If you didn't know what was special about Shine compared to ublock or adblock like me then Shine is an ISP level blocking system. It's not something that gets installed on end users machines but further upstream. This is why people like google and yahoo are so disturbed by this. It means that even completely clueless users will have ads blocked.
I can absolutely see why the network providers would want this as well. Talk about a way of dramatically decreasing your network utilisation without any negative impacts on consumers.
From Shine's website it looks like they have just signed up 3 europe which means 300 million mobile users just installed ad blocking software.....
This is believed to be the underlying problem with Tassie Devils. Their genetic diversity is so low that cells from one devil are not recognised as foreign by the others immune system.
This is not contagious cancer. This is a contagious virus that has symptoms of cancer. Not the same thing at all. In your example the cancer is the same as a cough, a symptom.
There is a nasty cancer which is decimating the population of Tasmanian Devils. It forms lumps and lesions in and around the mouth meaning the animal eventually starves to death. This cancer is spread through contact.
That said it is believed that a lack of genetic diversity is a major reason in why the healty devils body doesn't recognise the invading cancer cell as coming from another animal.
There is no doubt that they are expensive compared to the US. But the US mobile system is fucked with black holes all over the place and providers working on completely incompatible networks. Telstra might be expensive, but at least you have good coverage where ever there are people.
Really? My Telstra data keeps going up. Last contract it was 3gb a month, this contract at exactly the same $ is now 6gb and if you sign up today with a BYO phone you get 10gb for $60 a month with unlimited calls and texts..
You and I have a very different definition of slightly worse then. She went from employed earning a salary that was less than what she wanted but still survivable with sacrifices to completely unemployable. As of now no employer would touch her with a barge pole. She has demonstrated toxic behaviour towards her employer, and it doesn't matter how justified or not you think it is, no one will want to take a risk on her.
And those people who think they are chained and try to lose them will be in for a very very rude awakening. No one is owed a job. When you are given a job two parties take risks, the employee and the employer. It is a double sided coin, but the less skills you have and the bigger the risk your personality represents the less an employer will want to take on risk for you.
That comment started as +1 as a default. It got to +5 Insightful and is now 0 - troll.
The scoring reads as Moderation -1
40% Insightful
30% Overrated
10% Flamebait
I was just suggesting a way that that type of comment was marked in some way that you would notice it. Yes you can always browse at 0 but most comments there are pond slime. But if a comment has caused enough mixed responses I think it is good to flag it.
Agreed. But take the first post on this article. I've watched it bounce between 0 and +5 up and down multiple times. I was just thinking about a way to identify posts that people were conflicted about, not changing the overall scoring. If it ends up a +2 it stays a +2 but has a flag marking it as a post that got people arguing. Those are the posts I like to find!
There really is almost nothing between them when it comes to size. The G4 is 2mm wider and 2mm longer and 1mm thicker.... G3 146.3 x 74.6 x 8.9 mm G4 148.9 x 76.1 x 9.8 mm
Where abouts are you? I know it has hit Poland, South Korea and a few places in Europe. I also think they were rolling it out in Canada in Jan so perhaps that is yours. I don't currently have it in Australia.
Agree you need to be careful. But I was thinking something like a different colour for the bar or something like that if there are opposite moderating. Or maybe a little picture of some scales. Something to identify that this particular post is splitting moderation rather than just being a straight troll.
This article could be an interesting one to use to model different moderation models. There is a real mix of conflicting moderation so far with insightful mixed with flame bait and over rated mixed with interesting.
Could be a good example to work with putting in a "contentious" filter.
Yeah. I think the CEO would have got further by saying it was unacceptable behaviour and that he does not expect to have conversation like that via newspapers.
It really doesn't matter if it is well written. She brought her employer into ill repute.
She could have written exactly the same letter, but removed the identifiers and replaced it with "Major IT company" and sent to to the newspapers and she would have been fine.
Industrial action is often protected by law and is generally organised by a union. Part of the reason they don't get fired is because they have enough of a % of the workforce to make that impossible.
Criticizing health and safety or unsafe practices is the sort of thing that should be protected under whistle blower laws.
This. No. There is no suitable ground for protecting this person. If her salary was below the legal minimum wage, then absolutely. But it wasn't.
She publicly tried to bring her employer to ill repute. I suspect that that is specifically outlined in her employment contract as it has been in every single employment contract I have ever had.
There is no case for whistle blower protection here.
Review I wrote over on XDA after I had had the phone for a couple of weeks. Since then I have stuck a Qi sticker in it so I have wireless charging and after a 8 months the leather cover is now polished to a dark brown all the way round the edge.
Morning All,
Thought I would share my thoughts on the LG G4 after owning it for a month. I use the in a business environment where I will spend 2-4 hours per day talking on it, so my review will come from that perspective more that from a gaming perspective. It was this difference in usage pattern that I thought may interest people.
Currently I have made no real changes to the setup of the device, it is still running stock everything and is a Telstra H815K model.
The look and feel of the device is excellent and gives a real feel of quality. I went for the brown leather option and to date it is completely un-marked by any signs of wear. When I first picked up the phone I was really surprised by how light it was. It is not a small device but it feels very very light and initially it feels like you are holding a toy. I think if you were to hold another phone at the same time you could be forgiven for saying it felt cheap due to the lightness but away from other phones you soon forget that comparison and just appreciate the fact it doesn't weigh a tonne. And really, no one says a Macbook Air feels cheap because it's light.
The leather back is a really really nice differential and I have had people ask what the case was and where they could get something similar. At only a month in I would expect a traditional back to still be pristine, but I had some concerns over the durability of the leather. Suffice to say that it looks exactly the same today as the day I got it. I will say though that my impressions of the black leather back were no where near as positive, as it had the look and feel of the fake leather patterning you often see on the inside of car doors.
Physical layout of the phone works well and it sits well in my hand. The narrow bezel around the screen means the phone is physically small compared to others with the same viewing area, with the draw back that sometimes my pudgy palm can just cross over into the sensor area of the screen. This does only happen when I am playing a game in portrait mode with two hands though so the impacts are limited.
I only have one criticism of the physical design and that is you cannot use the phone effectively if it is on a hard flat surface. This is due to the butt seam in the leather back acting as a pivot point and causing the phone to rock side to side. A usage case for me is to have the phone sitting on my desk and to type a text message on it. This is simply not possible with this phone.
The screen is excellent. Colours are very well reproduced and the colour balance is one of the best I have come across. When I have done a colour balance comparison the phone comes up a little on the blue side. But that for me is a lot nicer than the yellow you see on most other phones. It is also no where near the saturation levels of Samsung. I get no light bleed or detectable changes in brightness or colour and if there are pixels there somewhere they are way too small for me to see:P
Battery usage for me has been fine in most usage cases. By the end of the work day my phone is reporting that voice calls are using the same amount of battery as screen time, about 30%, and a full battery at 7am will be sitting around 35% come 6pm. In the evening though I have found that the battery will get annihilated by some of the games I am playing. Clash of Clans for example will chew 25%-30% of the battery per hour. That said those games smash my Nexus 9 as well.
Even when I am playing games for extended periods, usually plugged into the mains, I don't find heat to ever be a problem. The phone gets a little warmer than ambient but nothing more. I'm not sure if that is a side effect of the leather back or if the phone actually does run pretty cool but this phone is noticeably coole
I went from a G2 to a G4 and my wife from a G3 to a G4. From the G3 to G4 the primary reason to make the move is the quality of the camera. The G3s camera was never that crash hot and was beaten hands down by the Samsung S4. The G4s camera though is very good, especially in low light situations. Given I have two little ones and a wife that likes to chronicle every step of their lives in photo format the g4 camera was enough for her. But this happened after I had had mine for 6 weeks and she had played with it a lot.
I definitely do. Taking out of it the actual phoning component the always access to data where ever I go, the maps & navigation, the note taking, and access to useful apps as well as nice time eating games I would use it far more than say a PS4 which have the similar price upfront.
As for the monthly cost, it will depend on your usage patterns for voice and data as to whether that is important. Because of my job I average 5 hours of talk time a day so I see the monthly cost as funding that.
A bit mixed to be honest. The G4 was promised Marshmellow in October, and phones in Poland did get it then. But there might have been some issues as it seems to be taking forever for it to roll out to the rest of the world. At the moment more of the world doesn't have the update than does.
That said the G4 is a brilliant phone. The only drawback is that it doesn't come with Qi charging as standard, but it is only a $5 sticker inside the back cover to add it.
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If you didn't know what was special about Shine compared to ublock or adblock like me then Shine is an ISP level blocking system. It's not something that gets installed on end users machines but further upstream. This is why people like google and yahoo are so disturbed by this. It means that even completely clueless users will have ads blocked.
I can absolutely see why the network providers would want this as well. Talk about a way of dramatically decreasing your network utilisation without any negative impacts on consumers.
From Shine's website it looks like they have just signed up 3 europe which means 300 million mobile users just installed ad blocking software.....
https://www.getshine.com/three...
This is believed to be the underlying problem with Tassie Devils. Their genetic diversity is so low that cells from one devil are not recognised as foreign by the others immune system.
This is not contagious cancer. This is a contagious virus that has symptoms of cancer. Not the same thing at all. In your example the cancer is the same as a cough, a symptom.
I can also be transmitted through shared food.
There is a nasty cancer which is decimating the population of Tasmanian Devils. It forms lumps and lesions in and around the mouth meaning the animal eventually starves to death. This cancer is spread through contact.
That said it is believed that a lack of genetic diversity is a major reason in why the healty devils body doesn't recognise the invading cancer cell as coming from another animal.
http://www.tassiedevil.com.au/...
There is no doubt that they are expensive compared to the US. But the US mobile system is fucked with black holes all over the place and providers working on completely incompatible networks. Telstra might be expensive, but at least you have good coverage where ever there are people.
Really? My Telstra data keeps going up. Last contract it was 3gb a month, this contract at exactly the same $ is now 6gb and if you sign up today with a BYO phone you get 10gb for $60 a month with unlimited calls and texts..
You and I have a very different definition of slightly worse then. She went from employed earning a salary that was less than what she wanted but still survivable with sacrifices to completely unemployable. As of now no employer would touch her with a barge pole. She has demonstrated toxic behaviour towards her employer, and it doesn't matter how justified or not you think it is, no one will want to take a risk on her.
And those people who think they are chained and try to lose them will be in for a very very rude awakening. No one is owed a job. When you are given a job two parties take risks, the employee and the employer. It is a double sided coin, but the less skills you have and the bigger the risk your personality represents the less an employer will want to take on risk for you.
Take this comment as an example - http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
That comment started as +1 as a default. It got to +5 Insightful and is now 0 - troll.
The scoring reads as
Moderation -1
40% Insightful
30% Overrated
10% Flamebait
I was just suggesting a way that that type of comment was marked in some way that you would notice it. Yes you can always browse at 0 but most comments there are pond slime. But if a comment has caused enough mixed responses I think it is good to flag it.
Agreed. But take the first post on this article. I've watched it bounce between 0 and +5 up and down multiple times. I was just thinking about a way to identify posts that people were conflicted about, not changing the overall scoring. If it ends up a +2 it stays a +2 but has a flag marking it as a post that got people arguing. Those are the posts I like to find!
I think they are great. Good enough that after I owned one for a couple of months my wife bought the same one based on my experience.
You can get them for AU$500 which makes them one of the cheapest flagships.
There really is almost nothing between them when it comes to size. The G4 is 2mm wider and 2mm longer and 1mm thicker....
G3 146.3 x 74.6 x 8.9 mm
G4 148.9 x 76.1 x 9.8 mm
Where abouts are you? I know it has hit Poland, South Korea and a few places in Europe. I also think they were rolling it out in Canada in Jan so perhaps that is yours. I don't currently have it in Australia.
Agree you need to be careful. But I was thinking something like a different colour for the bar or something like that if there are opposite moderating. Or maybe a little picture of some scales. Something to identify that this particular post is splitting moderation rather than just being a straight troll.
This article could be an interesting one to use to model different moderation models. There is a real mix of conflicting moderation so far with insightful mixed with flame bait and over rated mixed with interesting.
Could be a good example to work with putting in a "contentious" filter.
Yeah. I think the CEO would have got further by saying it was unacceptable behaviour and that he does not expect to have conversation like that via newspapers.
No I don't. Not even slightly. But where I am industrial action is protected and you can't be fired for it if you have followed the right steps first.
It really doesn't matter if it is well written. She brought her employer into ill repute.
She could have written exactly the same letter, but removed the identifiers and replaced it with "Major IT company" and sent to to the newspapers and she would have been fine.
Industrial action is often protected by law and is generally organised by a union. Part of the reason they don't get fired is because they have enough of a % of the workforce to make that impossible.
Criticizing health and safety or unsafe practices is the sort of thing that should be protected under whistle blower laws.
This. No. There is no suitable ground for protecting this person. If her salary was below the legal minimum wage, then absolutely. But it wasn't.
She publicly tried to bring her employer to ill repute. I suspect that that is specifically outlined in her employment contract as it has been in every single employment contract I have ever had.
There is no case for whistle blower protection here.
Review I wrote over on XDA after I had had the phone for a couple of weeks. Since then I have stuck a Qi sticker in it so I have wireless charging and after a 8 months the leather cover is now polished to a dark brown all the way round the edge.
Morning All,
Thought I would share my thoughts on the LG G4 after owning it for a month. I use the in a business environment where I will spend 2-4 hours per day talking on it, so my review will come from that perspective more that from a gaming perspective. It was this difference in usage pattern that I thought may interest people.
Currently I have made no real changes to the setup of the device, it is still running stock everything and is a Telstra H815K model.
The look and feel of the device is excellent and gives a real feel of quality. I went for the brown leather option and to date it is completely un-marked by any signs of wear. When I first picked up the phone I was really surprised by how light it was. It is not a small device but it feels very very light and initially it feels like you are holding a toy. I think if you were to hold another phone at the same time you could be forgiven for saying it felt cheap due to the lightness but away from other phones you soon forget that comparison and just appreciate the fact it doesn't weigh a tonne. And really, no one says a Macbook Air feels cheap because it's light.
The leather back is a really really nice differential and I have had people ask what the case was and where they could get something similar. At only a month in I would expect a traditional back to still be pristine, but I had some concerns over the durability of the leather. Suffice to say that it looks exactly the same today as the day I got it. I will say though that my impressions of the black leather back were no where near as positive, as it had the look and feel of the fake leather patterning you often see on the inside of car doors.
Physical layout of the phone works well and it sits well in my hand. The narrow bezel around the screen means the phone is physically small compared to others with the same viewing area, with the draw back that sometimes my pudgy palm can just cross over into the sensor area of the screen. This does only happen when I am playing a game in portrait mode with two hands though so the impacts are limited.
I only have one criticism of the physical design and that is you cannot use the phone effectively if it is on a hard flat surface. This is due to the butt seam in the leather back acting as a pivot point and causing the phone to rock side to side. A usage case for me is to have the phone sitting on my desk and to type a text message on it. This is simply not possible with this phone.
The screen is excellent. Colours are very well reproduced and the colour balance is one of the best I have come across. When I have done a colour balance comparison the phone comes up a little on the blue side. But that for me is a lot nicer than the yellow you see on most other phones. It is also no where near the saturation levels of Samsung. I get no light bleed or detectable changes in brightness or colour and if there are pixels there somewhere they are way too small for me to see :P
Battery usage for me has been fine in most usage cases. By the end of the work day my phone is reporting that voice calls are using the same amount of battery as screen time, about 30%, and a full battery at 7am will be sitting around 35% come 6pm. In the evening though I have found that the battery will get annihilated by some of the games I am playing. Clash of Clans for example will chew 25%-30% of the battery per hour. That said those games smash my Nexus 9 as well.
Even when I am playing games for extended periods, usually plugged into the mains, I don't find heat to ever be a problem. The phone gets a little warmer than ambient but nothing more. I'm not sure if that is a side effect of the leather back or if the phone actually does run pretty cool but this phone is noticeably coole
Well the Lg G2 started on Jellybean and got both the Kitkat and Lollipop releases. Rumour is saying Marshmellow will roll once it has hit the g4.
I went from a G2 to a G4 and my wife from a G3 to a G4. From the G3 to G4 the primary reason to make the move is the quality of the camera. The G3s camera was never that crash hot and was beaten hands down by the Samsung S4. The G4s camera though is very good, especially in low light situations. Given I have two little ones and a wife that likes to chronicle every step of their lives in photo format the g4 camera was enough for her. But this happened after I had had mine for 6 weeks and she had played with it a lot.
I definitely do. Taking out of it the actual phoning component the always access to data where ever I go, the maps & navigation, the note taking, and access to useful apps as well as nice time eating games I would use it far more than say a PS4 which have the similar price upfront.
As for the monthly cost, it will depend on your usage patterns for voice and data as to whether that is important. Because of my job I average 5 hours of talk time a day so I see the monthly cost as funding that.
A bit mixed to be honest. The G4 was promised Marshmellow in October, and phones in Poland did get it then. But there might have been some issues as it seems to be taking forever for it to roll out to the rest of the world. At the moment more of the world doesn't have the update than does.
That said the G4 is a brilliant phone. The only drawback is that it doesn't come with Qi charging as standard, but it is only a $5 sticker inside the back cover to add it.