till they scrapped the whole thing.
And you know what? If you bought the PS3 ONLY for homebrew and emulators and so forth, removing otherOS doesn't affect you. Only when you try to play the newest games, newest movies, or on their private network do they require that you keep your system updated.
Sorry, feel free to go back to sony bashing. I know how popular that particular bus is.
Instead of rubber stamping it, it has to be brought up again (With far more people paying attention, making it more likely that protests will have effect).
There are certain terms and service companies have to agree to, if they wish to use Android Market.
O.o And are you implying that restricting Google services to companies who violate Google terms is equivalent to restricting ALL access to the phone unless you suckle Apple?
Last I checked if you didn't like the way Google ran their market, you can create 30+ markets of your own, or manually install, or whatever without any effort.
If you don't like how Apple runs their market, you have to hack the OS.
(This, by the way, is part of the reason why Google's phone is "open" and Apple's phone is "I dont wanna you can't make me Oh wait, can I make profit all right then but only for now")
They only care about profits, so doing the fast simple one is letting them off easy.
I believe the founding fathers set up the checks and balances specifically because they knew that power corrupts, and that no man could ever be "wise" or "virtuous" enough to prevent this.
In fact, I would claim that the Founding Fathers set up the democracy EXPECTING corrupt people would gain power from time to time.
So you claim that there is nothing we can do to fix this?
Fine.
Can you also claim that things will not be worse if we ignore both major political parties?
The party that lowered taxes so far, that allowed unlimited spending by corporations on politics as "Freedom of Speech" has come out on camera promising that they have not changed.
I just don't understand how people could support them, even indirectly, by leaving the process and allowing only the extremists to participate in the voting process.
See it is crap like this that pisses me off.
"SONY BROKE MY CONSOLE, THEY ARE EVIL!"
"Oh well, if I was being honest, they only restricted it if I wanted to use newer games and or online services, and my brother agreed to those terms and upgraded, but everyone was ranting on Sony and I thought hey, it is THEIR fault that I let my brother do that!"
Slashdot is so willing to bash Sony, it is ridiculous. Sony is the ONLY CONSOLE MAKER to EVER allow install your own OS, and they let you do anything on that... until a hacker started bragging about how he was going to make it easy to copy $60 video games, video games that are the ONLY REASON the console is being sold at such a loss.
Does Microsoft allow custom OS installation? No. Would Microsoft delete features that allow you to copy games? Yes. Would Microsoft lie to customers for years as their consoles die at 33% or higher rates until forced to fix it? Yes. Yet I don't hear the same outrage at "I sold you shit in a box and tried to keep the money" as I do with "I am trying to keep you from stealing my only source of profit on this damn box.".
Seriously, some of you guys need to get your priorities back in check. Remember the PSP? Hacked 99 ways to Sunday? Since then games being released for it have plummeted because of how easy it is for non-techies to hack. If hackers make game backup easy and simple, EVERYONE loses EXCEPT for hackers and home-brewers.
So yeah, sorry that your brother upgraded your console and you are pissed at Sony for it.
Go back to your hating.
*cough**cough**cough*
Why not do Ubuntu?
//Faster and cheaper than ordering a new computer too.
Uses the same hardware as your current computer, and works with iphone and android.
"It's better than the Sony Move, because you don't need a stupid looking controller to play it. It's very accurate at reading your motions in a 3d space."
*Sigh*, I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but here I go anyway:
The PS3 Move can detect me rotating my wrist by less than a few degrees, and is accurate down to sub millimeter.
It works sitting down, sideways, on the ground, in high and low light (Even worked with light off when I played archery).
It handles multiple players, and multiple controllers on screen at once... and I suck JUST as bad at Frisbee in the game as I do in real life.
This blows the Natal out of the water. Add in that I can use buttons to do multiple actions (Triggers, shield, etc), it is head and shoulders above the whole "Wave your arms until Natal sees you... and change clothing, get more light, etc.".
"...But would this open a whole new denial of service attack vector?"
Yes.
But to continue the metaphor:
Just because a new virus / disease will come out at some point does not mean that time spent treating the existing problems is a waste.