[......] I wish there were a way to hide all content from applications.
There is. You can completely disable the application platform in your account. Privacy settings --> Apps and web sites. You'll never be bothered by apps again.
You don't even have to go so far afield as that. I've always found internet connections in Greece to be pretty flaky [.....] And here in Australia [......]
I think you need to take a look at a map of the world! Kabul isn't as far afield from Australia as Athens is!
*cries his eyes out imagining updating to lion on a 56K line*
(and yes, i know the modem sends binairy signals over the analog line and all)
56k? You youngsters don't know how good you had it! I had to download my first Linux installation floppy disk set via FTP-by-mail over a 2.4kbps connection.
Maybe he needs it to work with *all* browsers, writing code that works with everything except IE makes sense then, because your tweaking for one, not tweaking for "everything else".
No, it doesn't make sense. Some of the DOM stuff is so different that it's not just tweaks that are required, it can take a complete rethink of parts of the code. If you take reality into account from the outset, you can write it so it works properly in the first place.
As a web developer, it never ceases to amaze me when I design a web-site that works in nearly every browser *except* IE(any version). I typically have to budget as much(or more) time fixing a site for IE as I spent designing it in the first place.
In that case, you're doing it wrong! If you need to make the site work with IE, then you should design it to work with IE from the start. There's no shortage of information about what works with which browser.
And since they track usage instead of users, that means Chrome's userbase is not 20%, like is usually calculated and what most people reading the headline will think.
That's pretty spurious logic. Do you think Chrome users browse the web more frequently than IE or Firefox users do? And, if you do, why do you think that?
Not really. The government's problem is how to get the sicko christian(s) in the senate to vote the way they want them to. The solution is to give them internet censorship, which the sicko christians see as the first step towards their agenda of completely banning porn.
How's this stopping child porn. The hard core predators will simply go out and find a kid, or change their DNS settings. Maybe this impresses the think of the children demographic but it doesn't do anything.
It's got nothing to do with child porn. It's about pandering to sicko christians who want to ban all porn. This is just the thin end of the wedge. It comes from exactly the same place as those disgustingly insulting "no pornography" signs outside Aboriginal communities in the NT - i.e. Family First, who had the balance of power in the senate for several years.
I don't think they're really that hot on enforcement of signal strength limits in Afghanistan! If it interferes with someone's television or radio reception you might get hassled, but apart from that, anything goes.
They most certainly *are* equally valid. What logic is there to claim all units when making claims about Android, then later ignoring a portion of them?
Android is an operating system, not a make of phone hardware. Lots of manufacturers make phones that run Android. Some of them make good hardware some don't, but it's got nothing to do with the operating system.
That really is shocking. And maybe explains why (to an outside observer) Americans seem to be more ignorant than the global average. The figures for Australia, for example, are quite a contrast: Books Alive 2008 - although the sample size of 1048 seems quite small and "reading" isn't defined on that page (although the implication is it refers to reading books).
Yeah. I'd really love to have an e-reader, but they're just no good. I've tried several of them and they really just don't cut it. And, as you say, they seem to be a very long way off being any good. It's sad. I've wanted one for years, but the current crop aren't worth the effort.
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You don't appear to exist!
Who cares. It's a sausage fest on there.
Really? I've only got 13 friends on g+ so far, but 10 of them are women.
The telephone directory doesn't also supply information on your political views and taste in porn. A google-check on someone does.
A google check on me doesn't!
[......] I wish there were a way to hide all content from applications.
There is. You can completely disable the application platform in your account. Privacy settings --> Apps and web sites. You'll never be bothered by apps again.
My name, email and home address are all over the net, and have been for years.
That's the modern equivalent of having your name, address, and phone number in a telephone directory - like everyone used to have not that long ago.
Open a Yahoo mail account. Use their 'import facebook to contacts' feature.
It doesn't work any more. I don't think Facebook want Google+ stealing their userbase!
Maybe just a glitch.
I doubt it. I'd say Facebook have disabled it.
A bit of a pain, but works well.
Not any more, it doesn't! I assume Facebook have disabled it...
You don't even have to go so far afield as that. I've always found internet connections in Greece to be pretty flaky [.....] And here in Australia [......]
I think you need to take a look at a map of the world! Kabul isn't as far afield from Australia as Athens is!
I used to enjoy brushing the snow off the satellite dish in Kabul! It worked a bit better for a while after you did that.
*cries his eyes out imagining updating to lion on a 56K line*
(and yes, i know the modem sends binairy signals over the analog line and all)
56k? You youngsters don't know how good you had it! I had to download my first Linux installation floppy disk set via FTP-by-mail over a 2.4kbps connection.
Maybe. But these deals were done a long time ago, when his vote did matter.
Maybe he needs it to work with *all* browsers, writing code that works with everything except IE makes sense then, because your tweaking for one, not tweaking for "everything else".
No, it doesn't make sense. Some of the DOM stuff is so different that it's not just tweaks that are required, it can take a complete rethink of parts of the code. If you take reality into account from the outset, you can write it so it works properly in the first place.
As a web developer, it never ceases to amaze me when I design a web-site that works in nearly every browser *except* IE(any version). I typically have to budget as much(or more) time fixing a site for IE as I spent designing it in the first place.
In that case, you're doing it wrong! If you need to make the site work with IE, then you should design it to work with IE from the start. There's no shortage of information about what works with which browser.
And since they track usage instead of users, that means Chrome's userbase is not 20%, like is usually calculated and what most people reading the headline will think.
That's pretty spurious logic. Do you think Chrome users browse the web more frequently than IE or Firefox users do? And, if you do, why do you think that?
It seems to be a solution to the wrong problem.
Not really. The government's problem is how to get the sicko christian(s) in the senate to vote the way they want them to. The solution is to give them internet censorship, which the sicko christians see as the first step towards their agenda of completely banning porn.
How's this stopping child porn. The hard core predators will simply go out and find a kid, or change their DNS settings. Maybe this impresses the think of the children demographic but it doesn't do anything.
It's got nothing to do with child porn. It's about pandering to sicko christians who want to ban all porn. This is just the thin end of the wedge. It comes from exactly the same place as those disgustingly insulting "no pornography" signs outside Aboriginal communities in the NT - i.e. Family First, who had the balance of power in the senate for several years.
Yeah. I don't like it much on Wordpress and i like it even less on google!
I don't think they're really that hot on enforcement of signal strength limits in Afghanistan! If it interferes with someone's television or radio reception you might get hassled, but apart from that, anything goes.
They most certainly *are* equally valid. What logic is there to claim all units when making claims about Android, then later ignoring a portion of them?
Android is an operating system, not a make of phone hardware. Lots of manufacturers make phones that run Android. Some of them make good hardware some don't, but it's got nothing to do with the operating system.
That really is shocking. And maybe explains why (to an outside observer) Americans seem to be more ignorant than the global average. The figures for Australia, for example, are quite a contrast: Books Alive 2008 - although the sample size of 1048 seems quite small and "reading" isn't defined on that page (although the implication is it refers to reading books).
Oh please, the "average" person doesn't read or have a book collection today.
Cite the survey that showed that.
They said that about vinyl records years ago, but there's still plenty of them being pressed - and there seems to be more and more each year.
Yeah. I'd really love to have an e-reader, but they're just no good. I've tried several of them and they really just don't cut it. And, as you say, they seem to be a very long way off being any good. It's sad. I've wanted one for years, but the current crop aren't worth the effort.
when I was 20 I scoured used book shops etc, even got very good deals on old rare books.
if you don't have those where you live, here is something that will add ~30,000 books of all kinds to your family library : http://www.gutenberg.org/
If you don't have one of those where you live, AbeBooks.com will get you access to used bookshops all over the world.