In all fairness to PayPal, of course it's not a bank. They don't lend money, they don't engage in fractional-reserve banking and money creation. That's one of the fundamental roles of a bank. (just because it can do transfers and deposits doesn't mean it's a bank)
I didn't say it was a good GUI. It's horribly unproductive.
I have a Windows 8 tablet, and half the settings are burried in either Control Panel or Regedit, both of which are set to run in desktop mode, which is useless without a mouse, as even my small finger covers two or three checkboxes at the same time. How do I switch to metro mode?
Doesn't the tablet have a Windows button? Alternatively you can swipe from the right edge to get a Start button, which takes you to the metro home screen. But you highlight a different issue - the fact that some setting screens are metro apps, others are desktop programs and yet others have both metro and desktop versions. This is awful design, there is no argument about that.
Please tell me how to switch those to desktop mode, without the need to install Start8 or Classic Shell
Of course, click on the "Desktop" tile, but it seems to me that you want to switch them permanently. I don't think that's possible, nor did I claim it was (even with Start8, etc you will still be taken to metro mode when you launch a metro app).
The headline is wrong. They haven't just now "enabled" switching between desktop and tablet modes - that has been possible since Win8 initial release, in more or less convoluted ways. They have introduced a new, "automatic" way to do it.
There's nothing I want more than an Internet-connected phone keeping a record of my location and sharing it with some random app publisher. Nothing could go wrong.
No, you can't look at the history of early transatlantic empires and try to learn any lesson that's relevant for space/interplanetary exploration, period.
That would be a valid point if human lifespan was in the millions of years. Unfortunately, the oldest verified person ever lived for ~122 years. Globally catastrophic asteroid strikes of the scale that killed dinosaurs don't happen very often. The last one happened 65 million years ago. So that's a red herring.
An astronomer estimated the chance of being killed by an asteroid as 1 in 700,000.
As natural disasters go, any person is far more likely to die from tsunamis, earthquakes and extreme weather events.
I rooted my Nexus 4 and my Kindle Fire HDX using Towelroot (on the Nexus 4 it is extremely easy to apply - just allow non-store apps and install tr.apk; on the Kindle, I had to install HDXposed, the Xposed framework and Google Apps before I could do that). IIRC it worked fine on Android 4.4 (despite scary warnings issued by Google, which can be safely ignored). But it doesn't work on Android 5. Last time I looked into it (a couple of months ago), there was not an easy way to root Lollipop - you had to back up your data and settings and re-flash.
Not gonna happen. Planned obsolescence and all that. On a related note, I hear VMware Player Unity mode is pretty much the same thing as XP mode, only better - haven't tried it yet.
Not particularly insightful; the vast majority of all government-backed money in existence is "digital" anyway - i.e. it doesn't exist in any analog form (such as coins and notes).
Talking about VNC, it is worth mentioning that WM5/6 has a working, usable VNC SERVER, at least since 2007. I am still waiting for one for Android (I've tried the free ones on my rooted Nexus 4 - they're sluggish to the point of unusable).
You can of course get android devices which have the virtues of old-school hardware, but they're not mainstream -- in other words they're pricey
The HTC Desire HD has those old-school virtues (SD card and removable battery), and I don't think it's pricey now. Of course it has to be bought second-hand or refurbished. If you can settle for even lower resolution, you can get an even cheaper HTC Tattoo or even older stuff.
Creating some apps myself would be nice, but dunno where to start for WM5.
You might want to have a look at VS 2008 and the.NET compact framework - I seem to remember the Express (free) version of VS 2008 supports it. It's pretty easy to develop. Expect far from fast performance and no easy way to scale across screen resolutions, but it should be good enough for things like "daily organizer / shopping list / memory games".
I wouldn't bother, though - I have a couple of those devices (a Dell Axim x51v and an HP). They probably work like new, but I haven't used them for half a decade. Where to start? If the OS's horrible usability isn't enough to put you off, it isn't fun to deal with the short battery life and the proprietary, clunky connectors which made them a pain a recharge (though in all fairness, the HTC smartphones were slightly less awful). Any el-cheapo Android device runs circles around those.
I guess this is supposed to be newsworthy because of this part of TFA, missing from the summary:
If the results — which will be published next week in the journal Physical Review Letters — hold up, they could usher in a new era in astronomy, study team members said.
- Calling Flip a "programming language" is quite a stretch. It is not. That's the whole point in it, in fact.
- The metric to determine how good a game is is not how "complex" it is, but how much fun it is.
Re:no wireless. less space than a nomad. lame.
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Out of boredom I googled "Microsoft Linux", and found this ancient joke site. A joke news from 2000: "MS Linux to have Start Button". Well, with fairly minor differences and a different name such as "Menu" button, damned if it isn't right there at the bottom left corner, on quite a few Desktop Linux themes nowadays, e.g. the standard on Mint Mate.
But I'm not sure they're really talking about trolling. The mainstream media and politicians have a habit of confusing trolling with online bullying, harassment, particularly vicious racist attacks (for instance on memorial pages), etc.
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The wording is somewhat ambiguous. It was the first flight *of that specific aircraft*, not the first flight of an aircraft of that kind.
Cue the class action
In all fairness to PayPal, of course it's not a bank. They don't lend money, they don't engage in fractional-reserve banking and money creation. That's one of the fundamental roles of a bank. (just because it can do transfers and deposits doesn't mean it's a bank)
I've relearned to dislike them, thanks to Python.
Without wanting to speculate, this would not the first time.
I didn't say it was a good GUI. It's horribly unproductive.
I have a Windows 8 tablet, and half the settings are burried in either Control Panel or Regedit, both of which are set to run in desktop mode, which is useless without a mouse, as even my small finger covers two or three checkboxes at the same time. How do I switch to metro mode?
Doesn't the tablet have a Windows button? Alternatively you can swipe from the right edge to get a Start button, which takes you to the metro home screen. But you highlight a different issue - the fact that some setting screens are metro apps, others are desktop programs and yet others have both metro and desktop versions. This is awful design, there is no argument about that.
Please tell me how to switch those to desktop mode, without the need to install Start8 or Classic Shell
Of course, click on the "Desktop" tile, but it seems to me that you want to switch them permanently. I don't think that's possible, nor did I claim it was (even with Start8, etc you will still be taken to metro mode when you launch a metro app).
The headline is wrong. They haven't just now "enabled" switching between desktop and tablet modes - that has been possible since Win8 initial release, in more or less convoluted ways. They have introduced a new, "automatic" way to do it.
Move the mouse cursor to the top of the screen and you get a title bar with an "X" button which really closes the program (at least in 8.1).
There's nothing I want more than an Internet-connected phone keeping a record of my location and sharing it with some random app publisher. Nothing could go wrong.
No, you can't look at the history of early transatlantic empires and try to learn any lesson that's relevant for space/interplanetary exploration, period.
An astronomer estimated the chance of being killed by an asteroid as 1 in 700,000.
As natural disasters go, any person is far more likely to die from tsunamis, earthquakes and extreme weather events.
I rooted my Nexus 4 and my Kindle Fire HDX using Towelroot (on the Nexus 4 it is extremely easy to apply - just allow non-store apps and install tr.apk; on the Kindle, I had to install HDXposed, the Xposed framework and Google Apps before I could do that). IIRC it worked fine on Android 4.4 (despite scary warnings issued by Google, which can be safely ignored). But it doesn't work on Android 5. Last time I looked into it (a couple of months ago), there was not an easy way to root Lollipop - you had to back up your data and settings and re-flash.
Not gonna happen. Planned obsolescence and all that. On a related note, I hear VMware Player Unity mode is pretty much the same thing as XP mode, only better - haven't tried it yet.
Not particularly insightful; the vast majority of all government-backed money in existence is "digital" anyway - i.e. it doesn't exist in any analog form (such as coins and notes).
Talking about VNC, it is worth mentioning that WM5/6 has a working, usable VNC SERVER, at least since 2007. I am still waiting for one for Android (I've tried the free ones on my rooted Nexus 4 - they're sluggish to the point of unusable).
You can of course get android devices which have the virtues of old-school hardware, but they're not mainstream -- in other words they're pricey
The HTC Desire HD has those old-school virtues (SD card and removable battery), and I don't think it's pricey now. Of course it has to be bought second-hand or refurbished. If you can settle for even lower resolution, you can get an even cheaper HTC Tattoo or even older stuff.
Creating some apps myself would be nice, but dunno where to start for WM5.
You might want to have a look at VS 2008 and the .NET compact framework - I seem to remember the Express (free) version of VS 2008 supports it. It's pretty easy to develop. Expect far from fast performance and no easy way to scale across screen resolutions, but it should be good enough for things like "daily organizer / shopping list / memory games".
I wouldn't bother, though - I have a couple of those devices (a Dell Axim x51v and an HP). They probably work like new, but I haven't used them for half a decade. Where to start? If the OS's horrible usability isn't enough to put you off, it isn't fun to deal with the short battery life and the proprietary, clunky connectors which made them a pain a recharge (though in all fairness, the HTC smartphones were slightly less awful). Any el-cheapo Android device runs circles around those.
I guess this is supposed to be newsworthy because of this part of TFA, missing from the summary:
If the results — which will be published next week in the journal Physical Review Letters — hold up, they could usher in a new era in astronomy, study team members said.
Furthermore, patents are public by definition anyway. GP might have a point if he meant "trade secrets" rather than patents.
Subject should have been "... for anybody" of course.
Signed 32-bit oughta be.
No, this is about Earth, not Mars.
- Calling Flip a "programming language" is quite a stretch. It is not. That's the whole point in it, in fact.
- The metric to determine how good a game is is not how "complex" it is, but how much fun it is.
Out of boredom I googled "Microsoft Linux", and found this ancient joke site. A joke news from 2000: "MS Linux to have Start Button". Well, with fairly minor differences and a different name such as "Menu" button, damned if it isn't right there at the bottom left corner, on quite a few Desktop Linux themes nowadays, e.g. the standard on Mint Mate.
But I'm not sure they're really talking about trolling. The mainstream media and politicians have a habit of confusing trolling with online bullying, harassment, particularly vicious racist attacks (for instance on memorial pages), etc.