My iPod still is an hour off when doing alarms and calendar reminders. I've yet to find some way to fix this, hoping that it would be repaired in a patch.
For a long time Skype was killing my iPod battery by being constantly checking on the WiFi to see who was online, and being ready to take chats/calls when minimised. Luckily now they have the timer that cuts it off after a while, but being able to manually kill the app is also useful.
Usually the service number can be found on a recent bill, unless you get your bills online, like I do. Even if that's the case, you should be able to power up a laptop and retrieve the number from your emails.
The situation is even more fundamental than this. Who on earth are you going to call in a powercut who's number wasn't already in your Mobile? If you can think of a list, then perhaps now is a good time to write those numbers down in an address book, or... umm put them in your phone.
If your greeting to them is "yo dude" I somehow doubt that they are someone you need to go to the white pages for:)
Just who would you call during a power outage, out of the blue, all of a sudden? Knowing you won't have a big white book, you should have a small personal file/folder/address book containing emergency numbers. Or even without cellphone reception, you can still look it up in your mobile's own phonebook.
How about the even simpler option of opt in? If you find that only 11% of people use it, then making an opt out available requires 89% of the population to call in and ask to be removed.
The idea they have of making it available on CD or in print, on request, is the best way to go.
Incidentally, TFA makes a little fun about Opus Dei, featured in the Da Vinci Code being one of the supposed villains that are after him. Okay, that's a bit of a red flag, but Opus Dei do actually exist and are a sort of sub-cult within Catholicism. They've got their claws into various influential people and actually score moderately well on the Sinister Scale. Lower than Wahabism, bobbing along under Scientology, but certainly high above your run of the mill nutters.
*sigh* I wonder how this got modded informative. I've met, worked and lived with people associated with Opus Dei. The worst you could ever accuse them of is being a bit out of touch with reality. The same could be said of any religious group. The founder of Opus Dei, Josemaria Escriva, a priest, was canonised by Pope JP2 (widely considered the best Pope of modern times). This is as high an endorsement the Catholic church will give a "sub-cult". I know that religion often gets a bashing on this site, but in this case it's quite unwarranted.
Now I'm all for a bit of healthy debate, but your rhetoric sounds very like someone who's read the Da Vinci Code, and listened to all the hype it generated. I challenge you to find something official that connects Opus Dei to any political manoeuvring, child abuse, murder of it's members or extortion.
I personally am not a member, or directly connected to them, but I do have friends and work colleagues who are, and I have to defend them as each and every one of them are among the nicest people you will ever meet.
A capitalist society believes in survival of the fittest, world trade organisation, globalisation. They are against protection of local businesses. This all runs fine for the megacorps until everything crashes worldwide. Suddenly the companies that were against protection and developing local markets require bailout from the government. Thankfully the capitalistic government is happy to oblige and the taxpayer has to pay to keep this megacorps afloat after they manage to destroy themselves through bad practice.
The point? Governments will go against everything they are supposed to stand for when it suits them. Linux is superior in many areas to alternative OS's. It would be ridiculous of them to ignore the benefits of it because of it's openness
TL;DR version, Governments operate double standards, more at 11.
I really like the solution they came up with for dealing with "Dog Ear'd" books and that annoying corner curling that happens to all pieces of paper eventually. Simply genius.
Don't you mean, "for years it was the only browser worth attempting to exploit"? Perhaps with a greater market share we might start seeing exploits (coughFiresheepcough) for other browsers.
I challenge you to try that at a theatre production of a Shakespeare play. It would be interesting to hear back the reaction the characters have to your manipulation of the props.
I caught this (http://www.kansascity.com/2010/10/29/2369649/sneak-peek-tron-sequels-legacy.html) in the news the other day. I can only hope they are not over hyping it for clicks. I'd love for Tron to join that list.
Whoever was in charge of the decision to make IE6 non compatible did a wonderful job - XP and IE6 will live for a long time. It will probably even outlive newer versions of Windows.
Well, it clearly has. Where is Vista in the corporate market? And there will be another windows, perhaps even 2 before they stop supporting XP in 2014. And just because they stop giving support, doesn't mean that companies everywhere will instantly drop it. It will continue to be used for another few years. Something's gotta give.
I work on IE6 all day long. All our in-house apps were made for it. They ALL use Java.
Recently one of the apps was upgraded and it has caused havok all this week as the java platform is not running properly and it's pretty much borked six ways from sunday.
While trying to do some critical work yesterday, stuff that just had to be done as deadline was coming up, I tried, on a hunch to see if it ran in chrome or FF. I got a popup to tell me that my browser did not meet the requirements to run the app. I ignore it and continued on my way, hopeful that it would work in some small way. To my surprise, much of it did work. Not only that, but in chrome it worked bloody quick, like 20-30 seconds to do a task that usually took 3-4 minutes.
There were some thing it flat out REFUSED to do, but I was, ultimately, able to do my job and meet the deadline.
So the question is. With so many of these apps that run using java, and run so much faster on chrome than IE6, why has nobody managed to convince upper management that there would be a huge productivity boost if they invested in converting the apps to run on the newer browsers?
Who do I have to email to try to convince them of this?
(I work for a major multinational company, who uses these apps all over the world, all day long. I would estimate an increase in efficiency of at least 30% if the apps were converted to work in new browser)
Disclaimer: I'm not so computer savvy, my areas of expertise are in chemistry. I know that java and javascript are 2 totally different things, so a browser that's great a javascript doesn't automatically make it great at java. The increased speed of chrome and FF are not likely to be because of their javascript engines, in reality, I don't know why they should be that much faster, it just turns out like that from my observation.
That's why J. J. Abrams should have directed/produced Caprica. He would totally have led us down one direction, letting us all think we knew Caprica gets nuked in the end, and then have something totally different happen.
That is what I loved about the Star Trek movie.[SPOILER WARNING] All the way through it I as thinking "Gosh, he's going to have a hard time undoing the destruction of Vulcan". But when it ended I was somewhat stunned that he left it destroyed, and has chosen to go along some totally different path.
If they had a point in the series where Gaius appeared from the future and prevented the Cylon attack, then everyone would be, like, "Whoa".
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I'm am American who is proud of our technological superiority over the rest of the world..
How are you liking your fully body scanners?
My iPod still is an hour off when doing alarms and calendar reminders. I've yet to find some way to fix this, hoping that it would be repaired in a patch.
For a long time Skype was killing my iPod battery by being constantly checking on the WiFi to see who was online, and being ready to take chats/calls when minimised. Luckily now they have the timer that cuts it off after a while, but being able to manually kill the app is also useful.
But a lot more fun. Phonebooks don't make good Frisbees
Usually the service number can be found on a recent bill, unless you get your bills online, like I do. Even if that's the case, you should be able to power up a laptop and retrieve the number from your emails.
Even worse, you'll miss out on your favourite past time of crossing off people who die from the book.
The situation is even more fundamental than this. Who on earth are you going to call in a powercut who's number wasn't already in your Mobile? If you can think of a list, then perhaps now is a good time to write those numbers down in an address book, or ... umm put them in your phone.
If your greeting to them is "yo dude" I somehow doubt that they are someone you need to go to the white pages for :)
Just who would you call during a power outage, out of the blue, all of a sudden? Knowing you won't have a big white book, you should have a small personal file/folder/address book containing emergency numbers. Or even without cellphone reception, you can still look it up in your mobile's own phonebook.
How about the even simpler option of opt in? If you find that only 11% of people use it, then making an opt out available requires 89% of the population to call in and ask to be removed.
The idea they have of making it available on CD or in print, on request, is the best way to go.
"Chandrashekar Rathakrishnan"
There, that wasn't so hard.
I've seen the reaction a big Yellow M has on child passengers in a car. Clearly images of pray, possibly escaping, can trigger in them a bloodlust.
You mean Apple sauce is good with the bacon, surely
Incidentally, TFA makes a little fun about Opus Dei, featured in the Da Vinci Code being one of the supposed villains that are after him. Okay, that's a bit of a red flag, but Opus Dei do actually exist and are a sort of sub-cult within Catholicism. They've got their claws into various influential people and actually score moderately well on the Sinister Scale. Lower than Wahabism, bobbing along under Scientology, but certainly high above your run of the mill nutters.
*sigh* I wonder how this got modded informative. I've met, worked and lived with people associated with Opus Dei. The worst you could ever accuse them of is being a bit out of touch with reality. The same could be said of any religious group. The founder of Opus Dei, Josemaria Escriva, a priest, was canonised by Pope JP2 (widely considered the best Pope of modern times). This is as high an endorsement the Catholic church will give a "sub-cult". I know that religion often gets a bashing on this site, but in this case it's quite unwarranted.
Now I'm all for a bit of healthy debate, but your rhetoric sounds very like someone who's read the Da Vinci Code, and listened to all the hype it generated. I challenge you to find something official that connects Opus Dei to any political manoeuvring, child abuse, murder of it's members or extortion.
I personally am not a member, or directly connected to them, but I do have friends and work colleagues who are, and I have to defend them as each and every one of them are among the nicest people you will ever meet.
The year of the Penguin, it could happen!
Sorry for the offtopic
A capitalist society believes in survival of the fittest, world trade organisation, globalisation. They are against protection of local businesses. This all runs fine for the megacorps until everything crashes worldwide. Suddenly the companies that were against protection and developing local markets require bailout from the government. Thankfully the capitalistic government is happy to oblige and the taxpayer has to pay to keep this megacorps afloat after they manage to destroy themselves through bad practice.
The point? Governments will go against everything they are supposed to stand for when it suits them. Linux is superior in many areas to alternative OS's. It would be ridiculous of them to ignore the benefits of it because of it's openness
TL;DR version, Governments operate double standards, more at 11.
I really like the solution they came up with for dealing with "Dog Ear'd" books and that annoying corner curling that happens to all pieces of paper eventually. Simply genius.
Don't you mean, "for years it was the only browser worth attempting to exploit"? Perhaps with a greater market share we might start seeing exploits (coughFiresheepcough) for other browsers.
I challenge you to try that at a theatre production of a Shakespeare play. It would be interesting to hear back the reaction the characters have to your manipulation of the props.
I caught this (http://www.kansascity.com/2010/10/29/2369649/sneak-peek-tron-sequels-legacy.html) in the news the other day. I can only hope they are not over hyping it for clicks. I'd love for Tron to join that list.
Whoever was in charge of the decision to make IE6 non compatible did a wonderful job - XP and IE6 will live for a long time. It will probably even outlive newer versions of Windows.
Well, it clearly has. Where is Vista in the corporate market? And there will be another windows, perhaps even 2 before they stop supporting XP in 2014. And just because they stop giving support, doesn't mean that companies everywhere will instantly drop it. It will continue to be used for another few years. Something's gotta give.
I work on IE6 all day long. All our in-house apps were made for it. They ALL use Java.
Recently one of the apps was upgraded and it has caused havok all this week as the java platform is not running properly and it's pretty much borked six ways from sunday.
While trying to do some critical work yesterday, stuff that just had to be done as deadline was coming up, I tried, on a hunch to see if it ran in chrome or FF. I got a popup to tell me that my browser did not meet the requirements to run the app. I ignore it and continued on my way, hopeful that it would work in some small way. To my surprise, much of it did work. Not only that, but in chrome it worked bloody quick, like 20-30 seconds to do a task that usually took 3-4 minutes.
There were some thing it flat out REFUSED to do, but I was, ultimately, able to do my job and meet the deadline.
So the question is. With so many of these apps that run using java, and run so much faster on chrome than IE6, why has nobody managed to convince upper management that there would be a huge productivity boost if they invested in converting the apps to run on the newer browsers?
Who do I have to email to try to convince them of this?
(I work for a major multinational company, who uses these apps all over the world, all day long. I would estimate an increase in efficiency of at least 30% if the apps were converted to work in new browser)
Disclaimer: I'm not so computer savvy, my areas of expertise are in chemistry. I know that java and javascript are 2 totally different things, so a browser that's great a javascript doesn't automatically make it great at java. The increased speed of chrome and FF are not likely to be because of their javascript engines, in reality, I don't know why they should be that much faster, it just turns out like that from my observation.
Does this mean there was always a woman on standby to ask for directions?
And keep the porn. There should be a mechanism whereby I can get off whenever I desire.
That's why J. J. Abrams should have directed/produced Caprica. He would totally have led us down one direction, letting us all think we knew Caprica gets nuked in the end, and then have something totally different happen.
That is what I loved about the Star Trek movie.[SPOILER WARNING] All the way through it I as thinking "Gosh, he's going to have a hard time undoing the destruction of Vulcan". But when it ended I was somewhat stunned that he left it destroyed, and has chosen to go along some totally different path.
If they had a point in the series where Gaius appeared from the future and prevented the Cylon attack, then everyone would be, like, "Whoa".
If I click on your sig, are you going to sue me?