Mod parent up - this is what I was going to say. I investigated it at Uni as a way of doing a messenger app, but it doesn't go beyond most gateways. We've used it on a private network for NTP to reduce the hit on the server (instead of unicast polling), but it isn't as much use outside of that.
Surely corporate networks are the big one. Even on our "less sensitive" developer network we're not allowed BitTorrent. During the day we're not even allowed downloads over 200MB. Large downloads have to wait until out-of-hours. In that situation, how is BitTorrent ever going to take off?
I'm not sure which INQ my brother has, but it was sold on a similar concept - Twitter/Facebook, but not full smart phone. I think he curses it pretty much every day for various features that it mishandles or just outright doesn't have that seem so obvious.
Mass-market Androids are on their way down, though. I was in a shop the other day and saw an LG at £100 on PAYG. Given that the HTCs are up at £300+ then it is definitely much closer to a mass-market price.
Maybe I just hit a good patch, but the Core i5s didn't seem as bad as they used to be. I recently gutted my computer, upgraded the processor (i5), mobo (can't remember) and memory (4GB), and it was ~£300. Yeah, it's not in everyone's price range for normal desktop use, but that seemed good for a development machine and with better performance than I'd have got from an AMD. I guess these new chips might shake that up a little, though.
That said, I probably would upgrade the mother-in-law's computer to an AMD, if it weren't for the fact that she insists she's poor and wants me to do it for free or not at all (i.e. getting my wife's machine when we replace it).
That'd make more sense if it wasn't for the fact that it was in about 2004 and 2006, by which time the IRA had toned down everything. Before that there was very little police presence, even after the bomb.
Besides, the IRA were our "friendly" local terrorists who gave us warning and were almost certainly all known by the police (at least the top levels). (Can't remember who called them that - Eddie Izzard? It tends to be his stuff that I remember)
On the plus side, the middle of Manchester is a lot nicer now that they revamped it:)
How can I use a 3rd party client when my favourite ones are broken and the ones that aren't broken a missing vital features for those who aren't on Twitter 24/7 (like Gwibber and its lack of scroll-back)? Curse you, OAuth deadline. Curse you!
The only time I have ever carried a firearm in my life was when I was in the military. At that time, I used and carried machine guns, assault rifles, pistols, shotguns, and have used explosives such as grenades, RPG's, and rocket launchers. I do speak from experience when I say that a weapon serves no purpose other than to kill. You're deluding yourself if you think it serves another purpose
I've been through city centre Manchester (the real one in the UK, not the copy-cat in America) and seen the police carrying automatic weapons, all in the past 10 years, and it made me feel far less safe. The fact that a) there was the potential for bullets to be flying and b) that the police felt the need to have them on show as they wandered the streets made me feel rather twitchy and insecure.
Ditto for my wife - she was waiting at Manchester Piccadilly train station once and eventually had to go and ask a police man whether anything was happening, because there's a lot of them around. He gave some kind of "it's all fine - do you not feel safe with the police protecting you?", to which the obvious answer was "no, because there is obviously something I need protecting against that wasn't an issue before". Turns out it was just a load of football fans coming in from Scotland to watch a game at Old Trafford (probably rather drunk).
if you point a weapon at somebody, you damned well better be prepared to use it, and to accept the consequences of taking a life. If you aren't, then your weapon is a liability,
I'm sure I've seen something similar in the some form of media (a film or a book or something). I'm sure it is right, and that it was just echoing what lots of people have said before, but it is bugging me about what it was and where I read/saw it!
That depends how fast you touch type. I had "instant" enabled after my wife got it (but she tends to stay logged in to her Google account and I don't) and so far I've tended to beat it. I either search from the address bar, or I've seemed to type and hit enter quicker than it manages to refresh. It'll grey out as it does it, but it doesn't seem to refresh the content until I submit the query myself.
The moral of the story there would appear to be that the cloud has its flaws, that you're reliant on a provider not going under/shutting down a service, and that if a simple "downloads always available" service can't be kept open then an "authenticate your game" service for DRM is even less likely to survive.
What, you mean like ChromeMUSE for Chrome/Chromium, which uses longurl.org and a local cache to expand links from lots of services, and can even expand the text if you want? Firefox has similar extensions, but the ones I've found there (for use on the wife's computer) tend to be "hover and we'll show it in the tooltip" rather than "we'll expand everything".
I did wonder whether some kind of "deposit" is the way to go (increase the price of a domain name, but get most of it back at the end of a year so that it costs you the same as now). That'd make domain registrations for these sites more of a burden for them, but it'd also make it more of a burden for people like me who run hobby sites and who don't necessarily have extra money to spare. It'd also just move the "whac-a-mole" game to subdomains instead (which I've seen more than a few of).
Now that we've got.co? They've been around for ages as the TLD for Columbia, what with it being the nation's ISO standard code. Ditto for.cm, which is the TLD for Cameroon and also only one missed character off a.com. It's just because people like Twitter have started using them to be one character shorter on the extension and with shorter domains (since single letters aren't allowed in.com any more) that they're becoming more visible.
Now that we've got.co? They've been around for ages as the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.co]TLD for Columbia[/url], what with it being the nation's [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2]ISO standard code[/url]. Ditto for.cm, which is the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cm]TLD for Cameroon[/url] and also only one missed character off a.com. It's just because people like Twitter have started using them to be one character shorter on the extension and with shorter domains (since single letters aren't allowed in.com any more) that they're becoming more visible.
Do you think in English, or do you think in abstract thoughts that your brain then later makes you think were direct English? I think there's a bit of debate on that, and it is something that's difficult to test.
I don't know. I'd have thought that the "bad" would have been quite easy a lot of the time. Look at the patent I pointed to - Google have allegedly infringed on it because it improves performance (obviously) but it wasn't necessary to do the single-initialisation-then-clone method. If they'd have stuck with the lower performance implementation (which was still implementing the spec) then they'd be in the "infringing on a patent that wasn't necessary" area. If the spec was under a patent grant then they'd still be hit with at least some of the patents.
(Yes, I'm mixing the Java and.Net boats a bit, but you get the idea - patents like the ones Google got hit with could still hit Mono implementations, because software patents are like that)
Suffice to say that had Google built upon Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), C# and associated core libraries a similar situation would not have been possible.
Except for the bit where one of the patents sounded suspiciously obvious and like the zygote process (7,426,720 - System And Method For Dynamic Preloading Of Classes Through Memory Space Cloning Of A Master Runtime System Process): basically making things quicker by pre-initialising and freezing a process at a certain point, cloning it and then continuing them, so that the initialisation is only done once. That (and, undoubtedly, others) would still have been possible even if Google had used the CLI, even if "save time by doing once and cloning where you can" seems like an obvious thing to do.
Yeah, Mono would have been safer in a way since Microsoft had patent agreements because it was properly standardised, but that wouldn't make it 100% safe from patent threats from anyone (including Microsoft, who could have used patents covering the implementation using methods that weren't part of the grant).
Seems like a slightly more sensible version, even if it would still cause controversy.
How much value does a public mugshot on Facebook have to the public?
A fraction above zero for the public, but a huge amount for Facebook. Why use some locked-in, trendy hip site of the unwashed masses that profits some other organisation when you could do it yourself?
TBH I'm a bit ambivalent about mugshots of convicted people, since they've committed a crime and so using their face as a "we'll catch you - see, we caught him" thing doesn't seem that terrible. That said, I did read something recently that said (IIRC) naming and shaming doesn't actually help reduce crime rates. Arrest doesn't have to be proven, though, so I'm sure there'll be lots of cases of mild defamation by association of being on the site.
maybe include a small microfiber cloth attached to the kiosk / ATM / whatever so clean it with
Yeah, because no-one is ever going to try to steal/rip from the chain/burn/destroy/cover with sticky stuff a cloth on a bit of string at an outside terminal! As it is they have to chain up pens inside the bank in case someone steals it.
I'm surprised that "theChive.com" didn't give it away as being somewhat similar to TheOnion - that well know source of entirely truthful reports - and so probably not a trustworthy source of much!
And then you lose the whole nav. Or you block "#nav-left div div div" and lose the whole nav, just at a different level. Or you block an nth child and as soon as something is added to the nav or moved around then you lose the wrong thing again.
Yes, you can do CSS selector blocking, but it would seem trivial to defeat it if people didn't do what they do now (which is to add things like id="adTower" and the like to it, or put it on a separate server with its own advertising domain as an iframe or an image)
And if it isn't tagged up in a uniquely identifiable way? Like it's just a div in a div in a div in a div called left-nav? You're not going to get a rule to catch that without wiping out chunks of useful content on other websites.
Additionally, I liked the idea when they turned it on its head, saying that certain individuals can agree to receive adverts of a certain type and you can then pay to have your adverts targeted to those people... such as recruiters.
Sounds a bit like what Bynamite are doing with their plugin. I've been running it a while (on my works dev machine) to see what it picks up and what advertisers think I'm interested in.
The idea is that I can also use it to feed back a message of "no, I'm not interested in X", since it lets them better target their ads, which saves them money/makes them more sales while leaving me with more adverts I "want" to see (for a given value of 'want' that is small to non-existant).
So far I'm just using it to see what it thinks, since I've also got adblockers. Overall it seems moderately accurate, but Google dominates by a mile (only got one or two topics from elsewhere - Yahoo) and it seems excessively twitchy in that I hit one story on how Toyota screwed up their latest hybrid or something and suddenly I'm "interested" in hybrid cars (where as I was interested in the cock-up).
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Mod parent up - this is what I was going to say. I investigated it at Uni as a way of doing a messenger app, but it doesn't go beyond most gateways. We've used it on a private network for NTP to reduce the hit on the server (instead of unicast polling), but it isn't as much use outside of that.
Surely corporate networks are the big one. Even on our "less sensitive" developer network we're not allowed BitTorrent. During the day we're not even allowed downloads over 200MB. Large downloads have to wait until out-of-hours. In that situation, how is BitTorrent ever going to take off?
I'm not sure which INQ my brother has, but it was sold on a similar concept - Twitter/Facebook, but not full smart phone. I think he curses it pretty much every day for various features that it mishandles or just outright doesn't have that seem so obvious.
Mass-market Androids are on their way down, though. I was in a shop the other day and saw an LG at £100 on PAYG. Given that the HTCs are up at £300+ then it is definitely much closer to a mass-market price.
Maybe I just hit a good patch, but the Core i5s didn't seem as bad as they used to be. I recently gutted my computer, upgraded the processor (i5), mobo (can't remember) and memory (4GB), and it was ~£300. Yeah, it's not in everyone's price range for normal desktop use, but that seemed good for a development machine and with better performance than I'd have got from an AMD. I guess these new chips might shake that up a little, though.
That said, I probably would upgrade the mother-in-law's computer to an AMD, if it weren't for the fact that she insists she's poor and wants me to do it for free or not at all (i.e. getting my wife's machine when we replace it).
That'd make more sense if it wasn't for the fact that it was in about 2004 and 2006, by which time the IRA had toned down everything. Before that there was very little police presence, even after the bomb.
Besides, the IRA were our "friendly" local terrorists who gave us warning and were almost certainly all known by the police (at least the top levels). (Can't remember who called them that - Eddie Izzard? It tends to be his stuff that I remember)
On the plus side, the middle of Manchester is a lot nicer now that they revamped it :)
How can I use a 3rd party client when my favourite ones are broken and the ones that aren't broken a missing vital features for those who aren't on Twitter 24/7 (like Gwibber and its lack of scroll-back)? Curse you, OAuth deadline. Curse you!
I've been through city centre Manchester (the real one in the UK, not the copy-cat in America) and seen the police carrying automatic weapons, all in the past 10 years, and it made me feel far less safe. The fact that a) there was the potential for bullets to be flying and b) that the police felt the need to have them on show as they wandered the streets made me feel rather twitchy and insecure.
Ditto for my wife - she was waiting at Manchester Piccadilly train station once and eventually had to go and ask a police man whether anything was happening, because there's a lot of them around. He gave some kind of "it's all fine - do you not feel safe with the police protecting you?", to which the obvious answer was "no, because there is obviously something I need protecting against that wasn't an issue before". Turns out it was just a load of football fans coming in from Scotland to watch a game at Old Trafford (probably rather drunk).
I'm sure I've seen something similar in the some form of media (a film or a book or something). I'm sure it is right, and that it was just echoing what lots of people have said before, but it is bugging me about what it was and where I read/saw it!
That depends how fast you touch type. I had "instant" enabled after my wife got it (but she tends to stay logged in to her Google account and I don't) and so far I've tended to beat it. I either search from the address bar, or I've seemed to type and hit enter quicker than it manages to refresh. It'll grey out as it does it, but it doesn't seem to refresh the content until I submit the query myself.
The moral of the story there would appear to be that the cloud has its flaws, that you're reliant on a provider not going under/shutting down a service, and that if a simple "downloads always available" service can't be kept open then an "authenticate your game" service for DRM is even less likely to survive.
What, you mean like ChromeMUSE for Chrome/Chromium, which uses longurl.org and a local cache to expand links from lots of services, and can even expand the text if you want? Firefox has similar extensions, but the ones I've found there (for use on the wife's computer) tend to be "hover and we'll show it in the tooltip" rather than "we'll expand everything".
I did wonder whether some kind of "deposit" is the way to go (increase the price of a domain name, but get most of it back at the end of a year so that it costs you the same as now). That'd make domain registrations for these sites more of a burden for them, but it'd also make it more of a burden for people like me who run hobby sites and who don't necessarily have extra money to spare. It'd also just move the "whac-a-mole" game to subdomains instead (which I've seen more than a few of).
D'oh! Stupid HTML vs BBCode confusion.
Now that we've got .co? They've been around for ages as the TLD for Columbia, what with it being the nation's ISO standard code. Ditto for .cm, which is the TLD for Cameroon and also only one missed character off a .com. It's just because people like Twitter have started using them to be one character shorter on the extension and with shorter domains (since single letters aren't allowed in .com any more) that they're becoming more visible.
Now that we've got .co? They've been around for ages as the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.co]TLD for Columbia[/url], what with it being the nation's [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2]ISO standard code[/url]. Ditto for .cm, which is the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cm]TLD for Cameroon[/url] and also only one missed character off a .com. It's just because people like Twitter have started using them to be one character shorter on the extension and with shorter domains (since single letters aren't allowed in .com any more) that they're becoming more visible.
Do you think in English, or do you think in abstract thoughts that your brain then later makes you think were direct English? I think there's a bit of debate on that, and it is something that's difficult to test.
God help us when we encounter the Communist Terrorist Paedophile who was part of the Cold War!
Surely the moral of the story is not to be crazy enough to do 50Ks worth of overtime, especially for a cash-strapped company!
I don't know. I'd have thought that the "bad" would have been quite easy a lot of the time. Look at the patent I pointed to - Google have allegedly infringed on it because it improves performance (obviously) but it wasn't necessary to do the single-initialisation-then-clone method. If they'd have stuck with the lower performance implementation (which was still implementing the spec) then they'd be in the "infringing on a patent that wasn't necessary" area. If the spec was under a patent grant then they'd still be hit with at least some of the patents.
(Yes, I'm mixing the Java and .Net boats a bit, but you get the idea - patents like the ones Google got hit with could still hit Mono implementations, because software patents are like that)
Except for the bit where one of the patents sounded suspiciously obvious and like the zygote process (7,426,720 - System And Method For Dynamic Preloading Of Classes Through Memory Space Cloning Of A Master Runtime System Process): basically making things quicker by pre-initialising and freezing a process at a certain point, cloning it and then continuing them, so that the initialisation is only done once. That (and, undoubtedly, others) would still have been possible even if Google had used the CLI, even if "save time by doing once and cloning where you can" seems like an obvious thing to do.
Yeah, Mono would have been safer in a way since Microsoft had patent agreements because it was properly standardised, but that wouldn't make it 100% safe from patent threats from anyone (including Microsoft, who could have used patents covering the implementation using methods that weren't part of the grant).
Seems like a slightly more sensible version, even if it would still cause controversy.
A fraction above zero for the public, but a huge amount for Facebook. Why use some locked-in, trendy hip site of the unwashed masses that profits some other organisation when you could do it yourself?
TBH I'm a bit ambivalent about mugshots of convicted people, since they've committed a crime and so using their face as a "we'll catch you - see, we caught him" thing doesn't seem that terrible. That said, I did read something recently that said (IIRC) naming and shaming doesn't actually help reduce crime rates. Arrest doesn't have to be proven, though, so I'm sure there'll be lots of cases of mild defamation by association of being on the site.
Yeah, because no-one is ever going to try to steal/rip from the chain/burn/destroy/cover with sticky stuff a cloth on a bit of string at an outside terminal! As it is they have to chain up pens inside the bank in case someone steals it.
I'm surprised that "theChive.com" didn't give it away as being somewhat similar to TheOnion - that well know source of entirely truthful reports - and so probably not a trustworthy source of much!
Why let the fact that it is fake stop it being promoted as the truth on Slashdot? ;)
And then you lose the whole nav. Or you block "#nav-left div div div" and lose the whole nav, just at a different level. Or you block an nth child and as soon as something is added to the nav or moved around then you lose the wrong thing again.
Yes, you can do CSS selector blocking, but it would seem trivial to defeat it if people didn't do what they do now (which is to add things like id="adTower" and the like to it, or put it on a separate server with its own advertising domain as an iframe or an image)
And if it isn't tagged up in a uniquely identifiable way? Like it's just a div in a div in a div in a div called left-nav? You're not going to get a rule to catch that without wiping out chunks of useful content on other websites.
Sounds a bit like what Bynamite are doing with their plugin. I've been running it a while (on my works dev machine) to see what it picks up and what advertisers think I'm interested in.
The idea is that I can also use it to feed back a message of "no, I'm not interested in X", since it lets them better target their ads, which saves them money/makes them more sales while leaving me with more adverts I "want" to see (for a given value of 'want' that is small to non-existant).
So far I'm just using it to see what it thinks, since I've also got adblockers. Overall it seems moderately accurate, but Google dominates by a mile (only got one or two topics from elsewhere - Yahoo) and it seems excessively twitchy in that I hit one story on how Toyota screwed up their latest hybrid or something and suddenly I'm "interested" in hybrid cars (where as I was interested in the cock-up).