Just wanted to say I'm a devout Mint 19.1 user. Was a devout 17.x user, as well. I'd dabbled in the Linux world for many years, but it wasn't until Mint 15 or 16 (been a while now) that I finally made the move and dumped Windows. I never looked back. Even Ubuntu in it's heyday saw me dual booting...
I really love the work these people do. I just hope they get as much satisfaction out of using their tools/programs as I do... If Mint died tomorrow I'm not sure I'd ever find another ~ . Sure you can graft Cinnamon on top of another Unix-like, but there's something about the whole software stack that has made it so I can't even consider another OS as a daily driver.
For what little it's worth, I'll hoist one to the Mint devs when I get home tonight. Heck, I might even make a donation;)
I want an option to put tabs on the side, along the left or right. We all have widescreen monitors, but very few pages actually need the full width of the monitor. We should have the option of putting tabs vertically along the side of the monitor to make more efficient use of space.
Yes! This a thousand times! One of the main reasons I am so entrenched in Pale Moon is because it's the only browser I know of that still has the feature*. It's essential to me, particularly when you can group them, expand/collapse groups, etc.
* Unless I'm mistaken Tree Style Tabs was an XUL (?) extension, and died when Mozilla *slight eye twitch* went to Chrome-style addons.
Golly gee! Seriously though, the day my Time Steel dies will be a dark day. I'm not currently planning on replacing it with anything on the market, and I'll miss it to death.
Not that it makes it OK (at all), but raise your hand if you're surprised. No one? Yup, pretty much. Do No Evil went out the window a long time ago. Google is creepy.
Is this a feature that was lost at some point? I have a crappy bluetooth speaker a friend bought me one time or another (it's called a Durapod if it matters). I'm 99% sure it's a rather old bluetooth standard (~3?), and it's always shown a battery meter in the notification tray (Android 4.4.4 & 6.0.1).
Now it's accuracy is a whole other matter, but again, it was like $30 at BestBuy so I'm pretty sure that parts normal. Come to think of it, I have some crappy near forgotten Mpow work out headphones that are BT and I think they do this too... But my expensive Plantronics (that have BT4 and NFC) don't...
I checked all my HTML tags, re-read everything a few times... But did I double check the title I pasted in? Noooooooo. How I managed to copy the tags for the story at the same time is anyone's guess.
It seems like HP got a new social media PR department to go with this new logo. I saw this story several times on Facebook, Engadget, and Reddit as well.
Title: Advertising HP Businesses News Hardware Technology
HP's New Logo Is the Awesome One It Never Used
So I went to Wikipedia... Hewlett-Packard, Founded January 1, 1939; 77 years ago
I'm not going to start screaming "OOOOH SLASHVERTISEMENT" because the story really has made the rounds everywhere, it's just a little disingenuous to suggest that the logo from a design contest in 2011 is the logo they "Never Used". Definitely some kind of PR spin.
Indeed! Australis (FF29 in general) has very nearly pinched my last nerve with Firefox. What the fuck is going on at Mozilla? The last two versions have run like complete and utter shit on my systems, from freezing windows to outright random crashes. What happened to my lightweight and reliable browser?
(Side tangent: Also, when will we get text reflow back in Android?)
I saw this pop up in my Google Reader on another site, but I immediately came here to look and see if someone had posted the specs for this machine yet. I'm not seeing them listed anywhere.
Someone care to help? I even went crazy and RTFA (I'm new here, ya see...).
Perhaps I am missing the point. Just seems to me that at that point, Google would be actively distributing tools to circumvent their own DRM.
I hate DRM as much as any other Slashdotter, but the fact of the matter is Google wants it to be as difficult as possible to break their stuff free. Besides which, the Nexus 7 is already a deprecated media tablet (no microSD, no USB host, no CIFS afaik), so it seems silly to get pissed when the DRM system breaks. That's what you're getting when you buy the Nexus 7 - a device made only to get it's content from a locked down store.
I'm amazed there aren't more users angry at the fact that they can't just load up an SD card with media and go. To each their own though...
My Nexus 7 arrived today. It comes preloaded with a copy of "Transformers: Far side of the moon" for my viewing pleasure. Five minutes into viewing it there was a popup advising the battery is low. So I go get the USB cable and plug it in. Now the movie won't play, it says "Couldn't load licence key (error 16)". Bah. So all the smart boys and all the smart girls over at Google can't make DRM work properly. Can anybody make DRM work properly? Does DRM have any right to life whatsoever?
Canada is heading towards making DRM illegal. Good for Canada, and a perfect example why.
How is this +5 Insightful? You don't think it might have something to do with the fact that Android does debugging over USB, therefore making it "possible" at least to get an unencrypted version of the movie (i.e. screengrabs while it's playing)?
Thanks for letting us know you have a Nexus 7, though.
I hate to be "that guy", but seriously, where's the story here?
This story is only over a month old and it seems to have about the same amount of info (which is to say essentially none). If it were some kind of announcement maybe...
Well, guess I know what I'm doing on my next day off (Wednesday- don't ask). I'll be fixing all the backwards ass bullshit they seem to love including in these "rapid fire" releases. Disable compatibility checking, test everything to see it still works, yadda yadda.
You mean a land-line? I was shocked how many people called their family/friends to make sure they were okay. It was an earthquake yes, but it wasn't soo bad (also in Ottawa here)
Actually, it's my Nokia 5130 cellphone. I don't even care to make a call, but my phone just completely locks up when it's turned on.
45.37623 N, 75.67543 W or so. I didn't think it was so bad, but my neighbours/Facebook friends seem to disagree.
As a side note, my cellphone is completely borked. Seems whenever the carriers become overloaded the damn thing won't even boot/function at all... time to grab the back up phone...
Does anyone else just grimace when they see "Duke Nukem"-anything related news anymore? I was 7 when Duke Nukem 3d came out, and although freaking awesome, what of note has the franchise done since?
Been a bucketload of fail, and a waste of terabytes of useless "news" stories posted on the internet.
Can we just call this one, guys? Time of death: 2005 (and that's being GENEROUS).
I hate loud commercials too, but this is just too much government IMHO. I'd much rather just have intelligent TVs or receivers that turned the volume down upon detecting a commercial...based on the settings *I* want, not what the government thinks is best for me.
My old as hell tube TV has this (it's a 27" RCA TV, circa 1999). I just checked and it's called SoundLogic in the menu, and I've gotta tell you it's a pretty terrible feature. It basically turns the volume on everything down (making an amp or what have you work harder), and anytime there is a spike in volume it re-adjusts and turns it down.
What I've found it does is make every good kaboom in every good movie I've watched with it on go flat. It also takes a second or two for it to adjust, so you still get too much sound. With commercials that are only 30 seconds long, this leads to a very uneven "HAVE YOu ever heard of product x?", 30 seconds later "WATCH THis tv show on sunday", etc.
Like I said too, you always have to remember to toggle it off before you watch a movie. Kind of a pain.
Maybe the technology needs to be improved, but my experience with it has been pretty bad. I don't think it's been enabled in at least 8 years.
All this time since launch, and consoles are still dropping. I feel a fool for giving them my money *stares pointedly at his 360 with messed up video output*.
Call me a troll, but I feel ripped off: Fucking FAIL
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Just wanted to say I'm a devout Mint 19.1 user. Was a devout 17.x user, as well. I'd dabbled in the Linux world for many years, but it wasn't until Mint 15 or 16 (been a while now) that I finally made the move and dumped Windows. I never looked back. Even Ubuntu in it's heyday saw me dual booting...
;)
I really love the work these people do. I just hope they get as much satisfaction out of using their tools/programs as I do... If Mint died tomorrow I'm not sure I'd ever find another ~ . Sure you can graft Cinnamon on top of another Unix-like, but there's something about the whole software stack that has made it so I can't even consider another OS as a daily driver.
For what little it's worth, I'll hoist one to the Mint devs when I get home tonight. Heck, I might even make a donation
Yes! This a thousand times! One of the main reasons I am so entrenched in Pale Moon is because it's the only browser I know of that still has the feature*. It's essential to me, particularly when you can group them, expand/collapse groups, etc.
* Unless I'm mistaken Tree Style Tabs was an XUL (?) extension, and died when Mozilla *slight eye twitch* went to Chrome-style addons.
Golly gee! Seriously though, the day my Time Steel dies will be a dark day. I'm not currently planning on replacing it with anything on the market, and I'll miss it to death.
RIP Pebble. You were getting there.
Not that it makes it OK (at all), but raise your hand if you're surprised. No one? Yup, pretty much. Do No Evil went out the window a long time ago. Google is creepy.
I don't know why but this quote always stuck with me...
What's supposed to happen in the comments here, mods? I'll start: Define good.
Is this a feature that was lost at some point? I have a crappy bluetooth speaker a friend bought me one time or another (it's called a Durapod if it matters). I'm 99% sure it's a rather old bluetooth standard (~3?), and it's always shown a battery meter in the notification tray (Android 4.4.4 & 6.0.1).
Now it's accuracy is a whole other matter, but again, it was like $30 at BestBuy so I'm pretty sure that parts normal. Come to think of it, I have some crappy near forgotten Mpow work out headphones that are BT and I think they do this too... But my expensive Plantronics (that have BT4 and NFC) don't...
He's with Dodger now
I checked all my HTML tags, re-read everything a few times... But did I double check the title I pasted in? Noooooooo. How I managed to copy the tags for the story at the same time is anyone's guess.
Title:
Advertising HP Businesses News Hardware Technology HP's New Logo Is the Awesome One It Never Used
So I went to Wikipedia...
Hewlett-Packard, Founded January 1, 1939; 77 years ago
I'm not going to start screaming "OOOOH SLASHVERTISEMENT" because the story really has made the rounds everywhere, it's just a little disingenuous to suggest that the logo from a design contest in 2011 is the logo they "Never Used". Definitely some kind of PR spin.
Anybody else read that as "Tracking Caucasians By Their Cell Phones"?
I must say I was rather interested in the technology involved.
Indeed! Australis (FF29 in general) has very nearly pinched my last nerve with Firefox. What the fuck is going on at Mozilla? The last two versions have run like complete and utter shit on my systems, from freezing windows to outright random crashes. What happened to my lightweight and reliable browser?
(Side tangent: Also, when will we get text reflow back in Android?)
I saw this pop up in my Google Reader on another site, but I immediately came here to look and see if someone had posted the specs for this machine yet. I'm not seeing them listed anywhere.
Someone care to help? I even went crazy and RTFA (I'm new here, ya see...).
Perhaps I am missing the point. Just seems to me that at that point, Google would be actively distributing tools to circumvent their own DRM.
I hate DRM as much as any other Slashdotter, but the fact of the matter is Google wants it to be as difficult as possible to break their stuff free. Besides which, the Nexus 7 is already a deprecated media tablet (no microSD, no USB host, no CIFS afaik), so it seems silly to get pissed when the DRM system breaks. That's what you're getting when you buy the Nexus 7 - a device made only to get it's content from a locked down store.
I'm amazed there aren't more users angry at the fact that they can't just load up an SD card with media and go. To each their own though...
How is this +5 Insightful? You don't think it might have something to do with the fact that Android does debugging over USB, therefore making it "possible" at least to get an unencrypted version of the movie (i.e. screengrabs while it's playing)?
Thanks for letting us know you have a Nexus 7, though.
Uhhh... Of course. By that same token, there's nothing holding you back from making a better one.
I hate to be "that guy", but seriously, where's the story here? This story is only over a month old and it seems to have about the same amount of info (which is to say essentially none). If it were some kind of announcement maybe...
No concerns for Tuesday
Well, guess I know what I'm doing on my next day off (Wednesday- don't ask). I'll be fixing all the backwards ass bullshit they seem to love including in these "rapid fire" releases. Disable compatibility checking, test everything to see it still works, yadda yadda.
This is getting old.
Actually, it's my Nokia 5130 cellphone. I don't even care to make a call, but my phone just completely locks up when it's turned on.
45.37623 N, 75.67543 W or so. I didn't think it was so bad, but my neighbours/Facebook friends seem to disagree.
As a side note, my cellphone is completely borked. Seems whenever the carriers become overloaded the damn thing won't even boot/function at all... time to grab the back up phone...
Does anyone else just grimace when they see "Duke Nukem"-anything related news anymore? I was 7 when Duke Nukem 3d came out, and although freaking awesome, what of note has the franchise done since?
/rant
Been a bucketload of fail, and a waste of terabytes of useless "news" stories posted on the internet.
Can we just call this one, guys? Time of death: 2005 (and that's being GENEROUS ).
My old as hell tube TV has this (it's a 27" RCA TV, circa 1999). I just checked and it's called SoundLogic in the menu, and I've gotta tell you it's a pretty terrible feature. It basically turns the volume on everything down (making an amp or what have you work harder), and anytime there is a spike in volume it re-adjusts and turns it down.
What I've found it does is make every good kaboom in every good movie I've watched with it on go flat. It also takes a second or two for it to adjust, so you still get too much sound. With commercials that are only 30 seconds long, this leads to a very uneven "HAVE YOu ever heard of product x?", 30 seconds later "WATCH THis tv show on sunday", etc.
Like I said too, you always have to remember to toggle it off before you watch a movie. Kind of a pain.
Maybe the technology needs to be improved, but my experience with it has been pretty bad. I don't think it's been enabled in at least 8 years.
Dad: Who hacked us!?
Granny: idk my bff jill?
I'll go kill myself now.
I waited a full year after launch to buy my console.
All this time since launch, and consoles are still dropping. I feel a fool for giving them my money *stares pointedly at his 360 with messed up video output*.
Call me a troll, but I feel ripped off: Fucking FAIL