I don't know about the iPhone 3G since I only have a 5th generation iPod, but GTK-pod works quite well for me. Is there some difference in the database signing?
I know what you mean. I'm a proud grammar nazi, but I've recently started messing up their/there (but not they're, must be the apostrophe). My keyboard sometimes sticks on o, so it looks like I mess up to/too too:P.
I'm obviously a whack job then. I hold my phone to my left ear because I'm right handed. Doesn't take all that much coordination to hold a phone up, so it's the lesser of two tasks. Job interviews over the phone for example require me to take notes (I can't write legibly with my left hand... or my right if you ask anyone else, but it's all relative...), and it's really more trouble than it's worth to reach across my keyboard and use my mouse with my left hand.
Night clubs. The girls that go to night clubs seldom know what a neckbeard is; at least around here, anyway. If your neckbeard is short, you can pass it off as "rugged good looks". Worked for me, anyway, and I'm the furthest thing from rugged, and I have the kind of confidence in my looks that would lead to eating and exercising disorders (like gym memberships!) in anyone who cared.
Then when you say in the discussion "I'm looking at it right now!" they strike the information entirely for being original research. THAT rule has always bothered me. I see nothing wrong with original research if it's good research. Long as the relevant study is cited and it's merits weighed against other theories in the same field, there should be nothing wrong with it.
Every time I see a Wikipedia article flagged for containing "weasel words" I think "God, give me a break, even 'weasel word' is a weasel word", but this summary should be held up as a shining example to all of exactly what a weasel word is and how much they can slant the entire tone.
Thankfully I'm not the only person to have noticed that... I was beginning to lose faith in humanity, scrolling through the comments and not seeing anything about an implant less invasive than an implant...
Consistency in any Windows applications is hard to come by. Running MS Office 2007 or Windows Live Messenger 2009 (and several earlier versions) in Windows XP will show you that. Yes, I realise they were made to look like Vista and 7 and fit in with Vista and 7's interfaces, but that in itself is a terrible crime of design! If they're made to look like Vista and 7, that means they probably aren't using the same code for their appearance. Big waste of resources if you add up every program that ignores the system theme and does it's own thing.
I'd like to preface this comment by saying I don't mean to be snarky, but given the general tone of it people are bound to misinterpret. This is Slashdot, afterall...
How much does the QA cost in terms of money and man-hours? How much is Microsoft billing the US government for 744,000 copies of Vista and Office? It just seems to me that no matter how big of a "discount" Microsoft is giving, you can't beat free. Linux is proven to be secure and stable, even without military QA. I'm sure it would still be put through it, and rightly so, but it would take much less work to get any gaps in Linux sealed up tighter than Windows ever could be.
The NT kernel has many great features that put it on a par with Unix in terms of security and functionality. As yet, no operating system using the NT kernel has actually used those features. Even UAC is a bizarre hack of a permissive userland, and doesn't use the kernel's security features. It's about as secure as Windows 98, thanks to Microsoft's butchery of the userland in the name of backwards compatibility.
All of the Latin I know, I learned from Asterix, so for those who know even less than I do (there must be at least one), SPQR is the Senate and People of Rome, SPQA in this case is of course the Senate and People of America. What santax is referring to is Obelix's often repeated phrase of "these Romans are crazy", and applying it to Americans instead. Perhaps now he won't be modded Offtopic:)
Personally, I'm not so concerned about my personal information being stolen. It's not a "nothing to hide so hide nothing" thing for me, it's a "well, fuck. I don't trust my bank, I don't trust Centerlink, I don't trust the local video store. Thieves, fraudsters and spammers already have enough info on me to make me believe they're me" thing. I figure if my identity is ever likely to be stolen, it probably already has been. I'm waiting for the mortgage bills any day now, actually.
I recently got sucked into Facebook thanks to peer pressure (right next to murder, the oldest human trait!:) ), and I started filling out a lot of quizzes. It then dawned on me that the people that make these quizzes probably have enough information on me spread across all of them to make a pretty accurate psych profile. If that doesn't aid in identity theft, I don't know what does.
I have a feeling "Tata FlatPacks" are going to become as popular as Ikea all over the world. Tata flats, furnished by Ikea sound like a very cheap way to live. I'm sure even Richard Stallman would spring for one if he weren't a certified hobo...
I, for one, love hearing about cheap, tiny housing. All of my friends from high school (yes, all of them, not just the guys) went to uni to do engineering. There's going to be a massive engineering glut, worse than the IT skills glut way back when. Engineers are going to be working for a tenth of a pittance a day at this rate, and small, cheap accommodation is wonderful news.
The only thing wrong with these units is there's no obvious place for a computer desk...
Because it's a deliberately ambiguous power-grab. All the laws passed after 9/11 were done in the name of fighting terrorism, and they have stripped away so many freedoms. If the average American weren't a politically uninformed blob of work and meat, we'd have seen the Second American Civil War by now; or at the very least a bloodless coup. The net censorship in Australia is being pushed for in the name of stopping child porn, but it's clear it will be misused if it's ever introduced (what does 'other unwanted content' mean?). Now, America is going to have it's own blog-stopper law. Before, if the government didn't like what a blog said, it would have to act through a company which claimed to not like it, and issue a C&D. If this bill becomes law, the government will be able to silence bloggers on a whim.
What about the wobbly windows? I'd call THEM a virtue, and they're utterly useless! There are a few Compiz effects that improve usability, like the magnifier, the desktop wall, inverting colours (useful for reading large amounts of text on screen, white on black is easier on the eyes than black on white). The wobbly windows also improve performance for me, actually. Without a compositing window manager, windows kind of leave trails when I move them - this happens in Windows and Linux, so I'd guess it's my craptacular computer.
Yes, if it were an illegally operated rental car company, or if I were using the rental cars to smuggle banned substances or stolen goods. Turn the car into a smoking pile of twisted metal, and all the coke hidden in the seats suddenly isn't there anymore.
I won't buy an ebook reader until they have most of the things I want. Wifi access to shares on the local network - I often read on the couch; a comic reader program, because I do like my Deadpool; a colour screen, obviously, because reading coloured comics in black and white is not cool; SD or MicroSD storage would be nice too. A couple of nice but non-compulsory features for me would be a themeable and customizable UI, and a touch screen that I can write on.
For all that, the price would have to be at or below $250 AU - Rough completely uneducated guess (I'm not even sure what the exchange rate is right now), that's about $320 US at the moment.
Wrong God-. You're looking for Godwin, not Goddard. Unless you know something I don't know and there is some sort of Goddard's law and you're making a subtle pun I don't get... Oh no, my mind is crumbling, someone may or may not have made a pun I don't get!
In the latest Full Circle Magazine, the Ubuntu community magazine, a widowed two-time great grandmother who didn't even know how to turn a computer on (quite literally, says so in the story), is now using Ubuntu just fine for all of her shopping needs.
If this old lady had an easy time of it, anyone can. If my dunce of an ex-girlfriend had an easy time of it, anyone can. If a bunch of eleven year olds who get computers from the Helios project use it, anyone can.
If you can't, then you are less competent than a little old octogenarian (I don't know if she's actually 80, I just like that word...), less competent than my ex, and less competent than a kid who's likely never used a computer before.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't know about the iPhone 3G since I only have a 5th generation iPod, but GTK-pod works quite well for me. Is there some difference in the database signing?
I know what you mean. I'm a proud grammar nazi, but I've recently started messing up their/there (but not they're, must be the apostrophe). My keyboard sometimes sticks on o, so it looks like I mess up to/too too :P.
I'm obviously a whack job then. I hold my phone to my left ear because I'm right handed. Doesn't take all that much coordination to hold a phone up, so it's the lesser of two tasks. Job interviews over the phone for example require me to take notes (I can't write legibly with my left hand... or my right if you ask anyone else, but it's all relative...), and it's really more trouble than it's worth to reach across my keyboard and use my mouse with my left hand.
Two? Lightweight. I could probably do more... Stand by, ready to dial 000 in the extremely likely event this goes horribly awry...
Night clubs. The girls that go to night clubs seldom know what a neckbeard is; at least around here, anyway. If your neckbeard is short, you can pass it off as "rugged good looks". Worked for me, anyway, and I'm the furthest thing from rugged, and I have the kind of confidence in my looks that would lead to eating and exercising disorders (like gym memberships!) in anyone who cared.
Then when you say in the discussion "I'm looking at it right now!" they strike the information entirely for being original research. THAT rule has always bothered me. I see nothing wrong with original research if it's good research. Long as the relevant study is cited and it's merits weighed against other theories in the same field, there should be nothing wrong with it.
Every time I see a Wikipedia article flagged for containing "weasel words" I think "God, give me a break, even 'weasel word' is a weasel word", but this summary should be held up as a shining example to all of exactly what a weasel word is and how much they can slant the entire tone.
Thankfully I'm not the only person to have noticed that... I was beginning to lose faith in humanity, scrolling through the comments and not seeing anything about an implant less invasive than an implant...
Consistency in any Windows applications is hard to come by. Running MS Office 2007 or Windows Live Messenger 2009 (and several earlier versions) in Windows XP will show you that. Yes, I realise they were made to look like Vista and 7 and fit in with Vista and 7's interfaces, but that in itself is a terrible crime of design! If they're made to look like Vista and 7, that means they probably aren't using the same code for their appearance. Big waste of resources if you add up every program that ignores the system theme and does it's own thing.
I know even less Italian than I do Latin - and I know so little Latin that Italian looked close enough to me :P
I'd like to preface this comment by saying I don't mean to be snarky, but given the general tone of it people are bound to misinterpret. This is Slashdot, afterall...
How much does the QA cost in terms of money and man-hours? How much is Microsoft billing the US government for 744,000 copies of Vista and Office? It just seems to me that no matter how big of a "discount" Microsoft is giving, you can't beat free. Linux is proven to be secure and stable, even without military QA. I'm sure it would still be put through it, and rightly so, but it would take much less work to get any gaps in Linux sealed up tighter than Windows ever could be.
The NT kernel has many great features that put it on a par with Unix in terms of security and functionality. As yet, no operating system using the NT kernel has actually used those features. Even UAC is a bizarre hack of a permissive userland, and doesn't use the kernel's security features. It's about as secure as Windows 98, thanks to Microsoft's butchery of the userland in the name of backwards compatibility.
All of the Latin I know, I learned from Asterix, so for those who know even less than I do (there must be at least one), SPQR is the Senate and People of Rome, SPQA in this case is of course the Senate and People of America. What santax is referring to is Obelix's often repeated phrase of "these Romans are crazy", and applying it to Americans instead. Perhaps now he won't be modded Offtopic :)
Off topic, the internet would be a much nicer place if all disagreements were presumed to be respectful until obviously indicated otherwise...
Personally, I'm not so concerned about my personal information being stolen. It's not a "nothing to hide so hide nothing" thing for me, it's a "well, fuck. I don't trust my bank, I don't trust Centerlink, I don't trust the local video store. Thieves, fraudsters and spammers already have enough info on me to make me believe they're me" thing. I figure if my identity is ever likely to be stolen, it probably already has been. I'm waiting for the mortgage bills any day now, actually.
I recently got sucked into Facebook thanks to peer pressure (right next to murder, the oldest human trait! :) ), and I started filling out a lot of quizzes. It then dawned on me that the people that make these quizzes probably have enough information on me spread across all of them to make a pretty accurate psych profile. If that doesn't aid in identity theft, I don't know what does.
That librarian... It's a monkey! *thump*
I have a feeling "Tata FlatPacks" are going to become as popular as Ikea all over the world. Tata flats, furnished by Ikea sound like a very cheap way to live. I'm sure even Richard Stallman would spring for one if he weren't a certified hobo...
I, for one, love hearing about cheap, tiny housing. All of my friends from high school (yes, all of them, not just the guys) went to uni to do engineering. There's going to be a massive engineering glut, worse than the IT skills glut way back when. Engineers are going to be working for a tenth of a pittance a day at this rate, and small, cheap accommodation is wonderful news.
The only thing wrong with these units is there's no obvious place for a computer desk...
Because it's a deliberately ambiguous power-grab. All the laws passed after 9/11 were done in the name of fighting terrorism, and they have stripped away so many freedoms. If the average American weren't a politically uninformed blob of work and meat, we'd have seen the Second American Civil War by now; or at the very least a bloodless coup. The net censorship in Australia is being pushed for in the name of stopping child porn, but it's clear it will be misused if it's ever introduced (what does 'other unwanted content' mean?). Now, America is going to have it's own blog-stopper law. Before, if the government didn't like what a blog said, it would have to act through a company which claimed to not like it, and issue a C&D. If this bill becomes law, the government will be able to silence bloggers on a whim.
What about the wobbly windows? I'd call THEM a virtue, and they're utterly useless! There are a few Compiz effects that improve usability, like the magnifier, the desktop wall, inverting colours (useful for reading large amounts of text on screen, white on black is easier on the eyes than black on white). The wobbly windows also improve performance for me, actually. Without a compositing window manager, windows kind of leave trails when I move them - this happens in Windows and Linux, so I'd guess it's my craptacular computer.
Yes, if it were an illegally operated rental car company, or if I were using the rental cars to smuggle banned substances or stolen goods. Turn the car into a smoking pile of twisted metal, and all the coke hidden in the seats suddenly isn't there anymore.
I'm an idiot - I did that currency conversion backwards. I'm sure you're smart enough to see that, though...
I won't buy an ebook reader until they have most of the things I want. Wifi access to shares on the local network - I often read on the couch; a comic reader program, because I do like my Deadpool; a colour screen, obviously, because reading coloured comics in black and white is not cool; SD or MicroSD storage would be nice too. A couple of nice but non-compulsory features for me would be a themeable and customizable UI, and a touch screen that I can write on.
For all that, the price would have to be at or below $250 AU - Rough completely uneducated guess (I'm not even sure what the exchange rate is right now), that's about $320 US at the moment.
Wrong God-. You're looking for Godwin, not Goddard. Unless you know something I don't know and there is some sort of Goddard's law and you're making a subtle pun I don't get... Oh no, my mind is crumbling, someone may or may not have made a pun I don't get!
In the latest Full Circle Magazine, the Ubuntu community magazine, a widowed two-time great grandmother who didn't even know how to turn a computer on (quite literally, says so in the story), is now using Ubuntu just fine for all of her shopping needs.
If this old lady had an easy time of it, anyone can.
If my dunce of an ex-girlfriend had an easy time of it, anyone can.
If a bunch of eleven year olds who get computers from the Helios project use it, anyone can.
If you can't, then you are less competent than a little old octogenarian (I don't know if she's actually 80, I just like that word...), less competent than my ex, and less competent than a kid who's likely never used a computer before.