It was not independent. It was for a large part sponsored by BASF. One of the biggest chemical industry giants in the world. Although such action may not be the best way to show your opinion I am happy the people stood up for this. I don't want to eat GMO and already produce some of my own vegetables. I don't want my veggies to be contaminated by GMO. Disclaimer: I am Belgian.
It would be best if you could just chose on install and later on which permissions you want to allow and which not. This would force developers to use only the permissions the application really needs as most people will simply disable the dodgy ones. But we live in reality unfortunately so that will never happen since geolocation for example is required by the in-app ads and they generate money so they cannot afford to have users disable that permission. (and yes of course you can disable wifi and gps location services but I expect that if you've used that before than the ads get a cached location which should suffice for this purpose)
And what's wrong with not being born in the country you rule. What's worse is having a law that prevents this, it just shouts discrimination. If Obama was bjorn in Kenya than so what? He was elected fairly (as far as we know which can not be said of all US presidents), he lived there all of his life and has been active in politics perhaps longer than I live so why would any US citizen who has not been active in politics or hasn't lived there very long be more eligible to become prez?
Let's go all conspiracy theory here for the crack.
1. Apple get sued and loses face for tracking users 2. Users plan to ditch i for Android 3. Apple tells some people to sue Google for doing the same thing for an amount of money that will sure attract some attention 4. Users think Android is just as bad so stick with Apple 5.... 6. profit!
In some languages people are used to long words, e.g. Finnish or my own language Dutch. It feels very natural for us to say kilometre, centimetre, kilometre-per-hour and so one. We do say kilo instead of kilograms. To my understanding English in general use has more short words and abbreviations so for native English speakers it might indeed feel less natural.
I find myself giving up more and more privacy and accepting privacy policies I look over a bit (still better than not reading at all) even though I'm quite concerned about my privacy. I've been telling my mother for months now that she shouldn't create a facebook account and every week she asks it again because she really wants to use it.
I just don't know anymore
Actually, I just noticed that if you translate taert (old dutch spelling, current: taart, pronunciation same) to English you get "Buy Pie".
Who wouldn't want a name like that?
For those (the lucky ones) whose girlfriend keeps nagging for having kids: "Sorry honey you're outdated, our versions simply aren't compatible any-more. It may still fit but won't transfer".
I, for one, write code much quicker en better when it's completely silent because I concentrate better. But I always program with music because I can only concentrate for short periods of time without a pause in a silent environment while I can keep programming for, say, 2 hours without a break (provided there's enough of the black liquids in my proximity).
In my opinion it's great. Had some problems with the clean install (locking, extremely slow) but after the first update all went fine (except for a few crashes).
I used 8.10 and had to skip 9.04 because that one was a real pain in the ass. So far I've had a few kernel crashes but that should be fixed soon, regarding the amount of times it has been mentioned on launchpad and kerneloops. Luckily these kernelcrashes don't mean I have too reboot, the screen just locks (like the option under screensaver) and I have to give my password after which I can continue my work.
For the rest: All fine.
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correction: over 18
It was not independent. It was for a large part sponsored by BASF. One of the biggest chemical industry giants in the world.
Although such action may not be the best way to show your opinion I am happy the people stood up for this. I don't want to eat GMO and already produce some of my own vegetables. I don't want my veggies to be contaminated by GMO.
Disclaimer: I am Belgian.
It would be best if you could just chose on install and later on which permissions you want to allow and which not. This would force developers to use only the permissions the application really needs as most people will simply disable the dodgy ones. But we live in reality unfortunately so that will never happen since geolocation for example is required by the in-app ads and they generate money so they cannot afford to have users disable that permission. (and yes of course you can disable wifi and gps location services but I expect that if you've used that before than the ads get a cached location which should suffice for this purpose)
Than he should've been 12 to make it interesting!
And what's wrong with not being born in the country you rule. What's worse is having a law that prevents this, it just shouts discrimination. If Obama was bjorn in Kenya than so what? He was elected fairly (as far as we know which can not be said of all US presidents), he lived there all of his life and has been active in politics perhaps longer than I live so why would any US citizen who has not been active in politics or hasn't lived there very long be more eligible to become prez?
Let's go all conspiracy theory here for the crack.
1. Apple get sued and loses face for tracking users ...
2. Users plan to ditch i for Android
3. Apple tells some people to sue Google for doing the same thing for an amount of money that will sure attract some attention
4. Users think Android is just as bad so stick with Apple
5.
6. profit!
let the troll voting begin...
I think most linux users reformat their pc on a fairly regular basis (e.g. twice per year) but I may be wrong. At least I do.
How stupid would he be if he actually did have any involvement? And of course this stuff makes it to slashdot.
with native HTML5!
In some languages people are used to long words, e.g. Finnish or my own language Dutch. It feels very natural for us to say kilometre, centimetre, kilometre-per-hour and so one. We do say kilo instead of kilograms. To my understanding English in general use has more short words and abbreviations so for native English speakers it might indeed feel less natural.
Quite complicated, can you make a car analogy of this?
Where's the like button when you need it! :'D
I find myself giving up more and more privacy and accepting privacy policies I look over a bit (still better than not reading at all) even though I'm quite concerned about my privacy. I've been telling my mother for months now that she shouldn't create a facebook account and every week she asks it again because she really wants to use it.
I just don't know anymore
scientists at McGyver University
I'm shurtching for shumtching. awesome voiceacting
quite a bold fashion statement
Hurray! America entered the 21st century! Gather all 'round folks
Actually, I just noticed that if you translate taert (old dutch spelling, current: taart, pronunciation same) to English you get "Buy Pie". Who wouldn't want a name like that?
For those (the lucky ones) whose girlfriend keeps nagging for having kids: "Sorry honey you're outdated, our versions simply aren't compatible any-more. It may still fit but won't transfer".
he certainly deserved it
both: yes
I, for one, write code much quicker en better when it's completely silent because I concentrate better. But I always program with music because I can only concentrate for short periods of time without a pause in a silent environment while I can keep programming for, say, 2 hours without a break (provided there's enough of the black liquids in my proximity).
In my opinion it's great. Had some problems with the clean install (locking, extremely slow) but after the first update all went fine (except for a few crashes). I used 8.10 and had to skip 9.04 because that one was a real pain in the ass. So far I've had a few kernel crashes but that should be fixed soon, regarding the amount of times it has been mentioned on launchpad and kerneloops. Luckily these kernelcrashes don't mean I have too reboot, the screen just locks (like the option under screensaver) and I have to give my password after which I can continue my work. For the rest: All fine.
net censoring might be a good thing if that means getting rid of those annoying scientology ads.
I find them offensive
Looking at the way the player holds his head, they even made him look depressed. Or there's been a murder and Horatio's on the job