Dependencies in Linux are murder if you go off the beaten path. You can't just go find some nifty piece of software, install it, and expect it to work.
That's funny because that's exactly what I did on my opensuse laptop last time I wanted something not in the repository. One click install from the wiki and it even adds the third party repository for you so it auto updates along with everything else.
Banning or shaming customers who disagree with you and publicly say so is no way to run a business. It doesn't leave you in the perfect world where everybody agrees with you, it leaves you in a world where nobody cares about you and you go away.
I don't believe this is about silencing dissenting opinion. RealID is about other things beyond forums. If you believe that using RealID in the forums was about altering posting behavior, then it was simply a conveniently available tool to attempt leveraging peer pressure to self-police the community. In which case, whoever came up with the idea is out of touch and / or delusional. More likely RealID is buying in to the whole "social media" thing and, even more so, the marketing / "monitization" strategies associated with it.
Basically this. I suspect this is part of Activision's plan to get the most out of Blizzard. Use their popularity to try to force some sort of social networking BS to masses of people in hopes of building it into something larger when it starts to catch on.
Bank of America will require a thumbprint from your mom if you write her a check from your own BoA account and she walks in to cash it. Screw Bank of America. Hard. And any other bank that uses the "Thumbprint Signature Program" to try to avoid cashing checks.
People still walk into banks to cash checks? I use Bank of America and I just deposit them into the ATM. No fingerprints except the ones I leave on the touch screen.
"The robot was developed to assist caregivers in hospitals and health-care facilities and is the product of a Panasonic program that is developing robotic technology for health care and welfare services."
Ah! Brilliant plan! Give them to the poor so when we find out the robots make your hair fall out they can sue and cease being poor!
So if adoption is widespread we can increase energy consumption by gadgets by 15% across the board in the name of saving "clutter".
I guess all that energy is coming from sustainable, non-polluting sources, so it's probably ok.
Basically. It's really just a gimmick unless they can scale it up and have something similar to a wifi hotspot that charges your mobile devices while you're close enough. If they can pull that off without too much waste (good luck) and make it as common as wifi then mobile devices could have smaller batteries and/or more computing power. Not that the lack of such technology will stop manufacturers from offering smaller batteries and more computing power.
I'm glad to hear that. A while ago when I was looking at the e-mail clients available I settled on Thunderbird and all this talk about Evolution made me think maybe there was something about it I missed. All I wanted was e-mail and calendar and Thunderbird + Lightning handled it quite nicely.
It partially depends on the band. Many musicians these days rely way too much on studio equipment to make their music sound good. Also, most of the people operating the equipment at a live concert have no idea what they're doing.
I didn't say it was a good source, just an appropriate one. Most other dictionaries don't go into explanation about it, but it is implied by the definitions. "make use of" and "find a practical use for" doesn't really apply if you're just using something as it was intended. There is no use to "find" or "make" in that case.
If you like you can search Google for "use vs. utilize" and all of the top hits will be long explanations about it. I thought it more appropriate to link a dictionary, even if none of them had very good explanations of the differences.
Erm it says on the download page "free for 2010". I think the implication there is that it might not stay free. It still got my attention since my cell phone has crappy reception in my condo and I am incredibly cheap.
I haven't heard of page counters in toner. I recently researched and bought a laser printer (went with Brother 2170W in the end if anyone cares) and I noticed many of them use a sensor to tell whether the toner is out. When the sensor says it's out it won't print any more. Put some tape over the sensor port and it just keeps going. I admit I was mostly interested in Brother and Samsung though just from word of mouth. Samsung reviews mentioned wireless problems which is why I went with Brother. The page counters may exist in brands I didn't look at.
Well actually a lot of bands that use a wide variety of instruments in their albums do often have those parts pre-recorded for live performances. Those concerts tend to be pretty boring...
Except consoles tend to be in places like living rooms where there isn't a good place to put a keyboard and mouse. This hurts the ease of use... at least for anyone wanting to stay competitive.
This article is basically laying out a policy Google will follow in the future. Here is the most critical bit:
A lot of talented security researchers work at Google. These researchers discover many vulnerabilities in products from vendors across the board, and they share a detailed analysis of their findings with vendors to help them get started on patch development. We will be supportive of the following practices by our researchers:
Placing a disclosure deadline on any serious vulnerability they report, consistent with complexity of the fix. (For example, a design error needs more time to address than a simple memory corruption bug).
Responding to a missed disclosure deadline or refusal to address the problem by publishing an analysis of the vulnerability, along with any suggested workarounds.
Setting an aggressive disclosure deadline where there exists evidence that blackhats already have knowledge of a given bug.
Now that "zero day" (well 5 days really) the Googler gave Microsoft was only because Microsoft would not commit to fixing it. That is perfectly consistent with the article, which points out "responsible disclosure" is a 2 way street and only works when the person with the vulnerability acts responsibly as well (which Microsoft didn't in this case). You could argue that he should have set a deadline regardless of whether Microsoft agreed to it, but I would not say they are contradicting themselves. They also point out in the article that responsible disclosure isn't always the best route. So I'm going to have to support Google in this article, which is simply about laying out their "supported" disclosure policy for their security researchers in the future.
Funny... cause the USB cable is in the box the phone came with.
I was just about to post this. For my LG phone the wall charger is just an adapter for the USB cable. Specialist tool indeed.
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Last I checked the only thing about vent that didn't quite work is that push to talk only worked when wine was active. So it worked if you were playing a game through wine, not if you were playing a native game. I don't know if this is still true since it's been maybe a year or 2...
Actually I must say foobar2000 is one of the few non-game apps I really do miss on linux. I don't understand why every music player is trying to be a crappy clone of a crappy app (iTunes). I don't need some crazy database system to keep track of my music. I have an organized folder structure for that.
Depends on what you're trying to use. Valve games usually work just fine (though Steam has had some lag and font issues). Warcraft 3 has been on and off. It will work perfectly in one version then break horribly in the next. Last time I tried to install it again through Wine it didn't work and the instructions on winehq said to download the source, apply a patch, and recompile... for a 10+ year old game that used to work perfectly.
I like Linux and I'm glad Wine is there to give me a shot at getting some games to work, but he's right in that each new version isn't necessarily an upgrade.
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God what Linux have you been using? I want it!
Dependencies in Linux are murder if you go off the beaten path. You can't just go find some nifty piece of software, install it, and expect it to work.
That's funny because that's exactly what I did on my opensuse laptop last time I wanted something not in the repository. One click install from the wiki and it even adds the third party repository for you so it auto updates along with everything else.
I'm going to jump in early on this one. If you actually read the fucking article, nothing being put up for sale is only available through sale.
FTFA:
Robin Walker: Almost everything. There are a really small number of cosmetic items that you can’t find.
What's that about reading the article?
Not that I care about cosmetic stuff.
Banning or shaming customers who disagree with you and publicly say so is no way to run a business. It doesn't leave you in the perfect world where everybody agrees with you, it leaves you in a world where nobody cares about you and you go away.
I don't believe this is about silencing dissenting opinion. RealID is about other things beyond forums. If you believe that using RealID in the forums was about altering posting behavior, then it was simply a conveniently available tool to attempt leveraging peer pressure to self-police the community. In which case, whoever came up with the idea is out of touch and / or delusional. More likely RealID is buying in to the whole "social media" thing and, even more so, the marketing / "monitization" strategies associated with it.
Basically this. I suspect this is part of Activision's plan to get the most out of Blizzard. Use their popularity to try to force some sort of social networking BS to masses of people in hopes of building it into something larger when it starts to catch on.
Bank of America will require a thumbprint from your mom if you write her a check from your own BoA account and she walks in to cash it. Screw Bank of America. Hard. And any other bank that uses the "Thumbprint Signature Program" to try to avoid cashing checks.
People still walk into banks to cash checks? I use Bank of America and I just deposit them into the ATM. No fingerprints except the ones I leave on the touch screen.
"The robot was developed to assist caregivers in hospitals and health-care facilities and is the product of a Panasonic program that is developing robotic technology for health care and welfare services."
Ah! Brilliant plan! Give them to the poor so when we find out the robots make your hair fall out they can sue and cease being poor!
So glad we got rid of that practice instead of letting it spread to other services, like TV.
So if adoption is widespread we can increase energy consumption by gadgets by 15% across the board in the name of saving "clutter". I guess all that energy is coming from sustainable, non-polluting sources, so it's probably ok.
Basically. It's really just a gimmick unless they can scale it up and have something similar to a wifi hotspot that charges your mobile devices while you're close enough. If they can pull that off without too much waste (good luck) and make it as common as wifi then mobile devices could have smaller batteries and/or more computing power. Not that the lack of such technology will stop manufacturers from offering smaller batteries and more computing power.
I was on the teams that shipped the iPod, every generation since the first.
LET ME INSTALL ROCKBOX YOU JERK
I'm glad to hear that. A while ago when I was looking at the e-mail clients available I settled on Thunderbird and all this talk about Evolution made me think maybe there was something about it I missed. All I wanted was e-mail and calendar and Thunderbird + Lightning handled it quite nicely.
It partially depends on the band. Many musicians these days rely way too much on studio equipment to make their music sound good. Also, most of the people operating the equipment at a live concert have no idea what they're doing.
I didn't say it was a good source, just an appropriate one. Most other dictionaries don't go into explanation about it, but it is implied by the definitions. "make use of" and "find a practical use for" doesn't really apply if you're just using something as it was intended. There is no use to "find" or "make" in that case.
If you like you can search Google for "use vs. utilize" and all of the top hits will be long explanations about it. I thought it more appropriate to link a dictionary, even if none of them had very good explanations of the differences.
That is very noble of them to make this available in hopes of "more developers utilising the Microsoft process for developing software".
Unfortunately without an explanation this will go over most people's heads. It's one thing my boss likes to poke fun at...
To "utilise" something is to use it for something other than its intended purpose.
While searching for a good reference, I found this one to be appropriate.
Erm it says on the download page "free for 2010". I think the implication there is that it might not stay free. It still got my attention since my cell phone has crappy reception in my condo and I am incredibly cheap.
I haven't heard of page counters in toner. I recently researched and bought a laser printer (went with Brother 2170W in the end if anyone cares) and I noticed many of them use a sensor to tell whether the toner is out. When the sensor says it's out it won't print any more. Put some tape over the sensor port and it just keeps going. I admit I was mostly interested in Brother and Samsung though just from word of mouth. Samsung reviews mentioned wireless problems which is why I went with Brother. The page counters may exist in brands I didn't look at.
Might as well fix global warming too while we're at it. Anyone have $40 billion for an Annihilatrix?
Of course it's legitimate. Why would someone selling security software mislead you about foreign government cyber warfare against your business?
Well actually a lot of bands that use a wide variety of instruments in their albums do often have those parts pre-recorded for live performances. Those concerts tend to be pretty boring...
Except consoles tend to be in places like living rooms where there isn't a good place to put a keyboard and mouse. This hurts the ease of use... at least for anyone wanting to stay competitive.
Looks like someone needs to RTFA.
This article is basically laying out a policy Google will follow in the future. Here is the most critical bit:
A lot of talented security researchers work at Google. These researchers discover many vulnerabilities in products from vendors across the board, and they share a detailed analysis of their findings with vendors to help them get started on patch development. We will be supportive of the following practices by our researchers:
Now that "zero day" (well 5 days really) the Googler gave Microsoft was only because Microsoft would not commit to fixing it. That is perfectly consistent with the article, which points out "responsible disclosure" is a 2 way street and only works when the person with the vulnerability acts responsibly as well (which Microsoft didn't in this case). You could argue that he should have set a deadline regardless of whether Microsoft agreed to it, but I would not say they are contradicting themselves. They also point out in the article that responsible disclosure isn't always the best route. So I'm going to have to support Google in this article, which is simply about laying out their "supported" disclosure policy for their security researchers in the future.
Funny... cause the USB cable is in the box the phone came with.
I was just about to post this. For my LG phone the wall charger is just an adapter for the USB cable. Specialist tool indeed.
Last I checked the only thing about vent that didn't quite work is that push to talk only worked when wine was active. So it worked if you were playing a game through wine, not if you were playing a native game. I don't know if this is still true since it's been maybe a year or 2...
- Irfanview
- foobar2000
- utorrent
Actually I must say foobar2000 is one of the few non-game apps I really do miss on linux. I don't understand why every music player is trying to be a crappy clone of a crappy app (iTunes). I don't need some crazy database system to keep track of my music. I have an organized folder structure for that.
for a 10+ year old game
Correction: 8 year old game. Whatever.
Depends on what you're trying to use. Valve games usually work just fine (though Steam has had some lag and font issues). Warcraft 3 has been on and off. It will work perfectly in one version then break horribly in the next. Last time I tried to install it again through Wine it didn't work and the instructions on winehq said to download the source, apply a patch, and recompile... for a 10+ year old game that used to work perfectly.
I like Linux and I'm glad Wine is there to give me a shot at getting some games to work, but he's right in that each new version isn't necessarily an upgrade.
Doesn't work for me on Vista 64 Business. Alt + Enter in a command window does nothing.