A fancy rationalization of a money making scam. Nobody's wasting years of their lives doing captchas. And what about those of us who have very low exposure to advertising - how are we supposed to recognize logos?
Why metric tons? "Hundreds of millions of tons" means the same thing as "hundreds of millions of metric tons". Depending on which ton you use, there's only a maximum of 10% difference. "Metric" is superfluous here.
I use what's the most convenient and it's defenitely the e-reader
Yeah, and an ebook reader is suited to reading lying on the couch - they're lighter and easier to use with one hand.
Since i got an ereader, i've read a lot of books i would never have read if i didn't have it. I live in a remote location and the nearest town has only one small bookshop. Being able to buy books online allows me to read books that i'd never bother ordering from the bookshop in town.
OSX isn't the Linux kernel. It's the OSX kernel - which is based on one of the BSDs, not Linux. But it's not the kernel that's important, it's the software that comes.with it - and OSX is very different to, say, Ubuntu.
Yes, i do get it. I'm pretty sure i've never made a web site that wouldn't work with JavaScript turned off. But that doesn't mean i can't joke about it.
Far north Queensland is quite densely populated compared with the Northern Territory (Queensland's western neighbour). The NT is more than twice the size of France and has a population of about 200,000.
I'd start by sacking the turkey that hired the turkey in the first place, and/or the turkey whose piss poor management skills allowed the situation to get so far out of control that someone needed to be sacked.
If you're writing it (and the language is supported) do it in Vim.
If you've got a clue about programming, it doesn't matter if the language is supported or not. All you need is a text editor. But not vim, not unless you're doing a quick fix of something. I use vim heaps, but not for programming. I use geany for that. Gui text editors are so much more convenient than vim for anything other than editing config files.
I went through the same evaluation and looked at the fact that i had never even once swapped batteries in any phone I've ever owned.
Yeah, it occurred to me that i'd had my Desire for 2 years and the battery had shown no sign of deterioration and that i had a16GB SD card in the Desire and never filled it up, so the 16GB internal storage in the One X would probably be enough. However, it was a toss up between the One X and the S3 and those two factors pushed me towards the S3.
A few weeks after getting the S3, its mic died and i had to send it off to get fixed. The battery in the Desire died at the same time! If i hadn't been able to change the battery i would have been stuck without a backup.phone and would have had to buy one. I knew i'd.made the right decision then.
I seriously considered the One X, but the lack of removable battery and storage put me off and i got the Galaxy S3 instead. It's a shame, because i'm sure the One X is a better phone in many ways.
Relativistic physics can tell us whatever it likes, but it's quite obvious that time isn't a physical dimension and it's in no way similar to the spatial dimensions. You can move through the spatial dimensions, because all points (x, y, and z) actually exist. But only the present exists in time - everything else either has gone and doesn't exist any more or hasn't come yet and doesn't exist yet. It may all look similar mathematically, but in reality it isn't. And nobody will ever prove otherwise.
If there was a god and it was powerful, then humans wouldn't have needed to invent it. And the evidence that humans did invent it is all over every religion.
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I think they took out the UI/Java/whatever layers and are using the Linux kernel that Android uses, plus their own UI layer.
I want that on my phone! That java shit makes the 1.4GHz quad core processor run like a 486!
[......] i know you're clearly anti-microsoft (from your regular posts) [......]
You must be one of the Microsoft Slashdot monitors.
A fancy rationalization of a money making scam. Nobody's wasting years of their lives doing captchas. And what about those of us who have very low exposure to advertising - how are we supposed to recognize logos?
No, it can't. There are fundamental limits to information storage and computation. Those limits are a lot better than we can achieve, but they exist.
What are these fundamental limits?
Why metric tons? "Hundreds of millions of tons" means the same thing as "hundreds of millions of metric tons". Depending on which ton you use, there's only a maximum of 10% difference. "Metric" is superfluous here.
I use what's the most convenient and it's defenitely the e-reader
Yeah, and an ebook reader is suited to reading lying on the couch - they're lighter and easier to use with one hand.
Since i got an ereader, i've read a lot of books i would never have read if i didn't have it. I live in a remote location and the nearest town has only one small bookshop. Being able to buy books online allows me to read books that i'd never bother ordering from the bookshop in town.
Ha ha. No, the browser handled it with out a hiccup (Chrome/Fedora 17). Thanks!
Hmmm... That makes getting a Mac look a bit more attractive!
Yeah? Is there a list of what works with it?
OSX isn't the Linux kernel. It's the OSX kernel - which is based on one of the BSDs, not Linux. But it's not the kernel that's important, it's the software that comes.with it - and OSX is very different to, say, Ubuntu.
Surely that should be "blueteeth"!
Yes, i do get it. I'm pretty sure i've never made a web site that wouldn't work with JavaScript turned off. But that doesn't mean i can't joke about it.
Weirdly there's a growing number of web sites that don't work on a teletype any more, too.
Far north Queensland is quite densely populated compared with the Northern Territory (Queensland's western neighbour). The NT is more than twice the size of France and has a population of about 200,000.
I agree. There's nothing an incompetent manager likes more than a scapegoat.
I'd start by sacking the turkey that hired the turkey in the first place, and/or the turkey whose piss poor management skills allowed the situation to get so far out of control that someone needed to be sacked.
I'm in Australia and i got it!
So basically his entire argument boils down to "My programming language is better than yours"?
Of course. My programming language is always better than yours. This is slashdot after all!
If you're writing it (and the language is supported) do it in Vim.
If you've got a clue about programming, it doesn't matter if the language is supported or not. All you need is a text editor. But not vim, not unless you're doing a quick fix of something. I use vim heaps, but not for programming. I use geany for that. Gui text editors are so much more convenient than vim for anything other than editing config files.
The toggle switches on the front panel are broken from overuse, i guess?
I went through the same evaluation and looked at the fact that i had never even once swapped batteries in any phone I've ever owned.
Yeah, it occurred to me that i'd had my Desire for 2 years and the battery had shown no sign of deterioration and that i had a16GB SD card in the Desire and never filled it up, so the 16GB internal storage in the One X would probably be enough. However, it was a toss up between the One X and the S3 and those two factors pushed me towards the S3.
A few weeks after getting the S3, its mic died and i had to send it off to get fixed. The battery in the Desire died at the same time! If i hadn't been able to change the battery i would have been stuck without a backup.phone and would have had to buy one. I knew i'd.made the right decision then.
I seriously considered the One X, but the lack of removable battery and storage put me off and i got the Galaxy S3 instead. It's a shame, because i'm sure the One X is a better phone in many ways.
Relativistic physics can tell us whatever it likes, but it's quite obvious that time isn't a physical dimension and it's in no way similar to the spatial dimensions. You can move through the spatial dimensions, because all points (x, y, and z) actually exist. But only the present exists in time - everything else either has gone and doesn't exist any more or hasn't come yet and doesn't exist yet. It may all look similar mathematically, but in reality it isn't. And nobody will ever prove otherwise.
If there was a god and it was powerful, then humans wouldn't have needed to invent it. And the evidence that humans did invent it is all over every religion.
This would be an "cruel and unusual punishment" and thus not allowed. If done anyway, it would amount to grievous bodily harm.
I think you're getting your jurisdictions muddled up - the country in question is the UK, not the US.