And yet similar functionality either through the base browser or through its extensions is fast under e.g. Chrome, Opera. It doesn't really matter if the fault lies with the extensions or with the browser itself (though through an understanding of the extension implementation in Firefox, I'm guessing it's the latter.)
Remember, we're talking about being "let go" because you gave your two weeks notice. If that's considered "grounds" for your employer getting out of paying unemployment, that's messed up.
Lots of companies pay the two weeks, thinking they can avoid the possibility of any litigation. The 2 weeks pay is a "cost of doing business" and they will often pay employees even if they are not reporting to work. But make no mistake, they don't have to do it that way.
More importantly, you could draw unemployment which affects your employer if they decide to fire you. They may decide that it's worth they two weeks pay (and work) to avoid dealing with the paperwork. If you quit, you don't usually qualify for unemployment.
Exactly. The main problem I have with Firefox is that by the time I've customized it to my liking, it's unusably slow. What good is all of that extensibility if it kills the main function of the browser?
The focus on Javascript may well be what makes Firefox usable for me again.
No, "up to" means that the connection, including provisioning, is capable of transmitting data at that rate. If it's impossible to transmit data up to that rate, then that would be false advertising.
I actually think that someone should go to jail over this breach, and that's not going to happen in a civil trial. Fines just don't really do anything anymore.
That's the GuruPlug Plus. The standard GuruPlug includes only 1 Gb NIC.
I'm standing by my statement to stay away--actually, from anything they produce. How much testing could they have done if they didn't notice this issue? What's the point of having a "plus" version that upgrades the slower NIC to Gb if you can't use them both together?
I'm not much of a hardware hacker or maker--I'm a software guy. So I'm not really excited about modding it myself with a third-party fan. I'd much rather have the professional upgrade kit--which is 3-4 months away according to the "new" press release. Worse, I'm outside of the return period, so I can't even wash my hands of this and send them back.
I know I'm grousing a lot, but I really see this as highly deceptive. They sell a "plus" version that doesn't work, promise a fix, then sell you a fix long after the return period has elapsed for a big chunk of your customers.
I ordered several Guruplug+, received them, and have had no end of problems with them. I second your opinion, but I'll go a bit further--I'll never order from Globalscale again. To sell a device with two gigabit NICs, but without the capability to use both is simply false advertising.
Stay away from Guruplug. They're sold with two gigabit NICs, but if you use them both at gig speeds, the Guruplugs overheat. Heck, mine exhibits the same syptoms (gets very hot and reboots) using one NIC at gig speeds while also maxing out the eSATA connection.
Now, they say that the plugs aren't designed for this kind of use, and that they will sell "Professional Upgrade Kits" to let you use the devices in this way. Worse, to me, they're essentially rewriting history here. The forum post accurately quotes the original announcement dated 7/17/2010. The page now only shows an announcement 7/5/2010 mentioning what they are "designed" for and about the sale of the upgrade kits.
Frankly, I'm shocked that the units were sold with 2x1Gb NICs, but weren't tested using them and that they're considered "not designed to be used together." It's asinine that they would pull this crap.
It would tell you it's going to send SMS, not that they will cost you money. SO while it's sending SMS info of the songs you listening to share playlists, it also sens SMS to places that charge?
On my phone, the category in the manifest is "Services that cost you money" (in big bold letters) and then under that, as an explanation, it says "directly call phone numbers, send SMS messages."
An application which has the ability to send SMS has the ability to cost you money because it could send SMS to premium-rate numbers or out of the country. Many people wouldn't think about this, and there's probably no easy way for Android to differentiate between regular SMS and premium-rate SMS.
Money does not have to change hands for police to get involved. For example, police could get involved in a harassment charge where all harassing was done in-game and possibly in-character.
I think things like "destruction of property" or "theft of time"-like charge would not likely ever happen due to events that happened in a game, but you never know. American society is increasingly litigious and prosecutorial, and if the cops are out to get you, they will get you. Just look at the charges levied against Lori Drew. She was prosecuted using the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for accessing Myspace against its terms of service agreement (in order to harass another user.) Five years ago, I would have laughed if someone had suggested that sort of situation to me.
Primarily, because they can be traded in-game. It's essentially an approved way of paying for just about anything you might want to pay for in-game using real money. Instead of going through other channels (ebay, etc.) you just buy game time, convert it to PLEX, and trade the PLEX in-game.
It's beneficial to the players because it reduces the likelihood of scams--you pay CCP Games for the PLEX, and you trade it using in-game mechanisms. It's beneficial to CCP because they essentially get cuts out of every transaction and..frankly..PLEX can be destroyed, as we see here. They got paid for nothing.
Of course, losing so much PLEX is really, really rare. It's treated as valuable because it is. Why anyone would move 74 PLEX like this is beyond.. well, pretty much everyone:)
Yeah, Apple is pretty slow to respond to security issues. This is the case across the board, from Macs to phones to software running on non-Apple operating systems. It's pretty sad.
That reminds me: doesn't the linux kernel always schedule server style: efficiency first instead of responsiveness first? Does anyone know if that's been fixed for Android? It seems like a rather obvious issue.
The process scheduler is really highly tunable. I don't know how easy it would be to change the tunables under Android. You'd think they'd have done that already.
That's good to hear. I had an iPhone 3G, and never liked its mail client.
What didn't you like, out of curiosity? I thought it was quite acceptable and not much different from iPhone OS 3's mail client.
Do people tap to zoom? I always use pinch and zoom. Works fine, though (like scrolling) just a tiny bit too slow.
Tap to zoom, when it works, tends to focus quite well on exactly the content you want (on well-formatted sites.)
I agree that cursor control is awful. Graffiti (the old Palm input method) actually did use swipes for cursor control. I don't know of any Android VKs that do, unfortunately. If you ever happen to find one, let me know:)
Well the "unwashed masses" are generally products of the system set up by the elites, so if the elites don't like the results, why did they set up a system to produce people like this?
You act as though there's some vast conspiracy to dumb people down. There isn't. It's a bunch of individuals (or corporations) trying to make as much money as possible that's created the system, and by extension the products of said system.
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And yet similar functionality either through the base browser or through its extensions is fast under e.g. Chrome, Opera. It doesn't really matter if the fault lies with the extensions or with the browser itself (though through an understanding of the extension implementation in Firefox, I'm guessing it's the latter.)
Remember, we're talking about being "let go" because you gave your two weeks notice. If that's considered "grounds" for your employer getting out of paying unemployment, that's messed up.
Lots of companies pay the two weeks, thinking they can avoid the possibility of any litigation. The 2 weeks pay is a "cost of doing business" and they will often pay employees even if they are not reporting to work. But make no mistake, they don't have to do it that way.
More importantly, you could draw unemployment which affects your employer if they decide to fire you. They may decide that it's worth they two weeks pay (and work) to avoid dealing with the paperwork. If you quit, you don't usually qualify for unemployment.
Exactly. The main problem I have with Firefox is that by the time I've customized it to my liking, it's unusably slow. What good is all of that extensibility if it kills the main function of the browser?
The focus on Javascript may well be what makes Firefox usable for me again.
No, "up to" means that the connection, including provisioning, is capable of transmitting data at that rate. If it's impossible to transmit data up to that rate, then that would be false advertising.
Actually, other industries do use this kind of math:
http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB126092257189692937.html
In fact, those are worse, because they don't use the phrase "up to."
I actually think that someone should go to jail over this breach, and that's not going to happen in a civil trial. Fines just don't really do anything anymore.
To clarify, the Standard only has 1 NIC, not one 1 Gb NIC + 1 100 MB NIC.
Ah, I misunderstood. I ordered this back in February (or whenever they started taking preorders) and it's been a while since I looked at the specs.
That's the GuruPlug Plus. The standard GuruPlug includes only 1 Gb NIC.
I'm standing by my statement to stay away--actually, from anything they produce. How much testing could they have done if they didn't notice this issue? What's the point of having a "plus" version that upgrades the slower NIC to Gb if you can't use them both together?
I'm not much of a hardware hacker or maker--I'm a software guy. So I'm not really excited about modding it myself with a third-party fan. I'd much rather have the professional upgrade kit--which is 3-4 months away according to the "new" press release. Worse, I'm outside of the return period, so I can't even wash my hands of this and send them back.
I know I'm grousing a lot, but I really see this as highly deceptive. They sell a "plus" version that doesn't work, promise a fix, then sell you a fix long after the return period has elapsed for a big chunk of your customers.
I ordered several Guruplug+, received them, and have had no end of problems with them. I second your opinion, but I'll go a bit further--I'll never order from Globalscale again. To sell a device with two gigabit NICs, but without the capability to use both is simply false advertising.
Stay away from Guruplug. They're sold with two gigabit NICs, but if you use them both at gig speeds, the Guruplugs overheat. Heck, mine exhibits the same syptoms (gets very hot and reboots) using one NIC at gig speeds while also maxing out the eSATA connection.
Originally, Globalscale had this to say:
http://plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php?topic=1735.msg12392#msg12392
Now, they say that the plugs aren't designed for this kind of use, and that they will sell "Professional Upgrade Kits" to let you use the devices in this way. Worse, to me, they're essentially rewriting history here. The forum post accurately quotes the original announcement dated 7/17/2010. The page now only shows an announcement 7/5/2010 mentioning what they are "designed" for and about the sale of the upgrade kits.
Frankly, I'm shocked that the units were sold with 2x1Gb NICs, but weren't tested using them and that they're considered "not designed to be used together." It's asinine that they would pull this crap.
There are a LOT of kids that graduate high school and cant read.
I'm giving up my earlier moderations to ask if you have graduated from high school.
No kidding this isn't news. I unlocked a friend's Android device by figuring out the swipe directions he used for his code.
Sounds a lot like UAC, though. Good in theory, but might turn into people just approving messages to get on with whatever they were doing.
Do women who walk down dark alleys at 3 in the morning get what they deserve?
Stop blaming the victim.
The manifest says, in big bold letters, that the app may cost you money by placing phone calls and sending SMS.
It would tell you it's going to send SMS, not that they will cost you money. SO while it's sending SMS info of the songs you listening to share playlists, it also sens SMS to places that charge?
On my phone, the category in the manifest is "Services that cost you money" (in big bold letters) and then under that, as an explanation, it says "directly call phone numbers, send SMS messages."
An application which has the ability to send SMS has the ability to cost you money because it could send SMS to premium-rate numbers or out of the country. Many people wouldn't think about this, and there's probably no easy way for Android to differentiate between regular SMS and premium-rate SMS.
Money does not have to change hands for police to get involved. For example, police could get involved in a harassment charge where all harassing was done in-game and possibly in-character.
I think things like "destruction of property" or "theft of time"-like charge would not likely ever happen due to events that happened in a game, but you never know. American society is increasingly litigious and prosecutorial, and if the cops are out to get you, they will get you. Just look at the charges levied against Lori Drew. She was prosecuted using the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for accessing Myspace against its terms of service agreement (in order to harass another user.) Five years ago, I would have laughed if someone had suggested that sort of situation to me.
Moreover, a player could conceivably play the game solely on traded PLEX, without ever spending a dime of his own money.
Primarily, because they can be traded in-game. It's essentially an approved way of paying for just about anything you might want to pay for in-game using real money. Instead of going through other channels (ebay, etc.) you just buy game time, convert it to PLEX, and trade the PLEX in-game.
It's beneficial to the players because it reduces the likelihood of scams--you pay CCP Games for the PLEX, and you trade it using in-game mechanisms. It's beneficial to CCP because they essentially get cuts out of every transaction and..frankly..PLEX can be destroyed, as we see here. They got paid for nothing.
Of course, losing so much PLEX is really, really rare. It's treated as valuable because it is. Why anyone would move 74 PLEX like this is beyond .. well, pretty much everyone :)
Yeah, Apple is pretty slow to respond to security issues. This is the case across the board, from Macs to phones to software running on non-Apple operating systems. It's pretty sad.
I thought it was so that Blizzard could get in on the Starcraft tournament action:
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/3171
That reminds me: doesn't the linux kernel always schedule server style: efficiency first instead of responsiveness first? Does anyone know if that's been fixed for Android? It seems like a rather obvious issue.
The process scheduler is really highly tunable. I don't know how easy it would be to change the tunables under Android. You'd think they'd have done that already.
That's good to hear. I had an iPhone 3G, and never liked its mail client.
What didn't you like, out of curiosity? I thought it was quite acceptable and not much different from iPhone OS 3's mail client.
Do people tap to zoom? I always use pinch and zoom. Works fine, though (like scrolling) just a tiny bit too slow.
Tap to zoom, when it works, tends to focus quite well on exactly the content you want (on well-formatted sites.)
Sorry to hear that!
I agree that cursor control is awful. Graffiti (the old Palm input method) actually did use swipes for cursor control. I don't know of any Android VKs that do, unfortunately. If you ever happen to find one, let me know :)
Well the "unwashed masses" are generally products of the system set up by the elites, so if the elites don't like the results, why did they set up a system to produce people like this?
You act as though there's some vast conspiracy to dumb people down. There isn't. It's a bunch of individuals (or corporations) trying to make as much money as possible that's created the system, and by extension the products of said system.